What I’ve Been Playing – High Fashion Edition
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What I’ve Been Playing – High Fashion Edition

This is more of a what's new in games I have been playing I suppose. My game playing has extremely stagnated and I have honestly stagnated on how much I give a shit about games (and almost everything honestly). But let's not dwell too deeply on that right.... Right? Everything is fine. Fortnite I went back to Fortnite a but recently. Mostly because I remembered there was a Godzilla thing going on. I have yet to see the Godzilla thing after several matches. I never saw Dr Doom either. I am not sure why they make these special things that…
Social Media is Dead, Long Live Social Media
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Social Media is Dead, Long Live Social Media

And other Hyperbolic click baity headlines. Two articles today. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/mastodon-becomes-nonprofit-to-make-sure-its-never-ruined-by-billionaire-ceo/ And https://www.heise.de/en/news/Unprecedented-growth-Facebook-blocks-links-to-Instagram-alternative-Pixelfed-10237928.html Basically, Mastodon, the Federated Open Source client for microblogging is shifting itself to be a not for profit company. John Mastodon os no longer in control. Or, he won't be. These things apparently take a few months to do. Tangentially related, its picture centric counterpart Pixelfed, has experienced unprecedented growth. I saw one post where a Pixelfed instance was no longer allowing Instagram importing and Facebook is apparently blocking links to Pixelfed. Both of these moves are very good for the internet as a whole, but they also…
The Dead Internet Reality
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The Dead Internet Reality

Facebook and Instagram introduce AI bot ‘user’ accounts Hey Facebook, you ok there? Meta plans to roll out generative AI (genAI) characters on Facebook and Instagram this year in an effort to boost user engagement. Also, they apparently also deleted these accounts after the backlash, with some excuse about it being a "test product" and that it was run by humans on the backend. You know it will come back though. These companies have wasted too much time and money on this AI garbage to turn back now. But one, I don't know why they need to do this, these…
Kazinga
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Kazinga

Over the New Years holiday, after a failed attempt at Tripoley, we switched to a game called Kazinga. Funny enough, like Tripoley, it also uses chips, though not for betting. Thats about the extent of the similarities though. The game it primarily about dice rolling, though there are some additional bonus cards each player has to use as well. At the start of each game, each player is distributed a number of different colored chips and 3 bonus cards. The object, in the general sense, is to collect, or to get rid of all chips of a single color. There…