Only 13 percent of video games are readily playable and accessible. No other form of media is as endangered as video games. There is no legal path to preserve or archive video games. You can go to libraries and archives for books years out of print. You can rent a movie or download a pdf. There is no legal equivalent for video games. Games companies do not double as archival organisations and they never will. They have never been about preserving. They are about selling. Which is not inherently evil compared to anyone else but they along with the law are directly preventing archivers and preservationists from doing their job and allowing this entire medium to be experienced in the future.
Think of some of the most influential video games of all time. How many of them can you play right now. Without piracy. How many of these could your not very technology literate friend play. How do you think this is affecting not only the wider industry now but also people in the future. And for completely arbitrary meaningless reasons.
And also think about the games that aren’t the most influential ones, but are important to you. How many people have that one weird edutainment game/indie game/bootleg game that they played a ton as a kid, that they quote to this day?
Those are rarely the ones that are considered super-influential or super profitable. They don’t get rereleases or remakes. They just… fade away. Many of them don’t even get pirated, so you can’t even find illegitimate copies!
We’re never gonna lose Super Mario 64. But if you grew up playing Croc: Legend of the Gobbos instead, you may be in trouble.
why is it so hard to find pictures of whale nipples
like I know they’re retractable and kept inside the mammary slit but surely someone has photographed them
my marine biologist friend who does whale necropsies says I won’t find any images online but if I want to see whale nipples I’ll have to get a degree and a new job or volunteer at a marine mammal center that does necropsies so I can see them first hand
this is not a quest I thought I’d have to commit to
I don’t know why I’m so fixated on this… being denied information that I know is out there, in the age of the internet? unthinkable! I’ve seen all kinds of esoteric shit I’ve never wanted to see, without even looking for it, but the moment I want to see cetacean tiddy the universe is suddenly reticent with me? maybe this is a uniquely 21st century kind of entitlement but I’m angry about this.
I have sent Emails:
What if whale mamalry slits is where angels live and the reason you can’t find pictures is because the angels are interfering or maybe make human minds explode
anyway here’s your whale nipples, via Sarano, F., Sarano, V., Tonietto, M. L., Yernaux, A., Jung, J. L., Arribart, M., … & Adam, O. (2023). Nursing behavior in sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus). Animal Behavior and Cognition, 10(2), 105-131..
You know. If you gotta know.
I have access to the Clarke 2005 paper!
It has two photos, one of them showing a hint of male whale nipples!
could we be serious for a minute. why is criticism being treated as inherently bad.
it just feels like the two modes now wrt criticism are either “i liked this but i have to find one mild fault so that i can prove i am Thinking Critically” which is seen as an acceptable approach or actual critical analysis that when it says anything negative is met with “well you don’t have to watch/read/listen” or alternatively “you just don’t understand the medium/genre/tone”. like lets accept that criticism isnt condemnation! if i criticize an author’s work, that does not mean that i think that the author is evil nor even that i think the work is in and of itself bad. all it means is that i think an aspect of that work is failing to meet the objective it set out for, and part of my enjoyment of the work comes from analyzing why. and of course these statements aren’t universal there are people who are critical just to be critical but maybe we should all have more of a backbone about media and our own opinions so that a negative comment about something we like isnt day-ruining. criticism shouldn’t be treated a box to check off or a full hearted rejection, but instead approached with genuine consideration the same as one would approach a “positive” analysis.
Have an electrician over today & he comes through from the kitchen like ‘i was looking at that poster on your wall wondering how I hadn’t heard of the movie so I googled it. What is the point. Is it just there to catch people out.’ And I’m like, well,
Well,
1) if u want a Goncharov poster make sure to get one from the actual artist:
bonding with almost everything it can. always getting it on with hydrogen. it answered “yes” to “would you fuck your clone” and does so regularly. truly, the sluttiest element.
