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| Screwtape |
Posted on 18-12-31, 08:53
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In the same way that we have a thread to talk about giveaways and sales, I thought maybe we could have a thread about donation drives, patreons, and other noble causes people might like to support. In particular, rare or unusual ones - everybody knows when Wikipedia is looking for donations, but it might surprise people to know about archive.org, or some smaller, even more niche subject. Please try to keep things somewhat in the bailiwick of this forum's usual content: emulation and preservation yes, anime nerdery maybe, a GoFundMe for veterinary bills probably not, unless it's like CaptainJistuce's dog. My submissions: The Internet Archive is having a 2-to-1 donation drive right now: if you donate $5, a generous supporter will add $10, making for a total of $15. The Internet Archive runs the Wayback Machine, an online archive of nearly every version of every website on the Internet. More relevant to this forum, they've also funded a lot of work on porting MAME and MESS to JavaScript, allowing thousands of arcade games, console games, home computer games and other software to be played in the browser. A lot of those games are also available for download, and even games that aren't downloadable are being preserved on the Archive's servers, and they intend to hang onto them until the copyright expires. The Geek Critique (Patreon) is a YouTube channel focused on reviewing and discussing classic games, what makes them work, where they fall down, and where they improve on each other. These critiques are *detailed*, sometimes running to an hour or so per game, but are still pretty fun and interesting. People on this forum might be interested in watching Donkey Kong Country or Super Metroid. Also, Friend Of The BBoard Covarr occasionally crops up, so keep an eye out for that. Software Freedom Conservancy is a non-profit that provides legal services for Free Software projects - setting up a non-profit foundation, managing donations, organising conferences, and license enforcement. The projects they support include Git, Mercurial, QEMU, Boost, Homebrew, Samba, Wine, and many others. Right now they're having a 1-to-1 donation drive, so if you donate $5 somebody else will match it for a total of $10. The ending of the words is ALMSIVI. |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 18-12-31, 08:56
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Posted by Screwtape Get out of here, you commie!
I'll keep the offer in mind if we ever have to use the veterinary ER again. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| Covarr |
Posted on 18-12-31, 16:23
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 Post: #41 of 63 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1376 days Last view: 654 days |
Posted by Screwtape I've been upgraded to assistant video editor. Probably won't be making any more actual appearances outside of streams now and then, but this does give me the freedom to do some sneaky easter eggs, like a lip flap bit in the Sonic 06 episode that totally wasn't in the script. Disclaimer: Now that I'm helping out with some of his video editing, I'm getting paid for it, so even though I do fully believe The Geek Critique's content is totally worth the time to watch it (I began as a fan myself), take everything I say with a grain of shill. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Screw_Yall |
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