You can also parry with the sword.. but it takes a lot of skill.. and it'll mess up your blade's edge somethi'n awful!

I haven't decided.. I'll wait until I see more.. but for now I'll say sword for raisins.

Saltday indeed! Happy birthday!

Those pictures work for me. Twitter is experimenting with their image stack. There are some commands you can give it to get various sizes of an uploaded picture. For a day or two those were not functioning. The quality is getting worse for sure.

Posted by Darkhero

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Hi! Figured I should get around to making an account

I'm into retro computers and video games, but I also like many other things. Some of you may already know me from other parts of the internet.

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Welcome to Kafuka!

"Oh? Your Angry Sun is evolving....

Congratulations.. your Angry Sun as evolved into.. Existential Dread Sun!"

da da dadadada dada dada.. da da dada dada da.

I should replace the sun and moon in my layout with those... or maybe not.. hmm.. nope!

(The NSMB Sun looks like a phanto-esque mask.. only not cool.. I guess if they don't add SMB2 style you sorta have a phanto..?)

NSMB was fun the first round.. but it got over used. I actually really liked the first game. It was nice to have some new 2D mario. However by the time U came out it wasn't fresh at all..

Who knows. It would be nice to have SMB2. It made Doki Doki cool before it was a lit club! It fits the 'additonal style' really well. I guess we shall see soonish.

Not exactly in theme.. but still.. Based upon Durcell's commercials in the UK..


It flosses now btw. Sad times.

And a very belated Happy Birthday to you! I hope it was a wonderful day and you got something cool as well!

Happy Birthday Trapster!
May be it be a good one! !

Posted by Kai

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Maybe move this to Lt. General since it's ideally a members-only thing?

also discord is corporate spyware irc forever

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The link is protected by a login gate for the board. It's okay for it to be in the public facing side at least for the moment. If you click the link while logged out it'll not give you the link.

Heh my family used to have one of those toy dogs in your avatar!


The last thing I posted in this thread was about SMM2.. and well I have it but I haven't been able to do much with it. Has anyone here got any levels made? (Should we make a thread in other words?)

Not knowing the full situation.. The first thing I would check is if Safeboot is enabled.. If so make sure to disable that just in case there are trust issues. If your older computer was using Bios based booting methods it could also be you don't have legacy boot enabled. See if that's the case make sure that's enabled.

Even if you get windows to boot from your old install be prepared for lots of driver stuff to resolve.. and others oddities. Windows doesn't play well when you change the hardware either so expect reactivation prompts and all that crap too. (Also let's say if it is a 'activation required' install you only get 2 activation before you have to call microsoft and beg for another..) It could be more of pain than copying your data and taking it with you.. so keep that option in mind if you can't get it to work.

Windows is not like a Unix Variant.. it does not play well when you try to transplant it.. so take it one step at a time and keep the possible pitfalls in mind!

Thank you very much!

The pie was good indeed!

I've never used it either. It's one of the few parts you can get replacement via mail order (I think possibly even more than one).

Hello everyone.

So I've been working on a project for a while and it's finally getting to the point where I can show it off! We once spoke of creating a Mastodon instance for Kafuka but at the time it never manifested as it wasn't the point to do so. Recently motivated by a certain event to make things right as well as feeling now feels like a better time to give it a try I've created a Matsodon instance.

It's not just for the members of Kafuka however.. it's also for people who like to share art, talk about computers (both new and classic), and emulation. It's also for the friends we have that may not fit in our circles that want to try the Fediverse out.

The Instance is called "Kafuka.ME". I wanted to keep it separate from kafuka.org so I could give it a shorter url, and allow it to have it's own identity.

How does Mastodon/Fediverse work?
Magic? I jest. (I may rewrite this in the future since this is off the cuff.)

Think of it like if twitter and irc had a baby. You have your main Home Timeline that is just like twitter: it shows only the people you follow, their boosts (retweets), and etc.

