2026-04-01 23:19:00
I love the Bear Blog discover page! But if you don't visit it every day you can miss things. And if you visit it too much you can lose track of what you've read.
So I built Bear Roll, a daily chronological view of the top posts from Bear Blog's discover feed.
With permission from Herman it regularly runs a script that grabs the first 5 pages of discover (100 posts). This means it doesn't contain all posts, just the ones that reach the first 5 pages of discover. The source code, data, and deployments are on GitHub if you're curious.
If you have any questions or requests, please email me at [email protected]
2026-04-01 21:26:00
It's been a fun ride, but every good thing must come to an end. I've decided to step away from blogging to focus on something more important, myself.
I've had fun interacting with you all, rhetorically T-bagging rightoids with their inflated sense of importance, and writing articles that mean nothing in the grand scheme of things.
I can hear the haters cheering, let them have their fun. They don't get to experience joy very often.
I will also be deleting any and all traces of this blog. Nothing is permanent, and neither is this. So, if you wanna save my posts for some reason, you have 24 hours.
You may have also heard that I'm stepping away from the Gazette too. I know you're all crushed hearing this despite that I hadn't written an article for it in months.
I wish it didn't have to be this way, but with work, school, my marriage crumbling, and my child leaving for milk and cigarettes, it's time to just focus on myself for a while.
So, this is goodbye. Thnks fr th Mmrs.
In case you haven't figured it out by now... check the upload date.
That's right, bitch...
Previous |
Reply via email: [email protected]
2026-04-01 16:02:08
Something kinda funny happened yesterday.
While I was browsing the Discover tab on Bear Blog (one of my favourite activities as of late), I randomly found the blog of an old friend. I haven’t talked to this person in a long time, and I’d thought the relationship had kind of sagged for some reasons I should not get into. So I spent some time reading all of their blog entries and felt a strange sensation, like… satisfaction?
This person isn’t a part of my life anymore, but they were at a very important time. Reading their entries and knowing that they’re okay, that they’re doing their best in life and always striving to be a better person, well, it made me feel good, and it made me miss them too. I thought about our shared past and reckoned that maybe, just maybe, the reasons why we stopped talking were petty (on my part) and reasonable (on theirs). But this acknowledgment isn’t enough to build a relationship back up from the rubble, and though I miss the person, surely I miss the version of them I met back in the day (more than 15 years ago!). It wouldn’t be fair to pop back up in their life and somehow ask them to be that person I once knew. They’ve changed so much, and so have I.
I don’t know. I think I’ll just cherish what we had when we were friends, and maybe one day I’ll reach out if I ever feel ready for it. Even if we’re not on talking terms, finding their blog made me feel grateful for what we shared.
2026-04-01 14:00:00
Dear readers!
Today, April 1st, marks an important day for the Grizzly Gazette, and an important step in our journey as a publication.
As editor-in-chief for the Gazette, I am excited to announce that we have been aqcuired by Valnet, and will thus be switching our focus from Bear Blog over to gaming content. Specifically, Genshin Impact. Due to this change, we will also be rebranding to the "Guoba Gazette," effective immediately.
Sadly, due to this sudden shift in direction, we have had to let go of all of our writers. While I am saddened by this, the money I got from Valnet more than makes up for it.
Seeing Winther, Absurd Pirate, Ava and that frog leave the Gazette may seem like a huge loss, but I can assure you, as the editor-in-chief, that this is only the beginning of a new, transformative era for our publication.
Thanks to this exciting new change to our former authors‘ Gazette participation, and Valnets soul crushing work schedule innovative content output expectations we have had to think of ways to fill in the gaps.
And, dare I say, we have managed to do so quite effectively.
Thanks to the wonders of AI-assisted content generation, we will be able to successfully push the boundaries of journalistic integrity beyond what was previously thought of as reasonably acceptable.
Thanks to this innovation, you can expect hourly articles from the Gazette, starting today.
Some of you might be inclined to say that this conflicts with my previous stated views on AI. I view this only as a shift in perspective. As we all know, the progress of technology, and especially generative AI, is inevitable and must be included in every facet of our lives.
Thus, the Gazette, too, must completely alienate our readership for the sake of sweet cash money, or be left behind. You may be saddened by this news, but I can assure you that I'm making a fuck ton of money from this deal, so I do not care. You can rest easy knowing that, unlike some bloggers, I'm not making Bear Blog worse without accepting financial compensation for it.
I hope you are all looking forward to this innovative, groundbreaking new era of the Guoba Gazette.
If you have any issues with our new direction, or wish to otherwise give us feedback, please send your emails to [email protected].
