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WearyOlly

@wearyolly.bsky.social

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She/They, 22 Beat Saber, Eurobeat & Touhou nerd from Australia also listens to Car Seat Headrest & Ghos⸸

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WearyOlly @wearyolly.bsky.social · Feb 13

why do I have to pay $200 to get an editor that lets me edit and export rec. 2100 lol
obs-studio lets you record in that colour format for free

WearyOlly @wearyolly.bsky.social · 45m

I doubt they care about how the common folk feel about them (unless / until someone does a luigi)

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Liam @ GamingOnLinux @gamingonlinux.com · 1h

KDE's 29th anniversary is here and they need your funding
#KDE #Linux #OpenSource

KDE's 29th anniversary is here and they need your funding

KDE the free software community that develops the likes of the KDE Plasma desktop, has turned 29 years old and they're doing a fresh fund-raiser.

www.gamingonlinux.com

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WearyOlly @wearyolly.bsky.social · 5h

playing BeamNG reminded me of a mod for BF1942 so I went to find a copy of it

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kalina2hu.bsky.social @kalina2hu.bsky.social · 20h

The fact that abuser culture rates below tier 0 is exactly why the entire world was unprepared for fascism and Christofascist talking points and organizing points
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JintiGoast @jinti.bsky.social · 1d

Let me reiterate: that shit ain't real.

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JintiGoast @jinti.bsky.social · 2d

Every time a porn artist quits because of "porn addiction" I add one more century to my hellish torture of the entire planet under my eventual, tyrannical rule.

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It's Dale - 3.2% @deiru.online · 1d

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 11h

collar gate is the latest instance of a trumped-up non-issue blossoming into a large-scale psychosis event – and possibly the dumbest. it's also the modern internet doing exactly what it was engineered to do

To be honest, I wouldn’t be mentioning this if not for the fact that it’s a microcosm of how online platforms work today: Somebody makes an accusation based on evidence that’s spurious at best, big names with something to gain (viewership or the downfall of a perceived enemy) uncritically boost it, internet sleuths obsessively piece together supporting evidence by amassing context-free clips and ignoring everything that doesn’t match their intended conclusion, and all of the aforementioned parties spread performatively apoplectic videos across Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, Twitter, and wherever else they can sucker in uninitiated normies.

Some version of this happens every week – every day, on a smaller scale – without fail. It accomplishes nothing aside from giving the disaffected masses a brief glimmer of what feels like purpose, but is actually a bloodsucking waste of their precious time on this dying planet. And of course, it provides platforms with sweet, sweet engagement numbers. As a result, platforms will probably never intervene to disrupt this corrosive dynamic, which has broken the general public’s ability to perceive anything resembling objective reality, even as society collapses around them and people like Piker attempt to identify the real reasons why (hint: they don't involve dog collars).

The internet has been like this at least since the Depp v. Heard trial, which wannabe sleuths similarly feasted on in 2022 while getting pretty much every important detail completely wrong. At least back then they were obsessing over something of consequence. Now they’ve taught viewers to regard every trumped-up non-issue they can surface with similar gravity.

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WearyOlly @wearyolly.bsky.social · 13h

It's not bad, but it's good to have proper expectations going in

WearyOlly @wearyolly.bsky.social · 13h

Okay so turns out Matrix is not "like discord" but more like "IRC with a voice chat feature that no one actually uses"

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WearyOlly @wearyolly.bsky.social · 13h

You could've said "dance to the heartbeat" to make every Initial D / Eurobeat fan pog 😔

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WearyOlly @wearyolly.bsky.social · 13h

Anyways read this issue, it's a great read and exposes how much of an egotist le no chicken is
github.com/ZDoom/gzdoom...