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Yeah, Twitter Blue accounts have been advertised on forums that sell social media accounts since the day it's announced

Here are some examples:

• 5-11 year old accounts for $19
• Twitter blue accounts with 1K to 50K followers ranging from $100 to $180

I've even seen services where someone in Indonesia offers to pay the Blue subscription monthly for the buyers with some markups

Why not just subscribe to them yourself? Some reasons I could think of:

1. You reside in regions where twitter blue is not available, or sanctioned regions.
2. You don't want it to be traced back to you easily, considering many of the buyers are getting them for crypto scams / disinformations, or even state sponsored
3. You want aged accounts with fake followers and contents. Although I've seen some sellers offering barebone accounts, probably for those who can't buy blue subscription in their countries.

Obsidian.md, you need to import some community plugins to make it better (e.g. Advanced Tables, Multi Column, etc). But it's quite fast and powerful, it doesn't look as pretty as, say Notion, though. I love using it, you can search on youtube for some samples / tutorials, it's quite easy to use though.

I've been playing retro games for the past years, and here's some that might fit the criteria of forgotten cult classics:

• ScummVM:
  • The Bizarre Adventures of Woodruff and the Schnibble of Azimuth: It's a funny and interesting point and click game, use a guide though, there are some obtuse puzzle and pixel hunting
• TurboGrafx CD:
  • J. B. Harold Murder Club: a straightforward but interesting crime mystery game
• SNES:
  • Ihatovo Monogatari: an interesting no combat top down adventure game
• Sega CD:
  • Snatcher
• Sega Saturn:
  • Policenauts: I like Policenauts more than Snatcher, but both are interesting sci-fi visual novel like by Kojima
• Playstation:
  • Mega Man Legends
  • Mega Man Legends 2: both MM Legends have heartwarming light hearted stories and okay gameplay
  • Tail Concerto: similar to MM Legends, but gameplay is bit more basic. Features tons of cute anthropomorphized cats and dogs. Very lighthearted
• Playstation Portable:
  • Remember11: The last game in Infinity series, co created by Kotaro Uchikoshi who went on and created Zero Escape trilogy. Out of the Infinity series, this is probably the best one, it is more sci-fi than romance/dating visual novel, there's no longwinded slice of life section.

All of those games are either in English or have been fan-translated

There are several that I've been using / trying out:

• Notion
  • used to be good, but it's becoming more and more bloated, and nowadays those AI command options seem to be cluttering the quick commands.
  • It is freemium, and syncs with their servers.
  • It has a really good table creation system, and the keyboard navigation flows really well.
  • I stopped using it since it's becoming slower and bloated, and migrated my language notes to Obsidian.
• Obsidian
  • is very capable (except that it doesn't a good WYSIWYG table creation / adjustment system),
  • it has tons of community plugins, very fast, lightweight, and customizable.
  • Completely free, but it does take some tinkering, and some parts do look kinda awful.
  • If you've been taking long notes with markdown, then Obsidian will probably suit you.
  • I have all my language notes written in Obsidian and synced to Github with a plugin.
• Anytype
  • is the latest one I'm trying out. Still in alpha, version 0.32
  • It is clunky at times, because the keyboard navigation is not well implemented, you still need to rely on mouse to select some sections.
  • But it has a really interesting type / relation definition system, where you define an object type, e.g. Movie, and you can define templates, relation to other objects (e.g. relation to Directors, etc).
  • I'm currently using it to plan my games / streaming backlog, it has a good table and data view system.

I believe all 3 of them have android apps.

But Mastodon is built on a technology stack almost as old as Twitter’s, and has largely failed to achieve widespread adoption despite several mass-exoduses from Twitter. BlueSky is more promising, using a brand new protocol called AT which promises to let users not only create their own instances of the service, but filter their feeds with custom algorithms, instead of settling for one centrally-controlled “master algorithm” that prioritizes engagement above all else.

• A new protocol that's not a standard being adopted elsewhere, is not promising, it's just another protocol. AT protocol is MIT license, but it's not a standard, ActivityPub is W3C standard.
• Also isn't creating own instances, something that's common in fediverse, while, is there any other AT protocol instances that's not owned by Bluesky?
• And isn't Bluesky a spinoff from original Twitter? What does she mean by old technology stack? LAMP? Mastodon is built on React, Redux, Ruby on Rails, NodeJS, and Postgres. I can't find any info about BlueSky's server stack, but it seems like their frontend is using React, and maybe Go.

Am I fucking crazy, or do people just pluck information out of thin air, without any fact checking and call themselves senior journalists? Does she hold any investment in Bluesky?

Zero Escape series: I love them, even ZTD. Some hated that ending, while I don't think it's that bad.

Infinity series:

• Never7 is very slow, and romance heavy with bit sci-fi. I don't like this game
• Ever17 starts getting better, leaning more towards sci-fi, but can still be quite slow
• Remember11 is the best among the infinity series, it's sci-fi horror mystery. Some say the ending is kinda incomplete due to budget issue, I'd say that the ending is bit of cliffhanger, but the main story is more or less complete

Raging Loop: a really good supernatural horror mystery. Maybe even better than Zero Escape series. I highly recommend this.

Paranormasight: a solid horror mystery VN released this year, there's some smart puzzle and writing, but the ending is kinda unfulfilling.

Meitantei Conan & Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbou: it's fan translated DS game. I am a Kindaichi fan, and the Kindaichi section is good mystery. The Conan part is ... well, I'm not into Case Closed, their mystery always feel bit geared towards kids.

Danganronpa series: There are parts of the games that I like, but somehow I couldn't stand the annoying character tropes prevalent in the series, and also those fan-service-y part. Some people dislike the final ending, I'm ok with it.

Root Letter & Root Film: Root Letter starts out good, but somehow one of the endings ruined the whole game. Root Film starts off promising, but the deduction part is kinda stupid and boring. Also the ending is not good.

Policenauts & Snatcher: They are quite interesting. I enjoyed Policenauts quite a bit. Snatcher is good too.

Silver Case: couldn't stand the banter and writing. Everything feels so slow, and very Suda51.

13 Sentinels Aegis Rim: quite a solid sci-fi kitchen sink visual novel. It does feel like they are biting more than they could chew though.

AI the Somnium File: okay sci-fi mystery VN, I don't think it hits the high of Zero Escape.

Fatamorgana: I thought it was a murder mystery VN, didn't realize it's more romance, couldn't get into it.

Steins; Gate: I tried to like this game so many times. Okabe the main character is very grating.

I've probably missed some, I recently bought Root Double, which is from the co-writer of the Infinity series, heard that it's really good.