So, how much did the PS2 sold compared to it's contemporaries?



I have to admit that i have barely played any game from that generation, but i think it was a very exciting moment to experience regarding the evolution of videogame consoles. The leap in graphics was very large and the studios were keen to tell new stories.

I don't want to sound like an old coot with this, but honestly i think the golden age of gaming is way way a thing of the past. It's one of the reasons i'm a declared "retro gamer", barely interested in new releases.

Anyways, don't think that the posts are gonna be this serious every time. The themes and tones will vary and i will try to post several times a day just to keep things fresh.

Just to extend a bit more on the topic of personal webpages, there's another reason why I decided to revive this personal blog.

I don’t usually like talking about politics, and I’m not going to do it today either, but yesterday, the general internet community was buzzing about some drama involving the Brazilian government and Twitter/X. Without diving too deep into the details, the Brazilian government decided to block access to Twitter/X across the entire country. Naturally, this decision left many people, both Brazilians and others, absolutely flabbergasted.

As I mentioned, I’m not going to debate who’s at fault here, or whether the decision was politically motivated (though personally, I think it was, but that’s beside the point). The real issue is that it’s NOT a great idea to have our channels of communication and discussion monopolized by just two or three big sites. These things can —and WILL— happen, especially as the situation deteriorates further.

As political entities become more interested in tightly controlling online conversations, and as various fringe groups push to have "unfit" opinions removed from public view, it’s crucial for people to realize that having so few platforms controlling the discourse is far from ideal. The larger these platforms grow, the more susceptible they become to manipulation, whether by political forces or other interests.

I understand that this is challenging because most people aren’t interested or technically savvy enough in setting up their own shit, especially if it means reducing their probable audiecne and reac. However, I believe it’s VERY IMPORTANT not to keep all our eggs in one basket.

So, my invitation to everyone is this: explore ways to host your content on alternate or multiple channels simultaneously. The internet is vast, and it’s ridiculous to let communication mediums be monopolized by big platforms that are more interested in driving revenue through ads and suppressing dissenting or “wrong” opinions to avoid political and legal conflicts.

By the way, I’m planning to add an RSS feed in the next few days so that anyone using RSS can follow the site if they wish. If you’re not familiar with RSS and RSS readers, I encourage you to look into them.

So what is "A Ton of Cows"?

First of all i want to thank The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine for still having an archived copy of this page. The design and colors are not exactly the same but i had created this layout years ago and didn't wanted to create a new one!

"A Ton of Cows" is actually a personal project that stems WAY BACK to 2016, but it was tied to another fediverse project and it actually didn't lasted too much.

BASICALLY is an attempt to fuse the concept of the old blogs, and the concept of the modern microblog a-la Twitter. So, the idea is an space to make posts with more substance than a tweet, but in a faster than it would be with a normal blog (with not too much info).

>Why don't you just use twitter/X?
The idea, like i said, is to make posts that could be longer and with more substance than a common tweet would allow because of the character limit.

>Why don't you then use Facebook?
I HATE Facebook and what it represents, i closed my Facebook acount more than ten years ago in fact.

>Why don't you then use...
Alright STOP, i get what you mean, i could use several options that exist on social media sites and get more exposure. The issues that i have with modern social media is that no place ends up "feeling like home". No place is customizable to my liking, all the places have tight and ridiculous moderation that barely let you talk about anything without casting you into oblivion or making you feel like you are treading on eggshells.

On here, i feel like have more freedom, first to personalize it to my liking, to make it MINE, and to talk longer about topics that maybe i don't talk on other places due to any kind of constraints.

>Probably noone is gonna end up reading this.
Probably not, i'm okay with that and actually it's better to not have too much of an audience to prevent having to cater to them, but that depends.

>Can i reply to a post?
Right now there isn't a established system to send replies, but if you write an email to hiroyuki @ cock.li specifying what post are you replying to i will include it as reply.

The whole page is gonna be worked more on the following days so keep an eye if you want.

>What are the themes of the page?
Just about ANYTHING, my interests orbit around the themes of technology in general, linux, coding, anime and gaming too, but i will try to keep the themes diverse enough to not be encased in a single corner, always from a personal perspective.

>But why "A Ton of Cows"?
A ton of cows is equal to 1.5 cows.