Games I probably won't be picking up again (Post No. 11)

     Welcome to today's blog post about games that I likely will have played at one point or another in the past, and likely have no either in the long-run or eventual plans to pick any of these games up again. As in, don't play them again. Just forget I even have them, and if I can get some money for them from the used store; Probably just sell them to the used store for less than five dollars, and if they refuse to take it, or offer me around the same price in trading value (about $1 minimum- $4.00 maximum), then I'll just take the offer, allow the trade, and walk away once the trade has finished. 

     Now as a general rule, I'm only going to talk about games that I have played once or twice and decided that the game itself sucks butts, or I have to essentially hack/cheat my way through the game in order to get to where I want to go, or the game had some novelty a while ago - and because it held that novelty to me all that time ago --- Whatever entertainment value it had is gone now and I probably would be better off wasting my time in a more fun/productive way. 

    Games I have not picked up the first time & played, games that are not English-language or International versions (meaning they were Japanese titles on SFC for instance) and games that are somewhat more obscure to most Serenity dorks that I have played at home are staying off of this list. Far off. So, without further ado, I'm going to present to you, blog reader --- 

GAMES I PROBABLY WON'T BE PICKING UP ... AGAIN

(Well, probably not at least anytime soon, anyway...)

(Well, probably not anytime immediately soon...)

(Maybe after the next blue moon, I'll consider it.)

   OK, enough about the titling. I'm going to start with the actual list now, anyway: 

1. School Tycoon (PC): School Tycoon for the PC was one of those games that I thought I could pick up and emulate the experience of running my own school, doing everything from paying the bills, to hiring all the staff, and maintaining the classrooms, and adding a few facilities that schools would not normally have on site, such as amusement arcades, burger joints, pizzerias, and skate parks. Basically, it was a fusion of SimCity and Sim Theme Park. You could hire and fire teachers, and even create new students and expel ones the game generates in or your created students. Of course, the game was about as fun as actually being in school, and the novelty wore fairly quickly - from the AOpen IQ systems PC which was my main PC throughout most of High School until I donated it to the Valley Learning Community Association in Kentville in 2009, and leaving that basement with a much older Performa (in retrospect I should've taken the Packard Bell home instead!) until the Katana's almost decommissioning in 2019. I pretty much elected against playing this game on the "Claymore", and I won't be playing this title on the "RedEye," or if and/or when the "Excalibur" computer gets built, then I will be absolutely not playing School Tycoon. 

2. Hot Rod Magazine Hot Rod Game (PC): For the time being, I have no Windows XP machine to play this game as one of the primary games on - but basically, the point of the game is to build a hot rod from a junky car to make it to the cover of Hot Rod Magazine. I will likely not be picking this game up for a revisit again anytime soon, because for one thing, I want to be able to mostly play the game using an XBOX controller instead of my keyboard - which the keyboard would be fine for things like [Redacted] I guess, but I will mention that I don't do well using a manual transmission. Not in real life, and definitely not in a digital car. 

3. The Sims 1 (PC): At the time I got this at the Book Fair in Middle School (originally) I had way too much fun with this game similarly to how over 20 years later I would be having fun crashing Burnside Specials in the sandbox game BeamNG/.drive and watching them explode since my nostalgia period of interest primarily is from 1970-1989, believing that anything 1969 and older is an antique, and anything from the end of the 19th century - 1960 belongs in a museum, be it one as large and expansive as the one I personally visited in Lunenburg on Monday, August 22nd, 2022, or one I would plan to visit just not volunteer at anytime after today this August, but back in full again on September 6, 2022, the Old Kings County Courthouse Museum, but enough about old things which belong preserved behind museum glass & nostalgia for just one second. We're talking about The Sims 1 for PC. I tried using the PS2 game, but it didn't work, but I guess since the game mechanics are going to be likely extremely similar to the real PC game - I'm not going to spend much further time with the PS2 game, even if I somehow manage to find another working PS2 - which may be a task I may add, easier said than done in the post-COVID pandemic world when probably a lot of my peers were buying up a lot of the stuff from their childhood and adolescence which they remembered as nostalgic things. I mean, at the time "The Sims 1" for PC released, it was cutting-edge, and very impressive for its time. Me revisiting this game in the 2020s now, as well as in other years in this decade should I make the error in judgment or mistake of so doing ever again - will be purely nothing except for nightmare fuel & I should probably consider seeking spiritual counseling if I want to consider touching any disc or digital disc image of TS1. 

4. The Sims 2 (PC): The sequel of the first game, I wanted this game on my at the time main PC AOpen IQ Systems PC more than I did the Sims 1. Probably because The Sims 1 was a much more difficult game to do without me either causing the Sims that I was taking care of to die or in the case of the kids, get shipped off to military school because they got an F grade on their report card - and plus since there was no aging mechanic in the Sims 1 vs. this game, it would be a game that I would've gladly just had not played anymore on the Claymore. It's indeterminate if & when I may decide to choose to play this game again on the "RedEye" but when I do, I feel like I'm probably going to have to put a little bit more brainpower into it, as opposed to simply thinking primarily with my male genitalia. Although some male genitalia will likely be involved in my thought process as I probably might just make it so my waifu gets canonically placed with my character as according to my own Sims lore, which I may add, I may so conveniently choose to ignore the Sims lore that Maxis wrote for the game with the default characters. 

5. Corvette Challenge/SuzukiSuperBike (PS2): This is likely more due to lack of compatible working Hardware as opposed to likelihood of not wanting to play it, but both of those racing games didn't hold my interest for very long. I'm considering just keeping those games around for mental torture to adversarial neighborhood Annapolis Valley girls who have brother-in-law pioneer dorks that would probably rather I be a pioneer so our friendship can be preserved in the unlikely event that I would become the brother-in-law to such an individual. 

6. The Sims 3 (PC): Well, I'm not too interested in all the lore going backward & forward & backward & forward again. End of story. 

7. Tokyo Xtreme Racer Drift 2 (PS2): Sure, it has cars, and it has drifting, but I never got very far in the campaign mode, and probably might have been responsible for a wedge being put in between the friendships of myself and a boy which I want to keep out of my life for the foreseeable future right up until Kingdom come. Maybe that guy and I could meet again someday, just to see how much we've changed in the years we've been apart. Maybe that won't happen. I don't know. 

