@sydneyfalk@quark reminds me of an old vulcan film which follows two debt collectors in a nonlinear series of vignettes which simultaneously highlight the extremes of society and muse about the irony of life. i think it was called...Vulc Fiction?
I finally got around to reading this, and it's finally bringing together some stuff I've been trying to articulate for years in much better ways than I could.
"This number is probably the truest measure of a person’s real wealth: What is the largest unexpected financial shock you could sustain without the cost of that to you suddenly becoming ten times the original cost or more?"
let's all take a minute to fully appreciate the fact that fan fiction writers and consumers independently, without any centralization or formal organization, decided on a uniform and universal way to tag fan fiction on pairings, content, etc
holy shit check this out, for doing game boy development, they had a "Wide-Boy", a large board version of the gameboy hardware that plugged into a NES/SNES so you could see what you were doing on a TV: https://cybre.space/media/BHlqkSScWuPbuvqNdOw
im tired of black friday being an orgy of spending and commercialism in the name of "deals"
so here's my black friday deal: if you're struggling financially or are having trouble making ends meet, i'll pitch in a bit to help you out: just reply to this post with a link to somewhere i can donate. i can't spare much but i'll do the best i can.
if you're someone privileged like me, consider doing one of these as well with the tag #givebackfriday or donating to links in the replies.
man this is just like that time when my prankster friend created an APNG image that was of a red car on the first frame and a blue car on the second and trolled an entire chatroom because various browsers did or didn't support APNG at the time
@elomatreb@impiaaa@djsundog if you like that, you might also like "PotatOS lament" which is another operatic piece by ellen mclain which was only used as the BGM on the menu for a specific part of the game, so you might not have heard it if you only played through once: