{"id":7,"date":"2026-01-15T15:57:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jrrbradenstone.com\/?p=7"},"modified":"2026-01-17T19:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T00:51:11","slug":"a-new-blog-for-a-dumb-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jrrbradenstone.com\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"A new blog for a dumb reason."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve been thinking about starting a blog again recently. I used to blog in the Internet Golden Era, but replaced that healthier habit with constant, mindless doomscrolling and arguing with robots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So the thought’s been there for a while: go back to the old way, the new way sucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what finally broke me down to start this blog\u2014working title: A Disorganized Pile of Stuff\u2014was pretty dumb. I posted to \/r\/NoMansSkyTheGame last night about a griefer who vandalized a base I had built<\/a> in my go-to relaxation game. An old Redditor, I used the image upload site Imgur, then woke up this morning to a lengthy discussion about how nobody knows why the UK banned Imgur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The internet sucks now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, where do I host this stupid image album that everyone can see it? What if I hate Reddit’s new-ish default image hosting server, and I don’t trust that moderators won’t maliciously remove content?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Am I just an old man shaking his fist at the clouds?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No. No, I’m a middle-aged man with a fresh new blog. Fuck you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyhoo, here’s what Keir Starmer (which isn’t a real name)<\/em> thinks is porn, complete with petty grievances:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

NMS Base Invader<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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My home base near the core of Galaxy 256, Odyalutai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been building onto this base as I needed new things or got new parts for the past nine months. I didn’t build it around a portal, or any expedition\/mission-specific resources. I found a system near the core that someone else had already discovered, but there weren’t any other bases in the system. For the longest time, it’s been peaceful.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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I didn’t mind being in a core system with moderate traffic, and I regularly take visitors to this base, but I clearly wanted to be left to myself in this one little spot on a paradise moon. Case in point, my base has a cemetery with the first names and life years of people close to me who have died. It’s my most intricately detailed base ever, and it’s very obviously personal to me.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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I showed up tonight and noticed that some schmuck has built a giant, ugly plank over the top of my home base. It connects to a base that’s built well enough that I know the person who did this understands the time and effort that went into the base he’s encroaching upon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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He really went out of his way, literally, to intrude. I know I can report the base computer and his base will disappear for me, but now I will always have to tell visitors to do the same which is a huge pain in my nipnip buds. It also increases my chances of the game crashing upon load-in if I load the game while inside my base. Absolutely infuriating behavior.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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GamerHogZ, I hope your mother is reading this. Delete your base.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Well, that’s the inaugural post on my new virtually-themeless blog. Now I have a place to shout into the void of indifference without the algorithm answering back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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