either Sonic Adventure 2 or Doom Eternal.
Sonic Adventure 2 is just silly, it’s like a 10 to 15second loop of a slightly different version of the main theme but it’s got this like added guitar (I’m not a musician AT ALL) that just really kicks it up a notch. hell I even have the mp3 of it that i’ll listen on loop for a few minutes.
Also the original Apex Legends menu music and character selection music was VERY good.
I believe it was released on the C64 a couple days before Halloween and then on the NES and every where else shortly there after so yeah, just before Christmas.
But I mean that was just a common thing for the early to mid 80s when it came to videogames. Just get something out before the holidays with a hot franchise on the box and who gives a rats ass what the game is about or if it’s even any good. it’ll sell.
I have OVH for dedicated but I’ve also used their VPS and they’re great. They leave me alone, don’t hound me for anything, cheap prices, reliable as I’ve never had issues them. can’t complain. They’re Euro based but they have servers near me in Montreal so I use that which is great when I put my VPN on there cause now I get student discounts everywhere since my server is at McGill University.
It was a rush job.
The NES and pretty much all home versions of the game were essentially ports of the Commodore 64 game which was the original version. After the films release Colombia Pictures was all “holy shit, we have a hit, we need to capitalize on this ASAP and keep pumping out merch while it’s hot”. Colombia then went to Activision and offered them the license. Colombia Pictures didn’t give a rats ass about the design, the content, or anything the ONLY stipulation they had was get a game out on as many platforms as possible and get it out like yesterday. So what you’re playing on the NES is a grand total of a month and a half of work when at the time a game would typically take 6 months to produce.
It’s not supposed to be good. It’s not supposed to look good. It was simply made to so that something with the name “GhostBusters” was on the shelf in toy stores and sold. and it sold VERY well. it was one of if not the best selling Commodore 64 game of all time…most pirated too.
I mean you don’t really call in people from abroad to say “hey, war time” you call in people to tell them they’re no longer needed and the others who are also called in get told about the “awesome” restructuring that’s going on.
to those wondering “why Github?” because it’s not about protecting 16 year olds doing pull requests it’s about getting YOUR data/IDs. They don’t know whose under 16 or over 16 to access said sites so they need the IDs of EVERYONE. that’s all this is. it has nothing to do with protecting kids.
If I was a government or some firm that harvets Data I would absolutely drool at potentially having a source that is Github to get said info. I would LOVE to harvest info of developers, coders, etc.
I doubt many because you never, ever, hear of any of these rapture folks giving away all their money and stuff. never. Oh it’s going to happen…but just in case…
When I worked at Blockbuster Video way, way, way back in the day I used to look up celebrities and politicians accounts. All the BBVs were connected to a DB that had everyones account therefore if you visited from somewhere else you could still get access to your account for renting even if you didn’t have your membership card.
Was kinda disappointing…famous people either really didn’t rent much or just watched the same shit as everyone else.
yeah I ONLY just recently switched to fish after using zsh and oh my zsh for so long - pretty much since first starting linux cause I once saw someone using it on unixporn and I thought “that’s cool”
when I switched to NixOS zsh with all the plugins was a total slog. switched to fish and it just HAS everything that zsh/oh my zsh and the various plugins had but baked in.
so yeah in Fish it’s just starting to type something and hoping it’s still in the history.
Very serious. I kinda fell into it myself when one of my clients reached out to me late last year about needing help with some project they utilized Claude Code and a vibe coder to build from end to end. After that I thought “huh, wee bit o money to be made here”.
It’s a menial/easy job for sure but man you charge a Premium for it. These companies have no idea what they’re doing I mean hell they put their entire company on the back of a 20 year old junior dev and an Anthropic subscription. I generally charge double what I would normally charge for dev work and it’s always less work, thus I’m able to take on more clients to fix this stuff which means I’m making much more for less.
Like I said a friend of mine simply went back to the place he got laid off from and told them he’d fix their fuck ups and nickle and dimed them to do so. I and others simply go on LinkedIn and call out the bullshit from tech bro posts and then say we’ll fix it. the thing is YOU have to be the one to advertise your service because companies still aren’t going to admit they fucked up and post ads asking for help. Trust me they ARE looking for help they’re just won’t openly admit to it.
it’s very menial/easy. BUT you charge a premium for the service because as /u/[email protected] put it these places are very desperate to fix their fuck ups and fix them quickly. Like I’m talking builds or projects that could be months along and suddenly…nothing works. or something breaks. or nothing can be added. or more common than anything the AI claimed it had added something when it reality it either didn’t or simply made a #todo comment and vibe coders continued on.
