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Does anyone have any experience with OpenStreetMap uMaps? Can you create a map that anyone can contribute to? Also, which is the best host for uMaps (in both service quality and having a lax enough ToS)?

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@RustyCrab The smartphone is literally the perfect device for them because the file-system is hidden, most apps are cloud-integrated, and there are no extra peripherals to set up.

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There is no way you could portray the rejection of smartphones as a boomer view. Boomers are equally hooked on that ecosystem as everybody else and probably suffer more because of it.

Apparently, if you submit your game to the ESRB and the word "cunt" is used at all, then they will automatically give you an AO rating.

This means that this one game that I would like to make that would most likely have a T rating would be rated AO because the word "cunt" would be used.

People seriously need to drop the negative stigma of that word. I honestly hear "nigger" being used more than the word "cunt". It's pathetic.

@PurpCat @ArdainianRight @rher @SaltWraith @YTFoidLover1488 Emulators don't need to take into account the limitations of the original hardware because what they are really doing is just interpreting bytecode.

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i want nntp to come back but like slightly better

@ArdainianRight @rher @SaltWraith @YTFoidLover1488 To show that they do try to destroy everything, but to be fair, you don't have to play it. As long as the original ROM is being distributed (which is forever), you can still play that.

The real problem is when you have new fan-translations of previously untranslated games and the Discord trannies decide to change some of the original text to fit their agenda.

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Ragebait is trite and overdone. Maybe try posting about your hobbies? You didn't let the internet dopamine machine turn rageposting into your hobby, right anon?

@Marbleturtle A modded Vita or any of the emulation handhelds that can emulate at least up to the N64 is all you need.

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Added a blue sword, which is even stronger than the white sword. There is no shop item for it yet, and as you can see in the video, there is no HUD icon for the blue sword either.

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Created a new room layout. Zelda 1 had water-maze rooms, and I realized that mine didn't so I created one. Though I am kind of limited because the key will always be placed in a random room and the room coordinates for the key (in tiles) is always (10, 5), so I have to accommodate that when designing rooms like this.

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Happy New Year.

I don't do "new year's resolutions", I do goals and experiments.

The difference between a resolution and a goal is that a goal is about establishing where you want to end up, so that you remember to keep taking concrete steps in that direction. A resolution is about trying to talk yourself into staying motivated. A resolution is a tacit admission that you are not in control of yourself, and I am, so I don't make resolutions.

Experiments are a third category. An experiment is when you decide to TRY a certain lifestyle change to see if it "works" to carry you toward your goals without serious side-effects.

For New Year, I decided to begin some experiments:

1. I'm stopping the use of twitter because growing an account there is so slow that I'm not motivated to invest the time, and it's a slop-factory which is wasting my time doing anything else. This is actually not starting an experiment but rather ending one, which I started about 6 months ago to see if I could grow my twitter account.

2. I moved my computer into my office and for the most part, I'm leaving it here. As I type to you now, I'm in the office. My long term DREAM is to have a tech-free personal life and keep my computer equipment in an office setting for work purposes only.

It's been 5 days and this experiment has already helped me to understand that dream better. I don't have a TV in the living room, so without the computer I don't have access to YouTube. My YouTube feed is fairly high quality because I don't watch very often and I subscribe to interesting and informative channels. I don't think TV belongs in the living room, but it might be that this lifestyle is better with a home theater room of some kind.

Obviously I can watch YouTube in the office, as I'm writing to you now, but I am making a conscious effort to enter the office with objectives, and leave when those objectives are complete.

So far, I've been significantly more productive than I had before so I'm counting that as a win. Because this is an experiment, I can learn from it and make changes to it as I go, something I intend on doing.

So anyway, Happy New Year and this is why I might be posting a little bit less.

@beardalaxy I remember him trying to make "Minecraft in Space" before leaving Mojang. I wonder if he's going to try that again.

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@Mr_NutterButter I've heard about the Nazis secretly possessing such technology but I haven't done any further research on that.

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