M68040

M68040 , 5 days ago

I can’t blame them for not understanding the significance of human communications infrastructure, but I wish they wouldn’t set up camp in poorly tended mailboxes. Granted, ants are worse about this by some distance. (I’ve also had to deal with small birds while delivering)

M68040 , 8 days ago (edited 8 days ago)

Seibu Kaihatsu’s Dynamite Duke (1989), a pretty novel hybrid Cabal-like/Beat-'em-up with a lot of love put into it. The arcade version’s got a pretty slick art direction, the environmental destruction vfx rock, and the animation’s pretty slick. The whole thing’s got that passion project charm to it. Unfortunately, Cabal clones were only really in vogue in that late '80s/early '90s space, and the beat 'em up gameplay isn’t fleshed out or consistently applied enough to be satisfying in a post-Final Fight, post-Streets of Rage world. I’d like to see something like it, but there’s no way to bring Duke into the world of modern game design practices without drastic reformulation at a minimum.

Notably, Seibu had really high hopes for Duke, being a passion project and a intended magnum opus. Unfortunately, lukewarm reception brought in poor returns, the company slipped into dire straits, and they were forced to make something simpler and lower stakes as a hail mary. That title - a simple, Toaplan-esque shooter nobody had any real faith in - turned out to be Raiden, which would become a darling in arcades, pushing 17,000 units solds worldwide in the first year after release, and becoming the fifth highest grosser on the Japanese market in 1991. (Beating out some offerings from much bigger players like Konami)

M68040 , 12 days ago

It’s like they’re trying to destroy everyone’s trust in them. Can’t even toe the whole “Villain with good publicity” line effectively.

M68040 , 1 month ago

Imagine where we’d be if this stuff was allowed to mature in the 2000s alone

M68040 , 1 month ago

Watching that in my high school electronics class was a early radicalizing moment

M68040 , 1 month ago

In a weird way, the development of advanced communications and coordination technology has only made it harder for anything to change in a significant way .

M68040 , 2 months ago

The gutting of the humanities and other things generally written off as “frivolous” kind of terrified me. There’s something that feels distinctly wrong about these attempts at destroying and anyone that even might turn an introspective gaze on society itself. Like they don’t want anything that might foster self-awareness accessible to the layman.

M68040 , 2 months ago

Am I gonna have to pay for a vpn that actually lets me fake being outside the ‘states? I usually self host on a VM host to avoid incurring expenses, but it seems like that’s not really an option here. Seems like I might have to go for a AWS instance running PiVPN or something.

M68040 , 2 months ago

I wanna try at some point, but my work schedule means I probably can’t make the time commitments.

M68040 , 3 months ago

2024 year of the consumer PowerPC comeback

M68040 , 3 months ago

I wish I could just keep using a GSM/CDMA phone from 20 years ago indefinitely sometimes.

M68040 , 3 months ago

I tried to run TF2 on a A4-3400 without a dedicated graphics card under Mint with Wine once like twelve years ago. It was…uh, not playable

M68040 , 4 months ago

In terms of geography, My secret weakness is how often I confuse Slovenia and Slovakia, solely because they share most of the letters in their name.

(I also have a similar problem with Armenia and Albania. Within the US, Mississippi and Missouri used to give me a lot of trouble when I was younger, too.)

M68040 , 4 months ago

Okay I don’t really like this bootleg Cold War thing we’ve got going on but any outcome where Tucker Carlson gets harmed is one I can accept

M68040 , 4 months ago

Actually I kind of think the whole “get all precious about free speech” thing is kind of played out and mostly right wing bullshit anyhow

M68040 , 4 months ago

I’ve never liked taking the whole “The west” thing seriously. Predominantly associate referring to “The west” and “western culture” as something wignats and conservatives do, and that kinda tints every other contexts where the phrase/concept comes up.

M68040 , 4 months ago

Brought to you by the guys behind the recent remasters of Klonoa and Katamari Damacy

M68040 , 4 months ago

It’s all fun and games until you wake up from the healing coma to find out SHODAN’s fucking around with mutagens and trying to unload a mining laser on Earth

M68040 , 5 months ago

Arcade games 2: but now every game is Double Dragon III

M68040 , 5 months ago

The Simpsons: Hit and Run had a similar gag in one of the maps.

