M68040 [they/them]

I actually still mess with diskettes on a fairly frequent basis, but it’s more of a hobby thing than a serious use thing

Rocky Linux 2

Assigned System/370 Operator At Birth

I’m curious as to how people toughed it out despite most christian religious institutions being so uniformly corrupt and plain irritating. Shit, the crowd FSTDT dunks on, american politicians, and internet theology were all it took for me to get so deeply disillusioned I wanted to just cut strike everything from my mind, regardless of who’s right or wrong. Merely not having other options to a point where leaving is unthinkable? Fear of reprisal from legal and cultural consequences?

Then again, I suppose at that point they would’ve just shifted to a different, less institution-focused denomination instead of just saying “fuck the whole thing” like I did. It wasn’t a matter of the facts, it was a matter of me being fucking sick of them.

On that note, what’s up with the obligate coprophagy of the koala? And their famously smooth brains? I’d make the koala, were it I in the high seat, but a kind and caring creator wouldn’t.

Fartifuckballsland

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)

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 .

Re: Moreno, it’s weird to me how these guys just suddenly get to pivot. Cruz kind of did the same thing.

I’m gonna personally beat everyone’s ass if we’re just caving to the right on this shit. I am not handing it to Bush Jr., Bush Jr. voters, or any of the other fuckers who’ve come since

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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.

FORTRANposting

The whole “Constitutional republic” thing is a old John Bircher talking point from what I can tell.

I am not interested at having to let guys like this shove me around at literally any point in time for literally any reason, god or no

I’ve never had one, but I wish I would. Whole lot of dead relatives I want to hear from again, and yet…

R-Gray 1, RayStorm (1997) - Mostly laser by weight.

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

Because internet explorer 6 sucked and it has the best ad blocker selection

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