emma

emma wrote

if only there were a better zelda on the nes

oh wait, there is. it's called Zelda Ⅱ: The Adventure of Link®, and has been unfairly maligned by babies for nearly 40 years

"i will progress in this dungeon by bombing this wall that looks like all the other walls. let me go around bombing every mountainside. this game is a masterpiece." <-- actual beliefs held by actual zelda 1 fans

zelda 2 otoh doesn't rely on obscure item placements or sequences of events to progress, and just has way better combat. idk how zelda 1 got to be the favourite

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emma wrote (edited )

after the outcry in the wake of the invasion of ukraine, and the deafening silence on palestine, i've come to the conclusion that the vast majority of the tech community simply don't see palestinians as human.

which is to say (without knowing who the cryptographer in question is), it's quite possible his homepage does reflect his current stance

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emma OP wrote

i'm very self-conscious of answering this, because it feels like i'm on the edge of doing the thing i'm criticising.

so i'll be vague instead: you can substitute 'on here' and 'other bigger website' for ones that rhyme with 'gastrodon' and 'mritter', respectively. i'm dependent on using gastrodon's explore tab to find interesting accounts to follow, but thanks to people screenshotting all the bad things from mritter, i get to see all the bad things from there on gastrodon instead, interspersed with self-satisfied wanking about how gastrodon isn't full of the things it's full of screenshots of.

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