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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 59m

I feel like usually when a middleweight intellectual says the word pretentious they mean it the same way a tween means cringe. It just means that somebody tried to do something and wasn't ashamed.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 1h

I'm probably generalizing too much but I feel like I would see less watch out for motorcycle motorcycle bumper stickers if every person I saw riding a motorcycle wasn't constantly weaving in and out of traffic, dangerously and breaking laws.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 14h

That didn't work either so we're testing in prod. Why is it actually harder to have a website now than it was in the 90s? Shouldn't this have gotten much much easier? Why is backing up and migrating and testing changes not baked in?

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 15h

So now ... we're doing manual backups right from the host.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 16h

My wordpress backups won't load into WP Studio, which makes me very nervous that they won't ever work.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 16h

Computer nerds be like, "I'm not busy, I'm just waiting for this code to fail" It's me, I'm computer nerds.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 17h

I mean, I think it's basically a gimmick, but it's a gimmick my son is enjoying, so I'm torn. But if there's no way to reasonably do it without giving his info to meta or selling the house, it's probably not worth it.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 17h

Okay, #VR folks, my son is super into VR gaming lately and meta is forcing me to create a facebook account for him before he keeps using the meta. I'd love to tell them to fuck off. a: Is there a standalone VR gaming setup that isn't trash? b: is it even worth dong or is VR basically dead?

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 17h

I don't know, that sounds a lot like, "The BBC was behind it, but I couldn't be arsed"

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 17h

Some people hate every second of being amazing at something.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 17h

and thank you for reminding me that I wanted to donate.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 18h

I regret to inform you that the rest of it is just going to be me running games, but I hope you enjoy it all the same.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 19h

Certainly this is going to mess with my future video success, but I don't have very many subscribers anyway, so why not vent?

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Your kid is not a billboard

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 22h

Expanding the government into new pointless agencies that only answer to trump ... they're not beating the nazi allegations.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 22h

I really liked how he handled the kid. that was great. Hero shit. That all by itself was good.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 22h

I totally liked his mental health struggles. Again, as a hard boiled detective story, this thing worked. but it was a long way to walk over the corpse of the idea of Hal Jordan) to get there and to be honest, not for much payoff on the super hero side of the story.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 23h

Also, not for nothing, but the whole conceit of Green lantern is "guy that makes neat stuff out of green light" and they made like two things out of green light. What a fucking bummer. Ooh, a dollar bill and a bird. Mind blown. Sorry, and a watch one time. lame.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm intended to believe that some of the oldest and most powerful intelligences in the universe don't get how fear works? I'm supposed to understand that the guardians are THIS much of a bungling mess? I don't buy it. None of the setup paid off. it was discarded for a musical swell.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

These writers basically thought "I guess our heroes have to be fearless" without seeming to understand what fear is or what it's for. And also without their heroes needing to be fearless. That's not what the ring is even looking for. it wants you to overcome your fear through force of will.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We get an ending where Jon forgives his abusive parents without them or even him having done anything at all. We get an ending where he and Hal are buddies despite Hal literally having tried to kill Jon and never dealing with it.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And people can say "that's the point" all they want, but it's only the point because a bunch of guys in a writer's room started with their conclusion (hey, wouldn't green lanterns make a great true detective knockoff?) and never once tried to actually earn their bones.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Almost nothing that happened in that show felt like I was watching super heroes. In fact, if you have removed the green lantern element entirely, it would have been a better show. Neither of these guys ever felt like a hero. Hal's hologram was ten times better than he was.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If your hero is a broken dick who was abused his whole life, then yeah, Jon is fine. But when you need that guy to be a super hero, you've just fucked the whole thing.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yes, in the context of a hard boiled detective story a cop on the outs and a private detective who are opposed by a relatively useless leucocratic police organization is fine. But when that organization is also the Guardians of OA, that's stupid.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

But as a show about super heroes, it failed so utterly that I'm totally uninterested.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think that first layer sort of worked. Like, the mystery was okay. Not great, but okay. And there were some neat hard boiled moments. And it fit the themes and all. It had tortured and deeply flawed heroes in an even more flawed world and yes, nobody but Jon could have delivered that end speech

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So here's the thing about Lanterns. it needed to work on two levels. 1: it needed to be a story about these two detectives who hate each other who solve this crime. that's the true Detective layer. 2: it needed to be about the green lanterns. About Hal and Jon and how they're heroes.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Finished Lanterns. As I feared, it wasn't really going anywhere. I'll complain more about it tomorrow.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A friend of mine used to work with the plague and the black death and a bunch of other weird stuff and she's immune to both, which I think is amazing. But also those immunities were experimental and they really fucked up her vascular system and temperature regulation. Off topic deep lore.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The goal is for everyone to have their own reality. It makes them easier to control.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It was on mine. Basically every year since 2017.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this is not a problem you can fix with calm, reasoned debate. you can't even fix it by improving people's lives with policy. there is no clear, proven, non-violent solution to this issue. finding one is the most significant problem of our age.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

On the bright side, at least you know it was probably written by a human. Or at least dictated speech to text by a human.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

remember when LiveJournal was bought by Russia and we all thought that was a major privacy concern? But now the literal president is owned by Russia and they basically seem like a paper tiger and nobody really cares much? Weird. I'd almost rather my social media be owned by a non-US country.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something something consumption capitalism

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Mythical Magpie (she/her) @mythicalmagpie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I have to be honest, this is not the way I planned on raising kids. When I grew up I had a huge family and community supporting everyone. Cousins babysat, grandparents took kids on trips. And that is not what I have for my kids. I grieve it regularly and also grieve the lack of support.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Using wordpress is so much fun!. If you want to figure out how to do something, all you do is look at a video made 12 years ago that suggests that you use a plug-in feature that used to be free and now costs a few $100 a month. Piece of cake

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Dear bisexuals, bi visibility month is over. You may continue doing crimes now.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Mission Accomplished. I got the synopsis and necessaries up for The Steel Ghost. www.crownsforgotten.com/2026/10/02/t...

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Hey Guys Casper The Friendly Ghost

ALT: Hey Guys Casper The Friendly Ghost

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ceej @ceej.online · 02/10/2026

incredible news: we’re having the same arguments over and over for the rest of time

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I forgot to post a chapter of The Steel Ghost this month, so looks like we're skipping a month after all! I'll post some cover art or a synopsys or something.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A friend just reminded me that while this timeline might suck, at least we don't have to listen to Charlie Kirk defending the Cornell 7.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This immediately made me think of The Campaign for North Africa.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Time travel would be cool but I wouldn't want to go back to before 1850 or so. Because there wouldn't be any large-scale ice cream production. I have priorities.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So, on a list of reasons never to use a meta product: When a kid turns 13, meta just decides for you that they get to start managing their own accounts. You don't have the option to opt out and the parental controls basically just become reporting tools. Fuck, off, parents. We own your kid now.

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Greg Mitchell @gregmitch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As promised, PBS has just re-posted, streaming for all, my Emmy-nominated film "The First Attack Ads: Hollywood vs. Upton Sinclair" in time for the midterms--and the 2026 efforts to destroy lefty candidates. 26 minutes: www.pbs.org/video/the-fi... www.pbs.org/video/the-fi...

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The First Attack Ads: Hollywood vs. Upton Sinclair

The California campaign that gave birth to the political attack ad.

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