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Finally starting to replace the copyrighted placeholder sound effects with either effects of my own or stock sound effects. Though, I couldn't find a good enough sound effect that goes well with the sword attack. The player merely thrusts it (like in Zelda 1), and all the sound effects I could find are more fit for a swinging of a sword.

I tried to take a knife-sharpening sound effect and edit it in Audacity to try to make it sound more "SNES-like" (lower the sample rate) and changing it to a 16-bit PCM, but I don't think it turned out to well. I also need to take into account that there is both a wooden sword and a metal sword.

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"Vote the bums out" is 100% the wrong strategy for dealing with a government that doesn't follow the rules of the Constitution.

https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/01/31/vote-the-bums-out-is-the-wrong-strategy/
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After 30+ years, I just discovered a new secret in the retro SNES game Lufia.

It turns out that if you use cheat code and level up till some unbelievable level, the final boss will actually flee from you 🤣

I'm guessing that the game developers added in the code to flee for the weaker enemies, but I just didn't think that they would add it for the final boss fight 😂

I was already looking forward to beat the final boss easily, but this was too easy 😝

#Lufia #SNES
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I guess the democracy is in the cloud ☁️


(the cloud is really just somebody else's government)
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I just got back from a carnival and they were giving away those grumpy squids as prizes.

It amazes me that those became mainstream but most people would probably be appalled about why those things got popular in the first place.

Why do people hate K-Pop so much? It's not my thing (not a fan of Pop music in general), but I don't get why people despise it, especially on communities like the Fedi. Is it people's obsession with Japanese culture that makes them hate anything to do with the rest of Asia?

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craigslist died because normalfags heard about the craigslist killer from their true crime shows and Law and Order or some shit and thought letting the Zucc handle sales was better.
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LittleFuse (Zilog's parent company) took the last orders for the #Z80 yesterday.

After 48 years of constant production, #Zilog will no longer produce the Z80 as LittleFuse is unable to keep producing the current Z84Cxxxx series using the 4-micron (4000 nm) CMOS process.

The legendary chip, designed by the legendary Federico Faggin in 1976 was largely responsible for the microcomputer revolution and is still beloved by electronics hobbyists today.

It had one hell of an impact! RIP Z80

I'm surprised nobody picked the aliens option yet. Is it too obvious that nobody wants to pick that, or does everyone believe in The Great Filter hypothesis?

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The #freedomflyers campaign includes efforts to make travelers aware that the TSA claims that submitting to facial recognition is “optional”.
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/07/opting-out-of-facial-recognition-at-airports.html
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21 years ago today, @ronpaul gave his “Neo-Conned!” speech to Congress

“The modern-day, limited-government movement has been co-opted. The conservatives have failed in their effort to shrink the size of government.”

Who are the neo-cons? Listen below:

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The Mediterranean #diet has been a hit with doctors and dieters for years. Studies show that it’s one of the healthier diets around, especially for people with chronic #health problems or those at risk for heart disease.
https://www.naturalblaze.com/2024/07/mediterranean-diet-improves-heart-health-for-kids-too-study-reveals.html
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In this clip from TCR Live #134, Derrick Broze breaks down his concept of Exit and Build, and why it’s one of the only real, practical solutions for a free humanity. #community #agorism #foodfreedom
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/07/ignore-the-selection-its-time-to-exit-and-build.html
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Is the world you are being presented online crafted to be vastly different from the person sitting right next to you in physical reality? Do people even realize this is what algorithms are doing to us all?
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/07/are-algorithms-dividing-everyone-into-separate-realities-online.html
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it annoys me greatly when people blame the depression of their kids on external things. "climate change", "social media", "the pandemic" and so on.

blame your own "woe is me" attitude and intellectual sloth of seeing the only solution in trading in your agency.

it is the responsibility of a parent to teach and guide their child how to deal with these things in a productive, peaceful way that doesn't force them to kill their light.

don't blame the problems, blame your inability to come up with a better way to deal with them and failing to teach your child to do so.

this one time you can't get away with handing off your duty.

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Now in Effect: Indiana Law Takes Additional Steps Against a CBDC

Last year, Indiana became the first state to enact a law that removed a central bank digital currency (CBDC) from the definition of money in the state. On Jan. 9, Sen. Eric Koch introduced Senate Bill 180 (SB180) to expand on that law.

The new law prohibits state agencies from accepting payments made with a central bank digital currency for any service, tax, license, permit, fee, information, or other amount due the governmental body. It also bars government agencies from requiring payments to be made with a central bank digital currency.

Additionally, under the law, state government bodies are prohibited from advocating for or supporting the testing, adoption, or implementation of a central bank digital currency by the United States government.

The House passed SB180 by an 83-11 vote. The Senate approved the measure by a 48-0 vote. With Gov. Eric Holcomb’s signature, the law went into effect July 1.

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/07/now-in-effect-indiana-law-takes-additional-steps-against-a-cbdc/
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