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ABOUT ME.

just call me ben!

reblogging 99% of the time, rambling in the tags is my specialty

occasionally posting edits I make, sometimes even photos I take

prone to sharing everything I take an interest in :)

speak both english & spanish

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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

#miscellaneous #that one article i read a while back about IMAX running on PalmPilot OS #why replace something that works so well and has been nit picked of flaws for so many years for something new and so breakable

have to do my laundry today

#ben rambles about shit

31 RUNS IN 2 DAYS

#ben watches baseball #kc royals #we have up 13 but like whateverrrrrrrrrr #chat we're so cooked but goated and back and soooooo fucking cooked this fuck ass team 😭😭😭😭😭😭

feel like this will go to penalties

#ben rambles about shit #world cup #like i know they're tired by now lol

escuerzoresucitado

#miscellaneous #when the brain can no longer archive as well other things become an archive for it

escuerzoresucitado

#miscellaneous #when the brain can no longer archive as well other things become an archive for it

scienceviewscreen

Project Hail Mary // Incorrect quotes 6/?

Bonus:

#project hail mary #ryland grace #eva stratt #rocky the eridian #text post meme

freakoutgirl

how it feels to accept you're fucked forever

#miscellaneous #at least we'll be on vacation from time to time :D

gryffon

#miscellaneous #chickens #me and my momma

AND THEN THE ROYALS WON 15-1 TODAY LIKE BOOMSHAKALAKAYASSSGOD

#ben watches baseball #we probably used up all our runs for the whole season but like we scored in each inning :D

endowataru

extremely funny to me that if the red card debacle hadn’t happened maybe the usmnt would’ve had a decent chance to advance but instead it pissed off their opposition so bad that the belgium nt played out of their minds just to trounce their asses

#world cup #EXACTLY

4-1 belgium win, yeah that game cheered me up ngl

#ben rambles about shit #world cup #mexico & canada to the us: jOIN US

that was the most hilarious goal ever oh my fucking god they are losers, what was the goalie thinking

#ben rambles about shit #world cup #belgium thank you for this

birdandmoon

Heat waves.

storyweavingspider

Addition: The amount of bombs that Israel and the US have dropped on Gaza in the pursuit of genocide and settler-colonialism have significantly contributed to climate change over the past couple years and is directly linked to so many “once in a century” and “never before seen” weather and temperatures.

#important #heat waves #climate change