Last week I created a Tinder account, and woke up the next day to 15ish likes give or take a few bots. Not bad a for an old guy I would reckon, so I started judiciously swiping until I matched with a few that I thought were 1. real, and 2. pretty cute. Tried to send a message and got rebuked by Tinder for bot like behavior? And I have to send a selfie to verify my identity? Like a fool I complied, since my face is already all over my profile that shouldn't matter much. No, not good enough, I need a picture of my ID. To this I said "fuck off" and deleted my account.

A few days later I bought Doom Eternal on Steam. When I try to open up the game, the main menu is locked by a Bethesda.net modal compelling me to link my account with seemingly no way to close it that I could easily see, hitting Escape just closed the game. I said "fine" and tried to link my Bethesda account I created for my old Steam Account many years ago that I dumped in a fit of minimization and got rebuked because "this account is already linked". Why it wouldn't just relink automatically is a mystery to me, but figured I could just unlink it on Bethesda's website. No dog, that is not possible to do. A support ticket needs to be submitted to get that done. I immediately said "fuck it" and asked for a refund, and thankfully Steam said "sure".

I tried subscribing to a software developer digest letter recently since that is my vocation and I'm notoriously obstinate about 'furthering my education' and EVERY FUCKING LINK was about AI, with a few of them about how to fucking vibe code.

I don't recall software being this shit as a function of existing...ever, really. But my exploratory phase of games and apps sorta fizzled out after the Doom fuck-up since two was enough for me to retreat back to my low-tech partition of life. But for sure all modern tech can't be like this now, right? I just need to hunt for tech that isn't vibe coded jeetware, right? I'm trying to do my part to not jeetcode my small thimble of the digital ocean but there's strange resistance to that from the upper managers of my company too. Surely an alternative culture has sprung up that isn't shrouded with Discord mod tranny pus, but I suppose one of those needs a secret handshake of which I am not aware.