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[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

In 2024, Nintendo declared war on emulators.

March 4. Yuzu paid Nintendo $2.4 million, deleted its code, and handed over its domain.

October 1. Ryujinx got a phone call. The GitHub organization vanished overnight.

May 2024. Nintendo filed 8,535 DMCA takedowns to scrub Yuzu code from every fork.

By 2026, Nintendo has collected $6 million in emulator settlements.

Every major Switch emulator is dead.

But Nintendo has a problem. His name is Zurdi.

In March 2023, one year before the war started, he quietly built RomM.

RomM is not an emulator. It's a ROM manager. It scans your legally-dumped game files, pulls metadata from IGDB, MobyGames, and Screenscraper, fetches box art from SteamGridDB, and pulls your achievements from RetroAchievements.

Then it lets you play in your browser through EmulatorJS.

Nintendo's own top IP lawyer admitted on the record in January 2025 that this is legal. Emulators only become illegal when they bypass encryption. RomM doesn't. It just organizes what you already own.

9,114 stars. AGPL-3.0. 400+ platforms supported. NES, SNES, N64, Game Boy, GameCube, PS1, PS2, Dreamcast, Genesis, Atari, DOS, arcade, Flash games through Ruffle.

Official apps for Playnite on Windows. Argosy launcher on Android. Grout for muOS handhelds and the Anbernic devices. Sync plugins for RetroArch, Steam Deck, and Syncthing.

Multi-disk games. DLCs. ROM hacks. Patches. Manuals. Tag filtering. Share your library with friends with permission levels.

Made the front page of Hacker News.

Sony deleted 2,000 PS3, Vita, and PSP games from its store. Nintendo took down every Switch emulator in two years. Your digital library was never yours.

Two guys in a Discord server built the museum they can't take back.

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[BHENtel @TheBHentel]

It’s a nigga posting videos talking bout all the rappers and industry niggas his mama was fuckin on while he was growing up and how it damaged him and his siblings and I think that content is overly necessary for today’s generation of hoes

[BuBBliK @k1rallik]

THE GOD OF WAR MELTDOWN

Sony revealed God of War: Laufey at State of Play - a spin-off where you play Kratos' dead wife Faye in the afterlife of the gods.

Within hours it became three wars at once, and the loudest one was built on a lie.

- David Jaffe, the original creator, called it "dead" and compared it to Forspoken on stream
- Writer Alanah Pearce confirmed she spent four years on it - the project an NDA banned her from naming while people called her a fraud
- The viral "they made her ugly" image compares a glam photoshoot to a character who literally just died

23 minutes of new combat shown - and zero of the outrage was about how it actually plays.

[DRUSKI @druski]

British Actors are taking all the Roles 🎬😂

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones listened to 800 songs to find 9. Then Quincy threw out 4 of those 9 and went back into the studio. Beat It, Human Nature, P.Y.T., and The Lady in My Life were emergency replacements for songs that were not good enough.

They spent four months just listening. Quincy and Rod Temperton sat in a Los Angeles studio in 1982, going through song after song after song from every songwriter they could pull a favor from. Most got cut after a few seconds. Of the 800, they only ended up recording around 30 with Michael actually singing. Of those 30, only 9 made the final list. And then Quincy listened to the finished album, decided 4 of his own picks were not strong enough, and pulled them. The four songs he replaced them with became some of the most famous in pop music history. The four he cut went on to become hits for other artists.

Recording those replacements almost broke the team. During the Beat It sessions, Quincy had three studios running at the same time. Eddie Van Halen was in one of them laying down his guitar solo for free. He had thought the call from Quincy was a prank his friends were pulling on him. Michael was in the next room, singing a vocal part through a cardboard tube. Engineers were mixing in the third studio. They worked five days and five nights with no sleep. At one point the speakers overloaded and caught fire. Quincy later told the BBC they had to carry engineers out of the studio on stretchers. Musicians too. Greg Phillinganes, the keyboard player on the album, said there was a moment where everyone thought it was finished, that they had nothing left to give, and Quincy was still standing there saying "It is not there yet" while Michael, almost falling apart, kept asking what they were supposed to do now.

