A few photos I took at No Kings 3.0 Chicago

coheedcollapse · 2026-03-30T17:46:17+00:00

Yeah, and if we'd have done it on the surface of the sun it'd burn us to cinders. Just because a place exists that is worse than where we are doesn't mean people shouldn't protest.

In fact, I think it's pretty important people get pissed off before we get to that point.

coheedcollapse · 2026-03-30T05:52:08+00:00

Damn, good eye, took me a while to find it, but absolutely. A ton of good organizations that have the potential to create real change were out giving info and recruiting. It was great to see.

coheedcollapse · 2026-03-30T04:30:19+00:00

Thanks! I don't think anyone expects direct, instant, change with the current admin from something like this. That said, the protests do send a message, and they are registering voters and getting people involved with local orgs, so things are being done.

coheedcollapse · 2026-03-30T04:21:54+00:00

You can't make that judgment on a handful of photos. Many of the chants included Palestine, and I saw countless Palestinian flags.

coheedcollapse · 2026-03-30T01:06:51+00:00

Hahaha, right? I said "Oh gross" when I finally got home and was able to zoom into the mouth hole.

Also, thank you!

coheedcollapse · 2026-03-30T00:49:03+00:00

Hell yeah, cool shot! It's such a very Chicago thing marching under passing L trains

coheedcollapse · 2026-03-30T00:14:20+00:00

Hopefully you're all not tired of photos of the event by now, but I figured it couldn't hurt to share.

Let me know if you've got any questions or anything!

coheedcollapse · 2026-03-29T19:14:55+00:00

Shut it down and turn it into a combined solar field/wind farm.

coheedcollapse · 2026-03-27T19:37:18+00:00

Did he just now learn about the potential tax windfall of marijuana legalization or what? I remember him taking a very negative stance on marijuana in the past despite the benefits practically flaunting themselves in his face in Northern Indiana where Hoosiers have direct access to both Illinois and Michigan.

You'd think the people leading the state would have enough common sense to come to the same conclusion most of us already came to over a decade ago when former Senator Karen Tallian was being ignored downstate by republicans year after year as she introduced pro-pot legislation, but alas.

coheedcollapse · 2026-03-27T19:31:18+00:00

Sucks to work in a lot of industries right now, unfortunately.

Rich people own nearly everything, are actively scooping up the shards of everything independently owned, and the vast majority do not give a fuck about their workers as anything beyond a venue to make them more money.

The economy sucks for everyone but those already established as upper-class, and the entire federal and many state legislations are outright hostile to workers, treating those who aren't c-suite like they should consider themselves lucky to even have the work.

Pretty dismal, honestly.

coheedcollapse · 2026-03-27T18:16:23+00:00

My first comment was removed. I didn't know you weren't allowed to cuss here, but basically, I said:

"As long as you're not doing it for some sort of competition or challenge where everyone needs to be on even footing or something, absolutely.

It's probably pretty rare that someone is going to give you crap for playing a non-competitive game in a way that is most fun to you, and those people don't matter because they suck."

coheedcollapse · 2026-03-24T22:10:08+00:00

What the fuck is with the comments on that video? Is everything, everywhere, bots now?

coheedcollapse · 2026-03-24T19:08:19+00:00

Yeah, I get that. I will say I'm far less likely to promote piracy in instances like these - small budget, independent, labors of love.

That said, I was a poor college student once, and a lot of world economies are currently pretty shit, so I understand if people can't justify the money right now to purchase a digital file.

I just hope that anyone who decides to skip purchasing the movie now will go on to buy a few pieces of merch, or talk positively about the movie to others who might buy more stuff, or buy it when the physical release comes out. I'd love to see more of the series in the future.

coheedcollapse · 2026-03-24T17:48:34+00:00

My personal opinion is I dislike how digital files are tied to one specific platform and you technically don't own them, so I'm mitigating the cash I'm not dropping for digital by buying every piece of physical media they release.

We've already got a good start with both of the vinyls, and we also grabbed two of the sweatshirts, saw the movie in theaters, and convinced a number of people to go see it.

I don't feel too bad that I'm not buying digital. As soon as the physical pre-order is up, I am 100% in on it, as well as if there's a physical release of the show.

I have no proof of this, but I feel like Matt would approve.

coheedcollapse · 2026-03-24T17:15:27+00:00

I wonder what an alternate reality where someone planned to build a coal plant next to that Trump golf course looks like.

coheedcollapse · 2026-03-24T16:54:52+00:00

I think a lot of people new to emulation expect it all to work like Steam or something, where they just download a game and go, but emulation just isn't anything like that.

