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Apiary mastodon (AP)
This isn’t a road. This is the minuteman bike path in Arlington today.
A snowy bike path is lined with cars. One is driving down the middle of the path.

Chris Trottier pleroma (AP)
Hey Koreans, why are you hiding your video game masterpieces from the rest of the world – as though they’re prized kimchi recipes?! Seriously, what gives? You can’t keep Jang Pung 3 for the SEGA Master System locked up forever – the world deserves to know about the greatest 8-bit fighting game of all time. Yeah, I said it. Not just “pretty good” or “surprisingly decent.” The greatest.

And yet, this gem is so obscure it makes Bigfoot look overexposed. Despite being mostly in English, it never left South Korea, possibly because it dropped in 1994, when the Master System was practically a fossil. By then, North Americans were too busy trying to make CD-ROMs a thing to notice, and consequently, most emulators today still choke on this game. Let me repeat: this wasn’t some basement-dweller homebrew – this was a legit release! What gives?!

“But wait!” You might be thinking, “I thought that Koreans were all about PC gaming, not console games!” Well, sure. But back in the day, Samsung did their part to “Koreanize” the Master System, rebranding it as the Samsung Gam-Boy (with a better controller, no less – ergonomic and classy). Few Korean games made it to consoles, but Jang Pun 3 stands tall among them. As for Jang Pung 1 and 2? Yeah, good luck finding those. They’re either myths or the world most committed inside joke. This might be the only real Jang Pung game.

And what a game it is. The plot? Completely bonkers. Here’s the literal intro text from the beginning of the game:
Nazi followers have decided to conquer the world, and constructed a horrendous machine for that goal: a cyborg named Sell. To defeat him, the best fighters from different countries of the world hold a tournament that will determine which one of them should venture to Leipzig and destroy Sell in a one-on-one battle.

Yes, you read that right. Nazis? Cyborgs? Leipzig? Sure, why not. This is the kind of Cold War fever dream I live for – so I’m eating this up.

The gameplay itself? Unbelievably good. You won’t find any guides or special move instructions on the Internet because this game is barely known at all – so you’ll have to discover them by trial and error. But things are smooth, and it largely helps that the Master System controller only has two action buttons: one for punch, and one for kick.

Just looking at this screenshot, the level of detail in both sprites and backgrounds is astounding. This isn’t something the NES or C64 could pull off – at least not without an enhancement chip. In terms of looks, you might even mistake this for a 16-bit game. Sure, there’s some flicker here and there, but let’s cut the Master System’s poor CPU some slack. It’s doing God’s work.

Sound is excellent as well. Okay, it doesn’t support FM audio (a missed opportunity), but the SN76489 chip pulls off some insanely catchy tunes that’ll lodge themselves into your brain. The sound effects? Crunchy, punchy, and exactly what you’d want in a fighting game.

Open Production developed Jang Pung 3. Between 1993-97, they made seven games, four of them for the Master System. This includes Toto World 3 and Dallyeora Piguwang, both which I’m dying to check out.

So yeah, if you’ve got a working Master System (or Gam-Boy for you lucky Koreans), track this down. Jang Pung 3 is no mere fighting game – it’s a technical miracle and a piece of forgotten history. Now, can sommeone tell me why the rest of us had to wait decades to find out about it? Seriously, Koreans. Share the love.
Jang Pung 3 for SEGA Master System
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Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1706814/ Rome ouvre la cause de béatification du roi Baudouin de Belgique #België #belgien #Belgique #belgium #Nachrichten #Nieuws #Nouvelles
Rome ouvre la cause de béatification du roi Baudouin de Belgique

The Global Hunt for Putin’s ‘Sleeper Agents’ Once a soviet spy, and public toilet robber always a ruska kurwa.

Remember, Putin kurwa is kgb.

The Kremlin called these foot soldiers Vladimir Putin’s “invisible front,” an army of agents living false lives on foreign passports and second languages. Identifying one, American spy catchers would complain, was like finding a needle hiding in a needle stack. Few would prove as well-concealed as Kadivnik’s target.

