@watermelonbanzai.com
Archivist during the Day and a Writer at Night. I also dabble in computers, both retro and modern, as well as video games. I often like to hold up neat looking potatoes and talk about them at length to anyone who will listen, because they're neat! 🍉
Thankful for the Internet Archive for many reasons, but mainly its Wayback Machine as of late. I spent the past few nights downloading what they've got of old websites I used to either visit or owned myself. It's not all there, but it's better than nothing. Maybe I can refill in the gaps a bit... 🤔
Double Decker Moon Pie, what a time to be alive!
Ah, yes, the ancient ritual of ... inserting physical media into a device.
With all the Short Form Content out there these days, they should bring back Shorties Watching Shorties.
I've got a number of albums that used to be on Bandcamp, which no longer are for whatever reason... so, I often wonder, am I the only one who owns a copy?
It's bread.
I want to get away from Discord, but it seems not many of my friends care, so... I dunno.
Aye, I miss the days of true customization with profiles!
Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong.
Yeah, I miss those days... felt more like a real sense of community.
Screw it all, I'm just going to self-host my own damn message board.
I like steel cut oats because they're metal.
Once again, I feel like a digital nomad. I've been traveling down this information super highway for so long now. Going from platform to platform; chat rooms to instant messengers to forums to social media to dedicated chat apps, all victims of enshittification. I'm tired, and I want to settle down.
I have become very cynical and weary about the internet and its future, from the manipulation of social media to the implementation of AI to distort reality and mass surveillance.
I try to self host what I can to hold on to some sense of privacy and ownership, but I continue to grow so very tired.
Imagine a horror movie set within medieval times... the dinner theater restaurant!
I turn the big four oh this year and I dunno what to do to celebrate... would be cool to do an old school LAN party... or at least play a ton of online multiplayer games with people... but neither will probably happen.
Spending my Friday Night by setting up my own Private Server for Unreal Tournament 2004 on my Home Server, because I rule.
"Well, we're really not all that compatible, but damn, can you put together a good chicken dish!"
I wonder if "Marry Me Chicken" has ever actually worked.
Keep On Iron Keeping On... 🧙♂️
Never thought I'd be setting up my own TeamSpeak server on my own Home Server in 2026, but hey, here I am. Good times.
Same. I think it's hard, especially being of an age where you were there for its rise, saw its potential, what it was before corpos got a stranglehold on it, and limited your personalization. If nothing else, I can thank it all for pushing me to set up my own Home Server, and taking back what I can.
I'm just so tired... after being on the internet for 25+ years now, I've belonged to so many communities, using so many services and platforms, witnessed their rise and fall, giving way to enshittification.
I don't know if I can care again.
With the ways things are going, I'm really wondering how much longer I can stomach being online.
They played real board games each episode, so it certainly gave me some ideas on new games to try out myself now!
"You must be upset after the Super Bowl, huh, what with being from New England, yeah?"
Me: I was watching an anime about an after-school board game club.
"One person's trash is another's treasure," sure, but that feels like a bit of an oversimplification... or maybe I'm making it too deep.
I don't know if there's a name for such a phenomena, but it always fascinates me when an artist's least personal favorite piece of art they made ends up being someone's favorite of them all.
