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How Do You Make Technology Worse?

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             My latest computer issues prompted me to think back on technology. I think the time of the 360, MP3 players and flip/slide phones were the peak of technological convenience. Tablets, smart phones and subscription services are so fucking cumbersome now it’s unreal. How do you make things worse? Let me explain.             I loved the Xbox 360. I love how the controller shows which player number you are, I loved the original dashboard and I loved how easy it was to communicate with my PC. I could go over to the media tab, select my PC and play my music. No problems. When I got my Xbox One I couldn’t do that. I go over to the tab, try to play my music and it says “you need Xbox Music on your PC.” Okay… I mean I’m using Zune, a Microsoft player, but alright. I go to download Xbox Music and get “Oh, you need to have Windows 8.1 for Xbox Music.” Wow. Convenient Microsoft.             I just saw something recently on Facebook but I can’t find it now; one of my friends commen

Violence Is Bad But We Don't Care

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              Back so soon! I’m kind of bored so. I’ve thought about this a bunch and after watching the horrible show that was the Mortal Kombat movie I thought I’d start writing. I often think about why we’re so interested in violence and killing and what video games and movies would look like if they weren’t so violent or didn’t involve guns. It seems from what I’ve seen in media that the world is a powder keg and there’s all sorts of wars, unrest and coups. I feel like the US and a lot of Europe live in a bubble. I think I’m a little better than most, like only a little LITTLE bit better, but I feel like most people are oblivious to what is really going on in the world. Just from what I’ve seen on Twitter, people are just so fucking entitled it’s ridiculous but at the same time there’s only so much I can do you know? It bothers me sometimes. We have all sorts of things to distract us from the real world. Anyways, moving on.             But what would completive gaming be like w

Some Lore For My Weird StarWarCraft RTS Dream

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            Hello. I currently have the COVID and have lots of time on my hands. A while ago I had made a suggestion of a weird mash up for WarCraft and StarCraft RTS and thought I’d try to make a “lore” type timeline of how things could go in the game. Now, I am sick so my thought process is even more all over the place than usual so I’ll do my best to not lose you and my WoW knowledge is limited. I mean, they change their own lore as they see fit anyway but.             So obviously there’s a boat load of races and not all of them are going to make it into my fictional game. Things will start off at some point after the events of World of WarCraft. Something is happening to Azeroth, for one reason or another Azeroth is going to be destroyed; either by the consequences of the people or some outside force. There are plenty of ways they could leave the planet or whatever; they’ve gone to different planets throughout the expansions and such. The way I see it, after much debate and look