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Aliens: Colonial Marines Collection playthrough

Greg (@[email protected]) and Alison (@[email protected]) return to detonate the incendiary claim that ended Part 1: Can you make art without selling your soul to capitalism? They dissect the music industry’s machinery, Spotify’s frictionless decay, and the eerie rise of AI-generated content while revealing how these forces drain creativity and trap artists.

But hope sparks in the Fediverse: Alison shares her dive into Mastodon’s nerd-utopia, where community-run festivals like the Radio Free Fedi Fest and raw hardware synths fuel a rebellion against the attention economy. From Yamaha CS-30 patching rituals to the power of inefficient creativity, this manifesto declares: your art isn’t a product. It’s a sanctuary.

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Greg (@[email protected]) and Alison (@[email protected]) dive headfirst into the toxic grip of big tech on creativity and mental autonomy. Sharing raw personal journeys from Alison’s early Facebook rebellion to Greg’s radical "de-Googling" in the mountains of New Hampshire, they dissect how algorithms poison focus, erode privacy, and stifle artistic expression.

Your fearless hosts then expose the hidden cost of "engagement": stolen attention spans, fractured communities, and a world where making art feels impossible. With fiery anecdotes about startup culture, zombie-like scrolling, and Trent Reznor’s DX7-smashing rage, this candid conversation asks: Can we reclaim our minds from the feed?

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A compilation of my best moments over roughly a year of playing Marina competitively in Smash Remix. Hope you enjoy!

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Whelp conrads, it seems that even captain dingus khan is too old to keep working, at the ripe old age of...48. At least I retire in luxury, if not chastity.

That's right. It's Sid Meier's Pirates! The 2005? version that was absolutely trying to cash in on Pirates of the Caribbean.

Despite my memory of doing well at this game it is clear I don't have as good a memory as I thought. Oh well.

This is part 16. If you want to see part one, check out the playlist goddamn it. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGzH8lxtXkIi9_ck-jYg7ihJFQIWJ-3fz

Pirates! Live the life! (Sid Meier's Pirates! 2004 or is it 2005?) is a ...well, I guess a pirate sim game? It's set during the golden age of piracy in the western hemisphere, and the player takes the role of some hot twink that's lost all his money and family.

Don't worry though! Captain Dingus Khan and his band of merry ass pirates will leverage the incredible power of violence to defeat their enemies, namely the spanish.

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If you’re curious about how I made this video, or what I’m running on. I am only using FOSS software ( Except for the games themselves) for recording. Check it all out:

Fedora Linux: https://fedoraproject.org/

I also owe a lot to the people who give out free stock photos and other assets at pixabay.com

The specific system/wine configuration I'm using right now:

I used Proton-GE, no settings tweak.

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I show how I work as a Software Engineer, I hope this video is helpful for your and you enjoy my content. If you have questions feel free to contact me.

The American Travelling Morrice performs "Orange In Bloom" (Sherborne) in Auburn, New York on 1 Aug 2025. (Fragment)

Johannes Ernst gave a talk at FediCon 2025: From Millions to Billions: A plausible narrative for growing the Open Social Web.

Johannes Ernst is a Entrepreneur, Developer, Organizer who is recognized for: FediForum, the Fediverse Developer Network, FediTest, Light-Weight Identity/OpenID .

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FediCon is a Canadian conference on the Social Web, decentralized social-media & social-networks, and the Fediverse.

https://fedicon.ca

FediCon is project of the Open Social Web Society

The Open Social Web Society (and FediCon) was created by: Charles Iliya Krempeaux

The Open Social Web Society is a B.C. Society — in B.C., not-for-profit / non-profit organizations are known as societies.

FediCon 2025 was organized by: