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Wortex17
@wortex17.bsky.social
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aka Worry Darque
Lead Programmer & Tech Director in Game Dev;
Personal account & opinions.
Worked on e.g. #Dungeons2 #Dungeons3 #Ostwind2 #HorseTales #PoliceSimulator #IndustryGiant4
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sosowski.bsky.social
Scrolling reels in 2026 is like watching TV but there's only commercials playing.

Nearly all content you are shown has been paid to show it to you. It's just ads.

Remember when people vibing to commercials was a dystopian sci-fi future? Well, the future is now.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVYA...
People singing commercials ("Demolition man" society)
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January 7, 2026 at 10:03 AM
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trashclown.bsky.social
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Get in the Slop Blender, Goofy (comic by @coreybrickley.bsky)
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January 6, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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roodypatooti.bsky.social
Wish I could internalize this
brightwanderer I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned "forever" into the only acceptable definition of success. Like... if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it's a "failed" business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don't actually want to keep doing that, you're a "failed" writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it's a "failed" marriage. The only acceptable "win condition" is "you keep doing that thing forever". A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a "real" friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a "phase" - or, alternatively, a "pity" that you don't do that thing any more. A fandom is "dying" because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things. I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it's okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success... I don't think that's doing us any good at all.
October 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
wortex17.bsky.social
Would've worked even better to change the *us* to US
January 3, 2026 at 7:39 PM