Whatever, man, just wash your hands

Trans bean with a love for cats, good narratives, and weird science facts. Been here since 2012, chill. I know what I'm doing. Name's Val btw.

[eirarchitect]

Daily Ramattra day 249

(Uploading backlog- three Daily Ram posts a day until I get up to speed!)

[nihilmachina]

Breaking

[caznalt]

[instakutya]

[milkwavess2]

❤️‍🩹

[velinxi]

Compiling my most cursed dvattra drawings including shrek AU

[papa-abel]

I have had thoughts... I wanted to share these thoughts via this..

[throo]

Wh-what do you mean it’s from a birthday cake

[throo]

We could have been eating him

[vrihedd]

Different layers of animation in Spine2D.

[ampervadasz]

[masterkfox]

my two brain cells

[vigilantsycamore]

This is what executive dysfunction looks like

[a-book-of-creatures]

Inside you there are two hamsters…

[qtt-art]

[OC] Sasha (Scylla ver.)

[lacquerheadd]

show me your teeth

[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

[kaijutegu]

I did 100% of the imaging and analysis for my doctorate on a machine running Windows 95. I did not have a choice about this, that's just what my microscope's software ran on.

[homunculus-argument]

The biggest fault in playing magic the gathering online is not being able to physically strangle your opponents. When the fuck did everyone else get the fucking Turbo Steroid Decks starting every game with some fuckass zero cost card going "if you have seven cards in your hand rn you win immediately no matter what" that summons a 12/13 Fuckzilla with vigilance and deathtouch. Like oh wow wowwee congratulations fuck you. I wonder if your mother is self-aware enough to regret having children.

[indefiniteavatar]

see, /this/ is how angry gamers are supposed to talk!

so take note, cos sounding like a bigoted broken record when your healer or tank drops the ball is just lazy

[homunculus-argument]

Gamer rage is the sound of a livid animal loudly biting at the bars of its cage because breaking your teeth on steel out of sheer frustration is the second-best thing to sinking them into someone's throat.

[hijkio]

Zuko

[starage]

i doooo love the city elf origin. i love how full circle it is. you start the story hiding your weapons away, and you end the story raising a powerful political force against the regent and then fighting your final battle in the streets you grew up in. you start the story fighting side by side with one cousin to save your other cousin and than end the story fighting with your other cousin to save your first cousin, and the rest of your family. the bridge getting destroyed as you leave during the siege on denerim. you can never really go back but you can save them.

[stonelionhearts]

sometimes i wonder if we have forgotten that sharing creative work is, fundamentally, a bid for human connection. like I'm not posting art or fic for 'engagement' i'm posting it looking for other sickos to play with! i'd be making it anyway for my own gratification because there's something wrong with me, i'm sharing it hoping we can have something wrong with us together <3