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Warhammer 40,000

Recently, I’ve had this love for this tabletop game called Warhammer 40,000. It’s made by this company called Games Workshop. Which is kind of a silly name for a company in my opinion (though I heard a rumor somewhere that the company actually began in a workshop), but I guess it’s somewhat sentimental, or maybe workshop is just a British term: The company used to have this really ugly logo that…

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So... I think I might finally be done with this one. My recent experiences with hypnosis, a recent session I had, and how I feel about the community in general. This definitely took me a while to put together, and is my longest post so far that I've actually finished.

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Physical vs Digital

As the Nintendo Switch 2 nears release in a few weeks, there’s been a growing ire over a new element that Nintendo has decided to introduce to the console. This is the concept of Game Key Cards: Game Key Cards get a very large disclaimer at the bottom of the art reminding you that, similar to some of the physical DLC codes, they don’t contain any actual code or game data on the cartridge…

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The Audiophile Experience: Loving What You Have

This past year, I’ve been quite obsessed with researching more about audio equipment. And by researching, I mean, mostly purchasing. Based on what I’ve discovered, audio is a lot more difficult to experience compared to video. They instruct you quite a bit within an IT about how to manage video equipment with all the essentials like HDMI, DVI, VGA, DisplayPort, etc. and then everything related…

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Things I Would Like Computers to Do in the Future

Computers can do a lot of things right now, but they still can’t do everything. Here’s just a few things I would like to see them do someday: Determine which way you are wearing your headphones and adjust accordingly For 549$, it’s shocking AirPods Max isn’t capable of determining how you’re wearing them. Perform small actions with just a few sentences They keep pushing AI everywhere, but it…

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Cool Websites on the Internet You Should Check Out

There’s a lot of places on the net, and not all of them are cool. Some of them are really big and are bloated with ads and everything, but some of them are smaller, but also have a lot of neat things to check out and a lot of things that you can sink your time into. Here’s just a few of them: BetaWiki BetaWiki is a wiki dedicated to documenting the history of various software, with a heavy…

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Cycling

So lately, I’ve been wanting to get a bike. And it’s spiraling into an extreme source of stress as I can’t decide if I truly want or need it. It all started a few weeks ago, I was walking down to Walmart from my University job wanting to get some art supplies. The trek however, was so exhausting, that I ended up walking out with a Bike. Turns out however, that the bikes sold at Walmart, like a…

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Vibe Coding: How to Amplify Your Technical Debt

So recently, there’s been this new term describing a new phenomenon that’s starting to go around. It’s called Vibe Coding, and it basically involves people writing code entirely through the use of Generative AI. Not just small snippets they need help.The. Whole. Thing. I just want to get this off the table. I think this is a really bad idea. And I’ll admit, that I’ve ended vibe coding a few…

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Videos

One of the biggest benefits that the rise of consumer technology has brought to us is that it’s essentially let anyone become their own videographer. Unfortunately, that shift has rooted itself way too deep into the society. And while it’s great that anyone can make their own video about whatever they want, and then share it with the rest of the world, it’s become obnoxious that there’s now this…

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The internet

The internet may be becoming increasingly threatened and completely controlled by large, privatized corporations, but it’s still ours: Not just mine, not just yours, ours. It’s a place to be weird, yourself, not nobody. It’s a place for you to be whatever you want, wherever you want. Whether in elaborately constructed animal character, or a silly JPEG. It’s a place where communities can gather,…

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Flipnote

I’ve got to admit, Flipnote is a pretty cool application. Well, it’s not one that I actively grew up using. Or at the very least, one that I actively engaged with for art, I’ve still watched a ton of Flipnotes over the years. And recently, I’ve started enjoying a lot of the major Flipnote creators like raxdflipnote and Zane Little. Perhaps it’s just because of how distracted I am anymore. But…

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3D Printing

So these past couple of months have really been the prime time for me to finally get ahold of a lot of the things that I have always wanted. I managed to get a robotic vaccum, a nice set of speakers, and, of todays topic, a 3D printer. The specific model I got isn’t particuarly exciting. It’s a random Chinese brand called Flashforge, and the model is the Flashforge Adventurer 5M. I got it at the…

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Sonos Ecosystem Review

So, a while ago, there was this huge uproar over this company called Sonos, which is a manufacturer of wireless speakers, mainly because of a new version of their app that they deployed, While the whole idea of this uproar was essentially to stay away from the speakers, it drew me in closer to the idea for some reason. Basically, to talk about what makes Sonos speakers unique, there’s a little…

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Loss of Computer Control

The Spring 2025 Semester has been quite a bit seething for me. Mainly because I feel like I’ve been helpless. There’s been a ton more group work to do, and a lot of assignments that have forced me to bend over backwards in uncomfortable ways that have resulted in me needing to do more work than I need to . While this could be a fear of change taking over. It’s mainly just that when you hear the…

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Federation Test Post

Federation Test Post

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Therianthropy

I consider myself Therian. Perhaps it's an odd way to cope with autism (if it's actually coping). Even as everyone around me locally would likely think that I'm crazy (I've occasionally described to my mom how nice it would be to be a wolf, and she's just responded "you are human"), and I only found out the concept of the thing a few years ago. It's still something that clings onto me closely.

Maybe it's just growing up lonely that drives one crazy, or maybe it's the fact that the Autism spectrum puts you through a lot of challenges. But I just don't feel like I fit in with a lot of others. I don't think I have since I was in early elementary school.

Sometimes, especially during extreme bouts of emotion (good and bad), I begin to feel a bit like I have a tail. It doesn't really wag or anything, but I can feel it at the back. Of course, I look at myself and I know that I'm human, but deep down, it would be truly nice to be something not human that better represents me. More body language, better abilities, but I'm not sure that's what the whole concept of Therianthropy is about.

I look at myself in the mirror, and I feel like I'm simply contained within a vessel of some sort to my actual soul. There's just a sort of feeling of disconnection between myself and my body during most moments. And there's just this feeling inside of "is this me? Or is that me?". Maybe it's an identity crisis forming, maybe it's a more pragmatic side, maybe it's something more.

Is all of this something I've hypnotized myself into thinking? Is it truly a part of me? Is it just a phase? Am I just replacing the word "hand" with "paw" ironically? Is this just some kind of metaphor to me? All those questions are something I don't think I'll have the answer to...