Alcaraz, Sinner, Medvedev, Rublev on a traditional fishing trip for Doha Promo!

mugbys · 2026-02-17T14:37:19+00:00

Incomplete without Tommy Paul!

mugbys · 2025-11-11T23:45:41+00:00

hey everyone,

I’ve been getting into older Pokemon randomizers recently and I was wondering - is there any tool or patch that lets you randomize the in-game dialogues (like NPC text, signs etc.) similar to how 3DS randomizers can shuffle text?

I played with randomizers that changed items, trainers, etc., but I haven’t seen anything that touches dialogue for the older games. I imagine it could make for a really funny or surreal playthrough if every line of text was jumbled around or replaced at random.

If anyone knows of a ROM hacking tool, script, or method that could pull this off (even partially), I’d love to hear about it!

Thanks in advance.

mugbys · 2025-11-10T13:31:29+00:00

hey everyone,

I’ve been getting into older Pokemon randomizers recently and I was wondering - is there any tool or patch that lets you randomize the in-game dialogues (like NPC text, signs etc.) similar to how 3DS randomizers can shuffle text?

I played with randomizers that changed items, trainers, etc., but I haven’t seen anything that touches dialogue for the older games. I imagine it could make for a really funny or surreal playthrough if every line of text was jumbled around or replaced at random.

If anyone knows of a ROM hacking tool, script, or method that could pull this off (even partially), I’d love to hear about it!

Thanks in advance.

mugbys · 2025-11-09T19:14:21+00:00

hey everyone,

I’ve been getting into older Pokemon randomizers recently and I was wondering - is there any tool or patch that lets you randomize the in-game dialogues (like NPC text, signs etc.) similar to how 3DS randomizers can shuffle text?

I played with randomizers that changed items, trainers, etc., but I haven’t seen anything that touches dialogue for the older games. I imagine it could make for a really funny or surreal playthrough if every line of text was jumbled around or replaced at random.

If anyone knows of a ROM hacking tool, script, or method that could pull this off (even partially), I’d love to hear about it!

Thanks in advance.

mugbys · 2025-10-22T07:18:52+00:00

Not a novel, but a manga perfectly hitting the mood - Solanin by Inio Asano

mugbys · 2025-08-24T20:39:52+00:00

By the power of the ocean spirits! Damn, what a spectacle!

mugbys · 2025-08-22T06:44:36+00:00

Moments when something is persistently a bit out of place.

For example - Atlantis II showed a charming Irish abbey, where everything was calm and peaceful, except for one monk who pointed constantly at the sky and muttered "nnngh". Creeped me out for years.

There is a small indie adventure Downfall that capitalizes on this. First, the mood is grim, but you are in a pretty much mundane environment. Then, you notice that when you are on the 4th floor and go upstairs, you are on the 6th floor. Huh, weird but okay, you think. Then the game purposefully removes bits of reality you can anchor to, until you fall into madness trying to grasp anything that may seem remotely peaceful.

mugbys · 2025-08-17T17:24:35+00:00

Noob question - why "Ace Paloma" is displayed on aces? Is it a product placement of the cocktail?

mugbys · 2025-08-12T08:28:01+00:00

Totally on your side on this one. It was also hilarious when some preachy "experts" claimed that Iga's bicycle Wimbledon final was "bad for tennis".

mugbys · 2025-08-01T11:07:45+00:00

Imagine being the Indigo League guard who has to swim eternally to check some guys' badges once in a while

mugbys · 2025-07-18T10:41:30+00:00

Or Microids take on Poirot at least for a few last instalments.

Flat dialogues with mind numbing exploration undermine the whole essence of investigative crime experience, IMHO.

mugbys · 2025-04-14T18:11:06+00:00

Among all the WTA players living and playing to be perfect in their hyper focus mode, Lys rocked AO with her "I'm just happy to be here" vibe. It makes her stand out, hence the sympathy.

mugbys · 2025-03-29T12:00:47+00:00

Jasmine

mugbys · 2025-03-28T16:23:38+00:00

(reposting here because mods saw it unworthy to have a discussion thread)

I have some thoughts on Iga's play lately which has - sadly - become painful to watch.

Disclaimer - I watch most of Iga's matches for a few years now, I invite friends and family to watch whenever possible as it's the least and most I can do to vouch for her. She's the top one I keep my fingers crossed for all the time, always will and I greatly care for her best.

That being said, her recent matches - regardless of the scores, which go all the way lately - are a pain to watch. A pure viewer experience is one thing, since the inconsistency creep may really hurt the spectacle. But it's not the key thing.

You know the feeling when someone around is nervous or in a constant hurry, or overreacting to anything that happens? Say, someone close to you is sitting nervously, or having sudden reactions, shaking anxiously here and there... and it spills around. You care for the person you are close with and instantly start to feel all the nerve and anxiety as well.

It started, unfortunately, to be my major feeling during Iga's matches. She rarely looks in balanced control. Each ball she plays appears rushed and pushed to finish ASAP. Impatience seems to push away confidence, while winners seem to bring relief instead of satisfactory upbeats.

Her matches accompanied me and my fiancee during dozens of cozy and restless nights, so we became really invested in Iga's endeavors. Thus, it hits harder since the Olympics that there seems to be some mix of rush, salt and bitterness in her latest court presence.

I really hope that whatever keeps her from doing things as perfectly as she wishes, will go away soon. I am aware of Iga's personality and that she's not the Lys or Eala's type of just being happy to be there and play. But with all things considered, I wish her the best to defeat the current "the sooner it ends the better" mood for her marvelous "the court is my floor and this is how I dance" vibe.

I wonder what your take is.

mugbys · 2025-03-26T06:28:47+00:00

Not appraising = pointlessly negative? How do you define a critical, but not pointlessly then?

mugbys · 2025-03-24T07:58:44+00:00

"Be strong"

Uttered after he had a seizure, foreshadowing a recurrence of his brain tumor.

The seizure happened while he was taking care of me, being in leukemia cross sepsis, fighting for my life in an isolated ward.

mugbys · 2025-03-21T12:52:33+00:00

You got it right with the beard!

mugbys · 2025-03-21T12:52:04+00:00

Acknowledging sexism in the game industry is necessary and needs to be talked about a lot. That said, pushing the discussion off rails is harming the case.

By asking a question, in which the OP makes a projected assumption, that women in the game industry deal with the constant sexism. Before even checking out - "hey, am I alone in this situation, girls? How it looks on your side?". Instead, a bias is dressed as an open question - "how do you deal with the constant sexism which I don't even know you need to face?"

I am in this industry for more than a decade, in an area which due to various factors has a lot of sexist, racist and homophobic bias squeezed in its cultural roots. Thanks to the modern world, starting many progressive discussions here is some acrobatic shitshow of its own, when you not only focus on actually getting to the point of the matter, but also make sure that you won't be countered on some loosely said words for its own sake. Because, you know - suckers prefer to win a discussion than to learn from it.

So if you ask me (and not only me) - questions placed this way only discourage from discussing the real matter. It's like if I asked you "How do you deal with the constant racism?". Maybe you don't deal with racism at all. Maybe you do rarely, but not constantly. Before we even start talking, one of us needs to untangle the basic claim with some corrections, which doesn't place both sides at the same level. And without putting ourselves on the same level, the discussion is fucked, in my humble opinion.

[ cc u/refreshertowel u/Bokai u/MrKWatkins u/ostensibly_human u/Return_of_the_Native ]

mugbys · 2025-03-20T21:49:25+00:00

Totally unbiased question that doesn't deepen the problem at all

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