umbraroze

@umbraroze@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone remember how popular the group Head Cleaner was?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Kind of sucks that my Commodore 1541 floppy drive (5.25" floppies) is giving me read/write errors, and I have no idea where I put my head cleaner floppy long ago. (Have to rely on SD2IEC on my Commodore 64, and it’s not compatible with some turbo loaders or other programs that do weird drive magic.) And, of course, while I might run into head cleaner tapes on specialty shops, good luck running into 5.25" cleaner floppies these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨damn⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But as Blender becomes more popular in the CGI industry, perhaps this harrowing vision of future shall not come to pass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of my time in Elden Ring has been 1) ogling at the landscapes going “Holy shit this is metal”, and 2) bravely running away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SPIRIT WEAPON⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You need to be able to pick the recipe option then. If someone knows recipes from ancient Rome, they might just be a harmless history nerd. If someone knows recipes from WH40K, well, I don’t know what to say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AIRBUD⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the most important space flights ever was Zond 5. Soviets sent the first Earthlings around the Moon and back. They were tortoises.

  Did the Soviets let these heroic chelonians retire in grace? No, they were euthanised and dissected. I’m sure they could have gotten the scientific data they needed with less invasive methods.

  All astronauts should rescue all space turtles and tortoises they see!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo GameCube is coming to Nintendo Switch's Online Membership⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been incredibly happy lately dumping my GameCube/Wii games (using a softmodded Wii) and running them on PC with Dolphin. Perfectly legit way of playing games I already own, no matter what Nintendo says, and this is also a way to futureproof my GC/Wii collection the way I can actually trust.

  I’m sceptical about how close to Dolphin the official emulation experience on Switch will be able to reach. Based on the N64 debacle, I don’t have massively high hopes. Either way, wouldn’t be paying extra.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are color palettes subject to copyright protection?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Colour palettes are collections of facts. Facts don’t have copyright protection and ability to claim copyright for a collection is pretty tenuous. However, copyright may apply to certain related things.

  For example: Suppose you see that someone is selling a Photoshop colour palette for money, and included the entire palette in the store image. In that case, there’s literally nothing, legally speaking, stopping someone from prodding the image with a colour picker a bunch of times. But there would be copyright protection for the Photoshop palette file itself, because that’s a more tangible piece of data.

  There are also other kinds of intellectual property laws that apply to colours. Pantone gets away with whatever shenanigans they’re doing because of trademarks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Two points. I’ve never paid for anything by cheque (we have had bank transfers in Finland for ages) and Blockbuster didn’t operate here (we had our local video rental chains, and the convenience store chain that I used to go to is still in business, just, you know, not having movies for rent any more)