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First they must catch you by Eran Fowler

All the world will be your enemy, Prince With A Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first, they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.“

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endure

2024

IF IT NO LONGER SERVES YOU, LEAVE

SAY WHAT YOU MEAN

ALL IS NOT AS IT APPEARS

DO NOT EQUATE TEMPERANCE WITH INACTION

THE WORLD IS ABUNDANT

YOU ARE CAPABLE OF BOTH GREAT HORROR AND GREAT KINDNESS TOO

THERE IS BEAUTY AND HOPE IN ALL COMPASSION

THIS IS NOT YOUR GRAVE

GET THE FUCK UP

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abandonware should be public domain. force companies to actively support and provide products if they don't wanna lose the rights to them

omikronsoul

Game companies hate emulation, but none of them seem to understand that a lot of us would just buy ROMs from them directly if we could. I don't want a fifth remake of Final Fantasy IV, I want to pay five bucks for the 3MB file you already made bank with thirty years ago. Nobody who wants to play something for the purpose of retro gaming is going to consider a $40 remake as the alternative option, and we're certainly not going to let the original dissappear. They're crying about opportunity cost for a product they're not even selling.

justletmeremember

op i know you're probably talking about like, video games, etc, but this is also critical for research science - my lab has so much abandonware, either because the company's out of business, or the company decided to not maintain it, and it's a fucking nightmare. we have two windows 95 computers that are CRITICAL for performing experiments/data analysis because the software needed is abandonware. one of the main roles for a guy in my lab is to maintain these little dinosaurs because if they go out, we lose access to ~20 years of raw data for research. part of why is that these companies also make their own file types, and make it difficult-to-impossible to convert those file types without their specific software. by habit, i convert all research files to more generic versions (txt, pdf, tif, etc) so that i minimize risk of losing my shit, but some stuff can't be converted.

for example, we have a microscope that is perfectly functional, good microscope, but its software is abandonware because the company refused to maintain it. the company is still in business, still makes essentially the exact same software, but they made all of the old tech incompatible with new software to force people to buy the new microscope tech. it would cost a quarter million dollars to replace this microscope. this perfectly good microscope.

so like, i know a lot of people look at the original post here and go "well op just wants old video games to play" (which is valid! games companies should not be able to push shit to abandonware and then close it off) but also this is critical for like. biomedical research. if y'all had any idea how much basic infrastructure built on science relies on shit that is technically abandonware, you would probably be horrified.

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heedra

I think it's possible to play a tabletop character who truly sucks as a person and that it's possible to play a tabletop character who's very aloof but it's extremely hard to successfully play both of those in the same character. a character who's a total bastard and ALSO pushes people away gives everyone else both very little to work with and also very little reason to want to. if you're committed to playing an asswipe in a collaborative game they need to be a little bit hopelessly codependent, be it on the party or on elements of the plot. they need to have some 'the gang from always sunny' energy to them. you need to be prepared to get kind of crony with it. to swallow ur dignity a bit.