Emuparadise, one of the biggest sources for Roms and ISOs for 18 years finally caved to the bullying of game publishers that don’t care about archiving and preserving games and will no longer host roms.
So send up one last salute for a site that helped paved the way in preserving games as we have to now go and dig deeper in the bowels of the internet for these games in the future.
man, now I gotta find other sources to fill up my NES and SNES Classics with
Really sucks because Emuparadise one of the last “safe” Rom sites so now we’re stuck with shady databases full of ads and fake-download buttons that are like navigating the untamed jungle.
PLEASE take a look at these two sites. both are complete legit sites for ROM downloads. the UI is clean, professional looking, and easy to navigate and there’s no ads or other bullshit. im actually disappointed i didnt know about these sites earlier
A middle school in Achille, Oklahoma is closed following violent threats by parents on social media against Maddie, a 12-year-old transgender student who identifies as female and used the girls’ bathroom.
Maddie had been using the staff bathroom at her old school but used the girls’ bathroom at the new school because she wasn’t sure where the staff bathroom was. She was then accused of peeping under a bathroom stall. Her mother said it was probably because she “leans very far forward to use the bathroom.”
Then the threats began on a private parents’ Facebook group for the school. The parents called Maddie “it” and “thing”, suggested that her genitalia be mutilated to make her female (“a good sharp knife will do the job real quick”). One said it was “hunting season on them kind” and said there was “no bag limit.”
Maddie’s mother Brandy Rose said she fears for her life: “These are adults making threats– I don’t understand it. She’s an awesome kid. To see any fear in her, I can’t explain how bad that hurts me for them to hurt her.”
KXII reports: “The sheriff said the mother filed a protective order against one parent but no other arrests have been made, however several agencies including the FBI are stepping in to see if any comments constitute a hate crime.”
See the screenshots:
Sorry to say this but if we have to think about whether or not threatening to cut a 12 year old child is a hate crime means there is no hope for us. What has this nation become when it’s citizens feel they have a right to threaten minorities with no fear of repercussion. The only ringing heard now is the death knell of freedom..
It is _AGONY_ to even glance at the comments on this. Hundreds of people who think using cordyceps in place of pesticide means we’re going to accidentally wipe out all life on Earth or create a Video Game Zombie scenario.
What people don’t understand is that insect-zombifying fungi already exist literally everywhere that there are insects. From the moment you were born you’ve already breathed in the spores of several thousand strains. Constantly. That is literally why there are plans to use them as “pesticide,” because they’re already natural and already never hurt anything but their single, specific host species for literally millions of years.
It is physically impossible for them to ever make the jump to vertebrates. It works on insects because of the relative sizes. Fungal cells cannot physically exist that could parasitize us the same way. That is why the fungi that parasitize us simply make us itchy.
People raise honest concerns about the safety of insect populations, but even that’s nothing to worry about here!
Every single insect already has a single strain of fungus (or more) that specializes in killing it. This has been the case for millions and millions of years, and the fungi don’t just suddenly “jump species.” Since every insect is already “claimed” by a fungus, a new strain only arises WITH a whole new species of insect.
They steadily evolve in step together.
So the idea here is, if there’s an explosion of hornworms eating your tomato crop, you powder them with a mega dose of the one fungus that consumes hornworms. This is something that already might happen in nature, when the density of a host population allows for a rapid population boom in their parasites.
Any given pesticide we previously used would not only kill the same number of “intended” insects, but kill, sicken or significantly weaken millions more insects and other small animals, often leaching into the groundwater and working its way up through the food chain world wide.
This is sincerely the best idea we have ever had in regards to “pest management” and it’s sad we didn’t realize we could do this so much sooner.
there’s nothing better than griffin mcelroy completely apathetically and deadpan doing a bit while his brothers literally choke on their breath screaming with laughter in the background
