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So, uh, Livejournal apparently has "achievements" now?
I haven't used Livejournal in seven years, but I just got an email from them, claiming that I had just gotten the "Keeper of traditions" achievement, with the subtitle of "Consistency is a sign of mastery." I have no idea what that means or why it triggered. Meh.
*checks Google*
Apparently, it's because I'm still using an old site design or some shit? I mean, I guess that makes sense, given that, again, I've hardly touched the site in seven years, outside of the occasional stupid shit like this here.
*checks Google*
Apparently, it's because I'm still using an old site design or some shit? I mean, I guess that makes sense, given that, again, I've hardly touched the site in seven years, outside of the occasional stupid shit like this here.
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Exporting/crossposting to Wordpress from Dreamwidth (plus Google indexing bullshit)
Lately (and by "lately" I mean in the past 30 minutes or so, on an idle whim), I've been kind of thinking about starting to crosspost this Dreamwidth blog over to my currently completely unused Wordpress thing, but before doing that, I would want to export all of the already existing posts from here to there. However, that does not appear to be a simple thing to do, and I'm not currently interested in trying to jump through a lot of hoops to get it to work. As such, I'll probably never actually bother to get around to doing it. Alas. *sigh*
My main reason for wanting to do this is because my Dreamwidth blog apparently does not exist, at least as far as Google is concerned, which is something I've been pondering for longer than just the past 30 minutes. The base-level Dreamwidth page does, as well as some blogs of other people, but mine doesn't, at least as far as Google knows. But my unused, cobweb-covered Wordpress thing with only a single entry does exist, so sayeth Google. Similarly, my old, defunct Livejournal page also exists, according to Google, unlike the DW page, even though I haven't touched the LJ in half a decade.
If I could simply figure out how to get the DW blog itself to be properly indexed by Google, that would be probably good enough and would negate the "need" to export/crosspost to a blog that actually is indexed by Google. In the DW settings, I have the "Off-Site Search Engines: Attempt to block outside search engines from indexing my journal" option not checked. It used to be the case that I could have simply submitted the URL to the old Google webcrawler, but apparently that has long since been discontinued, and now you apparently have to "own" the URL (which I don't, obviously, since it's a third party thing) and be signed up to Google Search Console or whatever the fuck, in order to submit said URL for crawling purpose. Or, else, if it is possible for me to do it, despite it being a third party thing, I haven't figured out how, yet.
Then again, perhaps the fact that my DW blog isn't searchable via Google is actually a blessing in disguise. ¬_¬ *shrug*
(EDIT) Granted, it's possible to search for the URL as a text string and get some results (i.e. without the "site:" operator), but those results are other sites that link to my DW blog (the vast majority of which seem to be comments I left over on John Scalzi's website), rather than direct links back here via Google itself. Eh... I've probably thought about this for longer than it's worth to do so. *sigh + shrug* (/EDIT)
(EDIT 2) Also, on a tangent, when I click that Google link in the previous "EDIT" section, for some odd reason, I see Google results for DeviantArt, but only for like half a second or so, and then they weirdly disappear. Same thing happens if I just search directly for DeviantArt, too, though for that, at least, there's still a right-side panel thing for it, for what that's worth.
...
After a bit of research, it apparently has something to do with the Personal Blocklist add-on I have installed in Firefox, even though I do not have any DeviantArt domains blocked in that. When I disable that add-on, the DeviantArt Google results show as normal and don't disappear. However, with the add-on enabled, DeviantArt results are acting like the domains that I do have explicitly blocked with that add-on (e.g. Faux Noise dot com, etc.), though. Weird. (/EDIT 2)
My main reason for wanting to do this is because my Dreamwidth blog apparently does not exist, at least as far as Google is concerned, which is something I've been pondering for longer than just the past 30 minutes. The base-level Dreamwidth page does, as well as some blogs of other people, but mine doesn't, at least as far as Google knows. But my unused, cobweb-covered Wordpress thing with only a single entry does exist, so sayeth Google. Similarly, my old, defunct Livejournal page also exists, according to Google, unlike the DW page, even though I haven't touched the LJ in half a decade.