🔗 https://archive.md/TIBXS#selection-2463.0-2463.317

#usa #Ukraine #EU #Europe #Nato
WSJ Special Report

The Global Hunt for Putin’s ‘Sleeper Agents’ & * A quiet suburban mom, a hard-drinking war correspondent and an Arctic researcher were hiding in plain sight, championed by the Kremlin’s No. 1 fan of spy fiction MI6 had a secret so sensitive that Slovenia’s spy chief needed to fly to London to hear it in person. Somewhere in his tiny Alpine nation, a pair of elite Russian spies were hiding under deep cover. But the British intelligence agency couldn’t—or wouldn’t—tell him their names. 


The CIA had heard about them just days earlier. Josko Kadivnik, director of Slovenia’s intelligence service Sova, meaning Owl, felt his stomach sink. In its three decades of independence, Slovenia had never arrested such a spy. Now, just weeks after Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, he was being tasked with a mission that went far beyond Slovenia’s borders to the heart of a New Cold War: His small team of officers needed to capture two Russian sleeper agents.
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Ericbomb mastodon (AP)
I feel like I'm in the rough part of my Computer science degree. Last 2-3 terms I've gotten nothing but classes I have no interest in because of their system limiting what classes you are able to grab each term. It's online classes while I work full time so my life doesn't revolve around it, but it's frustrating working, then having the two classes I got for a particular term be busy work classes.

AkaSci 🛰️ mastodon (AP)
The House is voting now on the 3rd version of the spending bill that would avert a government shutdown.

The bill does not include lifting the debt ceiling.

Democrats seem to support the bill. Apparently, so does president-elect musk.

Draft of the revised bill at https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20241216/ARA%2012.20.pdf
Webcast at https://www.c-span.org/event/us-house-of-representatives/us-house-of-representatives/429757
Live coverage at https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/20/government-shutdown-bill-house-trump-musk/
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AkaSci 🛰️ mastodon (AP)
Good. Hide the ketchup.
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Post by Burgess Everett, Congressional bureau chief at Semafor. Former Politico -
Trump is NOT happy that the spending deal doesn't include the debt ceiling, according to person who spoke with him this p.m. Not clear he'll publicly try to stop the bill in the Senate but Trump's the bill doesn't contain his main ask
AkaSci 🛰️ mastodon (AP)
Well done Senate Democrats!

"Congress has passed legislation giving D.C. control of RFK Stadium and allowing the city to redevelop more than 170 acres of federal property surrounding it.

The U.S. Senate passed the RFK Memorial Stadium Campus Revitalization Act by unanimous consent at about 1:15 a.m. Saturday — a Hail Mary action that required the support of all senators present without objection. The bill cleared the House in February on a broad bipartisan basis."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/12/21/rfk-stadium-deal-dc-bowser-congress/
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nixCraft 🐧 mastodon (AP)
Hold up! Is that a SunOS?! This bad boy's been working alone for 25 years running some critical app?! Those ancient 36GB SCSI drives are practically museum artifacts! And with only 4GB of RAM? My Android phone has more memory! 😂 This thing makes a Raspberry Pi look like a supercomputer. They sure don't build 'em like they used to...I must admit, Sun Microsystems had some serious engineering and reliability back in the day. I guess it will still work for another decade or so ☺️
Cedric ISSALY mastodon (AP)
i have a sun blade 1000 with 2x1.2GHz ultra SPARC 3. I have no idea about performance comparison with a rpi. Do you have some clue?
keith mastodon (AP)
wait... 36GB drives aren't that old! i mean, anything measured in GB isn't that old, damnit!

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1706813/ Wie reagiert Luxemburg auf die Attacke in Magdeburg? #Lëtzebuerg #luxembourg #Luxemburg
Logo vl

God :verified: mastodon (AP)
Radical idea: instead of a plutocracy, maybe you try a government for the people, by the people? Anyone ever try that?
David W. Jones mastodon (AP)
That's what they're doing now! They're just defining the word "people" to mean "those whose net worth exceeds US$1 billion".
@Firlefanz
Try these follks https://www.pbs.org/native-america/blog/how-the-iroquois-great-law-of-peace-shaped-us-democracy

I don't know how to feel about learning that Linus Tech Tips sells both bikinis and bidets.
&mut selves Qyriad mastodon (AP)
I too do not know how to feel about this o.o


nixCraft 🐧 mastodon (AP)
How can I be a happy chap in IT? Let me tell you about it:

* The RAID is a backup fallacy: RAID is for redundancy, NOT backups! (Seriously, people!)