8. Pac-Man World: 20th Anniversary (PS1): Do I have working hardware for this game? All PlayStations from the original 1994 gray PS1 to the later generation Sony PlayStation 3 consoles could easily play this game, so I doubt it's a big issue here. But the amount of time I've often sunk into it, plus the fact the second boss in the open-hub area (Anubis Rex) is a deceptively easy boss. I initially assumed that "Anubis Rex" would just be a short level where I would have to evade a mummy walking through the hallway of a ruins maze and then when I made it out with my life, while avoiding spears which protruded out from the floor, and then after having sunk the HMS Windbag and causing King Galaxian to supernova, I would have access to the next two areas of the game, the funhouse & factory levels. I was wrong. And even after using the infinite health cheat to effectively cheat the mechanic where I could die due to environment damage from molten rock sputtering out of the gurgling lava, I doubt it was worth my while to attempt to get to the funhouse & factory levels to begin with. Supposedly, the biggest redeeming quality of Pac-Man World is the fact it has the full classic Pac-Man arcade game included on the disc, but that's an overrated way to buy the game Pac-Man. There are so many other ways to play it. For example, all of the earlier, pre Super Nintendo era consoles have Pac-Man as a game which can be purchased, even Nintendo Game Boy has the game itself. And, for PlayStation 1, there is Namco Museum Vol. 1, which has the Pac-Man arcade game, as well as Galaga, Pole Position, Rally X and New Rally X, Bosconian, and ToyPop. Nintendo 64 has Pac-Man as part of the NamcoMuseum N64 title. PlayStation 2 has both NamcoMuseum for PS2 and Namco Museum 50th Anniversary, which the latter title is also on other systems, including the Microsoft Windows PC. Pac-Man is also on Return of Arcade for Windows 95 and other Return of Arcade Releases, for the PC which will work on the 32-bit path from Windows 95 all the way to Windows 10. (Provided you go on the 32-bit path only --- Put 64-bit into the equation, and you have to use NTVDM workarounds.) 

   Plus I guess MAME emulation? So, in other words, why play Pac-Man World 20th Anniversary if you just want to play Pac-Man? I mean, I guess if you want a fun, challenging platformer and probably a few head-scratching challenges to try to figure out how to beat, then by all means : Play Pac-Man World 20th Anniversary. But just the PAC-MAN game itself, there are so many alternative options out there, you might as well just not bother counting. 

9. Lego Racers (PS1): Lego Racing is just a go-kart on PS1. True, there are some pre-built racers you could use, but also --- there are some ways you can make your own Lego Race Cars. Not fun, and not recommended for anyone over the age of 10 1/2. 

10. Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! (PC and Other Platforms, but mostly PC): DDLC+ was not really a "sequel" to the game, Doki Doki Literature Club! but rather an expansion pack released by Team Salvato and Serenity Forge, instead of primarily having the DDLC game function on the ren'py engine like the base DDLC game did, which ren'py actually increased the replay value somewhat, DDLC+ is based on the Unity engine, which made it somewhat more platform-universal. Although that making DDLC more platform universal may seem like a good thing, (especially if you have the platform devices to play on) It also comes with a few downsides. Downsides such as: 

   (a.) Since Unity is a proprietary engine, not anyone can make alterations to the code or game executable of Unity. 

   (b.) By the time a Player gets to the third act of DDLC, then the Player has a choice to make, which one might be slightly more difficult than the other for his/her/their conscience. Do they delete monika.chr from the game directory in the VM main menu? Do they just walk away from the Act 3 game and just forget they have it there? Or, do they leave their PS4/PS5 XBOX ONE or Series X/S running 24/7 and rack up massive power bills and risk causing fire or get an interdimensional visit from the ghost of Act 3? 

   (c.) A+B combined = Lower replay value, by the time you complete all the unlocked side stories. 

So, tl;dr at this item of the list, seeing as how Doki Doki Literature Club! Plus is the same game as normal Doki Doki Literature Club! minus the near infinite replay value, then I've pretty much decided that I'm not re-visiting DDLC Plus again. I will however, instead wait for the new Team Salvato visual novel to drop, if and when one does. 

11. Any NFS game released by EA which has a cop game-over mechanic: I'm talking about not necessarily games I've just recently discovered & are new to me, such as Road & Track Presents The Need For Speed, where there are Fox Body Mustang Cop Cars that once they catch you, they immobilize your car a certain number of times, I forgot how many times precisely they need to immobilize you during a car race in this game, maybe once or twice, and then the third time, it would be seeming pretty funny to me, but if I happened to be playing with some little kid, and I explain to them they are going to be going to a correctional facility, prison, jail, and the concept of such institutions has not really been done away with, they turn on the waterworks and start crying like the big poopy babies that they probably aren't too far away from in all honesty in my opinion, and depending on how nice or mean-spirited I feel toward the kid, my adult feelings get hurt, or it just makes me want to laugh my rear end off, but I'm talking games like NFS: Most Wanted, or NFS: Carbon, or NFS: Undercover where I would rather not sully my own reputation by registering my own name/pseudonym as the game alias, but rather registering the given name of my brother-in-law as the game alias instead. Those arrest scenes make me genuinely mad, and during gameplay I intentionally (a.) Try to avoid them as long as possible, not really caring so much about Bounty objectives, (b.)When I feel exceptionally mentally ill and really don't feel like trying to get the car that say, in the case of Most Wanted, Razor took from me, just get a game over on purpose, impounding every single one of my cars when funds are low and walking away from the game - and never touching it again. I mean, even if I had my license, I wouldn't want a BMW. If I really want a German luxury car that badly, I'd be more partial to either an Audi which is just a fancier more upscale Volkswagen, or a Mercedes-Benz, which is absolutely not related to Bimmers or Volkswagens anyway, and no requirement to take some stereotypical BMW Driver's course, as in, make my name be the name of a stereotypical driver, and be a total maniac to everyone else on the road. Of course, a luxury car I would prefer to lease (because the insane repair bills would scare me away from purchasing one of those Benzes if I absolutely must have one new, never mind the drive off the lot cost.) would be either a Lexus or an Acura. Essentially just a fancier Toyota or Honda, which I would be just fine with in theory. But back to Cop-Game Over Mechanics for a second. Cop-Game Over Mechanic Games I would not touch with a 10-ft. pole from now on, as made by Electronic Arts from the 2000s onward, and probably discounting ones that I have not properly played yet: 

- Need For Speed Most Wanted

- Need For Speed Carbon

- Need For Speed Undercover

(Oh, and I'm aware that they may have made ports for PS2/XBOX... So, I'm not buying either of those three games because they're hardly worth my time - never mind money.) 

   So, yeah. While there are plenty of games out there having been released in the past and present; and likely going to be continued to be released for the foreseeable future, I will probably be somewhat open-minded and not defecate on all of them. Of course, there are in reality only a small amount of games I could probably play in one year from January 1 to December 31, and I'm not going to spend all my time and money getting them all. Or beating ones that I may have in my library somewhat properly in the first place.

