JcDent

Getting yeeted of a gaming site and its consequences have been a disaster for my vidja reviewing.

i havent been catholic for many years, but i was still raised catholic and there are Various Christian Things that still get to me on an emotional level. for instance, the entirety of the Oh Hellos album Dear Wormwood. but another thing is The Battle Hymn of the Republic. "As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free" always gives me goosebumps. most patriotic songs don't get me. i'm not patriotic. but abolitionist songs? those can get me going.

Abolitionism transcends national boundaries, so you don't have to patriot-brained to like the song.

Also, I love how the same tune also contributed to Solidarity Forever and Blood on the Risers.

Oh, damn, it's also based on a song about John Brown, featuring lyrics like:

John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave; (3×)
His soul is marching on!"

and

They will hang Jeff Davis to a sour apple tree! (3×)
As they march along!

Man, they knew how to make a mean fucking tune before anything slightly patriotic was subsumed by a wave of Alamosexualism.

But maybe that's the key: you have to sing about a goal that's larger than country for country's sake. Dulce et decorum not shagging the flag est.

So I hear it's a good thing for promoting your stuff.

HOWEVER.

As an audio-only pod, we'd need to do the the audio-over-logo thing before we can upload it there.

What's the best/easiest/cheapest way to do it? Our audio editor is a mighty smart guy, but he hasn't done anything like it yet and I thought I'd ask the smart CSS computer toucher criminals on Cohost before googling and getting SEO'd to death in the process.

I just opened my Google drive and was like "why are these files all over the place? Why aren't these folders nested any more?" and after a moment clicking around I realized that Google Drive has instituted an algorithmic view of my stuff. Not "here's your files where you left them" but "here's some files we think you might like!"

Is nothing sacred

Look, I understand that this is something you may desire if you're enshittening your social media platform to push ads/promoted content/try and keep people engaged for longer.

But, like, Google Drive is already a designated space of no-fun. You're not going to make me more productive by suggesting me sheets I would want to look at.

God, I'd love to have been in the meeting room where this was pitches and approved, if only so that I would have experienced the third this-does-not-make-any-sense vision blackout of my life.