Editor-In-Chief of the Guoba Gazette
Kami
2026-04-01 13:30:00
Looksmaxxing is all the rage nowadays, but what about your blog?
Look no further! I am easily one of the bloggers ever, and I have compiled everything I have learned in the years on this platform. And you guys get it first, for 50% off!
✍️ For only 67.67 Euro, you'll get course material covering
✨ For a steal of 69.99 Euro, you unlock access to everything about
🚀 The final lessons are yours for 42.00 Euro:
Your blog deserves more than mediocrity. It deserves at least 50 upvotes.
With this, you’ll unlock the secret 3-step system top bloggers use to dominate the Trending page while looking effortlessly perfect.
⏳ WARNING: Only 17 spots left for VIP access, and only available until 01.04.2026 23:59:59 CET!
Reply via email
Published
2026-04-01 08:01:00
>> Some smooth brains
Nintendo struck gold with the original Switch, and instead of leaning on their “what-if-we” philosophy that has guided their console creation in the past, they decided to play it safe with the Switch 2.
While it’s hard to blame them for this approach, I’ve gotta say, I’m so tired of all the best technology in the world becoming so mundane and boring.
Phones, smartwatches, game consoles, and especially the games themselves have all become formulaic copy/paste crap year after year.
The product pump is the death of creativity.
The Great Smoothening or just “smoothening”, is the process where raw, weird, human passion is sanded down by a thousand data points until it’s smooth, safe, and utterly devoid of any personality. “Boring” for short.
We’ve gotten so efficient at finding the common denominator that we’ve optimized the "soul" right out of our products.
While the indie scene is stronger than ever, I miss the time when creatives were the heads of the large companies. Now, all of the large companies are guided by numbers and charts instead of passion and taking chances.
Why have we gotten here? My guess, Analytics.
Never in any other time in history have we had the ability to test a product’s performance like we do now. Not only that, we can test how users use the product—why, when, and how long.
That's not all, companies have been finding new ways to exploit us to gather even more points for their crusade of smoothening.
Now, they are at the point where the average analytics track how many times a day you interact with a product, what times of day, and the locations you normally interact with it. There is even software that records your real-time mouse movements and touch points to show how you interact with a company’s software.
In the more egregious cases, companies can now also see your predicted mood based on what you share online, or products and locations you usually visit when you post sad or happy things on social media. Meta has been accused of doing this very thing to young girls.
THIS TRAIN IS OUT OF CONTROL.
In a world where "Number Go Up" is the only metric of success, risk is treated like a disease.
If we ignore all of the egregious privacy infractions, this still leads us to stale, bland products.
When you don’t have creative visionaries and risk takers at the helm of a company, you get stuck with smooth brain losers who optimize for predictability over originality. Why risk innovating and hitting it big, when you can almost guarantee that you hit the forecasted numbers for the quarter.
Thus the smoothening of our humanity continues on…
It’s honestly such bullshit and I’m so sick and tired of everything boiling down to lines on a graph moving upward. Even on passion projects, it’s easy to get caught up in the rat-race.
I myself will look at my analytics and see how well it performed. And even though I lie to myself and say that it doesn’t influence how or what I write about, I know subconsciously it's impossible for me to not be affected.
The solution is to champion the weird! Love the people and products that go against the grain. Products and ideas that were made, because someone wanted to see it made, not solely as a vehicle to make money. We need to see more opinionated ideas for us to invest into.
There need to be more products that are NOT FOR YOU. Products that are not made for everyone.
An easy example that I just received was Panic’s Playdate console. It's a tiny gaming handheld with a crank, no backlight, and a one-bit screen. The graphics are really limited and you can only play in ideal light, but FUCK they decided to make it anyway.
>> playdate handheld console
God dammit, I love this thing. It says “FUCK YOU” to so many conveniences we are used to, but that middle finger has allowed a community of interesting and quirky people to make games for it.
The XTEINK is another example that barely has internet access, no online store, slow, tiny, and only has a file browser for a library, but so damn lovable!
>> XTEINK X4
Let's stop accepting the bare minimum for everything and start embracing the weird, the bizarre, the risk-takers, the highly opinionated ideas and products.
Products are just the symptom. When we train ourselves to only consume what the algorithm serves up, to only buy what tested well, to only make what the numbers approve--we start smoothening ourselves. Our taste, our weirdness, our gut feeling that something rules even though it can't be explained and backed by their charts.
STOP THE SMOOTHENING OF PEOPLE.
Please, for all of us—fight the smoothening and embrace the weird.
by untitled_operator
In the spirit of weird, check out my pika page if you want to see this site in it's original glory. It's definitely opinionated.