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- Comment on A Brief History of Trapper Keepers. 1 day ago:
Haha, I remember the teachers' back-to-school letters always saying, "A plain three ring binder is all your child will need. Excessively large binders are only a distraction."
And then every kid shows up with the biggest, puffiest Trapper Keeper with all of these pockets and compartments and embossed shiny pictures of football players on them.
- Comment on A look at search engines with their own indexes 2 days ago:
Great list! I've been wanting to start using a smaller search engine with its own index, just for the sake of making sure there's an alternative to GBY. (Also, there's a new and useful acronym, haha.) Mojeek was the only one I was aware of before today.
BTW, exalead.com doesn't seem to be a search engine anymore. I recognized that one because I remember discovering it a while ago...in 2007, maybe? But it looks like it's not available as a regular search engine now.
- Comment on Web design magazine from 2000. New tech like… Flash 4! JavaScript! WAP! 4 days ago:
Thank you for doing this! Some of those sites have that "Windows Media Player skin" look to them that defined the early 2000s.
- Comment on A List of Open Source Game Clones 2 weeks ago:
Come to think of it, there are so many graphical enhancement mods for Morrowind, I'd bet that every asset has already been recreated by someone already. Not sure if they're all open source, though. There might already be something close to a libre reimplementation of Morrowind, except for rewriting the dialog and quest scripts. Which would be a lot. Ok, close-ish, maybe.
- Comment on A List of Open Source Game Clones 2 weeks ago:
Great resource, thanks! I played 0 A.D. for the first time recently, and was amazed by how polished it was.
Side note for anyone hoping that there is a free version of Morrowind: you still need to have Morrowind to play OpenMW. OpenMW is an open source (and improved) clone of the game's rendering engine, but you still need the game's content (models, textures, maps, etc.) from the original game.
- Comment on 52 Weeks of Cooking - weekly themed cooking challenge. Cook something new! 3 weeks ago:
Hadn't heard of this before, great idea!
- Comment on Castle Crashers: Painter Boss Paradise DLC Launch Trailer 3 weeks ago:
Has Castle Crashers been getting updates this whole time? Or is this an "out of nowhere" thing? Either way, great!
Also, between this and a new Super Meat Boy coming out, Newgrounds is having a moment right now.
- Comment on We are mainstream now🔥 3 weeks ago:
I'm just going to start handing notes to people in my immediate vicinity, like an analog meshtastic. Or a middle schooler.
- Comment on We are mainstream now🔥 3 weeks ago:
That's the case for me. 404 was the first media outlet that was actively using the fediverse (Mastodon, specifically) to interact with their readers and share their content. At the same time, I realized that if I was going to start using non-VC-funded social media, I should probably pay for some non-VC-funded news sources, too.
Especially given 404's main subject matter, I bet there are a lot of discussions on the fediverse that are relevant to what 404 covers.
- Comment on We are mainstream now🔥 3 weeks ago:
WELP, time to go find an even smaller discussion forum! This place really sold out...
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? It's self hosting Sunday! 3 weeks ago:
Wow, thank you for this response. I hadn't thought of tracking music preferences as a tool for self discovery.
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? It's self hosting Sunday! 3 weeks ago:
I've been thinking about setting up a scrobble server, but haven't been sure what I would do with it. What do you use the information for? Does it affect how you listen?
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? It's self hosting Sunday! 4 weeks ago:
Realized last week that my fail2ban settings are too strict -- I get banned immediately if I visit my funkwhale (music server) domain without being logged in. In fact, I think much of my "downtime" might have actually just been me banning myself for 15 minutes now and then...
I was thinking about getting rid of Grafana, which is overkill for my server, and replacing it with Logdy this weekend, but didn't get around to it.
- Comment on Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound | Review Thread 4 weeks ago:
I keep getting this game and the upcoming Shinobi game confused with each other, but they both look amazing. And I do mean that literally, with great pixel art for Ninja Gaiden and a kind of hand-drawn Flash game style for Shinobi. Great time to be a fan of... retro-styled 2D reboots of ninja-themed franchises, I guess?
