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#tmnt#teenage mutant ninja turtles#splinter#teenage mutant ninja turtles iii radical rescue#ignore the shitty screenshot#it apparently didn't take on my computer#i'm finally almost done with the game#radical rescue#michelangelo#leonardo#raphael#donatello#april o neil
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Day in Fandom History: August 11…
Rad begins to feel uncomfortable when KO begins exhibiting negative behavior that he picked up from him, Mega Football Baby, and Bellbeefer as he tries to hide his secret of him over at the animal shelter. “Radical Rescue” premiered on this day, 4 Years Ago.
#Day in Fandom History#4 Years Ago#OK KO Let's Be Heroes#OK KO#Season 3#Episode 12#Radical Rescue#Cartoon#Animation
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Some freshly scanned 90s game ads
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue (Game Boy)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue, developed and published for the Game Boy by Konami in 1993, is one of the more interesting of the Game Boy titles.
You start the game as Michelangelo, who arrives home to find that everyone has been captured by Shredder. Mikey then sets off to the Foot Clan's secret base to save his friends.
From that point forward, the game becomes a sort of Metroidvania, where you have a map of the entire area, with some areas that cut off until you find the appropriate card key or rescue a turtle with the special move that will allow you to progress. Yes, that's right! Not only do the turtles actually look a bit different, but they have distinct moves in this one! Wow!
So a Metroidvania is a really neat approach for a turtles game, and especially ambitious for a GB game at that. So kudos to the developers on that. However, unless you play the Cowabunga Collection and switch this feature on, the map does *not* have icons letting you know where anything is, which would make playing this in 1993 needlessly frustrating. Also, I don't think there was a save feature, so have fun aimlessly wandering the map and trying to beat the game all in one go!
Obviously, I realize neither Metroid or Castlevania used icons on their maps either, but considering that you can't save and that the map in this game is kinda lousy in that it doesn't show which rooms are connected, it's a frustrating quality of life issue. The game is difficult enough even if you do know where you're going and, at the end of the day, this was supposed to be a game for kids.
While I still found the map frustrating to navigate even with icons, I rather enjoyed this game and would so far as to say it's the best of the three GB games.
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heatwave and optimus are such an underrated comedic duo. every single time they are in the same vicinity as each other everything immediately goes to shit. this is i think because they are both primus's blorbos, and in true blorbo fashion, must suffer. greatly. anyway this leads to some very fun interactions such as:
heatwave, newly appointed leader of like every rescue bot, on his first day as a secret alien on earth, immediately deciding he wants to leave right after accepting optimus's orders. and when he can't do that, he starts talking to people because he has no fear i guess.
optimus prime, leader of the cybertronian race, chosen by primus, and guy who says "nothing much, double dutch" in response to an extremely casual greeting in a very formal situation in front of his child (heatwave), presumably to embarrass said child.
heatwave, recent student of optimus's old friend who is a respected and decorated war veteran as well as a long time rescue bot, calling optimus (WHO IS FRIENDS WITH THIS GUY) just to bitch at him.
optimus prime, protector of civilians and humanity, fully prepared to watch a game show (created by blades and chase) in which a human child gets electrocuted. (there was a misunderstanding involving the term "lightning round" in trivia).
heatwave, rescue team leader, assigned to protect humans, straight up just driving off a cliff into the ocean with no warning, with his human partner who is screaming, all to win a race.
optimus prime, by now nearly a godlike figure, adopted father of all the rescue bots, also a terrible communicator, ghosting his kids for four years (get it. ghost. bc he died.) and then not explaining ever.
like literally i could go on but they are total messes and it's hilarious. where is all the content of incredibly chaotic and weird father daughter bonding for heatwave and optimus. they are so funny.
(yes i meant to type daughter bc heatwave gives off eldest daughter energy ok. no other reason for the shit he pulls.)
