Mateus Druzian

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Those who seek information are often disappointed, as they say. Game design grad. Spoilers in likes; warning given. Yumi, Metis, Marie, Mont, Rio & Sumire my beloveds. Avatar: @razillon.bsky.social. Banner: @AlanaBellaBee.bsky.social.

The Zelda remake to me looks like it's going for, in part, Rococo and lush classic fantasy art a la the Brothers HIldebrandt, and the characters (at least the major ones) seem in large part to be trying for a porcelain figurine / doll-like look, uncanny proportions and all.

Brothers Hildebrandt illustration of Gandalf appearing before Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli in Lord of the RingsBrothers Hildebrandt illustration of the Fellowship of the Ring setting out on their adventureBrothers Hildebrandt illustration of Old Man Willow from Lord of the Rings

It is possible to use a The Legend of Zelda cartridge to unlock the world selection option in Super Mario Bros., by swapping the cartridges without turning off the NES and performing specific actions in The Legend of Zelda before swapping back.

How to use The Legend of Zelda to unlock a world selection option in Super Mario Bros.
First, start up the Super Mario Bros. cartridge. This is necessary to set memory address 07FF to the value A5. TLOZ will not overwrite it, and SMB will need it to be A5 later.
Cartridge swap Super Mario Bros. to The Legend of Zelda. Do not turn off the power, instead just swap the cartridges and use Reset to make the console start the new game. TLOZ will be used to write a specific value to memory.
Start a new file and buy the blue candle.* You will need literally no other item, just the 60 rupees to buy it.
This is used to access the Level 8 dungeon. *Go right one screen, up two screens, and right six screens from the start to find the shop that sells it.
With the blue candle, open up Level 8**, and go to the room directly left of the entrance. This sets memory address 07FC to 20, which unlocks the level select in SMB.
**Go left one screen and down one screen from the blue candle shop and burn the conspicuous single tree.
Cartridge swap back to Super Mario Bros. Super Mario Bros. will look for A5 at 07FF, which it set itself earlier, and 20 at 07FC, which The Legend of Zelda just set, to unlock the level select.
Now, pressing B on the title screen will cycle through all worlds, allowing you to start the game on any of them, e.g. World 8-1. This would normally be accessed by beating the game, but this trick bypasses it.
For more details and an in-depth explanation, please see the video by YouTube user @MrCheeze at youtu.be/Ie_gyHG8hAU

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not a criticism but they changed foghorn leghorn's eye shape on his model to look more... sultry. they made him sexier than he was previously

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the thing about moral panics is they aren't about moral panics. it's about community control and rampant bigotry. censorship is a tool of fascists, those who purity police are fascists, and if your disgust agrees with their mission more than the right for fiction to gross you out, you are a fascist

incest is supposedly such an ick that people poison cultural norms like pacific-asian languages addressing colleagues/peers as "brothers", which is just racist short stacked women and dwarfism are hated on for being "child coded" which is all levels of fucked up moral panics are always bad faith

"What about pedo shit--" It's remarkable how many people who think they are better than Q-anon are just repeating Q-anon conspiracy so casually. You know how pedophiles get away with so much? By crying wolf about child abuse so much that no one takes any reports of it seriously

queer and trans are always the first in the line of fire to be discriminated against but the collateral damage is toward everyone because what it does is it flattens nuance so people can arbitrarily be marked "undesirables" the moment you step put of line to then burn as a witch

But even all that aside, the main reason I believe fiction shouldn't be censored is because EVIL SHIT HAPPENS IN REAL LIFE and fiction has every right to reflect, inspect, magnetize, and interact with REAL LIFE. stories are experiences that are TOLD and HEARD. Conversations shouldn't be taboo.

You don't have to like it. You don't have to accept it. You can criticize it to hell for all I care. And you should. Art existing doesn't mean it's free from scrutiny but art is how culture moves and art is how people learn what exists in the world without having to live it.

"But it's fetishized and romanticized and it grooms--" Fuck you. Genuinely. If you care more regarding someone getting off to some incest loli waifu 18+ game or rape gore porn on AO3 than you have about gun regulation or police brutality, fuck you.

Unless you can prove to me the making of the fiction harmed a real human, I don't care. Which, for the record, that normally happens with things like crunch, fiscal abuse, work place bigotry, and professional exploitation. It doesn't happen because pixels on a screen made you uncomfy

"But abusers use it to--" ABUSERS USE ANYTHING THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH, DEBRA. it can be math textbooks as easily as it can be genshin impact loli doujinshi AND IN FACT OFTEN MORE LIKELY