i dont think this site is actually going to go down. i think this is what will happen:
tomorrow, december 17th, the day of silence protest will occur. a large amount of users will be participating, making the people who are in the loop of the circulation of said protest info aka the most vocal and connected users of the site, think that their dash is completely dead
small blogging circles will continue to do their thing, many unaware of what is occurring outside of their world
posts will be made with screenshots of pornbots that havent even been deleted yet with staff @’d to point out how this sweep isn’t even working
users will devise workarounds to the filtering system when staff refuses to fix it
on december 18th, most of the day of silence protesters will return to the website. memes about the preceding day / the event will be reblogged en masse. then it will become apparent how many users actually jumped ship
staff will, once again, either refuse to listen and keep trying to drown this site in a capitalistic river while repeating over and over again that they “love” us, or make some significant bettering change months too late and blame it on a different event than its userbase protesting
none of the problems they were trying to solve will be solved
i will keep reblogging funy goodby tumlr memes until its out of fashion and then i will continue being here till im brave enough to deal with twitter or till i get sick of tumblr
thanks for coming to my ted talk and to all of you who are really leaving its been an honor to serve alongside you
Controller Pak menus do work in Project64, it just runs so poorly with certain video plugins I thought nothing was happening. Most games put in the bare minimum effort required, with the end result looking more like a debug menu than part of a retail game. Some games that use the Controller Pak also do not seem to have Controller Pak menus activated by holding Start at boot, so either standards were lax, or some of these games were not screened very rigorously during cert. Here are a few of the more visually interesting ones:
Bomberman 64. This might be my favorite. I don’t think you could get away with a UI that looks like this these days.
Diddy Kong Racing. Unmistakably.
Fighters Destiny. The text at the bottom scrolls cracktro style.
Flying Dragon. Cute!
Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon. I like the pak selection sprites. Most menus only let you access the pak in controller port 1.
Perfect Dark. A bit of a technical showcase, much like the rest of the game. You’d have to see it in motion.
Quest 64. Stylish!
Wave Race 64. Clean and professional, like you’d expect from a first party release. This was also used in Mario Kart 64.
Kids, Grandpa Athelind is here to tell you: if you don’t expect metahumor from this era, you are in for a treat.
This is one of the Fractured Fairy Tales segments from Rocky & Bullwinkle, a show that ran on 50% metahumor, 50% terrible, terrible puns, and 50% sheer audacity, and do not quibble with my math.
In the main R&B segments, the protagonists would regularly argue with the narrator, insult the cheap animation, and refuse to say lines with some of the very worst puns.
It aired from 1959 to 1964 across a network hop and a title change, and I think it’s fair to describe it as a five-year shitpost.
This is accurate. I don’t think kids got half of what adults got from the show.
You’d be surprised. XD This show contributed to me being a young ‘un with a really weird, snarky sense of humor.
‘Eeeeeeeeeeeey random undocumented gaming niche finding sister *does that pew pew thing*
I’m not sure if controller pak menus are even emulated, otherwise I might go on a screenshot expedition. I couldn’t get them to work in Project64, anyway. I wouldn’t be super surprised if The Saving Of Game Data is supported in a hacky roundabout fashion that doesn’t actually emulate the hardware in a way that would allow you to access that menu and manage the virtual controller pak. It would be cool to have a gallery like the ones for Game Boy Color and PC Engine warning screens on vgmuseum, though.
I feel like with every post I become more of a lame video game grandma that this website’s userbase rolls their eyes at. The joke is on you, I have been a lame double grandma for twice as long who can’t remember anything because her head is too full of records that were released before she was born.
I feel that if anything is going to emulate those menus sooner or later, it’ll be MAME, since it’s supported virtual memory cards and similar save attachments and devices for a while now. (The NeoGeo memory card menus work, at least.) But I have absolutely no idea how well N64 emulation works in it.
And good lord does that PCE page have an abundance of boobies in it.
still against the new policy but people making post about the nsfw purge with that tf2 gif with medic saying “we all have three days to live” is the funniest thing
