Where my old blogs at? I just retired my wordpress site, and with it I've sorta lost access to a large number of old blog posts... I'll try to recover them but I'm not sure if I can.

~ linked from The Art of War

"Attention seeking behavior is to act in a way that is likely to elicit attention."

The article 'Look at me' summarizes several expert opinions into the basic idea that "people have been shown to need [..] attention that is positive and accurate." In this case I'd like to emphasize need. It's absolutely crucial.

brittanica.com describes technology as "the application of scientific knowledge to the practical aims of human life," and in this case I'm identifying technology which is applied to the practical aim of acquiring attention that is positive and accurate, or as 'Look at me' calls it, 'belonging'.

We walked along College on Saturday night -- after midnight -- and saw so many people doing so many things. This kind of living nightlife reminded me that such cultural phenomena occur, and I missed it: escaping loud places with friends to get a bite to eat at 2AM when none of us should have been awake but we were anyway.

Sometimes I open up a bag of fuzzy peach and eat the whole thing and it's like 80% sugar. It's wild to see a 65g bag contain 49g of sugar, but it's also totally believable.

Browsing the hyperoptimized internet for anything feels like that sometimes; it feels like what I'm looking for is out there if I just keep scrolling, scrolling, scrolling.

https://paradise-collab.itch.io/letterclub/devlog/363470/whole-grain-decisions

from borges' "a survey of the works of herbert quain"

Quote from: Herbert QuainI have reclaimed for this novel the essential features of every game: the symmetry, the arbitrary laws, the tedium.

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Pastry
Mix with fork:

• 5 1/2 cup flour (pastry)
• 1 tble br sugar
• shake or 2 of salt
• 1 tsp b powder

Cut in: (then add to rest)

• 2 cups lard

Mix well and add milk to make 1 cup: (then add to rest)

• Put egg in cup
• Tble of lemon juice (sub vinegar is fine, but smells bad)

Rara Racer, increpare

The game is about how it's a game about a fictional game.

I read this novel as a kid, and I remember being fascinated by the weird little adventure game that Ender plays -- not the wargame likely referenced by the title.

Mike Meginnis has written a couple of fictional videogame stories. I like them both a lot.

• Angband, or His 55 Desires
• Navigators

A short story from China Miéville's Three Moments of an Explosion

This novel is about the protagonist's search for an arcade game which he played before as a child, Lucky Wander Boy. He -- the character -- writes about the game and the experience of playing it, while also writing about his experiences with other real games.