First place to start, get a video started playing in your browser, then CTRL+SHIFT+C (at least in Firefox+derivs) lets you highlight elements on the page and it will take you right to the spot in the source where it is. Might get lucky and find a mp4 link sitting right there for the taking.

Something tells me they have it a little more locked down, though. Might be able to monitor the network tab in Dev tools and filter for media to find the stream, which could also come through in chunks instead of one big file. Might even be obfuscated depending on how much money they put into the web side of things.

Barring all that, use OBS to screencap in realtime

Let me dig my teeth into it first before we get going too fast, 5 days is a nice time frame for me to dig in and maybe even get started on mechanics if I do rebuild everything. You may be right on the move to Godot for multiplayer, and animating will probably be much easier since I know the system more and what it requires.

I have a codeberg for my other stuffs (which also has my email): https://codeberg.org/madamegaymes

Especially now that w4 games would help us port it to all consoles

Can you elaborate on this? Nevermind, I see what you mean now after searching a little. May or may not be necessary, but that’s down the road. Need functional gameplay first.

In terms of the cabinet, I don’t have any solid ideas. I’d need to be able to do some investigative work on the physical machine. My first thought would be to clone everything possible and get it running on something other than the cabinet, so I could really do some destructive research without worry. The idea was more of a joke, though. The thought of a pirating community raising $15k just to crack a slightly obscure game sounds hilarious.

And yea, open sourcing was exactly my thought as well. I didn’t even do that much digging on other projects that might be out there, but this one honestly seems like it has a lot already figured out. Even has MIDI implemented so it would be stupid easy to make a custom 4-player controller for it.

I can’t seem to get the web assembly version they have uploaded to GitHub pages to work though. I’ll have to check out the repo and run it locally. Depending on how well it’s done, though, it may only need a graphic enhancement and made more accessible. The only real benefit I could think of to add would be online multiplayer. I don’t specifically know Bevy, but I do know a little Rust and I’m pretty good at learning new things like this.

Have you tried running it? I’m very curious as to whether or not the controls/gameplay stacks up to the cabinet.

Let’s raise $15k and I’ll help crack it!

Or, maybe I could replicate it in Godot if I can find enough gameplay vids. Might give it a serious look, but can’t promise anything will come of it.

I was curious, so I had to look it up. Turns out, Aristotle found and already written treatise on the idea of palm reading… I know it’s not exactly palm “finger” printing, but even our ancestors knew palms were unique.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmistry

It does sound like something an idiot would do!

Why do people assume that a new biometric is more secure than the ones already in use? In all cases, an authority figure only has to knock you out and they have all the access they need.

Even Spaceballs shows just how easy this is to defeat.

Alternatively, use a SearXNG instance to aggregate image search from all the engines

Indeed! I just made a comment the other day praising Bandcamp Fridays, myself.

Note about FLAC: A lot of times it’s just the 320k MP3 transcoded by BC’s backend. There isn’t really a good way to tell from the frontend which artists actually give FLACs from the masters, gotta check the file metadata. Not a super huge deal unless you have an audiophile type of setup or care about that kinda thing, though.

Still, better than any other streaming service that gives pennies to the artist, and you can actually download what you buy… with the option to buy physical copies as well. Dunno why this isn’t a more popular method to obtain music.

Don’t forget that yt-dlp is not only for YouTube, it supports many other sites as well.

My strategy is to grab 120k versions of music I want right now, using yt-dlp with Bandcamp. Then, when BC does their Bandcamp Fridays, I buy as many of the 320k versions that I can afford.

Also, check out https://squid.wtf/ if you want higher quality and better selection. I have pretty good luck with the Qobuz servers when I can’t find something on BC.

As others said, don’t forget that the purpose of all this is to fuck the corporations, not the artists.

I always think of corny in relation to romantics. A lot of times doing things for your partner, especially cliche things, is referred to as corny. However, it doesn’t detract from the relationship or how they feel about each other.

Clearly, we agree on the wordsmith definition, at least

I think we have different definitions of corny, I don’t mean it as an insult at all. Something can be both corny on the surface and have a deeper meaning IMO. I chose Aesop and DOOM because they both have that level of, “serious, but written like a joke”, and it’s part of why I love their work so much.

Conversely, Run The Jewels is almost always serious and direct. They have some corny stuff, too, but again I’m not belittling anything about their work. Just pointing out a difference in the vibe, Aesop and DOOM tend to lean a little more into the comedy when they write is all. Some times comedy has the deepest meaning.

The example you gave about Plies is just garbage. There’s nothing there. Never listened to them, but if that’s what their lyrics are like then I’m not interested.

On today’s episode of Scat or Scat?…

I was with Akai from the MPC Renaissance up to MPC Live/X.

Got to meet Q-Tip when the Ren released, that was probably one of the coolest things that ever happened. Too bad the company is owned by a piece of shit misogynist and Akai’s main idea guy does nothing but rip the rankest farts all day long.

I’m not criticizing his use of the word, I’m criticizing the fact he said he can’t be controlled by corporations, and now look at him.

I censored it cause it’s not my place to say or write it, even if repeating what someone else said.

Corny bars I can handle, love 'em even. I listen to Aesop Rock / Hail Mary Mallon and MF DOOM a fair bit, so yea… 😅

I used to work for a company that made samplers/boards/synths, and I do remember there being a lot of chatter about the production side of things. One of my buddy’s at the time ran a fairly successful studio and couldn’t stop talking about some of the releases.

Thanks for the deep dive! I dig that stuff, too.

Thanks! I’ll do my best to check those recs out while separating the man from the art.

ETA: Yikes. From New Slaves:

Fuck you and your corporations, y’all ******* can’t control me

So much for that line 🥲

You’re right, I guess the original thing by Jack Dorsey (Bluesky Protocol) was non-profit, but since becoming its own entity it is for-profit now. I conflated the two.

They consider themselves a Benefit Corporation, which I just learned is likely for-profit pretending to be socially aware.

I never really listened to Kanye, but I have to imagine it wasn’t always this vomit inducing, right? I remember people gushing over this guy.

And I’m not even talking about the lyrical content, didn’t make it past 18 seconds. Purely dogging on how shit the mix is and wondering how it manages to use autotune so poorly so quickly.

The image for the vid doesn’t help, either.

Let’s see here… ahh yes, it’s a company run by a board with a CEO based in Amerikkka. Who gives a shit if it’s non-profit or not, the users are not in control. No thanks.