Krokodyl

"I was born in 1990 and I was sort of raised in America when it was a cult of self-expression, and I was just taught, you know: express myself and have things to say and everyone will care about them. And I think everyone was taught that, and most of us found out that no one gives a shit what we think...They say it’s the ‘me’ generation. It’s not. The arrogance is taught or it was cultivated. It’s self-conscious. That’s what it is, it’s conscious of self. Social media is just the market’s answer to a generation that demanded to perform, so the market said “Here, perform everything, to each other, all the time for no other reason.” It’s prison, it’s horrific. It’s performer and audience melded together. What do we want more than to lie in bed at the end of the day and just watch our lives as a satisfied audience member? I know very little about anything, but I do know this: that if you can live your life without an audience, you should do it." - Bo Burnham

Live your life without an audience.

"Hey ChatGPT, can you explain high school math to me plz"
- That guy, probably

YouTube video by Oriental Pearl Do You Know WHICH YouTubers are Deceiving You? Language Gurus that RUIN Language Learning

2/ While that video (link below) was about language learning, all her arguments could be applied today to her own recent content regarding Japan. As if she gradually became what she despised. An unfortunate irony.
youtu.be/6zZfv55Joeg

YouTube thumbnail for https://youtu.be/6zZfv55Joeg

- clickbait - silencing people who call out your false claims - predatory tactics - making bank with marketing preying on people's insecurities - cult-like personality - censoring comments - "I like hearing the voices that disagree with me"

1/ Oriental Pearl made a video in 2022 calling out the "language gurus" of YouTube. She and her guest make good points I listed here. She also emphasizes multiple times the exploitative nature of making money from a "position of power" (being a big YouTuber) with false claims.

"This page may contain affiliate links" actually means "all the links are affiliate links and nobody in our staff has read the FTC regulations on affiliate marketing which is why this message is buried at the bottom of the page in a tiny font and a color that only bees can see."

Inventing Antifa In 2005, the Uzbek government invented a group called “Akromiya” to justify massacring protesters. Now I worry the US government will do the same.

In 2005, I wrote an article called "Inventing Akromiya" about how the government of Uzbekistan made up a group called Akromiya to justify a massacre of civilian protesters.

Twenty years later, the US is more like Uzbekistan, and I wrote "Inventing Antifa": sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/inventing-...

Image that's also on the fandom wiki
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That seems to be the box art for the GBA version
www.creativeuncut.com/gallery-03/b...

Dungeon Master: The Life and Legacy of Gary Gygax In celebration of an upcoming revised edition of Dungeons & Dragons, David Kushner sits down and discussed the long history of this classic role-playing game with one of its founding fathers, the late...

Link to the article
www.wired.com/2008/03/dung...

The credit is wrong. That photo of Gary Gygax was added on findagrave by a user. It's not the original. The original is from GenCon 2007 by professional photographer Rainer Hosch for a 2008 WIRED article. smh

Thank you for the thread. Very informative.

Many of the traditional Final Fantasy principles are here, including the most central theme of them all: the crystals. As with many other Final Fantasy games, in case there was ever any doubt about the integrity of Mystic Quest as a Final Fantasy game, the magic crystals represent the elemental powers of nature. Restoring the power and freedom of these crystals carries Benjamin through the story, as he fights to prevent a forest from dying, lift a drought, calm a raging volcano and bring the wind back. The eco-centric nature of Final Fantasy is paramount to understanding the series. Environmentalism is key for FF, expressed in terms of living in harmony with the forces of nature, not taking advantage of it for personal gain and wealth. That means you, Shinra! The crystals of FFMQ must be left to exist in peace, in perpetuity, free from the meddling and captivity of those who would use the elemental powers for selfish puposes.

