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@wowaname @nicholas @Shadowman311 @Nudhul @sun 8moe, zzzchan, and whatever webring boards are left.

@berkberkman @beardalaxy @coded_artist @Pawlicker Like I said earlier, I don't own any Sony console let alone the PSIO or Super GB Booster.

I only know of the latter, along with the PS1's parallel port thanks to The Gaming Historian. He didn't mention any disc for the thing, other than the option to use an audio CD to play background music, so I assume the port is bootable. The port was also used for the rarely used link cable. I assumed that some games might have required only one disc, which suggested that the port might be bootable, but on further inspection, it doesn't seem to be the case.

@Pawlicker @beardalaxy @coded_artist
>the problem with the PS1 is that you need to get the "wobble" (as it's nicknamed in the community) right on the discs to make them boot.

I know that, but I also know that the PS1 can also be booted from it's parallel port. There was an unlicensed accessory known as the Super GB Booster which allowed users to play GameBoy games on the PS1 and it used that port. So it is possible to make homebrew cartridges (with maybe using the CD drive to load audio). Granted, the final revision of the original model removed that port, but still.

https://consolevariations.com/collectibles/innovation-super-gb-booster

New Theory: The Asteroid 2024 YR4 will be the final plan to unite humanity under a NWO. If plandemics and wars aren't enough, they will fake an asteroid impact either by detonating a large explosive or hurling a ton of space junk towards Earth. They will fake a nuclear winter via geo-engineering and fake food-shortages until everyone starts calling for a one world government.

@Mr_NutterButter @bonifartius @eliasr I could see an extreme case where it involves a historic church.

@eliasr JD Vance made that claim. I took that claim with healthy skepticism because I know that even the "right" will exaggerate or make up stuff. But then, I was told it was partially true because Scotland has "buffer zones" which prohibit praying in a certain vicinity around an abortion clinic and that vicinity could extent to private property outside of the clinic's property (e.g someone's home).

Can someone please verify if praying at home is illegal in Scotland? I don't know if I should believe it. On one hand, these European governments are comprised of retards. On the other hand, even the dumbest of retards would know that kind of law in unenforceable.

@Calvin @nozaki @coolboymew @animepfp Give every ideology it's own city-state and problem solved.

https://polcompball.wikitide.org/wiki/Patchwork

@vokainen099 @sun That's what I expected, and not many banks are going to implement it due to it's obscurity. The only chance it has of ever becoming usable is if governments force banks to use it, which is also unlikely.

@sun I don't understand it either nor can I find anyone who actually uses it.

@sun I just wish that people would just simply treat it as a decentralized alternative to payment processors and leave it at that. I know GNU Taler exists but from my understanding it only works if your bank/credit union implements it.

@beardalaxy That's been around for years. Someone always creates a Buy Nothing Day during Black Friday or any other day where people normally go shopping.

@coolboymew @nozaki @animepfp
>There's been theories all over that the CIA/whatever has basically completely fucked over "the left" and the overall current states of online and big outlets politics is confusing on purpose

I think it goes back further than that. Once upon a time, liberalism, republicanism, and populism were considered "left". There is theory that communism, socialism, and left-anarchism are all controlled opposition ideologies made to undermine the enlightenment and liberal movements in Europe by being extreme versions of what the enlightenment movement wanted, and those ideologies were made to devolve into fascism (i.e full top-down control) by design.

>And then there's the "the commies!!!" thing. You'll see online, all of the big breadtubers, twitter accounts with communist sign, socialists, etc... They're basically just shitlibs

>And then there's the weird disconnection between the actual socialists (they're usually not completely 100% socialists nowadays), communist and co. that rages when... let's say Sargon as an example, use the term "communists"

In their purest definitions, socialism is where the workers control the means of production, and communism is a classless, moneyless, and stateless society. So I guess you could make the argument that the "not real communism" counter-argument is correct, but that leaves the question on whether a communist society is even possible or desirable, assuming they aren't controlled opposition ideologies like I suggested earlier.

Also, just how people are confused by the definitions of communism and socialism, I think people are confused about the definition of capitalism. A far-leftist will argue that rich people buying/bribing politicians, wars for economic gain, etc are all examples of the "evils" of capitalism, yet a right-libertarian would say otherwise as those examples violate the non-aggression principle. Every ancap vs ancom debate I've seen devolves into these types of arguments.

@coolboymew @nozaki @animepfp
>All in all, the Internet in general gotta be de-2016'd, but that was a pandora's box that's most likely never closing

The conspiracy theorist in me wants to think that it's all intentional. It makes it easier to control people when everyone is in their own ideological echo-chamber where there ideas can never be challenged.

@sendpaws @theorytoe @nozaki @animepfp
>Yet every single furry has a bsky account for some reason.

Isn't it popular with Japanese artists?

Mother 1/Earthbound Zero/Earthbound Beginnings is the best and the only truly great Mother game because it actually feels like a late 20th century road trip movie adapted into an RPG.

Earthbound/Mother 2 is way too goofy and is mostly a retelling of the first game without the Giygas backstory. And Mother 3 is a very shallow critique of capitalism, modernity, and western culture which goes against the premise of the first two games, and it might as well be a Final Fantasy game.

I think the series in general is overrated, but if one game is deserving of the hidden gem status, it would be the first one.

@Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com Dude, it's fiction.

I feel like I'm making lolicon discussion type arguments but the fucking proprietary software in the anime isn't real bro...

@icedquinn It's not that. Suiseiseki is an extreme freetard and he is now saying that modern anime should be avoided because of fictional portrayals of proprietary software.

This is literally worse than the freetard purity spiraling I saw back on 8chan/tech/.

https://freesoftwareextremist.com/objects/3445d005-7ffd-4224-a7bc-6eebad960a4c