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1. 寮 (ryo@social.076.moe)'s status on Friday, 10-Feb-2023 12:53:01 JST 寮
   I disagree, governments and corporations need to stay the fuck away from all online platforms.
   Internet needs to go back to its grassroots roots again.
   Just make them use pen and paper again.
   
   Governments ought to leave Shitter, but not for something worse
   https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/governments-ought-to-leave-twitter-but-not-for-something-worse
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   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Friday, 10-Feb-2023 14:42:11 JST xianc78

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     @ryo Governments won't leave Twitter because Big Tech is a government creation.

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   • Wrongthink (wrongthink@cdrom.tokyo)'s status on Saturday, 11-Feb-2023 00:19:09 JST Wrongthink

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     @ryo

     Error code: SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP

     I don’t know why it is that the FSF insists on using weak cryptography. Anyway here is the archived link.

   • Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Sunday, 12-Feb-2023 12:46:14 JST Terminal Autism

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     Meanwhile, the supposedly pro-freedom republicunt party (that is totally against digital ID, goy): https://social.076.moe/url/132111
   • 寮 (ryo@social.076.moe)'s status on Sunday, 12-Feb-2023 19:27:33 JST 寮

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     • Terminal Autism
     "to protect children", I'm fucking sick and tired of that weak excuse!
     None of these "protecc zi chillens" fuckery they do ever has anything to do with preventing child trafficking, it has everything to do with destroying the internet through an type of excuse both the far left and far right easily agree on.
     Which is why every time they say it's to "protecc zi chillens", I already know it's actually to get a step closer to a complete nanny police state.
   • scroll (scroll@social.076.moe)'s status on Sunday, 12-Feb-2023 21:04:53 JST scroll

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     "preventing child trafficking" is call for violence against innocent men. The left and right are both man-hating, so they easily agree that men must suffer.
   • Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Monday, 13-Feb-2023 06:34:19 JST Terminal Autism

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     Every single time. It also disregards the fact that kids growing up online in the 90s and 2000s did not need anyone's protection from this stuff. I saw porn online when I was like, 8, and my reaction to it was general disinterest, and I wasn't interested in 3D until my late teens.
     
     Anyway, it's not about the porn, it's about taking that first step towards requiring digital ID for everything. Porn is an easy target, because most people are too fucking cowardly to defend it. No politician wants to be the guy that defended porn. Really, politicians pretty much all deserve the guillotine.
   • 寮 (ryo@social.076.moe)'s status on Monday, 13-Feb-2023 11:27:44 JST 寮

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     • Terminal Autism
     I know, which is exactly what I'm saying.
     Same with everything else actually, kids growing up in that same time period could play games on higher difficulty levels no problem, and it was seen as a challenge.
     Nowadays they need to have it as easy as possible and they still can't beat a video game, and difficulty is considered a bad thing somehow nowadays.
     
     And I actually like those arcade games like Chunithm and Ongeki, because even though they're not necessarily hard, everyone here enjoys playing them on the highest difficulty level possible, to which the bad actors spectating get dismotivated from even trying.
     Or well, not really the case with Maimai for whatever reason, and Taiko is pretty much a gaijin-only game at this point, because they're the only ones playing it now (and they don't seem to know how).
     
     And Touhou has been kind of infiltrated too with much of its fanbase being people who never even played the games, probably many of which either don't even know they're games or saw JewTube videos about how hard it is and never even try, and only came for the fan made stuff.
     Fortunately, Touhou itself is developed by a BDFL ( https://wikiless.northboot.xyz/wiki/Benevolent_dictator_for_life ), so he's probably not as volunerable to outside pressure as so many others are, plus as long as you don't use his art and music as-is and a few other rules, he lets his fans do with it whatever they want.
   • Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 13:51:47 JST Terminal Autism

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     Yeah, even when I was a kid, with a GBC and a PS1 early on and later emulators (mostly the GBA, that and the PS1 were the systems I was most obsessed with until adulthood), I remember other kids that I knew having no patience for anything with difficulty, though there were still difficult games at the time, and games in general were still challenging to a degree.
     
