Are Gamers Considerably More Culturally Aware than the Mainstream?
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 10/13/24 at 02:37 PM CT
It seems like ever since the Orange Retard, Trollnald J. Dump, was elected President in 2016, the Culture Wars have been enflamed – as he might say – “like never before.” Seemingly in reaction to the MAGA movement, every single Marxist Sleeper Agent activated simultaneously… and prematurely.
While the Long March Through the Institutions has been partially successful in that it has captured both corporate Human Resources and the Ivory Towers of academia, the rest of the culture in the West was largely ignored. Obviously, the plan was to abruptly replace the existing culture with a Marxist worldview and hope that the Normies were so placated by their Bread and Circuses (e.g., welfare and professional sports) that they wouldn’t notice.
And, honestly, it almost worked. Normies are completely blind to the Culture Wars and mindlessly drift along, consuming whatever media or culture they happen to bump into, like NPC jellyfish. Gamers, on the other hand, have been …
Romhacking.net Shuts Down – It Has Nothing to do with Nintendo
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 10/06/24 at 02:24 PM CT
Gaming news is slow and dismal this Fall, so what better time to take a look back at the happenings we may have missed over the Summer?
It turns out that back in August, the long-running home for mods of classic Golden Age videogames – typically referred to as “rom-hacks,” as they involve editing the read-only memory dumped from a vintage cartridge (or, more rarely, disc) – romhacking.net, was permanently shut-down by its owner.
We’ve had plenty of grim news lately about Nintendo suing or sending Cease and Desist letters to all sorts of rom distribution sites and emulator developers in their perpetual game of Whack-a-Mole, but this time around, the decision to shut-down a rom-related site had nothing to do with them, but rather revolved entirely around personality conflicts between the site’s movers and shakers.
Romhacking.net had been around for 20 years, as an organized archive for rom-hacks and fanslations of all manner of 8-bit and 16-bit games, even …
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