loverboy

[sapi-o-phobia]

sapiophobia

[ noun ] : fear of intelligence. (see: himbo)

he/they. mid-20s.

librarian in u.s. midwest.

started adding “-core” to my tags as a bit but now my tags are too established to change lol

t4t cowboys header image by noahdeaart.

[ymutate]

Keith Haring, Grace Jones, Eartha Kitt

[qadmonster]

dream blunt rotation

[52stations]

i've got the kind of eyebags that make people in movies say 'you look like hell, detective. go home.'

[infectiouspiss]

puppy play but theres fireworks going off and i'm trembling under a pile of blankets under a desk and you need to feed me little pieces of cheese to calm me down but i'm so scared i might throw up the cheese

[fox-teeth]

Ship's Cat is a comic about being a cat in space and experiencing new things. It is risograph printed in violet ink on dove-grey and read by unfolding a single sheet of paper. You can buy a copy for $1.

[dreamstars]

[malibuklaus]

[boopsloop363]

[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

[forlorngarden]

kind of crazy how they drop this bar like 20 minutes into the game. let me get up let me get uppp

[rn-deliabusby]

flickr

[fiollaigean]

how to cover letter:

polite greeting (it's me, boy)

introduction (i'm the ps5)

establish credentials (speaking to you inside your brain)

establish purpose (leave the girl, we don't need her)

describe what you can bring to the organization (cowboy times in space)

[bandicoot]

im majoring in making my life a living hell at idiot university

[neverwonderneverremember]

sleep is stolen time. don't let them take it from you anymore. tonight. we are staying up. til one billion o clock.

[nyancrimew]

if i was an alien and i found the voyager golden record id be jerking my shit crazy style ngl

[sweet-marie]

guys, if i do kill myself and never published any books or anything please copy all my best tumblr posts and arrange them into a deeply moving stream of consciousness narrative and submit it to the new yorker on my behalf. i feel like i can count on you. don't let my life and posting have been in vain

[sumrot]

Now I know something you don’t