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Name: Bot (or Inflatebot Unit ASRL-1125)
Pronouns: It/Its/They/Them
New Years Resolutions:
- Reify 2025 resolutions (stay out of discourse, remember the person)
- Get out of my own head more
- Learn to engage with art on its own terms (setting aside my expectations)
- Be brave about making changes that could improve my life, even when psycho/physiological resources are low
- Voluntarily let go of things I don't need
- Reframe relationship w/sex in a healthier, less janitorial way
- Start therapy (might help with some of the above ngl!)
Projects
Miscellaneous/Personal
- lBIS (NSFW; remote-operated belly inflation pump)
- Affine Axiom (semi-automated analysis of the offset problem in the charts of the rhythm game Arcaea; stalled by its recent-ish implementation of Google Play's data protection scheme which I was unaware of when I started it)
AI
- Project Rainshower
- BreadBoard (modular LLM frontend; probably ded)
Writing
- Self-hosting in the age of the precariat (DONE!)
- Why hasn't Linux taken over? (besides the obvious)
- Everybody has PTSD, dipshit, it came free with your living in late capitalism: A sympathetic discussion on the crisis of emotional maturity
- AI and psychiatry culture (bears more research)
- People are more willing to talk about politics than some realize (and pointers on doing so productively)
- Destroy your sense of self in 5 easy steps
- I Love Fandom, It Sucks
- Related to the above: Thing, Japan; How Japanese doujin culture contrasts with Western fandom culture and why I perceive the former as healthier
- This probably warrants a new page tbh
Media
Music
2025 Highlights
Albums
- The Callous Daoboys - I Don't Want to See You In Heaven
- Utsu-P - PERFECT PERSONA
- Sheeno Mirin - Interpretation System / Harmony
Songs
- TAKIO - Extradimensional Cosmic Phenomenon
- Sobrem - ANDORXOR
Heavy Rotation
Albums
- Tsumiki - SAKKAC CRAFT
- iyowa - Films, Graduations, Sunny Spots
Songs
- sasakure.UK - ÅMARA (The Great Intelligence), the EmpErroR
- UKRampage - The 5 Minute World Hypothesis, The 5 Minute World Mythology
- 156/Silence - A Past Embrace
Artists
- Nanahoshi Kangengakudan
- Diao ye zong
- Feryquitous
- Harumaki Gohan
Want to Explore
- Dancepunk
- Dub, garage, more "old-school" electronic genres
Games
Am I A GM in Tetris The Grandmaster 1 Yet???
- No.
Playing:
- Arcaea (my One live service game)
- Minecraft
- TerraFirmaGreg (Entering HV)
Paused:
- Tribal Hunter
- Gran Turismo 5 (replay)
- Krastorio 2
- Touhou Project:
- Shoot the Bullet
- Violet Detector
- Perfect Cherry Blossom (finished, want normal 1cc)
- Double-Dealing Character (finished, want normal 1cc)
- Undefined Fantastic Object (not finished; hit wall on Stage 6)
Recently Finished:
- Factorio: Space Age
- Ballance (i might have one level left actually--)
- DoDonPachi DaiFukkatsu ts1
- Mushihimesama ts
- Touhou Project:
- Imperishable Night
Want to Play:
- Drakengard
- Blue Prince (sorry wife! you were right it Does look cool)
- Zone of the Enders HD Collection (had it for yonks)
- PROJEKT GODHAND
- Unbeatable
Other
Recently Watched:
- Look Around You (2002-2005 British comedy series. Spoof of 80s British educational tapes. Reliable source of Reasonable Chuckles, although there's some :/ jokes. Edgar Wright was in an episode.)
"to satisfaction"; though there's more I could achieve, I've gotten all I want from it for the moment↩