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Comment on Megathread: April Fools' Day 2026 on the internet in ~talk
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Comment on Megathread: April Fools' Day 2026 on the internet in ~talk
kfwyre Link ParentLove that the "THIS SITE IS GAY" banner links to Bearscape (as all such links should).Love that the "THIS SITE IS GAY" banner links to Bearscape (as all such links should).
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Comment on CGA-2026-04 🕹️🚀🧑🚀 INSERT CARTRIDGE 🟢 Space Rogue in ~games
kfwyre LinkThis ended up being a happy accident with scheduling (I didn't intend for the overlap), but I love that we're kicking off this game on the same day that Artemis II launched.This ended up being a happy accident with scheduling (I didn't intend for the overlap), but I love that we're kicking off this game on the same day that Artemis II launched.
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Comment on CGA-2026-03 🕹️🐸🕌🔔 REMOVE CARTRIDGE ⏏️ Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru (The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls) in ~games
kfwyre (edited )Link ParentMaybe it was just me but when I read those ending lines as I played, they sounded sort of suggestive (derogatory). Honestly, they gave me the ick. It felt like they were a coy, off-color adult...Maybe it was just me but when I read those ending lines as I played, they sounded sort of suggestive (derogatory). Honestly, they gave me the ick. It felt like they were a coy, off-color adult joke being shoved into an otherwise kid-friendly game, and they were given undue emphasis as they were literally the final words in the whole story.
I like your translation and interpretation a lot better. It ties the game's mechanics into its narrative theme, which is quite lofty for a 1992 Game Boy game! Makes the ending feel resonant instead of cheap. An all-around upgrade.
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Comment on CGA-2026-03 🕹️🐸🕌🔔 REMOVE CARTRIDGE ⏏️ Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru (The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls) in ~games
kfwyre Link ParentThis is a PERFECT name for it. Love it.looney tunes battle mechanics
This is a PERFECT name for it. Love it.
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Comment on CGA-2026-03 🕹️🐸🕌🔔 REMOVE CARTRIDGE ⏏️ Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru (The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls) in ~games
kfwyre (edited )LinkHow charming! This was a delight. The whole ending sequence was surprisingly bold and cinematic for a Game Boy game. I was impressed. I also thought the game had a lot of neat ideas as it...How charming! This was a delight.
The whole ending sequence was surprisingly bold and cinematic for a Game Boy game. I was impressed. I also thought the game had a lot of neat ideas as it progressed, delivered with a lot of character. I can pretty much co-sign on what everybody else has said here about all the game's good parts (especially the music -- it was great!).
I used save states to make the game less punishing (one wrong move and you're back at the hospital), but I also didn't realize that you could actually heal at the hospitals as well. Instead, for most of the game, I was buying wine to heal a few hearts, but because you can only carry one wine, I had to buy->use->buy->use->buy->etc. to get myself to full hearts.
Suffice it to say that this might have entirely negated the frustration I avoided through save states? I was mad when I stumbled into a doctor and he offered to heal me fully more quickly and way cheaper than multiple bottles of wine.
Similar to with Racing Lagoon, I was very impressed with the quality of the translation. I didn't feel like I was playing a fan-translated romhack -- it felt like I was playing the official English release of the game. This might be me waxing too poetic about things, but it feels like fan translations are a beautiful, selfless way of bringing meaningful experiences to more people.
Whoever made this isn't making money off of it (I assume?). They purely did it for the love of the game, and that means that someone like me (who had never even heard of this game before and definitely wouldn't ever have had it not been translated) has the chance to play it and love it.
I often say "we're living in the future" because of stuff like this. It feels especially odd to say that about a 34-year-old monochromatic game with ultra chunky pixels, but it's undeniably the truth! Our future is one where old games can reach audiences even their own developers never could have intended, all because people still care enough about them to not just keep them alive but bring new life to them entirely.
