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2025/10/10: OLD WINDOWS MENU

I'm writing about this dream sometime later and it's hard to remember some of the details. I seemed to have been inside the setting of South Park for this dream. There weren't any specific characters there I was interacting with, but somehow it was clear that this was the background of where I was. Not sure how that got into my brain in the first place as I haven't watched South Park in ages. Though I did watch quite a bit when I was a younger teen. I was staying at someone's house and working on an animation in Flash. I stood up and went into the next room. I was in some bar. It was night. There was snow on the ground. I looked out over the field and some smoke came out of my mouth. I enjoyed the cold. When I went back into the room with the Flash animation, a few guys who were next to me had been messing with my computer.

At first I was really upset and ready to freak out, because I thought they had deleted everything. But that was not the case. I took a moment to look around and found that just about everything was still in place. But the system had an "aesthetic" makeover. It looked realy weird and had been totally "riced." Mostly, it looked like Windows XP again. It had the windows and menu bar of Windows XP, but instead of the iconic blue it was replaced with a kind of gray, more in the vein of Windows 98. They had installed some programs that now had icons on the desktop which were used to "rice" things in a simple, push-of-a-button way. I opened one up and started unchecking the things they had checked. But I decided to leave the menus alone, because I actually liked the look of them.

Upon waking up, I actually am thinking about looking into ways to "rice" the old style of menu back into my desktop's Windows 10 IoT partition now. Because, like all things about Windows, it was never "good" but is only getting shittier and shittier. Suddenly the window managers for 98 and XP look nicer and nicer. But since Microsoft treats any attempt to control software that you buy as tantamount to a war crime, it's definitely not going to be anything as simple as downloading a program and clicking a few buttons... probably. I might look into it in either case. This dream also inspired me to go back to Flash animation. I've let a project sit idle for a while but really, the best times of "teh internetz" that I remember were when Flash was king and I think that this art is one I have to continue to contribute towards.

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