Despite the new profile pic, let me assure you that this blog and myself are not quite dead.
Welcome to 2025 I guess! A lot has happened since I last got the impetus to write about either tech or gaming, and the less said about some of it the better. Despite being Canadian I share in the overwhelming sense of dread and fear that the incoming US administration is bringing with it, which is all the more reason to keep small voices like this going.
I get it, it feels like the bad guys won. That’s because they did, but that doesn’t make them suddenly not bad guys. History has shown repeatedly that evil often controls large portions of the human experience, and we are no different. History extends into the future, and we are living it right now. There’s no point in sugar coating it, but there’s equal folly in Doomerism. History has shown that evil also inevitably falls; that in a sense it *must*, being nothing but a destructive force.
You certainly don’t need me to point out the glaring enshittery of, well, everything in tech. That is, *nearly* everything. All responses to a monolithic controlling evil always begin in the underground, the counter culture, the fringes. That’s where we find hope, comradery, and the will to carry on. Because make no mistake, what these utterly degraded right wing shit gibbons *want* is to make everyone who isn’t either themselves or an exploitable resource vanish. Continuing to exist is in itself the first and most righteous act of defiance.
So I continue, as long as I can, using the resources available to me. We are not powerless or helpless. We have a vast, diverse wealth of experience and talent available to us, and that’s something they can never have. They think they want purity, but what they’ll get is inbreeding. Diversity is *always* healthier and more resistant. Alloys make for better swords.
All that said, I always intended for this blog to include many more lighthearted things than just angry screeds about enshittification. There is much to be celebrated in tech & gaming, and I’m going to start leaning into that. We have a thriving and growing retro computing/gaming scene. Linux has never been more widely used. The blood bath in corporate gaming studios is driving indie development. And have you heard of this game called Warframe? You can bet I’ll be talking about that.
So no false hope or platitudes. Hard times are not coming — they’ve been here for a while. They will continue, but then again so will I, and I hope you’ll find something to at least smile about here.
Onward.