EDIT: I forgot to mention: FROGS FROGS 🐸 FROGS 🐸🐸🐸 FROGS 🐸🐸 FROGS
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Comment on Megathread: April Fools' Day 2026 on the internet in ~talk
kfwyre LinkRetroDECK announces LibreOffice integration Spoiler I cannot tell you how disappointed I am that Epic Office Races (1995) isn’t real. 😭RetroDECK announces LibreOffice integration
This has been one of the most common user complaints: when booting into RetroDECK, it hasn’t been possible to do other work at the same time!
With this new integration, that limitation is gone.
You can take a break, play an arcade game, then seamlessly return to your office tasks. Launching your quarterly budget spreadsheet or presentation directly from the same frontend where you game.
Spoiler
I cannot tell you how disappointed I am that Epic Office Races (1995) isn’t real. 😭
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Comment on Trans Day of Visibility in ~lgbt
kfwyre Link ParentAlly here too! I wasn’t sure if I should say something because I didn’t want to be yet another cis guy invading on a trans space, but I also love the idea of showing support: partly because we are...Ally here too!
I wasn’t sure if I should say something because I didn’t want to be yet another cis guy invading on a trans space, but I also love the idea of showing support: partly because we are all one community with shared challenges, struggles, and triumphs, but mostly because I think the world needs more trans support, not less.
Anyway, I love all y’all.
Keep being your awesome, authentic selves. Know that you’re never alone, and that there are plenty of people in your corner who want to see you thrive and live your lives to the fullest (and also maybe buy you pizza).
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Comment on He thought it was a routine US Immigration and Customs Enforcement check-in. Now his family fears he’ll be deported. in ~lgbt
kfwyre LinkUpdate: Maryland man released from ICE Detention, reunites with loved ones (this was published weeks ago, but I didn’t see it until now)Update: Maryland man released from ICE Detention, reunites with loved ones
Ludovic Marcel Mbock has been released from an ICE Processing Center in Folkston, Georgia, and is expected to reunite with his loved ones Saturday night — capping a nearly three week period that began with a shocking detention and ended with a hard-fought victory.
An immigration judge granted Mbock a $4,000 bond Friday morning in a Hyattsville immigration courtroom. "The low bond means he's not a flight risk or danger to the community," said Attorney Edward Neufville, III.
Family and friends moved quickly to pay the bond, and their efforts paid off. Mbock, who had spoken with WUSA9 by phone from the Georgia facility just a day earlier, expressed deep gratitude. "I feel loved. I'm thankful for the support."
But those closest to Mbock say the celebration will be brief. With his asylum case now reopened, they are already preparing for the road ahead.
"We celebrate, we take a moment to recollect. Then Monday, we're hitting the ground running preparing the whole case," said longtime friend Nikhil Delahaye.
(this was published weeks ago, but I didn’t see it until now)
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Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of March 30 in ~society
kfwyre LinkTrump signs order directing creation of a national voter list and restricting mail-in votingTrump signs order directing creation of a national voter list and restricting mail-in voting
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order to create a nationwide list of verified eligible voters and to restrict mail-in voting, a move that swiftly drew legal threats from state Democratic officials as the president demands further limitations on voting ahead of this year’s midterm elections.
The order, which voting law experts say violates the Constitution by attempting to seize the power to run elections from states, is the latest in a torrent of efforts from Trump to interfere with the way Americans vote based on his false allegations of fraud. The president has repeatedly lied about the outcome of the 2020 presidential campaign and the integrity of state-run elections, asserting again Tuesday that he won “three times” and continuing to cite accusations of voter fraud that numerous audits, investigations and courts have debunked.
The order signed Tuesday calls on the Department of Homeland Security, working in conjunction with the Social Security Administration, to make the list of eligible voters in each state. It also seeks to bar the U.S. Postal Service from sending absentee ballots to those not on each state’s approved list, although the president likely lacks the power to mandate what the Postal Service does.
