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Off Topic / Stop Killing Games: Bill Passes California State Assembly

« on: May 31, 2026, 06:15:53 PM »

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/the-stop-killing-games-movement-hits-another-major-milestone-as-a-game-preservation-bill-passes-california-state-assembly-vote/

A new piece of legislature in California would make it illegal for companies that have games, particularly single player games, with online requirements to take their servers permanently offline for games people have played to use. If they do so, they have to provide 60 days notice, and offer a way to continue to play the game in a singleplayer offline mode.

The Stop Killing Games movement is a recent effort to put an end to exploitative business practices by game studios that produce online only game that people pay for, but then shut down those games, effectively stealing from the customers.

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Off Topic / Hiding posts by bot accounts

« on: May 02, 2026, 02:21:39 PM »

So recently there has been an influx of spam bots on these forums, and a nifty feature I discovered SMF has built in is the ability to hide posts from these bots. Strangely though you don't do it from the poster you want to hide.
If you go to your own profile, then at the top select modify profile then follow the menu down to Buddies/Ignore List, then select edit ignore list. Conveniently as you type in names it automatically suggests the full name so you dont have to worry about any special characters in the name.

While this doesnt prevent spam topics showing up, it does let you read a thread more continuously without annoying chat-gpt generated content from russian toll farms, and makes it much easier to hold conversations.

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Off Topic / Starting in March, Discord will require your government ID or a full facial scan

« on: February 09, 2026, 12:29:00 PM »

https://www.theverge.com/tech/875309/discord-age-verification-global-roll-out

The countdown until mandatory digital ID's for Americans is speeding up.

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Off Topic / birday

« on: January 08, 2026, 03:08:05 AM »

I miss the old birthday cake gif. I wonder where it is now. I hope it thinks of us some times.
Anyways 35 now, meaning I first played this game just over 20 years ago.
woo

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Off Topic / Peter Thiel just dumped all his Nvidia stock

« on: November 18, 2025, 10:04:39 PM »

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/peter-thiels-fund-offloaded-nvidia-stake-third-quarter-filing-shows-2025-11-17/

Yeah so the guy in charge of Palantir, working with the current administration to undermine the current surveilence state in favor of privitized data ownership, working under the "Dark Enlightenment" philosphy put forth by Curtis Yarvin that advocates for economically dismanteling the US to turn it into a series of company towns owned by big tech billionaires, was heavily invested in Nvidia as part of the current AI bubble. Well he's been kinda losing his stuff and has been posting things about how he thinks he's probably going to have to flee the US soon.

Anyways, he just pulled out of Nvidia, the once-graphics card manufacturer-turned AI chip mogul.

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-11-18-2025?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqcCdiuRNsaI-zv8EZvcq0WOkoO5NcCneRpkV5-H8wfQsXqY5GuE3iSMl0mf_pw%3D&gaa_ts=691d36cc&gaa_sig=G1H1TbjpCNt2JXTNNLnBYvuCLrkCaAINYX6AUoiT-fOl8RcRbst3sOzpqqP_yvmWMdqO4DVgMgbL6NUZO8We1A%3D%3D

Well looks like we are about to undergo a bubble worse than the dot-com bust back in the 90s because a bunch of stuffheads had overvalued the usefullness of AI and its supposed value despite being shoehorned into everything from cars to fridges for no appearant reason whatsoever.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/googles-sundar-pichai-warns-of-irrationality-in-trillion-dollar-ai-investment-boom/

We're likely to see the entire market drop several trillion within the next few months.

Oops

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Off Topic / The two Neo-national socialist Skinheads that murdered my brother were found guilty.

« on: September 21, 2025, 07:12:47 PM »

https://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=328293

So yeah, in December of 2023, two skinheads accused my brother of breaking a window and beat him to death in broad daylight on a crowded city street. The dozen or so witnesses at the time had not seen how the window ended up broken, but did record  the forgeters as they kicked him to death while claiming they were detaining him until the police arrived.

I guess, in case anyone was curious how that whole thing turned out. No clue how long they will be in jail for.

