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Cake day: February 18th, 2025

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  • Some are talking about power consumption in this thread and I’ve had similar ideas. Gone are the days where I can run a beefy spec’d desktop in good conscience, it’s just such a resource hog. I have a laptop that stays in hibernate mostly. My other idea for a low power consumption home computer was to get a Le Potato single board and pair that with an e-ink monitor (there’s some really nice ones out there) which I think was sitting at maaaaybe ~5kwh. I think the more we can limit our power consumption, the better, all that electricty directy translates into coal being burned and additional CO2 being created. I’m no luddite, but it has impacted how I consume media which is now very mindful of the impact watching a few episodes/playing a couple hours of games versus just one or two hours of content on any given day.


  • Oh man, that’s awesome. It made me sad that the old version didn’t work through WINE. It ran, but at like double speed, which made the game too twitchy to play. I’ll have to bookmark that for when I’m at the library (my internet service at home is garbage right now).

    Yep! My favorite so far was the scifi-themed golf game, can’t remember the name. I haven’t touched it in awhile since I’ve been busy.

    The game that gets most of my attention these days is Shiren the Wanderer The Eye of God and the Devil’s Navel on PSP (through an emulator on Android). I just beat the DS version of Shiren weeks ago for the first time after playing off and on for about twenty years (I never really got serious about completing it until now, it was always a casual timewasting roguelike for me) and moved onto the PSP fan translation of Devil’s Navel.



  • Man, I never knew he was an ass.

    Honestly, unless it becomes news I never dig down into a band enough to know whether or not one member or an another are pieces of shit.

    The last time I remember was the front man from Queens of the Stone Age having multiple instances of attacking photographers at his show, which turned me off of QotS after that.

    Sadly, I love Radiohead, but there’s no way I can conscientiously listen to Radiohead now.

    Now it makes me nervous who else I listen to is a douche. Well, douche I can deal with to an extent, but genocide denial is a whole other level of fuckery.

    Edit: From reading the article he is critical of Israel, but in that ‘both sides’ type of rhetoric, and doesn’t mention genocide at all, but regrettable lose of thousands of life. Which is the same wishy-washy rhetoric that many in the mainstream media use that don’t want to be accused of being anti-semites or pro-Hamas. Which basically amounts to denial but in an indirect way.

    Ugh, I don’t see why at least one major figure can’t just grow some fucking balls and tell Israel to go to hell outright. Seems like everyone in the mainstream is so damn mealy-mouthed about this issue, it’s absolutely insane how much sway Israel has over the media in the US and Western countries in general.



  • My man, Spelunky was a whole era for me. I actually used to hang around the Independent Game Forums (TIGS) in 2008-2010ish and played the original version before Derek made the commercial version. To this day I prefer the old version, but the commercial one is a great game too (it has good bones lol). My then girlfriend and I would spend hours on that game. Side note too: Notch of Minecraft fame was also a forum member then and released the first initial alpha builds of Minecraft, so I played Minecraft before it’s meteoric rise when it was just a hobbyist project based off of an old digging game we played on the forums called Infinimer. There were a lot of early indie ‘stars’ on the forums, Phil Fish that created Fez and Edward Mullen of Super Meat Boy and Binding of Issac fame. It was an interesting and exciting time. It’s still crazy to me to see Minecraft blow up like it did from this little project on the forums to this video game giant.


  • That’s a fantastic list of recommendations. I have only encountered Tardi briefly, but I can’t remember the work. I do remember liking his style though. Didn’t he do Adele Blanc-Sac (I think it’s called).

    Woodring’s stuff is generally pretty fantastic and wildly weird. Been awhile since I had anything by him. His work reminds me of what would happen if you took old 20s-30s cartoons and had the animators drop a few hits of acid.

    Rich Corben’s horror work in the 70s/80s was phenomenal, truly one of the greats.

    The rest I’m not entirely familiar with, but you’ve given me some stuff to keep and eye out for. Thanks!




  • wolfinthewoods@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlHave some civility.
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    Buuut it’s your guy’s fault, if only you’d have voted for the less evil of the two evil guys we’d have a waaaay less evil guy doing less evil guy shit and being waaaay less evil-y obvious about their evil shit. Don’t you see? You made it obvious that the evil guy is an evil guy, instead of the less evil of the evil guys, damnit!!!










  • And Batman doesn’t exist, so the quote still checks out. But, if he did, he shouldn’t either. Absolute Batman has a great take on Batman as a poor, working-class person. I think Batman works better as that. Batman inherently is problematic, as a billionaire playboy beating up mentally-ill people. (This coming from a Batman fan myself).