Essem

@essem.space

This period of time will come eventually. nb/ace, perpetually tired you may know me from @esmbot.net or @wetdry.world this is my public account. personal/"primary" is at @apub.essem.space, more ramblings are at @esm.this-is-epic.space

shoutouts to the discord employee whose job it is to maintain the decade-old, first-party bot that plays airhorn sounds in voice chat

most of the time whenever i try to help someone with a windows-related issue now the cause is usually a massive UX failure on microsoft's part

ronaldinho soccer 64 was a psyop. the whole time. it never existed, i was the one that created those ROMs and cartridge shells and blogposts and stack exchange answers. you all have been played for fools

u cannot have a meaningful discussion about content moderation and automation so long as content moderation is considered 'trivial work' by the average person

despite what posts on here may lead you to believe, it is, in fact, very much possible to preserve ios/android games (and in the case of android, it's almost trivial) afaict the reason why the state of mobile game preservation is Like That is because nobody gives enough of a damn about mobile games

this post is a reminder that Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) is the enemy, not digital-only content we can scrape and back up CDNs and decryption keys! we can fight the restrictions imposed upon us, and this is by no means a battle we are losing. not giving up to doomerism that easily bucko

"digital games always become lost media" is not true. you may think it's true but i promise you if you archive (link) and then use passcode "frAQBc8Wsa1xVPfvJcrgRYwTiizs2trQ" you can in fact preserve a digital only game. not that i would encourage *redistributing* copyrighted content, of course...

gs2.ww.prod.dl.playstation.net

lb: this has definitely felt a lot different from the fights for net neutrality, against SOPA/PIPA, etc. almost everyone i know that cares about this stuff is very tired of all of this, and i feel like the politicians trying to push this stuff through know this