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Welcome to Penguin Picks

I spend too much time staring at screens: I’m sure that’s not an uncommon sentiment amongst this crowd (or really anyone in the modern age) but my rate of media consumption makes it hard to feel like any of what I read/watch/interact with carries any lasting impact. Something I really disliked about doing tech reviews was you never really got to sit and experience and live with what you were…

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A Decluttering

Where can you reduce clutter in your life? Long-time penguin aficionados will know that I’m a very avid Magic: The Gathering fan with a collection that’s followed me around from place to place for the better part of a decade. And let me tell you, moving around that much cardboard really sucks. A single Magic deck or bundle doesn’t weigh that much but over time I think the amount of cards I have…

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Is This Thing Still On?

We're....back?

Third time’s the charm right? I’ve never really done anything with this domain and although the website itself has gone through a few aesthetic changes throughout the years, the few posts that did go up were promptly taken down not long after. In a way it was like one of those limited drops that are all the rage these days with the youths but with my random nonsense as opposed to something useful…

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ruh roh, it gets worse

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Being on fedi the last few weeks has been wild

twitter: currently owned by techbro pissman

tumblr: actively removing functionality and bloating the interface with things nobody uses

discord: being retooled by ex-Meta management who don't understand the appeal of the platform

youtube: neutered by advertisers and algorithms and also tiktokification

reddit: half of the site is down due to protests about the outrageous monetization of third-party API support

facebook: my mom is on there

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But RIP the Peach app for the millionth time in the row. It should just become a fedi platform at this point.

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Jeez ten years already. #E3 #gaming #FF14ARR #journalism

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the hottest band in new phyrexia

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It's really funny to take Spanish with people from different Spanish-speaking countries, because the ones from South American countries are like "Yeah no one uses vosotros, we don't know what it's doing here" and the ones from Europe are like "If you don't give our beloved second-person plural its due respect, the Hounds will find you"

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Guy who upon finding out what neopronouns are immediately starts going by “him/he” which is exactly the same as he/him except you switch them around

Him says that its ‘always been hes dream to do this’

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The Velma show is pretty bad. Like this is the second episode.

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Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)