A rant that isn't as eviscerating as I thought it would be

*The sound of a co-opted Jingle Idiocratic Bells AMZN commercial blades through my eBayed camera phone as I try to blog whilst struggling against the T9 autocorrect grammarlyified writer's place I still call my own*

How's THAT for some context, fellow blogspotters (and Reddit blogwriters, let's not kid ourselves).

Now for a strictly (lol not at all) cons list of what, for example, Amazon Web & non-web services permits and encourages, explicitly:

• tracking your purchase orders, music/video playlists, and your wishlist of stuff that you end up "having" to buy for yourself anyway, this ruining Christmakwanzaa or w/e

• paying teenagers/grown-ass men/women like $2.50 per hour to have bums watch you for $2.50 per hour to gleam strategies to git gud @ video games

• enforcing viewership SNP/Attention Span Potential (ASP) by getting people to click on little boxes to generate in-IRL currency that one can spend to get visicreen users (i.e such you and I) to react, thus spending calories

• false advertising. man, even the delivery drivers are bums who have to use Amazon phones to take pictures of our houses to prove to their bosses that, yes, Canada Post's employees fucked up once or twice so instead we'll just sell our province (and especially our capital) out to one another by delivering 3D printed carp to each other. The ads I was watching were showing happy white-ass crackaz in blue UPS/FedEx hats delivering nice boxes inside a fleet of smiling mini trucks. instead, we have ugly-ass rental vans that, yes, clog up the streets but if you need toilet paper before you inevitably buy a cheap bidet, then yes; also the minivans will deliver THAT to you the day-of.

But FFS what kind of culture needs instadelivery of everything? Oh yeah ours, cuz the price of gas has been between 90¢ and 170¢ for about as long as I remember.

• redheaded girls. need I say more? WTF happened to knives? 

• the internet goes down, Alexa gets to make more money than I could ever dream of controlling. how is that fair to the individual that actually sometimes uses the money judiciously (prolly not the self-avowed bulk ARPG economy enjoyer, mind you)

• delicious food at non-exorbitant prices. the Whole Foods takeover; a whole other beast. at least it's probably not Galen Weston's fault, entirely, for once 

league of exiles

let me guess: name already taken.

maybe.

options:

LA DEADEYE zoomzoom trade "softcore trade Andy" before the end of November is option A

JUGG Righteous Fire of Mana (or variant) in HC trade is option B

Standard stash tab sorting + some light build fixing is option C

Buying a PS5, a Nintendo Switch 2, an Xbox Series (insert model here) and then racing against console players is option D.

I feel comfortable with console controllers, especially because of years of JoyCons warping my hands means it surely could not get any worse for my "special" or "tall" dimensions.

Ruthless (or other game mode like an atlas invasion or a private league) if I'm really, really desperate, I suppose.

must farm blight for Berryraven's sake (my newest project, since they buffed Zeke's Amplifier).

Chase item?

My first Hinekora's Lock, naturally.

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or Hateforge.

... I'll be back here, mayhaps, if it's The Apothecary I end up lucking out.

For now, my bubblegum mirror is forever Standard (since 2013+)

=]

freewrite the vaal

saying hard to peer when you 9eervgwci when t8yvkust3h tivwkkbso46evitve4u4rvwjlljweuev

I just gotta use GFN then;

sleep is for the meek.

Rush - 2112

I heart Keqing

Not much going on in my life.

The dream is good if you don't wear it out

Still listening to Paramore, Rush, the good stuff. A lot of metal and hip hop, too.

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J'aime jouer Keqing dans Genshin Impact. Quand je joue Keqing dans mon compte, non seulement ça me rappelle les superbes bon moments dans World of Warcraft quand j'était un full-fledged teenager, mais elle me donne aussi un espèce d'espoir pour l'avenir de video gaming.

Bien sûr, Keqing est seulement une parmis des douzaines de catgirls que tu peux jouer dans le jeux qui a tellement plus de profondeur, de détails à découvrir, et de primogems à dépenser, que même si je me tanne de joueur en tant que Keqing, je sais que je peux toujours revenir dans ma tête et me rappeler des moments, surtout vocaux dans mon cas, passés avec elle, l'exploratrice sans merci pour les fainéants. Véritablement, c'est son éthique de travail et ses convictions sûres qui m'attire tout autant que son joli design mauve dans le jeu quand j'y pense.

Une raison (parmi tant d'autres) pourquoi je supporte le projet Genshin, c'est parce-que c'est un jeu honnête: à n'importe quel moment, je peux consulter le compendium et voir tous les détails important pour améliorer mes avatars, et parfois cette info brisent le fourth wall du jeu - là où j'ai découvert qui anime qui avec quel talent de voix -, mais c'est un jeu bien développé qui passe bien le temps.

Keqing has lightning stiletto, which allows me to point & teleport pretty much wherever I want. She's awesome. She's so awesome, I even bought a body pillow of her because I'm proud of my hidden anime side. =)

 I couldn't find a good picture of my body pillow, so this picture I took of someone's Halloween decoration will have to do.