A 1970 Corvette

I HAVE BEEN BLESSED WITH VISIONS! MY MIND KEEPS SHITTING WEIRD FORMS AND DESIGNS! A HUNDRED OCS SHALL BE DRAWN! (Buncho sketches from near sleep brain blast)
 
 
 
 
 
 

Over the last couple of days I've been having some mysterious pains in my upper back. (Yeah I know, old man Gyoku.  But this kind of stuff starts happening in your mid to late twenties so most of you are going to have to start dealing with this soon if it hasn't happened already.)
 
Anyway, I started up Youtube for an unrelated reason and one of the top recommendations was for stretches to help with this exact sort of back issue, and they seem to work.  The natural question was, why was that the top recommendation.
 
The default assumption these days is that it was due to data mining.  But in this case I can't see how it would be possible.  This is the first time I've mentioned my back pain online, and I haven't done any searches on the matter since I've been using stretches I already knew before the video was recommended.  The youtube recommendation happened on a clean browser on a computer I don't usually use, and one that I can be sure was never in the same room with me when I talked about back pain, so no microphone harvesting.  I have talked about this on the phone, but only on a flip phone that has no internet capabilities ('cause I intentionally broke them).  So the only conceivable way that this could have been harvested is if Google already had linked that cell phone to my data profile, and also linked me to the other computer, and monitored all my cell phone conversations and processed that I should get a recommendation on the other computer only.  Is that possible?  I guess, but it seems pretty damned unlikely.
 
The more likely scenario is that lots of people have back problems and so this sort of video gets recommended frequently, so in particular it will get "blind" recommendations (as opposed to the weird weeb and boomer game crap I usually watch) and I just happened to have it show up when I started youtube on a fresh browser this time.  But even so my first thought was "oh shit they spied on my conversations" rather than "what a coincidence!" It made me reflect on how even ten years ago everyone probably would have wrote this off as a coincidence, even if they just had been searching for back stuff on the same browser, whereas now we just accept that we are being spied on so hard that it's impossible to avoid detection.

I literally had to sew my laptop. You see, some genius thought that having the whole keyboard be permaglued to several small plastic dots from UNDER the frame to be a good idea.
They never had the thought of "what if the keyboard needs to be replaced?"
There is NO way to remove the keyboard without breaking these. The replacement keyboard gets sunk a bit under the frame.
Gluing it is dangerous since the glue can seep around fuck stuff or even ruin the keys.
So I had to get a sewing kit and sew the keyboard into the frame to keep it at the same level it was before.
 
Fucken hell.

I wonder how much of touch screen design is due to the fact that on a touch screen they can remove features and you won't realize that you don't have them, whereas if there are non-functional buttons you'll notice right away.  So they can have "premium software packages" and/or subscription services that unlock features already on your car.  I mean, I know that Tesla does that, but I wonder if putting a focus on touch screens was done to accommodate that or if it's just a happy accident.

Man, Vampire Survivors looked different back then

I don’t have a same tbh big enough for that

For those of you who said that going back and emulating Windows 3.1 was too retro to be worthwhile, I have a new project:
 

 
This following image is literally true. Well, I have occassionally used Windows 95 on random public computers but I largely skipped from Win 3.1 to Win 98 on real computers.
 

 
The reason I'm going to Windows 95 is two fold: first, I found better support articles for setup (particular this one), second because some of the local thrift stores recently had someone dump a bunch of Win95 games and I think it'd be neat to get them running on the appropriate OS.
 

 
And we're in! The fact that this comes with a trial for AOL, AT&T WorldNet, CompuServe and Prodigy is more indicative of the time period than anything.  I've only had limited experience with Compuserve (on a relative's computer) and I think I saw Prodigy running once but otherwise my experience is basically nil.  For most people the fact that these services used to be the gateway to the internet is basically unknown (beyond AOL.)  Probably more people know about Gopher than Prodigy.
 
EDIT: After half an hour of ripping a disc image and fucking around with the drivers, I got this Mastermind game running, ultimately from the original disc:
 

 
I was worried when I saw it was a .cue file, meaning that it used redbook technology to play songs from the disc itself rather than as audio files, but the sounds are working fine too.
 