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Off Topic / Current International Headlines: War on Iran

« on: June 21, 2025, 09:18:57 PM »

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/us-strikes-iranian-nuclear-site-Annoying Orange-says-rcna213781

So, previously I wiped the "Israel's War of Revival" thread because, while containing factual and sourced information, much of the thread was also my specific complaints about state-sponsored and internationally recognized genocide against the Palestinian people. Seeing as the Annoying Orange administration has made it clear that they are willing to arrest US-born citizens and specifically target anyone who is critical of Israel, I had it in mind to re-write the posts as to merely point out the facts without specifically mentioning my own position on the issues.

That said, I have a life, and the thread expired before I could update it, which is unfortunate given how directly they lend into current events.
But a TLDR of what you may have missed since the last thread closed.

No aid shipments have been allowed into Gaza, no food water or medical supplies, for over 100 days now.
Netanyahu, the Israeli PM, has said the goal of their continued attacks on Gaza is not the return of hostages.
An International Flotilla flying the British flag of ships (with many famous activists on board including Greta Thunberg) was besieged in international waters after threatening to deliver food and supplies to the starving Palestinians.
Israel steps up its attacks on Gaza, continuing their attacks on hospitals, international aid camps, and critical infrastructure

Amidst an increasingly unpopular war against Gaza, and all their surrounding neighbors, and Netanyahu facing corruption trials, a vote to dissolve the parliament takes place, but with only two of the Orthodox members of the parliament supporting the bill, the government stands, albeit rattled
With 70% of all Israeli's wanting an end to Netanyahu's goverment, garuanteeing that he wont be able to hold power through another election, there seems to be very little he can do to remain in office...

So, During negotiations between the USA and Iran, Israel launched a preemptive strike against Iran.
The US admitted that their peace talks were in fact a distraction to allow the Israeli surprise attack
In retaliation of the surprise attack, Iran launched a series of strikes against Israel, breaking through the Iron Dome with multiple supersonic ballistic missiles

Despite the Annoying Orange Administrations claims that Iran was weeks away from the completion of nukes (something Israel has been claiming for decades, despite Iran's nuclear program shutting down in 2003) Head of intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard*, had to repeat the fact that that Iran has no nukes to convince the US to not start a war *^{Correction, Tulsi Gabbard, not Kristi Noem}
Annoying Orange in return said that Tulsi Gabbard, who's whole job is to know who is a threat to the US, was wrong and that Iran did have nukes according to I guess some random nameless guy living under his wig? **
Americans overwhelming disapprove of US involvement in Iran, and the goverment has said that they arent going to be involved
Except that Ted Cruz then let it slip that we are helping Israel in their attacks against Iran.
The international community has strongly condemned Annoying Oranges playing at some wartime general and his posturing threatening the already unstable region.

Annoying Orange then said, yesterday, he would give Iran two weeks to stop building nuclear weapons (which they haven't been) before the US begins directly attacking Iran.
In the world record for the shortest two weeks ever, 18 hours after his announcement multiple attacks on Iranian nuclear powerstations have now further destabilized the region.

Annoying Orange, in his delusion, has said that now we have proven our ability to attack Iran, they are expected to stand down and surrender. Iran, of course, has in so many words responded with a resounding "go forget yourself"

gg chat

bonus points if you were alive for the Iraq War and can point out every similarity between bush's search for wmds and this stuffshow

**oh, update, now that Annoying Orange broke the law (again) and declared war on a foreign government which is specifically the duty of congress, Tulsi Gabbard has backtracked on her claims that iran isn't a threat and hasn't been working on nukes, cause i guess her boss said so and she didn't want to be the next one on the White House Hungergames thread?

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Off Topic / The White House Hunger Games: By the way, forget Peter Thiel

« on: January 21, 2025, 07:10:21 PM »

THIS THREAD IS MEANT FOR SATIRICAL AND ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED TO DISCREDIT THE AUTHORITY OF THE ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Like many other troll threads here, the opinions reflected are merely meant to stir up arguments and do not reflect any political affiliation or ideation.

Welcome to the 2025 White House Hunger Games!

I honestly thought I would have more time to make this topic so I dont have any fancy images yet for this first post but, to somewhat alleviate the upcoming nonstop slew of BS, I thought it would be fun to keep track of how long Annoying Orange's ever-revolving-cabinet members actually manage to stay in their seats.

