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Sade Olutola
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
we're not kids anymore.
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*pirate voice 🏴☠️* : Arrrr make me look edgy in a tortured nautical way.
Feel like this movie is a good comparative highlight of when CG is actually useful. Practical effects fit his character and movements. Barnacle Bill was correct to do in makeup. However, I think this guy
Works best as his writhing mass. Not sure robotics/puppetry would've been able to get the effect the same.
The four penguins from Madagascar are, somehow, isekaied in the middle of the clone wars
Palpatine is dead within the hour
Please for the love of God, read the notes on this post
(Via @infinitelypurple)
HELLO???
Word.
abandonware should be public domain. force companies to actively support and provide products if they don't wanna lose the rights to them
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.
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.
Not allowing open source replacements for abandonware (or firmware for equipment operation in general) is like trying to stop a company making non-OEM gearing and belts for machinery.
Be more racist.
The Online Safety Act is now being used to censor the footage of Henry Nowak's death.
They're 100% right though and your schoolyard comeback doesn't change that
"Weaponized outrage and artificially pushing tolerance hurts people"
"Your dad was a faggot"
Anyone else want to note the hypocrisy at "your dad's gay" being an insult from someone supposedly woke?
i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges
Iran is slowly coming back online, but by "online," I mean they've moved from whitelisting some websites to blacklisting everything. I had no idea what these terms meant, but living in Iran forces you to know about technical network and connection stuff. Basically, instead of banning everything except for a few shitty malware apps posing as "social media platforms", they have now moved to filter out and ban the same usual things as before (like Telegram, Instagram, YouTube, everything). So what does that mean? It means more IPs will be available to bypass the ban, and VPNs will be more affordable. So more people can access the internet, STILL ILLEGALLY and THROUGH A PAYWALL.
It's currently close to 4 AM now that I'm posting this, and I've been crying non-stop since midnight because my friends came back online one by one through an unstable connection and said: "Hi, I'm alive." I had prepared myself for the funeral of so many of my friends. Some haven't come back online yet, and we've formed small "search and rescue" groups to find their contacts or families to check if they're okay.
What remains a fact amidst all of this is that nobody in the world ever gave a single fuck about us. I was one of the lucky ones to connect during the complete shutdown via some newly invented way we were too scared to even publish on GitHub for fear of getting arrested. In the time I was connected, I felt immense guilt for having access to the internet, and I begged you all on my socials to be the voice of the people who were about to get executed.
Not even once did I see someone talk about the internet blackout in Iran, and it enrages me.
We've been massacred, mass executed, and then silenced by getting our only way of communicating with the world shut off and the world treats it as some background noise, some irrelevant news that isn't even worth spending time hearing about.
So I'm asking you again, please, be the voice for the people in Iran. We are barely surviving.
Sorry but you are never gonna convince me that a skinny woman “looks like a child.”
You are never gonna convince me that a short woman “looks like a child.”
You are never gonna convince me that a woman who shaves her body “looks like a child.”
You are never gonna convince me that a woman who dresses cutesy “looks like a child.”
You are never gonna convince me that a full grown woman “looks like a child.”
These niggas would call this woman a child 😭
they got married btw
oh you’re not kidding