If I could simply figure out how to get the DW blog itself to be properly indexed by Google, that would be probably good enough and would negate the "need" to export/crosspost to a blog that actually is indexed by Google. In the DW settings, I have the "Off-Site Search Engines: Attempt to block outside search engines from indexing my journal" option not checked. It used to be the case that I could have simply submitted the URL to the old Google webcrawler, but apparently that has long since been discontinued, and now you apparently have to "own" the URL (which I don't, obviously, since it's a third party thing) and be signed up to Google Search Console or whatever the fuck, in order to submit said URL for crawling purpose. Or, else, if it is possible for me to do it, despite it being a third party thing, I haven't figured out how, yet.
Then again, perhaps the fact that my DW blog isn't searchable via Google is actually a blessing in disguise. ¬_¬ *shrug*
(EDIT) Granted, it's possible to search for the URL as a text string and get some results (i.e. without the "site:" operator), but those results are other sites that link to my DW blog (the vast majority of which seem to be comments I left over on John Scalzi's website), rather than direct links back here via Google itself. Eh... I've probably thought about this for longer than it's worth to do so. *sigh + shrug* (/EDIT)
(EDIT 2) Also, on a tangent, when I click that Google link in the previous "EDIT" section, for some odd reason, I see Google results for DeviantArt, but only for like half a second or so, and then they weirdly disappear. Same thing happens if I just search directly for DeviantArt, too, though for that, at least, there's still a right-side panel thing for it, for what that's worth.
...
After a bit of research, it apparently has something to do with the Personal Blocklist add-on I have installed in Firefox, even though I do not have any DeviantArt domains blocked in that. When I disable that add-on, the DeviantArt Google results show as normal and don't disappear. However, with the add-on enabled, DeviantArt results are acting like the domains that I do have explicitly blocked with that add-on (e.g. Faux Noise dot com, etc.), though. Weird. (/EDIT 2)
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The Gamers
The Gamers
The Gamers: Dorkness Rising
The Gamers: Hands of Fate
I recall watching the first movie many, many years ago, maybe even before the existence of this blog (as I wasn't able to find a post about it), and given that it was released a few years before I even started this thing, that's entirely likely. I watched it back then, but all I remembered from it up to a day or so ago was the ending, which I won't spoil, and the "You're gonna backstab him with a ballista? A fucking siege weapon?" bit.
Well, I got to thinking about this again the other day, possibly for reasons (and, as an aside, I'm currently up to the start of episode 44 on that as of now), and upon attempting to look up info on The Gamers, I learned that at some point after I first heard about this thing that was released almost two decades ago, there have been two sequels (which I have watched as of now) and quite a bit more stuff (which I have not yet watched). I think there's even a fourth movie floating around out there, too, at least in part, maybe? I don't know? The status of the whole thing is kind of confusing, but in any case, that isn't available for free on Youtube, so I haven't tried to watch it yet, either. All I've seen of this stuff myself as of the writing of this post are the ones I embedded above.
So yeah. The Gamers. It's a pretty cool franchise, at least what I've seen of it so far.
The Gamers: Dorkness Rising
The Gamers: Hands of Fate
I recall watching the first movie many, many years ago, maybe even before the existence of this blog (as I wasn't able to find a post about it), and given that it was released a few years before I even started this thing, that's entirely likely. I watched it back then, but all I remembered from it up to a day or so ago was the ending, which I won't spoil, and the "You're gonna backstab him with a ballista? A fucking siege weapon?" bit.
Well, I got to thinking about this again the other day, possibly for reasons (and, as an aside, I'm currently up to the start of episode 44 on that as of now), and upon attempting to look up info on The Gamers, I learned that at some point after I first heard about this thing that was released almost two decades ago, there have been two sequels (which I have watched as of now) and quite a bit more stuff (which I have not yet watched). I think there's even a fourth movie floating around out there, too, at least in part, maybe? I don't know? The status of the whole thing is kind of confusing, but in any case, that isn't available for free on Youtube, so I haven't tried to watch it yet, either. All I've seen of this stuff myself as of the writing of this post are the ones I embedded above.
So yeah. The Gamers. It's a pretty cool franchise, at least what I've seen of it so far.
