Most of what I know is informed by stereotypes from various facets of American pop culture and not reality so my opinion is not valuable
M68040 [they/them]
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Joined 1 years ago
Part of how I got here involves reading an assload of textfiles from the '90s and growing disillusioned with the fruits of that optimistic '90s techno-libertarianism
Shit, third spaces and public squares would also still be a lot more of a thing if anyone cared about the children. The situation with hostile architecture just makes things worse for everyone. People out there trying to invent ultrasonic devices meant to deter teenagers from hanging around and shit.
I ended up a terminally online washout in part because there was fuck all to do aside from sitting around the house and going to school when I was a kid. That was 20 years ago. I can't imagine the situation is much better these days.
Not really having the option to not cope. Or not knowing how to actively choose to not cope. One of the two. For what it's worth, Tolkein genuinely was on to something with this one.
This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it!
Sending this message was important to us. We considered (emphasis on 'considered') ourselves to be a powerful culture.
This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.
What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.
The danger is in a particular location... it increases towards a center... the center of danger is here... of a particular size and shape, and below us.
The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.
The danger is to the body, and it can kill.
The form of the danger is an species of great apes.
The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.
Am I gonna have to pay for a vpn that actually lets me fake being outside the ‘states? I usually self host on a VM host to avoid incurring expenses, but it seems like that’s not really an option here. Seems like I might have to go for a AWS instance running PiVPN or something.
We are DEVO
I'm not a chatbot, but I'm a postal employee so i'm technically a fed (albiet self-funded)
Pretty broadly speaking, it's a population center and they'll always have a problem with those. There's more to it than that, but fact of the matter is even if the shit they tend to latch on to wasn't a thing they'd just find something else.
Brought to you by the guys behind the recent remasters of Klonoa and Katamari Damacy
In a weird way, the development of advanced communications and coordination technology has only made it harder for anything to change in a significant way .
2024 year of the consumer PowerPC comeback
Because internet explorer 6 sucked and it has the best ad blocker selection
Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004)
Absolutely could be. I've thought about moving just to get away from the winter ice where I live; I'm a delivery driver so it becomes a major occupational hazard.
I can say for sure that the white straight cis men will be useless to serve our cause after we gain control, which is why i am working to invent a machine that releases an aerosolized compound into the atmosphere that turns them into soup through sophisticated gene targeting technology and nanobots
Oh hey, I had some good results with Krita when I was still making digital art way back when. It's been like a decade. I should get myself a new tablet.
R-Gray 1, RayStorm (1997) - Mostly laser by weight.
I've never had one, but I wish I would. Whole lot of dead relatives I want to hear from again, and yet...
Stop right there, Miner
Napster mindset
I like IRC and still use it daily to keep up with other hobbyists. Then again, vintage computers are my main hobby horse and of course those circles are gonna lean towards platforms that remain usable on a VIC-20.
I can operate manual gear shifters in other contexts (namely bikes), but I've never driven a car with one.
I miss Wesley Willis.
Been meaning to transition to a distro with a focus on being pretty low maintainance yet not too top heavy, leaving Windows to a VM on my Proxmox server. Haven't gotten around to it yet, since I'd need to get the server a dedicated graphics card.
Could just use WINE, I suppose, but I'm assuming it's still as rough as it was last time I messed with it twelve years ago.
Yeah, that's kind of what I was wondering. Turns out you can't really do much useful with a self-hosted local VPN, but I like having the option of using one be something my VM host server provides.
I wish I could just keep using a GSM/CDMA phone from 20 years ago indefinitely sometimes.
Scales well from "Quick, cheap and filling" to a high effort meal depending on how much effort you want to put in.
I've always kinda wondered what System76's stuff is like. Battery life'd be the main priority for my use case. (I really like my M2 Air for this)
Make it look like IRIX, cowards
The Simpsons: Hit and Run had a similar gag in one of the maps.
California gets namedropped the most, but I tend to hear a lot of talk about "liberal big cities" in general personally.
Arcade games 2: but now every game is Double Dragon III
Some of the philosophy has stuck with me and I take a keen interest in the social and anthropological aspects of religion, but I've had such a consistently bad experience with American Christianity (particularly online) that I just can't really trust anyone enough to even think about partaking in any of them anymore.
I'd rather just improvise anyhow.
Seibu Kaihatsu's Dynamite Duke (1989), a pretty novel hybrid Cabal-like/Beat-'em-up with a lot of love put into it. The arcade version's got a pretty slick art direction, the environmental destruction vfx rock, and the animation's pretty slick. The whole thing's got that passion project charm to it. Unfortunately, Cabal clones were only really in vogue in that late '80s/early '90s space, and the beat 'em up gameplay isn't fleshed out or consistently applied enough to be satisfying in a post-Final Fight, post-Streets of Rage world. I'd like to see something like it, but there's no way to bring Duke into the world of modern game design practices without drastic reformulation at a minimum.
Notably, Seibu had really high hopes for Duke, being a passion project and a intended magnum opus. Unfortunately, lukewarm reception brought in poor returns, the company slipped into dire straits, and they were forced to make something simpler and lower stakes as a hail mary. That title - a simple, Toaplan-esque shooter nobody had any real faith in - turned out to be Raiden, which would become a darling in arcades, pushing 17,000 units solds worldwide in the first year after release, and becoming the fifth highest grosser on the Japanese market in 1991. (Beating out some offerings from much bigger players like Konami)
Depends. Usually I avoid relying too hard on my handwriting since it sucks ass, but sometimes I need to annotate schematics for 30 year old computers
Yate Haugan
I tried to run TF2 on a A4-3400 without a dedicated graphics card under Mint with Wine once like twelve years ago. It was...uh, not playable
I hang around a bunch of artists who make money through NSFW art...or shit, they just draw it for fun. This isn't gonna be great for them. Why should me and my friends' thirty year old asses have to hold back so Little Timmy doesn't see a boob or something? Shouldn't their parents be the ones making sure that doesn’t happen?