Sighinide

So… I’m Rapunzel, right? Because I’m kinda thinking that I might kinda sorta be Rapunzel, here. Mayyyybe. Maybe.

Ish.

Oh, and King’s Quest. A lottttttttttt of King’s Quest, here. But not as much as some others.

Of course.

Amusingly, as I continue to set everything up, I’m watching Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure on TV.

This series seems to be an interesting retelling of the many images I saw and the stories I worked through playing old Windows RPGs. I’m on episode 6 right now, and I’ve seen dozens if not hundreds of images, characters and stories pulled directly from the Windows 3.1 Exile series, the Avernum series, and the old Might and Magic series, and at least a few ancient shareware games I played through on the family IBM machines back in the day.

It’s a fun walk down memory lane, and a good series to boot. It might be better than the movie, and the movie was pretty damn good. Even the visual style of the show screams “90’s Shareware” to me, and I’m sure that that is intentional.

There’s a certain poetry to all of this that is really quite incredible.

Still setting up my laptop today. Takes awhile, for sure.

I set up and synced my tablet and phone yesterday, and got the windows phone app working, along with the calendar, mail app, and other stuff.

Today I synced my watch (!), my razer gaming mouse, my logitech gaming pad, my Kobo ereader, my old amazon kindle, and a few other devices. Christ. Setup this, log in to that, sync this, update that, backup these things. Things were so much much faster back when we just CD-ROMs to deal with. I mean, seriously, lol. I’ve been at this for a week now.

For the sake of morbid nerd curiosity, I plan to install Palm Desktop and sync my ancient Palm PDA. Official support for the device ended at Windows Vista, and the handheld itself is actually older than Jayden Bartels is, but fuck it, it still works. Built like a tank, the battery still holds a good charge 20 years later, and it’s solid- it just works. Why not?

Installed my bluetooth speakers, synced up my TV with my lappy, and… a lot of other stuff. Christ, it never ends. Setup antivirus, VPN, installed my myriad of antimalware softwares, setup windows security this and that, installed anti-telemetry software, yikes.

For the fuck of it I also brought over my collection of old Windows screensavers. I still have some ancient ones from the Win 95 days, believe it or not. They still work just as well as ever, so why not? The Vista ones still look good, believe it or not. I also brought over my library of old portable freeware apps. Looking through them I hilariously found an ancient one that was used to chain 3.5″ floppies together to create files larger than 1.44mb, lmao. It still apparently works, so why not keep it? lel. Might have a use for it in a virtual machine someday, maybe.

Maybe, lol. Probably not.

I also brought over my collection of ancient emulated consoles, and all of their associated ROMs. I mean, the really old ones, like the Intellivision. I’ll try those again someday- I might get a kick of out it.

I still have to setup the family printer, and make sure that I can connect with it over wifi. And I have to try scanning something with my own scanner / printer, etc.

I’ll be at this for awhile, methinks.

Amusingly, I just recovered a few very old gmail addresses that I had used to set up my old, defunct twitter accounts. I had forgotten that I even had these addresses, and had never used them anyways.

Apparently at some point in the last 15 years, these accounts were hacked, and used for… who knows what, lol. I discovered their addresses going through some old emails. So I recovered them, then, out of curosity.

I guess they can be used as a dumpster for disposable things going forward, IDK.

It was fun going through them and seeing the weird stuff that had been placed in them since I lost them. Odd stuff from twitter back in 2009, and all sorts of… who the fuck even knows, lol. Order receipts, pictures from random people, newsletters from video game companies, weird spam, stuff from someone’s youtube account, and other stuff that I can’t figure out.

Fun to go through though for sure. I’ve always loved excavating stuff like this.

I still have records of my old tweets, like the ones I sent to Emma Watson’s old account. Her first one, I think. I asked her at least once if she knew how long this telepathy stuff had been going on, lol. Of course, this was back when I didn’t fully realize that the Harry Potter character was in fact based on yours truly. I wonder what she thought of those tweets, or if she remembers them. She probably doesn’t- I didn’t remember them myself, until I went through my old twitter archives a few months ago.

