Polymaths.social

Going to start calling online platforms by their full names just to be annoying.

"Actually wikipedia.org has a pretty good article on that."
"I haven't used google.com for searches in years."
"Check out this cool video I found on youtube.com!"
"Haven't seen it yet, I don't check instagram.com very often."
"We usually use discord.com for voice chat."

Proud to say that I voted and that the sticker I got was not obvious AI slop as expected.

HN users smoking pure copium trying to explain why Anthropic's slowing growth is a good thing actually

Man, Edgerunners 2 was so good. I loved it way more than the first season, which I still liked. But literally every aspect of season 2 was better. Been listening to the soundtrack a ton and I already can't wait to eventually rewatch it.

Even my wife liked it so much that she just started playing Cyberpunk 2077 for the first time. That's how good it was.

Geez, Anthropic's SEC filing is insane. $80.7 billion net loss in the first half of 2026 alone. 🫧

Funny to see major news sites picking up on the recent HLX slip up. The new Half-Life game is such an open secret at this point. All that's left is an official announcement but who knows when that'll be.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/10/everybody-panic-a-valve-developer-said-hlx-in-public/

There's this new online space I've really been enjoying lately called quxnet. Decided to write a bit about what it is and why I think it's so refreshing!

https://moddedbear.com/quxnet-is-a-breath-of-fresh-air/

#blog

Edgerunners 2 is great so far. Only two episodes in and I'm already liking it better than the first season.

I wrote a new post about something I've been feeling the past few weeks. AI is helping me appreciate that things are still worth doing yourself, even when you know they’ll be flawed.

https://moddedbear.com/things-are-still-worth-doing-yourself/

#blog

Feels like these days it's good to remind each other that you don't have to be good at something to make it worth doing.

Is anyone else on quxnet.net? I've been exploring it since last night and it seems right up my alley. Here's a screenshot of my profile there since I don't think you can really see anything if you're not signed in.

Finally updated my concert log with all the shows I've been to this year. Lots of good ones!

https://moddedbear.com/concert-log/

Going to see Loathe tomorrow and judging by the crowd energy in the few videos I've seen there's a very good chance I'm going to die.

The game prototype I've been working on is still going strong so I'm starting to get excited that it'll actually turn into something.

My current idea isn't anything too fancy but it should hopefully serve as a good base for future projects.

A Perfect Circle's new song is a mood.

Shoot. Reddit is finally getting around to removing their RSS feeds. I figured this day was coming but I still have a few subreddit feeds in my reader.

It'd be awesome if smaller, independent forums could ever get traction again, but then again Reddit users will put up with absolutely anything at this point.

BRB running some data analytics on the Sporepedia archive.

Man I should boot up Spore again one of these days for old time's sake.

It's been about a month since I finished the last bit of game dev work I've had going on the side this year. I've got a couple ideas banging around for a personal project that I think I want to start prototyping soon...

I've been trying for the past month or so in my phone to disable the stupid blocking of app installations from developers not verified by Google.

You have to enable developer options, find the one that gets rid of the block, promise you're not being coerced to change it, restart your phone, then wait 24 hours. The hardest step is actually remembering to go back after the 24 hours is up to complete the process, but before the window to do so expires and you have to restart the entire process again.

I'm on attempt 3 or 4 and am only now learning I should probably set a reminder. I really hope someone finds a streamlined way around this because this is just ridiculous.

I didn't get completely destroyed in X-wing tonight, so I'll count that as a success.