     Meanwhile I was really into the Rockman games, and those get pretty brutal. My first one was X6, which is infamous for not being designed very well and not being very fair, because it was rushed to release. I beat that an absurd number of times. Hell, I beat all of my favorite games way too many times, because they never got old, and there were so many different things to do, and beating something doesn't mean that you have mastered it. But of course, they got really easy, so that's where ROM hacks came in, for a boost in difficulty.
     
     While all of that happened, gaming moved in the direction of everything being made for babies, and I wasn't even that aware of it because the games that I was playing were not the norm anymore. Really, it doesn't affect me directly, only through it affecting other people. There are newer games I want to play, but I have to be convinced to play them, because older games set my standards higher. And I'm not a consoomer, so a game being newer is not a benefit, it has to convince me that it's worth playing and that it deserves my time, that could be used for an older game instead.
     
     That got me into playing really difficult games, and also beating a lot of older games in general, as an adult. Then I ended up getting into arcade games, because I saw really good players play them and it was very impressive. Those tend to be brutal, and are also not very long because they are very dense. There is no padding, because the game wants to kill you and steal your money, but it also have to be fun enough that you keep playing. They have to be all substance.
     
     I actually became pretty impatient with a lot of easier games. Like, a lot of RPGs are too slow and bland for me, so they can be a bit hard to play these days, particularly if the systems aren't very interesting and there's nothing cool to do other than basically getting bigger numbers and hitting attack over and over again. https://social.076.moe/url/137730
   • Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 14:10:57 JST Terminal Autism

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     As far as Touhou goes, it's easy to appreciate from various angles because the music is incredible and the character designs are as well. Anyway, I became really aware of it because of the /jp/ board on 4chan. I did play the games though, so I'm not a filthy secondary (as they say), though I do suck at them (not counting the fighting ones, also, I 1CCed 9 with every character, that's the one that is like Twinkle Star Sprites). And I am aware of ZUN.
     
     I'm one of those people that just never got good at shmups (I have seen other people that can beat some pretty hard games but get annihilated by shmups, no idea what that's all about but it seems to be a thing). I can play anything else on a decent level, but could never get really good at shmups. This is definitely because I haven't played them enough, and the few times that I played one a lot, I either got bored of it or hit a wall and could not break through it. Actually, I think one reason why may be the fact that I can't control the scrolling, which makes the games feel slower even though they're not really slower. Just controlling my own progress through a stage and the feeling of blasting through it really fast, I think is something that I miss in shmups, and didn't play them enough to get used to it.
     
     Anyway, my limited system resources don't help. Unless I close my browsers, the shmups I like and played the most run like complete shit. I was actually pretty close to a Deathsmiles 1CC, years ago, and I really like that game so I would have succeeded, but the performance is really bad and I think it's the emulation. So, I would find a better way to play it, maybe get a new ROM set and a new version of MAME, and run it natively and not in Wine. But MAME suffers on Unix systems because they are designed by addict updooters. I want to update MAME only when I want to, because I'm generally not in the mood to download updates for my games, I just want them not to be fucked with. And of course, I can't play Touhou because Wine is shit. I could run Windows on another computer to play those, but then I'll have to do it on a tiny laptop screen, at an angle. Could do it in a VM, but then the RAM becomes an issue again. The PC-98 ones are an option, I played those a bit a while ago. Still have to set a controller up in DOSBox-X, though. Could just use the keyboard, but my keyboard switches are too heavy (they are medium weight, but I should have picked lighter) and I type too much, so it gets exhausting.
     
     Also, my stick's actuation is too long. Though that one doesn't really matter to me very much for shmups, definitely not as much as I would expect. It hurts me a lot more in games with motions that involve going from up to down very fast and suddenly (that's a bad one), because I very frequently miss that input, though I can still do Guile's super pretty easily in 2X, so it really depends on the speed and whether I can hold a direction first. But for shmups, I'm less picky, probably because I suck, so nothing matters. Hell, pad is pad too, as long as it has turbo so I don't have to mash, because that destroys my thumb.
     
     Anyway, I have Touhou cursors. They're animated, and pretty cool. Currently using the Reisen one. https://social.076.moe/url/137774