what in the goddamn hell is going on around here

you will have to pry personal information out of my cold dead hands

[dragonpyre]

Ngl I totally forgot fandom discourse was a thing. I don’t care man, I have car payments

[rootbeerrex]

starting a collection

[clever-fandom-reference]

If I may submit:

[kisskisscantfallinlove]

[cecilias-cool-stuff]

Never stop hating

[my-random-fandoms]

[thetrekkiehasthephonebox]

Verified: Microsoft 365 gets massive 45% price hike — and it's all to do with AI tools (Tom's Guide - January 17, 2025)

[mothwizard]

oopsie i tripped and spilled my link to archive dot org's downloadable copy of Microsoft office suite for 2007, which features no AI tools and is a powerful word processor that still holds up just fine on windows 10!

[soundoftheirwings]

Gotta tell you guys something wild in the Chinese fan sphere

So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the character. They demanded the art be deleted. In response to that other people said, well what the fanartist did may be distateful but they have every right to draw what they’re into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their “opponents’” accounts.

So far so typical. But things eventually come to a head and they decide that this will be settled by votes - not through a poll. Through donations to a children’s education charity via each side’s portal. Whoever can get the highest amount of donation wins.

And that is how this charity received over 1 million in donations in three days lol. Oh btw the “freedom of expression” side won by a landslide (960k to 40k)

[tlbodine]

From now on this is how all petty fandom disputes should be settled.

[flagellant]

[kingcatnine]

fucking love this website i got someone trying to argue with me that not all mammals have hair

bask in it

[kingcatnine]

not all mammals have hair source bald people

[bitchy-bisexual-neurodivergent]

hey dumbass, rhinos, elephants and dolphins only have hair as babies. crack open a book before spouting bullshit on the internet

[kingcatnine]

you can literally ask jeeves about this shit you are embarrassing yourself

[bitchy-bisexual-neurodivergent]

bro my sister's a doctor so she did biology as pre med and all i had to do was crack open one of her textbooks to prove you wrong lol

[kingcatnine]

your sister is gonna fail bad style lol

[bitchy-bisexual-neurodivergent]

do you even know how to read? i said she's already a doctor. also it's only on baby elephants and in adults it's only in parts of their bodies.

[kingcatnine]

I feel like you have a very interesting idea of the term "hairless"

[knockednautilus]

Bitchy here seems to live up to their name. And also didn't pay attention in biology or English class

[dogpuppy]

[liberalsarecool]

Trump built a $10 billion trap and walked right into it himself. #BBC #discovery

[elisecairo]

[xsugarxglass]

This is some Scooby Doo shit XD

[qqchurch]

[beemovieerotica]

remember when this was the craziest thing politicians ever said

[evilwizard]

this could work. we never tried it

[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

[kaijutegu]

I did 100% of the imaging and analysis for my doctorate on a machine running Windows 95. I did not have a choice about this, that's just what my microscope's software ran on.

[knockednautilus]

So much of what the FAA uses to keep doing what they are doing is hinged on software running on windows 98

[mindy-fit]

[blastingradio]

Now that is some vintage sports goth

[chanel-boots]

This ad is very ominous and threatening.

[raejin99]

[orchidvioletindigo]

Are you fucking kidding me

[ominous-signs]

Official ominous ad

[fangorn-forest]

her eyes were the sickly green of the sky before a tornado, and to his horror he discovered she could throw cows around just as easily

[that-house]

to his horror? weak shit. outta my way gayboy im boutta get it

[that-house]

all of our trobles seem so small from up here

[aninals]

skateboard will be so fictionalized that people forget we all have one inside of us. like the war of course but like they arent just fantasy creatures.... its just In There

[aninals]

hey. So skeletons may have autocorrected to skateboard,

[queercanelady]

how it is apparently

[zillanovikov]

every year I post this meme and every year people get more mad at me than they did the previous year

[generaljenobi]