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asie @asie.pl · 1d

99% of social media users quit right before they're about to find the good website

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Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team · 1d

Every appeal gets reviewed by moderators, but literally no social media site at scale can scan user content in a timely fashion for violations using only humans. They do not retain or train on any Bsky user data or images.

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asie @asie.pl · 1d

Homebrew watch! The VTuber Dianko Lastrea is playing the SNES homebrew game Dottie Flowers!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q18q...

【COMFTOBER】The NEWEST SNES game?! | Dottie Flowers

YouTube video by Dianko Lastrea

www.youtube.com

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asie @asie.pl · 2d

the other thing is that many early ZZT forum posts, mailing list threads, BBS discussions, etc. are lost to time

what's the best preserved is, of course, the worlds

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asie @asie.pl · 3d

I'm hungry. I could really use some PANCAKES.

... Are pancakes still okay?

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Ixy(いくしー) @ixy.bsky.social · 3d

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asie @asie.pl · 4d

There is either one of three, or far more than three overall (Dennou Gakuen comes to mind, notable for being the first game banned from sale in a Japanese prefecture).

Also, regarding moderation, editorialization comes back - RA's staff was uncomfortable with people posting screenshots of >Clover.

asie @asie.pl · 4d

The game itself might be illegal to distribute in a given country, sure; but even then, providing metadata on them - which achievements files are, for they do not distribute the original game - is probably not illegal. I mean, what does RA violate that the Wikipedia articles on these games doesn't?

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asie @asie.pl · 4d

(We have a fork of ZZT that can both record and play back "demo files", including RNG state, but due to various burnout-adjacent issues, it has not been mainlined into anything yet. That might be useful.)

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asie @asie.pl · 4d

As for TASing ZZT - if there's anything I can do to make it easier, let me know. I maintain the community's DOS emulator of choice, as well as a native port of the engine, and have a pretty good understanding of its inner workings. I'd love to see more work in that space!

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asie @asie.pl · 4d

So, instead of being just a space of archival and curation as it was meant to be, it's also serving the role of a community for both ZZT oldbies and newcomers, championing many new works every year.

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asie @asie.pl · 4d

It's a bit more nuanced these days. See, it *began* as a museum of ZZT because the community had been considered dead for years at that point, but creating a new space and context for these worlds to be enjoyed in, devoid of the baggage of the old one, accidentally rebirthed interest in the medium.

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asie @asie.pl · 4d

which is why i want to hear none of that "slippery slope!" stuff, myself. there was already a list of games considered too abhorrent to platform, and the questionable ROM hack did not make that cut. it was perfectly reasonable for people to object to that classification.

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asie @asie.pl · 4d

regarding RA - >Clover is the *fourth* game banned by RA, not the first! they were already editorializing! trying to differentiate with the "legal issues" argument is flimsy at best given, AFAIK, only one of these games ever had actual legal proceedings. in my view, they simply found them disgusting

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asie @asie.pl · 4d

yes, but in the modern day everything seems to be lumped in under "preservation": archival, access, curation, popularization. (I think it would do us a lot of good in general to consider these aspects in distinct terms, but that's besides the point here...)

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asie @asie.pl · 4d

similarly, I bet the Museum of ZZT, which is in part an archival community, would have a very different opinion on allowing a bigoted game made in 2025 to be hosted, as opposed to preserving a historically notable one from 2002. it's a different thing at that point

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asie @asie.pl · 4d

but is RA really an "archival community"? I don't think so, rather I think it has even less of a claim to it than TASVideos does: they host new content in the form of game experience augmentation packages. at best, achievements act as documention for the completion path and contents of a given game

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asie @asie.pl · 4d

at the same time, they are still archived and preserved, because unfortunately many of those games have become relevant to the community's history, and because trying to remove them from its history would be equal in effect to pretending the community was never bigoted to begin with

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asie @asie.pl · 4d

it is absolutely possible to archive that kind of game while not promoting it. we have pipelines in place which skip the usual "new lost game find!" announcements, content warnings, and a list of prohibited games not to be used by social media bots.

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asie @asie.pl · 4d

it's the same issue we as a gamedev community faced over at the Museum of ZZT. over its 35 years, thousands of games have been made in the tool, but some contained horrendous, regrettable material. and the website itself straddles that line, acting both as a museum and as a curator/popularizer

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Samsara @energynede.bsky.social · 4d

speaking as a TASVideos admin, particularly one who's been forward about wanting TASVideos to serve an archival purpose, i've got a few thoughts on the RetroAchievements thing and the nature of archival itself.

reposted 🧵because i don't know how to write apparently.

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revolver ocelthot @rnaboursiii.bsky.social · 5d

This commercial for Ring Infinity on the Wonderswan kinda reminds me of what it feels like to look at the internet most of the time these days

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asie @asie.pl · 6d

the fediverse is cockroach-coded in the same way IRC is: considered ugly, full of insects, feels somewhat primitive, incredibly resilient and ready to outlast almost everything

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asie @asie.pl · 6d

kudos to the bluesky team for advertising activitypub & the fediverse

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 7d

It would be wild if someone would build a social site where you could migrate away without losing all your connections if you didn't like the owner. Maybe even host your account on your own box, at home, so you could switch apps seamlessly or build your own. I think that would improve society.

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asie @asie.pl · 6d

And, even though this segment of the market has largely been replaced by smartphones, we do still have the occasional attempt at gaming handhelds which aren't just emulation boxes - the Panic Playdate comes to mind.

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