Many Evolutions of My Digital Portfolios, The (Post #10)

      Over the nearly thirty years I have been using technology in some form or another for the expression and creation of my technology, many means have been used to store the works which I have thought of writing stories and stuff like that and journalling thoughts on the Internet, starting from my Grade Primary days of Elementary School in 1995. Although it may be impossible to fully archive the portfolio works I have archived over the years from Grades P-XII from start to finish, as well as works I have made and continue to make long after the halls of academia no longer have a person of Spinney family line blood (and if I get my way, probably never will ever again) walk up and down them trying to find their way to some class they have in order to at the very least, just pass the class because they obviously don't want to bad, disappoint their parents and despite the best efforts of the teachers at that time in history, which were transferring away from the model of if you fail, you fail, and if you pass, gold star, to something which is like we have today, where teachers often have blue hair and preferred pronouns, who would believe that everyone should have an equal opportunity at success, and that "No Child Should Be Left Behind." 

     So, without further rambling, I'm going to share some of my digital portfolios from the year 1995 to presently as of August 2022. We don't talk about anything after September 2022, since (1.) September 2022 is not here yet, and (2.) Who knows if this blog is still going to be up? If I still edit it somewhat actively, and there are still going to be posts made to it without censorship being required so that nobody is offended, then there will be some continuance of the story of my digital portfolios. If it's gone, I have decided it's probably best for the Deep State and Shallow State and State on Shore that either I have no more Digital Portfolio, or it exists, but on a somewhat intranet type of deal where those who can get into the portfolio, can get in. And if it doesn't exist, it's either been altered, deleted, or destroyed, or kept encrypted behind cryptic levels of encryption. 

1995: Digital Portfolio File Size: 1.44MB

   1995 was a lot simpler, and probably more primitive time. Sure, back then when games were purchased, full titles were released on either a cassette cartridge or a compact disc, depending on which console you got, and even in a lot of cases, PC games were full back then too, only being re-released as Special or Collector's Editions with newer levels that the original vanilla games didn't feature, making the game technically more like an upgraded version of the same game --- what gamers nowadays would simply refer to as DLC.

    Simply put, the size of my "digital portfolio" was about 1.44MB on an IBM floppy, actual size when formatted, 1.38MB size for MS-DOS format, or Microsoft Windows FAT16 format, which despite being primitive in comparison to the formats of FAT32, which was released in the later 1990s, as well as formats which have existed in one form or another since around the same time as NTFS, (Think early Windows NT) and the early versions of the EXT file system, (Which surprisingly, was more superior to the NTFS and FAT versions commonly in use @ the time, and also in computers that were more expensive), and the Mac file system which had remained relatively unchanged since the 1984 Macintosh, only difference being that instead of requiring a 3.5" floppy diskette to be put in the computer in order for it to boot, it booted off of a hard drive on the SCSI interface, which at the time was cutting-edge, but later IDE and SATA drives years in the future would likely make the SCSI drives of back then seem loud, slow, and hillariously outdated. 

    Oh, and another thing. If you wanted to watch a movie, you either picked something off the VHS shelf at home if you had one, or went to the local video store to rent a flick if you were in the mood for one, as DVD technology would be a mere two years away at this point. Internet always on? More like, not always on. Windows 95 was the de-facto home version of Microsoft Windows back then, and Windows NT 3x (from 3.1-3.51) was in use in the business/institutional world, which was rather just a more updated version of Windows 3.1. 

2005: Digital Portfolio File Size:  700MB

    Ten years have passed since 1995. Technology has improved greatly from the days of dial-up Internet, which comes as both a blessing and a curse. Gone are the cartridges of the Nineties, as Nintendo and Sony, as well as the newly replacing Sega from back then video game company Microsoft are releasing all their video games on disc-based systems. Video rental is on the way out in favor of streaming services like Netflix. 

    DVD was king in the home movie market, as it had been always. My "Digital Portfolio File Size" soon grew from the measly 1.44MB it had been in the year 1995, gradually to enough of a portfolio size to fill a 700MB blank compact disc, which I had to ultimately fill since I kind of did some stupid things like unleashing all kinds of viruses to my AOpen computer which was my high school workhorse for the entirety of my High School career, from Grades IX-XII. Which had to be repaired several times, and likely never restored to the AOpen OEM that it had left IQ Systems in Greenwood originally back in 2004. 

   However, my next increase would be coming just three years later, at about the time I would be leaving the regular West Kings institutional environment behind for good, and when I would be entering NSCC. 

2008 (2 months) Digital Portfolio File Size: 4.0GB

   For a brief period of time between my actual graduation date of June 27, 2008 - July 31, 2008, my Digital Portfolio size had grown in size from 700MB total, to 4.0GB total. However, due to my distaste for Windows Vista, even going so far as to brandish it as "Windoze Pi$$ta", this lasted until late in July, as we will soon be learning. 

2008 (Rest Of) Digital Portfolio File Size: 504.0GB

   Because of my curiosity of living a computing life without Windows, I figured that because I had a computer which could theoretically handle Ubuntu 7.10 (as my Pentium 4 AOpen could not), I ended up buying an external hard drive sometime around the time I would be returning for one post-graduate year at West Kings District High School, and partially spending the time at the Nova Scotia Community College, as a sort of transition year from my late adolescence into adulthood. Plus, I guess my curiosity of life computing without the Micro$oft brandishing anywhere in my user environment, and not defecting to the Apple Mac Camp (that comes later in the story) kept making me recover the computer back to factory settings, and once it pissed me off (conveniently again) back to Linux. Never keeping one or the other for long, as on the one hand, my parents don't want me to be on an alternative UI. But, on the other hand, it's only going to be a matter of time before Micro$oft released a product so shitty that I'm pretty much going to be ready to fly the Micro$oft coop and don't look back. 

   It had grown from a recordable CD size or singular DVD size into one external hard drive and a memory stick size, it has. Even though the total formatted combined capacity was somewhere more in the neighborhood of 502.7GB, which means about 1.3GB was left unaccounted for in the difference. 

2010 Digital Portfolio File Size: 1.1TB

   Although I didn't have a computer (yet) which would break the 1TB storage internal barrier, for 2010, my combined NTFS and HFPS capacity limit would be closer to 1.1TB, and it would continue to grow gradually throughout the decade. No further comments here. Oh, also, a website I designed in 2009 is a thing because I could try to code it from scratch and load it to the snap ednet server, but I figured I would continue to use it as a portfolio even after my exit from the course.

   However, my portfolio would ultimately only continue to grow over the years... 

