The New Garage Chronicles

Happy New Year!

I'm reading the Locked Tomb books and I am looking forward to the moment one of my other fandoms requires me to write a necrocav AU for my blorbos.

I wish I had someone to hash out my Homestuck feelings with who had the same relationship to the comic as I do. Being so far removed from the situation, isolated by layers of language and physical distance, makes it so that I will probably never be able to have any certainty over anything, and I would feel selfish going up to people who are closer to the issue to ask them to recount their experiences to me, but like a lot of extremely on-fire discourse that happens exclusively on the anglophone internet between mostly US-based users, it always does leave me with half-finished feelings and a bad taste in my mouth.

The one thing I would really want in this world is for CJ the X and Ro Ramdin to get popular enough that they can afford to pay transcribers to get good subtitles on all of their videos.

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I do actually think that before episode 4, Beebs was used to getting promises he could trust him to keep out of Shrike, which is why Shrike relapsing ends up triggering such a big breakdown in communication between them, resulting in what I consider the most heinous shit we’ve heard him say to Beebs until now.

Episodes 2 and 3 go out of their way to establish that both Beebs and Shrike make bids for connection through sharing their interests. Treating ep3 as a representative showcase, we get an example of a kind of trade of bids going on between them – Beebs teaching Shrike to play the guitar, and approaching him to spend time with him for its own sake, Shrike* *changing his patterns to better accommodate Beebs’ interests, staying out of his way and also practicing the guitar by himself. The relationship is two-sided, even with Beebs being perhaps more proactive in maintaining it because he’s just a lot more gregarious than Shrike is.

We also know that the Terran stuff matters a lot to Shrike. The pizza, the cartoons, his interest in El Bandito specifically is a major part of a different bid for connection he makes in episode 2 (which Beebs takes in the form of dropping the argument), and it’s also a part of how Beebs approaches Shrike in episode 3 when he’s making his own bid for Shrike’s company (which Shrike takes and immediately *returns *by asking for more guitar lessons. They’re so funny to me, just endlessly doing little kindnesses at each other and being so fucking snarky every other time.)

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I woke up thinking about the Terran pendant and how Shrike taking it off Jaw Bone and then trying to find a way to give it to Beebs is a peace offering. "If it makes you feel better--", he says, because he knows it's valuable, but he chose to give it to Beebs because at least they can sell it if Beebs doesn't appreciate that Shrike is trying to make a bid for connection (through his interests, the same way we know Beebs has done for him. They do it in episode 3 at each other)

(I'm on the floor crying.)

My other birthday present -- an Elgato capture card -- arrived today and I'm honestly delighted by how much of it is packed in cardboard. The only plastic thing in the package was the capture card itself, having a plastic casing, and a die-cut sticker I slapped on my PS2 b/c why not. The clamshell the card and cables were in was cardboard, and even the ribbons holding the cable rolls closed were cardboard instead of plastic.

It's so funny to me that for years my friends have had actors where they'll watch literally anything, no matter how bad it is, with that person in it, and I have now also reached this point except it's a Streamy Boy who is like nine years younger than me.

He is simply Silly™️

This may be a callous statement from someone who as of today has not yet installed a Linux distro on my computer, but I think for the purposes of getting Linux gaming ahead, it would be fair for developers to only explicitly provide support for certain combinations of distros and install methods. If Linux users, a 0.1% of the base, are generating over 20% of the bug tickets during a game's lifetime, that's not sustainable for developers to try to respond to.

On the other hand I'm really disappointed in F-secure for having no Linux support even on their industry side.

Tbh something I think about a lot the more I casually watch streamers (my problem is that I am always either asleep or at work when all the Big Name Yankees/Canadians are online) is that we all know that a lot of Youtubers and streamers functionally owe their career to the pandemic. A lot of streamers started because they lost their jobs or were transitioned into WFH, and there was nowhere to go and be during the quarantine, and a lot of people who previously hadn't cared about streaming started watching more of it for the hangout aspect of it, because the chats and communities of these streamers provided a third space and a social hangout, also because the audience had nowhere to be during quarantine.

But what I'm really curious about is how the streamer boom changed the general media consumption habits of the people who got deep into streamers. I know that after 2022 the streamer/Youtube market had a bit of a bubble burst, and now in 2025 we're seeing the long-term fallout from online video no longer being as lucrative and selling adspace no longer having the big payouts it did before. Like, regardless of the pie getting smaller, streaming is definitely way more popular in 2024-25 than it was in 2018-19. A lot of people who used to watch tv and streaming services casually have simply stopped, the blame being laid in the feet of streaming services for becoming worse products, but I'm curious what percentage of those people get their entertainment from the kind of live performances streamers provide instead.

My theory that you should always prime any conversation that includes even a little bit of moral ambiguity by asking how someone feels about furries keeps bearing out.

I don't wanna fucking go to work.

Why is The Spruce so popular when their fucking site is so horribly bad. It's always at the top of my search results and no matter what I do the site simply will not scroll or display pictures correctly.

I have so few friends who aren't either queer or autistic that whenever I'm exposed to supposedly completely heterosexual games of gay chicken I'm just like ???? are you sure you're not just bi? Is this a bit??

Men be saying some of the most violently homoerotic shit to each other but it's fine because it's not flirting, it's not, they're straight, honest!!!