this is weird and bad and off-putting and I hate it: twitch has invented imaginary people to wonder where I am, to try and make me log in to their app
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Vancouver, Canada - Lead backend developer for all of virtual reality, or VRChat at least.
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it me:
AMAB: assigned male at birth
AFAB: assigned female at birth
AHAB: From hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee!
little known fact, #VRChat has existed since 1986, here's a clip from one of the earliest builds:
congress, delighted
surely this new law will be the one to mollify President Lawbreaker
I think "software developer" has overtaken "lawyer" as the most broadly despised career
which, like, yeah, I get it, we earned it
do not worry, the election will go smoothly and then the houses of congress, well known for their competence and effectiveness in times of trouble, will
for such a well regarded musical, I'm pretty sure the only good song in The Music Man is "Ya Got Trouble"
I've been trying to get a basic application through Apple and Windows code signing so that people can _open_ it on their _computers_ and this costs about $250 CAD/year and *completely sucks*
Look, I love Venture Bros, love it, but I'm 40 and I find the constant gen-X music references a little much
I do think it's funny to point out that we already live in an autonomous system that none of us can seem to control or stop that is destroying the planet we live on through relentless optimization: we never needed a superintelligent AI to kill us with paperclip maximization, we just started doing it ourselves
Look at this sweet cuddly potato #cat
@mirijb2@c18.masto.host I can't help but point out that by sharing this on the internet, you have allowed it to leave Strathcona, violating the very dictates of the encoded message
I run TTRPGs without a screen
I'm not a real believer in fudging rolls
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I'm disgusted and angry that this exists at all.
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I think people blame COVID for why people seem dumber and meaner as of late but I don't think it was COVID you guys
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i'm going to run for office on the promise that I'm going to make every single person in this country touch grass and read one single physical book
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like, I was partially judging my ideas about what TikTok might be like by the bar of "YouTube Shorts" which I figured was close enough that I'd get TikTok's vibe from it, but _NO_ I had no idea how much Google was sanding the rough edges off of that white-hot payload of algorithmic rage-bait
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I don't care which book it just has to produce any train of thought that lasts longer than 38 seconds
are you okay Proton, this is weird as hell
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(yes I understand the irony of posting this as a toot)
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if you're wondering why the new head of BC's Conservative is further right and crazier than anything we've seen before, it could be because the dominant form of media is filled with teenagers telling everyone in #canada that they're paying 75% income tax to usher 1 million new immigrants a year into the country as part of a Liberal plot to pay them a wage of $90K a year to stay here and take jobs away from Honest Hard-working Canadians
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okays, basically every "old person discovers new media" experience is like this, right? "this is terrible, the kids these days are disrespectful young gits, they should appreciate art and literature not this loud noise and trash"
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admittedly, commenting "this is racist misinformation" under videos just incentivizes The Algorithm to show me more of those videos and I have no way to control that with something as simple as a dislike button
mom _AND_ pop? in this economy?
I went to the jams and jellies convention but everyone was really pectin
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@neilk@xoxo.zone @apike@mastodon.social I recall the feeling of relief when I started using mastodon and I realized I was looking at something incredibly stupid for a little too long , and I ... could? I could just look at something I didn't really like or want to commit to seeing Way More Of? After Facebook and Twitter the freedom of being able to choose what I want to see on my damn own felt heady and sorely missed
it's more important how you play multiplayer games with friends than which multiplayer games you play with friends
this probably wasn't as funny as I'm imagining it was
I hate Net Promoter Score surveys so much that I can never give them a "would recommend" score because I could never recommend a product that contains an NPS survey
they're self defeating
now that I think about it, the queen's been dead for.... I don't know, 4 years? some amount of years. I guess Canadian currency has a king on it now? I haven't looked at fresh cash in a long time
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