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sailatina2-deactivated20251222

otdevil-posting

so cool.

thecollectibles

Art by Yuming Li

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

k3n999

It's time🪡

whywishesarehorses

happy birthday to all the tbs in the southern hemisphere!

randomencounters

Special Event: All Horses’ Birthday (Southern Hemisphere only)

anarcho-boykisserism-archived-d

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE HORSES

dahzmija-deactivated20260423

Sphère de chinchards, d'après un cliché du documentaire Océans.

ofruinsandmyth

In 3807 BC, the Neolithic Britons of the Brue Valley came together to construct an elevated, single-plank walkway over a reed swamp. Stretching nearly two kilometres, it would have provided a vital link for communities on the Somerset Levels, and is the second-oldest timber trackway discovered in the British Isles.

The track was a walkway consisting mainly of planks of oak laid end-to-end, supported by crossed pegs of ash, oak, and lime, driven into the underlying peat; the length, straightness, and lack of forks or branches in the pegs suggest that they were taken from coppiced woodland—one that they appear to have been managing for at least 120 years.

The total timber used in the track’s construction weighed approximately 200,000 kilograms, yet estimates suggest just ten men could have assembled it in just one day. The track was operational for only about ten years before rising water levels likely submerged and rendered it unusable.

mcgravin

This is some extremely cool ancient civil engineering! I did some research and found this article about the Sweet Track.

I'm putting this on a list with the crannogs of Scotland and Ireland, and the chinampas of Tenochtitlan and the Aztec civilization.

elodieunderglass

People do like a good walkway

15pion8

Happiness on the same earth

tentacleteapot

this could be the snart of something big

rhodabotics

this could be the snort of something pig

hell-garden

I made him into a pin

whiterabbitloveposting

For those wondering - Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 #338 (Hobgoblin sprays Spider-man with poison) and #339 (Doc Ock reveals the poison only becomes lethal when combined with cocaine).

oldgamemags

PSM #72, June 2003 - Preview of ‘Lord Of The Rings; Return of the King’ on the PlayStation 2.

kob131

"Oh, it's FINE to kill these people as slowly and painfully as possible! They killed the character's friends and family, their sadism is completely justifie-"

Fuck you.

I am sick and tired of people breaching this bullshit. No, you do NOT get to act like a fucking demon just because you were wronged. You do not get to play out your revenge fantasy just because someone wronged you.

"LOL, so you're saying the demons in Frieren just need hugs and kisses to-"

No, I'm saying if you're faced with something those demons or the bugs from Starship Troopers, you don't drag shit out. You treat it like an extermination: you kill the threat as quickly as possible to minimize death and then you fucking stop. No torture or needless cruelty.

There's a reason why I like characters like Goblin Slayer and Doomguy: they don't fuck around and torture their targets because they were wronged by them. They take one look at a species posing an existential threat to humanity and instead of indulging in their sadism, they lock in and fucking kill them like vermin. Because they know the evil doesn't justify their brutality, they're just men on a mission.

the-ultimate-puppeteer

I don't understand what's so damn hard for people to understand about this.

kob131

From personal experience?

A- The stories in question involve either unintelligent beasts or malicious monsters so people think it justified to be as sadistic as possible in response.

B- People just like the bloody aesthetic THAT much and like kids, they try to justify it and not just go 'Yeah, the hero's a monster. Let's just enjoy the carnage.'

Or C- They believe that their pain justifies their desire for bloody revenge, never realizing that every motherfucker on the planet has a sob story and they don't turn into sadistic monsters.

I do have to emphasize that I am mostly talking about fiction here and that the real world stuff is just the application of these ideas to reality.

crystallineknight

To quote the man himself-

It's not about killing monsters... It's about the opportunity to become one.

nathanland

Ok since that last Hallmark Romulan post was a hit, I'm hoping this one does well as well.

Here's a Hallmark ornament commercial for Klingon bird of prey ornament. It has Gowron AND Martok. And they're speaking Klingong throughout the whole commercial. Peopele complained about having to read subtitles when Parasite came out a few years ago. Now imagine if you were some guy in the 80s and having to keep up with all the subtitles here. And it's an accurate Klingont too instead of Paramount Hol. (The accuracy of their Klingon is attested by the clearly audible word for bird of prey, "toQDuj")

They really could have just tell the actors to say random gibberish, or not use Klingon at all. But they did. They gave a shit about Star Trek because this was the early 90s.