Posted by brilokuloj on Jun 27, 2024
Bringing myself to write this article has required a lot of strength and vulnerability on my part. This is because New Haven, to this day, is my favorite map in Furcadia, and perhaps any virtual world ever. And it is gone.
Most days, I feel fine. Some days, like today, I feel a sense of grief so deep it grips my soul. It is my hope that writing this will help me begin to purge at least a little bit of this pain, so that my grief can feel even just the slightest bit smaller.
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Posted by brilokuloj on Jun 26, 2024
As of June 24, 2024, the YouTube unfiction horror series Valle Verde has uploaded its third chapter. One of my friends took to discuss it in my Discord server, where they bemoaned that while the series was indeed one of the most interesting “fake spooky video game” series active on YouTube right now, it had also crested the peak of being undeniably Christian.
As a matter of fact, I had made the same complaint in the same server only half a year ago. I asked my friend if the series had somehow become more Christian in the meantime, and got confirmation that yes, somehow the series had jumped the bar it had already set.
I sat down on the couch and watched the latest installment. I was disappointed, but not surprised, to learn that my friend had made a massive understatement.
In this article, I take a dive into a worrying trend: what is with the trend of Christian propaganda in modern indie horror? What is it doing to us socially, and what are the long-term consequences of this going to look like?
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Posted by brilokuloj on Jun 24, 2024
For how little I’ve posted about it, Minecraft is quite possibly my favorite game of all time. I’ve been playing sandbox virtual world games ever since I was old enough to have creative thoughts, with one of my earliest being Furcadia, a similar block-placing decorating game with more furniture options but substantially less gameplay. When all my Furcadia friends jumped ship for Second Life, I went to the substantially cheaper Minecraft, which quickly absorbed my life.
I play Minecraft most days of the week. Maybe not as obsessively as you’re imagining. It’s easy to set up automatic farms that turn it into a resource-accumulation idling game. What isn’t easy, I’ve found, is sticking with a single world (save file). Still, since I almost exclusively play on servers run by me, I have a catalog of Minecraft history going back to 2011. I’ve decided that I’m finally ready to show it!
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Posted by brilokuloj on Jun 21, 2024
As you may remember, we recently posted our review of the 2022 Snapple Elements. This article ended on a cliffhanger when I discovered that, contrary to their comeback marketing, there were missing flavors. Many more flavors.
This time around, I’m here with the Wayback Machine to explore the depths of this madness. How many Snapple Elements are there? And what does this mean for our universe?
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Posted by brilokuloj on Jun 19, 2024
Reddit user vetruv has discovered a peculiar oddity in the world of overpriced shopping chains: “anybody noticed that there’s always a crumbl cookies near the joint chiropractic?”
If you’re a reader of this blog, I hope I don’t have to tell you to take r/conspiracy with more than just a grain of salt… I’m talking a loaded salt shaker and a tub of popcorn, and a reminder that you are not immune to right-wing propaganda. That said, this one is really, really funny.
And true. I looked up the only Crumbl Cookies in my city and it’s a 3-minute drive from a Joint Chiropractic.
So what’s the deal here? What’s the overlap between people who can afford $5 cookies and people who think chiropractors are real doctors? Are Crumbl cookies crumbling people’s bones? Much to think about.
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Posted by brilokuloj on Jun 13, 2024
I had “only” reached 320 tabs, but my computer was actually starting to slow down this time. I checked my memory, and sure enough, it was taken up by my literal hundreds of tabs. You know what that means.
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