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celeste mappers love naming their maps the weirdest shit don't they...

In truth, I've already gotten about a third of the way through this map as of writing this. I'm still going to be posting clips of it as if I was liveblogging though lol

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anxiety will have you fighting for your life to do literally nothing

adhd will have you fighting for your life to do beloved hobbies that bring you nothing but joy

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(map is YIIIK from Secret Santa Collab 2024)

I'm uploading this cutscene in full because I have absolutely nothing to add to it

this is embedded halfway into a highly difficult map and I think that it deserves to be shown to the world

the funniest thing is that this isn't even a meme. you are supposed to take this 100% seriously. and I did. it was beautiful

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(map is Mauve)

reupload from my original blog to put something here for now.

speedtech

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I love reading stuff on abstract geometry because there'll be some extremely complicated construction of abstract polytopes that takes up like two full pages

and the first example is this

and you're like "wow that's a cube :)"

and then the next example is this

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(map is The 2000's American Housing Crisis from Archie Collab)

first room!! this map is pretty fun :)

and yes I did notice that strawberry, but it's not part of the hardlist requirements and it was also really annoying so I didn't bother lol

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if anyone's been wondering why I haven't posted much here recently, it's just because I've been distracted playing the celeste mod Secret Santa Collab 2024 and losing my fucking mind

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(map is The 2000's American Housing Crisis from Archie Collab)

and THERE'S the difficulty spike. I am not at all surprised that this room took me an hour...

this is as far as I made it prior to getting back on tumblr, so I guess I better start playing it again lol

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this is misinformation

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4501032-cdc-ending-five-day-covid-isolation-guidance/

the updated CDC guidelines do not say to ignore COVID-19, just to treat it like any other illness (e.g. flu) when it comes to public response. this is controversial among health professionals for various reasons, but not nearly what the post implies.

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you know, I'm not entirely sure what type of bird that is, but I don't think it's a duck

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(map is The 2000's American Housing Crisis from Archie Collab)

this room thankfully didn't take too long for me, as you can see by the map timer at the top left (the bottom timer, top one is for the file)

this will not be the case going forward

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(map is Journeys of a Bygone Wanderer from Secret Santa Collab 2024)

uh. really?

this is.. still celeste? right? the trans girl video game? right??

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Alright, Long Rant Incoming:

there is NOTHING about Linux that is inherently (inherently) harder to learn than Windows.

this is part of the problem!!

Windows also has a command line. Windows also uses and depends on the BIOS. Windows is also a pain to install if it wasn't already on your machine. Windows is also crammed full of confusing and hard to understand subsystems!

(and for that last point, at least Linux's confusing subsystems are well-designed. most Windows users would never survive contact with the Windows registry...)

as someone who regularly uses both Windows and all sorts of Linux distros, I (at least personally) don't see any real difference in complexity. so if that's not the problem, then what is?

well, there's a few different causes of this:

Windows is the primary branch of an extremely powerful oligopoly, and so the vast majority of tech resources are based around it. every non-Apple computer you buy is going to have an OEM copy of Windows on it. every computer science class you attend will use Windows. most online tutorials assume you're using Windows. (This isn't even touching on software support, which is a related but different issue.)

computer literacy classes don't teach how to use text-based interfaces. this is a problem! just because microsoft doesn't want you to acknowledge the existence of the command prompt doesn't mean it isn't a key feature, and this is, in fact, a major source of Windows's design problems. (even Microsoft themselves seem to have realized this when they added a truly abysmal text-based package manager in Windows 10.)

the average contemporary consumer of tech hasn't been taught how to expect more from their machines than what they advertise on the surface level. this isn't to deride or shame those consumers; the blame lies with the corporations that are designing the interfaces they use. the tools I mentioned above do exist on Windows, but only out of obligation - if they could get away with it, Microsoft would happily lock those features entirely out of the hands of end users, just as mobile phone OSes have done for more than a decade. Linux, on the other hand, has no reason to hide its capabilities, and so it fully exposes them in a way that is jarring to those unaccustomed to it. the solution is, as always, more education.

Microsoft and Windows are just as guilty of causing the modern stagnation of tech literacy as Google and Apple. if there is ever a future where people can truly trust the tech that supports their lives, it will be using software that is free and open.

We need to lay more blame for "Kids don't know how computers work" at the feet of the people responsible: Google.

Google set out about a decade ago to push their (relatively unpopular) chromebooks by supplying them below-cost to schools for students, explicitly marketing them as being easy to restrict to certain activities, and in the offing, kids have now grown up in walled gardens, on glorified tablets that are designed to monetize and restrict every movement to maximize profit for one of the biggest companies in the world.

Tech literacy didn't mysteriously vanish, it was fucking murdered for profit.

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oh my god WHY are people STILL FOLLOWING ME

I literally left for 3 months!!

I have like 50 more followers now than when I last posted and said I would never use this account again

thanks???? I guess????

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(map is Stellar Odyssey from the Grandmaster Lobby)

okay what the actual fuck was this

who hurt you, celeste strawberry jam level designers