That sets the stage for Chrono Trigger. How? By dismissing the argument that Chrono Trigger is not Final Fantasy-ish enough. If we cannot define what Final Fantasy is, beyond tradition and change, then Chrono Trigger fits rather nicely: Consider that its rampant similarities place it alongside its Final Fantasy peers, as do its differences. It is not unlike Final Fantasy for not having summons, let's say. It is more like it for trying something different: techs, dual and triple. There's plenty of room in Final Fantasy for being different as well as being similar. Secondly, there's the Active Time Battle (ATB) system mentioned earlier. Nowhere is the mechanical resemblance to Final Fantasy clearer in Chrono Trigger than with ATB. Though it's called "ATB 2.0", it appears with little modification. A battle system that emphasises timing fits in a game about time. Trigger simply adds a peripherical or proximity-based element in the system, affecting how much damage characters deal or take depending on their locations on the battlefield. Am I suggesting that a game's mere possession of the ATB system makes it a Final Fantasy? Of course not. It's more cumulative than that. I am saying that there's a line of tradition present in Chrono Trigger, but this is just one of several reasons I've got to list. Thirdly, we can't forget about Daddy Final Fantasy himself, a core member of the Dream Team. Beginning with something as coincidental as travelling together, Sakaguchi, Horii and Toriyama decided to create "something that no one had done before", kicking off what would become the kind of passion project you typically see in the indie sphere these days. Not every Final Fantasy spinoff, pretender, clone or knock-off can boast this kind of pedigree. Heck, not even every numerical FF can! Fourthly, I have heard it said that Chrono Trigger can't be a Final Fantasy because they share no thematic, conceptual or ideological motifs.

I often joke that most video essays should have been blog posts, but this book really reads like a glorified blog post, both in style and tone. I find the phrasing verbose and vapid at the same time. That 1st paragraph abt Chrono Trigger hurts my brain, it's almost unparsable. 550 pages of that...

For all you LinkedIn Users
The GenAI setting is turn on as default.

www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

Most of the so-called "apolitical" content creators are straight white men. Go figure!

Would this work?
github.com/Krokodyl/twi...

Person wearing blue coveralls standing in the cockpit of a spaceship, watching a meteor pass the window. There is a blue inventory bar at the bottom of the screen.

After a year of work I've finally released my adventure game. It's called Maura and Ash, and it's designed for MS-DOS. You can download it or play it in the browser right now!
moralrecordings.itch.io/mauraash
#msdos #pointandclick #adventuregame

PC gamers when they don't have an ashtray:

GitHub - SONICMAN69/Bebop-PS2-English: A full (fanmade) English translation for Cowboy Bebop - Tsuioku no Serenade for the PlayStation 2 A full (fanmade) English translation for Cowboy Bebop - Tsuioku no Serenade for the PlayStation 2 - SONICMAN69/Bebop-PS2-English

Like Cowboy Bebop? Did you know there was a PS2 game only released in Japan? Did you know I released a full English translation of it that you can play now? Check it out here: github.com/SONICMAN69/B...

A Buckingham palace guard.

Our garage door openers are red with a furry top and are voice activated, why change it ?

Terranigma Redux + Retranslation (SNES) Romhack - RomHack Plaza Redux Complete Version 1.5.2

There's a recent translation with a more readable font.
romhackplaza.org/romhacks/ter...

By any chance, was it a video about Pat ?

I've not played it myself but Earthion is visually stunning!

Storepage for Nuts, a Kai Magazine Software video game for MSX. Sold for €20.

Screenshot of River City Girls Zero, a 2022 English version of Shin Nekketsu Kōha: Kunio-tachi no Banka developed by WayForward and Arc System Works for Switch.

Nuts! which is also the title of a 1998 KMS game (€20) that uses assets from a 1994 Kunio-kun game for SFC. A game that had an official English release in 2022 as River City Girl Zero. Someone unaware could actually believe that River City Girl Zero copied assets from Nuts, not the other way around.

The manual credits two people for the cover art: a known artist and the dev. I assume the dev did the background which also appears in the game. I believe the character art is original work from the artist.

I apologize as well. My comment about retrobit was gratuitous.

drive.google.com/file/d/1rEwr...

Good point about that bush copy/pasted to cover the stone. Even the edits are lazy.

I thought the screenshots alone were enough proof but maybe I was wrong.
Here's the Kabuki Klash background. The right side of the salmon background (where the water stops in the original one) is mirrored from parts of the left side. There are edits to hide the stone and the wooden shed, I admit.

The backgrounds for Kabuki Klash and the Last Blade 2 (graveyard) are horizontally flipped and cropped as well. Last Blade 1 is only cropped.
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