Going online used to be an activity you sat down to and then could get up and walk away from. Now it’s some kind of panopticon that we’re connected to almost 24/7 that requires our constant availability and can demand our attention whenever it wants. We weren’t meant to be this online!!!! Actual pic from my personal archives (playing Unreal Tournament with a new 3dfx graphics card circa 2000)
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Feb 21, 2025

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This is why I like this website. I remember going on facebook in like 2009 and scrolling for 30 minutes and then I literally saw all there was to see so I would get up and do some stuff and chill. Later, I would come back and there would be some more stuff to check out and then I would see it all and go to bed. I like that I can come home from work and check it out then make dinner, have a friend over, read a book, and now I'm checking more shit out but will log off soon because I'm bored.
Feb 22, 2025
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I have been ripping the Unreal Tournament OST for a while now. Van Den Bos is a fucking genius
Feb 21, 2025
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grape yeah all of the old school UT tracker tunes are beyond iconic. Mechanism Eight is a bop I always remember (Andrew Sega also had a killer track called Point of Departure on one of the community maps too that fucks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKnMcPX-R68 ahhhhhhhhhh god the memories!!!)
Feb 21, 2025
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thurston_less that visualizer is awesome too! What a great track
Feb 21, 2025
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grape so this is the crazy part - that’s not a visualizer - that’s how those tracks were written!!! All of the UT artists came from the Amiga demo scene and UT natively supported the same sound files. Look up Amiga music trackers if you want to see some seriously old school DIY home electronic music production
Feb 21, 2025

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the internet use to be a place in your house that you got to visit for a couple of hours after school. this year, i've been treating social media like a place in my home that i visit from my computer. not something that i carry around all day and allow to pollute my real life. i know this is nothing new but highly recommend for anyone struggling with being chronically online and feeling the mental toll of it.
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it’s like being outside inside
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much better than independent phone time with friends, computer time beckons us to an era lost to the sands of time... when i would sit at the desktop in the "office" of my childhood home and play games and social media hours were confined. i'm currently sitting in a papasan chair and having computer time while my roommates each have computer time (one on couch, one on barstool). the ambience is more than ideal.
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Sometimes I really just want an indulgent little treat for myself and my go-to is a couple of warm cookies and some ice cream. I like the Whole Foods frozen sea salt chocolate chip cookie dough because you can just make 1-2 at a time in a toaster oven and the rest keeps in the freezer forever. Get a pint of ice cream, make a couple fresh cookies in your toaster oven, then just alternate spoonfuls between the cold ice cream and bites of warm cookie. It can’t be beat, I’m tellin ya.
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