I have been awake for like hours, hours in a row!

So, I think I am doing a bit better. But I also found tylenol on the floor and eventually realized that what happened was I managed to drop it instead of put it in my mouth and didn't realize. I was just like 'wow I swallowed that easily'. So I doing better but am not expecting myself to be able to like do anything coherent for a few days.

Speaking of coherence, I may have gone into GW2 and spent 2/3rds of my account value stuffing the guild bank with miniature Lord Faren items and Miniature SouthSun (translation: bathing suit) Lord Faren items. This was before I realized I was running a fever and had drunk a cider in hopes of killing my headache. (collecting minis of in game creatures and characters is a big thing in GW2.) Anyway, my guild is now stuffed with several hundred gold worth of Farens and are doing random silly fun giveaways of them... which is funny but since I am not a very active player anymore that was a LOT of my account value. I've decided to not mention what lead to me 'pranking' the guild by rendering the bank unusable due to Too Many Farens.

But, this is one of the benefits of playing an MMO. I can make my bad life decisions and spend money in dumb ways there instead of IRL. I sometimes spend in-game currency in dumbs ways deliberately. Anyway, my brain's 'do dumb impulsive shit in Tyria, not Earth' subroutine was working.

It's weird to me that people equate good spending habits in-game with good habits IRL. I'm like... why would I do things in game the way I should IRL? I do things in-game that I would never do IRL. Anyway, rambling...

Guild Wars 2 is very suddenly going to have a Steam release on Tuesday. Established MMOs going to Steam is a big deal. This could possibly permanently spike the game's population... or if anything goes wrong with the Steam launch the game's name will be mud forever. So, that is exciting.

And now back to sleep I think

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In addition to all the the blows to scripted TV from a number of networks dropped their scripted departments entirely, the HBO debacle is leaving some shows with no legal way to access them.

It's like every network wanted to be another Netflix instead of just licensing their shows to Netflix or Hulu. Now they are all pivoting to just reality TV with claims of it being more profitable, but I don't think that's the whole story. Big IPs are and dedicated fanbases are huge money makers. I think they all burned so much money trying to overcrowd the streaming market that they can't afford to do much else.

There are a lot of implications for fandom as scripted TV is on a huge downswing and more and more shows become available via piracy only. Not sure what those implications are, but they exist.

I'd make lists of networks dropping scripted TV and shows becoming unavailable and classic media we only have due to piracy... but I am still trying to find my scattered braincells. My fever is now down, at least as long as I keep taking tylenol. What I will say is that's is funny that there is a big push for TNT to bring back Will due to the sudden popularity of Jamie Campbell Bower... but even if there was enough demand, there is no place for the show to go back to. TNT has dropped it's scripted department entirely.

Also, the creator of Infinity Train updated his twitter bio to say "Creator of #InfinityTrain, a show that got pulled from hbomax and can now only be pirated. I post frogs in hats."

In the wake of the HBO stuff I feel the need to post

Just a section of the physical media collection of LGBT films at Movie Madness:



They focus on preserving access though physical media. Also, I need to go and take new pictures of the place. I just have some old cell phone pics.