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Shooting the shit
I don't make "shoot the shit" type posts anymore, at least not like I used to, back when I first created this journal back in 2005 or whenever (or, to be more accurate, the original, now abandoned LiveJournal, which got imported into this one here). Lately, I've always felt like I needed to have a Subject™ or Topic Of Interest™ or Theme™ or Something Specific™ to post about before I bothered to make a post, and that usually just ended up being some Trump-related dumbshit, which sucks. Maybe I'll consider doing more of that "shooting the shit" shit, especially now that I'm not on Facebook anymore (not that I really made all that many "shoot the shit" type posts there, either *shrug*), even if it all ends up being pointless soliloquy.
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My mood right now...
( Youtube embeds behind cut )
I really need to try to play this game (and the first one) again, some day.
I also need to start doing more Game Music Thing posts again, someday. This one doesn't really count as that... but I'll count it anyway.
(EDIT, a day later, 1:00pm EST) Well, in lieu of making a new Game Music Thing post (at least for now, anyway), I instead finally went back and fixed all the broken Youtube embeds from all the previous Game Music Thing posts, because it really bothered me when I was trying to go back and look at those last night. It was more annoying than it should have been, however, because even though most of them were fairly easily fixed by simply copy/pasting the embed code from the original LiveJournal posts back into the equivalent Dreamwidth posts, there were actually some broken embeds in the LJ posts as well (people closing their accounts, videos getting taken down for copyright bullshit, etc.), for which I had to hunt Youtube and find replacements. Also, even more weirdly, in some of the older DW posts, instead of just showing the "invalid LJ-embed" or whatever like usual, the embeds had been strangely replaced by completely irrelevant embeds from newer posts I'd made here (like Some More News stuff or MLP stuff or whatever). I have no idea what was up with that. Oh, and the Minecraft music post had to be substantially updated, given that Youtube is shit and got rid of annotations, which completely broke that one video I had originally embedded there. In any case, it should all be fixed now, for what it's worth. *shrug* (I didn't bother to fix the still-broken LJ versions, though. ¬_¬) (/EDIT)
I really need to try to play this game (and the first one) again, some day.
I also need to start doing more Game Music Thing posts again, someday. This one doesn't really count as that... but I'll count it anyway.
(EDIT, a day later, 1:00pm EST) Well, in lieu of making a new Game Music Thing post (at least for now, anyway), I instead finally went back and fixed all the broken Youtube embeds from all the previous Game Music Thing posts, because it really bothered me when I was trying to go back and look at those last night. It was more annoying than it should have been, however, because even though most of them were fairly easily fixed by simply copy/pasting the embed code from the original LiveJournal posts back into the equivalent Dreamwidth posts, there were actually some broken embeds in the LJ posts as well (people closing their accounts, videos getting taken down for copyright bullshit, etc.), for which I had to hunt Youtube and find replacements. Also, even more weirdly, in some of the older DW posts, instead of just showing the "invalid LJ-embed" or whatever like usual, the embeds had been strangely replaced by completely irrelevant embeds from newer posts I'd made here (like Some More News stuff or MLP stuff or whatever). I have no idea what was up with that. Oh, and the Minecraft music post had to be substantially updated, given that Youtube is shit and got rid of annotations, which completely broke that one video I had originally embedded there. In any case, it should all be fixed now, for what it's worth. *shrug* (I didn't bother to fix the still-broken LJ versions, though. ¬_¬) (/EDIT)
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Social media.
Copy/pasted from a (friend-locked) Facebook post + comments I made, then cross-posted (publicly) to Twitter:
I think it's getting ever closer to "shit or get off the pot" time, as far as me killing all my social media accounts (FB, Twitter, etc.), as I've been somewhat considering doing for a while now, but more and more strongly within the past week or two. If I ever pull the trigger on this, I'd probably only keep my Dreamwidth journal (dead though that site seems to be, even when compared to Livejournal).
As for Twitter and Facebook, though, Trump has pretty much ruined those for me. I don't know if I want to actively delete them, or just let them hang idle, on the off-chance that once Trump is gone (either via prison or death or, most likely, riding out his four^Weight years of pretending to be POTUS), things might go back to some vague semblance of normal.
I'd probably keep other stuff like DeviantArt, Goodreads, and the various fanfiction stuff. But as far as general purpose "social media" goes, I feel like I'm just about done with it, I think.
