PokéROMs were a weird shape, like oval but with straight sides? They had a promotion in 2000 where they came free as a cereal prize iirc.

grey pill so I can HONK SHOO while a feather is kept afloat by my own breath

My preferred hacks are for games that are N64 era or older.

The OOT mods that make use of the zelda 64 decomp project are pretty impressive e.g. Ultimate Trial and Indigo: Chapter 2. The Sealed Palace and The Missing Link are also quite fun.

I’m also quite fond of visual and gameplay improvements to older games (NES + GB/GBC) and Romhacking dot net has some I’ve kept my eye on for a while.

Robocop Texas Edition uses graphics based on the original arcade version, Castlevania 3: Aperture of Corruption is a complete overhaul of the original NES game, and Street Fighter 2 Deluxe and Sonic 5 improvement are both romhacks of bootlegs for the NES that improve various graphics and fix gameplay issues.

Both Pokemon Polished Crystal and Pokemon Red Plus Plus feature updated graphics (similar to gen 3), fixed gameplay, new mechanics, and various QoL updates.

From the wording, they’re banning short ninja blades / ninjatou specifically, but they’ve said nothing about other weapons like shuriken, kunai, naginata, yari, or any samurai sword (uchigatana, wakizashi, tantou etc.)

Good news! https://www.anime-planet.com/anime/tags/trains

I vaguely remember reading about how, at the time, one of the most popular apps on the Koryolink smartphones was a strategy rpg video game based on Boy General (DPRK animation that’s super popular with people of all ages). You can also get smartphone games from stores that have things like puzzle games, virtual pets, and even clones of certain western games like angry birds. There’s also a bunch of arcades and entertainment centers in Pyongyang that were funded by Kim Jong Un (along with his funding of things like water parks, amusement parks, skating rinks, etc.) more info here: https://www.youngpioneertours.com/video-games-in-north-korea/

Hide and Squeak

Reptiles are canonically trans and pro LGBT anyway:

• https://www.sciencenews.org/article/heat-turns-wild-genetic-male-reptiles-functional-females
• https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2023/12/lesbian-lizards-how-the-new-mexico-whiptail-became-a-queer-icon/58222/

I’d highly suggest reading Banana Fish (manga); without spoiling too much, the main antagonist is the head of the Corsican mafia, and the author doesn’t shy away from explicitly namedropping the CIA and its anticommunist operations in South America and Vietnam (among others), or the systemic abuse of children from marginalized backgrounds by the US government. The anime is good too, but it’s set in the 2010s rather than the 1980s so some of the changes don’t make sense (e.g. replacing the Vietnam War with the Iraq War).

You’d think someone obsessed with retro baby cartoons would think twice about sounding like Murky Dismal from Rainbow Brite

Didn’t we defed from Blahaj specifically because they kept accusing us of faking being queer?

I’d advise against using aitsu unless it’s in an informal setting with friends. この人/その人/あの人 are the normal level of formality and are commonly used (lit. ‘this person’, ‘that person’, ‘that person over there’).

If you wanted to be extra polite you could always go with この方/その方/あの方 (gender neutral equivalent of 'this/that lady/gentleman).

GRSM is not inclusive of intersex people as Intersex is not a gender or a sexual orientation. That was one of the major issues brought up with the acronym.

From what I remember, MOGAI was coined specifically to address the issues with GRSM because GRSM was including coercive paraphilias but excluding intersex people. MOGAI means Marginalized Orientations, Gender Alignments and Intersex, and was coined by a nonbinary person on tumblr after input from a lot of other folks who wanted to be as inclusive as possible without including coercive paraphilias as being inherently ‘queer’. (The term ‘Gender Alignments’ instead of ‘Gender identities’ used here was referring to whether someone was cis / aligned with their assigned gender or not, as ‘marginalised gender identities’ would include cis women and exclude trans men.)

QUILTBAG is just a mnemonic for the lengthening LGBTQIA+ acronym and stands for Queer/Questioning, Unsure, Intersex, Lesbian, Trans, Bisexual, Agender/Asexual/Aromantic, and Gay. There’s nothing about gay stereotypes as far as I know.

Looking for someone to make this but with a toilet so that I can shit on the go

I think I remember seeing this on the Something Awful forums back in the day

I have an econ degree

Could have stopped right there

I preferred the prequel where everyone voted for Pedro