I think I’ll keep those old gmails active. I’m sure they can be used for… something.

Well, back to it.

Few random thoughts… love my new computer. The new tech amplifies my power enormously. The amount of energy I can summon up with this new laptop is far far greater than the amount I could summon with my old one.

I think that this fact confirms one of the hypothesis I posited earlier on this blog: the idea that my own powers are proportional to powers of the tech that I use. More advanced technology = more power for pretty much everything I do. Or, to put it even more simply, better tech = more chi.

What this means is that my powers will continue to grow and expand as the years grind on, as computers and other technologies continue to advance. Really interesting, and actually kinda scary, from some perspectives.

Today it seems I can just suck the psychical brain out of a person long distance, “Scanners” style. It’s really amazing how much energy I can manifest within myself with this new laptop. Seriously, it really is.

I was going to write a 2022 year in review, and I might still do so. I didn’t mostly because I’ve been spending so much time setting up my new lappy. That’s always a challenge, since I have so much stuff to transfer over and so many very particular programs and settings to configure every time I do so. And I’m still learning the ins and outs of the new Windows OS, and I’m doing some routine tech cleaning as well as I transfer stuff over: clearing out old files on my iPad, transferring pictures from my tablet and phone to my PC, updating the iPad OS, cleaning out the voicemails on my phone, deleting old emails, doing hard backups of all my devices, etc. That’s all taking awhile, but I know I should do it regularly, and why not now?

I’m still watching Disney+. I do so while doing all the monotonous maintenance I described above. A background episode of Kim Possible makes cleaning out old emails and voicemails less… arduous, I guess. Less boring.

Part of the problem here with the cleaning is that I put it off for so long, since I had other stuff to deal with, from health issues to existential crisis, to figuring out the real nature of my history and powers, and a whole long list of other shit.

Next on the list of things I guess is to update my phone contacts, make sure my ereader is still updated, and… yeah, that’s a lot. Yuck. One of the major problems of modern life for sure.

I finally saw a dentist in December, lol. Appointment went very well. The only real issues I had were a chip in my tooth that needed a filling, and an ancient filling that needed to be replaced. We decided to put a crown on that one.

That’s it, quite impressive actually, since apparently I haven’t seen a dentist in like 7 years, lol. Didn’t need to, really. I know how to take care of my teeth and gums. In fact my dentist didn’t actually believe me when I said I haven’t seen anyone else for cleanings in the last seven years. He was confused at how healthy and pristine my mouth was in general.

I am really really good at some things, for sure. I have a particular genius in certain areas that is unique and overwhelming.

In regards to Disney+ and other streaming services, holy shit does the new content suck, save for rare circumstances.

Every day that I log into Disney+ I look for new stuff that might be interesting to watch, and I come up empty. I had that same problem with Amazon prime, earlier.

A few months ago I scrolled through the entire library of amazon prime content and found nothing that piqued my interest besides Map of Tiny Perfect Things, and I’ve already seen that one. Well, there was a romcom from the 90’s there that looked interesting. I don’t remember which one it was, but I think it was one that I didn’t see that first time around.

Everything else, honestly and sadly, looked pretty dire- either unpleasant, weird, boring, or just… not for me. It’s the same sensation I get when scrolling through the new stuff of Disney+. There is one new show I like- Hamster and Gretel. The rest of the new content looks frankly dreadful.

Last night I suffered through the first episode of Stuck in the Middle. Holy shit was that an unpleasant experience. I guess I just wanted to see something with Jenna Ortega in it, or something. But man did that show suck. And if I’m being honest, so does Bizardvark or whatever, but at least that one isn’t as overwhelmingly dreadful as Stuck in the Middle.

