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after playing hundred line for many hours, this is my thought of Kyoshika

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jeez, the buttrock-ass ■■■■■■ boss fight music in hundred line is growing on me. officially, this is the worst shit i've ever heard in my life. unofficially, NANANANAAAA NANANANAAAA, NANANANAAAA NANANANAAAA

i'm not really sure why i'm so invested in the state and the future of the internet when i wrote it off as FUBAR and beyond salvage like six years ago. i should probably look into this "outside" thing everyone's so hyped up about...

Leaving the internet to roam the world, going town to town and solving people's problems in an episodic format sounds really good about now

a nice thing about when the internet was a bunch of little sites and servers was that it was a lot harder for governments to pressure "the chat provider everyone uses" to implement age verification.

you wanna pressure 300 separate IRC servers? good luck with that. but one company? easy

Screen shot from igndotcom instagram account of an IGN / ABC news headline. Photo: a figure skater in a pose on the ice in a yellow t-shirt and denim overalls. NEWS SPANISH FIGURE SKATER GETS MUSIC APPROVED, WILL SKATE HIS MINIONS ROUTINE AT THE OLYMPICS IGN | VIA: ABC NEWS

GOD IS REAL

realistically, yeah, you want all that posturing and drama. this is basically pro wrestling. mentally my dumbass brain's like "why are you just standing there lmfao this is gonna be 50 times as hard if you let them take ten minutes to assemble their supergun before you react"

hundred line has a lot of "the heroes stand there watching the enemy do something that's going to make dealing with them 3000% more hard than if they just kicked them in the balls before it happened" cutscenes and i can say i've never managed to suspend disbelief enough to enjoy those

i don't know about cool but yeah, i exist apparently

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HUNDRED LINE（ハンドレッドライン／ハンドラ）／蒼月

in the rain

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I drew fan animation of The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy-
我为《百日戰記／百日战纪》制作了粉絲動畫

Tracer Tong, from Deus Ex

JC, the server's going... the server's going black! JC! No more quests, orbs of any kind. We'll start again... live in IRC... if you receive this... if you survive... then find us! Find us!

i'm not passing judgement either way on whether either take is correct here. i'm saying the timing's suspicious. if we find out in seven months there's some email in the epstein files saying to cause a moral panic about something that should be a parental/support network issue i won't be surprised

everyone i talk to my age saw all kinds of shit online growing up and the response was largely "what the fuck ever, i don't care, also it's your fault for even encountering that" from the adults. our parents. suddenly it became a good enough excuse for governments and businesses to ruin the internet

everyone 180'd from "turn off your screen bro" regarding people seeing upsetting stuff online to "someone has to do something NOW!!!" and forgive me for wondering why this only suddenly became such a hot issue around the time the internet's economic and social upheaval potential became apparent

i'm sorry i couldn't be of more help, really.

good question. proton's okay for regular use, probably. they've had some hiccups but it's gonna be better than gmail. you can look into smaller web servers. some people still miraculously try to roll their own, even though it's extremely tedious to do that. i probably need to research this myself.

Art of Darumi Amemiya hugging Hiruko Shizuhara from The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy inside a heart frame

HiruDaru 💧🍭

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i'll have to give it another try at some point. thank you. openbsd is lovely but sometimes i hit strange phenomena that leaves me feeling lost to sea. i would love to use it more.

email also works. there's privacy concerns with metadata being sent in the clear but if you're on discord you're already fucked in that regard anyway. keeping your options open is good for avoiding situations like these.

my memory is fading. i remember a lot of OS-specific flags and dubious support of filesystems that are pretty common for USB mass storage but i wouldn't take my thoughts here as truth. i may in fact have been talking out my ass.

(Talking to a wall) One day the services you use will literally disappear overnight. You'd better get your friends emails.

yeah, there's matrix. there's also a thing called revolt that's supposed to be a more direct discord clone. there's xmpp. lots of options.

i'm convinced we wouldn't have witnessed takes this stupid since covid was prevalent enough that it seemed to affect more than the immunocompromised. imagine someone poetically describing shitting yourself and forgetting reality in a nursing home. it's gonna be horrid lmao

people online discussing the sanctity of death and which biological age you can exist as based on your birth date without passing some arbitrary creep threshold while everyone in the real world's just happy to exist in their 20's-30's forever and granny can get around without the walker again

part of why i'm interested in the pretty promising experiments to reverse aging in rodents isn't just the possibility of living much longer (which would be cool, there's much to see and do in the world) but because we'd witness a whole new level of discourse the likes of which has never been seen

ohhh, when you describe it that way i totally get it yeah

it's definitely adorable, whatever it is

he's such a fucking edgelord i love him

i extend it further to "not moots but in the same general sphere and probably would be if i bothered" and it's more of a toss up but right now yeah probably

you're pretty up there at least