GrindingGears

I'm going to love to check in on the "vibe" in a few years. It'll be a collective group of executives pretending like they didn't recently flush millions down the toilet, while somehow still running a skeleton crew of 20 suckers.

Their free games have been largely pretty ignorable for the past year or two anyways. Most notably at Christmas, where they used to shower AAA titles, this year it was mostly crap. It would be fairly remarkable if they removed games from your library, not sure they'd actually want to move forward with that. It would be the for sure death of an already dying platform.

The 2-4 week periods are nothing. Just wheel it in there, secure your barn best that you can (this is your biggest concern), and otherwise move on with your day.

It's when you store it for long periods, that you need to think more strategic. And that really just means somewhere dry. I have to overwinter my bikes for instance, so they just come in the house and lean against the wall, and other than having to pump up the tires, it's completely in the same shape as it was six months ago.

That or just sure numbers. It kind of feels like when we got satellite as a kid. I spent two days of scrolling the guide before realizing I hadn't watched a single thing. I was like great, we now have 500 channels of TV, but my life still sucks.

Us3n3t is wild for sure. I mean they've wrote the textbook on how staying obscure is the ultimate approach to success with most things. And it just functions. Plus the need for a bit of knowledge acts as almost an intelligence test to keep the morons (and the people who can wreck it) out.

I'm even more lazier than that. Pirate subscription. It's still a subscription, but I'd argue the 10 dollars a month is worth my time to type an obscure tv show I've suddenly remembered into my TV, with one eye open at 2am. I've got nothing against a subscription or two, but I certainly am getting sick and tired of like a dozen of them.

All it's going to take is a recession, and then it'll be back with a vengeance. Because guess what's first on the chopping block when money gets tight?

I mean the convenience of it all would say no, but these services have become so enshitified, they pull content constantly, you need to have a billion of different ones, and now they are putting stuff like Atmos and 4k content behind higher pay subs. Plus ads now too, which is infuriating.

So yeah I mean I'm sailing more than I have in the last decade. Because streaming is now just cable except I have to individually subscribe and not just have one subscription (which you just know is around the corner and then it will fully be cable 2.0).

I'm getting mighty sick of spotify too. The great thing about Spotify when it came out was convenience obviously, but moreso was that you didn't have jammed full iPods or your phone wasn't plugged up with music. But my phone's like 256gb now, that holds a shitton of music, it ain't no 8gb iPod. So barriers removed. And I wasn't pirating basically at all the past decade either. So they only have themselves all to thank now. Solely. Greedy fucks.

What age do you think I should let my kid have a cell phone at?

Wait, 2009!!!!?!!! Thanks for making me feel like a grandpa over here.

Give me an I. Then a P. Then a T. Then a V.

And don't ask people to recommend one, because it's a well searched topic by powerful interests looking to shut it down. There's an app called Tivi + mate, it works with chromecasts and apple TVs and whatever else, and it's not rocket science to all figure out. If you are on here reading this, you can figure it all out.

It is. But it think the fediverse is the next evolution of whatever is going to replace social media as we know it. So while I think this place is part of the journey, and not necessarily the destination, I think there's also some important things here that are getting glossed over by just saying it's new reddit. Like the control of it, and how it's connected and whatever else.

Take reddit for instance, like I've had some pretty big blowouts with a specific reddit power mod before, and he's the mod of what seems like a billion subs. Buddy's just a zeeb, but ive lost my patience with him, and I've had usernames be totally banned. It hinders your ability to maneuver through the entire platform, like you can do new usernames or whatever, but if they start IP blocking you, or my total all time favourite, the "shadow ban" (what a gross thing), it gets harder to maneuver around.

Whereas here, that same power mod could show up, but as fast as he can ban me, I can join other instances and basically be back in 20 minutes. It enacts freedom of speech, and allows people to circumvent suppression. Sometimes thats not such a great thing, but I'd rather be offended by something, than enable someones voice to be suppressed only entirely because one absolute skid stain loser doesn't agree with them.