And of course the last step is always to put a modern background image.  This was a bit more annoying.  Unlike DOS-Box, PCEm doesn't use one of your folders as the "virtual hardrive" but rather a big img file.  So you can't just copy the images you want to use into the computer directly.  I ended up making a fake iso image full of images and then had that loaded into the virtual CD rom drive.  Only .bmp is allowed for a wallpaper.  I have things in "true color" (24 bit) but you can still see some color loss from how things are saved now days.  Still a hell of a lot better than it would be if I had not installed the S3 drivers and left everything in 16 color mode.
 

 
EDIT: Wait, I'm dumb. The reason for the low color depth on that background is because it's an image I previously reduced to 256 colors for compatibility with windows 3.1.  Here's what it looks in the proper 24-bit color depth:

The best I can do is Bubblegum Crisis

now this is the critical anime analysis that this forum was built upon

I have Lucky Star on deck for when I get done with Dirty Pair.
 
So.
 
I'm afraid it's only a matter of time before I too succumb.

The discord is for posting Yui Hirasawa every ~4.5 months

A professor in a class was really grasping for an example when talking about social media networking effects and started going down the "so everyone who's seen X raise your hand" and I totally held up the class for like five minutes because I just didn't at all. They were apparently trying to find an example everyone had seen
 
After the first few times I had to stop myself from laughing. You'd think he'd have given up or just ignored me once it was clear I was just not on the same wavelength

A professor in a class was really grasping for an example when talking about social media networking effects and started going down the "so everyone who's seen X raise your hand" and I totally held up the class for like five minutes because I just didn't at all. They were apparently trying to find an example everyone had seen
 
After the first few times I had to stop myself from laughing. You'd think he'd have given up or just ignored me once it was clear I was just not on the same wavelength

People always ask me if I've seen the latest episode of [show on streaming service] and they act like I've committed some sin when I tell them I don't use any streaming services.
 

I always saw the discord as a failed experiment to "revitalize the dying forum". It's whatever, if I have something juicy to share I'd rather do it here.
 
Spicy .webms or .mp4s go to the discord for Raison tho

I thought My Little Mercenaries died like a decade ago

Yooooo welcome back to this weird niche forum spun off from a dead TF2 board
 
It's still crazy that it's been so long it's been since SPUF went down. What a sad era we live in

Oh don't get me wrong, I remember the whole Snivvy thing.
 
The one thing that revolts me is that I actually like Snivvy (even though his stats are trash), but seeing it reminds of Davjo.

It's that time of year again, again. No worries whether they came out in 2022, although some very nice titles came out this year. I like making these posts! So here we go. Oh, also I set up one of these and I seem to stick to updating it better than MAL or Kitsu so it helps with writing this up.
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Honorable Mentions:
 
Top 10:
 
The Rest:
 
Also might be a nice place to post the Steam Replay things

I'll take the meme tanuki, please

I think Firefox containers are probably what you're looking for.

The AI art drama is so surreal to me, I get introduced to it by talking to some colleagues who are working on it, and like the very next week it is all over the internet and currently both the best and worst new thing. I think it's cute it seems to have some of the same problems with generating new imagery that dreams have too, like creating hands.
 
I don't directly have an issue with it other than it getting trained on people's artwork without their permission. That needs to be prohibited or regulated in some way, even though the last thing this world needs is more terrible copyright laws written by dinosaurs

I don't know if this is the right forum as none of this art is mine, but it seemed like it would work.
 
Anyway, I decided to start scanlating the manga series "Kitsune ni Tsuki" by Kotoan (琴庵) on Pixiv.
 
https://www.pixiv.net/user/9952021/series/31325
 
Basically it was something I randomly stumbled across and noticed that I could read 90% of it. So I thought it'd be fun to translated it. But of course when I started reading it for myself only I eventually started skimming through it and not really getting a lot of what was going on, so doing a formal translation project would keep me honest.  And then why not scanlate. Of course I am learning that making things look even remotely nice is a pain in the ass (keep in mind that I've never used any art program outside of paint before) but that's part of the fun I guess.
 
On your end I'm pretty sure that this series has never been translated before, so it's a SPUF exclusive.  You can follow the actual series at the above link if want to look ahead or check my work.  I'll post translators notes outside of the pages.
 
Each post will cover one chapter and the schedule will be whenever the hell I feel like it, which means that it is likely that the whole thing will never be translated.

Strange creature sheet

I really like this one in particular though I enjoy most of Noita's OST. Unfortunately in game most of the time you're deafened from the sound of rapid fire explosions, fire, and splashing toxic sludge in every direction