* Neglecting backups: Data loss is tragic. Back up your precious files.

* Blind faith in backups: Test them! Know how long it takes to restore. Otherwise get ready for Schrödinger's backup 😉
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Mathias mastodon (AP)
In my experience, the RAID-fallacy has been replaced by the cloud-fallacy in most organisations these days.
HankB mastodon (AP)
I got to test my backups just this week. I was working on some scripts to try to provoke a ZFS bug and was developing on the target host (a Raspberry Pi.) I had put my development directory in the pool and without much forethought, destroyed the pool. 😬 Luckily for me, part of the testing involved sending the pool to another host so I just recovered the project from the backup host. 😀

God :verified: mastodon (AP)
Crazy thought, but what if nobody governed by tweet? Remember that? When tweets were just dumb thoughts that didn’t affect the entire country?
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RiaResists mastodon (AP)
I missed the good ol’ days of the bird.
I enjoyed Facebook for a few years.
Aral Balkan mastodon (AP)
@media_dept I guess it makes sense God is American.


Shout out to my Marantz receiver that turned 52 on December 18th. Works perfectly. Use it daily. #Marantz #Analogue #Vinyl
A black and white photo of a Marantz 2215 receiver.
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Kim Perales mastodon (AP)
“Elon Musk used misinformation to fuel a government shutdown.”

News outlets & many people who post on X & other social media about Musk, give him a pass. Musk spews #disinformation on X, he lies & intentionally misleads his followers, as do many of his allies & Trump.

#USPol #Musk
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-misinformation-government-shutdown-bill-budget-trump-musk-1235b15b425856bf902d0c8133eec222
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GuitarGirl mastodon (AP)
He’s a danger to the world. Hopefully someone will have the courage to stand up to this narcissistic freak show.

FunHouse Radio mastodon (AP)
https://FunHouseRadio.com <-- TUNE IN
Now Playing offbeat Holiday music!
#Hanukkah #cartoon #comics #memes


I hear the Red Line has been redirected to Elon’s cell.

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1706811/ PHOTOS: Brookwood vs. Denmark Boys Basketball | Prep #basketball_boys #brookwood #Danmark #denmark #MULTIMEDIA #prep #schools #slideshows #Sport #sports
PHOTOS: Brookwood vs. Denmark Boys Basketball | Prep

The Japan Times mastodon (AP)
The Saudi suspect in Germany's deadly car-ramming attack on a Christmas market held strongly anti-Islam views and was angry with Germany's migrant and asylum policy, officials said Saturday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/22/world/german-christmas-market-attack-islam/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #germany #immigration

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1706809/ Alexander Sørloth tok Atlético Madrid til tabelltoppen: – Karrierens største scoring #AlexanderSørloth #AtleticoMadrid #LaLiga #Noreg #Norge #norway #nyheter
 Foto: Albert Gea / Reuters / NTB

Rich Stein (he/him) mastodon (AP)
Actions have consequences — eventually:

"The United States Congress faces a Friday deadline to pass a budget for the 2025 fiscal year, or else face the shuttering of nonessential government functions."

"trump and his allies have pressured Republicans in the United States to ditch a short-term spending bill designed to avert a government shutdown."
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/19/facing-government-shutdown-trump-and-republican-allies-scuttle-budget-bill
#USpol #USpolitics #USelections #election #Republicans #Congress #budget #Budget2025 #GovernmentShutDown #DOGE
Rich Stein (he/him) mastodon (AP)
Somewhat speculative but a good overview of what the impact of a US Government shutdown might be, as well as some history of shutdowns. https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2024/why-is-the-government-shutting-down/ v @Poynter
#USpol #USpolitics #Republicans #USelections #Congress #budget #Budget2025 #GovernmentShutDown #DOGE
Rich Stein (he/him) mastodon (AP)
Shocked (not) — Musk helped kill that congressional spending bill, but much of what he spread was misinformation
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-misinformation-government-shutdown-bill-budget-trump-musk-1235b15b425856bf902d0c8133eec222
#USpol #USpolitics #Republicans #USelections #Congress #budget #Budget2025 #GovernmentShutDown #DOGE #musk #misinformation