#tfrb#rescue bots#transformers rescue bots#transformers aligned#tfp#rid2015#tfrb heatwave#tfrb optimus#tfp optimus prime#tf aligned continuity#transformers#they r such a shitty father daughter duo#i think optimus is just too bad at opening up to actually be normal about anything ever.#heatwave can in theory open up but chooses not to because he doesn't like the vibes#i think the sheer power of having the two most overpowered mentally unwell radical bots in the same room could kill someone#probably in rba they use that#like by that time they've both emotionally grown but they r still little weirdos#so they can just girlboss it up and no one can stop them#yeah. idk#heatwave is my pookie bear and optimus is babygirl (esp in tfrb) so i'm giving them the fucked up dynamic they deserve
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1993 Konami Licensed Nintendo Game Boy Video Games Magazine Ad
#tiny toons montana's movie madness#montana's movie madness#teenage mutant ninja turtles 3 radical rescue#batman the animated series#tiny toons#teenage mutant ninja turtles#ninja turtles#tmnt#video games#konami#1993#90s#1990s#nintendo#nintendo game boy#game boy#dcau#dc animated universe#magazine ads#video game magazine ads#print ads
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also i love that minthara like actively & enthusiastically wants to use the astral tadpole yes bby come here hold my hand as we submit ourselves to the crucible of psionic transformation and emerge out the other side unrecognizable to anyone except the other
#i havent gotten there yet but. just saying. the half-illithid effects + the fallen aasimar shit are going to FUCK aesthetically#i cant wait#when every other avenue of self-creation has been taken from you so you allow yourself to be radically remade#by something beyond even your vast comprehension!!!!#gods least favorite princess#yiseerilXminthara#super bummed by how little content there actually is for her in act 2 after you rescue her/before you kill ketheric#blew through all her camp dialogue right away too...#but i persist
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My radical rescue cartridge………
#seller contacted looks like there might be an issue BUT it’s still functional and I got it for cheaper than radical rescue normally goes so.#to be expected by any and all means ansjsj#of course the easiest thing to do here would be to get the pc port but frankly I love my gameboy (advance sp) and want to play it on that#so. as it is and as you do#tacit rambles
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And then really hate radical feminism.
#mine#people trying to rescue radfem ideology are always hilarious#shit's rotten to the core even before you get to the trans question#i promise you don't have to become a liberal#there are plenty of feminist schools of thought that are much more radical than 'radical feminism'
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<Since the math teacher married my dad. It’s a crime, that’s what it is. Had to be math. Couldn’t have been some subject I can fake my way through. No. Has to be math. The answer is either the square root of pi or it isn’t, dude, there’s no bull factor. I can’t say, “Well, I felt what the writer really meant was …”>
Honestly I think that’s been the Biggest Jump in the plot in ages.
#swan reads animorphs#and it's hilarious#like#yeah there's been a lot of fresh trauma but I dunno how much STUFF has happened except for the whole Visser thing that was the whole book#but even that sort of...had a bigger step when she fell off the cliff#a lot iof the plot-forwarding is Status Quo Maintenance#''We rescued your mom but she has to stay with the Yeerks there's a shift but it's still the same just different''#but I think we're about to go through a RADICAL shift#but still#like they almost had something happen with Tom but then nothing happened with Tom
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Day in Fandom History: August 11…
Rad begins to feel uncomfortable when KO begins exhibiting negative behavior that he picked up from him, Mega Football Baby, and Bellbeefer as he tries to hide his secret of him over at the animal shelter. “Radical Rescue” premiered on this day, 3 Years Ago.
#Day in Fandom History#3 Years Ago#OK KO Let's Be Heroes#OK KO#Season 3#Episode 12#Radical Rescue#Cartoon#Animation
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Will I follow every single S.herlock H.olmes blog on this godforsaken site, and love every one for their unique take on the character? You betcha.
