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@Broken_gamer I think the biggest problem Sega had back in the mid-90’s was that they overextended themselves with crap systems and accessories that they never had any intention of seriously supporting. They had Sega CD, they had some kind of virtual reality headset, they had the 32x. They rushed the overpriced Saturn to market without really learning how to program for it, and it had no backward compatibility with the Genesis library. They let the Game Gead die on the vine instead of refining it and making it smaller and cheaper the way Nintendo periodically did with the Gameboy.

One of the biggest mistakes Sega made was abandoning the Neptune project. Neptune was supposed to be a 32x console with backward compatibility with the existing Genesis library. Sega should have brought that out in ‘95 instead, and waited a couple years to the Saturn right. The 32-but hardware on the Neptune would have been ideal for making cartridge ports of a lot of Sega’s arcade titles, which was arguably their strong point as a company.
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How you know the law is unfair to your average user / individual publisher:

"Websites that are blocked by mistake can ask the court to modify the order. However, unlike Issa’s bill, which offers up to $250,000 in compensation, the DEFEND IP Act has no payout for collateral damage."

So in other words there is basically zero chance that a small guy is going to be able to get stuff blocked, but the ~7 hollywood studios (do we even have 7 left???) will be able to basically block any site they like without consequences even if it's non-infringing or primarily non-infringing because the little guy won't have the funds / lawyers on staff / etc to defend against the over-blocking that is inevitable and has occurred in EVERY country that has implemented a censorship regime.

Lets not forget that this also is one of the tactics that is used against political opponents. Particularly the authoritarian kinds (and yes- the very folks we have in congress too!). They have pushed for financial "sanctions" and used such censorship (of a financial nature) in Canada (Prime Minister Justin Trudeau froze the bank accounts, credit cards, and donations of those he disliked for protesting thanks to a highly regulated financial system) and the US against those they oppose. Europe has done the same thing for that matter, but it isn't just who you think. It's a large number of groups from "conservatives" during democrat administrations to folks previously involved in the legal porn industry (bank accounts being shut down by order of republican administrations).

In Canada which does have a censorship regime and site blocking like this bill proposes has attempted to add (?and maybe has?) other non-piracy sites to the list including gambling sites. Censorship doesn't end.

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I think the British Empire more or less just moved to New York and kept business as usual. The British Empire is built on the Bank of England, and there was never a true reckoning where depositors lost everything. They still run almost every little money-laundering island nation around the world.

For me, if they're going to make it their policy to try to destroy my people, then I want to see the everything lost. End the dollar, end the pound, mass bankruptcies, crime families that deposited the money putting hits on the crime families that lost it...
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Guys, I need help trying to find a particular PC game and I don't even know what it was called or exactly what genre it was.

So as we all know, big box stores (or maybe even stores in general) don't sell physical PC games anymore, but a few years ago, when they still carried some games like The Sims 4, there was a game in a brown jewel case still being sold in many places. It stood out because it seemed to be old, but was still in print. It must have been a full version of those casual shareware games that used to come with your PC back in the mid-2000s. It must have been a puzzle game, a virtual board game, a game show game, or a collection of those. I just know it existed but never cared about it, but now want to know about it for historical purposes.

If anyone has any idea what it was, please tell me.

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I really want to know how this protects free speech or consumers, this literally makes zero sense, talk about propaganda (internet censorship bill / site blocking):

"'By enacting this legislation, our country can deploy a highly effective tool to protect creators and consumers from overseas digital piracy, all while safeguarding free speech and preserving the open internet,' MPA Chairman and CEO Charles Rivkin says. "

Bill to censor the US internet:

torrentfreak.com/unified-u-s-s

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You heard SOPA was back? Right??? And the copyright cartel are back with a vengeance now that they've succeeded at getting other governments around the world to introduce censorship regimes. Now there isn't just one bill in the US either, but two. The copyright cartel's cronies (representatives in the house and senate) have introduced a 2nd US bill to censor the internet in just the past week!

"The DEFEND IP Act. The proposal comes less than two weeks after Rep. Darrell Issa's competing proposal, and both bills allow rightsholders to obtain court orders requiring ISPs and large DNS resolvers to block foreign pirate sites."

If you haven't written your representative(s) don't wait! It's never too early to start writing and let them know that you don't support this bill or any other that would introduce censorship to the internet.

Here is the full story:

torrentfreak.com/unified-u-s-s

Guys, I need help trying to find a particular PC game and I don't even know what it was called or exactly what genre it was.

