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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • As far as I can tell this exists upon the same legal framework as OpenMW does, which is that it’s a fully custom built engine from the ground up that just so happens to be able to take input from a game file. Nothing about the software actually contains any code that Nintendo ever wrote and in fact isn’t even trying to home bake the game from scratch, it’s JUST an engine. You feed it your ROM file and all Zelda-related content comes from that file.

    The Pokemon romhacks that I know of that get taken down are different because they contain the actual code of Pokemon, just modified and redistributed. Smart people distribute romhacks as IPS files that you have to patch manually, the Super Mario World romhacking community has been doing this for literal decades. That functions on the same principle that none of the code being distributed was ever written by Nintendo, the file just interacts with one written by Nintendo.

    At least, that’s how I understand the situation.



  • It’s not.

    You have an account on a server (instance). That server has an administrator. I have an account on a different server, which has a different administrator. We can speak to each other in the middle from these two separate servers, via federation protocols.

    The administrator(s) on your server are loud and proud authoritarians and frequently silence any discussion of general resistance, among other topics that they don’t like. This is not a personal failure on your part; there’s not much way to know about it except to be told or to inspect the mod logs yourself. Now that you’ve been told, though, you have the opportunity to move to a server that actually respects your right to speak on the internet.

    Or you may elect to stay on LW and be banned or censored without warning, and be lightly associated with auth-left idiots for anyone who knows what the LW admins are like. That is a choice that can be made.

    If you are going to make a move, I’ll warn you that .ml is known for similar. Just about most anywhere else is hosted by sane people, frequently as independent projects, even more frequently as a direct response to LW and ML’s dumbfuckery.











  • Yes. Don’t ask me why, I don’t have a fucking clue, but it is. If I had to guess, it’s because it’s a (quite good) game about rebuilding yourself from nothing. You start the game as an empty shell of a character who was just shot dead and lost all their memories, and the entire rest of the game is about creating yourself to be who you want to be, and about making change in the Wasteland and deciding on a new future of things to come. I can sort of understand why that might resonate for trans folks. I have no idea if this is an accurate assessment or not.

    But it’s a game that I love with an ongoing unholy fervor so I say, the more the merrier.


  • skulblaka@sh.itjust.workstoFunny@sh.itjust.worksDouble Grounded
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    For me at least, being grounded was the preferable alternative to having my ass beaten physically off my body with the nearest leather belt or wooden implement. I can serve my time and be free afterward, or I can make things worse for everyone involved, and still be grounded but also be physically harmed while I’m grounded.

    Was this good and right? Hell if I know, man. It feels like a fundamental disrespect of someone’s human rights, but also, I was ten, and it succeeded in teaching me to be less of an incorrigible little fucker.




  • Nah, if you do it right the wafers are thin enough that you won’t stick to things. You want them to be able to react to nearby EM fields, which means they need to be small and light so they can vibrate (? I don’t 100% recall the exact function they perform to give you this sense). Which in turn means the magnets are small and light enough that they aren’t likely to stick to objects, or wipe credit cards, or damage your phone.

    But probably don’t pick up powerful magnets with those fingers and probably don’t get an MRI on your hands.


  • I’ve wanted to do this from the very moment I learned it was possible, circa 2014.

    Unfortunately it’s kind of difficult to find a doctor who will do this sort of elective surgery for you. So my options are kind of just, do without, or do it myself. So far I’ve just done without. But I’d be lying if I said I didn’t give the occasional side eye to the kitchen knife whenever I’ve had a bit to drink.