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Reading/Watching: April 2026

April 12, 2026April 13, 2026 Robin VanGilder1 Comment

Alright, time for another check in on what I’ve been engaging with lately.

I do so hate the “consumption” metaphor for reading books, watching movies, playing games, etc. I understand the utility of it, but it does flatten things and makes the process feel more… flat. You consume to fill a hunger for something. There is only one way to interact with any piece of art or media and it is to take it and wring everything out of it. It’s also so… definitive, like are people really getting absolutely everything out of all the media they “consume”?

Engaging with art is such an specific and individual thing, it just feels off to me to analogize it that way. You can rewatch a movie or replay a game and get something completely different out of it, but you cannot “reconsume”.

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Reading/Watching: March 2026

March 15, 2026 Robin VanGilderLeave a comment

Heyo, I thought I’d try something new.

Y’see, I’d like to get back to blogging again, but I always feel like I need either some big, elaborate project (like the Moby Dick thing) or some burning idea that I need to get out of my head. I want to turn writing back into a practice, not just something I do in a rush every now and then. So: I’m just gonna write about what I’ve been reading and watching lately, once a month. A nice, easy schedule. Gives me a broad topic to ruminate on and get some thoughts out of my head and onto the screen.

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Artificial Intelligence and Giving Up on Life

March 3, 2026March 4, 2026 Robin VanGilder3 Comments

Well, it’s been a while, but I am feeling the need to return to my blogging ways, if only to vent my spleen a bit.

Living in the year 2026 is to be assailed by countless stories of gloom and doom day in and day out. Hell, our idiotic and evil president just launched a war with Iran out of nowhere! The horrors are relentless. But there’s one thing that has been wearing on my last nerve for years at this point: so-called “artificial intelligence”.

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Week 2: Hashtag The Discourse

May 12, 2025 Robin VanGilder1 Comment

Well, here we are again, another week come and gone.

I’ve had some ups and downs lately. Trying to stay off of social media while I’m at work, which is nice because it exposes me to The Horrors less, but also makes me feel a bit more disconnected from the world. Kind of a trade off there, I suppose. Been swinging between an newly rejuvenated sense of self-confidence and some regular ol’ depression. I can accomplish anything I put my mind to, but it feels like that doesn’t matter a whole lot, y’know.

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Week 1: What’s Past is Prologue

May 5, 2025May 5, 2025 Robin VanGilderLeave a comment

Alright, let’s try something different.

I want to write more, so I thought I’d get in the habit of posting some sort of regular update on my habits and thoughts. Almost like some sort of log, as on an old timey sailing ship… but rather than being locked in some old wooden chest, it instead lives on the marvellous web of information. Some sort of… web log… if you will. Perhaps we shall come up with a shortened term at some point, if it ever catches on.

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