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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

nintendo really pushing that nostalgia factor by making sure everything oot will be out of stock in november again

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I picked up a copy of the collected letters of JRR Tolkien for reasons, and this is the most bullshit table of contents I've ever seen. I'm actively angry that it exists

Contents

Introduction - vii

Foreword to the Revised and Expanded Edition - xi

Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien - 1

Notes - 607

Index - 637

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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

nah srsly tho, i know you didn’t ask for recs but if you’re on windows i like musicbee enough to bring it up anyways. would still be happily using it if i weren’t on linux now

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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

i believe in you, drakodan. you too can swap to a modern player, like winamp or realmedia

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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

embedded album art? no. waste of space, just have a separate cover.jpg (and additional images if desired, but not embedded). prefer flac if at all possible. set up klaxons to go off if someone streams spotify or runs itunes within 1000 feet of my apartment.

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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Decided today that I am going to become extremely particular about music library structure & tags, and just as importantly, that I should be proud of it

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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If you’ve ever wondered why culture feels like it’s homogenized, why so many streets have the same 5 restaurants or why, despite having so many options, so many songs collapse into the same 2 to 2:30 minute-long structure w/ 50% chorus, then i recommend this (medium-length) essay

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T. Williams @xstylus.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

If you're even a _tiny_ bit into security and privacy, pay attention to this one. A court filing in a case against cyberhacker Peter Stokes revealed Microsoft's GDID embedded in EVERY Win11 install provided the FBI the ability to trace his PC across VPNs(!!) & proxies(!!) across three countries.

windowslatest.com

Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch, first documented publicly in an FBI hacker complaint

GDID is the persistent Windows ID that helped FBI trace a Scattered Spider hacker despite VPNs. Here's how it works and how to limit it.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 25/06/2026

SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...

Internal mechanism
The True Source of Value
ASI
Golden Egg factory inside the goose
What you see are the eggs
What produces them is the factory itself
ACI
ASI ASI
ASI
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ASI
ASI
ASI
AS'
ASI
ASI
ASI
ASI
ASI
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Market
Capitalization
Egg
=
value
= JPY 74T +
Goose
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value
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56

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Shareholder Value = 3 eggs
Goose was not valued
Goose value
0?
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Eggs do not lay eggs
3 → 74
Increase = 71
It was the goose that created value
74 - 3 = 71
Goose value
71
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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Look at these sunken, hammer-bound cheeks. That lock of hair spilling in front of the eye. The thin line of the lips wondering how they wound up here in life. Link is truly the image of Adonis, like that one other guy

Close-up of Link's face from the EGM issue in the original post, cour

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Crested mynas, as many other birds, are born altricially, which means young are underdeveloped at the time of birth, therefore fed by parents. When they grow up, they have to learn that food doesn't simply jump into their beaks. [📹 Rebecca Gelernter] Original post

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🦇 Hallow-Ina! 🎃 @ina-strangeworld.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

very happy to see that the oot remake sticks to its localized title in the german version

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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

the three best king crimson albums

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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

for context, i hate vlc and i have this other video player (mpv) i really like instead. for myself, i edited the config file to just display the frame count as part of the osd. which, great, it works perfectly for me, but there has _got_ to be an easier way for most people to get that info

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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

hello speedfriends. i currently am trying to walk someone through something that involves getting an exact frame count on a specific video frame (i.e. frame 2226 of 3970). what is the easiest way to find the frame count of a specific frame in a video? is this no longer a display setting in vlc?

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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

should never have opened my goddamn mouth

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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

here’s to 2026, because it would take real genuine effort for it to be worse than fucking 2025

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shredberg @shredberg.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

FOLKS, FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER SUPER MEAT BOY HAS BEEN FULLY COMPLETED, ALL 106%, WITHOUT TAKING ANY DEATHS LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

local fast food place offering some very profound fortunes tonight

The fortune says: “Your finances will be a foundation for your financial dreams.”

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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

to be honest i think most of the actual real-world appeal is the social dimension, which is almost entirely separate from the mechanical process of getting a ding for jumping on a goomba 100 times

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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

fyi somewhere in microsoft’s hellscape i hear there is a way to sign up for another year of extended support security updates for win10

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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

do you always just carry a quest 64 cart around in your back pocket or smth? mad respect if yes

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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

oh goddamnit i have to redo my equalizer plugins, don’t i

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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

picture alt text: a microphone from some company named fifine

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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

got given a mic from a friend who swapped to headset. i don’t recognize brand, but i’ll be astonished if it’s worse than my venerable blue snowball. also, after over a month, i finally have the rma replacement for my dead primary monitor. signs may be pointing to a stream towards the weekend??

