I’m a little late posting because the server couldn’t be contacted for a bit, but it appears to be working again, so here I am. A certain someone decided he was going to stick his neck out and say some things yesterday so now he has to live with the consequences of his actions. He, for no reason at all, wishes to draw your attention to all the links pasted all over the page where you can support his work. He is assuming that there are people left to ask for support. Now the market will decide his fate.

I was thinking the other day about how the internet was when if first started and I have a theory about why people are shocked that talking mad shit causes strife much more than it used to. I think it’s because the internet was largely anonymous until the rise of social media and as a group people didn’t notice the gradual change to it not being that way. Everyone was used to just saying whatever random crap to anyone and it not having any real effect on their life. It’s very easy to sling slurs at people in a game lobby, but not many people are so cavalier when you are sitting within arms reach of someone who might take offense. On some level humans need to be evil little goblins sometimes to vent frustration. The loss of anonymity apparently snuck up on many of us.

That world is gone. It’s never coming back. We all have to monitor what we say and manage our reputations all the time, on every platform, forever now. For those of you who never lived in a time before anonymity was revoked it would be hard to explain the reality of what that was like. Not even taking into account the differences that would be experienced if you were anything other than a generic white guy. I’m not sure it was better the way a lot of people around my age seem to think. I think maybe they just remember being anonymous and free to say and do anything their little goblin heart desired and their waking self remembers that freedom fondly. A lot of people warned us not to give up anonymity, but we really wanted attention, among other things. Now people sometimes to more attention than they can handle all at once and suffer greatly for it.

I’ve always moderated this site pretty actively because it is functionally my storefront. I don’t want a certain level of negativity sullying my area. At the very least I want at least the potential for diverse people to enjoy the space I present. I could just turn off the comments, but I like leaving the possibility open for like minded people to find each other and become friends. It has happened a few time and a few marriages have even started because of it. The site’s Discord server taught me that you can’t just let people act any way they like or say anything they want if you intend to have a civil space. If you don’t go into something with the expectation that people will just start fights because like fighting you’re gonna have a bad time. It took me way too long to learn that for someone of reasonable intelligence. I may know things, but on some matters I’m slow on the uptake.

I guess that all as may be. I set things back to the norm here after yesterday and now I’ll see what comes of that. If nothing else I’ll keep making my fake people say things for the amusement of anyone who happens upon them. I hope you have a nice weekend. If it pleases you to do so I urge you to come back on Monday for more people sitting down action. Until then, this product may contain wheat.

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