demand for small-batch yarn is facilitating a resurgence of tiny mills which often use salvaged machinery. (the industry largely collapsed in the nineties due to globalization).
i've been contemplating the potential for a parallel in chip manufacturing: if there's sufficient interest in 8 bit to merit the design and local fabrication of something 6502-like, using salvaged semiconductor equipment.
(this would of course rely on being an ideological project since there's no competing financially)
when i was in high school, we pirated television cos the cable companies didn't understand the desire for on demand viewing. Netflix came along and made it so easy we stopped pirating for a time. Now, the online streaming ecosystem is so fractured and complex that i've now gone back to pirating stuff because its just so much easier than dealing with all that bullshit
gamesindustry.biz year in numbers being very subtle
PSA:
It looks like CuriousCat is offline (That Q&A service i've seen some folks use), and it's owners have been radio silent for a while, and aren't updating folks on why the outage is happening that I can find...
Given that in order to have an account you gotta give 'em write access to a twitter account, might be a good idea to revoke access juuust in case
On birdsite, More menu, Settings and Privacy, Security and Account access, Apps and session, Connected Apps to revoke access
Bug fables shitpost, long, spoilers
Wasp King: Tell me, for whom do you fight?
Wasp King: Hmph! How very glib, and do you believe in Bugaria?
Wasp King: Bugaria's unity is forged on falsehoods. Its kingdoms are built on deceit, and its faith is an instrument of deception. It is naught but a cobweb of lies - to believe in Bugaria is to believe in nothing.
Wasp King: In Bugaria, the fruity bugs often summon Gods to fight in their stead. Though your comrades only rarely respond in kind - which is strange, is it not?
Wasp King: Is Venus otherwise "engaged"? I was given to understand she was your protector. If you truly believe her your guardian, why do you not repeat the trick that served you so well at the rubber prison, and call her down?
Wasp King: She will answer, so long as you lavish her with crystals and gorge her on queen's dinners!
Wasp King: Your Gods are no different from those of the east - plants, every one. Accept but this, and you will see how Bugaria's faith is bleeding the land dry.
Wasp King: Nor is this unknown to your masters, which prompts the question - why do they cling to these false deities? What drives even bugs of learning - even the great Neolith to grovel at their feet?
Wasp King: The answer? Your masters lack the strength to do otherwise!
Wasp King: For the world of bugs to mean anything, bugs must own the world.
Wasp King: To this end, he hath fought ever to raise himself through conflict, to grow rich through conquest. And when the dust of battle settles, it is ever the strong who dictate the fate of the weak.
Wasp King: Knowing this, but a single path is open to the impotent ruler - that of false worship. A path which leads to enervation and death. Only a bug of power can rightly steer the course of civilization. And in this land of creeping mendacity, that one truth will prove its salvation.
Wasp King: Come, champions of Bugaria, face me! Your defeat shall serve as proof of my readiness to rule! It is only right that I should take your realm, for none among you has the power to stop me!
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