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This post kind of lodged in my brain. I thought about it more and I think the trait causing peolle to describe things as narcissistic (or like...arrogant/over-confident or whatever. If I'm understanding your meaning right) is actually just "opens you up to mockery". I think the internet is such a mockery based space that it's easy to reflexively avoid saying or doing (or thinking!) anything that can open you up to mockery. Which includes most statements that allow one to have a healthy self-conception. Like, that one is particularly good at something. Etc. So if you spend too much time online it's easy to cringe away from any of these statements, exist as an unobservable unremarkable traitless creature with no attack surface

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"By a happy accident, a contract between Lucasfilm and Kenner Toys, giving the latter an exclusive monopoly on Star Wars “toys and games,” was allowed to lapse the same year that Heir to the Empire appeared in bookstores. Thus LucasArts, Lucasfilm’s own games division, could get in on the Expanded Universe fun. What had been a bizarre dearth of Star Wars games during the 1980s turned into a 1990s deluge almost comparable to the one taking place in novels. LucasArts released a dozen or so Star Wars games in a broad range of gameplay genres between 1993 and 1998, drawing indiscriminately both from the original movies and from the new tropes and characters of the literary Expanded Universe. Like the books, these games weren’t always or even usually masterpieces, but their unconstrained sense of possibility makes them feel charmingly anomalous in comparison to the corporate-managed, risk-averse, Disneyfied Star Wars of today."

- Jedi Knight (Plus, Notes on an Expanded Universe)

edit: tangentially....


The Bounty Hunter Wars series my beloved ~~

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amusingly realizing i'm turning into my mom with the very particular trait of 'must have an active Project going at all times or else you're gonna neurotically chew at the carpet' :D;;;;

(I do not get how people can be Bored. you have the world's infinite knowledge at your fingertips man!!!)

anyway with NaZine mostly out of my hands and in the proofing stage, my wrist getting better but still needing breaks, i purged up my 800-odd reading list to 400 books and ""acquired" all of them a few weekends ago and i think im gonna attempt setting up pi hole this weekend. i was vaguely looking in the direction of setting up a joystick controller with my shitty dji tello drone via python (it got semi bricked b/c i didn't update it in ages and i fucking hate the app lol, so it's either wipe it and start over with python or toss it), but pi-hole feels actively and immediately useful.

wish me luck! it's my intention of writing up a lengthy post/post-mortem. if uh. i can find the raspi that i started the installation on...