M68040 [they/them]

No, but give it to me anyways because I’d do something incredibly funny with it (Devote the remainder of my life to gaining access to a bunch of influential people and politicians so I can tell them to eat shit to their face, resting assured that they can’t levee any meaningful consequences against me)

Whatever happens happens. Don’t really care that much anymore.

I’m curious as to how people toughed it out despite most christian religious institutions being so uniformly corrupt and plain irritating. Shit, the crowd FSTDT dunks on, american politicians, and internet theology were all it took for me to get so deeply disillusioned I wanted to just cut strike everything from my mind, regardless of who’s right or wrong. Merely not having other options to a point where leaving is unthinkable? Fear of reprisal from legal and cultural consequences?

Then again, I suppose at that point they would’ve just shifted to a different, less institution-focused denomination instead of just saying “fuck the whole thing” like I did. It wasn’t a matter of the facts, it was a matter of me being fucking sick of them.

On that note, what’s up with the obligate coprophagy of the koala? And their famously smooth brains? I’d make the koala, were it I in the high seat, but a kind and caring creator wouldn’t.

Fartifuckballsland

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)

I miss Wesley Willis.

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 .

Yeah, that’s kind of what I was wondering. Turns out you can’t really do much useful with a self-hosted local VPN, but I like having the option of using one be something my VM host server provides.

Oh hey, I had some good results with Krita when I was still making digital art way back when. It’s been like a decade. I should get myself a new tablet.

2024 year of the consumer PowerPC comeback

Old school adventure games are great for these sorts of use cases, though they may not be to your taste since they can be a little dense. Grab yourself Frotz to gain access to the entire back catalog of Infocom’s text adventures plus a entire library of modern user-made selections.

ScummVM also gets you access to a decade or two of LucasArts and Sierra Online’s classics.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004)