Put on the clown shoes or else

|| Alex || 27 || they/them || I'm just trying to post some hearty memes in these trying times.

[ambergrief]

i just rlly like the way hes holdinh aponhwbob in this picture holding him ever so gently with an extended finger like a perch for a small bird

[ambergrief]

supporting his lower back and neck so he can sit up like a newborn baby

[captain-price-returns]

[teaspoon-of-stars]

Theres the lil thang

[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

[pumpkinspicebluntwrap]

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[holy-leapin-splits-batman]

[slygirlboy]

[koth-harvest-final]

grab somebody normal tell em hi

[phantomrose96]

job interviewer: would you be willing to destroy and betray yourself for nothing?

[phantomrose96]

job interviewer: (reading the room) would you be willing to destroy and betray yourself for a pizza party?

[harrystyles420]

the first smut i ever read was about a girl listening to these people having sex in a bathroom stall and when they were done she snuck in and it was like “she saw semen all over the floor and bent over to pick one up”

she picked up a sperm

just one

[homeboygirl]

okay

[fandom-man]

[allexlacazette]

Meet the Braider Behind Cabo Verde’s Intricate 2026 FIFA World Cup Hairstyles

Lorreta Rocha answered the call when her team needed a braider. Her geometric braids and perfectly parted flat twists have since gone viral.

Lorreta, you're a legendddd✨🇨🇻🦈

[ethernalium]

Resident Evil 4 (2023)

[hagiomoto]

Is there anything he haven't wear yet

[balaclava-trismegistus]

a condom

[clumsypuppy]

what rhe fuck

[clumsypuppy]

oh my bad. continue

[falsedetective]

cake is such an underappreciated band. i can’t believe we brought back low rise flare jeans before we brought back cake in the top 40

[falsedetective]

i’m just saying cake’s music would be widely regarded as so sexy if it wasn’t for all the mariachi horns and vibraslap and the vocalist didn’t always sound like he was explaining his suicide plans to a gun store clerk in sacramento. the world wasn’t ready for them

[digital-morganism-deactivated20]

The fact that it sounds like a dispassionate reading of a terrorist manifesto is a feature

[innerchildabortionclinic]

interesting kink assortment on the dash