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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Animal Well is also my game of the year.

    No other game was more interesting and exciting when you found something new. Or solved a puzzle.

    While on the surface it’s a simple Metroid style game, once you start noticing things it becomes so intriguing. I have a document on my iPad full of handwritten notes and maps. It felt so novel to return to a feeling of the late 80s where paper maps and notes were king.

    While there were a lot of great games last year, I put so much more brainpower into Animal Well, and it felt so good to do so.
















  • Had Twitter added a paid tier early on as it scaled up - when it was still largely the only short form blogging platform - we could potentially have avoided…so much shit we now live in. Twitter was never profitable, so it just kept adding ads until that wasn’t sustainable. And then dipshit bought it and really turned it into the nazi place.

    Twitter always had problems, but I think we can generally agree it wasn’t a pretty good service for lots of things. Breaking news, sports, even science, etc. It had actual (not amazing, but existing) moderation. There’s maybe a world out there where a Twitter that isn’t owned by some idiot doesn’t help influence an election that we now have to deal with for decades to come.

    That’s all wishful thinking, of course, and Twitter is not THE REASON the U.S. is trash. But there was a path where Twitter didn’t turn into just Truth Social 2.0.

    Adding a paid tier to Bluesky might sound like “enshitification,” but if it simply keeps the company afloat then there’s potentially less chance of it becoming Twitter 2.0, so to speak. Otherwise, there’s probably a straight path to ads then creditors calling in debts then selling then elon just buys it, too.