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@olmitch @PurpCat instance blocklists on fedi, every time.

@p @sjw @TheMadPirate I think what it comes down to is, modern platforms for people who like to create stuff barely take their opinions into account when it comes to introducing or sunsetting features. Youtube is the most obvious example, constantly at odds over it. Youtube can barely fix their shitty UX on their own and is at odds with their users over things as simple and obvious as the dislike button. By comparison Newgrounds started a lot of those features the others adopted and continues to actually care about preserving the older content. They cared enough about letting their creators preserve their content that they made Swivel so that nobody was beholden to poorly made flash to video solutions anymore. They’ve run their own infrastructure since they had persist at a time when they were the target of all the controversy mongering, they focus on enabling the artists who power them, they started the sound portal so animators had music from other creators to work with royalty free, which predated youtube’s sound library and tiktok’s music/sound ecosystems, and love it or hate it the portal system for voting and blamming content works at scale more often than not. Newgrounds is just quietly there on the slow feature ramp, keeping what works, remaining for its creators, while the other platforms go through boom-bust phases.

@p @sjw @TheMadPirate it is, and it’s just kept being super consistent while all the other platforms have gone through hype cycles. At some point I expect video content is going to swing over to it when the secret’s out.

@p @sjw @TheMadPirate Good future is newgrounds rising again, I await that day patiently.

standard caturday content.

@p @sjw Mega64, they just kept going and also had some great meta jokes, including my favorite trilogy.

Old man rambles at clouds time.

When I was a kid, one of the most persistent urban myths that went around in school was the existence of the ‘Phantom’, a secret gaming console in testing that you could plug a game for any system into and you could play. It was fantastical, and ridiculous, and the kind of thing that everyone sincerely wanted to believe that even one kid’s uncle was legit and the whispers were true and all gamers would be able to lay the console war to rest because what mattered was we all got to play the games we love together.

Obviously this wasn’t true (the story was so powerful that a company half a decade later tried to capitalize on the name and actually make a console with it) but late in the 4th grade, I accidentally discovered emulators, and for the first time it kind of felt true. It wasn’t perfect, it wasn’t exactly the same, it required effort to find the games out there in some of the darker corners of the internet at a time that pop up blockers weren’t really a thing yet, but I could play these games. All the cool games I’d heard from friends on systems I’d never played or had in my house, I could find out about them, I could try them, I could learn the history of this art form I loved called games by taking it in though my hands one at a time. You’d better believe that’s exactly what I did. I became a ludologic encyclopedia and I didn’t regret it for a moment.

Time passes, and now we are approaching the age of the FPGA, and that mythical system, the Phantom, is real, or at least close enough in practical terms. Today I got an Analogue Pocket, and with the right adapters I can plug in not only all my old game boy games, but many of the other portable systems of the time too, and the accuracy is nigh-perfect, and the collective will of the internet means we can even reprogram these FPGAs to support even more old systems, and through software play back the classics from a wide cross section of them in a much more precise, true to intent way.

But it’s kind of funny, because I held that thing in my hand, considering what to play first with the history of handheld gaming at my fingertips, which cartridge to dig out, which cores to load onto the system, which classics to give the honor… and the inaugural title I chose to play is the same game of my very own that I first clacked into the cartridge slot of my precious transparent game boy pocket when I was a kid: Bomberman GB. It just felt right, and even with all the other nostalgic games that made my childhood at my fingertips tempting me- I had a great time.

@lanodan @kaia My bad, I was referring to the one I’d posted, took a second to pull them up but:

• Solar-chan
• Geothermal-chan
• Hydro-chan
• Wind-chan
• Fossil-chan

@lanodan @kaia this artist (doesn’t seem to have a profile on reddit anymore) gave this treatment to all the clean energy types at one point in the moemorphism sub. Fission was my favorite but there were also tidal, geothermal and wind.

@kaia Advance us to the stars!

@kaia clearly skilled with an angle ruler

@SuperDicq @Rasp when 5 first released they were improperly filing DMCA takedowns on letsplayers playing the game. They made no attempt to hide it, they were quite loud about doing it. That’s the reason I still haven’t touched P5.

@lain today that spread costs whatever the michelin star equiv was back then

@kaia It sets a very pensive tone and I’d say that works pretty well to set up expectations when it comes to the story pacing.

@triodug

@kaia always clean your yote

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@icedquinn now yahtzee can review it

@Moon later slim revisions will remove the honey mustart and you can buy it separately to reattach for more.