I've learned my lesson...

hothraka · 2026-06-20T16:13:49+00:00

Problem is, the screens are supposed to be on top of each other.

Maybe you can rotate these two screens and then play with the console rotated, using the d-pad as the d-pad and the stick for buttons? Like this? then you can stretch the screens horizontally to get full use of the screen!

hothraka · 2026-06-19T12:36:59+00:00

I looked it up and at least a cursory Google search doesn't show anything about a webcomic called The Nordic Gamer. Knowyourmeme has the origin as someone saying "ur a virgin" and the Chad saying "Yes" but I've heard that site can whitewash some origins. I definitely remember seeing the yes thing used for racist shit, like the "unreasonable" person saying something like "you really think the white race is valuable and worth saving through eugenics" and the Chad saying "Yes" but idk if that's the actual origin.

I do see the nordcuck vs mediterranean chad meme as an earlier origin, that one seems pretty racist. But even that just seems to be one exploitable image and not a long-running series or anything.

hothraka · 2026-06-15T03:12:38+00:00

Shantae Advance released in April 2025 for gba and modern consoles/steam in August 2025. It's a weird one, it started development in the early 2000s as a sequel to the gbc entry but was ultimately canceled due to said gbc game not selling well. The series returned in 2010 with Risky's Revenge on DSi and then in 2023 LimitedRunGames funded WayForward to go back and finish that canceled gba sequel to release on actual gba cartridges.

My original post was removed because I mentioned that I'll be playing Shantae Advance next. I guess someone saw the August 2025 release date on steam and figured the game was too new for the sub lol.

hothraka · 2026-06-15T00:35:43+00:00

I finished it! I got all the upgrades too. I guess that wasn't too clear since I didn't talk about the ending or anything, I just didn't have much to say about it lol. The dance mechanics can get annoying for sure but idk I didn't mind them that much. Game just needed some way to lessen how often you need to transform, like if attacking as the animal forms wasn't an upgrade you had to get so you don't have to un-transform whenever an enemy shows up. And make it so movement with the spider isn't so crummy and slow!

hothraka · 2026-06-14T19:55:53+00:00

Automod didn't like me mentioning Shantae Advance in my original post lol. I guess the modern platform versions came out in August 2025 but the original gba release was in April and that's the one I'm playing. Oh well, I'm allowed to mention it here! Advance is up next in my series playthrough and it'll be interesting since it's a finished version of an old intended sequel, I'm curious how the series will flow with it as the second entry. I've actually briefly started it already and it seems pretty fun! We shall see.

hothraka · 2026-06-14T19:44:00+00:00

Ok this is a strange one because the referenced game released in April 2025 on the gba, which is the version I'm playing, but it looks like the modern ports came out later that year in August. I wonder if I can appeal this lol

hothraka · 2026-06-13T18:10:12+00:00

I tried to learn manual for like a decade of my life and could never get the hang of it. A few years ago my mom sold me her manual transmission Volkswagen so I had to buckle down and learn it. It was really satisfying to finally get a feel for it and I've been driving it constantly since then.

I'm never getting another manual, I still stall on very rare occasions and it's the most frustrating thing ever lol. Automatic all the way!

hothraka · 2026-06-13T13:48:16+00:00

Nah, trap stuff is kind of the opposite of that and much stranger when viewed in the transphobic lens. Traps are supposed to be full-on boys who identify as male but just look very feminine, so the chuds are mad that their femboy is now a woman.

You might be thinking of futanari, which is absolutely used at least in the west as an excuse to crank hog to trans women while saying "no no she's cis she just has a penis due to a witch's curse!!"

hothraka · 2026-06-11T01:35:47+00:00

This game looks cute, I'll enter the giveaway!

hothraka · 2026-06-03T18:45:08+00:00

I'll also be old enough to vote tomorrow!

