a tiny fairy @atinyfairy@computerfairi.es

remember GunBound? it's still up. it requires 64MB of RAM to run.

hi I have opinions on the internet (itself)
a lot has changed in the past 25 years!

@teaduckie twitter is terrible, tumblr is better, pixiv is okay, but it all loses the sense of community from portfolio sites and art archives
tumblr is no replacement for keenspot or LJ
it's.... way harder to communicate with people and find community now I think. social media ironically makes it harder to have conversations.

@teaduckie We have bandcamp now but we don't really have like, midi or mod archive sites and communities anymore…
it feels more isolated…
and the same with fanfic. there's AO3 now, but older private archives you got a real sense of community from, like these stories and authors all had something in common that made them band together for this particular archive
idk

@teaduckie Everyone I know had a site, privately hosted or on geocities or tripod or whatever. It was just so easy to put up some fiction about a character or game you liked, add a counter and a guestbook and request placement in a webring or two
Download managers… I still use a download manager extension to scrape sites but nowadays we don't need the resume function (or the "spoof the server into giving you multiple download slots so you can download faster" function hehe)

@teaduckie the speed shaped the culture too, though! Low-color graphics with dithering, simple animated gifs to keep stuff visually interesting while pages loaded, the MIDI & MOD/IT/S3M music scene because while MP3s existed you basically had to download them overnight…
I had a 7 digit UIN on ICQ, that was what I mainly used hehe
I used MSN for roleplaying

@teaduckie yeah it looks amazing! I have lots of memories of browsing sailormoon forums in the late 90s and early 00s, and chatting with friends over IM, and playing with silly desktop toys and dollmakers and stuff........ it's 2000% my aesthetic and the writing seems pretty good too

@squirrel 👀

@Xkeeper you can remove the filter pretty easily if you're running at a different resolution, or if you run it at the intended resolution it looks great with the filter
the new art is pretty damn good especially the battle graphics in FFV and FFVI

@revenant FF5 and FF6 have amazing in-battle graphics, way better than the SFX versions. The sprite blurring in field scenes is dumb but you can mod it out. These games are fine.

@revenant what's the issue
it uses the original graphics, has an easy to use mouse interface for menus, has selectable resolution, runs at full framerate
is it just that it uses a variable width font? I bet you can mod the font pretty easily.

@deejvalen@awoo.space https://computerfairi.es/media/N7qzsDAJ7NLyr8rjtDk

ban all forms of communication with me imo
lock me in a glove compartment and drive the car into the fucking ocean

I was just trying to shepherd my ex's budding interest and point them to introductory materials that might interest them on the topic I didn't mean to aruhghnjvdfjfghgjjh

uh if you haven't literally had college courses on this and read books on this and studied the philosophy and its history and can name the major influential authors and their arguments on command… that doesn't make you stupid… it just means you havent studied this field academically…………

my ex: *posts about robots and consciousness*
me, incredibly interested: hey these are some interesting questions, here's an overview of the academic argument, here's my opinion as someone with a degree in this field
my ex: I guess I just don't understand this incredibly easy thing everyone else seems to get :(

@squirrel skype calling still works pretty well
I've also done calls over Line

@Xkeeper oh hey I
actually I'll contact you on discord