Speaking as someone living in Hungary, to friends in the #USA:
The greatest weapon the system has is outrage fatigue. Doing so many unimaginable things at the same time that people just sigh and go on. Having so many things to protest that you run out of days and hours. Piling on so you start focusing on surviving with your bare mental health day to day.
Pick your cause and stick to it. Support others who focus on different causes. Don't try to do everything at once.
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@kims this is the one situation in which you **want** it to go down the center drain
Today I learned that the first Super Mario Bros. romhack was released not in the 2000s, or the 1990s, but in 1987βtwo years after the game's original release. It was called "Tonkachi Mario". It wasn't a modified EEPROM in a custom cartridge, it was a hacked version of the Famicom Disk System port of Super Mario Bros. Being stored on magnetic media made it a lot easier to edit.
But wait, the Famicom Disk System used custom proprietary disks, how are you going to edit those?
It turns out that Tonkachi Mario was actually the bundled demo that came with Tonkachi Editor, which was an unlicensed third-party tool that was basically a primitive hex editor for Famicom Disk System disks, operated by the regular Famicom controller.
The Famicom Disk System came out in 1986, so within a year of it's release, somebody reverse-engineered the drive, reverse-engineered the Famicom, wrote a toolchain to make their own custom programs, wrote a hex-editor, reverse-engineered Super Mario Bros. and made their own custom version. Oh, and Tonkachi Mario requires speedrunning tricks like glitching through walls to complete, so the creator had to have those skills too.
I wouldn't be surprised at somebody doing that *today* now that we have resources like the NESDev wiki and YouTube videos about how to get good at speedrunning tricks. But in 1987? Wow.
Crazy graphic of the day.
Wage theft greatly eclipses all other forms of theft value: https://www.tcworkerscenter.org/2018/09/wage-theft-vs-other-forms-of-theft-in-the-u-s/
https://netizen.club/~wildweasel/updates/2024-11-09.html - Been slacking on updating for long enough that I almost forgot which golf games I've bought and not added to Golfshrine, including one that was supposed to be part of last month's update. Fewer games, more info. Let's get this done.
@Dennis5891 @OutofPrintArchive I apologise for the somewhat shameless pluggery, and you're very welcome to tell me to pound sand. HOWEVER: you may well get a kick out of this mini-documentary series I made about pinball video games. https://youtu.be/BfcQwuH9FSY
@jhavard I have only vaguely heard of activitypub and do not know where to even begin with that process, there is so much that I do not know. πβ I've never installed any kind of scripting or software on to a web host before.
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Web design geeks: between 5 different stylesheets, I have used exactly _one_ image across the entire project. Every single effect you see here is pure CSS. I feel so awesome for putting it together completely by hand.
https://netizen.club/~wildweasel/weaselswriting/ - yesterday and today, I've spent my time laboriously converting all of my writing that I did for Cohost, into HTML that I can host on my own webspace. Everything is now properly organized, and because I have full control over its presentation, each setting now has its own neat little CSS style associated with it. If you enjoy genre fiction, there is Quite A Lot of it here.
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