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Eesh, well either option would be quite an upgrade. Depends on your budget though ultimately. If you can swing a (7or 9)800x3d/mobo/ram you'll probably be set for a decade easily. Videocard is another story.

2026-04-01 03:26:04 GMT

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AM4 stock will be around for awhile still, and if you have ddr4 ram you can re-use that's a perk. Otherwise, you're in for a larger initial outlay, but am5 will be stable till past 2030 and you can upgrade again if the markets turn around.

2026-03-28 01:08:58 GMT

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snes controller with rumble?

2026-03-27 00:48:08 GMT

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I don't hear much of anything about the forks anymore. I see misskey pulls in some changes from at least one of them.

2026-03-07 02:24:35 GMT

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Did not look at site. But if Monster rancher but websites instead of cds? That's actually pretty great.

2026-02-24 05:12:34 GMT

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The phantasmagoria II album that autoplayed after on youtube is pretty dope.
Hard to box to put in. Electro pop of some sort maybe.

2026-02-24 05:07:34 GMT

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Yeah that's shoegaze. The first example in the other post was pretty chiptune, but cute. You never know where a band is gonna lead you down.
I listened to MBV albums on tape loop for ages. I don't listen to whole albums at a time much anymore. But I have a few that I ripped to giant wav files aways back. And that's one of them. Always amusing when foobar is on the same track for 40mins a go. Aside from the couple 1 track albums I have.

2026-02-21 00:46:51 GMT

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hooked on phonics and one of these had my peer group reading way ahead of the bell curve.
https://essthree.brainsoap.net/misc/null/0678617c-5132-4261-bfd3-6f4def9c88c9.webp

2026-02-14 02:40:57 GMT

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Yea, for sure. This one is getting a bit more drama. lolcow voices being used or something. Haven't gone down the rabbit hole yet.

2026-01-15 01:01:05 GMT

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https://essthree.brainsoap.net/misc/null/a1bfec54-5564-4df2-b4d6-39134efe994c.png

2026-01-15 00:56:51 GMT

lul
https://essthree.brainsoap.net/misc/null/efe2e4b4-9738-4d45-a943-c3c11be0bcd7.png

2025-12-22 01:22:11 GMT

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twinstick one looks like it might be cool. Hard to read the action based on the vids tho

2025-12-20 06:34:16 GMT

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:peepohype: doing anything cool for it?

2025-12-13 03:05:59 GMT

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I mean it’s retarded that they need that much ram as is for what are generally web apps. But that genie isn’t gonna want to go back in the bottle.

2025-11-16 04:57:11 GMT

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vienna beef and gangsters are a decent showing, all things considered. sigh

2025-11-01 06:34:51 GMT

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it's kinda out of left field, yea. I vaguely remember it getting panned yeah. If they were upset about what i think they were upset, meh. I think the science vs prestige setup was actually pretty well done. You have to contrive the shit out of it on both ends.

2025-11-01 05:39:12 GMT

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Didn't know that was a book. Pretty great movie though. Would be worth a movie night showing if it hasn't been done already.

2025-10-29 01:55:59 GMT

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sex robot!

2025-10-18 00:23:16 GMT

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that actually pretty cheap for bespoke board games.

2025-10-16 15:39:11 GMT

Anyone find any cool demos for next fest?
The graphics on this one are.. amusing.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3302080/Effulgence_RPG/

2025-10-16 13:43:17 GMT

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He was a cool dude

2025-10-15 13:18:43 GMT

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why not both.meme

2025-10-12 02:13:51 GMT

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do those count as monsters?

2025-10-12 01:54:55 GMT

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way too :brain3: for movie night sadly. Good movie though

2025-10-04 05:38:50 GMT

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fucking cg ruining anime.

2025-10-04 05:35:44 GMT

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Had to think for a min, that's the comically terrible one right?

2025-10-04 02:08:23 GMT

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Did you put candles in some birthday poutine? Is that a thing? It should be.

2025-09-27 06:33:25 GMT

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Not excusing it, but i feel sampling was pretty loosey goosey for ages. So that aspect doesn't really help to narrow it down. But :brain1: 💪

2025-09-27 06:22:57 GMT

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ah could be. not an expert in this area. but genre distinctions get woozy eventually.

2025-09-27 06:19:52 GMT

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glorious vapourwave nightmare

2025-09-25 19:27:57 GMT

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best scrolly rpg brawler. At least until dragons crown came out. :elf_strut:

2025-09-20 06:44:45 GMT

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west coast is still barely friday!

2025-09-20 06:27:21 GMT

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grapist memes aside for the second one, how do they taste?