When Salvador Dalí Created Christmas Cards That Were Too Avant Garde for Hallmark (1960) | Open Culture https://www.openculture.com/2019/12/when-salvador-dali-created-christmas-cards-that-were-too-avant-garde-for-hallmark-1960.html

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1706807/ “Allt för Sverige” avgjort – Så gick det för Lönnebergaättlingen #nyheter #Sverige #sweden
"Allt för Sverige" avgjort – Så gick det för Lönnebergaättlingen

Camember La Ratona mastodon (AP)
@irisvankirsten Hoy estabas en Monte Nublo. Y cuando te saludé, hiciste un baile cuqui y yo aplaudí :gif_villager_dance:
Foto de no muy buena calidad de parte de la  pantalla de la tablet, tomada con mi móvil.

Se ve a mi personaje de espaldas. Llevo un kimono rojo con adorno de gatos, una bufanda y un gorro de Papá Noel. Sujeto una taza de café con la mano derecha.

Frente a mí está Iris, que lleva dos moños, gafas azuladas y un pantalón con chaqueta y unas botitas de nieve.

Mi ayudante personal, Camember, nos mira de espaldas a la cámara. Es anaranjado y tiene dos enormes orejas. Se ve la parte trasera de su chaqueta de pirata, que es lo que lleva puesto.
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China’s Agibot eyes 1,000-strong humanoid robot army to beat Elon Musk’s Optimus

A war with soldiers like that?

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/china-agibot-humanoid-robot-beat-elon-musk

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1706801/ Ireland — December 22, 2024 #ireland
Ireland — December 22, 2024

Sue Stone mastodon (AP)
Team presents first demonstration of quantum teleportation over busy internet cables

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-team-quantum-teleportation-busy-internet.html


Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1706799/ UK’s military presence in Estonia shows ‘unshakeable commitment’ to Nato – The Irish News #defence #Eesti #estonia #InternationalRelations #JohnHealey #MilitaryOperations #nato #Politics #TapaMilitaryBase #UK #Uudised
UK’s military presence in Estonia shows ‘unshakeable commitment’ to Nato – The Irish News

kcǃ mastodon (AP)
Jesse James the #cat decided he wanted a regal side-portrait for #Caturday this week to show off his brilliant whiskers and iridescent heart medallion. He hopes you are having the best day possible and wishes you a very happy holidays! 😻
A side-profile portrait photo of an adorable orange and white tabby cat. He is looking to the left with big yellow-green glossy eyes that are reflecting light from the windows, and his iridescent heart-shaped collar tag is shining a rainbow of colors.

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1706797/ Lithuania court finds law restricting same-sex content for minors unconstitutional – JURIST #Lietuva #lithuania #naujienos
UN expert urges Poland to address discrimination and violence against LGBT community - JURIST

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1706798/ Sikora scores twice as Czechia levels Latvia 5-1 in world junior warm-up #Jaunumi #latvia #Latvija

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1706795/ Five bids revealed for Poland’s longest rail tunnel #Aktualności #poland #polska
Five bids revealed for Poland's longest rail tunnel

"Whether it’s his posts in favor of the far-right party Alternative for Germany, which harbors Nazi sympathizers, his regular communications with Russian President Vladimir Putin, his support of neo-Fascist Italian leader Giorgia Meloni, or his enmeshment with the Chinese regime, where fully half of his Tesla cars are manufactured, Musk seems fully invested in enabling a new world order favorable to autocracy."

~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat

#ElonMusk #Trump #autocracy #Putin
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https://lucid.substack.com/p/elon-musk-a-new-and-sinister-force
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Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1706793/ K hokejové reprezentaci chystající se na juniorské MS se připojil Šalé #Česko #CzechRepublic #czechia #EduardŠalé #Hokej #MistrovstvíSvětaVHokejiU20 #zprávy
Sport.cz

Trying to shoot down Ukrainian FPV drone, a North Korean soldier mistakenly shoots his comrade in Kursk region
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war
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