sparkling garbage

welcome, friends and enemies.

[venerable-thief]

I am a huge fan of retiring to my quarters

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

In this economy you'll be lucky to retire to your nickels

[quinnception]

[bloodclotbitch]

[hairhattedhooligan]

hate to see lesbians bringing “dating a partner that looks like your dad” to lesbianism

[lady-halibuts-chambers]

[joshuaballsett]

[babbhad]

[cipheramnesia]

[marseny]

[joasakura]

[flagellant]

[flagellant]

[flagellant]

[telumendils]

[onlytiktoks]

[piedude]

[somewherefornow]

REMY LEBEAU/GAMBIT & ROGUE in EXCALIBUR (2019)

[lonelyroommp3]

and so javert you see it’s true this man bears no more guilt than you. who am i?

[beardedmrbean]

this sounds like a party to me

[grand-theft-carbohydrates]

[audioexorcisms]

Lets dissect uncle to find his wish gland

[designerpets]

this is why commas are so

important 🤓

[audioexorcisms]

Where do you think the comma goes

[batbetbitbotbut]

Yeah, yeah, all the textile and fibre arts lead to each other, we all became trapped here long ago.

The danger zone is when they lead out of textile and fibre arts, into agriculture and woodworking and smithing and beyond.

[batbetbitbotbut]

I've got it!

The danger zone is always one or two steps beyond wherever I am now.

[tiuhtaviuhta]

it's me, boy, the small allotment plot of flax, talking to you from inside your brain

[widogast-ta]

Veth calling Caleb the best dunamancer indicates to me 1) she is aware of this particular pedantry in the Widogast-Thelyss household and 2) she uses it to piss Essek off specifically. And I love that for her

[widogast-ta]

#projekt funball spoilers#beacon spoilers#cr spoilers#also laughing about the widogast-thelyss household#purely cuz it just made me think of how petty and pedantic the publication author order debate has to be over there#you just know this is a whole thing every time#and surely there are different standards in the empire vs the dynasty that they both think are better than the other @essektheylyss

#they are arguing over citation methods and author order and how to label a figure#it is horrible and there are no survivors#and Veth is out here suggesting Fantasy Chicago just to spice things up @artificialhaunting

[simplyghosting]

Me, pointing to the mirror: Do NOT become The Joker about this. This isn’t even a Condiment King situation.

[genderkoolaid]

its crazy that megan thee stallion is not considered a queer artist by some people. the woman is not shy about the fact that she finds women attractive and likes having sex with them. she references it pretty frequently in her music, she made a whole song about enjoying having threesomes with a woman and a man, she made a Jennifer's Body-themed music video, she had Victoria Monét full riding her thigh on stage at a coachella, and there's literally a video of a lesbian interviewing glorilla at a party & asking who she would date if she was queer and her immediate response is "megan. megan like girls!" and then megan turns around and immediately starts flirting with the interviewer. i don't know what more you want. that woman is Bi Sexual and we should all be thankful every day for that. bi women are still bi when they wanna fuck men too you know. the fucking of men is also done bisexually.

[jesamnelovelace]

Cannot stop thinking about one of my favorite comic lines ever. (Wonder Woman vol. 3 #37)

[keatxu]

abandonware should be public domain. force companies to actively support and provide products if they don't wanna lose the rights to them

[omikronsoul]

Game companies hate emulation, but none of them seem to understand that a lot of us would just buy ROMs from them directly if we could. I don't want a fifth remake of Final Fantasy IV, I want to pay five bucks for the 3MB file you already made bank with thirty years ago. Nobody who wants to play something for the purpose of retro gaming is going to consider a $40 remake as the alternative option, and we're certainly not going to let the original dissappear. They're crying about opportunity cost for a product they're not even selling.

[justletmeremember]

op i know you're probably talking about like, video games, etc, but this is also critical for research science - my lab has so much abandonware, either because the company's out of business, or the company decided to not maintain it, and it's a fucking nightmare. we have two windows 95 computers that are CRITICAL for performing experiments/data analysis because the software needed is abandonware. one of the main roles for a guy in my lab is to maintain these little dinosaurs because if they go out, we lose access to ~20 years of raw data for research. part of why is that these companies also make their own file types, and make it difficult-to-impossible to convert those file types without their specific software. by habit, i convert all research files to more generic versions (txt, pdf, tif, etc) so that i minimize risk of losing my shit, but some stuff can't be converted.

for example, we have a microscope that is perfectly functional, good microscope, but its software is abandonware because the company refused to maintain it. the company is still in business, still makes essentially the exact same software, but they made all of the old tech incompatible with new software to force people to buy the new microscope tech. it would cost a quarter million dollars to replace this microscope. this perfectly good microscope.

so like, i know a lot of people look at the original post here and go "well op just wants old video games to play" (which is valid! games companies should not be able to push shit to abandonware and then close it off) but also this is critical for like. biomedical research. if y'all had any idea how much basic infrastructure built on science relies on shit that is technically abandonware, you would probably be horrified.

[jollysunflora]

#there is so much abandonware just...out there being used and carefully maintained#because nothing quite replicates the functionality