Author: RK

I started up a new game of Hollow Knight, and I’m taking it kinda slow, as in not trying to do some 5h completion or anything, but merrily rolling along this wonderful experience of a game. I have extremely minor gripes about the base game and all told find it to be a basically perfect game altogether.

Hit the gym this morning for a low-HR spin ride and thought I’d read the Courtney Milan book in my library app at the moment, but instead I just watched Eurovision 2024 performance videos and got weepy with multiple dudes around me, oops.

This is Alyona Alyona and Jerry Heil representing Ukraine this year. Tell me this doesn’t give you chills to watch!! And uh if you want any more Eurovision reccs please god please ask  https://youtu.be/tu5Lh4ZF0DY?feature=shared

What’s next?

Lots of folks on cohost saying that the site really helped them genuinely heal from the most toxic aspects of, let’s say, capitalized social media. Chasing the numbers, the reward, the engagement, all the while less and less able to actually commune with people. I feel this too! Christine Love of [Love Conquers All Games](https://loveconquersallgam.es/) put it best when she said,

this was a great experiment on if social media could be not poison, and now that I’ve realized what it’s like when it’s not, I don’t want to go back to the poison.

I have a bluesky account, of course I’m camping wholemilk there, but I found it to be all of the most antisocial, divisive, screeching parts of twitter with literally zero of the joy or the people, just Being Guys*. I still have my twitter account but I don’t intend to ever use it, just change the password every now and again.

*people

I think this is a good space, but man it really is limited. I just don’t really see folks following me here. Maybe if I can get rss going on here, which is probably not difficult!

Another part of me is wondering about maybe finally getting into some neocities things and communities and webrings, and yes, rss! I plan to give [this post about getting started with neocities](https://cohost.org/nomnomnami/post/5322918-let-me-tell-you-abou) another close read and then maybe giving it a whirl, maybe even bringing this (top tier) domain over there.

Cohost is shutting down :'(

I guess I have a landing place, kinda, but things are just so one-way here! Every GREAT once in a while I’ll get responses but mostly the account-based commenting barrier is too high, imo, and this is pretty off the shelf WordPress so I don’t really see that changing. Nevertheless I’ll be using this going forward for my microbloggin’ needs. I don’t really see wanting to give my data n shit to any of the other SM sites.

Say hi if you’re here from cohost??

Fundraiser!

Howdy folks, I’m mostly over on cohost at cohost.org/wholemilk but I’ll post on here to RAVE (get it? u will soon) about a fundraiser I’m planning for a group I’m involved with, a homebrewing and community org called Cascadian Order of Community Supported Brewing, and it’s February 24, and if dancing to a million great DJs until the wee hours and trying a bunch of amazing homebrew sounds fun to you, then you should come to THIRST TRAP, the CSB Fundraiser on Feb 24! $25 early bird and ping me, the fundraiser lead, with any Qs!!!!

You can try the beer I just brewmastered called DESERT NIGHTS 🌵: Cold Cactus IPA, a Cold IPA with Aloe in it that I made with my girlfriend (and about ten other people but she and I brewmastered it, which means we came up with the recipe, got all the stuff, and coordinated all the humans for the different stages, and stepped in at basically every stage), or DESERT DAYS, a carbonated aloe hop water non-alcoholic complement to DESERT NIGHTS that we also brewmastered together!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/csb-fundraiser-for-soak-2023-tickets-517054212067