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my boomer parents are people who would, politely, not be able to sit in the same room with the majority of bsky poasters without several arguments starting (lol)

but i am so thankful, increasingly so the last few months - that without fail they're both champions of critical thinking and real 'own your process/stuff/responsibilities' believers versus outsourcing ... everything. finances, computers, cognitive ability, etc.

just been talking about [current tech events] with them a lot and it's amazing how nuanced/aware of social knock on effects they are once they get to see how the tech works. 'ah, so it can do X kind of graphics that clients are enamored by via these prompts, but the the accuracy of Y, Z is totally off, and struggling to prompt it often takes longer than doing it right to begin with... why would you even bother doing that, then, you have a brain .... '

anyway there's a lot of change and uncertainty out there, also in my personal life right now but just, man. it's just nice to know this is one less Thing not to have to step carefully around in this next phase of life.

in happier news: got to personally thank one of the character designers for the old Buzz Lightyear animated show back in the 2000's. :D (He's posting on bsky -- that show genuinely rewrote some of my brain neurons.)

Reminds me when I got to thank the main dev of SW:Starfighter for his amazing physics engine work when i think he was posting on formspring? ask.fm? (one of those); that game also made a substantial chunk of my childhood.

i do have to remind myself the internet can be a really cool place sometimes.

(This feels loosely relevant to a blog post i saw recently how all of the writer's favorite commenters actually never commented and instead sent emails directly to him. Got a chuckle out of that as somebody who sent like, three emails yesterday to webmasters personally thanking them or for similar casual chatting. email is the best social media <3)

I keep forgetting to post about this: we've been troubleshooting the "missing notifications" problem for the past few days. (Well, I say "we", really I mean Mark and Robby; I'm just the amanuensis.) It's been one of those annoying loops of "find a logical explanation for what could be causing the problem, fix that thing, observe that the problem gets better for some people but doesn't go away completely, go back to step one and start again", sigh.

Mark is hauling out the heavy debugging ordinance to try to find the root cause. Once he's done building all the extra logging tools he needs, he'll comment to this entry. After he does, if you find a comment that should have gone to your inbox and sent an email notification but didn't, leave him a link to the comment that should have sent the notification, as long as the comment itself was made after Mark says he's collecting them. (I'd wait and post this after he gets the debug code in but I need to go to sleep and he's not sure how long it will take!)

We're sorry about the hassle! Irregular/sporadic issues like this are really hard to troubleshoot because it's impossible to know if they're fixed or if they're just not happening while you're looking. With luck, this will give us enough information to figure out the root cause for real this time.

>> @hausofdecline.bsky.social When I was 8, I showed my mom the first Jigglypuff episode of Pokémon and she stared at the screen with a Tommy Lee Jones "No Country for Old Men" expression. I didn't understand how she felt right up until the point I saw The Amazing Digital Circus.

‪> @theyoungdoyler.bsky.social‬ I remember so vividly being in my early 20s, watching gravity falls and having the dawning realization a few episodes in: "oh I just like this as a kid's cartoon. it's well made and enjoyable. but I'm not a kid anymore"
> It was liberating not feeling that manic fandom drive for the latest sensation

this is kinda a cool if bittersweet phenomenon.

no shade but i specifically remember feeling this way about homestuck & when vine started becoming popular. realized video was extremely not my Thing, and that hetalia/naruto was really the last mainstream fandom i enjoyed being around as somebody of that generation. i say hetalia & homestuck because they're both web based media works with very sprawling (and infamous) fandoms, but hetalia felt very livejournal, deviantart, and text-ish, wheras homestuck's fandom was... elsewhere.

when was y'alls moment of experiencing this?

bombcar

> The analogies for these things like "hitting a golf ball into a hole in one 5,000 miles away" are always fun.

> I like starting from the fact that Ptolemy was able to get the accuracy of the "motions of the heavens" down so well that it took more than a thousand years to get observations that showed discrepancies. The math, it maths.

in my purge spree this past weekend i found a bunch of gamecube games i (a) ordered in the last two years (lol) and (b) never played (double lol). since i am so far behind my FE9 loveblog on tumbr it ain't even funny i figured i might throw one of these in as after-work distraction until my brain can write a long form blog post again (x13).

DA QUESTION: I have metal gear solid : twin snakes (gamecube edition)

tl;dr is it worth playing / experiencing twin snakes as the OG MGS1 game?

i know most people prefer the PS1 version to superior art direction, voices, etc, but alas while i could likely emulate it on the steam deck i don't wannaaaa < don't have the brainwidth to set up emulation properly right now). things lowkey going for it: it's a little easier with MGS2 gameplay ( i loved mgs2, and i am so fucking rusty so i will appreciate that lol) plus i play all games on mute / actually prefer the GC controler over every other controller, so that doesn't count.

if i play this finally large chunks of MGS lore will make sense XD (finished 2 & 3 on the ps3 in college, and had a blast watching a lets play of 4 from start to finish which was genuinely okay because that one was an honest to god movie anyway.)

(other games would be the resident evil on gamecube, OG metroid prime which i distinctly remember renting from blockbuster back in high school and never finished (lol). we goin RETRO baybe)

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