xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

Absolutely obligatory: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Ys_II_Special_1997 - complete with a premade DOSBox config, presumably for playback on IA, but it takes only minimal effort to rearrange things for my DOSBox Staging setup.

DUUUUUUUUDE... HOLY SHIT.

OF ALL THE THINGS TO FIND ON THE ARCHIVE.

@mookie@chow.fan anything that's voice operated is a honey pot and also shit meant for the disabled and the elderly

Gentlemen, we have MAGIC! ...and absolutely jack-all to cast with it.

Thanks, game.

Anyway, I've just found the big grinding spot for the next few sessions, so I'm gonna cut this here and get right to that on the next go-around.

So, Dark Fact is dead, we get carried off the top of Darm Tower to the land of Ys... and we wake up in a field, flat broke and bereft of all our equipment - probably got looted by monsters while we were out cold, but hey...

...we're greeted by this pretty face.

-Damien's Note spelling error corrected.
-Locke conversation softlock fixed.
-Mt. Fujima rock flames gitch corrected.

If you have downloaded the game on Itch.io, you can upgrade from 1.0.2 to 1.0.3 by downloading the upgrade ZIP and dragging the 'www' file into your currently downloaded 1.0.2 game files.

"I'll probably hit Ys Book II by nightfall."

Well, I hit Dark Fact by nightfall, but I'm apparently destined to fail horribly at dodging diagonally-moving projectiles while trying to hit a dude that bounces around the screen like a DVD screensaver, so I spent the night grinding levels before heading to bed... and picked it right up where I left off after I had breakfast.

Boring-ass grind session over - I'm gonna go kill this guy now.

🚨 Utah Passes Bill to Draw the Line on State vs. Federal Power!

HB380 reaffirms state jurisdiction over:
✅ Natural resources
✅ Water rights
✅ Agriculture
✅ Education
✅ Energy

Next: Gov. Cox
https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2025/03/to-the-governor-utah-bill-would-affirm-state-and-federal-jurisdictional-boundaries/

AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming instead - Simplified View

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ai-coding-assistant-refuses-to-write-code-tells-user-to-learn-programming-instead/

Technical debt is more like the national debt than a credit card. Nobody is ever going to pay it down, your only hope is to inflate it away.

On February 24, twelve free software enthusiasts met in #Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for a #LibreLocal community meetup. They shared their experience in using and contributing to #FreeSoftware and discussed how to foster #LibreSoftware in the DRC.

Weird random bug with the game, it shows the title screen options once you start a new game. Got it fixed and uploading a patch now! You might have to restart your Steam client in order to get the update. Sorry about that!

@Hephaestic @xianc78 But those predatory CEOs are the result of predatory investors that populate most of investment finance.

GabeN could do what he did and focus on long-term growth exactly because Steam never went publicly traded. Had he gone the public offering route, he too would have been forced to chase short term growth, or he would have been booted outside his own company now owned by investors.

It's predatory finance that establishes short term growth managerialism