They finally finished mixing in early November. Then they sat down to play the master back, and the album sounded weak. They had crammed too much music onto a normal vinyl record, and the grooves had to be cut so narrow that the punch was gone. So they cut a verse from "The Lady in My Life," shortened the famous 29-second intro of "Billie Jean" that Quincy had been trying to drop the entire time, and remixed almost the whole album from scratch. One song a day. Eight straight days. The only track they left alone was "The Girl Is Mine" because it was already on the radio. The final mix wrapped on November 8, 1982. The album came out 21 days later.

The wolves you hear at the start of the song "Thriller" are Michael. The engineer set up tape recorders in a barn overnight to catch his own dog howling, and the dog never made a sound. So Michael did the howls in the booth himself. Some of the background vocals on the same track were sung in the studio's shower stall. Vincent Price did his entire spoken-word horror section in three takes, and the verses he was reading had been written by Rod Temperton in a taxi on the way to the studio that same morning. Michael never wrote his songs on paper. He recorded them on a small handheld tape recorder and then sang them back from memory in the studio.

The album ended up selling around 70 million copies. It won 8 Grammys, sat at number one for 37 weeks, and produced 7 Top 10 hits out of 9 songs. At its peak it was moving a million copies a week. But all of that came after the work was done. The work itself was 800 demos, 30 recordings, 4 last-minute saves, three studios running until the speakers caught fire, and a producer who refused to put out something he did not believe in even when it meant pulling his own album apart twice. Nine tracks because they could not find more that were good enough.

[ソト @sotogeto]

they just don't make main characters like you anymore big bro

[Lord Immy Kant @KantInEastt]

Tariffs to get refunded to companies, not the consumers who actually paid for the goods with tariffs

[Great Value Beyoncé @tieshatwo]

Shoutout to the guy who showed us how to get YouTube premium for free I’ve been having a ballllll

[The Black Hokage @TheBlackHokage]

Bring it back. That’s the tweet.

[D.O.C @DOC323123]

She about to go band for band with Zendaya for #1 biracial love interest of moody/burdened white guy in a movie

[paty #loveuleo @_midwicket]

I can’t believe Iran is doing what the YouTuber Prof. Jiang is saying and it’s actually working 😭😭

[Jay @VantaJay]

Somebody on the Tubi team personally requested this one because WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT LOONATICS UNLEASHED??? This is lost media as hell

[🦢 @meishato]

THERE IS MORE THAN ONE ISLAND
THERE IS MORE THAN ONE ISLAND
THERE IS MORE THAN ONE ISLAND

[Maw @TheEbonyMaw]

Hey, uh… any way they could release the user data from people who played Pokemon Go on that island?

[Mightykeef @MightyKeef]

A Black dude being the main character in a Silent Hill game is funny as hell, cause we would never 😭���️

[Vampz @Hybrid_Ola]

Content creator make a list of women she classifies as “losers”

[Cornelius Webster @DONTEVENGOLOL]

i remember seeing this bitch perma on my timeline back in 2020 2021 and all her tweets were like "ummm so this guy fucked me and then took a shit and then i used my vibrator" and everyone used to glaze her in the comments what a time

[Ville Kid @TheKodakChris]

Soulja boy made crank dat in a pirated FL studio. Chance the Rapper recorded his first mixtape “10 day” on his 10 day suspension AT THE LIBRARY. Ed Sheeran recorded his first album in his bedroom. Ego death by the internet was made on garage band.
SKILL ISSUE!!!

[JG @UTxJGTheDon]

And just like that the quarter zip trend gets infiltrated. Black ppl will forever be the trend setters across the whole world.