# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
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People become what they can imagine becoming, & access to tools has as much to do with this as representation. If it's easy to fall into programming accidentally, then it's easy to imagine yourself programming regularly.
Trendism follows the logic of capital. The more capital you have, the less risk any investment is & the more you stand to gain from it. Given a diverse portfolio, a large investment will grow while a small one disappears: capital's gravity at work.
A flat landscape (i.e., one where connection between any two people is as easy as any two other people) breaks the limiters on preferential attachment, expanding the head on the popularity distribution. Trendism accelerates this.
Bad idea of the day: International 'journalist exchange' agreements -- newspapers in different countries have an arrangement where they'll trade journalists periodically & reprint each other's stories in translation, by entering into clubs.
So there *is* a 'Thing on the Fourbleboard' anime, sort of: Wasurenagumo.
Band name of the day: flaylord
Band name of the day: murdermap
Band name of the day: machinic assemblages
Band name of the day: the only way out is grass
Band name of the day: rank growth
Band name of the day: oat milk shortage
The Changeling & Don't Look Now are on shudder now so it's your opportunity to see 'em. They're both great & long out of print.
Watching these featurettes about Bandersnatch & the bits that they're making out to be a big deal or super difficult are the ones I (and every other VN dev) do all the time. Meanwhile, they barely mention working with actors & shit.
Picture of corpus collosum labelled 'you may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like'
Life hack: for your 'best articles of the year' list, just post all the articles that had the least traffic. People are gonna disagree with your ranking anyway so just flatten that curve. Finding gems in that dross is inevitable.
Band name of the day: newdark hotpeace
Band name of the day: night parrots
PKD in his novels had this underground comix sensibility, which meant that even by 50s standards the tech, fashion, & language was goofy. No film adaptation has preserved this better than Total Recall.
Band name of the day: meat in film
Is the plural of corpus collosum 'corpora collosa'?
Band name of the day: haunted mouse descendents
Progress report: the current build of Manna for our Malices should actually be playable to completion. Gotta double-check, but in theory everything should be reachable. Remaining work: fill in fluff like the rest of the school day.