I never understand somebody just simping for a corporation like that. You can be a fan of their stuff and dislike how they run the company. Being a Mario or Zelda fan doesn’t mean you have to stick up for terrible decisions made by suits.

Nintendo: great games, terrible company. So yeah, I play their shit, but I don’t give them any money.

It’s a website where you can buy music. I prefer having music in OGG or Opus format, and most of the time you can only get MP3. Bandcamp gives you the option to download your music in several formats, and one of them is OGG.

That’s starting to change, because I can find more file-sharers who are using FLAC as storage becomes cheaper. Then I can convert FLAC to Opus. However, Bandcamp also gives you the option to stream music from their app, and it’s nice to have access to so much music on my phone.

It isn’t just a copypasta. As KnowYourMeme points out, it comes from Richard Stallman. Wikipedia has a good article about it here.

The term GNU/Linux is promoted by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and its founder Richard Stallman. Their reasoning is that the GNU project was the main contributor for not only many of the operating system components used in the subsequent development of modern “Linux” systems, but also the associated free software philosophy.

Certain people get angry if you do not refer to it as GNU/Linux.

I’ve never seen this happen. I’ve heard a lot of people complaining about these people, though.

It’s like veganism. I’ve never met a militant vegan, but I’ve heard tons of people complain about them.

I think it’s an effective strategy to avoid taking about real issues.

I admit I don’t know much about it, but I got the impression that it’s great when you need a very minimal Linux system, like for Docker containers.

It’s the same reason why people argue about how to pronounce GIF. People get used to doing things one way and they don’t want to change.

This is a joke. Most people are not remotely concerned about these things.

Yes. I find them on Bandcamp.

R-Type is a classic. I haven’t played it much, because I always liked Gradius so much better. The other two were Japan-exclusive. Wrecking Crew '98 looks like a puzzle game based on the NES game Wrecking Crew.

Fedi.garden also has their own autonomy. They have the right to make whatever rules for their website they want. If you don’t like how they run their list, then don’t use it. Make your own. If people like yours better, they’ll use it instead.

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Using the term “piracy”, instead of “filesharing”, was always pro-corporate framing. In his 2010 essay “Ending the War on Sharing”, Richard Stallman wrote:

When record companies make a fuss about the danger of “piracy”, they’re not talking about violent attacks on shipping. What they complain about is the sharing of copies of music, an activity in which millions of people participate in a spirit of cooperation. The term “piracy” is used by record companies to demonize sharing and cooperation by equating them to kidnaping, murder and theft.

I did. Isn’t the link working?

Why would 2D be costlier or more labor-intensive than 3D? I would think it would be the opposite. When you add another dimension, it seems like things would be exponentially more complicated.

Also need a Zelda Maker.

Near was a target of KiwiFarms, a messageboard focused on harassing people for fun. There’s a pretty good article about it here.

If you join a small instance, the chances are higher that it will a) be poorly maintained and b) fold quicker, forcing you to find another instance to join and re-subscribe to all your communities.

Ares was developed by Near (rip).

I’ll never quit being angry that the most brilliant mind in emulation was driven to suicide by organized cyberbullying.

Some people think it’s dehumanizing. As an adjective, it’s more acceptable (“There is a female nurse”); it sounds a bit off-putting as a noun (“The nurse is a female”). There are some people who don’t like to use it at all, and that leads to awkward things like using “woman” as an adjective (“There is a woman nurse”)!

You’re probably okay as long as you stick to using it as an adjective, but you still might offend some people.