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Comment on Tildes Book Club schedule 2025 - 2026 in ~books
kfwyre Link ParentAnd Kobo, Bookshop, Google Play Books, Apple Books, etc! There’s a chance the deal is limited to the US and Canada. If anyone outside of those countries can confirm the sale for us, I’d appreciate it.And Kobo, Bookshop, Google Play Books, Apple Books, etc!
There’s a chance the deal is limited to the US and Canada. If anyone outside of those countries can confirm the sale for us, I’d appreciate it.
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Comment on US Supreme Court rules against Colorado ban on ‘conversion therapy’ for LGBTQ+ kids in ~lgbt
kfwyre (edited )Link ParentA big internet bear hug from me, Fae. EDIT: We get to be the role models that we didn’t have when we were our students’ ages. What a wonderful and special opportunity we are entrusted with. Even...A big internet bear hug from me, Fae.
EDIT: We get to be the role models that we didn’t have when we were our students’ ages. What a wonderful and special opportunity we are entrusted with.
Even when it’s difficult, it’s still worthwhile. In fact, it’s probably most valuable when things are most difficult (as they have been for a while now).
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Comment on Tildes Book Club schedule 2025 - 2026 in ~books
kfwyre LinkWhat luck! The ebook version of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, our read for this coming month, is on sale for $3 (amazon.ca included!). @cfabbro @Zorind -
Comment on US Supreme Court rules against Colorado ban on ‘conversion therapy’ for LGBTQ+ kids in ~lgbt
kfwyre Link ParentOr, you know, gender affirming careOr, you know, gender affirming care
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Comment on US Supreme Court rules against Colorado ban on ‘conversion therapy’ for LGBTQ+ kids in ~lgbt
kfwyre LinkThe Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled against a law banning “conversion therapy” for LGBTQ+ kids in Colorado, one of about two dozen states that ban the discredited practice.
An 8-1 high court majority sided with a Christian counselor who argues the law banning talk therapy violates the First Amendment. The justices agreed that the law raises free speech concerns and sent it back to a lower court to decide if it meets a legal standard that few laws pass.
Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing for the court, said the law “censors speech based on viewpoint.” The First Amendment, he wrote, “stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country.”
In a solo dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote that states should be free to regulate health care, even if that means incidental restrictions on speech. The decision, Jackson wrote, “opens a dangerous can of worms” that “threatens to impair states’ ability to regulate the provision of medical care in any respect.”
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US Supreme Court rules against Colorado ban on ‘conversion therapy’ for LGBTQ+ kids
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Comment on The bot situation on the internet is actually worse than you could imagine. Here's why. in ~tech
kfwyre LinkAs you may know, on Glade Art we tend to take anti-bot measures very seriously; it is one of our topmost priorities to protect our fellow users from having their art trained on. We also tend to engage in trolling bots by using endless labyrinths of useless data to trap them in. These are commonly referred to as "honeypots" or "digital tar pits." And so, after 6.8 million requests in the last 55 days at the time of writing this, we have some substantial data, so standby and let us share it with you. : )
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The bot situation on the internet is actually worse than you could imagine. Here's why.
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Comment on I think Tildes moderators and admins may need to make a decision regarding how to handle Harry Potter related posts in ~tildes
kfwyre Link ParentIt’s unfortunately very relevant to his lyrics.It’s unfortunately very relevant to his lyrics.
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What is something you're holding together?
You're the glue, the leader, the center of gravity, the one making it happen. Without you, it would probably fall apart, cease to function, or stop. What is it? What do you do? Do people...
You're the glue, the leader, the center of gravity, the one making it happen.
Without you, it would probably fall apart, cease to function, or stop.
What is it?
What do you do?
Do people appreciate your role, or is it invisible?39 votes
This is excellent, and the Artemis II launch has me all in a space mood, so now I'm playing around with your site in a genuine, honest, non-April Fool's way (though the April Fool's stuff is fun too!).