
There is a horrific lack of art about this boss bitch. I loved her when I saw her in the game. Truly an inspiration to all.
I think a lot about how much of my life is subject to algorithms. Like, I can make a great game but if the game doesn't please Steam's algorithms I'll be lucky to get 10 Steam reviews and make $2,000 off it. When I make a YT video, I have to tailor it so it has enough algorithmic viability that it can blow up, because the alternative is it'll get buried. To compensate for curators using shitty algorithms I build a following on social media, so I can hopefully continue to eat. But then the social media sites also use algorithms which seem, to the best of my ability to discern such things, entirely random and which will never pick up anything I actually need them to. Even for tv shows I wanna watch I'm dependent on an algorithm because if the streaming service's algorithm doesn't vibe with the show they'll just fucking cancel it and I'll never get more.
Anyhow, when I think about this I almost feel thankful for what Musk did to Twitter. At least on cohost and mastodon there's no fucking algorithm. When I post something big and important it gets more pickup than when I make an unimportant shitpost. I no longer feel gaslit by algorithms and I can build a community that I can reliably reach.
So when people on these sites start asking for an algorithm it makes me want to fucking scream. My whole life, including whether I get to eat or keep a roof over my head is ruled by shitty fucking algorithms. If you want those, they're fucking everywhere, so go somewhere else and leave my fucking sanctuary alone, thanks.
one of the ongoing questions in christianity is the end of the era of miracles, where how god, all powerful and important such, was capable of - well, a lot, in the Bible times - but now he isn't restoring limbs or bringing back the dead, unless you believe some really screwed up positions and I think it's kind of interesting to imagine a scenario where Jesus was god and the era of miracles ended because he got killed and the last books of the bible are literally people trying to reconstruct a faith system without realising they're now praying to a god that they killed and all the divine magic is trickling out of reality