2025-09-18 02:20:24 GMT

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I'd be semi curious about the parameters of that. But It's :pepe_honk: all the way down. Being legally allowed doesn't mean your parent company doesn't get the shivers from advertisers or the powers that be and puts you in time out.

2025-09-18 01:02:14 GMT

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pseudo paywalled?
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/nexstar-jimmy-kimmel-abc-charlie-kirk-1236522584/
>“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang trying to characterize this kid who killed Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them,” Kimmel said.
Looks like the whole monologue is still avail for now.

2025-08-30 05:20:26 GMT

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codec pack hasn't been a thing since win 7 iirc. i don't actually watch much on my pc, but vlc has it generally covered.

2025-08-10 13:40:24 GMT

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interesting aesthetic

2025-08-03 23:29:12 GMT

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Watching evo finals, but dalmations is pretty good. Have fun!

2025-07-22 00:09:36 GMT

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Thats pretty much everyhing cooked in a microwave. Stick it in a toaster or oven.

2025-07-20 16:42:36 GMT

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I don't think i have any of my files still from back then, but square ratio wouldn't surprise me.

2025-07-15 03:54:12 GMT

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Hmm 5 guys is here, and they don't add anything you don't ask for specifically generally.
Aside from that, i'm generally more a fan of a dijonaise on a burger.
https://essthree.brainsoap.net/misc/null/bc05a4dc-db1c-4eb5-826f-4a72123c1048.webp

2025-07-15 03:39:25 GMT

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So like a sweet tomato pickle. Interesting.

2025-07-13 00:51:57 GMT

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Don't forget this nonsense.
https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2017/01/31/looking-back-at-the-boston-mooninite-panic-10-years-later/

2025-07-12 03:34:51 GMT

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https://mubi.com/en/us/films/deep-throat

2025-07-12 01:55:46 GMT

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Hot sandwiches are great. Meat in white bread with gravy and mashed potatoes is glorious. Though i see it less and less. :sadge:

2025-07-12 01:22:15 GMT

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I don't think i ever saw any of those in the wild. Still rough. Now if they have it encoded in extra shitty real audio codecs. I'm back onboard. But does a std floppy drive even read the 2.88 ones? I vaguely recall memes about converting any disk into that format, but i never attempted to science that out.

2025-07-12 01:08:02 GMT

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that i have not seen. But oof, singles on floppy.. I could see like midi files or tracker files on a floppy. I'm not sure how i feel about that one. Would ponder.
:viberge:

2025-07-12 01:02:31 GMT

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Bandcamp has become the mega indie mart for better or worse. The local noise label here moved their shop there, as have many others. I was a fan of bandcamp for ages, bought tons of shit. Then they sold/got bought by epic. Killed my account with that. They're solo again iirc, but it's only a matter of time before some giant corpo assimilates them again. :(
That said, hell yes, buy some weird physical media from the bands. Especially on the presumably real fridays or w/e that all the cash goes to the artist.

2025-07-12 00:57:07 GMT

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bespoke minidisc releases would be pretty rad. I wonder about the general availability of media for it tho. Cassettes are weirdly in play still, but there's tons of those floating around still for re-use and peak analog hiss and jank for the noise-niks to package and distribute.
*i always wanted a md player. just was too niche and pricey for me when it was relevant.

2025-07-10 02:58:52 GMT

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it transcended into the lexicon.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/what-does-cromulent-mean

2025-07-04 06:31:47 GMT

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my podcasts listening has shrunk considerably. TDS ruined a bunch. It's down to NA, and 2 music ones at this point, lol.
You *might* appreciate the music ones at least.
https://wfmu.org/playlists/AO -- punk/noise/and electronics mostly
https://www.brainwashed.com/podcast/podcast_rss.xml -- just random indy shit

2025-07-04 06:00:54 GMT

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I'm not discounting that, but I doubt it's prevalence. I don't think i know anyone in school cohort who actually called in.

2025-07-04 05:57:43 GMT

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Participation trophies for everyone!

