Mandaris

It’s kind of embarrassing that I lost this thing that I’ve put all my thoughts, plans, and feelings into for the last couple of months. Now I’m wondering around my home trying to decide if I should continue looking for it, create a temporary one (basically the closest sheet of paper that will ultimately be lost), or, prepare a new notebook.

It’s been more than six months since Reddit cut off Apollo, and I’m fine with that. At first, I did go through a significant amount of withdrawal because Reddit provided me with an endless supply of new things to look into. It really worked towards that slogan of being the Internet’s homepage.

Still, I have that ache in my heart of hearts where I want to find new things on the Internet. I took some time to look into alternatives for Reddit and some of them are just… bad… not bad in the interface but bad in the sense that they have horrible content on the home page. I’ve learned the lesson multiple times that you should listen to people when they tell you who they are, and some of these sites are telling me that they are not worth my time.

I’ve found myself doing more and more things with Micro.blog, discord, and mastodon. In a lot of ways, this is more engaging because I’m finding new people first and then the content that they link to. Versus looking at whatever is hot and then maybe glancing at the name of the person who posted (or, in the case of reddit, reposted).

I saw this classic yesterday and I still love it. Ok, the sand worms don’t hold up like they used to but I think it makes it even more amusing. 

It struck me as me of the few films that talk about death but only a small nod to grieving. 

Good times only!!!

I saw this classic yesterday and I still love it. Ok, the sand worms don’t hold up like they used to but I think it makes it even more amusing. 

It struck me as me of the few films that talk about death but only a small nod to grieving. 

Good times only!!!

I have a couple reviews in Letterboxd. While I was thinking about how I would rank them, I felt it writing it down would help me.

★

I finished this but I regret it.

★★

I’m glad someone was given a chance to make this. Hopefully the next thing is better. Still, I would be hesitant to try anything that boasted about being “The people who brought you X”.

★★★

It’s alright. I liked it enough. I would watch it again if it was on and enough peer pressure was applied.

★★★★

I definitely would watch again. I would recommend it to others. In fact, when I’m feeling overwhelmed with all the possibilities, this might be something I put on instead of something new.

★★★★★

Loved it!

Strangely enough, I don’t write a lot about the things I love on the internet. I feel it might be because it _is_the internet. Years of seeing things being ridiculed makes me hesitant to express a strong feeling about something.

I feel that I’m ready to do that more and more now.