I have worked a lot of odd jobs in my life. “Wait, what the hell does that have to do with the title?” Here, let me rephrase that. I’ve worked a lot of odd jobs online in my life. There’s lots of ways to make a quick buck doing shady shit. I’ve done things from work with high fructose corn syrup propaganda groups to help them trick customers into thinking it’s better than sugar to being an eBay hitman. I’m sure you’re laughing at eBay hitman, but I shit you not that’s what I was called by the contractor. It was not a title I chose. People are just now realizing that Google is nothing but an abused SEO tool that barely functions as an authentic search engine. What’s shocked me is people haven’t realized user reviews are fake.
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Why you can’t post on Twitter right now
Excuse the short post. If you’re wondering what’s happening to Twitter right now and why you’re reaching limits on everything. Please allow me to explain. Recently Twitter announced they’re changing the API system. I made a post about the ramifications it could have the other day. I did not expect it to have this massive blowback.
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Some people have asked why don’t I make video essays. A few have suggested I make a YouTube channel like so many others and just blabber on for 15+ minutes wasting your time. I think YouTube, and other video streaming sites, work best for content that relies on audio and visual. My website doesn’t even rely on audio. Even if I were to read the posts to you nothing would be gained. I make stuff here designed for a purely textual level. Because of this you can just read it at a pace that is comfortable with you and easily find what you need.
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Twitter is effectively killing their API system and this has a lot of people confused as to what this means. Most important: Your Twitter account will still work. I’ve seen people saying Twitter will start to charge for regular Twitter use. No, that is far from the truth. What’s happening is people who use Twitter’s API system will now have to pay a minimum of $150/mo. As someone who uses Twitter’s API system I can actually break down what’s happening, and the effect it’ll have.
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I just realized I don’t write about myself too often. Weird isn’t it? It’s my personal blog and I spend time writing about random things from game dev to shit I find interesting. I used to write a lot about myself, but I just stopped. Today I want to write about the thing I used to hate the most about myself, and what I hate the most in others, being a doomer. Yeah, if you’ve only recently gotten to know me you’d be surprised to find out I used to be a hardcore doomer. Now I see it everywhere and it’s just annoying. I now understand why a lot of people cut me out of their lives. Some people will act as if you said the most offensive thing if you try to point out why something is worth caring about and how fixing it would fix their current situation, or stop it from getting worse. If they don’t find it offensive they just act like a victim and will try to make you feel bad for trying to encourage them/stop them from making shit worse. Especially if you bring up something they’re doing, but denying responsibility for.
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I remember when the Angry Video Game Nerd（AVGN) announced he was making a movie. Out of everyone I knew who liked the AVGN, I was the only person who thought the movie was a retarded idea. The movie came out and it was a pile of buffalo diarrhea. Despite how the movie turned out I actually think I was wrong. See, I thought the idea of an AVGN movie was retarded. People now say the same thing, “How could you make a movie about the AVGN?” They dismiss the idea just like I did. Recently I was thinking about it and realized there could be a few ideas about an AVGN movie that could work. Don’t question what I think about in my free time.
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Why the hell did we want the Scott Pilgrim VS The World game back? I remember loving it when it first came out. It was a blast. I wasn’t even a fan of the series. I never read the comics. I bought the game before seeing the movie and I got a lot of my friends in college to buy it as well. All of us would play it non-stop for a while and we loved it. We bought the DLC and everything. When it came time to beg for it to come back I was right there begging with everyone else. I loved it in college! I wanted to buy it and play it with friends again, but… why…? The game is awful.
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There are times where I am writing something and then something new happens so I wind up writing something new. Even if the other thing I am writing is close to done. Then something new happens and this keeps repeating. I have blog posts that are so old now that I have no idea what I was writing. Right now I am writing something I’ve never written before.Trying to get the format down for a new subject is interesting, but takes while to get right. However, some shit just popped up that left me floored so much that I feel required to write this. What is it? I was recently banned from Poast. What’s Poast? A free speech platform for trolls. What was I banned for? A troll from AOL chatroom days.
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Do you know the one thing you can always count on with the internet? People arguing about shit they know nothing about. This happens to such a level that people have posted classified government documents about tanks on the World of Tanks forums, three times. Today’s post isn’t anything nearly to that level, but it was a funny factoid that’s somewhat related. Instead I will talk about gamers bitching about Skill Based Matchmaking (SBMM) because they suck ass at games. Yes, I will go over the few valid complaints of SBMM.
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For those who don’t know: I am an American expat living in China. People often think I am lying about this, or are shocked by it. Some people will ask me questions about life in China and I will sometimes answer their questions. I try to avoid this topic as there are no benefits if I talk about it. If anything, it almost always results in negatives. However, there’s two things I want to talk about. I’ll write about the other one next time. Right now, I feel it’s important to talk about why I don’t talk about life in China because even with me saying what I just said there will be people who are already trying to take it out of context. I’ve seen it countless times when describing life here.
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