2025-07-04 05:50:36 GMT

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The old trinity was actually a quad. Or more accurately, it was tank/heals/cc and then dps was just a treat. People hate dps as a treat.
I think lobby shooters are great actually. One day hellgate london's promise will be manifest. Destiny kinda shit it's own bed, but Remnant and even Risk of Rain on the rogue side are great fun.
The type of game i'm looking for now is the variety where you are literally forced to group or fail*. Corpse runs, xp loss on death, de-leveling. The whole shebang. People are throwing a fit over having to use torches at night if they chose a race without infravision :Catlaugh: It's never gonna be a million seller- the devs know that and have seemingly realistic goals around that.
*pet classes are hax

2025-07-04 05:27:14 GMT

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FF14... is a weird bird. You can totally solo through the entire game. Yes you'll have to group for a dungeon every couple levels. But... due to how the leveling works in the game and the incentive to queue up- you'll basically always get a group within a certain time frame.
That said the game is social as fuck. And there's good story in the raids to be had, or you can outlevel and just solo through the old stuff.
It's a divisive statement, but as far as story goes, ff14 is definitely the best. Though that's a cheaty award, since it's been going for a decade plus. I'd put an expansion or 2 in the top tier regardless.
But at this point, it's one of those things- where you have try to convice people to play through a decades worth of story where the first third is pretty rough.

2025-07-04 05:11:29 GMT

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This is factually true. Noone aiming for millions of customers making a new mmo.
Couple thousand maybe is actively being worked on though.

2025-07-04 04:58:01 GMT

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well modern mmos ultimately chose to either appeal to the lowest common denominator or the top 1% while making noises about the plebes.
Ultimately, I think ff14 had the right idea vs WOW, but not everyone can get behind the narrative first mmo that ff is. Too many i just wanna smash mobs people in the headspace. Wow has turned into a skeleton of an mmo being puppetmastered by an esports maestro that got sacked years ago, and few noticed.
People do suck in the games because the motivation structure got totally fucked with esport bullshit.
I'm mostly done with mmo's but I won't lie- i've been seriously hooked into the throwback EQ shit that monsters and memories has going on.

2025-07-04 04:41:01 GMT

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I pretty much played it on release. So it was the closest thing to a mmo secret of mana that was available.
I loved it for the sprites. The grindathon is pretty tangential. It was shit then, it' sure it's worse now. I enjoyed it purely because it was dumb cute sprite based beating shit up and leveling. Yeah it's nostalgia. But if the companies that generated that nostalgia would decide that their fanbase are retards than make something that would appeal to their base... You dabbble with a quick fix.
If you were in the get to max level and that's when the real game starts mindset that has infected tons' -- i'm sure the game was infuriating.

2025-07-04 04:28:53 GMT

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RO was kinda great in it's own terrible grindfest way. I never had the time or cache to drag friends into that nightmare, but it and DFO were kinda great in the casual ass level of interaction.

2025-06-22 15:52:20 GMT

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more convenient than carrying a couple liters in bottles around. Shrug.

2025-06-22 15:47:51 GMT

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https://essthree.brainsoap.net/misc/null/99b36259-8715-4b51-99f3-a720429b7bb6.webp

2025-06-21 23:44:56 GMT

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Had to look up what actual 50s sitcoms were. Ima ackshually this. There were a smol handful of the 50s one that were still in play in the 80s. By the 90s you were lucky to see mash reruns except on retro themed channels.

2025-06-21 20:21:54 GMT

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Getting an old school rack mounted analog av setup wasn't really on my list. But yeah- that's pretty rad.

2025-06-06 03:35:21 GMT

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it's a bit sonic youth-ish but very retro. Has the fuzzed out vocals that match the genre. I'd personally say it's shoegaze adjacent, but i'm into it.

2025-06-06 03:29:46 GMT

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pretty good!

2025-05-31 06:23:26 GMT

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Yep. I'm purely in :comfypopcorn: mode for the show at the moment. I'm not unconvinced the machine is just putting on a fairly amusing show, but the show is more amusing than I expected.

2025-05-31 06:11:44 GMT

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It's some pretty monkey's paw shit. That's a pretty low hanging fruit to attack on gov inefficiency. But the machine has to keep the unrest going by making it sound as dire as possible.
* I'm sure it's dire. It's always been dire.

2025-05-25 06:14:29 GMT

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~~So it's for the chad DM~~ It's for orgies.

2025-05-24 14:04:55 GMT

Fighting game weekend :peepohype: with Combobreaker
https://essthree.brainsoap.net/misc/null/5fa2e06c-2465-4fc2-95f4-cb7f70d1058e.webp

2025-05-17 08:06:43 GMT

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The nier soundtracks are amazing, but it's not quite the same thing.
I'm sure some/most of it is on youtube or whatever. It's just a duo? of jp dudes making some kinda weird punk rock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB0VtPIB1vw
Autist level video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb_seuOEUP0
https://essthree.brainsoap.net/misc/null/webpublic-3af65810-2725-475a-804d-9796fb774ec3.webp

2025-05-17 07:44:05 GMT

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Ruins is pretty peak. Dude made up his own fucking weird language to sing in.

