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"Halt and Catch Fire" premiered 10 years ago and went on for four seasons and 40 episodes. @polygon's Devan Suber describes how the beloved AMC show understood the draw of video games better than any show that's come before it. "In the words of Joe MacMillan (Lee Pace), the computer was always 'the thing that gets us to the thing,' a vector for connection, expression, or some other deeper human need."

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@JordiGH i've used those points to very drunkenly argue that tetris is a roguelite once. everybody groaned

@jk for the past year or so every time i've gotten in a car as a passenger i had the sinking feeling i'd forgotten my retainer. as i often did. when i last needed a retainer. over a decade ago.

@lion are they not sorted by folder at all? wouldn't you be able to just mark a whole folder nsfw? that's what i did with @iconolog

@lion botsin.space is the go to for hosting bots, no idea what their nudity policy is but the admin there is pretty responsive if you wanna just ask

amiga continues to be the most impenetrable computer platform with linux at a very close second

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the thing that bothers me about this is how aminet is the mecca of amiga software everybody tells you have to get everything from but none of the (commercial in 1993) software there is cracked or pre-registered, you need to make an account in eab abime to get those, so everybody is just refusing to say the quiet part out loud and sweeping it all under the rug

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i didn't think pissing on the poor would transfer over from tumblr

@jope you haven't, you just refuse to say the quiet part out loud 💜

i guess amiga abandonware with no possible means of registration is cool to pirate

@jope i can pirate amftp and i'm not asking for help doing that. i'm asking why is it a recommendation in 2024 if i can't not pirate it

@jope if you can't register amftp, how is it a recommendation? am i supposed to live with demo version? or is there an actual owner of the code i can send money to? id love to, if there actually is.

@ShaulaEvans as someone with a lowercase name i appreciate it whenever i see folks respecting lowercase names

Y'know how there's a pattern of behavior where someone says something is bad about the tech industry or community or OSS software or something, and then every single nerd within a 50 square mile radius says *WELL ACKTUALLY*??

I just realized that if, like, even 10% of them just... Sat down and spent some energy fixing the problem instead of insulting someone for experiencing it, we would've solved all those issues by now

@jope i'm guessing in 2024 amftp is cool to pirate since i don't think the people you need to send money to register it are even around anymore?

robotkin culture is only being able to be seen as a robot by the people who want to fuck you, no existence besides being someone else's kink

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