mPony
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- Comment on Can someone find a redeeming factor about this game? Like anything good about it. 3 weeks ago:
wow, they actually playtested it all the way through. Good for them :)
- Comment on Can someone find a redeeming factor about this game? Like anything good about it. 4 weeks ago:
The music did get repetitive, but that went for any C64 games that had background music. All of the tunes from Ultima IV are still burned into my brain after MONTHS of playing that game.
- Comment on Can someone find a redeeming factor about this game? Like anything good about it. 4 weeks ago:
Seconded. I played this on the C64 for a month or so. The intro voice saying Ghostbusters and laughing was pretty surprising given the tech (Impossible Mission also had really good voice samples but you had to complete the whole game to hear the best ones). I also enjoyed watching the bouncing ball on the lyrics (and one of my parents told me about Mitch Miller doing the same kind of thing decades before that).
- Comment on Can someone find a redeeming factor about this game? Like anything good about it. 4 weeks ago:
How was the 2600 version impressive? I can’t imagine a 2600 version of anything being impressive, so I have to ask.
- Comment on Big Tech Wants to Become Its Own Bank 4 months ago:
T_mobile doesn’t force its users to get their credit card, or force them to use it, or force them to enlist their friends and family to get one.
If Big Tech has their way, all of these things and Andy Rooney will be yours in less than 60 minutes.
- Comment on Half-Life 3 Has Been Designed to be ‘The Final Chapter’, It’s Claimed 4 months ago:
it doesn’t look like anything to me
- Comment on Build your own antisocial writing rig with DOS and a USB key 5 months ago:
1997 was peak for lots of things
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 6 months ago:
all you need is a work ethic and a time machine
- Comment on Unpowered SSD endurance investigation finds severe data loss and performance issues 6 months ago:
I’m making a note here
- Comment on 4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails. 6 months ago:
Aaah, someone of culture, I see.
- Comment on Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams says company targeted ads at teens based on their ‘emotional state’ 6 months ago:
a) yes
b) what I find really concerning is that they may have already figured out how to change people’s behaviour: what they think is funny, what they think is appropriate to say/do, where they want to travel to (if at all), how they feel about certain celebrities they like or dislike, what is believable or not believable, how they feel about certain politicians, who to vote for. Some people are probably more easy to sway on certain topics than others are. It’s not a stretch to guess that they probably already know various paths to make individuals into something they currently are not.
- Comment on Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams says company targeted ads at teens based on their ‘emotional state’ 6 months ago:
as if they don’t have enough already.
- Comment on Microsoft has created an AI-generated version of Quake 6 months ago:
I wonder what else it can get wrong for only the cost of a few glaciers.
- Comment on Microsoft has created an AI-generated version of Quake 6 months ago:
reminder that Quake and Quake 2 regularly go on sale for about 5 bucks
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
You say pervasive, and I say permissive [soft-shoe dance]
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
yeah I agree. I do my best to avoid hearing these words when they come from loathsome people. Parroting them, even in jest, still means those ideas are being amplified.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Get back to me when they spell Billion with a T
- Comment on C64 Retro Battlestation 6 months ago:
“Mission accomplished… Congratulations!”
- Comment on I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better 7 months ago:
I hear you, but the writer isn’t concerned with “can”: If you replaced “can have the answer to any question in seconds from my a tiny device in my pocket” with “must” then you can see their dissatisfaction.
if I went to a restaurant and was told that I had to install and use their app to order their food, I would fucking leave. If it was the only restaurant left in town then I’d have much less choice in the matter. The insidious nature of technology is that it changes “can” with “must”.
- Comment on Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian says AI should moderate social media 7 months ago:
Moderators at Facebook have been arguing these points for a while now, many of which have gotten mental issues though their work and don’t get any medical support
How in the actual hell can Facebook not provide medical support to these people, after putting them through actual hell? That is actively evil of them.
- Comment on EA just released source code for a bunch of old Command and Conquer games, and added Steam Workshop support to bangers like C&C 3: Tiberium Wars 7 months ago:
Well, shit. Good for them! This is a long way from [insert reference to That Reddit Thread here].
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 8 months ago:
most phones now don’t support memory expansion
Well of course not. If phones supported memory expansion you would just buy more memory, instead of buying an entirely new phone Don’t even get me started on how bloated these apps have become. I used Paperclip word processor on a Commodore-64; you can not convince me that your app needs to be 50+ Megs in size.
- Comment on The hardest working font in Manhattan – Aresluna 8 months ago:
Fascinating :)
- Comment on In light of recent events, here's OpenStreetMap editors discussing naming of the Gulf of Mexico 8 months ago:
no doubt it’s all been squirrelled away into crypto. They’ll have fun trying to hold the guy accountable. Oh wait, no, accountability is for the poors.
Anyway, enjoy the sound of the keys jingling, folks - Comment on Is Tesla’s sales slump down to Elon Musk? 8 months ago:
In other news, theconversation.com is now re-branding as thefuckingobviously.com
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 8 months ago:
“Either the Line Goes Up or the Rope Goes Up” - evil CEOs everywhere
- Comment on As Internet enshittification marches on, here are some of the worst offenders 8 months ago:
They fear Cory, as should they all.
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 8 months ago:
I hear it pairs well with Super Mario Bros
- Comment on US Bill proposed to jail people who download Deepseek 8 months ago:
next up: US Bill proposed to jail people who watch MSNBC US Bill proposed to jail people who watch PBS US Bill proposed to jail people who don’t buy a cybertruck US Bill proposed to jail people who don’t vote GOP
So much freedom, so little time.
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 8 months ago:
Don’t hate the timeline, hate the news. There are real people out there still trying to make the world work, getting stepped on, pushed over, marginalized, silenced. They need you. They need all of us. Do not let The Bastards win.
(I’m still workshopping the “don’t hate the player hate the game” - suggestions are welcome. Words can still inspire people, even before coffee)