2025-05-17 06:48:26 GMT

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i'm more into the jp noise arena or whatever the fuck melt banana is, but i know you were into albini for a bit. So Zeni Gava?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW7lBAJltZc
listened to the blurb- no idea who those bands are.

2025-05-11 01:55:26 GMT

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grey tabbies are pretty photogenic. I have to admit.

2025-05-03 02:56:00 GMT

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It's worth a watch imo. Hard to go wrong with Jon Benjamin and the former Sealab folks. There's some real peak comedy in there. lasted perhaps too long, but ended pretty well all things considered.

2025-05-03 02:51:05 GMT

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Pam isn't your average HR lady.

2025-05-03 02:48:07 GMT

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If you aren't immersed in the anime visual language you wouldn't know that she was having one of these moments.
https://essthree.brainsoap.net/misc/null/fd4667ff-5689-4c29-828c-1c8015d92f1b.webp

2025-04-30 00:57:03 GMT

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in mexico or canada? We seem to think it was a good idea to open some next door to an "adversary"

2025-04-26 07:46:14 GMT

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I hate to brigade it, because crappy cg should be shot into the sun, but the story line ended up keeping just the right amount of absurd til the end.
It's never gonna be top tier because the cg animation is pants, but for an anime plotline... It's pretty unique.

2025-04-26 06:31:12 GMT

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Did you ever finish bang bang bravern?

2025-04-26 05:59:41 GMT

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I take it back, a google search for that text actually brings up the thing, lol. I rarely use googles for searching, so i hesitate to give them a a win.
https://essthree.brainsoap.net/misc/null/d6491ee5-695f-48aa-abbf-ca16b8f64295.webp

2025-04-26 05:39:07 GMT

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yeah that's exactly the one. But good luck searching for that.

2025-04-26 05:37:10 GMT

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I think this is the meme you were looking for.
https://essthree.brainsoap.net/misc/null/15911b47-f72e-4d85-ae72-1fcdd28ffce9.gif

2025-04-26 05:05:30 GMT

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https://essthree.brainsoap.net/misc/null/cc321ab8-a804-4fe8-991d-9052134ac958.jpg

2025-04-26 03:49:12 GMT

>These Chrome tapes have been encoded in Dolby C noise reduction. For optimum playback, set your deck to Dolby C for best quality performance.
I love that this is still a thing.

2025-04-25 23:23:28 GMT

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The game is getting pretty good buzz from my racist gaming forum. Group shot of the devs is remarkably free of blue hairs.
Watched a bit of it streamed, looks right up my alley. But i'm not really a fan of the qte button presses in turn based rpgs.

2025-04-25 03:49:30 GMT

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I mean, in era Sega vibe music would work too, but that's even less likely. Who the hell knows where this thing is gonna end up. Likely bad.

2025-04-25 03:45:12 GMT

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https://youtu.be/1XkFu6IXmTg

2025-04-23 03:24:46 GMT

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The jerk is a goddamn classic.

2025-04-13 08:02:44 GMT

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orchestrated the maidan coup in ukraine.

2025-04-12 02:08:21 GMT

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there's a line, but some retarded ass movies are great in spite of themselves.

2025-04-12 01:34:13 GMT

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i feel like the site never actually died, but flash did. So i'm sure it was functionally dead for awhile

2025-04-10 00:08:54 GMT

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porn needs a budget?! :blobbadmath:

2025-04-07 01:59:35 GMT

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The whole concept of a tight 90 is out the window. Screen writers don't know how to put together a movie, and directors think all seem to think that a Nolan length movie is appropriate as a standard. It's :pepe_honk:

2025-04-04 03:02:29 GMT

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lol. fuck that mob. ALL THE DEBUFFS from the breath attack?! Eat an esuna.

2025-04-04 02:55:46 GMT

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corp hellscapes are only short term future. Barring some anime ass escapism rogue nation ai.

2025-04-04 02:46:27 GMT

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Yeah, but archive team has become too exploitable for commercial interests. Not sure how you solve that.

2025-04-04 02:34:25 GMT

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Is that a malboro on the bottom?

2025-04-04 02:32:51 GMT

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>Anubis weighs the soul of your connection
Lol.

2025-04-04 01:24:05 GMT

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I'm still in the :copium: that they'll make a saturn. I know the mister ps1 cores are pretty decent as of a few years ago, but I haven't kept up with that scene at all.
Odds are they'll try a disc one sooner or later, but i wonder if dmca would fuck with reading the OG discs officially.