this is my blog post for the 32-Bit Cafe holiday event i chose to write about light in darkness
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One day late, but this is a day of celebration!
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As a former art student, Iām perhaps less surprised than I should be that āweāre tearing out pieces of the church walls for art purposesā worked as an excuse.
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AIs arenāt āsmartā, theyāre just overcomplicating everything and still messing it up.
YES to this whole post! using the word āintelligenceā is so misleading to people who donāt know any better. AIs are just powerful computers making connections and patterns, they are not having original thoughts or exhibiting āintelligenceā in the way humans do. also AI may output something, but it doesnāt always understand what it is. youāre spot on, itās so easy to manipulate them, you just have to find the back doors and work arounds in how you generate your prompt.
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I wrote a post reflecting on the reading I did in 2024. Reflections on 2024: Reading ā Lars-Christian.com
Next up, writing. Or perhaps exercise. Letās see!
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The Weekly Wrap Up has been posted! I talk about the lack of Christmas feeling in my life, my Vegas trip which was all about tiki bars and (trying) to play old pinball games, and also go over what I just read and what Iām reading now.
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Hot takes, get your hot takes here!
I wrote way too much in a single sitting about a tired topic.
I am ambivalent about content warnings
Content Warning for mentions of everything that gets content warnings applied to it I guess. Not sure how to CW this one.
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content warnings are overused and often not needed.
i remember covid-era twitter you HAD to tw/cw food or frogs for some fucking reason, and if you didnāt youād be dragged through the mud.
as you said you canāt know who and when will see your stuff, everything in existence could be someoneās trigger but itās really not up to you to provide warnings for anything honestly. if the person doesnāt know how to click off, maybe they shouldnāt use the internet, as rude as it sounds
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I made a vent-ish post at 1 am because I needed some form of release that wasnāt going to tear my hair out. Nothing explicit, just a reflection on how much my safety, happiness and self-expression is reliant on other peopleās wants from me (especially my momās). I had a think about whether or not I should be sharing this, but for the sake of my own fucking sanity, I will. Itās not healthy for me to be holding everything in.
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Maybe I should write about fashion too. How I want to look and dress often doesnāt match how Iām currently able to look and dress.
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Yeah I think itās all kind of bullshit, the cry bullying especially sets my teeth on edge. Every good thing gets twisted into something to attack other people with.
To be honest with a whopping 18 hours of hindsight I think my entire article is also unnecessary bullshit, OK yeah this is what I believe, but like who am I even addressing or speaking to, why am I resurrecting this dead topic? Feels like the kind of thing that wouldāve done big numbers in hecking epic bacon science reddit circles circa 2016.
If Iām going to be up to 4 in the morning infodumping to myself on the topic anyway I guess itās good that I wrote something out of it, structuring practice for more interesting topics.
This is a terrible place to be in, Iām sorry. One of the worst things about growing up is realising that your parents are regular people, and that means a lot of the time theyāre going to be shitty people. Talking about it is definitely healthier than not, so long as you have a safe avenue to do so.
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I know itās a bit different than what most have been posting lately, but I finished a neat build in Luanti (open source Minecraft, basically), and Iāve added a ton of screenshots with explanations in my latest blog post:
https://www.thefrugalgamer.net/blog/2024/12/24/luanti-build-roman-bath-house/
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thank you for writing about this game. i occasionally find myself wanting to play minecraft but was a little upset after my java copy required me making a mcrosoft account. iāll have to check this out more!
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new post:)
https://riri.my/blog/its-time-to-quit-vaping
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Oh, Iām so glad! Luanti is a million times easier to run, and Iāve really been hating the direction that Minecraft has been going, with MS making it more and more difficult to play it. Getting on multiplayer with my kid is a whole ordeal now, in contrast to the way it used to be, whereas when we tried playing Luanti, the hardest part was dealing with our spotty wifi connection!
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Addiction is a beast; Iāve never dealt with vaping before, but I have had issues with alcohol in the past. Best of luck to you; stay strong!
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Wrote a meta blog post because I was kinda tired to answer the same questions over and over again: Meta blog post ā Manu
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Good luck, nicotineās a tough one but you havenāt been hooked long.
you might find it uninteresting to write but I love reading these posts! itās interesting to see how many different technologies people use to more or less the same end. I love that everyone has their own system based on what works best for them. Thanks for sharing!
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