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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 25-Oct-2024 08:15:38 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   Annoying edge case: having to pick a new name that's the same length as your deadname, so it can be patched into ROMs without changing offsets.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 25-Oct-2024 08:16:53 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Context: the ROM of the Acorn Electron credits Sophie Wilson by her birth name, but her birth name is one letter shorter so you can't easily fix it without adjusting all the offsets

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 25-Oct-2024 08:20:28 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Annoyingly I've released software under like 5 names and they're all different lengths.

     So I'm not taking my own advice

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 25-Oct-2024 08:23:04 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Alternative solution: make sure you're always credited under a long nickname.
     I have at least one script credited to a 16 character name, so I could always patch in:
     "FOONE TURING____"

   • Tim 🎮 (timixretroplays@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 25-Oct-2024 09:10:11 JST Tim 🎮

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     @foone there is a typo in the main binary in Mechwarrior 1 from 1989 where a particular battlemech is called the "PHONIX HAWK". Correcting it causes the game to freeze when loading the menu on-planet. I don't understand it because the phoenix hawk is not the only 'mech with a 12 letter name.

     I don't know if it shipped like that or if it's part of the copy protection crack and is the reason behind the game auto-passing levels if you put a friendly mechwarrior in one of those 'mechs.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 25-Oct-2024 09:41:42 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Ozzelot :anarchy: :linux:

     @ozzelot if I had a time machine,
     1. Do you really think I'd be hanging out in 2024?
     2. I've got a long todo list if I ever do get a time machine, and "fix my names" is barely on it

   • Ozzelot :anarchy: :linux: (ozzelot@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Oct-2024 09:41:44 JST Ozzelot :anarchy: :linux:

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     @foone Invent a time machine (under The Right Name) and tell your past selves to be consistent