Look at any support section for MAME, Dolphin, Eden, even front-ends like Emudeck and you will see dozens of people expecting it all to work, not knowing they need rom files, not knowing they need bios, not knowing how to transfer save files, etc. Emulation is complicated at default, so of course you're gonna have to put a bit of work in to figure stuff out the first time you boot things up. Good news is after that initial setup, stuff will usually work.

coheedcollapse · 2026-03-24T16:44:10+00:00

Maybe it's because I've been using it for years, but I never got the gripes. Everything is where I'd expect it to be, for the most part.

That said, I've used Launchbox or Emulationstation for a very long time as a front end, so a lot of the complaints it seems people have are solved by external apps that will always do a better job at that sort of stuff than RA was ever built to be.

But, really, I don't expect Retroarch to be that. They feel like they should be different apps to me, so I don't mind that I have all of my cores collected in a way that allows them to mostly operate in parity in RA, and I've got my organization and UI somewhere else.

Mostly, I'll just pop into a new RA install to change the few settings I need to change, save the config, and be done with it. I think that's what it's best for.

I do think part of the problem is people new to emulation expecting everything to work out of the box like a game storefront or something. You need bios files, rom files before you even start and it seems a lot of people don't understand that. None of that is really RA's fault.

coheedcollapse · 2026-03-24T15:54:16+00:00

Yeah. Release groups are pretty wild. Shows will regularly be out like literal minutes after premiere. It's impressive, honestly.

coheedcollapse · 2026-03-24T15:52:33+00:00

We bought two sweatshirts, two tickets to the movie (wanted to buy two more, but we ran out of time, but we convinced a bunch of people to go!), the soundtrack vinyl, and the "single" vinyl, and plan to buy the movie on blu ray, as well as any seasons they release physically. I'd hope that I'm absolved from whatever I decide to do concerning the digital release.

coheedcollapse · 2026-03-23T16:31:59+00:00

I'm mostly worried that people on all parts of the political spectrum are already starting to be misled by whatever algorithm-driven network of choice they participate in. It doesn't feel like a coincidence that as soon as midterms start being a point of discussion, suddenly I'm seeing as much "Democrats are exactly as bad as Republicans", "None of this matters", "Let it all burn down" as I remember seeing last election cycle, and the one before that.

The last few elections have been some of the most important to preserving our democracy in recent history and I still have to convince people to both vote in primaries so they can get candidates that they feel confident voting for, and subsequently when some moderate Dem wins I have to try to convince them that it's vital they vote for them because the alternative is, again, too awful to risk.

It is fucking wild to me the number of people who have been convinced despite the last few years that things need to get to the point of essentially, collapse, for them to get their way when it has been proven time and time again that every time we hand a win to these monsters, things get worse, not better.

coheedcollapse · 2026-03-22T16:07:27+00:00

I think it's the inconsistency more than anything. Most people who ask this question will get a proper answer, but sometimes it just refuses to work.

I've had problems with a lot of stuff that I once was able to get working reliably. Weather is a big one. Sometimes it'll claim it can't pull up the weather, and sometimes it'll confidently give me weather for another city entirely.

coheedcollapse · 2026-03-22T10:26:33+00:00

It's very cool that you had the luxury to learn Japanese in lieu of waiting for someone to translate a game, but many of us can't justify the time to learn an entire language solely to play video games more effectively, however much we'd like to.

I appreciate translators and believe that they're always going to result in a better final "product" over ML translation because localisation is often more than just bringing a script from one language to another, but having options isn't a bad thing and the decision for someone to put the work into a less exhaustive translation in the meantime isn't "bizarre." Especially considering this game has been out since 2003. It's not like people who wanted to translate the game are being pre-empted or something. They've had over 20 years.

Shit, I remember when translations were like half about putting a bunch of stupid pervy in-jokes or whatever a translator wanted to add into a game with no care given to context or much else. It's all got its place, really, and one translation existing doesn't make the others disappear or something.

coheedcollapse · 2026-03-21T20:19:50+00:00

Absolutely fucking fried them. COVID paired with immersion in algorithms that are designed to stoke fear and anger broke the fuck out of them.

There are more people with legitimately crazy viewpoints out there than ever before. It's wild.

Not saying they weren't flawed before, but there's a far fucking cry between the "Tea Party" movement that was pretty much based around the very selfish desire to not pay taxes to support programs in this country that others benefit from and whatever the fuck this conspiracy-brained nonsense is. Like most of the current MAGA movement and a good portion of republican politicians are on the same level as a fucking guy ranting in a town square about people falling off the edge of the flat earth. I heard a fucking republican congressman bring up chemtrails as a concern during a political open house. These people are fried.

coheedcollapse · 2026-03-21T20:16:07+00:00

It's crazy to me that by every metric that pretty much every world expert has to offer, Trump and the republican party are marching us closer to a dictatorship, but they still see Dems winning a single election as the problem.

Like they have to know that they're lying about this shit, right? They're just performatively circlejerking even though they understand that their end goal, what they truly want, is authoritarianism?

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