J. Sphinx @cridiron@mastodon.sdf.org

Reviving my personal homepage, I’m sure *this* time will be different XD

http://cridiron.sdf.org

#homepage #personal

Guest post by my cat:

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(this is why I normally turn my keyboard off) #pet #cat

Critique and analysis aren't bad, but sometimes, a Smurf is just a Smurf.

Tying these thoughts back together, the expectation of certain type of performance leads to enshrining that type of performance, so it begets a cycle of similarity. If one big name makes a video essay about how a cartoon from the eighties is actually a subversive masterpiece (regardless of whether or not it actually is), then everyone in that scene is doing it.

Youtube is the worst facilitator of this because of "The Algorithm" and the different content creation scenes, with expected aesthetics and performances.

The reason so many of these video essays seem homogeneous, to my mind at least, is because the push to monetize leads to creators making decisions based on potential earnings, not the joy of the hobby.

I think so many content creators get caught in the trap of commodification. Monetizing hobbies often leads to the death of joy in those hobbies, and before you know it, you've basically imposed a low paying job upon yourself for no real reason.

On the one hand, I am actually very happy that people can find joy creating them. Being able to articulate one's thoughts and sharing them with a wider audience is a wonderful thing.

Apropos of nothing, I'm really tired of video essays. As a form of expression, of communication, of art, they have become so blandly standardized and formulaic, with so many words used to say so little.

https://toobnix.org/w/ssWskJP6iSBzJ26AJ5DGiB

#television #crt #vintage

Out of order.
#photography #stairs #rural

#turkey #thanksgiving #photography

Joke's on you, past self! Made it to three hundred words!

It's almost November, which means that it's time for my annual "get excited about NaNoWriMo and write 100 words before getting hung up on world building and abandoning the project by the 17th."

Managed to find this with all its manuals and the software disk, just gotta wait for the battery to show up to see if it works. Getting the software to work is going be a challenge...

Anybody got the time?

#timex #vintage #retro

Depressing update: no new episodes since mid-September, so I can only assume the host lost interest or has some other commitments. He was kind enough to share his back catalog with me, however (at least the episodes he had backed up).

Last one for the night. Maybe this pamphlet will help me become the dynamic, confident go-getter I've always dreamed of being. I'm sure whatever service they're offering is still around.

#compuserve #vintage #retrocomputing

Clearly I've not been visiting the right Internet hot spots.

#compuserve #vintage #retrocomputing #80s