Notices by xianc78@gameliberty.club, page 27

@GrumpyRabbit The country that is known for milkmen delivering milk at people's doors is going to ban cows in a few years. How ironic.

EU citizens: Please sign this petition to make the EU give us UBI, put heavy regulations on X, fund open-source projects, ban Y.....
EU citizens after the EU rolls out a digital ID:

The ironic thing about the Haitians eating cats is that more people will start doing it when beef and pork are banned and we are forced to eat bugs.

@djsumdog @meowski @PNS Don't black women tend to look more masculine than non-black women?

@cryptoduke @gentoobro @NNYLiberty There are still examples of states exercising their 10th amendment rights though.

@NNYLiberty Technically it died back in 1913, but whatever.

So given today is September 11th, I would like to take this as an opportunity to talk about something that has been in the back of my mind for a while:

I've heard from multiple people (particularly millennials) that prior to 9/11 they didn't watch, listen to, read, or care about the news. You could probably excuse that by saying that many of them were just kids at the time and kids generally don't care about the news, but it is something that resonates with me because my older brother claimed to have started paying close attention to the news after 9/11 and we I was the same age as my brother was during that time, my mother complained about me not reading the newspaper and calling me "ignorant". I shrugged it off as her trying to get me to read more in my free-time because I wasn't big on reading as a kid.

Years later, I feel like that mentality never died. I feel like people are shamed if they are not aware about the recent mass shooting, terrorist attack, war, genocide, police brutality incident, racial injustice, riot, natural disaster, celebrity death, or whatever, whether these events are real or psyops. Like I'm supposed to be constantly up to date on everything that happens in this vast world. I honestly don't think the human mind is even capable of being up to date and empathetic to everything that is going on (or is being staged if you are a conspiracy theorist) 24/7. You should be more focused on what goes on in your local area and how it affects you and your loved ones. Sure, there are events that do affect us even if they happen on the other side of the planet, but those are the exception rather than the rule.

And most of the time, the most important news stories are buried in favor of the current distraction. Most of the news links I repost here are ones that I feel are more important than what people are currently promoting, but I guess that's the power of psyops.

People are constantly talking about the need for a social media detox. How about a news detox? News, especially mainstream (and controlled opposition "alternative") news is designed to keep you afraid and constantly listening, so that you accept whatever tyranny the elites will give you. The best thing to do is to limit your intake, and ignore those who call you "ignorant".

@Mr_NutterButter Maybe it's the events that happened over the past few years that made a lot of people, especially young people feel hopeless, but even before then it feels like a lot of people were falling for existential nihilist propaganda, and to get into conspiracy theory territory, I feel like it was intentional. It prevents people from making their lives, their communities, and the world better, and it also lowers birthrates (anti-natalism) and in extreme cases, lead to suicides (depopulation).

The solution? I think it's to live a life full of experiences and have that define you as opposed to valuing material possessions and obsessing over current events. I've talked about this recently. There are still festivals, gatherings, and other events. Go to them instead of complaining that modern society offers nothings but Funko Pops and Marvel movies.

https://gameliberty.club/@xianc78/113064966439377431

There's more to it. Find some hobbies and I mean productive hobbies. Learn to make things. Find a hobby that requires you to leave your home.

I don't have all the answers, but people really need to get out of their comfort zone.

@coolboymew Consoles are dead. Accept it.

@beardalaxy Pretty much. The PS2 having DVD support was what made so many people wait for it. Sega couldn't make a deal with the DVD Forum and went with their own proprietary CD-based format known as GD-ROM (Gigabyte Disc ROM) instead. GD-ROMs were just basically CDs but with the microscopic pits more tightly compact so they can store a gigabyte of data. DVDs on the other hand, can store 8GBs. Sega talked about having a DVD player add-on but that never came into fruition.

Sega also had another CD-based format for the Dreamcast called MIL-CDs. They were basically music CDs that also included software (things like karaoke or music videos) that could run on a Sega Dreamcast. MIL-CDs never had copy protection. Because of that, people realize that they can burn Dreamcast games as MIL-CDs and run them on a Dreamcast without any modifications. Sega did correct this with a hardware revision, but it was already too late. Though the MIL-CD exploit was what allowed the Dreamcast to have a vibrant homebrew community.

Though honestly, the Saturn pretty much killed Sega as a hardware manufacturer more than the Dreamcast. If Sega still had a little bit more money, the Dreamcast could be on par with the GameCube in terms of sales.

Also, Sega never had a console that was a worldwide success. The Master System did well in Europe and South America, but failed in the US and Japan. The Genesis/Mega Drive did well in North America, South America, and Europe, but failed in Japan. The Saturn did well in Japan, but failed everywhere else. It made sense for them to go third-party.

@beardalaxy It was actually doing pretty well in the US, until the PS2 was announced.

@YTFoidLover1488 It would've been better if Sega released GD-ROM burners and gave away the documentation to the Dreamcast after going third-party, but that is something that almost never happens in a Japanese company.

@YTFoidLover1488
>It was an alright homebrew / emu station though.

Except that the homebrew scene can never come close to the official software due to the fact that the homebrew games are running off of MIL-CDs instead of GD-ROMs and most of the games are 2D and could easily run on a Genesis.

Atari, on the other hand, open-sourced the Jaguar and give away the documentation to the system after going 3rd party, which allowed independent developers to unlock it's full potential. The Dreamcast only has a homebrew scene because of Sega's mostly unused karaoke CDs.

How can the Dreamcast be considered underrated when so many people are talking about it?

@Alex @TXPatriot2021 I think it's mostly those who took 3 or more boosters that are dying. Most of the double jabbed seem to be fine except for a few unlucky ones.

@Wormwood Who cares? Just emulate.

@allison @ensix @Pawlicker @penny My point is that all FOSS licenses allow anyone to profit off of the software, including the AGPL. There are "anti-capitalist" licenses out there that prohibit privately owned companies from using the software (only allowing worker co-ops and individuals), but they are by definition, not FOSS.

https://anticapitalist.software/

There are also so called "ethical software licenses" that restrict other uses like using the software to "promote hate". Basically making them no different than EULAs. There was a small surge of these movements ever since far-leftists threw Stallman under the bus.

https://ethicalsource.dev/licenses/

How many of these Cirno fans realize that she is not the main character of Touhou?

@Pawlicker @allison @ensix @penny You can still profit off of AGPL code. Look at Mastodon instances like Pawoo or Librem Social.