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My unpopular opinion is that you should never see a progress bar that says 100%. If it's at 100% then by definition you're done and should not be looking at a progress bar any more

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It's been almost two years now since I uploaded a YouTube video casually featuring the original, undistorted version of John Romero's "to win the game you must kill me..." clip in the intro and still nobody has noticed or asked me where I got it from

youtu.be/Sznmfmtebf4

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Okay, folks, as you know, I'm watching an anime "16-bit sensation", a show about NEC PC-98 nostalgia. It made me power up my PC-9821 Aile and boot into DOS/V, and finally try to launch some high-end PC-98 games. And I am speechless. Even on an LCD screen from mid-90s, the art is legendary.

PC-98 series is a special beast. Conceived by NEC as a business computer, the first models were based on Intel's powerful 8086 (the year was 1982). Unlike IBM PC clones, PC-98 supported Japanese out of the box, with complicated input system and thousands of kanji. To make the kanji look good, or, rather, at least minimally readable, the computer's graphics was 640x400 in 16 colours.

As you can imagine, adding Japanese support to a regular PC is hard. No one could do it, and NEC PC-98, became the biggest thing.

For PC games, it made all the difference.

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#pc98 #retrocomputing

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there are two wolves inside you but three on your shirt, you must insert another wolf to achieve balance

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The Ones Who Don't Post On Omelas Anymore But Still Keep Their Accounts To Find Deals On Omelas Marketplace

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Inspired by paradigms such as BBCode, Markdown, and CSS crimes, we have invented a new system for rich posting on our social media platform:

Literally just the entire feature set of Microsoft Word, including macros. Please be nice and don't use your post's footer to obscure other posts on the TL.

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i think enshittification as defined by doctorow, meaning "they made the product worse than it used to be, for profit reasons", is a useful word. but my problem is that people are now using it to mean "it's worse now" with no further qualification and i find that really annoying. the enshittification of my back pain over the years

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So awesome seeing this NEC V40 powered Olivetti Prodest PC1 on my Commodore monitor, via RGB Scart. But it's time for me to give it the overhaul it deserves, the primary floppy has packed in.

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*Hacking, wizened voice* Beware ye, afore ye ride the

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thingsidrawgohere.tumblr.com/p A friend is asking how well Clip Studio works on Linux these days... I see a few different howtos and threads on it here and there, but if anyone seeing this on fedi has strong (and strongly informed) opinions or deep insights on this particular program I can pass em on.

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I find this word objectionable for reasons I cannot articulate

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currently ripping Disney's "Saludos Amigos" and, out of habit, wrote "Amigas" instead. I blame retro-computing. :blobamused:​

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