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It's birthday. The big 30. Biggest change and drama filled year of my life- got discovered as trans by my dad, lost my job in the family business when I wouldn't back down, moved out, got my own place in a new city, job hunted for months, visited some dear friends from other states/countries for the first time. I'm still here! So if you want to give me a little living/spending money as a gift, thank you. And if you want to send well wishes, thank you for that too

corantus

sequel to butch walrus ... hadn't intended to draw her again but i was inspired.. woman with unemployed uncle vibes

anchovy

I really like it when horses look like this

nae-nae-supreme

when someone mentions HOES with ARMPIT HAIR

jame7t

its 10 AM on a weekday .

balaclava-trismegistus

Isn't there an industrial boiler you're supposed to be maintaining

nae-nae-supreme

I must find...the HOES.

,whatever it takes

dogpuppy

kropotkindersurprise

worldofultimategaming

The World of Ultimate Gaming

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

transsexualgriffith

i love sibling estrangement as horror. Only one person in the entire world has been through what youve been through and they deny it . Awesome

mooned-knights

we have to hold the line on misandry not being real. it's getting scary out there

cali

it felt so absolutely incredible

swordoftheberserkgutsrage

so is the mitch mcconnel fuck a fan contest still on or not

teathattast

mixelation

we as a society have GOT to accept that it is okay if we get blocked. you do not have the right to interact with every single person on the internet. "but then i can't interact with their content" yes that is the point "but i didn't do anything" no one owes you an explanation and you don't have to have "done something" to be blocked. let it go

illmadekn1ght

ohh my god but what if there is still time. what if there is still time. hey. there is still time? there is still time. have you heard. there is still time. hi. there is still time. did you know. there is still time.