2015 Digital Portfolio File Size: 3.1TB

  In December 2015, I originally envisioned the "Katana" to be a computer which would eventually have 3.1TB internal hard disk space, with the OS being Microsoft's Windows 7, which was still supported at the time, and 120GB out of the combined space being used for booting the OS (Windows) off of, 2TB for internal storage drives, 1TB for all my games (both legally purchased and don't ask don't tell where I got them), 1TB for music, and movies, and a final 1TB to run the at the time then latest release of Ubuntu LTS as I was planning on transferring away from the operating environment of Micro$oft Windows. This meant that by the time I had finished building the "Claymore" in 2020, like I would've originally planned on; I would be running Ubuntu LTS (and telling 10 to go [CENSORED] itself.) But, after having a love-hate relationship with 10, I figured I would ... Well, actually, now that I mentioned it, we better save that in actuality for when I can have it properly written down. 

2020 Digital Portfolio File Size: 7.1TB

  At the end of the support officially for Microsoft Windows 7, the actual portfolio size for my install had grown from the 3.1TB I had with the then in-use "Katana" to a planned 6.2TB portfolio which would eventually be in the "Claymore", with its OS dual-boot choice being Ubuntu-Linux likely the latest LTS release at the time, and Windows 10 Pro edition. Neither of those ended up becoming what I ended up planning on being in use. The only reason that this was not as planned is probably likely due to me consulting with relatives who meant well, and friends who gave me some of the essential components for free effectively. The next time, if and when there is a next time I build a computer again - I'm sourcing everything myself and not leaving anything to chance/anyone else's suggestion. 

2022 Digital Portfolio File Size: 4.1TB

  Thanks to an accidental rabbit bomb (fork bomb + Suicide Linux) I pretty much lost "everything" on the Claymore. I'm planning on putting everything back where it's "supposed to be" on the RedEye, but for the time being, I'm just going to say my digital portfolio size is way smaller than 4.1TB. In actuality, of course. Could be larger for all we know. 

Future: Digital Portfolio Size: ???.0 ?B

  Information is not available for this section at the present time, sorry.

Blog Deletion (Post No. 9)

    Formerly, I had plans on making the "Excalibur" the computer that would be the Linux-only gaming and media workstation that would be starting its use as of September 2022, and probably continuing such use until the end of the 2022/2023 Service Year of JWs, and beyond that perhaps, or the end of the apocalypse times,(I will not be factoring in what conservative conspirators call the "Great Reset" where people who are not members of the elite classes are expected to own nothing & be happy, while the aforementioned elite classes probably conveniently neglect to add, "We will be the ones OWNING EVERYTHING and BE EVEN HAPPIER THAN YOU LOWLY, VILE, FOUL, PEASANTS!"

   Because of this sudden development, there will be a few changes of plans as of today, Saturday, August 20th, 2022. And, the following changes of plans are as follows: 

1. The Claymore Build Post which was originally edited and journalling the build of the now decomissioned and sold NCSE Claymore from December 2019, at the tail end of the Katana's life, and the initial development of the NCSE Claymore using an older AOpen case and a few random spare parts and Windows 98, my favorite version of Microsoft's Windows OS, will be deleted today, at 13:00 ADT and the takeout will be placed on the technician laptop, in addition to the entirety of the posts from the introduction post, to the final "EXTRA" Post which was written on December 23, 2021. 

2. The Excalibur build post, (or in other words, the Linux computer post) will be taken in a new direction, and will be deleted once the new Excalibur setup will be activated & ready to roll as soon as everything is online. In fact, the RedEye in some ways kind of "replaces" the Claymore, instead being an "upgrade" to the Claymore which saw its heaviest active use in the Windows partition from January 2020 when the build was complete - through to December 2021 when it was repurposed as a Zoom PC upstairs, and later rabbit bombed (fork bomb + Suicide Linux) in April 2022, and sold to computer parts collectors in July of 2022 as a working system with No OS. 

3. After the completion of the Excalibur build post as of whenever occasion the date of the Excalibur build post has finished, the Excalibur blog serial + the "Weeb Cafe" blog post will also be deleted, forever. And nobody will ever stop that again. 

  While it is true that this content could be viewed as Internet generated content, content like this will not be broadcast for much longer online. It will instead be put on a local intranet and kept from those who wish to view this the wrong way. 

   I know that this seems awful extreme for something that has no foundation in reality (for the time being) but, face it. I may have grown up learning 2+2=4 my entire life, but one morning, it could be that 2+2=5 instead. 

   I hated reading the George Orwell novel Nineteen-Eighty Four in high school. If such a dystopia becomes a reality too close too home gradually over the course of a couple of years, I shouldn't stick around too close to government facilities where my behavior could be hypothetically easily surveiled. I should probably just head for the hills, and hope that the nearest governmental facility that would be as far as I am concerned closer to my new home, is about half an hour away. Just to live there, and watch the world end.

The Tier List Itself (Post No. 8)

 

Updated Windows Tiering (Post No. 7)

     On a past blog post, I did a Windows Tiering from Windows 1.0 to Windows 10, only including every version of Windows from the first version of Windows that would've been desktop release only. So, if you're going to ask, "Where's Server 2003" or some jazz like that... Don't waste your time. Besides, I think Server 2003 would end up being ranked exactly the same as Windows XP, so I doubt it would make much of a difference anyway.

     Instead, the tiering process will be no different as to what has happened the last time I did something like this, with the notable exception of the addition of three new operating systems to the list, but not neccessairly new, unlike the case of Windows 11.

      And the three newcomers are:

-  Microsoft Neptune

-  Microsoft Windows Whistler

-  Microsoft Longhorn

   So, without much further ado, let's actually get into the tiering, since I have spent at least some time exploring some of these beta Windows builds, similar to how I have some minimum experience around Windows 11. Yes, I may have said that I had nothing to say before with Windows 11 (see previous blog post, Post #6.) But, I feel that was just an initial commentary on my experience so far with Windows 11 (and not any other reason.) 

UPDATE: I basically found a tool that I can use to make a tier-making chart of Windows Versions. It does seem a little incomplete for my purposes, so if I need to add some versions - I might. 

Before we continue, however... The tiering ranking has changed from the old version. 

Instead of simply being an S-F tiering...

It is now a SS+ - Z tiering.

SS+ - 10/10 brilliant would recommend I approve.

S - Very Good.

A - Good.

B - Above Average

C - Average

D - Below Average

E - Bad.

F - Very Bad.

Z - It is an unspeakable evil which must be stopped. Tell everyone that it has to be stopped. Tell your friends, tell your family, tell the random person who thinks they have no opinion to get your opinion as theirs to spread the word.

OK, I'll start now. 

Unlike last time, I won't be going through the Windows versions in chronological order, but instead - I will be doing it from SS+ rank down, which means, Windows 98 will be the first entry on the list.

Windows 98 (Rank SS+)

   Windows 98 was probably one of the best release Windows in my opinion, despite my never actually getting to do a whole lot with it in my opinion. Sure, it may be dated, and have a whole bunch of security bugs which can't be patched by the average end user, (which Microsoft assumes that the majority of people that have computing devices are anyway) but, it will always hold a special place in my heart. 