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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

and the part that really pisses me off is the assertion that focusing on impact reduction is 'politics of scarcity' and that's actually just helping conservatism. in the end, the authors are just spoiled brats mad that they might not get all their toys for christmas.

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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

'we NEED to have all this to have the future we want' is basically the key point of the book. the book honestly makes some pretty legit points about the housing market and academia but holy shit, all of its marshaled in favor of a guileless guilt-free utopianism that i just cannot support

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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

'solar panels might take up a lot of room, but we'll have fusion someday.' oh? will. we. now. 'but we won't take up that space because we'll have a gazillion oodles of free energy, so we'll have skyscraper farm towers instead of ""horizontal"" farming' o.k.

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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

its just fucking ostrich head-in-sand politics all the way down

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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

summary of a section towards the beginning: "one of the easiest ways to cut emissions is eating less meat. but people like eating meat, so that's impossible. well, what can you do? let's change nothing, and eventually someone will mass produce lab meat so i don't have to think about it anymore"

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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

this book isn't specific about anything. it paints so many pictures of a utopia, then throws up its hands and says if we just cut red tape and don't make any hard choices, we can have it all. this is just the leftist version of conservative free-hand-of-the-market ideology.

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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

why are you tantalizing me with rewilding talk if you're gonna presume we cover 500 thou sq km in solar panels, not even counting the land we'd have to clear for transmission? nevermind how harmful to the environment manufacturing all these panels would be? these people do not live in reality

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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

finished the book. my main takeaway is that, yes, i suppose it would be very easy to imagine a society where everything is 'abundant' if you just assume we will find some way to invent limitless guilt-free energy generation. god, this shit just doesn't add up

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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Humanity impacts the world too much already. Their solution: impact it more, but because it's Good Thing instead of Bad Thing, it's ok. Spoilers: it is entirely possible for us to collectively commit total ecocide and ruin the planet without any further global warming at all

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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Ah yes, of course. This transitions into a discussion about how much land area we'd need for new solar and wind installations ("one plausible path": 590,000 km/sq). Why am I not surprised? I loathe these kinds of conversations, where Thought Leaders just do a find+replace (bad thing) w/ (good thing)

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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

i was nearly cracking up at this comically-written passage, like, what do you _think_ you’re doing when you plug your dryer in, bro? but then i realized they were implying gas powered dryers. i must admit, i’ve never heard of one before. are these actually commonplace elsewhere?

“We drive. We heat homes. We cook food. We dry clothes. These activities require millions and millions of machines, most of which now run on fossil fuels. To decarbonize, they will all need to run on electricity”

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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

to be 100% fair, this is the opening fantasy about what life *could* look like. it’s also got shit like all meat being lab grown and nuclear fusion power. they do use footnotes eksewhere

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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

hatereading the new ezra klein / derek thompson book ‘abundance’. just three pages in and i already found the stupidest thing i’ve read all year

a quote from the book: “Thanks to higher productivity from AI, most people can complete what used to be a full week of work in a few days, which has expanded the number of holidays, long weekends …”

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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

is there a single website that will respect me enough to not roll the dice each day on whether to log me off for no reason

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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

restarted void stranger and found a neat area. this game rocks. i think i'm hooked.

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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

eagerly awaiting the upcoming karl jobst expose video about *checks notes* karl jobst

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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

But here you go: two of @breakdown777.bsky.social 's old 106% pb/wrs. I got something out of rewatching these while working on them, and I hope you do too 1:53:19 on July 15, 2012 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... 1:41:41 on Jan 1, 2013 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I mention this because I've finally had occasion to re-upload a couple. This took absolutely forever; twitch exports were Weird back then, and nowadays Youtube crushes the raw vods to bits w/o upscaling. I spend multiple weeks trying to stitch multi-parters together, only to give up in the end

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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Turns out I've got a bunch of old Super Meat Boy speedruns archived, just chilling on a disk drive. It's been a hot minute since, and many if not most extant times from when I started running the game are now just dead links. Maybe I'm a bit of a packrat, but I'm glad I saved them

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vorpalll @vorpalll.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

still mourning cohost, but hi

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