I still love sharks

Here despite the horrors

[rosinarabiner]

"Have we met before?"

[pharioom]

I have much hate in my bones

[sharkangelic]

I'm not going to say nsfw humor is *bad* or *boring* per say

It's just, really easy to make money or get free food from people who love that type of humor

Step 1: be in a social situation

Step 2: become aware that the adults present think potty humor is the height of comedy

Step 3: suggest playing jackbox

Step 4: work a material bet into the situation

Step 5: write "penis" when a game prompts you for text

Step 6: profit

[zoesupreme]

I have started following the journey of a German soccer fan in the US for the world cup

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[zoesupreme]

@laeffy the euros have found buc-ee's

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[sharkangelic]

y'know you don't really appreciate how many extraordinarily long cutscenes and necessary dialogue there is until you go for the speedrun achievement

[dyktvideogamesfx]

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Do you know this SFX? #1509

I know where it's from

It sounds familiar

I've never heard this

Voting ended onJun 12

[dyktvideogamesfx]

Game: Hollow Knight: Silksong (2025)

Context: Tipp and Pill Talking

[wanderingokali]

Don't think I've ever posted the stuff from the aquarium game on its own... here's the sprites i had exported as gifs, although im missing a couple from whats in the full game. If I remember, i'll post their lore pages later as well!

[maxwellmcgrath]

remember when mattel released a t-rex extroyer toy that vomited its own skeleton for no apparent reason

[segamascott]

wdym for no apparent reason it's because it's awesome

[disterbia]

[libraford]

Today is the day that my Appalachian side of the family meets my partner.

I'm really only worried about my one weird uncle, who decided this past decade that he was gonna be raptured and hasn't yet.

[libraford]

Rapture Uncle was not present and now my girlfriend knows where I get it from.

[worldwright]

the Hail Mary is the opposite of idiot-proof. she's built for very smart people to be able to do Whatever They Need with every tool they have in order to achieve their goals. fucking with the centrifuge settings? i'll warn you that you're messing with important stuff but go right ahead man. ripping up the floor panels and pulling out the electricals to make a really unsafe extension cord? sure why not. pop off the fucking fuel tanks? yeah ok you're the most qualified person here and if you say you need to do that who am i to argue. i love the utter lack of guardrails on everything

[sharkangelic]

ok the phm movie was actually really good

When I was reading the book I was hoping they'd go with a "video log" style of narration in the movie, because HOW ELSE are they gonna project Grace's thoughts onto the big screen??? Some things do need to be changed for the storytelling medium and that's fine. Many of the details cut for saving time were not strictly necessary. And Grace constantly reading the computer for translating Rocky wouldn't have been ideal, so having an artificial voice added to the software was good. The Tauomeba Problem(TM) felt a little rushed. I can understand them cutting the part where the Hail Mary ran out of fuel, but the video log explaining that the Tauomeba eat astrophage fuel just felt sparse and rushed. Even in the book that part was drawn out a little bit more and if it was written a little different perhaps the part where Grace discovered the contamination could have been sufficient. I WAS pleased that Earth got to see Grace's video logs though. In the book it was implied that Grace just sent the vital information(Tauomeba, what they are, how to breed them, and what to do with them) and the live Tauomeba farms and no one ever learned that he was still alive or that the Eridians existed.

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[allthebooksandcrannies]

My only previous experience with Ben McKenzie before this post was watching him play Jim Gordon in the show Gotham. I had no idea he'd made a documentary or co-wrote an investigative journalism book on the subject of cryptocurrency until I googled him after watching the video. Turns out he's been interested in the subject since his time working on his undergraduate economics degree.

Sharing to hopefully spread this information to anyone else who would be interested but had no idea his book or documentary existed

[some-stars]

more white men need to be pursuing the teen heartthrob to leftist investigative journalist career path

[sharkangelic]

Don't governments usually expressly forbid anyone that is not their equivalent of a federal mint to print their own currency. Hasn't viciously executing violators on sight been the norm up until relatively recently.

Like clearly from a modern moral standpoint that's a wildly disproportionate response but I was under the impression that it was generally considered serious enough to warrant a government crucifying you in the town square.

[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.

[prismatic-bell]

I just took my computer in for a repair I'm not skilled enough to do on my own.

As I was chatting with the tech, I mentioned offhandedly to her that my first computer games were on 5 3/4" floppies, and said "you're so young, you've probably never even seen one of those."

Her response: "oh, I have. We do maintenance for a company that still uses them."

For those of you too young to know what any of that means: my school moved to computers with 3 1/2" floppies in 1992. I only used the bigger ones for one year. Three years after that we got converters to also use CD-ROM. I got my first thumb drive in college, in 2007. And the storage on 5 3/4" floppies was minuscule. This post would fit on one. I think. This technology was outdated 34 years ago, which is like 500 in computer years. This is roughly equivalent to someone telling you they're self-publishing their werewolf romantasy on Ben Franklin's printing press.

Now I don't know why this company is still using technology so obsolete it makes thumb drives look like sci-fi. But given that it's functionally useless in the modern day, I'd bet a nickel it's because of abandonware.

I also don't know what this company does.

But does it give you a little shiver to know I live near both the Mayo Clinic and Honeywell Aerospace?

[markovchaingang]

you guys do realise walking doesn't actually move you anywhere right? it just destroys you entirely and places a perfect copy of you right in front of where you were standing

[hikikomoricomplex]

I see we’ve reached the “blame your failures on communist subterfuge” phase of the AI business plan

[hikikomoricomplex]

The AI business plan, for reference:

1. Promise everything.

2. Piss off everyone.

3. Deliver nothing.

4. Blame asians?

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