xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

PSA: Uninstall Funkwhale NOW.

Funkwhale has gone off the deep end and is now trying to add a hardcoded music blocklist which will apply to songs in your personal music library - not just instances that host far-right podcasts, or the like. Because nothing is more anti-fascist than... not allowing people to listen to their own music on their own computers??? (What in the performative dictatorial nonsense?!)

This is an incredibly dangerous idea - not only is it a centralised blocklist that applies to your personal media collection and cannot be opted out of, it's also AUTO-GENERATED FROM FUCKING WIKIDATA(!) (The dev insists that outsourcing to Wikidata makes it decentralised and immune to problems, btw...)

https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale/funkwhale/-/issues/2396
https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale/funkwhale/-/issues/2395

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/

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

I'm doing a little stream of the game over on my YouTube channel, if you want to ask questions and stuff or just hang out then go right on over to https://youtu.be/kIb3GNQq9oM

Coming Soon: Corporate Governed "Freedom Cities"

https://tube.tchncs.de/videos/watch/0160e7fa-a552-4c11-acdf-f908c0f459f2

It's March 14th, and you know what that means! God's Disdain is OUT NOW!! Huzzah! If you like the old-school nature of SNES RPGs like Dragon Quest as well as the worlds of games like The Elder Scrolls, this is the game for you!

God's Disdain is a non-linear, turn-based JRPG about a world stricken by a mysterious plague. As Tamiko, alongside her brother Kenshin and other friends you find along the way, you must find a way to stop the plague for good and either save Hajimari or damn it. There are tons of side quests, dungeons, and unique locations to check out as well as plenty of gear and magic! The world is totally open for you to explore... what will you find?

Many people have contributed to this game over the course of the last near-decade, and we would all appreciate you trying it out! God's Disdain is free to play with an optional Supporter Pack if you like the game. There is no DRM and all the game files are completely accessible if you would like to mess around with it! Enjoy :)

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3057330/Gods_Disdain/
Itch.io: https://after-midnight-games.itch.io/godsdisdain

#godsdisdain #rpg #jrpg #rpgmaker #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #indiegamedev #gaming #games #steam