Notices by josemanuel@qoto.org

@coolboymew Try to get a variable rate mortgage, if you can. I don’t know how it is in Canada, but, in Europe, rates are pretty high, so they’re bound to go down sooner than later.

@noyoushutthefuckupdad I would argue that it never became really popular. It was just transformed into something pallatable to normies, and ruined in the process. Think about how normal people react, even today, when confronted with a command line.

Nerds used to be artisans (left to our own devices, we created great things), but bullshitters like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs wanted to turn us into a chain gang, and they’re succeeding.

@coolboymew @mangeurdenuage

@coolboymew Yeah, looks like it.

@coolboymew In general, I try not to follow people who wouldn’t reply to me if I talked to them. If they’re not interested in interacting with other people, why should I care about whatever it is they say?

@coolboymew I must admit I like neither, but at least the former style had some personality to it. The other is just bland (and genuinely looks like a boy in a wig).

@coolboymew https://shitposter.club/objects/92c338b7-3995-4b87-97e8-9af04665b858

@coolboymew A few days ago, you complained about some character design and, when I saw the screenshots you posted, I thought the same thing.

@coolboymew Is it just me or there is a trend lately of drawing female characters that look like boys wearing wigs?

@swurl The PC in the 80s was a useless piece of metal and much more difficult to configure (I remember needing a professional to make MS DOS work in Spanish. That’s where the meme about “not repairing your computer” came from) than a Spectrum, but that’s not even the point.

A Spectrum was affordable. In a way, it was the first personal computer. IBM PCs were mighty expensive. You could say sir Clive Sinclair was the real creator of home computing.

Also, a Spectrum (and by Spectrum I mean all Z80-based computers, and even the Commodore and the Amiga) put you in control of your machine, which is what delighted us. The PC demoted all of us to users until Linux appeared. Nobody programmed on a PC in those days. We didn’t even know it was possible until the 1990s, and even then only with crap like GW BASIC.

So, yes, if you wanted to use WordPerfect or dBase III, I guess a PC was fine, but if you wanted to do real, creative, amazing stuff with computers, a PC was not the best option.

@coolboymew

@mrsaturday See my “etc.” at the end of the non-exhaustive list or architectures.

The chan poster derided Amigas, too, if I understood him correctly. Maybe not the Commodores, given that they came from the US, but these had two things against them: they were more expensive (thus most people n Europe prefering a Spectrum or an Amstrad) and not interoperable, like the MSX, which was more of a Z80-based standard.

What I’m saying is that Commodores were for rich kids, basically. Most people didn’t have them here.

@coolboymew

@coolboymew Burgerlanders would never understand the happiness of having a cheap home computer that was designed, not only for playing, but also for learning and tinkering. Most of us discovered the pleasure of computer programming and electronics thanks to the Spectrums, Amstrads, MSX, etc.

Also, having a whole ecosystem of microcomputers, as opposed to today’s PC/Mac monopoly, lead to the publishing of technical books and magazines where you could learn more about your systems and get in touch with other fans.

It is my belief that the PC becoming the dominant architecture is responsible for us not having flying cars today, as we were promised, but a fuckton of js frameworks instead.

@coolboymew Just use Seamonkey’s own Developer Tools (Ctrl-Shift-C) and modify the CSS on the fly. (Of course, you’d have to write the values down and edit the actual files later, because you’re not really editing the page with the Inspector, just previewing the changes.)

@raccoon

@coolboymew Sad that Amy Dallen got fired. She was cool.

@coolboymew I liked Hidamari Sketch also, but I haven’t seen that particular OVA. Judging by the title, you’d be starting from the end, but it ran for several seasons.

@coolboymew Natsu no Arashi was pretty good and the soundtracks of both seasons were great.

Also, this is one of the first (if not the actual first) places where I heard Yakushimaru Etsuko’s voice.

@Moon I think he was just disingeneously playing dumb. He’s basically asking his followers to come back to him saying that those who won’t watch that movie are bigots so he doesn’t have to say it himself for the nth time.

@coolboymew

@coolboymew I can sympathise with @coldacid. I had to look it up myself, because nobody I know ever mentioned it by name. I didn’t even know it was a game before this very thread.

@grey @ademan

@coolboymew

like changing their main protagonist from a redheaded white woman —

I don’t know what you’re talking about, but as a fan of redheads I’m not playing that shit.

@animeirl

@coolboymew If you think the cover is bizarre, you should read the actual comics.

Is he known? Well, I don’t personally know anyone who knows him or his work, but Fantagraphics regularly publishes him, and he lives in California with his wife and kid (according to Wikipedia. Also, he has a Wikipedia page that is more than a stub), so I guess he must be. He’s “critically acclaimed”, that’s for sure.

@coolboymew Awesome dude, the author. He came to Madrid, signed copies of Megahex while crossdressing and took pictures with everyone… Fun times.