Myoukochou

I actually do think it’s deliberate. There’s probably even evidence of that. We should seek that evidence out.

Yep. I know. Same. Made the point. It’s life or death for me.

Thanks (and fully understood, I wouldn’t either!). 💜

Actually I think maybe I might just lean into it.

True, but it shouldn’t even be a question.

This whole thing has been an entirely unnecessary, dishonest, transphobic hate campaign - but it doesn’t even win votes, in fact it loses deposits.

But they still aren’t listening, so I guess… we need voices so loud they cannot be ignored. Wish we didn’t.

… maybe not a direct link; Internet Archive?

Thank you.

Point: is there supposed to be an introductory line before the quote about who you’re quoting from? That part reads confusingly. (Don’t want anyone to think it’s part of your own copy!)

I mean, that’s supposed to be the job of the police. (They won’t do it, but it’s supposed to be.)

It’s supposed to be the job of the platform moderators. (They won’t do it, but it’s supposed to be.)

A good mass block helps stop it building attention, momentum or popularity, however.

Correct. 💜

Fortunately, we have nuclear block here, and any attempt at that is gonna find itself on a blocklist.

You’re finally buying Doom?

I shouldn’t ever have needed to do it; but I did, for a time, because the available healthcare wasn’t fit for purpose.

And it saved my life.

And knowing that I can gives me security, knowing that I am not just at the mercy of medics whose support and competency I know I can’t always rely on.

I did the music and the title screen background art. Fun little project!

(The soundtrack is also out now on all major platforms, including Bandcamp.)

Go for it! (Also pls go vote)

Yes.

I could probably do it in 18 *weeks* and still have time to pet Larry, but they’ve been too busy being Red Tories: digital ID cards, puberty blocker bans, proscribing pensioners as terrorists, starving kids, freezing pensioners; sometimes U-turning when their own backbenchers say “too evil”.

A forum! How adorable. Are there any invites going free?

Two instances of “Isn’t X, it’s Y”. I smell ChatGPT.

We’re all too afraid to ask.

There’s always time to repent. And read.

It gets worse over time: I completed Tempest 2000 in Beastly Mode (proof: six cups of tea) and let me tell you the controller HURT at the end of that.

That does mean putting up with the controller, however, and I’m not sure my index fingers would allow me to.

Age verification?

My first computer loaded from cassette tape.

Sometimes. When it worked. Usually didn’t first time. You might have to get out a little screwdriver, adjust the head, or move the volume 0.1mm.

I still have it. Trying to load a game the old way is a great rose-tinted nostalgia cure.

Of course we’re here.

Unshadowed, by Alyssa Rowan track by Alyssa Rowan

Sometimes the inspiration hits you and things fall into place; so hot on the heels of releasing an album, here’s a calm piano piece I composed on stream the other week.

It’s mostly in the keys of F, A and D, so I called it Unshadowed. Out now on platforms.

alyssarowan.bandcamp.com/track/unshad...

Okay; can’t argue with a castoff! There’s a whole bunch of good games, it’s *peak* 8-bit. Though an emulator can never quite match the glorious crunchiness of the glitchy warm digi/analogue synth SID soundchip, from the guy who went on to do Ensoniq.

Ooh: Head over Heels is a bit of a hidden gem.

If you’re worried about accuracy, latency, audio glitches, or you wanna run demoscene stuff, try a Commodore C64 Ultimate instead, an FPGA thing from, yes, Commodore; enthusiasts bought the rights to everything including the name. (💜)

Never owned one myself but my uncle had a very tricked out one.

Wizball. Lords of Chaos. Turrican 1 & 2. IK+. Last Ninja 1 & 2. Bubble Bobble. Sid Meyer’s Pirates. Exile. Great Giana Sisters. Boulder Dash. The C64 port of Elite I heard is good. There’s an Eye of the Beholder port which is mad.

The demoscene is amazing but your unit runs VICE, not real hardware.

@i-ehrc.bsky.social exists, or is beginning to

No it’s okay, go ahead; the people who call others posers? Everyone hates them. Most of the metal and goth crowd are lovely, and everything you need to be part of their culture is what you just described.

Yes, it could… and just the same, a lot of us like creating positive things.

I want to be remembered for who I am, what I have created, who I loved — not what people I’ve never met or spoken to and don’t think I should exist say about me or want to do to me.

I plan to tell history myself — after.