But yes the pay is good. I essentially get paid to tell a company how much they fucked up and what it will take to fix. There is always the very slim possibility of refactoring but i’d say 8 times out of 10 the only clear path forward is to start from scratch and that generally means hiring devs again.
it’s a “problem” just about everywhere right now, I’m in Canada and the anti-Indian rhetoric is through the roof here.
why? Because we’re all collectively broke. If there wasn’t an immigration issue, and we were still all collectively broke, then the blame would fall on the backs of people even poorer than us.
When the cost of living is unaffordable everywhere, when there’s no housing anywhere, when jobs are hard to obtain the defacto fall back crutch is…blame the immigrants. History doesn’t repeat but it sure as fuck rhymes.
yeah I know I just thought i’d be funny for people to be cloning and pushing a bunch of porn repos and then throwing their “personal” stash into .gitignores
FINALLY someone wrote something about my job. This is EXACTLY what I’ve been doing for the past year and I make more money doing it than I did as a regular freelance/consultant dev.
Seriously people, if you’re a dev learn and get good at code reviewing. And honestly you don’t even have to be THAT good at it because the slop that is puked out by the likes of Claude Code is so god damn easy to find. Deal with the bullshit that is LinkedIn and start advertising yourself as someone that is a sort of “digital janitor” for AI. you’ll get clients.
A buddy of mine that was laid off by a company saw what I was doing and decided to be even more ballsy than I was and actually go BACK to said company and offer them assistance in cleaning up the mess they created by laying him and other devs off. He went back as a freelancer, charged them a premium, and now is “working” for them again but making MORE than what they were paying him and now he gets to work on his terms for doing less work.
These places fucked up, they are now learning how much they fucked up, so take advantage of their fuck ups and fuck them even more. I got ZERO sympathy for ANY company that leveraged AI for their builds and tossed their dev teams to the side. But make no mistake, I charge these places an arm and a leg and they deserve it.
it’s just annoying having to constantly update my greasemonkey scripts to try to find the ONE that actually works.
like the ad skipping script I had just stopped working the other day. While it WAS skipping ads google decided that “oh you’re skipping ads? cool, we’ll just keep throwing them at you endlessly”
So they’ve FINALLY figured out the add skipping thing and now if you’re speeding through/skipping ads they’ll just serve them endlessly to you.
yeah because when I want to be social or check out porn github is the first place that pops to mind.
Although…now that I think about it…doing git clone on a porn repo would be convenient. could even easily update it. hm…Actually I think Australia might be on to something here
yeah and boomers were saying the same about us when we were watching a squirrel singing about “Gonads and strife” or a badly translated Sega Genesis game claiming “All your base are belong to us”
ALL generations watch dumb shit, stop acting like this ONE generation suddenly originated dumb shit to watch.
the hell are they going to train it on? jerking itself off? cause that’s all it’s going to “learn” if it trains on Linkedin profiles and posts.
It’s just going to slurp up a bunch of tech bros posts that think AI is the second coming. it’s just going to learn that it thinks it’s hot shit when it’s not.
Look I miss CRTs too but no, don’t bring those things back.
I used to go LAN Parties at the local university and…man no. in the middle of winter? yeah very nice and toasty but in the humidity filled Canadian summers? eff off buddy.
I got started on NixOS on a whim really. I distro hopped every so often and like a month ago I wanted to try something different. Already used Arch, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, etc but figured I’d give NixOS a shot.
At first I hated it and it just confused the hell out of me. Then when someone told me I should use flake for my config so I could through it in a repo it just clicked. Once you figure it out and “get it” it just becomes so easy. I’m still a noob at it but I absolutely love NixOS. It just makes everything so easy when you got everything in a flake with a config and home nix. Even backups are easy as you literally can just put it in your config to run. I even have it how where it’ll toss out old generations after 10 days automatically.
Plus the fact I can just use stuff without actually installing it is awesome. as a Dev NixOS is brilliant for that.