So yeah, this is basically just a heads up to whom it may concern, in case I just suddenly vanish off the face of social media in the next week or two.
Or maybe I just need to severely curtail my friends/following lists again. I dunno.
As I say, I'd most likely keep this Dreamwidth site, along with DeviantArt and Goodreads and the fanfiction stuff. But as far as I'm concerned, more and more strongly these days, Twitter and Facebook can just about kiss my ass and go to hell. My only real fear is that if I did limit myself to just here on Dreamwidth, I'd just turn that (once again) into a Trump-rant factory as well. Seriously, fuck Donald Trump.
(EDIT)
Since the making of this post, I have indeed killed both my Facebook and Twitter accounts.
And, no, I didn't turn this Dreamwidth blog into just a "Trump-rant factory."
I also rant about the modern video game industry. ¬_¬
(/EDIT)
I think it's getting ever closer to "shit or get off the pot" time, as far as me killing all my social media accounts (FB, Twitter, etc.), as I've been somewhat considering doing for a while now, but more and more strongly within the past week or two. If I ever pull the trigger on this, I'd probably only keep my Dreamwidth journal (dead though that site seems to be, even when compared to Livejournal).
As for Twitter and Facebook, though, Trump has pretty much ruined those for me. I don't know if I want to actively delete them, or just let them hang idle, on the off-chance that once Trump is gone (either via prison or death or, most likely, riding out his four^Weight years of pretending to be POTUS), things might go back to some vague semblance of normal.
I'd probably keep other stuff like DeviantArt, Goodreads, and the various fanfiction stuff. But as far as general purpose "social media" goes, I feel like I'm just about done with it, I think.
So yeah, this is basically just a heads up to whom it may concern, in case I just suddenly vanish off the face of social media in the next week or two.
Or maybe I just need to severely curtail my friends/following lists again. I dunno.
As I say, I'd most likely keep this Dreamwidth site, along with DeviantArt and Goodreads and the fanfiction stuff. But as far as I'm concerned, more and more strongly these days, Twitter and Facebook can just about kiss my ass and go to hell. My only real fear is that if I did limit myself to just here on Dreamwidth, I'd just turn that (once again) into a Trump-rant factory as well. Seriously, fuck Donald Trump.
(EDIT)
Since the making of this post, I have indeed killed both my Facebook and Twitter accounts.
And, no, I didn't turn this Dreamwidth blog into just a "Trump-rant factory."
I also rant about the modern video game industry. ¬_¬
(/EDIT)
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Fuck Photobucket.
To hell with Photobucket.
I just deleted my Photobucket account pretty much the instant I heard about this, which was just a few minutes ago. I already have all of my images stored on my HDD anyway, so absolutely nothing of value was lost, aside from whatever few images I'd embedded in old LJ/Dreamwidth posts. Oh fucking well, I guess. (EDIT) The biggest loss, as far as I'm concerned, were the screenshots from this post. (/EDIT)
Now I'll need to be looking for a new, non-dogshit image hosting site the next time I need to embed an image. Either that, or I'll just no longer bother to embed images. *shrug*
I just deleted my Photobucket account pretty much the instant I heard about this, which was just a few minutes ago. I already have all of my images stored on my HDD anyway, so absolutely nothing of value was lost, aside from whatever few images I'd embedded in old LJ/Dreamwidth posts. Oh fucking well, I guess. (EDIT) The biggest loss, as far as I'm concerned, were the screenshots from this post. (/EDIT)
Now I'll need to be looking for a new, non-dogshit image hosting site the next time I need to embed an image. Either that, or I'll just no longer bother to embed images. *shrug*
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So I'm now apparently a "Goodreads Author." Weird, I know.
(EDIT) Added some more tweets, 4-19-2017, which show that I'm kinda a bit dumb. ^^; (/EDIT)
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TL;DR version: It seems that I am a "Goodreads Author" now, thanks to some fanfics I wrote that someone other than me added to Goodreads.
Mostly unrelated issues: 1) Twitter embeds obviously don't look the same on Dreamwidth as they did on LiveJournal, though that's okay as long as the content is there, and 2) I've got to get used to using just <cut> instead of the old <lj-cut> tag.
