Em // ꙮ @coleoptera@cybre.space

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it's amazing how much faster and easier to read they are here! it's crazy how much stuff pops up or runs in the background on a "basic" blog platform now

I've moved my two most recent medium posts to my neocities site!! I am hoping to move over one a day and then be able to remove my medium & wordpress account eventually https://coleoptera.neocities.org/writing.html

Literally one of the comments in these threads is like "yeah people don't know how hard it is for reviewers, they pull a 14 hour day to get a day one review out sometimes" and my response to that is ok maybe game writers should unionize too so they can effectively act in solidarity with game workers and not have to be tossed around by the speed of the vgames hype cycle, which is entirely unnecessary and manufactured by the same companies crunching their workers

Like I'm sorry you work there and I'm sorry it's hard to be a writer under capitalism and I know you have little to no control that upper management are all probably mindslaves of the click metrics but you can just let a critique go and understand where it's coming from. Honestly same to the people feeling obligated to make the I LOVE working at R* actually threads

It's really weird to see ppl who have published or are employed by the mainstream game sites quote-tweeting people expressing a pretty standard "all the sites that are running coverage of R*'s labor issues are also going to likely give it hype cycle style coverage and positive reviews" to their larger follower base like. Really bad look! I'm sorry. A quote tweet is almost never good faith engagement.

it's so 2014... inspired by duck dynasty/craigslist killer/ao oni/the twine games "scene"

On replaying it out of curiosity this stupid twine game I made in 2014 is... good actually. https://coleo_kin.itch.io/duck-ted-bundy

I may have totally ignored the task I need to complete ASAP all day yesterday to make a geocities-era personal site but; it was worth it

Ok I think I have the skeleton of my site ready!! https://coleoptera.neocities.org/ I will make it more stylish and move my blog posts over as I have time :) oh I love it

messing around with building a static site on neocities and having a blast https://coleoptera.neocities.org/

Goddd I got some archival resources for an exhibition from 2003 today but they are so small like taken by the worlds most early 00s digital camera and put on a geocities page small... computer please enhance

I just want to go around to everyone posting their "not quite as shockingly bad" R* stories like: Please don't do affective labor online for your bosses when they're the ones who should deal with the implications and fallout of their statements on the record directly

GOD while I use my kindle less than I'd like due to it being crap at handling pdfs, I LOVE the look of e-ink and the long life you get with it. an e-ink smartphone would be ideal... the only thing I'd miss is fgo.