Category: Reflections
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why play video games?
A socratic dialogue on wasting time Last year I was playing Cyberpunk 2077, and realized like 80 or 90 hours in that it wasn’t fun, and I didn’t really like it. Why did it take me so long to realize that? Was I having fun earlier in the game? I noticed that I was just…
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Pacts With Demons.
After a year and a half, give or take, it’s finally here. A year and one day ago I published “Is the internet dead? Are we?” as one of the first real posts on this blog. In the year or so of intervening time I’ve been refining and reworking that idea into a real argument,…
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Album of the Year List 2024
You know what we do here. Honorable MentionsAntichrist Siege Machine – Vengeance of Eternal FireThe most pissed off album of the year, bar none. I don’t think metal is all that often well suited to expressing anger, most of the time its just too dramatic. To really get at what makes anger satisfying, it has…
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2024 Reading
A quick collection of some of my favorite books from this year. I read way more this year, but I still didn’t read enough. This year was really important for my brain and my worldview I think, and there are a few books that I think are crucial for this. I hope you find something…
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Intestinal Catastrophism
When the drugs that made you sick are the drugs that make you better You, or someone you know probably has problems with their digestive tract. Not to get too personal about it (we’re friends, right?), but pretty much everyone these days either has GERD, IBS, bloating or some other combination of symptoms that is…
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Am I Having A Good Day?
Lately, I feel like I’ve been consumed with a single question, one that works its way into the different cracks and fissures in my life. That is, am I having a good day? This question seems to confront me constantly, and while it’s almost certainly a thorny externality of my prolonged unemployment, I still can’t…