   If you hate nostalgia, please leave this blog. I'm about to literally lower my pants and underwear and then drop steaming hot loads all over modernity. In fact, this almost makes me think of a meme appropriate for this very situation. 

     So, yeah. I know that people may say, "CoMe BaCk tO ThE pReSeNt, NaThAn, ThInGs NoW aReN't AlL tHaT bAd..." but, I say, NO! If I want to relive my childhood while playing the same video games (a lot of) that I would've played during my childhood years, and then maybe discover some more that weren't exactly on my memory lane growing up, but a welcome game for me to play, for sure, then don't think for one second I'm going to put my name on an order for a brand-new, shiny Sony PlayStation 5. If anybody needs me, I'll probably be here getting hopped up on Doritos and Sprite until the sun rises playing Gran Turismo 1 (regardless of region that it was originally released in) and Einhander, and Final Fantasy well- I guess the first nine games, because by the time Square Enix released X, The actual games themselves actually moved to the Sony PlayStation 2.

Windows 3.11 for Workgroups (SS+ Rank)

   Another member of the nostalgia train for me would be Windows 3.11 for Workgroups. It's not exactly a remotely modern OS, but it would be the first Windows that I would use personally. Not my "First" Windows, that would be 95. But, my first Windows that I would use to play such edutainment and pre-school games such as Aladdin's Activity Center and Math Blaster Ages 6-9 in my early youth, and revisiting it later with all the Packard Bell games thanks to the DOSBOX image of the virtual Packard Bell. 

    Not to mention, I always loved listening to music and playing with AudioStation. Which is precisely why I had been trying to source a Packard Bell to just restore the Windows 3.11 or 95 Recovery CD for years and years now. Maybe to just leave modernity behind and just go back to a world where it was all about bicycle riding, hand-holding, and playing games on consoles a few generations behind most of my peers, as opposed to living in the here and now and trying very hard to source a PS5 to play Elden Ring or something like that.

Microsoft Neptune (SS+ Rank)

   Microsoft Neptune is the next version that gets the SS+ rank, due to it being a cancelled version. Or, in other words, a pre-XP Windows 2000 "Home" experience that we could've got, but Microsoft just had to keep the Personal OS as a not out in the open option. I mean, there is [Redacted] out there, you just need to know where to find it. 

Windows 7 (SS+ Rank)

   Despite my thinking I had somehow got the correct logo image for this, Windows 7 is the last "modern" and only "Modern" version of Windows to be on the tier listing. Sure, it is probably two years outdated now, but I don't care. Windows 7 was the version I had built the computer the "Katana" originally to run. I also blocked GWX from installing on the computer because I didn't want to have to deal with a version that would make me physically assault my computer and curse Microsoft for ever having had let see the light of day. Little do you and I know, that it was Windows 11 I should be worried about, not 10. 

Tied for S Rank: Windows 2000 Professional/Windows Whistler

    Windows 2000 Professional was the last of the good Microsoft OS from a time before people started having arguments about the inherent moral low or high ground about [Redacted]. Namely, the gray practice of simply patching activation to prevent Windows from calling home to Redmond to ensure that piracy wasn't being committed. I know this blog may be the next to disappear in the short-term future, and I likely may be moving on in life to other projects, but when I say, Windows Whistler and 2000 Professional are tied for the S rank, I mean it. Especially considering that I have to take some grade off because Whistler was the beta version of what became the most over-rated and memed OS in computing history in the early years of the 21st century. 

Windows 95: (A Rank)

    This version was my first Windows. It'd rank higher, but there is already a 9x version in the list, so I'm going to leave it here. Besides, there will be more added to this list.

Windows 8.1: (A Rank)

    I'm only doing this because some people believe Windows 8.1 wasn't that much of a steaming pile of turds. And, honestly, I'm inclined to agree. I mean, if you use Start8 or ClassicShell, you can bring the old Start menu back, and even use the Start menu from previous versions of Windows. Sure, it was probably not much better than Windows 8, but Windows 8.x was a polarizing series of two operating systems. 

    (Only reason I refuse to tier any version of 8 higher than A is because - well... While some may say Windows 8.x was not "that bad", I say, "I wanted to build a computer, not a phone!" And in addition to that, "What was Microsoft thinking?")

Microsoft Windows, Codename "Longhorn" (A Rank)

  Finally, we look at the final version of Microsoft Windows' Operating system families, which is surprisingly a BETA version of Windows this time, which is Windows Longhorn. Yes, I know it didn't really be intended for public use for longer than a 180 day evaluation basis by people who Microsoft intended to test their software, anyway. 

   But, looking through the Windows Longhorn versions, it actually is interesting to see the transition from Windows XP to Windows Vista. The earliest possible version of Longhorn to get working, actually looks far different than the Vista pre-RTM version, which would probably be the last codename Longhorn version anyway. 

   Of course speaking of XP...

Windows XP (C Rank)

   In this tier list, B gets skipped, and it is placed on C Rank. Windows XP is probably the most over-rated, meme-spurter edgelord OS in all of computing history. While Windows 11, Microsoft's newest OS is causing the once popular OS behemoth to slowly fade into obscurity, and onto the history books where it belongs, then the reason I refuse to grade it a worse grade than C or better for that matter, is because - Monopoly Tycoon. And I already said that I won't be installing Monopoly Tycoon on Windows 11, because I already know that the performance and app behavior will be the exact same as it would have been from Windows Vista to Windows 10, anyway. Perhaps somewhat worse.

Windows 8 (C Rank)

  Windows 8... Yeah, I know people might not like me disliking it, but I can't say I love it either, since if I had spent time using 8, it would've been under 8.1, not 8 itself. 

Windows 3.0 & Windows 3.0 with Multimedia Extensions 1.0, Tied for C Rank

   Windows 3.0 and Multimedia Extensions are both tied for C Rank due to them being essentially the same Operating System, with the exclusion of the latter having sound compatibility with Windows 3.0 right out of the box, where as Windows 3.0 was just another graphical shell over MS-DOS similar to how Windows 1.0 and 2.0 were. 

Windows 1.0 and 2.0 - Tied for C Rank

   Because they are essentially the same, save for some minor adjustments, then Windows 1.0 and 2.0 also tie with each other for C Rank in this tier. End of argument, end of discussion, end of story, see you later.

Windows 10 - Final C Rank Operating System

   Many have said that Windows 10 was the "last" Windows, and in the context of this blog's listing of C-Rank Operating Systems, the same is also true. But, because of this, the next OS to be added to the tier will be getting D Rank, which isn't good, but it isn't terrible either. 

