Your prudery and moralism bores the hell out of me https://randomrantdispenser.neocities.org/rant04-2024-07-18

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  • About games hard to run, back on Win7 I couldn’t get Dark Colony installer to run with any compatibility mode (luckily, you can run the game just by copying the files from the CD). StarCraft had some graphics issue but just on menus (I think on Win10 as well), and I couldn’t play Outwars at all (although GOG version has some fix for modern Windows). A GOG game I bought that I couldn’t run on modern windows was Slave Zero.









  • That’s awesome!
    MobyGames is a collective database active since 1999. Years ago I was looking for a “letterboxd for games” and others like backloggd and rawg were missing a lot of stuff and had poor info about releases and so (I never checked again, so they might be better now). At the time MobyGames seemed like the best one, there is a lot of very obscure releases there, but I don’t know if other databases are more complete.



  • So I did a quick search on MobyGames looking for new release since 2020, and:

    • Atari 2600: 10 new games
    • Atari ST: 7 new games
    • DOS: 33 new games
    • Commodore 64: 55 new games
    • NES: 72 new games
    • SNES: 12 new games
    • Gameboy: 42 new games
    • Gameboy Advanced: 9 new games
    • Master System: 6 new games
    • Genesis: 49 new games
    • Dreamcast: 23 new games

    I believe those are the most active






  • I don’t know of it being archived, I don’t have contact with anyone from these networks anymore, but I didn’t want to talk about Donetsk and Lugansk because perspectives change, and I don’t know if the situation of today is the same as it was 12 years ago.

    Being a South American myself, every time we “vote wrong” the Western powers sponsor coups or simply invade us to change the government, so despite reading from afar, I saw too many similarities, and my take was that after the government didn’t side with Western powers, the mass media started a generic campaign against corruption to mobilize public anger - all so common here. Literal nazis were the shock troops leading the violence, as it was denounced by the anarchists documenting all the groups. At the time, it was easy information to find, even Google wasn’t so enshitified, so you could find some noblogs or Indymedia content as well… (I think Rosa Negra was starting at the time, perhaps they might have information), but recently I tried to find it again and it’s easier to find (on English-speaking internet, at least) allegations saying that Azov isn’t nazi at all and it’s just Russian propaganda, than their own pictures and speeches showing they are literal nazis (same for other the other groups I mentioned in the post).

    Everyone that was against this nazi-enforced coup was labelled pro-Russian, regardless of whether they were just against a nazi-enforced coup. Opposition was outlawed and persecuted, and then the regions that had a clear majority against the coup, which to my surprise nowadays is called the Revolution of Dignity, started being bombed and slaughtered for not recognizing the new government. They organized and had clear, internationally observed referendums about their self-determination, but it was dismissed and ridiculed by Western media and governments, and this is where Russian active support to these regions enters.

    I don’t believe for a second in Russia’s good intentions, but I believe for people so cornered, they accept support from anyone. I also believe that Russia expanding the conflict outside of the separatist regions forced people outside of them to support anyone on their side (but since actual Ukrainian left organizations were outlawed, it’s kinda hard to know their take on all of that…).

    However, Western media and social media platforms were always pro-Western agenda. American liberals eat that shit like cornflakes and pose as “left” on the internet, so all that was opposed was dismissed as Russian propaganda, etc, etc, even what I’d read from Ukrainian anarchist sources. So it was always kinda pointless taking it to Twitter or so because of the American “left”. There are a lot of activists that are now mature and are probably very knowledgeable about theory and praxis and current events, but that I fear had their formative “rebel” years on Twitter and its narratives (not anyone’s fault, it’s hard to find information on your own when you don’t have anyone to help you, and liberals do pose as rebels on Twitter). So that’s why I wonder if there is a generational information gap, because when I see leftist (including anarchists) support for the Ukrainian government nowadays, well, it’s kinda weird compared to what I knew of the situation. But I do recognize I don’t have nearly enough information about how everything developed to really have an opinion worth being heard (but back then, I think being anti-maidan wasn’t polarizing at all among anarchists and other socialist groups).