oh that's sick. i didn't know it was ever on a LP album. song is a total banger

is that one X-Ecutioners scrobble "X-Ecutioner Style" from Reanimation, or "It's Goin' Down" which wasn't technically LP but featured mike shinoda and mr hahn (so it pretty much counts)?

but clean room RE doesn't require decompilation at all. it requires someone who has copyrighted source code to provide a spec to someone who has not seen said code. is code generated by a decompiler granted the same copyright protections as the original source? idk, maybe

you might be totally right. i just think there's at least /an argument/ that "reading" the binary and then writing code to match is analogous to a clean room. it's not reading a written spec, but it's not reading the actual source either. seems gray to me, but feel free to disagree

ok man. if you don't wanna talk about it then we won't. hope you've been doing good

idk. decomp code is not the original code. i think there's at least an argument that it's more like a spec describing what the original code did, since literally nobody in the process has access to the original source. but again, not a lawyer

like, what if you had a team with absolutely no access ever to an original rom, gave them a written spec (with no code) based on the decomp, and they were able to create a working build. is that code stolen? that's pretty similar to compaq cloning IBM's bios back in the day

not a lawyer obv, but decomp specifically has some similarities to clean room reverse engineering (moreso than straight disassembly anyway, imo). you've got a target that you're trying to match, but you never REALLY had the original source, so you can't have copied it. but idk. it's interesting

what are three pieces of media (one of each) that:
1) strongly shaped your taste going forward
2) did not change your taste at all but felt tailor-made for you specifically
3) taught you something that you'll never forget

is dance dance revolution sports or esports

waking up Christmas morning like

first 4 commander decks

these were built somewhere around 2008. the only one still standing is azusa. when i first built it, landfall hadn’t been printed on a card yet. now after almost 2 decades of updates, i play azusa in cedh tournaments

the first game is a masterpiece. the second game is fine, but a lot longer and worse in basically every way

tis the season

lol gotcha. that’s still good but i thought you were suddenly KAC level

wtf?????????? this is an insane score??!!!??!?

i wanna see your lin sivvi list

mario kart world

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I wrote a guide for DDR/rhythm game commentary, which is now live on DDRCommunity! ddrcommunity.com/rhythm-game-...

also the number of remakes that are actually better than the original release is like, less than 5

"this needs a remake/remaster/updated graphics/hd collection" Does it really or are you just too lazy to emulate a video game

i appreciate the honesty and self awareness. i’m not in love with windows by any means, but for a daily driver computer for web/gaming/non-dev i’d pick it over any linux distro every time just because it’s mostly going to work without tinkering. but we all have our own way of doing things

it is extremely funny to me that your idea of a “minimal-stress life” involves a linux desktop environment

this is almost as funny as the pyramid clip

around 14 years ago i had a coworker who preferred linux in an otherwise mac-centric environment. i asked him why, expecting some sort of rms-style zealotry, and he just said “package managers and tiled WMs” which was basically the most irrefutable opinion possible

I am inherently not very interested in Ace Attorney fangames but this one got me. The sheer dedication to do this via OOT modding... www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOdY...

agree to disagree. sm64 is easily a top 10 game of all time imo. probably top 5