ghosts and ghosts and ghosts

[epicsause-official]

i think we are long overdue for a game that does the reverse of 90s first person shooters and actively makes fun of the player for picking the hard difficulty

[epicsause-official]

heres kinda what i mean

[astraltrickster]

[depsidase]

[theaceofwords]

It's called the Global Justice Report, it is here. This is an actionable plan which can be sent to legislators and demanded of political parties. We could save the world within our lifetimes.

It has always been possible. It is still possible.

[probablyasocialecologist]

Study finds nearly every pre-2010 video game is unavailable

Games from older consoles are being made less and less available to the point so much of the industry's history could easily vanish without

[gay-jesus-probably]

Vimm's Lair: Preserving the Classics

Preserving classic videogames from consoles past.

I'm just gonna slide this on in here for anyone that is interested in preserving old games. They take it very seriously too, they want an archive of every single game. Like, they have lists of every game ever released for a system, and once that system gets old enough, they add it to their archive and start collecting. Their latest addition was the Xbox 360, they opened that vault up in September 2022, and proudly announced they'd finished their collection of games for it back in April.

Also, while their game archives are almost entirely complete, they've got another project of archiving the manuals that came with those games, and that is... considerably less well filled out. Their collection of Xbox 360 manuals is especially rough, they've only gotten manuals for three games. So if you've got some Xbox 360 games kicking around, and the manual's still with them, please consider scanning them and submitting them to the site!

Game preservation is important, but people rarely consider preserving the manuals as well; I really respect Vimm's Lair for being so thorough in their archival work.

[anachronic-cobra]

I've been using Vimm's Lair for years, I have yet to see a single bad link or virus on the entire site. It's arguably the safest and most comprehensive archive of video games in existence. Preserved history

[skopostheorie]

[xtec]

This is what the average YouTube thumbnail looks like now

[adventuremo0n]

When ur pony gf smokes weed without you

[riben-deactivated20230922]

Saw this fanart of arcade gannon and was immediately blasted back to when I was thirteen and saved every image of michael fassbender I could to my iPod touch and I found the exact reference picture they used to trace him in under a minute. Needless to say my brain damage knows no bounds

[riben-deactivated20230922]

Every person id ever interacted with until that moment had taught me the necessary skills

[hornpoint]

truly life is one great beautiful tapestry

[riben-deactivated20230922]

LMFAOOOOOOOOOO

[hydrattan]

[ziijsh1]

"Why do you talk so much about being intersex?"

Over 90% of parents of visibly intersex children opt for cosmetic surgery on their infants.

The ones that don't experience medical violence then, likely experience it as a teenager.

I didn't.

I am very rare in that I did not experience medical violence.

Why? Because I learned what intersexuality was as a young age, and I actively fought against what doctors wanted to do to me. All the way down to legal research on what medical care minors can be forced into. I remember walking into that doctor's appointment with the state law written down that proved that if I did not consent they could not do surgery.

That is why intersex activism is important. It saved me and it will save more.

[cipheramnesia]

My writing advice is to be so, so fucking annoying with it.

[cipheramnesia]

That one post about the art teacher who hated this glittery glam lisa frank style a student was cultivating but was like, "stop holding back, make me loathe your work," same thing.

[cipheramnesia]

I give terrible advice when cannot sleep.

[cipheramnesia]

Never let people tell you what stupid things to write about, only let people tell you if the stupid things you're writing about are comprehensible.

[cipheramnesia]

Let me explain hold on.

[cipheramnesia]

Okay this is how the first thing I got published reads:

Unwillin’ly selectin’ this place o’my cotton platen ill suits t’pursuit o’debts old ’n’ futures bold. Better lives’n mine sick’n’ past t’way o’ reckless radburns ’n’ here me wi’out a scrap o’ modesty ’gainst ’em. Contrawise, t’painen my bones is sharp ’n’ bright ‘swell as t’rads. E’en closed I spy t’yoovee rads through m’lids.

[kilikesmilktea]

I remember being in the car with my papa and I heard an ad on the radio that was like:

“Martha’s job is to watch a bunch of immature children constantly screaming at each other.

“So when she comes home, she likes to relax by turning on the tv and watch a bunch of immature adult women constantly screaming at each other.

“The difference is that the adults are not Martha’s problem.”

Which is actually a pretty accurate example of why it’s normal and ok to enjoy something in fiction that may be problematic or unrealistic irl.

[kyraneko]

People like skydiving, roller coasters, and waterslides.

Which are basically "what if falling to your death wasn't actually a problem" and therefore fun.

Fictionalizing (and therefore, deprobleming) problems is quite common across a lot of activities.

[redsixwing]

When I'm done with my monkeys, I enjoy going to the circus.

[puddox]

saw someone including "Mandate of Heaven" as one of those christian terms tumblr likes to use to sound profound. which i get where you're coming from but t☝️hat one is chinese

[yuriinullification]

holdon

what the fuck is going on in this site's backend

[mrsandman42069]

[were--ralph]

Customer: do you have any in the back?

Me: sure let me check

Me in the back:

[mtfoss]

Sure everything is twice as expensive as 3 years ago but at least we also didn't beat covid

[brightwingedbat]

help

[slipping-into-madness]

[beaft]

common advice for social anxiety is to tell yourself "people aren't going to think less of you just because you said something a bit daft" but the thing is. sometimes they will. and you just have to learn to be cool with that and to treat it as a dnd random encounter rather than letting it ruin your whole day

[beaft]

recent example. lady at my careers appointment had a post-it with her name on it stuck to the monitor, so i introduced myself by saying "hello, i'm eliot! you must be [name], it's nice to meet you!" and she stared at me as if i was the stupidest person alive and said icily, "yeah, i'm [name]. congratulations, you can read."

in bygone times this would have reduced me to a sort of quivering blancmange. thankfully i am now in a place where i was able to pull back, calmly evaluate this interaction, and say to myself "this woman should probably not be working in a customer-facing job"

[beaft]

important additions!!!!