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On one hand, I agree that "fascist" is broadly overused to talk about things on the right, extending beyond what it should technically refer to to. And that's not something specific to 2025 or the US -- it's been a phenomenon for decades.

On the other hand, that's a two-edged sword. It's also true that "socialist" and "communist" are very broadly overused by the right to try to paint things that they didn't like as being more extreme than they were. During the Cold War, this was maybe more understandable, but it's not at all uncommon for people on the right to call center-left people "socialist" or "communist" even today.

Here's Stephen Miller himself pulling out "communist":

https://www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-miller-demands-americans-side-with-donald-trump-against-communist-judges-in-unhinged-rant/

Stephen Miller Rants About ‘Communist’ Judges in Immigration Meltdown

Obama and Harris also both tended to get painted as socialist or communist at every opportunity possible. Neither is anything of the sort.

I used Compuserve only a few times, on someone else's computer. So I'm not terribly familiar with it. However, it looks like they provided a Web interface to them until they shut down the forums at the end of October 2017.

Archive.org has snapshots of that Web interface.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170920031241/http://member.compuserve.com/forum_center/

They do appear to be readable from that point. You'll need to wait for a few reloads after clicking on a forum, as there are some HTTP 302 redirects, but it eventually comes up.

I don't know how long Compuserve retains messages on a forum

if you saw this in, say, the 1990s, and they expired prior to the Web interface and archive.org archiving them, they may not be on archive.org.

But if you can remember where they were, that might get you there. Good luck!

Hah! Glad to hear that that's another white whale harpooned, then!

I assumed that if you could check it, it'd either have the song or not.

Back around 1991 or so, I saw a promotional piece of art in a centerfold in a Nintendo Power magazine, which was a high-resolution and not-cropped version of the artwork that appears on the Secret of Mana title screen. I really liked the image, and wished that I could get a copy. I thought that someone must have scanned the art at some point, but couldn't find it anywhere online. Back around 2023

32 years later

after repeated, sporadic hunts

I finally found a high-quality scan, and uploaded it to !gameart@sopuli.xyz:

https://lemmy.world/post/18353742

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/4f16e6c1-2174-45fa-b9e9-c8ae6e1a3f7d.png

I promptly ran into another Threadiverse user in that thread who had been saying that he had been looking for the same thing for ages.

EDIT: Based on this Reddit post of a lower-quality version, the artist is Hiro Isono.

Probably not it

I'm about 30 years out of date on D&D

but it does sound overpowered and it is associated with Rillifane:

https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?448029-Post-Your-Chosen-Templates-Here

It seems that a lot of people come to the FR boards looking for info on Chosen of the various deities. To put it quite simply, the majority of them don't actually exist. So on the old FR boards, a group of members got together and started making their own homemade Chosen templates.

I have no idea what "the old FR boards" are, but if it was old in 2013, it's probably getting back towards the time you were looking at.

Could have been taken down due to a copyright complaint if it was using unlicensed commercial music.

Relevant community: !tipofmytongue@lemmy.world

I'm not familiar with it, but according to this, the last episode is "The Paradise".

I assume that this is it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz8K7YCYSic

There are various audio services that will identify music if you upload a clip. Sort of TinEye for audio. I can't name a specific service, but they are out there. If you haven't, you might give it a shot.

kagis

https://www.aha-music.com/identify-songs-music-recognition-online/

https://musikerkennung.com/en/

Canada called me a couple of weeks ago, they want to be part of it

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GirlfriendInCanada

Girlfriend in Canada

A convenient way for a character to disabuse the idea that they're either gay, too socially inept for a relationship or simply unlucky in love is to claim that they indeed have a girlfriend — but the other characters have never met her because she lives in Canada. She doesn't visit very often, but when she does they just spend all day in bed. Look, here's her entry in his phone's contact list. No, you can't see a picture.

The idea is that since "she" lives in a different country, and presumably would have to get a passport and go through all that hassle in order to visit her "boyfriend", it's particularly tempting to make her Canadian as a way of discouraging others from asking too many questions.

The tactic could be scaled up.

Hmm.

So for some software, you can just increase the price.

But...I wonder what that will do to the cost of video games. Typically, those are closer to one-off releases, not packages where new releases exist and are regularly purchased or subscriptions are in place.

I'd expect this to increase the cost of maintenance, if there are legal obligations on publishers to monitor, notify, and deploy security fixes for their software and upstream. You'd think that it might encourage vendors to EOL software sooner; pull it off Steam or the like, mark as no longer supported.

Maybe there are some exemptions somewhere that affect those.