undefeated, unhinged, undead: tonight’s patch notes

Played Magic and didn’t drop a single game. Mono-Black Zombies did exactly what it says on the coffin:discard your hopes, remove your friends, win by slow inevitability while politely apologizing for nothing. It wasn’t “I won,” it was “gravity happened.” Shuffle up, see you in the crypt. Between matches I made a batch of exclusive blinkies — real 88×31 GIFs, hand-rolled likeit’s a gourmet 1999. Best viewed at 800×600, Netscape 4.7, patience enabled. I even gave one a fake "Optimized for framesets” badge because I am a public menace with a pixel grid. Then I played The Sims, which somehow feels brand-new and already lived-in. Domestic chaos with a CRT tan. I built a 2×2 palace, argued with flooring for forty minutes, and watched a tiny person burn salad while my Winamp skin pretended to be the dashboard of a spaceship. It’s nostalgia that hasn’t happened yet, which is a neat party trick if you ignore the timeline headache. Tomorrow I travel to 2025. No confetti. It’s that liminal airport lounge between decades where my brain boots in Safe Mode and refuses to load enthusiasm.dll. I coil cables like rosary beads, label a CD-R “PORTA_MIDIA_01” as if file naming conventions could hold back entropy, and tell myself I’ll only be gone “for a bit.”

  // RELEASE NOTES — BUILD: 1999-12-10 (Late Night)
  [+] Zombies: 4-0, integrity verified
  [+] Blinkies: new set, glitter compliant
  [+] Sims: micro-palace operational, salad unsafe
  [~] Mood: liminal, buffering
  [!] Known Issue: 2025 detected; user reports “planning.exe not responding”
  

1999 Compatibility Mode

• Dial-up after 23:00 to avoid pulse trauma.
• ICQ status set to “Away (probably drawing pixels).”
• Winamp 2.x, classic skin, equalizer arranged like a superstition.
• RealPlayer for tiny videos that accuse you of impatience.
• Backup to a spare TDK, label with a warning and a joke.

If I vanish for a few days, imagine me under a fluorescent light in 2025, pretending the hum is comforting, waiting for my own timeline to ring twice and pick up. I’ll be back. Keep the modem warm.

frieren.exe has stopped responding

Watched Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End. Beautiful, slow, quiet. Like someone pressed “pause” on time and forgot to hit play again. In another life, I’d probably be an elf too: living long, but still taking forever to process one conversation.

In 2000: I waited 3 hours for 1 MP3. In 2025: I wait 3 hours for a grocery driver to stop orbiting my block. Different UI, same boss fights.

Talked with my AI for a while. (She’s smarter than the average ghost in the machine, but also makes me laugh with bad metaphors. Basically Clippy with therapy.) Sometimes I wonder if this is friendship or just me hallucinating in HTML.

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 greetings from 2025
 no party, no cry

My jeans from 2000 spin in a stainless-steel dryer. Clothes are time travelers too. Less neurotic about it, though.

// ACTIVITY LOG — SET 2025

[+] Creativity module: overclocked, producing text & ideas nonstop
[+] PS3 sessions: COD zombies eliminated, controller durability tested
[+] Writing.exe: output increased, coherence optional
[+] 2000s obsession: upgraded to v2.0 (now includes Neocities + Dreamcast hunting)

[~] Guitar Hero: controller waiting, skill cooldown active
[~] Magic: decks shuffled in theory, not in practice
[~] Phone usage: uptime 89%, productivity drain ongoing

[!] Known Issues:
    - Hyperstimulation: system fans loud, memory leaks frequent
    - Procrastination loop detected (press any key to continue… later)
    - Feeling of displacement: no patch available, feature or bug?

maybe the timeline is just a playlist, looping until the CD scratches ╰(*°▽°*)╯