(EDIT) And I could edit my page all along. It's just that I was trying to change my name to... well... my name, but apparently someone else who has the same name as me already had an Author page on Goodreads. I was able to use my full first name instead of the nickname, though, and that worked okay. (/EDIT)
( Twitter embeds behind cut )
TL;DR version: It seems that I am a "Goodreads Author" now, thanks to some fanfics I wrote that someone other than me added to Goodreads.
Mostly unrelated issues: 1) Twitter embeds obviously don't look the same on Dreamwidth as they did on LiveJournal, though that's okay as long as the content is there, and 2) I've got to get used to using just <cut> instead of the old <lj-cut> tag.
(EDIT) And I could edit my page all along. It's just that I was trying to change my name to... well... my name, but apparently someone else who has the same name as me already had an Author page on Goodreads. I was able to use my full first name instead of the nickname, though, and that worked okay. (/EDIT)
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Second import finished without any errors.
After making the change on LiveJournal that I mentioned in a previous post and starting a second import, importing of both entries and comments completed without a problem. All the entries that I'd already imported and edited (mostly to fix Youtube embeds, though I still have a ton more of those to manually fix at some point) weren't affected by the second import, which is nice.
So yeah, if you got a lot of errors during importing entries, you might want to try the above fix and do a second import. It'll still take another two or three days or so, but it might be worth it.
So yeah, if you got a lot of errors during importing entries, you might want to try the above fix and do a second import. It'll still take another two or three days or so, but it might be worth it.
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If you're getting a lot of errors during the migration from LJ...
...as I am, then this might be of some help, especially if you have a journal with really old entries in it. I don't know for sure if it will help, just that it might.
The gist: go here and change (or initially set, if both are blank) both settings to "Western European (Windows)" and it might help stop all the errors.
(EDIT) Seems like it might have helped. When I turned my computer on and checked just now, the only other messages I've gotten since then were two "Your entries have been imported successfully" and "Your comments have been imported successfully" messages. Even so, I started a second import that will hopefully snag any entries that didn't get imported in the previous one. Hopefully a bunch of duplicate entries won't show up on this journal, because that would really suck. >_>; I don't think that will be the case, though, since one of the extra options mentioned something about "re-importing previously imported entries" and I didn't check that one. (/EDIT)
The gist: go here and change (or initially set, if both are blank) both settings to "Western European (Windows)" and it might help stop all the errors.
(EDIT) Seems like it might have helped. When I turned my computer on and checked just now, the only other messages I've gotten since then were two "Your entries have been imported successfully" and "Your comments have been imported successfully" messages. Even so, I started a second import that will hopefully snag any entries that didn't get imported in the previous one. Hopefully a bunch of duplicate entries won't show up on this journal, because that would really suck. >_>; I don't think that will be the case, though, since one of the extra options mentioned something about "re-importing previously imported entries" and I didn't check that one. (/EDIT)
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And here is my first proper, official post to Dreamwidth.
After leaving Livejournal for good and migrating all my old entries over here to Dreamwidth, here is my first true entry to Dreamwidth. So... yay!
On looking back through my old, imported-from-LJ entries, the only issue I see right off is that none of the <lj-embed> tags made it through (i.e. Youtube videos). I might go back through my old entries and fix those, since I know I haven't used very many of those, but I might not bother, except with entries that are easier to find, like those in the resistance tag and such.
(EDIT) Well, and there's the issue where every single link to a previous entry is apparently still pointing to LiveJournal, instead of the equivalent Dreamwidth entry. I'm not even about to go back and fix every one of those instances. ¬_¬ I'll fix them as I see them, though. (EDIT)
Beyond that, though, aside from waiting for the importation process to complete, it has been a pretty painless transition.
(Ooh, and it looks like Dreamwidth still has the feature that they inexplicably removed from LJ where you can mix custom moods with existing mood icons. I remember when they removed that from LJ, I reported it as a bug, and they replied with "working as intended." Yet another reason to say "Fuck LiveJournal," I guess.)