Windows Vista - D RANK

   Okay, so here is the final logo OS that I managed to find. Windows Vista, or "Pissta" as I had referred to it in my immature mind is what made me temporarily defect from the Microsoft OS camp to the macOS environment. Windows 7 is what brought me back, but I have a feeling that I will probably flee for good to the Linux wilderness in the somewhat near future since Windows 11 may be the OS to do that. More on this later. 

Ok, now that I have pretty much all of the major operating systems that I can possibly find the images of the logos for on one list, it's time to talk about some honorable and dishonorable mentions both before I finally do add the last piece of the puzzle so to speak. Although I may not be exactly be keeping with the Microsoft pattern as a rule here, I will likely also add the NT clone which has been in alpha since forever. 

Honorable Mention #1: ReactOS 

   This is the NT clone I was talking about. If I could've found a logo for this list (perhaps a tier 2.0 might be in order to include it there?) Then it would probably be occupying a spot on B, despite not really being Windows or Linux-based, but something like the former thing it is not, and written from scratch besides. 

Honorable Mention #2: SigmaOS

   This would probably tie with "Windows Longhorn" due to it just being another fork of Windows Longhorn, and not really its own original OS. 

Honorable Mention #3: Windows NT 4.0 Workstation

    Due to it being the "NT" version of Windows 95, It would have shared the row with ReactOS. Again, something to consider for a 2.0 tier if and when I finally get around to making that tier.

Dishonorable Mentions #1, 2, 3: The "Cancelled" Windows Operating Systems

  Some startup sound compilers have found other "Cancelled" Windows OS which aren't exactly Microsoft Neptune. Since I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of any of these programs, then they all would be occupying both ranks E and F. 

Dishonorable Mention #4: Windows Millennium Edition

   Basically something which should have never seen the light of day, and people should've just stayed with 98 in the home computer world until XP. I mean, sure, if you had the right hardware Millennium Edition would run beautifully - but if not, then you would probably be always having crashing troubles. Not really the best transition from 98 to XP. If you really needed to have it transfer from 98 to XP that bad, you probably should have waited until 2001 for Microsoft to drop Windows XP. 

   Millenium Edition gets F.

Dishonorable Mention #5: Windows NT 3.5x Workstation

   Basically the NT version of 3.x for Workgroups. Not really much interesting, unless you want to log into Program Manager every time you start Windows for productivity work.

    Rank F!

So, we've saved something for last.

Windows 11 (Rank Z)

  Yeah, hate me if you want, but I believe Windows 11 is just Rank Z. If experienced computer technicians believe that the right to repair will be put on the history book notes of the future, then Windows 11 isn't exactly a perfect OS, but then again I never said anything about perfection. 

   Windows 11 will DEFINITELY be the last version of Windows for me, despite the claims Microsoft made with Windows 10. 

   TPM + Secure Boot are also making me want to leave.

   May the world that came up with Windows 11 come to a swift, sudden end. May that end happen before Microsoft is allowed to make Windows subscription-only, which in theory may be a good thing since it will supposedly prevent software piracy, but not everyone will be able to afford the subscription charge of $XX.99 a month to rent the OS key to their specific device, whether the device was purchased from an OEM vendor such as ASUS, DELL, or HP, or built from "custom" the ground up. 

   I know tools can't be inherently good or evil, which is what TPM + Secure Boot essentially are. But, I do know that this is just the case of the frog being boiled in the pan. If you put a frog in a pot of hot water, it will just jump out. But, if you put it in a pan of cold water and slowly have the heat come up, the frog will slowly die. 

 

My Unbiased Thoughts on Windows 11 (Post No. 6)

     Okay, so this blog post is just my completely unbiased thoughts of Windows 11 so far. I wasn't paid by Microsoft to write this, and I wasn't kidnapped or held for ransom to write this, or even had the same happen to any one of my family members where the ransom is I must give the honest answer about what I think about Microsoft Windows 11 so far, and whether or not this version of Windows is better than any of the "nostalgic" versions of Windows that I have used in the past, when they were the "current" versions of Windows, such as 3.11, 95, 98, NT 3.x-5.0, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, or even 10 for that matter.

Part 1. The Logo

    Well, what can I say about the logo design? It's very flat for one thing. I guess it can no longer be said that it looks like a flag anymore, unlike the versions of Microsoft's OS which preceded it, which can/cannot be a good thing? I know that it seems like I probably didn't really say anything nice about the logo, but unfortunately I can't say anything bad about it, either. Because do you have something to say about it? Because I sure don't.

Part 2. The General UI Experience

 

     Unless you bought your shiny new Windows 11 rig from an OEM, such as Acer, DELL or another fine computer manufacturer provided you didn't buy a Microsoft Surface, this Desktop configuration will likely greet you at your first boot. [Totally Not Illegal Method of Software Installation Redacted]. 

    However, unlike the version of Microsoft Windows which immediately preceded it, Windows 11 obviously has gone back to the "One device to rule them all", approach again, which means Microsoft is trying to get as many people to use touch-screen devices as possible, and leave their fat fingers off the dang keyboard. Of course, not everyone will buy a touch-screen laptop since not everyone wants to. I mean, sure, some will get touch-screen devices, but that's just it. Touch screens aren't ideal for everyone and their dog. Some people feel that in order to be able to use their existing monitors with their new rig, the tower computer desktop has to have not gone into the pages of the history books.

    And, of course, for me personally, I haven't yet been tempted to install a new UI which overwrites the default Windows 11 "New" Environment, so, I'm going to say, once you figure out how to move the Start button to the bottom-left of the desktop screen like it had been ever since back in 95, Windows 11's environment hasn't been all that much of a learning curve versus Windows 10.

    Of course, the Start menu design looks somewhat better than 10's. I mean, it's not like many of the annoying things that existed in 10's ever really went away - but, I can't say that the Start Menu design for Windows 11 is a one-night stand result between a Linux desktop distribution's environment and the Windows 8 screen. It's actually more like a constant steady relationship between the Linux desktop environment and Windows XP's desktop environment. Also, I believe that the atomsmasher Error Generator is permanently gone, so no more creating fake Windows Errors of the most over-rated Windows version in all existence, Windows XP. Windows XP's final nail in the coffin has been made, so to Windows XP I say, "Rest in Piss, Forever Miss." and probably only make sure that it only lives on in either virtualization or machines built specifically for the purpose of running one game only and the title in question is --- Monopoly Tycoon. I mean, I tried running it on 10, and it pretty much ran the same as it did on Vista - 8.1, so I don't think I'll bother wasting my time running that old strategy game from the '90s on my shiny new laptop.

