I mean, that’s supposed to be the job of the police. (They won’t do it, but it’s supposed to be.)
It’s supposed to be the job of the platform moderators. (They won’t do it, but it’s supposed to be.)
A good mass block helps stop it building attention, momentum or popularity, however.
Correct. 💜
Fortunately, we have nuclear block here, and any attempt at that is gonna find itself on a blocklist.
You’re finally buying Doom?
I shouldn’t ever have needed to do it; but I did, for a time, because the available healthcare wasn’t fit for purpose.
And it saved my life.
And knowing that I can gives me security, knowing that I am not just at the mercy of medics whose support and competency I know I can’t always rely on.
I did the music and the title screen background art. Fun little project!
(The soundtrack is also out now on all major platforms, including Bandcamp.)
Go for it! (Also pls go vote)
Yes.
I could probably do it in 18 *weeks* and still have time to pet Larry, but they’ve been too busy being Red Tories: digital ID cards, puberty blocker bans, proscribing pensioners as terrorists, starving kids, freezing pensioners; sometimes U-turning when their own backbenchers say “too evil”.
A forum! How adorable. Are there any invites going free?
Two instances of “Isn’t X, it’s Y”. I smell ChatGPT.
We’re all too afraid to ask.
There’s always time to repent. And read.
It gets worse over time: I completed Tempest 2000 in Beastly Mode (proof: six cups of tea) and let me tell you the controller HURT at the end of that.
That does mean putting up with the controller, however, and I’m not sure my index fingers would allow me to.
Age verification?
My first computer loaded from cassette tape.
Sometimes. When it worked. Usually didn’t first time. You might have to get out a little screwdriver, adjust the head, or move the volume 0.1mm.
I still have it. Trying to load a game the old way is a great rose-tinted nostalgia cure.
Of course we’re here.
Sometimes the inspiration hits you and things fall into place; so hot on the heels of releasing an album, here’s a calm piano piece I composed on stream the other week.
It’s mostly in the keys of F, A and D, so I called it Unshadowed. Out now on platforms.
alyssarowan.bandcamp.com/track/unshad...
Okay; can’t argue with a castoff! There’s a whole bunch of good games, it’s *peak* 8-bit. Though an emulator can never quite match the glorious crunchiness of the glitchy warm digi/analogue synth SID soundchip, from the guy who went on to do Ensoniq.
Ooh: Head over Heels is a bit of a hidden gem.
If you’re worried about accuracy, latency, audio glitches, or you wanna run demoscene stuff, try a Commodore C64 Ultimate instead, an FPGA thing from, yes, Commodore; enthusiasts bought the rights to everything including the name. (💜)
Never owned one myself but my uncle had a very tricked out one.
Wizball. Lords of Chaos. Turrican 1 & 2. IK+. Last Ninja 1 & 2. Bubble Bobble. Sid Meyer’s Pirates. Exile. Great Giana Sisters. Boulder Dash. The C64 port of Elite I heard is good. There’s an Eye of the Beholder port which is mad.
The demoscene is amazing but your unit runs VICE, not real hardware.
@i-ehrc.bsky.social exists, or is beginning to
No it’s okay, go ahead; the people who call others posers? Everyone hates them. Most of the metal and goth crowd are lovely, and everything you need to be part of their culture is what you just described.
Yes, it could… and just the same, a lot of us like creating positive things.
I want to be remembered for who I am, what I have created, who I loved — not what people I’ve never met or spoken to and don’t think I should exist say about me or want to do to me.
I plan to tell history myself — after.
I see why; content like that, though important, is probably as horrible, unpleasant and exhausting to create as it is to live through, and not exactly conducive to happiness or mental health to create or for us to doomscroll too much of, so who’s the audience? And it’ll be suppressed by platforms.
They can’t recover *and* save face: they must apologise for the great harms they’ve caused, continued, perpetuated and enabled, and the apology needs to hurt them so much they could never do it again.
I just don’t see a way out of the weeds for them now.
I mean that’s more surface level. It gets *weird* when he started talking about us. He _*was*_ weird talking about us.
I mean, it’s not long ago it came out, there’s so much of it, and it’s also all so very deeply weird; in a ‘wait that was actually true? Who IS this season’s writer and can I have a word with them?’ kind of way.
Collectively the excuse from the powerful and heard for control has long been something along the lines of “protect the children from the paedophiles, criminals and terrorists”. It’s a successful line because people are poorly informed and reflexively of course want to protect children.
Class 8 hyperdrive sounds right to me. One of those had a mass that didn’t make sense but it has been a LONG while since I was digging around in the structs{} in my memory monitor, modding the thing. (Yes, I did.)
The Anaconda is also famous for having an interior that probably doesn’t make sense for its actual tonnage, but *waves hands* Thargoid space magic probably.
The Panther mk.I would NOT have fitted through the modern mail slot, but landing on atmospheric planets was a thing then.
