Wist's Vacation Spot

Demi-Romantic - Silly, Creative, Nerdy Dork 36/M/'90 My focus is on affectionate, platonic friendships.

[asapwalky]

[kirstenwardman]

[xwhispering-winds]

If I could wake all my moots up with either coffee delivery while you're in bed or a big hug, that would make my life, just 'sayin.

[lateenever]

[laterkiss]

we might be blogging hours apart but time is nothing. i love you

[cerastes]

Something I’ve noticed is

THAT PEOPLE POKE THEIR NOSE WHERE IT DOESN’T BELONG!

[ilonano]

fuck yess lets go outside at midnight

[codes-and-stuffs]

i do think we should normalise being like. platonically enamoured with someone. perhaps i love and admire you dearly and there's nothing romantic about it

[onomattopoeia]

Cumming feels way better when you're cumming *for someone* rather than just *to something*

[achillesinhighheels]

[onlinegf]

i’m the type of freak who rereads texts

[johnnycrass]

clap if you're a black hole of a person and have never been satisfied

[hailraykin-deactivated20230814]

Reblog to give mutuals a break from whatever they're been going through

[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.

[bookwyrminspiration]

there's a common belief that artists know how to make art. this is untrue. i've yet to meet a single artist who has any idea what they're doing

[pinetree-thetooka]

[peterquillsuggestion]

this dumb website is in need of some love, so reblog this if you like the person you reblogged it from!!!