September 2022 archive

I need to come up with better subject lines.

Some of these people want me to return to Discord servers that I’ve left.

I mean, don’t get me wrong, I do like some of them… but there was a reason that I walked away from all of the drama, all of the negativity, and made it extremely difficult to find me for twelve years. As I’ve said in previous posts, I’m too old for this shit (some of the shit that gets pulled in these servers), and I don’t want to participate in the drama or be drug into it. When COVID-19 finally becomes endemic and the pandemic as we know it is over, I’m going to be chatting in Discord a lot less anyway… I’m going to be doing more gaming and streaming, and I’m going to be busier in real life. I’m a bit conflicted when it comes to all of this, though.

I’m still sold on not meeting the majority of people that I talk to on the Internet in person unless it’s at something like TwitchCon, VidCon… you get the picture. Decades ago, I did meet someone who I had been in a long-distance relationship with, and I ended up having to turn his mother in for felony-level food stamp fraud and him in for narcotics theft. Prior to this, no one that I knew had any idea that these skeletons were in his (and his family members’) closet, and almost everyone I knew actually liked him, which was surprising.

A whole bunch of things crammed into one post.

First things first: I’m waiting for my migraines to begin to improve. So yeah, still waiting on that one. During the radiofrequency ablation (RFA) that was done on the right side of my head, the technician accidentally pierced the nerve with the shot meant to numb it rather than injected the lidocaine beside it… and that was a ten-out-of-ten banger until he could sufficiently numb up that entire side of my head, and I mean that in the worst possible way. I know that it was a mistake and that these things just happen some of the time, so I’m not mad at him for what was clearly a simple mistake. It just means that I have to wait a little while longer until the pain on that side of my head is ameliorated, assuming that it even ameliorates at all. We’ll see…

Secondly: The terms “abandonware” and “fair use act” do not mean what certain people think they mean, or what certain people have been deluding themselves into thinking that they mean. I’ve been in correspondence with the copyright holder of… one such entity (although you could also call them the owner of the intellectual property in question, and that wouldn’t be wrong either), and not only have these contacts clarified some information for me — namely that you can not claim that something is abandonware because it is the older version of a current program, and accepting money for any reason as part of this project means that you are profiting off of someone else’s work — but have solidified the fact that I am not going to participate in any projects that are not iron-clad in their legality. If this means that I do not participate in any more “projects” like this any more, so be it. I’d rather not take unnecessary risk here, especially as a streamer.

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