FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

once again i feel this image spiritually

smartphone music player which uses the accelerometer to emulate a discman with no skip protection

A new study shows a whopping 87% of games released prior to 2010 are no longer available for sale or download by any means other than the second-hand market and archival/"piracy": http://gamehistory.org/87percent/

Proof if you ever needed it that the community is doing the work that corporate interests won't do to preserve gaming history and the slice of culture it represents.

We are living in an age when it is so astonishingly cheap to keep copies of things around and yet the perverse incentives exist for companies to memory-hole anything that doesn't perform well or that might compete with newer offerings.

IMO, in the big picture this is what legislation is for, correcting a horrible tendency that the market will have if left to its own devices, and there should absolutely be legislation protecting archivists of content that's no longer available for sale, or even requiring that content creation companies keep content available in SOME form. Until then, we depend on each other to do this.

This means nothing to you. You are not an imp, you have no idea what an imp is, and you will not entertain such frivolous and childish ideas ever again. You feel stupid and hate yourself a little for even considering it.

watching this great video essay about tears of the kingdom. dude pauses while talking about the story to ask for someone to comment if "secret stones" is a direct translation of the word used in japanese, which is something i've wondered myself so of course i checked the comments and, man,

https://youtu.be/a4ldmt3eU2I

Blends right in, doesn't it? Call me, ISO.

the generational shift from

"haha [degrees] isn't that hot, try [my region] in summer!"

to

"wow that's crazy. try to stay safe out there!"

"un-teach me strength,
I am too tired to hold it all"
pleads Desperation
grasping frantically for Comfort
blindly on his knees in midnight sand.
"no, un-teach me bad lessons,
dislodge this history
and allow it to wash downriver,"
he sighs, resigned. "or yet,
un-teach me fear,
I will never be troubled again."

"No, I will not."
owl-eyed Presence draws
a glittering starry cloak
across Desperation's naked shoulders.
"I will not un-teach
strength. I will teach footing
to learn when and how to bear the load.
I will not un-teach
the bad lesson. I will teach truth
so your reaction is informed.
I will not un-teach
fear. I will teach experience
to understand when you may relax."

his rebuttal dissolves in the breeze
as Presence pushes her cold finger
against his weary lips.
"I will not un-teach history.
I would never shame you, my friend,
for dwelling. but to even visit safely,
you must first be able to leave."

#poetry

And the second prototype: Snake – but you are the apple! #GMTKJam

From today's "Browser history of a #translator":
BSDM glossary
Kitchen tools list
Male names related to minerals
Synonyms for rectal
Jokes on mining
Curious dophin
Sentences written with numbers
Footbal common expressions
How do you call someone who lends money at high interests

just reposting the 2014 leaked email about how Scott Alexander (Scott Siskind) had specifically intended Slate Star Codex to promote neoreaction and race science

not a single person denied the email, they were just outraged at the leaker for breaking confidence

Yudkowsky even declared that they should be shunned, lol

this email is surprisingly little spoken of, I keep finding SSC/ACX readers who've never heard of it. for once the rationalists had the good sense not to fuss about it

i keep pointing centrists at this email and they can't reconcile the SSC article they liked with the writer of SSC explicitly saying he's trying to make them more racist

reasons to keep the fuckin receipts

text of scott email: https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/lm36nk/old_scott_siskind_emails_which_link_him_to_the/gntraiv/
topher brennan tweets when posting the email: https://reddragdiva.tumblr.com/post/643403673004851200/reddragdiva-topher-brennan-ive-decided-to-say