#not to be radical but this DOES include bbc#bc most bbc i've come across have rescued him#from the mire of his horrific portrayal#but also?? canon novel interpretations#elementary portrayals ofc have my HEART and SOUL#just give me all of the sherly's#ooc.
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Searching4Rinoa Plays - TMNT III: Radical Rescue FINALE
Quickest Metroidvania style of game I’ve ever played. At least now I can say I’ve played all 3 Gameboy TMNT games.
#youtube#teenage mutant ninja turtles#tmnt iii: radical rescue#leonardo#raphael#michaelangelo#donatello#splinter#scratch#dirtbag#triceraton#scale tail#cyber shredder
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An adversarial iMessage client for Android
Adversarial interoperability is one of the most reliable ways to protect tech users from predatory corporations: that's when a technologist reverse-engineers an existing product to reconfigure or mod it (interoperability) in ways its users like, but which its manufacturer objects to (adversarial):
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interoperability
"Adversarial interop" is a mouthful, so at EFF, we coined the term "competitive compatibility," or comcom, which is a lot easier to say and to spell.
Scratch any tech success and you'll find a comcom story. After all, when a company turns its screws on its users, it's good business to offer an aftermarket mod that loosens them again. HP's $10,000/gallon inkjet ink is like a bat-signal for third-party ink companies. When Mercedes announces that it's going to sell you access to your car's accelerator pedal as a subscription service, that's like an engraved invitation to clever independent mechanics who'll charge you a single fee to permanently unlock that "feature":
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/05/carmakers-push-forward-with-plans-to-make-basic-features-subscription-services-despite-widespread-backlash/
Comcom saved giant tech companies like Apple. Microsoft tried to kill the Mac by rolling out a truly cursèd version of MS Office for MacOS. Mac users (5% of the market) who tried to send Word, Excel or Powerpoint files to Windows users (95% of the market) were stymied: their files wouldn't open, or they'd go corrupt. Tech managers like me started throwing the graphic designer's Mac and replacing it with a Windows box with a big graphics card and Windows versions of Adobe's tools.
Comcom saved Apple's bacon. Apple reverse-engineered MS's flagship software suite and made a comcom version, iWork, whose Pages, Numbers and Keynote could flawlessly read and write MS's Word, Excel and Powerpoint files:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/adversarial-interoperability-reviving-elegant-weapon-more-civilized-age-slay
It's tempting to think of iWork as benefiting Apple users, and certainly the people who installed and used it benefited from it. But Windows users also benefited from iWork. The existence of iWork meant that Windows users could seamlessly collaborate on and share files with their Mac colleagues. IWork didn't just add a new feature to the Mac ("read and write files that originated with Windows users") – it also added a feature to Windows: "collaborate with Mac users."
Every pirate wants to be an admiral. Though comcom rescued Apple from a monopolist's sneaky attempt to drive it out of business, Apple – now a three trillion dollar company – has repeatedly attacked comcom when it was applied to Apple's products. When Apple did comcom, that was progress. When someone does comcom to Apple, that's piracy.
Apple has many tools at its disposal that Microsoft lacked in the early 2000s. Radical new interpretations of existing copyright, contract, patent and trademark law allows Apple – and other tech giants – to threaten rivals who engage in comcom with both criminal and civil penalties. That's right, you can go to prison for comcom these days. No wonder Jay Freeman calls this "felony contempt of business model":
https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/09/lead-me-not-into-temptation/#chamberlain
Take iMessage, Apple's end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) instant messaging tool. Apple customers can use iMessage to send each other private messages that can't be read or altered by third parties – not cops, not crooks, not even Apple. That's important, because when private messaging systems get hacked, bad things happen:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_celebrity_nude_photo_leak
But Apple has steadfastly refused to offer an iMessage app for non-Apple systems. If you're an Apple customer holding a sensitive discussion with an Android user, Apple refuses to offer you a tool to maintain your privacy. Those messages are sent "in the clear," over the 38-year-old SMS protocol, which is trivial to spy on and disrupt.
