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4'10" artist, streamer, joyfully married, lover of nature and musty old books and pirates. Fan of too many games but mostly the DK series! Kremling lorekeeper, fool for the Rool, general crocodile person. 🐊👑☠️🤖🥊🏙️ Largely retired from social media.

This is all true, but it's important to note that large male crocs, especially in species hunting big game, can have much wider snouts. They still possess a visible notch at the end though:

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Someone just reblogged this on tumblr with this tag and I just fucking died I've been on this shit for over a decade and it's only getting worse

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written about this before but whatever.

Videogames as an artform have a problem with nostalgia. Not that people shouldn’t have nostalgia. Or that games shouldn’t draw from the past. But instead the weight we give to nostalgia.

When people go back to enjoy old games, we assume it’s a nostalgia thing. Do people assume that with books? Or movies? Or music? People certainly do go back in time with  those mediums for nostalgia! It happens! I know when my sister is listening to certain cheesy old boyband pop or punk she’s often having a musical nostalgia trip! That’s cool! But we still don’t ASSUME, CONSTANTLY thats why people go back to stuff.

People like old stuff because it’s cool and interesting. It’s historic. People go watch Metropolis still, but how many people alive could even be nostalgic for a movie like that?

I almost want to see the word Nostalgia excised from discussions about video games – not because nostalgia is bad but because we over use it to the point where it’s actually harmful I think.

I mean I made IWBTG and am making an NES style game right now and even for me, the obsession with ‘nostalgia’ seems crazy.

Old stuff is cool. I know this because I see a lot of you kids on my tumblr feed talking about games I know you didn’t grow up with. It’s like finding your parents record or CD collection. Thinking the primary greatness of old games is bringing back memories of eating cereal and playing games on a saturday morning is a great injustice, even if those memories for some are perfectly worthwhile things.

#this post is 11 years old and still holds true

UPDATE: Donkey Kong Bananza's Emerald Rush events ARE returning! Starting tomorrow, you'll have plenty more chances to unlock the special in-game character statues, with each event running for an entire month at a time. It begins in October with Chip Fever and the Enguarde and Kong Bananza statues!

DK Vine • News • UPDATE: Donkey Kong Bananza's Emerald Rush Events to Return, Each Running for an Entire Month at a Time

After a day of uncertainty, we now know that Chip Fever will return from October 1st to October 31st, with all events running each month thereafter.

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