"oh yeah i'm totally this fictional character if she had this debilitating fucked up hormone condition"

An official Japanese 1988 guide for Super Mario Bros. 3 contains a small drawing of a Thwomp on the cover that, instead of the usual grimace, has a mischievous, cat-like expression. I have created a high-quality recreation of this Thwomp.

@fluttergirly actually that’s almost a perfect comparison tbh

@fluttergirly don’t ask about the karters 1 (it was kinda shit and never made its way out development. i think it was dropped at alpha specifically. you can’t buy it anymore)

@fluttergirly The Karters 2: Turbo Charged! it’s a heavily CTR inspired game, but among the most immediately important and noticeable changes are that the controls are a lot more free than CTR, the game’s physics are entirely deterministic, there’s no character stats, and you can mod in tracks, characters, karts, and wheels

@fluttergirly oh btw. on the subject of racing games, may i suggest one for you to check out?

I really like both Mario Kart World and Sonic Racing CrossWorlds, but one thing I think Mario Kart World does particularly better, and honestly better than a lot of racing games in general, is how like. tactile it feels. your kart reacts so satisfyingly to every little bump and slope, every change in momentum, it's got such wonderfully springy suspension

CrossWorlds (and older Mario Karts) have vehicles that feel a lot more stiff by comparison, they tend to just glide smoothly along the track and feel slightly disconnected by comparison

it's a good example of how a bit of exaggeration can end up feeling more real and tactile than adherence to more realism

defaulting on a loan with tom nook has zero repercussions unlike investments from the U.S. so please stop slandering the bell and road initiative

they call me mappy the way i bounce on trampolines and open doors

@AppleAmps i don’t actually think there’s been too much fedi drama, or maybe i just missed all of the drama that came out after the nano situation

@fluttergirly y’know i’ve always called this the ‘binyot’ effect, but idk if anyone would get that reference since binyot’s been further degraded into. something else

@apophis maybe i’m just stupid and have an overly positive outlook on internet weirdos though

@apophis okay well for 4chan, it only exists because of SA bans, and from what i can tell, kiwifarms only exists because of christina being originally highlighted on SA, though that doesn’t excuse any harassment done to her through SA.

also, yeah the harassment and treatment of furries from/on somethingawful is inexcusable, however things have supposedly gotten better with time (both on the general harassment front and the furries in specific part), especially since the death of lowtax

@apophis also why do you say?

@apophis @apophis why do you say

@apophis @apophis seems funny, on the wokeish side, and i’ve always wanted to use A Forum

@apophis should i get a somethingawful acc?

@AppleAmps damn.

@apophis should i get a somethingawful acc?

> This ties in to one of the worst tendencies I note in my own students – the tendency to unthinkingly identify with the elites of the past, to see themselves as the knight, the noble, the senator. But not the farmer, the artisan, the shepherd, the petty merchant. All too often, I see students read the class-contempt of Roman aristocrats or aristocratic medieval troubadours with horror – and then unthinkingly replicate those very patterns of thought when they themselves are thinking about the past (usually in the foolish assumption that nobles were smart and peasants were dumb). That attitude – adopted unintentionally and unconsciously, mind you – is poison not just to the study of history, but also to effective citizenship and leadership in the real world.

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