BenAndrewSuper Nintendo World's theming is on pointThe ABC of Style - A Guide to Plain English (book)Can you still rent game consoles?Matsuo Bashô: Frog Haikuhttps://www.bopsecrets.org/gateway/passages/basho-frog.htmhttps://itch.io/jam/variety-megajam-2022/topic/2514101/2nd-poem-Pixel art impressionismhttps://twitter.com/MarioBrothBlog/status/1801616946837823790The games you should've bought when the Steam Spring Sale was still going. Citizen Sleeper 2.Being excited about a new project until you landlord tells you to move out. Real-life POW blocks. Timing your punch so that the shell pops out.The park employees doing their best to ameliorate the bad game design of the theme park. Rushing to hit the snooze button so the piranha plant doesn't wake up.A plant that's not quite as big as Audrey II.Buying the wrist band so that you can punch blocks to get coins and find all the KONG letters. Using your shadow to interact with a video game. Running from the park entrance to your favorite ride right when the park opens and there's already a two hour line.A picture that you took with your camera and somehow they made reality look cel shaded.Super Mushroom Croutons. Clipping the AR goggles into the Mario hat. No matter where you look, stuff is happening all the time.Whether kids in Japan handle failure better than kids in California. A phone booth, except it exists. A book about pedantry. When to use difference vs. discrepancy.Reading text aloud but internalizing it not at all.The model of the mind where you are a passive observer sitting in the backseat thinking about pancakes while the driver is doing all the thinking and acting. Whether the person who struggles to read gets more out of the text than the person who reads effortlessly, because they're spending more time on it Two full pages about "like."Faces similar to faces you've never seen before. Drive it like you hate it vs. drive it as if you hate it. Utilizing a big word.Phrasing something in an awkward way for entertainment purposes.One of the more expensive things you can rent.Being able to afford all the games that you want. (Not that many game consoles.)Naughty Dog remaking The Last of Us for the third time.Sending an assassin to the Second to Last Blockbuster.Not knowing how a certain business works because you refuse to give them your social security number.Digitally renting a PS5. (It has fingers.)Putting stickers on your toilet claiming that it's an Xbox.Building a Mario Kart course into your house.Sharing your cool social security number.Pronouncing Japanese like someone who is covered in tattoos of Pokemon.Frog-jump-in Water-sound.Pond. Frog. Plop.Localizing a Japanese poem into sculpture.What is art? What is anything?Looking at a pixel art face and thinking "whoa, what's going on with that guy?"Pixel art being able to represent detail at a certain scale, but only if it aligns with the directionality of the grid.Trying to represent a cartoon world realistically.Walking into a dungeon and being surrounded by statues that look like sentries.Recognizing a blob of pixels as representing the idea of a decoration and never thinking about it again.Fan art of Dr. Robotnik's niece.High color, high detail, low resolution.Weird rendering techniques that are texture mapping adjacent.Line Cook.A blue lid that feels sort of mayo.Only realizing late in life that three lines makes a ladder.The main places that you don't post.
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