I have too many games in my backlog right now, but I'll probably have to pick these up anyway and move them to the top of the queue.
- Comment on I found some classic video game websites that are still up 5 weeks ago:
Well, it definitely fits the theme for that era, that's for sure. Maybe even the defining site for that aesthetic.
- Comment on I found some classic video game websites that are still up 5 weeks ago:
Space Channel 5 is one of those classic Dreamcast games that I haven't checked out yet. I'll be sure to get to it now.
- Comment on I found some classic video game websites that are still up 5 weeks ago:
One part from the Sonic Adventure blog:
He was such a cute rapper.
His eyes sparkled just a little.
I didn't have a session today, so I was able to watch with ease.
Marlon, the vocalist of Knuckles, is very sexy.I guess you could say he was rougher than the rest of them, the best of them, tougher than leather.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to retrogaming@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on I found some classic video game websites that are still up 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I love that. I figure this is because a site like that one is "a bunch of files in a folder on a server somewhere, including the videos," whereas nowadays the videos would be on a separate CDN or media host, which is why those tend to break separately.
- Comment on I found some classic video game websites that are still up 5 weeks ago:
Oh wow, that whole site is a gem, I hadn't heard of it before. I'm planning on playing a couple of games that have shrines on there, too. I'll definitely use those as a reference before checking some fandom.com site.
- Comment on I found some classic video game websites that are still up 5 weeks ago:
Haha, that's not dumb at all. :) Really, Lemmy's UI does not make it obvious that a post is a link. Sometimes the title is just the title, and sometimes it's a link to the thing that was actually being posted. Others, like Piefed, make it more obvious.
- Comment on I found some classic video game websites that are still up 5 weeks ago:
They're in the blog post that the original post is linking to. (If you're using Lemmy, you can click the title again to go to it.)
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to retronet@lemmy.sdf.org | 8 comments
- Comment on How big is your media library? 1 month ago:
I'm kind of surprised that it's only 51 GB. They're all FLAC files ripped from CDs -- I was expecting like 300 GB at least.
So apparently this 1TB SSD is going to last me a while. :P
- Comment on Smaller rally/racing games I recommend you try! 1 month ago:
This is such a great writeup, thank you! I always can't believe the actual photos I see of Group B races, lol.
- Comment on How big is your media library? 1 month ago:
Sometimes I hear about other people's storage setups and I think, "that is overkill, no one really needs that." According to this thread, I am quite mistaken about that. 😳
I have 2,057 songs, taking up a measly 51 GB, on a Funkwhale server. No movies or TV shows.
That should get a little larger soon. I have about 100 vinyl records that I want to make digital rips of.
- Comment on 11 years ago I released my 1st ever game on the Wii U - ZaciSa's Last Stand - A Tower Defense game 1 month ago:
Having a game out there on any platform is super cool. I love the art style, too!
- Comment on Uniciv (open-source android/desktop 4x game) 4.17 release! 1 month ago:
First time I'm hearing about this; looks great!
- Comment on Sign me up 2 months ago:
Reposting what I said on Mastodon, since a few people seem to be falling for this one:
[...] but this looks like satire, and searching for that poster's name suggests that he's not being serious here.
Case in point: he has a blog that shows he's not a Trumper.
https://drewpavlou.substack.com/p/maga-maoism-trumpism-as-a-third-worldConservatives have a hard time understanding satire (article about this), let's make sure progressives don't become the same way. (I know, it's hard, especially when a lot of conservative opinions are indistinguishable from satire.)
- Comment on Persona 4 Revival and Stranger Than Heaven will both release in FY2027 or beyond (after April 2026), according to SEGA fiscal report 2 months ago:
Anyone know what "European IP" means? They announced a while ago that they working on new titles for Virtua Fighter, Golden Axe, Crazy Taxi, and a few others, so I'm assuming those are the "Legacy IPs." What is their European IP? The Total War franchise? The developer, Creative Assembly is from the UK. That just seems like a weird way to phrase it, if that's what they're talking about.