i can’t stand notifications in general, but sounds specifically are by far the worst
🙅♀️pop-ups🙅♀️banners🙅♀️sounds🙅♀️screen turning on🙅♀️badges🙅♀️
✅😄👍✅ touch keyboard without meddlesome interference from the behavioral psychologists in your walls ✅😄👍✅
i'm incredibly unremarkable, and that's sometimes embarrassing - but i wish i were more unremarkable in many ways. i wish i was invisible, to the point of being left alone completely. maybe then i could become something worth mentioning.
something i find really fascinating is the volume of creative works within their medium. like at some point in time it was probably possible to read every book in one lifetime, but that's clearly no longer the case. and since literacy is no longer restricted to specific class, the content of books
doesn't have nearly the same continuity or mutual resemblance that mediums in their relative infancy, say, anime or visual novels, do. now, i've cheated a bit by choosing examples with an almost inherently culturally bounded domain - however, we have begun to see the emergence of english VNs as well
(think itch.io, ren.py ). it's kinda exciting to be living around a point of emergence and to see the cultural sentiments at the time. the things people care about now will eventually comprise a genealogical account of the phenomena, and that's a fun thought.
steam on linux makes the VN experience way more streamlined than i ever remember it being on windows actually. literally just enable proton and set launch options to "LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 %command%" and youre good to go wtf
*installing eng patch for a vn*
README.txt
"instructions: [youtube link]
windows 10 instructions: [youtube link]"
oh interesting, they assume linux by default? *clicks link*
nvm lmao windows 7
its actually super fucking cool to see win7 vids around, feels like much more creative, open, and interesting era. compelling aesthetically, and i am filled with admiration for the people involved.
"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part, you can't even tacitly take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop."
which isn’t entirely fair - the conceptual innovations were clearly necessary to facilitate the issues at hand - but it’s precisely the compulsion of this necessity, this radically contingent necessity, that is so disturbing.
on aesthetic grounds alone, the necessity of conceptual nests as hostile to parsimony as these are a disqualifying condition for minimally decent society