(EDIT 2) Another plus for Dreamwidth: it supports https, whereas LiveJournal does not. (/EDIT 2)
On looking back through my old, imported-from-LJ entries, the only issue I see right off is that none of the <lj-embed> tags made it through (i.e. Youtube videos). I might go back through my old entries and fix those, since I know I haven't used very many of those, but I might not bother, except with entries that are easier to find, like those in the resistance tag and such.
(EDIT) Well, and there's the issue where every single link to a previous entry is apparently still pointing to LiveJournal, instead of the equivalent Dreamwidth entry. I'm not even about to go back and fix every one of those instances. ¬_¬ I'll fix them as I see them, though. (EDIT)
Beyond that, though, aside from waiting for the importation process to complete, it has been a pretty painless transition.
(Ooh, and it looks like Dreamwidth still has the feature that they inexplicably removed from LJ where you can mix custom moods with existing mood icons. I remember when they removed that from LJ, I reported it as a bug, and they replied with "working as intended." Yet another reason to say "Fuck LiveJournal," I guess.)
(EDIT 2) Another plus for Dreamwidth: it supports https, whereas LiveJournal does not. (/EDIT 2)
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It's finally time to say goodbye to Livejournal for good.
Russian-Owned LiveJournal Bans Political Talk, Adds Risk of Spying
This will be my final LJ post.Once I've exported my LJ entries out to xml or whatever (assuming I even end up bothering with that) Already exported all my entries to XML, and while it was tedious as all hell, it was nowhere near as difficult or time consuming as I thought it would be (though apparently some things will be lost in the export, like pretty much any lj-embed, i.e. Youtube videos, etc., which is bull fucking shit, but oh well), I will be deleting this journal I will probably just leave this here until it gets deleted on its own, unless I am given a more compelling reason to go ahead and delete it myself, though once I migrate everything that I can to a new site, wherever that may be, I'll probably never use or even look at this one again, and will likely just go ahead and delete it at that time.
(EDIT) And I've already started the import process to Dreamwidth. (/EDIT)
This will be my final LJ post.
(EDIT) And I've already started the import process to Dreamwidth. (/EDIT)
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Meh...
( Embedded tweets behind cut )
So yeah, I'm going to try to cut back on the anti-Trump rants. Not because I don't care, but because I just no longer have the energy for it.
Like I said up there, there are plenty of other venues for you to get that sort of thing. In addition to the above, I'll also suggest George Takei, Wil Wheaton, John Scalzi, and, of course, Keith Olbermann (and I'll still continue to post each episode of "The Resistance" here as they get uploaded to Youtube).
Not saying I'll never rant about this horseshit ever again, because of course I will, but I'm going to try to take it easy for a while, all the same.
So yeah, I'm going to try to cut back on the anti-Trump rants. Not because I don't care, but because I just no longer have the energy for it.
Like I said up there, there are plenty of other venues for you to get that sort of thing. In addition to the above, I'll also suggest George Takei, Wil Wheaton, John Scalzi, and, of course, Keith Olbermann (and I'll still continue to post each episode of "The Resistance" here as they get uploaded to Youtube).
Not saying I'll never rant about this horseshit ever again, because of course I will, but I'm going to try to take it easy for a while, all the same.
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Anyone else having weird problems with LiveJournal at the moment?
Drop-down menus don't show up, for one thing, and the "Preview Entry" button isn't clickable for me. It was working fine yesterday, but is busted now.
(EDIT) I thought it might have been a Firefox thing, but it's happening in Chrome, too. Tried clearing cookies and cache and all that on both browsers, but nothing. Also, weirdly, if I click on my profile icon in the top right corner, and let the mouse hover over it as the page reloads, the main drop-down menu will appear for a split second, but then go away. In any case, LJ is half-broken at the moment, at least for me, anyway. (/EDIT)
(EDIT) I thought it might have been a Firefox thing, but it's happening in Chrome, too. Tried clearing cookies and cache and all that on both browsers, but nothing. Also, weirdly, if I click on my profile icon in the top right corner, and let the mouse hover over it as the page reloads, the main drop-down menu will appear for a split second, but then go away. In any case, LJ is half-broken at the moment, at least for me, anyway. (/EDIT)
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Stopping the "Trump tweets" posts. (Or, another "I'm still looking for a replacement for LJ" post.)