M68040 , 5 months ago

Not really having the option to not cope. Or not knowing how to actively choose to not cope. One of the two. For what it’s worth, Tolkein genuinely was on to something with this one.

M68040 , 6 months ago

Another win for the TrueAnon Rules For Life

M68040 , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

<span style="color:#323232;">This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it!
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Sending this message was important to us. We considered (emphasis on 'considered') ourselves to be a powerful culture.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">The danger is in a particular location... it increases towards a center... the center of danger is here... of a particular size and shape, and below us.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">The danger is to the body, and it can kill.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">The form of the danger is an species of great apes.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.
</span>

M68040 , 7 months ago

FORTRANposting

M68040 , 8 months ago

Napster mindset

M68040 , 8 months ago

yes

M68040 , 8 months ago

I’ve never had one, but I wish I would. Whole lot of dead relatives I want to hear from again, and yet…

M68040 , 8 months ago

I almost swear I could go digging in my closet and find the comically oversized Osiris skate shoes I had in high school in 2010

M68040 , 8 months ago

Continuing to bring the most meh fries in the fast food industry to the fair people of Povarovo

M68040 , 8 months ago

R-Gray 1, RayStorm (1997) - Mostly laser by weight.

https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/38f24742-d08d-4a37-86dc-b5a026b7e9d6.jpeg

M68040 , 8 months ago

A notable victim of the “keep milking the cash cow forever” mindset. Not many movies have the luxury of doing what they need to well then fucking off within two entries.

M68040 , 8 months ago

Mad God was my favorite movie of 2021. Part because it’s the only movie of 2021 i’ve watched, and part because i’ve watched it five times and i think about it constantly

M68040 , 8 months ago

Me pulping a radio dj’s head in New Mexico in the '50s so I can read a creepy poem on the mic

M68040 , 9 months ago

My main takeaway from philosophy is that I hate philosophy and mostly just want to wing it. So much hair splitting

M68040 , 9 months ago

Fork ‘em over

M68040 , 9 months ago

Part of how I got here involves reading an assload of textfiles from the '90s and growing disillusioned with the fruits of that optimistic '90s techno-libertarianism

M68040 , 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Theoretically some kind of communist but it’s mostly just all window dressing for whatever lets me act out my decades long grudge against conservatism at large. The fact that I hate their asses and want to spend the rest of my life lashing out at them is more where my commitments lie more so than any specific school of thought

M68040 , 9 months ago

Because internet explorer 6 sucked and it has the best ad blocker selection

M68040 , 9 months ago

I can say for sure that the white straight cis men will be useless to serve our cause after we gain control, which is why i am working to invent a machine that releases an aerosolized compound into the atmosphere that turns them into soup through sophisticated gene targeting technology and nanobots

M68040 , 9 months ago

Some of the philosophy has stuck with me and I take a keen interest in the social and anthropological aspects of religion, but I’ve had such a consistently bad experience with American Christianity (particularly online) that I just can’t really trust anyone enough to even think about partaking in any of them anymore.

I’d rather just improvise anyhow.

M68040 , 9 months ago

Shit, that’s kinda what I want. I want to quit having to pretend I want to coddle them and start shitting on them at every possible opportunity.

M68040 , 9 months ago

Arson is based. This shit needs to crumble already

M68040 , 9 months ago

Politics are everywhere. You cannot (and don’t deserve to) escape them, brunch gremlin. Ooga-booga-booga.

M68040 , 9 months ago

Not just theirs. None of this is worth anything

M68040 , 9 months ago

Big whoop. Let it die. Let it all die.

M68040 , 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Shit, as long as you lot have it worse i couldn’t give the barest shit what happens to me. Eat the bugs, bitchcakes. Long live Blackrock

M68040 , 9 months ago

I like the stuff that’s about people in the shit. Two Cigarettes in The Ashtray, and all that. I’m a big Horton Heat fan, so it makes sense that their stylistic forebears would appeal to me too.

M68040 , 9 months ago

Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004)