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Once a wise man on Discord said there is a such thing as an internet cycle.

Some new service will come along and declare themselves to not be like the other guys, only to become like the other guys and lose all their users. Rinse, wash, and repeat.

@leyonhjelm @noyoushutthefuckupdad I'm not anit-anime either. Like what you like. And no, I'm not into modern, western DEI-shit, before anyone asks.

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@lina And it worked (obviously). Thanks, but this problem will eventually come back, when I inevitably write text talking about ownership.

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@lina Might as well. I tried another font, this time from 1001fonts and the same problem persisted, though I have no idea why it's showing three squares instead of one.

The prologue text was AI generated because up until recently, this game didn't have a story at all (it's just a practice game for something bigger). I decided that the end game item should be a mirror after someone suggested it, so I had ChatGPT write a quick prologue to give a backstory.

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@lina There aren't that many TTF fonts on OpenGameArt.org and implementing bitmap fonts would be difficult in SFML. Though, I don't like this font anyway because no matter what strings you display, the text will always be in all caps.

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Apparently, the recording was corrupted. Here is a better video.

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Started creating a prologue for when you start the game. The White rectangles appear presumably because the font I'm using apparently doesn't support apostrophes.

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@waltercool Are you talking about the old ones or the new ones? From what I've heard, they only went to shit after being bought out by IBM.

Though like ZeroNet, Qortal still has one flaw in that it seems like you need an account to post ANYTHING. Which makes it less than ideal for completely anonymous sites like Pastebins and imageboards, not like anyone would trust a completely P2P imageboard anyway.

wiki.qortal.org/doku.php?id=ac

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Well it seems like Qortal, despite being blockchain based, is aware that many blockchain projects are flawed or outright scams. They seem to have taken effort to make sure that Qortal is actually decentralized by making all users nodes, and the extensive documentation probably means that they are WAY more competent than nofish (the ZeroNet dev). They also plan to include mesh-networking in the long-term, so this can even circumvent the physical structure of the Internet.

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Countries outside the eurozone but inside the European Union, i.e., those that one day might join the eurozone—like Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, are positioning for a new gold standard.
https://activistpost.com/2024/11/europe-is-finalizing-preparations-for-a-gold-standard.html
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Because romhacking.net is dead, here's new sites

new patch submissions
>romhackplaza.org
>romhackheaven.com
>retrohackers.net

old database mirrors
>romhack.ing
>neoromhacking.net

@wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com @r @wowaname I meant for rendering the HTML. Apparently, that's why JavaScript is disabled by default.

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