I'm going to stop making the "Trump Tweets" LiveJournal posts (though I'm almost assuredly not going to stop tweeting about Trump). It just takes too much time and effort to copy/paste the embed codes for all of that shit over here, for little to no gain aside from catharsis on my part, and even that dubious benefit is draining away to nothing, now that the asinine asshat has somehow actually fucking won the presidency. If you still want to see my tweets or whatever (and I [occasionally] do [re]tweet about things other than Trump and politics, believe it or not), and aren't already on my Twitter follower/followee lists, there's an easy enough way to do that. Or not. *shrug*
(EDIT) I've since switched over to Dreamwidth (obviously, since you're reading this on Dreamwidth), so all of the below is pretty much irrelevant now. (/EDIT)
I know I've said this at other times in the past, but I pretty much think I'm just about done with LiveJournal, anyway. I'm still not definitely committing to giving up on it altogether yet, and I doubt I ever fully will (i.e. I currently have no plans to straight up delete my LJ, even if I were to ever stop actively posting to it), but my apathy to continue posting here is gradually strengthening with every passing day.
As such, I'm still half-assedly looking for better alternatives to doing more-than-just-140-characters-repeatedly blogging on the Internet. While I am admittedly more active on Twitter than I used to be, I still don't really care to make that my "main" online "presence" (such as it is), though I suppose that Twitter has sort of de facto become that lately. I'm still not too awfully interested in Tumblr, though I'm willing to have my mind changed on that score, if compelling enough reasons present themselves. As for Facebook, I'm more and more coming to the conclusion that Facebook can simply go fuck itself. Lately, I've been disallowing the members of my direct family who also happen to be on my FB "friends" lists from seeing my posts, thanks to political bullshit (on the ever increasingly rare occasions that I bother to make posts to Facebook at all). And I'm not really interested in posting general blogs on the more "specialist" sites like Steam or Goodreads or whatever else, either.
I guess my main (only?) criteria for switching to a new actual blog service is probably "how easy is it to backport LiveJournal posts into the new shit, and does the new shit have comparative (or better) functionality/features to (than) LJ" at this point, because if I don't find a service that allows easy importing of old LiveJournal posts and which maybe lets me preserve the tagging and such, I doubt I'll ever bother to make the switch at all, even if LiveJournal (and my usage of such) is more or less dead otherwise.
(EDIT) I've since switched over to Dreamwidth (obviously, since you're reading this on Dreamwidth), so all of the below is pretty much irrelevant now. (/EDIT)
I know I've said this at other times in the past, but I pretty much think I'm just about done with LiveJournal, anyway. I'm still not definitely committing to giving up on it altogether yet, and I doubt I ever fully will (i.e. I currently have no plans to straight up delete my LJ, even if I were to ever stop actively posting to it), but my apathy to continue posting here is gradually strengthening with every passing day.
As such, I'm still half-assedly looking for better alternatives to doing more-than-just-140-characters-repeatedly blogging on the Internet. While I am admittedly more active on Twitter than I used to be, I still don't really care to make that my "main" online "presence" (such as it is), though I suppose that Twitter has sort of de facto become that lately. I'm still not too awfully interested in Tumblr, though I'm willing to have my mind changed on that score, if compelling enough reasons present themselves. As for Facebook, I'm more and more coming to the conclusion that Facebook can simply go fuck itself. Lately, I've been disallowing the members of my direct family who also happen to be on my FB "friends" lists from seeing my posts, thanks to political bullshit (on the ever increasingly rare occasions that I bother to make posts to Facebook at all). And I'm not really interested in posting general blogs on the more "specialist" sites like Steam or Goodreads or whatever else, either.
I guess my main (only?) criteria for switching to a new actual blog service is probably "how easy is it to backport LiveJournal posts into the new shit, and does the new shit have comparative (or better) functionality/features to (than) LJ" at this point, because if I don't find a service that allows easy importing of old LiveJournal posts and which maybe lets me preserve the tagging and such, I doubt I'll ever bother to make the switch at all, even if LiveJournal (and my usage of such) is more or less dead otherwise.
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"69-year-old woman punched in face outside rally by Trump supporter"
( Another LJ post that is just Twitter embeds )
(Oh and it looks like Livejournal still to this fucking day hasn't fixed the bug that turns single quotes and apostrophes into double quotes in the <lj-cut text=""> tags.)
