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lakemojave

They. They forgor

lakemojave

hotsoupeymiku

grimmtidings

They were opened in AUGUST 2001. Oh my god. That's both hilarious and tragic.

predstrogen

this is a fucking futurama bit

motyanich

Spamton's angels are so funny and cute, Tenna would love them. Well, or drove them away like mosquitoes

inimoose

Do you have any skeletons in your closet?

crowsontheloose

Gamers is it hot to be curious about your partner's culture?

zhezhy

BIG [HUG]

robdogdraws

Maractus gijinka by @piroeoe 🌵

noroithecurse2005-deactivated20

no cropped boomer meme will ever make me laugh harder than he just sold rice

noroithecurse2005-deactivated20

He just sold rice

daily-specilfeacher

Day 90: height difference

awkward-bob-reynolds

kererek

☀️

anarchistmemedistro

Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.

megaceros

love that energy

jame7t

it’s fun to stay at the Y

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yahenni

M

*smacks the side of my boom box to get the cd to stop skipping*

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YOUNG MAN

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THERES NO

It’s fun to stayy at the Y

transfeminine-anarcho-post-egg

UONG MAN

lordhavemercyyyyy-deactivated20

MOTHMAN

STEAL A MAN OFF THE GROUND I SAID MOTHMAN

theautumnaldemon

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.