So as we all know, big box stores (or maybe even stores in general) don't sell physical PC games anymore, but a few years ago, when they still carried some games like The Sims 4, there was a game in a brown jewel case still being sold in many places. It stood out because it seemed to be old, but was still in print. It must have been a full version of those casual shareware games that used to come with your PC back in the mid-2000s. It must have been a puzzle game, a virtual board game, a game show game, or a collection of those. I just know it existed but never cared about it, but now want to know about it for historical purposes.

If anyone has any idea what it was, please tell me.

@beardalaxy Notch said on his blog that selling Mojang to Microsoft was not about the money, but rather about his sanity (all the drama surrounding Minecraft including the then-recent EULA controversy). If he didn't care about the money, he could've just open-sourced it, and if it was public domain, Microsoft could just create their own proprietary fork while everyone else can enjoy open-source Minecraft.

@beardalaxy I stopped caring after Notch sold Mojang to Microsoft and broke his promise of eventually open sourcing the game.

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@beardalaxy ai assisted, meh. deeply unbothered by this use case.
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every time you start up a game you should thank dr professor binkleman for inventing bink video :pleadthanks:

@beardalaxy They're intended for the "casual retro-gamer" crowd that the NES and SNES Classic were marketed towards. The only difference is that the constant stream of new releases via cartridges keep people coming back to the system. It's also meant to get you to play games that you wouldn't have tried otherwise. That's why the cartridges have multiple games on them.

Though honestly, I think the system is perfect for kids, especially if you really don't feel like giving them the latest mainstream console or gaming PC. I recently bought an Evercade Super Pocket for my niece as her first system and she loves it. I'm glad I gave her that instead of a Switch Lite or something like that.

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Yes and have you looked into it? Most of the people who get polio today get it from vaccines (notably the oral polio vaccine). Most of the time, failed clinical trials of vaccine variations done in very poor countries.

And like he covers in the interview, the virus seems to jump from the intestine to the back of the spine. That's where most of the dead gray matter first appears. So other environmental factors, poor nutrition, and heavy metal contaminates in poor factory cities can all lead to the spread of polio. But if you got rid of a lot of those factors, you probably wouldn't see polio at all, even without vaccination. There's a huge conflation of external/internal factors, as well as misattribution of cause and effect.
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_Vaccines have never been safe and effective: A century of documented failures of smallpox vaccination_

FTA: In 1802, a statement was put to the UK House of Commons that vaccination was “entirely safe” and granted “lifelong immunity.” That statement has been revised over time, but it has never been formally retracted.

Roman Bystrianyk has collected evidence and testimonies regarding early smallpox mass vaccination campaigns, beginning in 1799 and spanning more than a century, proving that the “safe and effective” mantra has always been a lie.

In-depth, fully-researched paper => https://expose-news.com/2026/09/26/vaccines-have-never-been-safe-and-effective/
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Oh yeah, there is also no built-in camera or microphone constantly recording everything you say or do.

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I can't believe I'm saying this, but it seems like the true winner of the 9th generation console war is the fucking Evercade (Steam devices will never count; they're specialized gaming PCs).

* Actually affordable by most people right now
* Actually has games even if most are re-releases
* Physical media is main focus
* Games actually come with manuals as a standard
* Fully playable offline
* Games are released as finished products
* The EXP and Super Pocket models are the only traditional handhelds (having an exclusive library and being able to fit in your pocket) on the market right now (Playdate is a shitty gimmick and doesn't count)
* Literally has an arcade cabinet variant
* Some Evercade ports are actually the definitive official versions of their respective games (Duke Nukem and Banjo Kazooie being the most notable)
* Supports indies but isn't trying to be saturated with shovelware indie titles
* Native ports show that the system is capable of more demanding games. I bet they could even port Dreamcast and GameCube games via the original or decomp source code
* And most importantly, it is the only console/handheld this gen that is guaranteed to offer the exact same experience 10/20+ years from now as it does in the present day

And I remember when the thing first came out, I thought it was the most pointless console ever. I mean who wants to buy a system that only plays emulated re-releases of decades-old games? Though this is before indies arrived on it, but I disregarded it as a cheap cash-in on the success of systems like the NES Classic. However, they have probably become the most vindicated console as time goes on.

@sendpaws Unfortunately, any centralized platform is going to suffer from the same regulatory pressure as Discord, so any alternative needs to be decentralized while also being user friendly. I don't know how it can be done though.

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One more post about Discord and the age ID thing, but this time looking into how the alternatives have failed to capture market share and going over some of the background to this whole fiasco.
https://pleromanonx86.wordpress.com/2026/09/25/so-discord-did-the-age-verification-thing/

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