Those who lost in the preliminary elimination round include:

Matt Gaetz For Attorney General	Chad Chronster For Head of DEA

Well it is now 30 hours into the presidency and we have our first cabinet member to fall! Co-Head of DOGE, Vivek Ramaswamy https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/20/doge-musk-helped-eject-ramaswamy-00199487 This comes after Vivek managed to piss off all of Maga by blaming Americans' laziness and unintelligence for why he and other tech companies needed to rely on H1B visas. Even after Annoying Orange backed up Vivek's pro-immigrant positions it still wasn't enough as his presence reportedly had annoyed Elon so much that everyone pressured him out of Mar-a-Lago. Vivek managed to hold onto his position for an admirable 0.11 Scaramuccis.

Next to be shunted aside: Intended Director of CDC David Weldon Despite following Robert "The Worm" Kennedy's lead in claiming vaccines cause autism, even Annoying Orange's influence wasn't enough to guarantee Weldon the Republican votes needed for his confirmation. Since he wasn't officially confirmed, we cannot really measure how many Scaramuccis or Viveks he lasted.

Fifth, we have Intended ambassador to the UN, Elise Stefanik The only potential cabinet pick to actually be qualified for her position, Stefanik's nomination was retracted out of fear of losing Congress due to two special elections in Florida showing dangerously close margins amid the Maga bureaucrats cutting every social funding that voters in the supposedly red districts relied upon just to pay for President's Musk tax breaks for billionaires. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/28/stefaniks-withdrawal-suggests-republicans-are-sweating-their-thin-margins-00255984

The Sixth member dismissed is National Security Advisor Mike Waltz Taking the blame for Pete Hegseth's complete disregard of National Security, Waltz ended up being thrown under the bus instead of Hegseth or Gabbard after a second signal chat leaking to the press proved to be too much. Waltz held onto his position for a respectable 9.27 Scaramuccis. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/01/Annoying Orange-mike-waltz-signal-national-security-hegseth.html

Eventually I'll update this to add Elon but his parting is still kinda ambiguous seeing as he's still showing up to events with his supposed ex-bf Annoying OrangeSo with Elon Musk appearing at events along side Annoying Orange and even visiting Mar A Lago again, it's become increasingly clear the whole divorce thing was just a publicity stunt. Taking bets on who is next to get the boot. I'm thinking Kash Patel seeing as how embarrassing he has been recently, but we'll see.

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Off Topic / Drones Over New Jersey

« on: December 11, 2024, 06:30:21 PM »

So people have been seeing these drones the size of SUVs for weeks now, and its finally making national headlines.

A NJ congressman said they came from an Iranian carrier off the coast, but the pentagon said that wasnt true.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5035204-five-things-to-know-about-the-recent-drone-sightings-in-new-jersey/

Some people are saying they are aliens, some are saying they are the US government trying to desensitize us to drone-based surveillence, and some saying its Russia, China, or Iran.

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Off Topic / Nick Fuentes' house not burned down but he did assault a woman

« on: November 11, 2024, 04:15:55 PM »

So right-wing internet celebrity, conspiracy theorist, holocaust denier, and self-declared neo-national socialist and proud incel, Nick Fuentes decided to go on twitter in the wake of Annoying Orange's election win to say to the women of America
"Your body, my choice, forever."
Naturally all the chronically online 4chan idiots decided to start parading around schools and shouting this at women.
So his home address was leaked.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/11/11/nick-fuentes-investigateed-chauvinist-remark/
This morning I woke up to news that his house had been burned down overnight.

Just thought this was interesting.

Edit: still looking for an official news article, most of what ive been seeing posted has just been on instagram, facebook, or tiktok, so as of yet unconfirmed by major news sources (although searching for it directly seems to be blocked due to potential hate speech ironically)

So I have not found any specific news article about his house burning down so that might have just been a rumor that blew up quickly.
But it turns out he did pepper spray and then kick a 57 year old woman down the steps to his house without so much as exchanging any words about why she was there just because she knocked on his door to talk to him
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2508936/marla-rose-woman-who-doxed-nick-fuentes-presses-assault-charges
Bit of an over reaction to someone knocking at your door.
Maybe he should just try to smile more and people would like him better?

