Alongside Hesse books, I have also been reading bits of the webcomic Darths and Droids in my spare time. Go and check that out. I only read up to movie 6 so far, and it's absolutely fantastic.

Darths & Droids

Found a new song writer and singer I like. Maya Clars. Even has a radio of her stuff on her site. It's nice.

Maya Clars - Official Website | Self-made songs, no AI

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Seemed like a nice shot, so I took it.

Man, the Pope died. I might not be Catholic, but a lot of people liked that guy from what I hear. At least he did not miss out on Easter.

You know I just sat down with my free time and watched long-form Youtube content about union politics. Got to say, it feels a lot better then the short stuff. You actually learn something, and it doesn't feel like time is moving so quickly. You get that feeling of doing something better with your time.

I've been noticing I spend a lot of the day on Youtube doing nothing interesting. I think it has to do with the feeling of wanting to do my obligations later, causing me to avoid more satisfying long form entertainment for smaller stuff. Still end up watching it for a long time anyways. Got to stop that.

Something I was thinking about a bit ago. Anyone else notice that at the beginning of Persona 5, the whole 'similarities to people are coincidental' is told to you by someone we eventually learn to a liar? That detail occurred to me in light of the fact that each of the bosses in that game are based off of real people. It's a cool way to get around legal requirements using an unreliable narrator.

Something I had been thinking about for a while. If you've ever read Hermann Hesse's Demian, Demian just goes on these massive tangents, hardly giving Sinclair time to speak. I think people are more prone to discussing the content of his speeches, but I think the length of them says something about how much he wants to talk about everything upon finally meeting someone he thinks will understand. It's just an interesting characteristic. Kind of reminds me when I was younger and used to play Pokemon Black. N has a text speed always set to be one higher than whatever the player makes it, even having a special speed exclusively for him if you max the text speed out in the settings. I want to say this is indicative of people with interesting perspectives having something they want to say, but I've also met people irl who do this same thing to feign interest, or wise people who can come off as being reserved. Seems to me like it's a matter of author's either wanting to make a character come off as different, or the author wanting to discuss their own thoughts through them with near equal passion.

After getting set up around here, I got to say, it's a bit different from what I expected. For one thing, I thought the node system would be a bit more like Reddit, with each node being for a different subject one would be interested in. Nope, turns out it's just for dementalization, with the most differentiation being for language differences. I guess this really does take more from Twitter. For another, there's a lot more crypto talk here than I ever would have guessed. I guess modern tech fans, and the people marketing to them, just like to go to sites like these. Not in a position to question that trend given the link in my profile.