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Christopher Nolan says that there is a danger in having content only exist in a streaming format, that physical media is the only way to hedge against its disappearance from public access in the future.

I've long advocated for owning music in particular (as much as ownership exists these days) in part from the financial standpoint of paying into a collection that isn't anchored to a streaming platform. Hadn't thought about the existential issue of streaming-only content

https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/christopher-nolan-says-streaming-only-content-is-a-danger-and-can-get-taken-down-guillermo-del-toro-calls-owning-physical-media-a-responsibility/ar-AA1kfSfB

This is the most British thing that has ever existed

girls & git

detached HEAD state

It occurred to me that many younger people don't know why video games used to look so bad on 8-bit home computers, when they can look so much better on comparable hardware of pocket video game consoles.

And, as a consequence, they take for granted all the hard work that losers like me put into converting art for ZX Spectrums and alike.

That makes me a bit sad, so let me demonstrate you what happens behind the scenes, and why it matters (to me).

Illustrations:
* Golden Axe running on WonderSwan. The image uses 42 colours, but the sprites are likely 16 colours or less. 224 × 144 pixels
* Golden Axe running on ZX Spectrum. 15 colors. 256x192 pixels.
* My old fan-art of Va-11 Hall-A for ZX Spectrum. 15 colors, 256x192.

What I'm trying to say is: despite having resolution better than GameBoy or WonderSwan, art on ZX Spectrum often looks BAD. Why? How to make it look good? Why is it hard?

Let me explain! *cough cough*
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#pixelart #retrocomputing

I dunno who made this, but I love it nonetheless

My fucking oven has an update for "Turkey mode" and when I hit install it showed an updating screen for twenty minutes until it restarts back into asking me if I want to install Turkey Mode

Fuck Turkey Mode!!!

The Netherlands has a multi-party system just like reformers in the US want, reputable elections, biking infrastructure that people won't shut up about, a long tradition of social democracy, and just had a far-right election victory. The rise of fascism is not some trickery by Trump or the Russians or the US system: it's part of the world-wide failure of neoliberalism, which suppressed the left and then died.

Microsoft paid money for this. A lot of money. And they gave it to us for free.

Scientists: we have created a pill to extend life indefinitely
Humanists: we have remembered to make sure *quality* of life was part of the process
Tech companies: we have turned those things into a subscription service so you can autopay to avoid dying a miserable death on a monthly basis

reporting your source code to the mob

When a nesting screech owl finds a Texas blind snake, they swiftly and carefully scoop it up and carry it back to the nest, but not as food for the young owlets—as a “house pet.”

Once installed in the nest, the Texas blind snake eats any insects that venture near, like a cat in charge of pest control.

Baby owlets with a Texas blind snake in the nest fare 50% or higher better than baby owlets without one. 4/

happy anniversary to this video https://youtu.be/0twDETh6QaI

i'm normal and can be trusted with documentation

https://faultlore.com/cargo-mommy/book/

this account is a "
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my “our relationship is permanent and normal” t-shirt is getting a lot of questions already answered by the t-shirt