You have the Local timeline.. which shows all the publicly posting toots (tweets) from everyone on the instance you are on. I feel this is where it would shine for the members here. All toots have a privacy settings ranging from public, to mentioned only. If you set it to be followers only, it will not show in any timelines but anyone who follows you will see it.

Finally we have the Federated Timeline. This will show all the posts the server sees that is public. Primary it's sourced from the accounts followed by the members of the instance. They also can be from relays that connect servers together. Any user that is on another Mastodon, Pleroma, Misskey, etc server that allows federation can be followed just like if they were on the server. This is the cool part. It allows you connect to people that may not be on the instance you are on. Creating a truly global experience.

That may be a lot or confusing So I'll break it down so a tl;dr size:

It's multi-server twitter with 3 additional views:

1. Home - Basically Twitter's timeline. Whomever you follow.
2. Local - All the posts of everyone on the same site as you, minus ones marked 'private'.
3. Federation - Everything your server sees that isn't private. Like Putting all the Locals together from every server you know about.


That's the 20¢ tour. It's really straight forward when you play with it. There are tools that can help you find other people on other instances and as Kafuka.ME grows the more it can see and grow.

So it's not quite ready yet. I am ready for a few more people to going in and help it to grow. I would like members of Kafuka to be the first to have access to it. The invite below is going to have an invite that will allow for 25 accounts to me made and will expire a week from this posting. When the site is in full live state I will have Registration open/review and invites enabled. For now both are disabled. (This paragraph will be removed once it has opened)

Link to the site. You can register on the front page. Just mention you're from the boards!

I've added a field in the extended profiles for Mastodon accounts. If you follow the format in the example it will link back to your profile any Mastodon site. (Not sure about other software).

If you already are on an instance no worries! We can always follow each other! Please feel free to follow me! https://kafuka.me/@emuz.

Other than that I am sure I left out a lot. I put a lot of work, time, and effort into this project. I hope you'll consider giving it a try!

It's actually quite simple. I just explain things over complicatedly.

It's twitter with 2 additional views:

1. Home - Basically Twitter's timeline. Whomever you follow.
2. Local - All the posts of everyone on the same site as you, minus ones marked 'private'.
3. Federation - Everything your server sees that isn't private. Like Putting all the Locals together from every server you are talking to.

I wouldn't get too hung up on it. If you see it, it'll make sense. I am very techinical sometimes with my explanations. lol. I've included a poorly photoshoped screenshot with all three timelines:



I'm also going to link a youtube video with a basic "What is Mastodon" just to help. Though I warn you it's a bit.. ehh.. lol


So yeah. It's not really complicated to use! I'll update my first post with a bit to make it a bit better.

The big difference is in the instance you choose. So far we've curated a really good content stream. I have only one relay and the people are mostly talking about things we talk about here.. cats.. games.. art. There will always be the quick "shitposts". Same could be said for here too. However as it stands.. the biggest shitposter on the feed is an account that shows pictures of big ben going "BONG BONG BONG" which I find hilarious!

For the members of this board. if you like twitter style for things but found it meh.. it's a good solution. The local feed would fit so well with our members. It would just be us.. and anyone else who joins Kafuka.ME. The interface is flexible in that there are many different interfaces you can choose to login with provided you don't like the interface, and it has full mobile app support. (One of those alternate interfaces is a old style html render! I've also been playing with a CLI client too!)

I think as long as you not totally repulsed by social media this is the best service that would be fit for this group. I would hope you'd at least give it a try! The board's not going away.. so there isn't a risk in at least trying it out. If you don't like it you can just delete your account with ease!

I know we're traditionally.. well traditional about or web experiences. It's run by Nicole and myself.. so know we'll be making sure it's a fun experience. We could have the best Local Timeline ever!

Regardless, I made this for myself and anyone that I know who wants an alternative to twitter, wants to try the fediverse with friends, or wants to see what other communities there may be. If that's not something your interested in than that's fine! If you don't feel like trying it out than no worries! I want to make sure the members of Kafuka have the first chance to sign up if they like. It's only fair!