When the morning light came too late did you ever blame yourself?
Would you leave the unprepared bed every time for someone else?
Is your word in silence heard to pass away the quick and mild?
If your heart lays with the rebel would you cheer the under dog?
possibly opaque piece about kero blaster, klik n play
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http://deep-hell.com/playboy-manbaby-dont-let-it-be-album-review/
iā¦wrote a music review!!
Iāve harbored idle ambitions toward writing for as long as I can remember. The most any of these ambitions have ever produced are a handful of awful half-finished interactive fiction programs Iām frankly ashamed to have my name associated with, which is why last yearās efforts are such a relief: for once, my nameās not attached to the game in question.
In retrospect, though, the most recent attempt was actually off to a great start. I made a lot of good progress while I was just writing the opening outline. It was only once I tried to start implementing things that I bogged down in the coding and found I was wasting more and more time on increasingly minor bugs. If Iād spent a whole lot more time just writing and never actually bothered moving the text into Inform, I might not hate the very idea of resuming work on that project. Writing and coding are two separate skills, and I need to treat them as such.
Of those two skills, I feel like I have the greatest opportunity for improvement where my writing is concerned, so I am now going through Tim Clareās Couch to 80k Writing Boot Camp for the next eight weeks. Iāve enjoyed the first two days of exercises enough that I thought I should share the link, so. Work hard, if you want.
recently iāve been a low-key contributor to the videogame section of The Hard Times site and this headline/blurb i wrote came out today
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Iām ghost writing an article about Japanese Kidnappings by North Korea for the Cato Institute.
Thatās a cool gig. My feelings about Cato notwithstanding.
The Institute I mean. I also have feelings about Cato the Roman senator but the feelings are somewhat different and more complicated
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i wrote rap lyrics for the first time since high school today
punk without politics, art without a statement
the cops arrested everyone performing in the basement
the end of history encouraged organized disorder
the last human alive will be the ceo skateboarder
i will make it look easy
i will murder jeff bezos in some bootleg yeezys
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and the weatherās so breezy, in the real amazon and the year is 2060
i have 6 arms but i luv it like jeezy and i sell blu-rays of cars 28
4 the kids
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working on a zine thing
should i make fun of everyone in indie game the movie later on or not at all
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I wanna know, thatās my old social circle and Iāve got the same morbid curiosity as wanting to hear people gossiping about me
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Dragon Corporation presents: The Dragonsphere
http://harmonyzone.org/ballwithfeet.html cultural reseach project
(I know I left out the zoombinis)
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superbeing
I wrote this:
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i bought a domain name and spent all day making this but i feel like its totally pointless and messy. i havent revised it but i feel like all the text, as it is, is necessary - but everything the text is about is completely stupid and unimportant
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I just put together a small collection of stories and comics and stuff. Itās 32 pages. Itās free on itch as a PDF but is also available as a paperback.
Hereās a little blog post I wrote about it, too.
And, yeah, I used KDP to make it available on Amazon as a paperback. Which is silly and I hardly expect anyone to buy, but it feels kinda neat to have it available that way:
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another 2 am synthesis of the same history and topic iāve been trying to synthesize at 2 am for a year
while a lot of high-profile clubs and raves had harm reduction programs where you could test your drugs for quality and safety, some didnāt. and a couple of kids died because of this, and the government saw an opportunity to pass more laws that could get more non-violent drug offenders into the private prisons so they can have some cheap labor
this resulted in the RAVE act. the resisting americanās vulnerability to ecstasy act. which, if you try to read the name of this bill as something not even related to drugs, somehow actually makes more sense. like youāre trying to make americans resistant and invulnerable to beautiful ecstatic experiences. joe biden wrote this bill. he made a note of also previously writing a ācrackhouseā bill, which similarly kind of went after the wrong targets in honestly more complex issues. joe biden has never been a lucid individual.
the rave act made venue owners and organizers also complicit in any drug-related offense or death that happened āunder their watch.ā posession, a death, soliciting, a cute little veteran grandpa that lets kids throw parties at his american legion could suddenly get all these charges. since mere posession could suddenly be charged against organizers, drug testing tables and harm reduction programs couldnāt come to the events that did happen. so if someone did somehow get some bad ecstasy into a club, and they did it anyways without testing it, and they died. that was because of the rave act. people werenāt gonna stop doing these drugs, this law made the only relatively safe and ideal places to enjoy and experiment with them just as dangerous as the street.
but wait, raves can still happen while everyone is sober, right? dancing is still fun! youāre right! but club culture became looked at so negatively by the media, government, and the music industry, that no one wanted to touch it outside of diy spaces. and even then, your diy venue would be better off and less of a beacon for police to come and do a mass arrest if you just played some trip-hop or twee indie rock. and punk shows only last like 2 hours and everyone is an alcoholic, which is a legal thing to be.
what can we extract from these events sociologically? generation x had their major political and cultural youth movement stripped away from them because it was too powerful. grunge does not count. if a potentially scalable political-ish subculture emerges in a major city, the city usually invites neolib yuppies to gentrify it so it can never actually flourish. i feel like this either happened with electroclash or this was electroclash. i donāt even know. what can we do about any of this? unrelated but what can we do about gamergate or even doritosgate? probably electing bernie sanders
iāve only recently realized that no shit the american rave scene died after the rave act the way it did, even in legitimate clubs. no one wants to touch anything that could potentially put them in jail
joe biden singlehandedly changed the way nightlife and counter-culture worked. i am so sick of drinking ipas and listening to MAC DEMARCO
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