    Another thing which I'm happy about with Windows 11. No more Internet Explorer. To be absolutely clear - Internet Explorer was a relic of a browser from a much more caveman, and primitive, and simpler time. Internet Explorer, despite it being a browser for most of the 90's and 00's, ended up being the butt of many memes, so much so, that when Microsoft noticed that not very many people had history lists longer than a page and it was just for use of downloading another browser, which for years before Microsoft Edge even entered the scene would have been either Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, or Opera, that Microsoft had to make a new browser just to kill off Internet Explorer. Of course, not everyone will have been using Edge as their one & only Internet Browser, so Microsoft having done this development of a browser in 10 to carry over to 11 as the only default - Really changed nothing. So, I am going to say, "good job on accomplishing nothing."

    It almost makes me want to say that if they really thought they could get me to dump Firefox from being my browser of choice - (And some people's other preferred browsers from their choices) they failed that task.

        But, on another positive note... There is the return of the Startup Sound, which isn't very memorable or meme-worthy unlike Windows XP's, so I guess I might as well say, "Good job." And chalk that as one point in Microsoft's favor to get another shot of having an OS which isn't going to make me want to hate it right out of the box.

    Like, remember when I said in my opinion Windows 10 was the OS of the year of 2020? Well, Windows 11 doesn't get that distinction, which is actually a good thing once you think about it. It actually is probably going to be the OS of the year until the next big thing from Microsoft comes, or subscription-based Windows ever becomes a thing and subscription-based Windows will have a harder time trying to become an "OS" of the year any year.

   So, in other words... tl;dr about the Windows 11 user experience:

- Greatly improved overall all-around experience vs. Windows 10.

- Internet Explorer, Rest in piss forever miss.

- This OS has a startup sound?

- I have absolutely nothing to say about the Windows 11 logo. Mainly because it looks like a window more than older versions of Windows.

Of course, nothing is perfect because nobody's perfect...

Part 3. Oh, come on! No version of Windows before has required these Security Measures.

    Prior to the release of Windows 11, no version of Windows before required both the Trusted Platform Module 2.0 + Secure Boot. However, this likely is a new feature in Windows 11 (& not a bug unfortunately) and will likely be here to stay for Windows versions in the future if and when Micro$oft actually do make newer versions of Micro$oft Windows past 11 like there is now. 

    This basically means older hardware which has none of those features shouldn't theoretically be able to run Windows 11, but then again - it probably is not going to matter since most of these older devices will either be running Linux of some fork if the person that bought the older device is savvy enough, or probably at some e-waste center to be condemned to die since every microchip and other part on it has operationally failed anyway. 

    Or, certain other machines that had been made with older pre-10 OS in mind would be better utilized powering an Arcade system instead of doing productive things, and not be running an OS except an arcade fork ever again. I mean, before you say, a PC is overkill for an arcade cabinet, then if you ever look at the underside of an arcade cabinet, chances are you will find some things that desktop computers and home computers are powered by. Just like how stock cars (for the time being) have the same Internal Combustion Engine, that a lot of passenger cars had from the dawn of the technology of the automobile until Electronic Fuel Injection became a common standard for most automotive engines.

    Of course, it's often been said that the future will only have electric cars, due to the concerns with the environment, so, the last of the ICE cars are going to be like the Tyrannosaurus Rex at the end of the dinosaur age -- doomed, but going to fight until the very end.

    Do I think less of Windows 11 for requiring TPM + Secure Boot? YES! Does that mean I won't use it? ...

(The above GIF is your answer to that question. Now stop bothering me already.) 

   Before I proceed much further on today's blog post, I must first spend some time talking about "Secure Boot." first of all. What is "Secure Boot?" 

The UEFI 2.3.1 Errata C specification (or higher) defines a protocol known as Secure Boot, which can secure the boot process by preventing the loading of UEFI drivers or OS boot loaders that are not signed with an acceptable digital signature. The mechanical details of how precisely these drivers are to be signed are not specified.^[61] When Secure Boot is enabled, it is initially placed in "setup" mode, which allows a public key known as the "platform key" (PK) to be written to the firmware. Once the key is written, Secure Boot enters "User" mode, where only UEFI drivers and OS boot loaders signed with the platform key can be loaded by the firmware. Additional "key exchange keys" (KEK) can be added to a database stored in memory to allow other certificates to be used, but they must still have a connection to the private portion of the platform key.^[62] Secure Boot can also be placed in "Custom" mode, where additional public keys can be added to the system that do not match the private key.^[63]

Secure Boot is supported by Windows 8 and 8.1, Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2, Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, 2019, and 2022, and Windows 11, VMware vSphere 6.5^[64] and a number of Linux distributions including Fedora (since version 18), openSUSE (since version 12.3), RHEL (since version 7), CentOS (since version 7^[65]), Debian (since version 10),^[66] and Ubuntu (since version 12.04.2).^[67] As of January 2017, FreeBSD support is in a planning stage.^[68] 

 ^{(Definition from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface#Secure_Boot)}

   ^{Did you get all that? Basically it's a part of the UEFI that stops digitally unsigned alternative operating systems from even being allowed to execute. Although Windows 8 - 10 would work just fine on a system with "Secure Boot" switched off and kept off, Windows 11 on the other hand, absolutely needs secure boot, however as a consequence of Secure Boot, a shorter list of OS can only be run on Secure Boot. So, don't decide you're going to spend $1,000+ on your shiny new DELL and hope to be able to put a version of Linux which primarily isn't Fedora, (version 18 or later), OpenSuse (since version 12.3), Red Hat Enterprise Linux (since version 7.0), CentOS (since Version 7.0), or Debian (since version 10.0), or Ubuntu (12.04.2 or later), which is not digitally signed.}

  ^{Which I guess if you wanted to run Windows 11, that would be just fine. But, say if you wanted to run a different fork of Linux which doesn't have the required digital signature to allow you in, then tough luck since Secure Boot will not allow you to do it, and you might as well just say if it was an OS-based emulator front-end, download the software for Windows to use instead.}

^{Part 4. Productivity.}

   ^{Although some people will be using Windows 11 for productivity quite seriously in the real world, I personally doubt it will be very useful for me personally. Why? Well, for starters - Windows 11 is 64-bit only, which if all the productivity hardware that I needed to run ran on 64-bit hardware just fine; then I would have no reason to require 32-bit OS to run the programs that would have no modern 64-bit versions available.} 

    ^{However, thanks to the existence of a program on my personal network which actually does require "32-bit hardware..." then keeping it somewhat maintained & working may prove to be a herculean task now, considering that working parts aren't easy items to come by which may be remotely compatible with 32-bit hardware, which means I'll probably need to try to find a way to find the 32-bit compatible components, which might make the task while I still have the means to find 32-bit hardware to run my 32-bit software and what not for the time being a Herculean task. If I must run 64-bit software to be secure trying to function with sign shop equipment, I might as well just cut my losses, sell off all the equipment at a loss before the equipment seizers come to permanently remove it off my hands for free, and that would only be if finding 32-bit hardware capable software would be a Sisyphsusian task to get working.}

