in case anyone was waiting on an update about the situation, i just got banned from the forum.
so, i guess i can just say it outright: nightcrawler is a coward, and his invocation of Near's death is as tasteless as it is infuriating romhacking.net
nightcrawler's stated expenses for the website, and even the "lower" ones afforded by the migration to s3 ($200/m), make no sense, to me nor anyone else, and the archive's size makes it all the more baffling
as you know, i host the cutting room floor, a site i would argue is considerably larger than RHDN
their archive: ~12GB
ours: 375 GB (and growing)
our costs are a *fraction* of what his supposedly were
dems: if you vote for us we will immediately issue 2000 checks
dems: *two weeks late* ok guys, here's 1400!
nice own goal, idiots
d senators: we cannot get rid of the filibuster, what if the republicans use it against us
the rs, last time it mattered: hahaha judicial filibuster? *waves hands* doesnt exist any more fuckos, were rammin our judges in and there aint shit you can do about it
d: we must be bipartisan! work across the aisle
r: nice social programs you have there, would be a shame if someone wrote a "0" in for the budget :)
a lot of people shit on zsnes for being an inaccurate garbage emulator, but i think its honestly worth pointing out that zsnes was built partly out of assembly and ran back on dos
on my 250mhz pentium ii laptop, it can actually run many snes games at full speed
zsnes also had excellent netplay even in the dialup days, and had very good input lag considering. i still don't know of any emulator that was easier and simpler to set up than it was
its inaccurate and there are exploits, sure, but back then that wasnt a huge deal. the hardware wasnt fully understood and nobody was trying to pwn you with virus.smc when they could just hotlink an image
it was a simpler time, and it was good then. maybe even one of the best
i guess i'll give my opinion on the matter as the person who co-runs tcrf / @CuttingRoomWiki
fake anti-piracy or beta shit isn't a huge deal and i don't think it's affecting the site much at all
if anything it's a funny example of how people on the internet believe anything
one of the rules of tcrf is that anything posted should be findable by anyone else. instructions on finding it, details of where it is, that sort of thing. e.g. "this text can be found halfway through the rom". it might take some skill, but anyone can verify that, for example
we're all guilty of it, but the main takeaway from this is just not to believe everything you read/see immediately. do even a little research. try to find the source or origin of whatever it is
lies go around the world before truth puts its shoes on, etc.
it's honestly funny to me that twitch, not satisfied with already eating up to 30% of "bits" and half of every sub (or more), continues to try to squeeze any sort of profit they can out of people
they're really intent on fucking *everyone* constantly. the war against their users
since they're nice enough to make it an actual video (they're *real* intent on fucking their users i guess) it also respects quality
so now it's just a huge ugly jpeg that looks like it should be played before a vhs tape