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@janeadams did the guitar brain hack work? do you have an article about it? i'm very curious about that!

tell me reply guys if memory and storage are so cheap like you keep telling me when i complain about full hard drive woes (yet you won't buy them for me, curious) then how come scrappy little startups like google keep trying to invent shitty new lossy compression schemes and are about to start deleting inactive content in their servers? surely they can just pop down to the shops and pick up a couple of hard drives too

Anonymous asked: what's your dream computer/game console/thing that you want?

i have far too many beige whales. in general stuff with: nice tactile media (cartridges or floppies), ease of getting software for (legally or otherwise), interesting things to do with (does it have cool games, can i use the software without it being frustrating), relatively easy to make new software for. the Amiga 600 for me fails a bit in the ease of use but it's the closest to a syste[...]

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Anonymous asked: do you like rain?

if it's a very soft drizzle i'm weather-resistant enough to be in it but anything heavier i am better suited to just listen to it indoors

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companies keep asking us to "go ad-free" but get uppity when we install ublock origin. make up your damn minds

Anonymous asked: what's your preferred cheese?

why do i have to pick. are you a cop

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did you know that https://retrospring.net/@maple_syrup is a link you can click

more like web pee

@damianogerli i agree with you completely: the disparity with the show's popularity in japan and niche online circles compared to its relative obscurity anywhere else is baffling. the DS game relied heavily on the show and understandably an export localization rubbed out too much to keep it interesting enough. why nobody has tried again to export the show learning from kotaku's mistakes is boggling.

that said, the show has momentum in japan. to foster the same outside japan would take decades

brglbg

@aquinton where does the "computer engineer comic with a single arc about transition and then back to regular computer engineer comic but with boobs now" trope fall into

@damianogerli it's kind of a catch-22, really

@damianogerli as for why the nintendo DS game was so forgettable: arino's challenge was popular in japan because the show was popular in japan. they had a star attached to it. pretty much everyone who recognized it outside japan did so despite the localization's divorce from the show, seeing as though it had no export presence. for everyone who didn't know who arino was, it basically passed for more indie retro shovelware.

@damianogerli the second post in your thread has not federated to this instance, but, wrt SA-GCCX: again, that's piracy. we can debate whether or not that's a moral thing until the cows come home, but it means commercial success is invariably dead on arrival. you and i know the show because we're terminally online, but a vast majority of gamers today never frequented web forums such as the one those fansubs originated in and still carry in their name

@damianogerli i'm gonna go ahead and wager a guess that a lot of the lack of recognition comes from a lack of an official, legal release outside of japan (when arino went to the USA it was pretty much a given everybody who went to meet him watched the show via piracy)

as for why there was no attempt at a localization after the "retro game master" thing bombed, beats me

burger tulpa but instead it's fentanyl to kill the cop inside my head