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Ummmm. That was awkward. Gamescom 2025 just happened and they had thier Opening Games Night, which for the most part, I didn't have much interested in. Modern gaming has always been pretty hit and miss for the me as a whole. I couldn't believe it when it happened. Bubsy is actually back. But the game looks good and by the developer of Demon Tides! I would say I'm really excited for this, I have a history with Bubsy games. I always felt like they had so much potential to be good game series. Now, Bubsy 4D is going to be that game, we are so back guys! If you don't mind me, I would be wishlisting it on Steam and GOG I love 3D platformers too much it's criminal, and seeing one of the most infamous examples get a good shot at it is so catharic. Also, it's coming out on Nintendo Switch 1/2, PS5 and Xbox Series X. It looks so great though, can't wait to play it!

August 20th, 2025

Retrofuge

Welp, that's all she wrote folks. This week has been tumtulous to say the least, especially considering the amounts of censorship happening across the board. Spanning from the Online Safety Act, KOSA, Austriala internet censorship, Mastercard and Visa pulling from Steam and Itch.io. So many events have been occurring so quickly, it feels like everyday there's new wave of censorship. Also, as of the 13th August, Youtube would be rolling out ID verification for their viewing their content, under the guise of 'protecting children from harmful content'. But, what makes it jarring they already made Youtube kids and have so many restrictions, which they barely moderate. Now, they have want you have send over your ID to 'verify' your age. The interesting part is, they are going to use AI to 'estimate' based on your viewing habits.

Might I say, with this all this censorship happening, this is has been the most hamfisted way to control others and eliminating free speech, I'm pretty baffled but not as shocked at the same time. How all this really just comes down to bad parenting and lack of moderating browsing habits. It never made sense why this slippery slope of NSFW content and protecting children, is used as means to advocate for censorship. Not to mention, how a lot of people are willing to hand over personal information to browse sites, wouldn't that defeat the purpose of anonymity. I feel like I'm going through facebook syndrome. So many people are so comfortable giving off personal information, so they can do the most basic things. No one likes having a sense of privacy anymore and it's digusting, how many people don't respect their rights. Of course, there has been pushback as shown by fellow internet netizens and some of big tech. But for most part, a lot of individuals are just bending the knee. I know the internet was bad and all. But this is just pathetic to how apathetic the whole world is becoming. This nonsense wouldn't have been happened a decade or so ago, when SOPA and PIPA was nearly rolled out.

But I guess the difference is now, these laws were rolled out behind the public's back with no fanfare. I can see why our governments would do this. But what I'm surprised by is how many people genuinely support this. At this point, why do these inidviduals try to play the anonymous game or even hid behind usernames, if they can't respect their own privacy. The amount of worship, people have for corporations is beyond scary. Considering the fact, a lot of them just care about their bottom line so much, they don't even hide their deciet anymore. The internet is truly dying at this point. At least the surface web as we know it, Web 2.0 was declining for a while. But not like this, it's very clear social media is no longer a place for freedom of expression, and it feels like every day the walls close in more and more.

A lot of this is genuinely exhausting to deal with, to the point even leaving social media for hosting personal websites are for the best. It's so bad, I've seen one video about someone making their own internet protocol to combat the censorsed internet, and now it's being taken down by thier own hosting provider. Not to mention, hearing people criticising the new Youtube update getting forcily buried under the youtube's algothrim. It's truly a mess at the moment. The internet I truly grew up with is dying. If it wasn't for the social media aspects corroding our minds. The mass censorship was truly the nail in the coffin. Yes, not everything is as black and white. But this is too extreme and everyone suffers in the end. But knowing the current state of online affairs, this might become another change, normal people will adapt to, which I hope not. Oh yeah, did I forget to mention that Wikipedia was getting censored by the UK government, they tried to sue and lost!

At this point, where does this end. Where's the line drawn? The internet was pretty much as free as you can get. Why should it get controlled now, and there's so much invasive AI models, tracking us anyway. This feels very Orewellian's to me. At least we have the indie web as our last safe haven. At this point, going back to basics might be the best option.

Honestly, I'm glad I somewhat made the decision to move off that side of the internet to my own corner. That said, I would probably post more fun things in the future. If there's any time to express yourself, I would encourage joining the indie web. Now, if you don't mind me, I got Battle Royale and some game reviews to work on. :)

August 15th, 2025

Retrofuge

Alright, this is my first post blogpost on this site. All I can say, Yay!, it's finally done, after a few weeks on refreshing myself on learning HTML and CSS, I got at least the V1.0 or, probably v0.5 rather of the website done. I would say, I have been pretty rusty with this skillset as it's been a long time, since I worked on any site on this scale. I'm so used to committing to site builders, I forgot how to build things from the groundup, while it's not the best looking in terms of presentation, I'm pretty sure, I would learn a lot of this as I'm going along. As it's far from finished a lot of more pages I could add. Even down to simple tidbits such as a visitor counter, a jukebox and other miscellanous things which make things more interesting.
However, in it's current state I'm more than satifised and probably got more in the pipeline to go through, it might take a bit of time, since I have been working on this endlessly for 2 weeks now, and I just wanted to come out with something more functional than pretty. I would like to welcome any newcomers to the site, which would get updated with more things over time. I'm pretty excited to go forward and hope you enjoy your stay.

August 11th, 2025

Retrofuge