I’m not going to list any reasons for any of this or whatever. But man, why does all of this new crap suck so hard? I kind of can’t believe how unpleasant the new Star Wars stuff is. It’s baffling. Seriously, what the fuck? How can Star Wars be so unforgivingly and relentlessly terrible? Product after product, and all of it is dreadfully bad. And you can just… see it, the lack of quality. It’s there and it’s obvious.

I searched youtube for a few clips from the new Star Wars shows and couldn’t believe the lack of quality I was seeing. With excerpts like those I was seeing, I don’t need to watch the shows to know how bad they are, since no good show would have anything like that in it.

It’s a real head scratcher. I’ve no idea what is going on behind the scenes with this shit, since it makes no logical sense. And the same can be said for Marvel stuff and the new LOTR stuff, and Willow stuff, and everything else.

Even the trailers for these products look like utter shit. Cheap looking sets, cheesy dialogue, rampant “Look! A black person! Looook!!” scenes, subpar special effects, and just… horrible, horrible cringe all the way through. Watching these trailers I feel embarrassed for the actors, which is I think not the intended audience reaction.

Watching these trailers I wonder where all the money that supposedly went into creating these products actually went, since you certainly can’t see any of it.

I saw the new trailer for the new Indiana Jones flick, and gods, how dreadful. Even the construction of the trailer is offputting, since they copied note for note what they did with the TFA trailer, with the nostalgia berries, the piano playing, etc. Even the title of the movie sucks. It’s something like “Dial of Destiny”, or something. Really really bad.

I still can’t believe how badly they fucked up the new Star Wars trilogy, which, in retrospect, isn’t really a trilogy at all, as much as three distinct and very different movies strung together with duct tape. There is no “flow” between them. TLJ is still to this day a baffling, weird, ridiculous entry.

At least the prequels, with all of their flaws, seemed like a coherent series, instead of the random jumble of “What?” that is the Disney trilogy.

Star Trek is a mess, an utter mess. Wow do those new shows look awful, stupid and ugly. “The power of Math!!!!” indeed, lol. Every clip of Discovery I have seen online looks really, really bad. That and Picard, and everything else, like all of these shows are being made by children with lots of money to just throw at the screen in random ways, which I guess might actually be the case, lol.

I hear they’re rebooting the DC universe, which I don’t care about one bit. I don’t need any of it. I once counted up the various versions of Batman I’ve seen on the screen and it was somewhere north of a dozen.

Let’s try again, here.

60’s Batman, Superfriends, Burton, The Animated Series, the Justice League cartoon, Schumacher, Nolan, the new animated Frank Miller type movies, lego batman, the new animated kids shows, Synderverse Batman, The CW Gotham / Bruce Wayne thing, and then there was the Pattinson thing I didn’t bother to finish. And that’s not even counting the myriad of video games, comic books, and other crap.

I think I’m Batman-ed out. If I never see that character again I think I’ll be fine, thanks. Same with Superman, and frankly the rest of the capeshit. I mean I haven’t watched the vast majority of the Marvel crap, only a few movies on TV here and there and a few scenes on youtube and I’m already bored sick of it. I’ll probably watch the new Antman thing, but only because of Kathryn.

It’s just… too much, and it’s all just dumb imaginary crap anyways, so why bother with any of it?

Is this just something that happens with middle age? Do you just… walk away from all of the stupid shit? Might be. IDK.

Regardless I don’t think that the studios quite realize the depth of the problem they have created with the confusing, weird, overcomplicated and over politicized woke shit they’ve been making for wayyyy too long now.

Whatever, though. Not my problem, I guess. Still though- baffling as fuck.

I will continue to watch old stuff, though. I will probably never visit a theater again, and I will probably never see anything “new” again, except on rare and special circumstances. Honestly, it’s all dumb, so I’ll just watch the old, familiar dumb instead of the new, annoying dumb. Sounds like a plan.

I might still make a 2022 year in review post, later, after I’m done setting up my new lappy. We’ll see.