   ^{And then there's the question of my eventual career change from merely a museum volunteer to something else that might not require so much commuting time - I do not wish to be employed by a Disability Day Program which doesn't do desk work.} 

   ^{I think it's time I leave the walled cloud garden of Windows behind once and for all, and start learning to live without certain digital functionality. (e.g., the ability to run tablet apps natively using the Microsoft Store. I mean, it's probably possible to virtualize it if I absolutely need such things in my life.)} 

    And I, unlike some nerds on this planet, do believe the "penguin" is actually the only choice I have left for a computer OS since I don't like Apple's sudden change in direction from being a computer company to a fashion accessory manufacturer, and Windows becoming entirely all subscription-based isn't really going to make me a very happy camper either, so there really only is one final, tertiary option that is neither a window nor an apple, but rather, a penguin. 

^{(And I don't care if you think me saying "Penguin" all the time means I'm a fan of a Batman villain. I'm not necessarily a DC Comics reader. I do use my phone/tablet to read comics, but I use the free comic app called WebToon. It's a great useful little program for times I have to go to the doctor's office so I can have something to read since I can't exactly go to the Doctor's Office anymore to read the old magazines since there haven't been any there since the COVID Pandemic of '20.)} 

    ^{I'm also not going to be editing any slideshows using a Microsoft XBOX system. Don't even bother asking me to do so, since I'm not going to. If you want my vacation photos from this year so damn much, I'll probably just save them on a memory stick for you to see them all and probably not use Clipchamp which is a video editor which costs money. I'm probably going to want to use OpenStep which, like Clipchamp is a video editor, but it's free. As in you can pay donations for it if you want, but I don't get annoying ads or stupid messages in the inbox saying how excited they are to have me on the mailing list to use.} 

^{Part 5. Finale - Overall}

   ^{Overall, Windows 11 isn't that bad. Well, why would I say it isn't bad? In fact, since I've used it, on this computer it has run absolutely smooth as peanut butter as absolutely possible. And even if Windows 11 was disappointing or bad in any way, shape or form, I believe that it's actually so bad that it's good in a way. How is that even possible?} 

   ^{Well, I believe that Windows 11 has a type of "balance" that the other versions of Windows prior to 11 failed to have. How so? Well, Windows 11 had all the features that versions such as XP and Vista have had since forever, and maybe a better version of Windows 8's activation, which has carried over from Windows 10. Although the days of using the Windows Classic Themes are probably long gone, I personally don't mind seeing the rounded design again, and I believe it is probably a nod to one of the most meme-lord edgeboi overrated Operating Systems of Micro$oft's history, Windows XP.} 

   ^{However, unlike Windows 10, Windows 11 will probably be the "LAST" version of Windows I will be using. I know I've probably said this about 10, but Windows 11 will likely be considered the last version of Microsoft Windows that I ever find useful. It's unclear if & when Microsoft will ever devise a Windows 12, but my hope is that I will have long since moved on from Redmond's Operating System environments to one that isn't going to threaten to perhaps send people to my house to come break my legs if I do dare try an alternative operating system (Disclaimer: That bit about breaking legs may be a joke.)} 

    ^{Or, rather, if the memes are how the lawyers are accurately depicted - an OS that if I'm caught having pirated it and resold it to someone, that the IP company will be having their legal team sue me for everything out of my life savings, and then sue my children and my children's children for the entirety of their incomes, and seeing as I have no human children claimed now - probably make some sort of arrangements that I get to have the children to sue the income out of me in the first place. (Disclaimer: This bit is also a joke, even though it might have incorporated a little bit of dark humor.)} 

    ^{OK, I think I've carried this long enough. So, all I have to say now is: The next post after this one will be an updated Windows Tier Ranking.} 

  

 

Account Deletion List, Spring 2022 (Post No.5)

    I'll just write a short post tonight since I figured I don't want to spend a ton of time writing an essay of a post on this blog as opposed to a few short paragraphs.

    Now, you're aware that in August 2021, I permanently deleted my Facebook account for the reasons of mental health, and it was probably being a very negative drain on my personal sanity. And of course, now that it's gone, I realize that I am no less connected to the world than when I had the Facebook account anyway. 

   RP with someone? Well, find someone that's willing to spend the time and I'll certainly do that. Make friends? I'll keep my friend-meeting analog but I'll keep both on-and-offline friends open to have some sort of common interest. I don't care about your race, I'm not worried about your ethnicity, I just want to have a common interest with you. If it exists, great, we can be friends. If not, don't waste my time and stay out of my life until Kingdom come and hopefully you don't get destroyed at the end of the world. If you are, well... Rest in piss forever miss, and if not, I hope to go find somewhere far away from you to live to build a house there to go live in and hope that we never meet at any point. Kind of defeats the purpose of pursuit of peace, but if us not crossing paths became a necessity for it, then so be it. 

   Buy/Sell something? I'll Kijiji it (For folks outside Canada, it's a specific Craigslist to our neck of the woods), and if it's not too expensive, buy it on eBay and have it shipped to me from somewhere in the world, or even from Amazon or some other store online front, even if I have to go to the brick-and-mortar store where there's not too much of a guarantee I'll find the thing I specifically want. 

  Hear the unwanted drama that made me leave Facebook in the first place? Well, on the odd chance I'm on the Kings Transit bus headed eastbound to Kentville or westbound from Kentville back to Greenwood some person (male or female) comes on the bus with mental problems that they then voice out loud to the hearing of the bus driver about how people need to make more friends, share more, and not be worried about essentially some super-flu that was first discovered because someone had ordered the special bat soup three years ago this November. 

   My point is - I'm a lot better off without Facebook in my life, and I feel that being out of that tire fire may have done my mental psyche some incredible good in the long run. I will likely be deleting the account that I had put on Twitter associated with my gmail address, since I feel that since I have a discord account for what I was intending to use it for, it would likely save time if I don't use this Twitter account simultaneously with the cringe account that I said I was going to delete when something else happened, or my new account which as of right now, deletion is kind of indeterminate, since I know how, but if I feel I really gotta go... Then I gotta go... I'm not going to announce my departure or BS to the world. 

   To be honest, it's times like these where the old Buddy Wasisname song plays back the line about cutting out the boob tube and the phone, and telling the whole world that I've left home. And I have a feeling it will probably become more tempting of a prospect to do as the final go-around of this world suddenly devolves into the apocalypse no one will see coming and everyone will be running for their lives and stuff will happen faster than they can process mentally or physically.