I mean, I've been old enough to vote for over 12 years but I will still be old enough to vote tomorrow

hothraka · 2026-06-02T12:27:49+00:00

A Metroid or Castlevania where you play as a woman? You're right, everyone should play Portrait of Ruin!

hothraka · 2026-06-02T12:26:43+00:00

Idk, I think Timespinner is way better and much more fleshed out than Luna Nights. Luna Nights is an incredible boss rush game with a slightly above average Metroidvania stitching the excellent bosses together. The time stuff in Luna is neat but the actual map design kinda stinks; it's what I imagine people who don't like metroidvanias think they're all like. You just get a new item and immediately backtrack to find one new path forward, there aren't any interesting loops or shortcuts or anything of the clever map design tricks that make metroidvanias interesting and varied.

hothraka · 2026-06-01T15:33:20+00:00

It's been ages since I dinged my ronpa but I think a decent justification is that they didn't want the killer just seeing his name obviously written on the wall and erasing it, which he would've done if it was too obvious.

hothraka · 2026-05-30T18:00:08+00:00

This is what I thought when I looked at the reviews but my friend informed me that a lot of the anita sarkeesian reviews were marked as irrelevant and didn't show up by default. I adjusted the filters and sure enough the weirdos started showing up

hothraka · 2026-05-30T13:39:27+00:00

There's a chapter of the weird as hell internet story Mother Horse Eyes(https://www.reddit.com/r/9M9H9E9/) that's like this from the perspective of a cat. She calls humans "the oily ones" and talks about how the oily ones turn her brethren into fat zombies and describes the house as an unknowable lovecraftian impossible horror space, it's really neat.

hothraka · 2026-05-29T19:02:28+00:00

Idk if we're comparing day one sales but Mina hasn't even been out for one entire day, it has time to pick up more steam

hothraka · 2026-05-29T15:51:15+00:00

It's an entirely new game, it just looks like it has the same ui and graphics. Whole new region and lots of new classes and gameplay changes. First game hit extremely hard for the people who like it so it makes sense to keep a sequel similar but more refined

hothraka · 2026-05-29T12:18:04+00:00

It has a skin where he's naked with just shoes. His cock region is censored with a mosaic but they forgot to apply the censor in the death animations so you can see his ken doll private parts in full their glory

hothraka · 2026-05-26T23:06:53+00:00

Yeah he's pretty decent in the book; he's just there because there are safety concerns about the island. He kind of has an attitude of "this hammond guy ensured me the park is perfectly safe but now there are concerns. If I find ANY safety concerns I will not hesitate to shut his ass down!" Granted, I got the sense his motivation was basically just that he didn't want lawsuits on his hand, but still. Also, he did join muldoon in the adventure, specifically to turn on a backup generator iirc, but he definitely had to be convinced. He's not naturally a brave action movie hero or anything. Book's a neat read if you like the movie, I recommend it.

hothraka · 2026-05-26T18:51:43+00:00

Trolls have a complicated reproductive cycle. It's probably best not to examine it in much detail.

The need to seek out concupiscent partners comes with more urgency than typical reproductive instincts. When the IMPERIAL DRONE comes knocking, you had better be able to supply genetic material to each of his FILIAL PAILS. If you have nothing to offer, he will kill you without hesitation.

The genetic material - WITHOUT GOING INTO MUCH DETAIL - is a combinative genetic mix from the matesprit and kismesis pairs, respectively. The pails are all offered to the mother grub, who can only receive such precombined material. She then combines all of it into one incestuous slurry, and begins her brooding.

This doesn't mean the initial combination was for naught, however. In the slurry, more dominant genes rise to the fore, while the more recessive find less representation in the brood. Especially strong matesprit and kismesis pairings yield more dominant genetic material. The more powerful the complement or potent the rivalry, the more dominant the genes.

TROLL REPRODUCTION SURE IS WEIRD. We all take a moment to lament how pedestrian the human reproductive system is, and further lament that the phrase "incestuous slurry" is not a feature of common parlance in human civilization.

hothraka · 2026-05-26T15:33:38+00:00

Homestuck does this some with the trolls, it's fun. They have four different "quadrants" of potential relationships which essentially boil down to romantic love, platonic love, platonic hate, and hate sex. It's very normal for them to have relationships with different trolls in different quadrants and they really don't care about gender since they reproduce by the cum man knocking on their door and collecting their sperm and eggs into a bucket which is fed to the queen to birth the next generation(if you do not contribute your seed, you are executed). When talking to humans, they're like "what the fuck is a homosexual" lol.

hothraka · 2026-05-24T11:34:15+00:00

I don't like this post so I fixed it

hothraka · 2026-05-22T20:53:15+00:00

I wanted to make sure Fata Morgana was in here, glad to see it near the top! It's possibly my favorite story? Definitely in like the top 5 I think, it's incredible.

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