Some Chinese company decided to sponsor the local pro basketball team here and instead of thinking: ‘good for the team’, the media is al like: ‘SHOULD WE BE CAREFUL FOR CHINESE SPYING?’. Like, surely it is the utmost importance for China to be able to spy on a mediocre basketball team in a country that doesn’t like basketball.

Went down to the US for the weekend to visit gamer friends. I’m driving in a school zone and slowed down as a result, there were y’know kids everywhere crossing the street. A USian then speeds behind me, barely avoids plowing into my back, then slows down to hang out of the car, yelling about how slowing down was bad for their dog. Then at the next few lights they tried to ram and brake check us, again hanging out of their car yelling slurs and murderous threats.

White americans are so fucking absurd, I grew up there and they will all kill if you even look at their ridiculously abused pets the wrong way. Like a friend was bit once and got pepper sprayed when she tried to stop the dog. Not saying Canadians are much better (in a lot of ways we’re worse and more mask off with our racism), but USians are a special kind of unhinged. I constantly have to remind myself that just about every single white person in Canada or the US is descended from someone that killed to live there

“Guys, I’m not Korean. I’m SOUTH Korean. Get it right, I’m one of the good Asians.”

-Bootlicking Chan

Once again, death to the Zionist Entity.

I just want to thank the comrades here for your links, your summaries, your curation, your analysis, your opinions, and your memes.

You make the Internet a better place.

A year ago I wouldn’t have thought I would be going out regularly with new trans friends. I’m so grateful for that. Every day I relate less and less to loneliness, although when I do feel lonely now the loneliness is more extreme.

I just encountered a man on Twitter who has a suspiciously bloodthirsty and fast responding audience despite being a literal nobody with nothing to his name. Bots or is the right wing reactionary brainrot just that strong?

I hope you all have a nice week :D

Had to delete my previous account cause it was too close to my public profile as a producer and I don’t wanna dox myself

But that also means I probably can’t link my music here either 😭 a sacrifice I’ll just have to make cause living in the imperial core is gonna get even more dangerous in the near future

A new week.

We are having a party event this week. Looking forward to it. It’s supposed to be better weather this week too but this is still Belgium, so I’ll believe it when I see it.

And, most importantly, it is labour day on Wednesday.

In what can only be described as a quarter life crisis I have decided to get a buzz cut and dye my hair blonde lmao

This day 206 years ago comrade Karl Marx was born. 🫡

The HelloChinese app is fairly good, i’ve been steadily learning characters for over a month now.

There is some free software on which I occasionally provide feedback, and I decided to go to the developers’ forum and submit my feedback there. This time my feedback was about typos, which for a coder should be the easiest thing in the world to fix. (Am I wrong?) I reused somebody else’s thread on the same problem, to which the designers had happily attended earlier, until I contributed to it. This was their reply to the typos that I found:

You can submit a pull request with corrections.

First of all, no, I can’t, and second… can they seriously not figure out how to take notes from others? Why do I need to submit a ‘pull request’ for a typographical error? What is the g‐ddamn point in handling this issue bureaucratically? I mean, if these were professionals who worked on this for a living, then yeah, I’d expect them to act grossly incompetent. But when it’s volunteers doing it, that’s something else.

At least they try to work on this software on a regular basis. With nearly all professional game designers, it’s pump and dump. For example, I submitted requests to Nightdive Studios and Bethesda Softworks for some very simple fixes: implementing some unused sounds, implementing some unused animations, restoring a few sounds (which I happily provided), implementing some unused text messages, and implementing an NPC sequence. None of those except for one could be described as ‘ambitious’ for a coder. Do you know how many of my requests they implemented? Zero. Zero of my requests.

I was not the only one screwed over either. A couple of years ago I saw somebody describe a level that crashes when a player touches a certain spot, and I saw an employé explicitly acknowledge it. It’s been two years, and yep, the crash is still there; anybody can trigger it simply by moving into the spot. Judas Priest, this is the kind of shit that a modder could fix and yet somehow the professionals can’t be bothered.