A Scattered Dream

Li | lvl 27 | She/they

[risk-repeater]

this job market is a fucking nightmare

[probablyasocialecologist]

Study finds nearly every pre-2010 video game is unavailable

Games from older consoles are being made less and less available to the point so much of the industry's history could easily vanish without

[gay-jesus-probably]

Vimm's Lair: Preserving the Classics

Preserving classic videogames from consoles past.

I'm just gonna slide this on in here for anyone that is interested in preserving old games. They take it very seriously too, they want an archive of every single game. Like, they have lists of every game ever released for a system, and once that system gets old enough, they add it to their archive and start collecting. Their latest addition was the Xbox 360, they opened that vault up in September 2022, and proudly announced they'd finished their collection of games for it back in April.

Also, while their game archives are almost entirely complete, they've got another project of archiving the manuals that came with those games, and that is... considerably less well filled out. Their collection of Xbox 360 manuals is especially rough, they've only gotten manuals for three games. So if you've got some Xbox 360 games kicking around, and the manual's still with them, please consider scanning them and submitting them to the site!

Game preservation is important, but people rarely consider preserving the manuals as well; I really respect Vimm's Lair for being so thorough in their archival work.

[anachronic-cobra]

I've been using Vimm's Lair for years, I have yet to see a single bad link or virus on the entire site. It's arguably the safest and most comprehensive archive of video games in existence. Preserved history

[kaylmao]

idk i would personally rather give up access to certain products seasonally or locally than have people enslaved to give me the ability to have any product any place any time. i think i can go without tomatoes in january.

[kaylmao]

i truly do think that most people if confronted with it and pressed on it would agree. but it's comfortable to gain privileges from someone else's suffering, especially if you don't have to see that suffering directly.

[bigboysdrinkmilk]

Why is there a diarrhea parasite outbreak in America?

Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies cut funding to disease prevention and control.

Why is measles back in America?

Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies, including RFK Jr, cut vaccine and measles prevention funding and programs.

Why is the New World Screwworm infecting cattle in Texas, when it had previously been eliminated from the area?

Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies, including Elon Musk, cut USAID funding, which in part worked to monitor and prevent screwworm outbreaks.

Why was there a flu outbreak in our armed forces?

Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies, including Pete Hegseth, cut vaccination requirements for our armed forces, putting all of them at risk alongside our military readiness.

What contributed to the Covid outbreak?

Donald Trump and his Republican allies cut funding to a pandemic prevention program in his first term because Barack Obama had created it.

“America first” sends its regards. Trump voters, please learn your lesson. And if you don’t, it’ll be taught to you again with yet another diarrhea outbreak.

[bigboysdrinkmilk]

[anywhoozles]

[gonna-need-you-to-not]

[perplexi]

room for one more? 👀

[bloody-suburbs]

Hylas and the Nymphs, John William Waterhouse, 1896

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

Gerald Brom

[tragicburnout]

i feel like there is a sleep in me that needs to be slept but each time i sleep i don't sleep that sleep

[catghuleh]

surprise surprise more merlin fanart............................ :3

resized this like 4 times (ᵕ ´ᗜ`)

[blazilik]

I was rewatching British films and realized that I had drawn my favorite wizard only once

[thecryptkeeper]

really dig these

[ekbelsher]

Kaye and Roiben having a quiet moment 🖤 The Unseelie king has a blood red bedchamber and you can’t change my mind. I’m re-reading The Modern Faerie Tales, and it’s still among my favourite-ever series (although I was low key offended when I read that Roiben later cut off his beautiful pewter hair!). 

[ekbelsher]

Some bookish artists got together for an April Fool's joke where everybody had to draw the 'Spiderman upside-down kiss' pose featuring their favourite book characters or OCs. I signed up for playful Kaye and long-suffering Roiben (but he loves it really, even though he's got a sticky nose now 🍭)

[ekbelsher]

Exhausted and furious, Roiben licks his wounds in Kaye's aggressively pink childhood bedroom. Back endpaper for the Illumicrate edition of Tithe by Holly Black :)

[ekbelsher]

Final scene of The Modern Faerie Tales: on New Year's Eve, Kaye, Roiben, Luis and Corny celebrate on Hart Island 🎆

Back endpaper for the Illumicrate edition of Ironside by Holly Black