Apple sacrifices its users' security and integrity in the hopes that they will put pressure on their friends to move into Apple's walled garden. As CEO Tim Cook told a reporter: if you want to have secure communications with your mother, buy her an iPhone:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tim-cook-says-buy-mom-210347694.html
Last September, a 16-year old high school student calling himself JJTech published a technical teardown of iMessage, showing how any device could send and receive encrypted messages with iMessage users, even without an Apple ID:
https://jjtech.dev/reverse-engineering/imessage-explained/
JJTech even published code to do this, in an open source library called Pypush:
https://github.com/JJTech0130/pypush
In the weeks since, Beeper has been working to productize JJTech's code, and this week, they announced Beeper Mini, an Android-based iMessage client that is end-to-end encrypted:
https://beeper.notion.site/How-Beeper-Mini-Works-966cb11019f8444f90baa314d2f43a54
Beeper is known for a multiprotocol chat client built on Matrix, allowing you to manage several kinds of chat from a single app. These multiprotocol chats have been around forever. Indeed, iMessage started out as one – when it was called "iChat," it supported Google Talk and Jabber, another multiprotocol tool. Other tools like Pidgin have kept the flame alive for decades, and have millions of devoted users:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/tower-babel-how-public-interest-internet-trying-save-messaging-and-banish-big
But iMessage support has remained elusive. Last month, Nothing launched Sunchoice, a disastrous attempt to bring iMessage to Android, which used Macs in a data-center to intercept and forward messages to Android users, breaking E2EE and introducing massive surveillance risks:
https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/21/23970740/sunbird-imessage-app-shut-down-privacy-nothing-chats-phone-2
Beeper Mini does not have these defects. The system encrypts and decrypts messages on the Android device itself, and directly communicates with Apple's servers. It gathers some telemetry for debugging, and this can be turned off in preferences. It sends a single SMS to Apple's servers during setup, which changes your device's bubble from green to blue, so that Apple users now correctly see your device as a secure endpoint for iMessage communications.
Beeper Mini is now available in Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.beeper.ima&hl=en_US
Now, this is a high-stakes business. Apple has a long history of threatening companies like Beeper over conduct like this. And Google has a long history deferring to those threats – as it did with OG App, a superior third-party Instagram app that it summarily yanked after Meta complained:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/05/battery-vampire/#drained
But while iMessage for Android is good for Android users, it's also very good for Apple customers, who can now get the privacy and security guarantees of iMessage for all their contacts, not just the ones who bought the same kind of phone as they did. The stakes for communications breaches have never been higher, and antitrust scrutiny on Big Tech companies has never been so intense.
Apple recently announced that it would add RCS support to iOS devices (RCS is a secure successor to SMS):
https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/16/apple-rcs-coming-to-iphone/
Early word from developers suggests that this support will have all kinds of boobytraps. That's par for the course with Apple, who love to announce splashy reversals of their worst policies – like their opposition to right to repair – while finding sneaky ways to go on abusing its customers:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/22/vin-locking/#thought-differently
The ball is in Apple's court, and, to a lesser extent, in Google's. As part of the mobile duopoly, Google has joined with Apple in facilitating the removal of comcom tools from its app store. But Google has also spent millions on an ad campaign shaming Apple for exposing its users to privacy risks when talking to Android users:
https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/21/23883609/google-rcs-message-apple-iphone-ipager-ad
While we all wait for the other shoe to drop, Android users can get set up on Beeper Mini, and technologists can kick the tires on its code libraries and privacy guarantees.
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/07/blue-bubbles-for-all/#never-underestimate-the-determination-of-a-kid-who-is-time-rich-and-cash-poor
#pluralistic#multiprotocol#interoperability#adversarial interop#beeper#reverse engineering#blue bubbles#green bubbles#e2ee#end to end encrypted#messaging#jjtech#pypushbeeper mini#matrix#competitive compatibility#comcom
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