co-10: tinypic linkrot strikes again

Written: 2023-01-26
Categories: Cohost Archive

Original tags were: linkrot, frustration, The Cohost Global Feed, rain world, TIGSource

So I’ve been enjoying replaying Rain World to get access to the new DLC content that just came out, and it brought to mind how much I enjoyed following the TIGsource devlog that it had for several years (the thread is a good 300+ pages long!), so I decided I’d go back and skim it again, as the thread has a lot of nice debug visualisations and write-ups and whatnot.

But it turns out all the images at the time were uploaded to tinypic, so the entire thread is just filled with this bastard!

Tinypic. This image is no longer available. Visit tinypic.com for more information

And to make matters worse, while the thread has been archived in the wayback machine several times over the years, the vast majority of images slipped through the cracks and aren’t present in the archive1

A screenshot of an early version of Rain World with a debug overlay for pathfinding
(One of the few archived images from the thread I could find)

So unless someone happens to have a full archive of the thread somewhere that we don’t know about or videocult happens to have all those old screenshots sitting around somewhere its all just lost to time, which hugely sucks!


  1. There’s one capture of the first page in the thread that miraculously has the images archived correctly, every other capture of every other page is missing them that I could see. ↩︎

what if a bug had a website

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