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The Creature Cases Season 3

https://www.netflix.com/watch/81349525

lmao S03E03b of The Creature Cases be like “hey that one fan on Twitter that said our music is not great? Get REKT here’s an ENTIRE EPISODE about music tastes!”

anyway I’m very glad to have Creature Cases back, it’s a fun and cheery light hearted show. Enjoy the Season so far. As usual, I very strongly relate with Kit in most of these. She’s an energetic goofball just vibin and trying to have a good time while doing what she’s gotta do.

Google Pixel Smart Watch is Pissing Me Off

I swear if Google doesn’t fix the issue where turning “Autolaunch Media Controls” off doesn’t actually STOP MEDIA CONTROLS FROM AUTO LAUNCHING I am going to sell this thing and never bother with smartwatches again. The amount of times it’s made me lose place in a video or podcast or suddenly jack the volume to max when I bump against it by accident is more than just “every once in a while” and it is easily an un-sell for the device.

LEAVE. THE. HELLBIRD. SITE.

Leave the hellbird site. Given quiet rule changes like this, it’s very clear that even if the current owner gets pressured into adding the rule back, the current owner has no interest in enforcing those rules at all.

By a similar token, any potential buyers one may have been hoping to swoop in and rescue Twitter will now either be welcoming that change, or have to struggle to reinstate it. All in all, I don’t think Twitter is fated for a buyout or revival of any sort. It’s being turned into even more of a trash fire and if you don’t want to be branded with the reputation it’s curating for itself, don’t be in the stink when it finally blows out.

https://www.engadget.com/twitter-quietly-reversed-its-policies-to-allow-for-intentional-deadnaming-and-misgendering-181754382.html

H&R Block VS Software Licensing

H&R Block makes soooooooo much money with the tax skimming scheme and their aggressive lobbying, but apparently their systems are a bit out of date. If you download your tax returns from them right now, you’ll see a huge “Created with a trial version of Syncfusion Essential PDF” slapped on the top of the document. Pretty sure they can afford the license. If I’m charitable, they simply didn’t know how to deal with the change yet, but given how much money I’ve spent going through H&R Block instead of filing for my self, I have no reason to assume the charitable take for their use-case.

Meds

Was without my antidepressants for a little while- roughly half a week- but I was finally able to get them to refill it! The first day back on it was… particularly weird. Was pretty dizzy and sleepy *often* but I’m on day 2 and feeling pretty good again so that’s nice.

That was yesterday.

Today, I’m listening to a live reading a various movie critic reviews of the new Super Mario Bros. Movie on Metacritic and I think it’s more evident than ever that establishment hollywood and establishment movie critics are functionally worthless for the *vast* majority of movie goers when they go on and on at length about why they dislike movies, but those points completely miss the intended purpose and target audience of the movie. Like, there’s opinions ranging from “where is the satire” to “they ruined Peach” to “it’s too much like the games” and I’m like. Literally did any of you actually *like* Mario to understand *why* this movie is what it is?

It really does help contextualize why there are so many abysmal and nonsensical movie adaptations of other things: The people who try to break into movies by trying to appease establishment critics completely miss the mindset of actual normal people who wanted to see these things become movies in the first place. And the movies that make a point to appeal to long time fans or even new fans of the base IP do *fantastic* with the target audience but establishment critics scream and wail about how the movies aren’t new or novel or something *different* than the thing it was supposed to be trying to be in the first place.

If that is going to be what the establishment movie critics continue to do, I see no reason for their job to exist. Which I realize is rude, and I *know* there are some actual movie critics who understand the target audience and do good efforts to keep that in mind when do their review/criticisms, but it’s going to take a lot more than just a couple of good people to un-spoil the reputation of a years long role that exists for a misleading purpose: stoke the egos of the establishment under guise of “helpful reviews to guide consumer decision-making”.

IT IS DONE! Rabi-Ribi 100% All Achievements Completed!!

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I FINALLY DID IT IT TOOK LIKE TWO OR THREE MONTHS BUT YOOOOOOOOOOOOO


I had a pretty good time with the game! I’ll be frank, while I’ll almost certainly play a sequel/prequel- at least I think that’s what Tevi is supposed to be?- I’m probably not going to go for all achievements like this again unless I find myself really *really* liking the setting and characters. And from what I saw of Tevi, everyone has hats. And I still don’t like hats, so I’m not super excited about that.

Anyway, took me 470+ hours but I finally did it. Very good game!!