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Off Topic / Election 2024

« on: June 27, 2024, 10:50:35 PM »

*will update with higher quality map once the final tally is released


Major Update: Biden No Longer In Race, Endorses Kamala Harris

Dear god why are these two idiots the only options for most Americans.

Thank goodness I live in a state where I can safely vote green and my vote wont matter because we throw out over 2.5mil votes every election due to the electoral college.

People are saying so and so won.
I feel like everyone lost.

Give your opinions I guess?

Interstitial update, Biden's mistakingly calling Putin the president of Ukraine, followed by calling his vice president Annoying Orange, and saying that he answers to the commander and chief, is so depressing that Biden has lost $90mil in funding from donors. At this point the only way to reclaim those funds is if Kamala Harris is officially swapped into the nominatory position, due to the legalities of campaign finance.

But that wont happen because Biden is worried it would be "a bad look" if he dropped out now.


loving some dumbass just shot at Annoying Orange so now we got a goddamn photop of him raising a fist infront of a flag.
Topic change I guess:

Will this assassination attempt really change anyone's votes? Dems still wont vote for him, reps already were going to, people on the fence who aren't going to use their vote sensibly to support a third party, has this changed your opinion?

Update 7/15, because the 24hr news cycle just keeps churning, and a mass shooting will probably become irrelevant by next week:
Annoying Orange finally found someone who was willing to put up with being his VP, Ohio Senator JD Vance.

7/16 Video of Phone call shows collusion between Libertarian candidate with worm in his brain and Republican candidate with a new potentially intentional ear piercing.

President of Teamster's Union speaking at your RNC? It's more likely than you may think!


7/21 Biden officially steps down (on like the last possible day before electors begin the pledging process)


7/22 Republican candidate, Nikki Haley's PAC comes out in support of Kamala Harris

7/23 GOP is losing their stuff after their entire platform is derailed from change of opponent, Annoying Orange is trying to get a refund for his wasted money on the RNC

7/24 Republicans vote to defund cancer research. Also, JD Vance is so unpopular, his appointment as VP actually lowered Republican approval for this first time in history after a VP appointment.


8/6 Harris has chosen her running mate: Tim Walz

11/6 AP calls race for Annoying Orange after he wins PA and WI

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Off Topic / War against Hamas

« on: May 07, 2024, 01:25:00 AM »

I realize that while these posts were meant only for entertainment purposes and to stir up debate through trolling, they can come across as critical of Israel and the US's policies overseas. I apologize for any confusion on the subject as I now realize how serious of a topic our fight for liberation of Israel against Hamas is, and that it is not a joking matter.

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Off Topic / Idle and Subpixel are no longer online??

« on: April 30, 2024, 10:20:00 PM »

Is this the end times?

(Note, the hidden user there is me. Through much shenanigans of me bothering Badspot with my talking in third person and him temporarily filtering my name to change all mentions of "ladios" to "me", and his inability to fix the complete wreck that is smf, i am marked as permanently hidden)


(For legal/anti banning reasons any mention in this thread of the forum dying is merely rhetorical for the purpose of making a joke, dont ban pls, i'm still using this forum to harass people with stuffty opinions)

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Off Topic / Koden has passed away.

« on: January 07, 2024, 04:04:55 PM »

I am not sure how many of you will still remember my brother, Koden, but I felt inclined to inform these forums of his passing today.

Some of my fondest memories of this game are from back when the two of us first found it in 2005, playing on crazy maps in v0002 where we set the water to lava and had spikes of waves flying past our build. Playing RTB 1.045 where we made floating island maps and fortwars. Playing retail where we made and "starred" in movies by various forumers.

Koden was an avid music creator as well and to this day one of my favorite trance/techno songs was one he created. I still fondly remember his gift for my 16th birthday of live DJing my party. He was very imaginitive and intelligent and while he could be a pain, as any little brother could be, I cannot understate how much of a loss the world has suffered with his passing.

I don't have many words to say on the subject, but I know this game was important to him back in the day, and I felt this community was the first I should inform.

Please remember to cherish the moments you have with your friends and family. Building these memories will give you something to cherish ever after.

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Off Topic / California

« on: August 20, 2023, 05:08:40 PM »

So in the midst of our first hurricane, there was just an earthquake too cause why not?
How's your day going?