(Oh and it looks like Livejournal still to this fucking day hasn't fixed the bug that turns single quotes and apostrophes into double quotes in the <lj-cut text=""> tags.)
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Huh... GamePolitics has shut down... (and I only just found out)
How about that. Here is their twitter (for now), on which they discuss it as well (though they mostly just link back to the now dead main site). And yes, the site itself is indeed down now. Apparently, it has been down since April, though I only just found out. Shows how often I checked the site lately, I guess. >_>
This concerns me mainly in that pretty much every link I ever made to that site in my LJ (quite a few) is now a dead link. The old links (or, at least, the few I checked) do still show up on archive.org though, so on the rare off-chance that someone ever looks back at my old posts, for whatever reason, and sees one with a gamepolitics.com link in them and wants to see one of those sites, there is that option, I guess. *shrug*
For what it's worth, the former GamePolitics writers are still active on this site, apparently. But then, my own interest in such things, generally speaking, has been pretty low lately.
(I'm sure the shutting down of GamePolitics makes Jack Thompson happy, if nobody else. ¬_¬)
This concerns me mainly in that pretty much every link I ever made to that site in my LJ (quite a few) is now a dead link. The old links (or, at least, the few I checked) do still show up on archive.org though, so on the rare off-chance that someone ever looks back at my old posts, for whatever reason, and sees one with a gamepolitics.com link in them and wants to see one of those sites, there is that option, I guess. *shrug*
For what it's worth, the former GamePolitics writers are still active on this site, apparently. But then, my own interest in such things, generally speaking, has been pretty low lately.
(I'm sure the shutting down of GamePolitics makes Jack Thompson happy, if nobody else. ¬_¬)
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Donald Trump had something to say about the shooting in Orlando.
Naturally, because it's Donald Trump, it was vile and reprehensible.
( Tweets behind cut )
Again, I would just like to point it out: this is the man who is, somehow, currently the Republican nominee for the office of President of the United States of America. It is utterly incomprehensible to me how and why this is the case. This man should not and cannot be allowed to be the President. He is a dangerous, hateful man.
(Note, I'm posting this after I went out to the grocery store with my mother for a couple of hours. So this is me "cooled off." If I'd posted this when I first saw it, this post would probably be several dozen pages of "Fuck you, Donald Trump" repeated like Jack Torrance in The Shining except in 50pt red text.
...
Hell, you know what? I'll go ahead and do that anyway. I'd make it blink, too, if I still could, but Livejournal hasn't supported blinking text for years.
( Double nested behind LJ cut and spoiler tags, just to be nice. (EDIT) Spoiler tags don't work on Dreamwidth, sorry. (/EDIT) )
Yeah, needless to say, my opinion of Donald Jackass Trump isn't, hasn't ever been, and never will be too awfully high, in case you hadn't grasped that before now.
Ha ha, and I ended up having to trim over half of the "Fuck you, Donald Trump"s out before I could successfully post it, because LJ kept telling me my post was too large.)
( Tweets behind cut )
Again, I would just like to point it out: this is the man who is, somehow, currently the Republican nominee for the office of President of the United States of America. It is utterly incomprehensible to me how and why this is the case. This man should not and cannot be allowed to be the President. He is a dangerous, hateful man.
(Note, I'm posting this after I went out to the grocery store with my mother for a couple of hours. So this is me "cooled off." If I'd posted this when I first saw it, this post would probably be several dozen pages of "Fuck you, Donald Trump" repeated like Jack Torrance in The Shining except in 50pt red text.
...
Hell, you know what? I'll go ahead and do that anyway. I'd make it blink, too, if I still could, but Livejournal hasn't supported blinking text for years.
( Double nested behind LJ cut and spoiler tags, just to be nice. (EDIT) Spoiler tags don't work on Dreamwidth, sorry. (/EDIT) )
Yeah, needless to say, my opinion of Donald Jackass Trump isn't, hasn't ever been, and never will be too awfully high, in case you hadn't grasped that before now.
Ha ha, and I ended up having to trim over half of the "Fuck you, Donald Trump"s out before I could successfully post it, because LJ kept telling me my post was too large.)