I’m not sure if there’s a better title for this series, but basically I’ll be sharing unlicensed games that have political messaging relevant to the time the game was made. I was originally going to focus on console games but there’s exactly one old Windows game I wanted to include so whatever.
Terrifying 9.11 is a bootleg Game Boy Color game developed by Ruanxin (based out of Fuzhou, China) and released sometime 2002 (or possibly end of 2001). The game opens with a video montage of the planes hitting the twin towers while a chiptune rendition of Shir LaShalom plays. Pressing start brings up a little story crawl about 9/11 and the plan to send super soldiers into Afghanistan. Pressing start again opens a map screen and again into an exchange between Bush and Bin Laden. And then finally… Metal Slug. It’s a Metal Slug port. A surprisingly decent one!
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love how wearing a sleeveless crop top shows off my arms and tummy, personally makes me feel very masculine and androgynous.
I have accidentally arrived in Germany.
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I can’t believe that this 4rth novel is fully committing to the bit that one of the most powerful antagonists has the ability to create cognitohazardous pornograpgy. Like that’s her main power.
Holy shit I feel awful. I just want this shit over. I am really, completely sick of suffering like this. I don’t care to go through any more of this. I do not care what is on the other side of this. I don’t want “normal” in 3 years or whatever. I want the pain to stop right now.
not even half way through my work week
Brother cancelled on dinner plans Tuesday
Mom rescheduled shoe shopping twice
Tonight’s date rescheduled
Haven’t heard from the friend I’m supposed to hang out with tomorrow
Not beating the lonely girl allegations
sadposting
i dont understand why, or how, i am such an offputting freak. i dont understand why people just stop talking to me mid conversation and disappear. i dont understand why people flirt with me and then get weird if i flirt back. i dont understand how i can consistently misread every social cue, sometimes multiple times from different angles. i dont understand how i seem to fuck up every single interpersonal relationship i ever have. i dont understand.
homophobia
This guy at work said being gay is wrong. I ask why. He says, you know why. I continue to ask why. Then he says have you seen how they get when you disagree with them.
THAT’S NOT A REASON Y9U FUCKING DIPSHIT. AT LEAST TELL ME IT’S UNNATURAL OR AGAINST GODS WILL OR SOMETHING EQUALLY RIDICULOUS, THAT’S NOT A FUCKING REASON!!
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Gah I hate feeling dysphoric and shitty. Why am I genuinely dysphoric all the time. When will it fucking end. I just wanna look and feel good already.
voice dysphoria
Genuinely what the hell. I have no hope of getting the voice I need.
That alone is enough to fucking ruin being trans for me.
What kind of idiot accidentally makes a literal gallon of hotpot. A gallon of hotpot without soup?
Couldn’t be me
hides the comically large bowl of food behind my back
hides the comically large bowl of food behind my back
hmm comical problems require comical solutions
This sounds like a good problem to have
I’m gonna do it. I’m gonna dye my hair crazy colors
I bought the things, I hope my parents get really mad when they see
Family is finally fucking gone! Have the house to myself. Think I’m going to partake for the first time in a year, hope I don’t get too paranoid
Hell yeah enjoy!
Ended up not, too worried about the possibility of a drug test in like a month. Dumb I know but stayed sober another night.
“I don’t need a new bike frame, I can build an e-bike out of my current one. I don’t need a new bike frame. I don’t need a new bike.”
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I kinda want to build a new bike…
Honestly though, I love my bike in its current form. It’s beautiful, it feels lovely to ride, and I worry that adding a motor + battery will change that. Plus it would be nice to have a backup bike if the e-bike is ever down for maintenance. The whole reason I’m thinking of dropping money on an e-bike is to replace my car for like 90-95% of all the distance I travel. It’s gonna get pretty dirty and beat up. I currently only use my bike for short local trips and riding for fun on car-free trails, and the occasional after midnight mental health rides into the city.
Well, it’s been two months and not a single person got my ‘trans broken arm syndrome’ cosplay. I had to give up on the idea, and I had my cast taken off. 0/10 that was not worth it at all. I picked the wrong bit to fully commit to realism. At least my insurance covers costumes and costume designers.
Someone I know had a story about how she hooked up with a friend, partly because he had a broken arm, and she felt bad for him. He worked in a place like Spencers, (not spencers), and it was a joke cast.
Damn, that sounds like way more fun than doing abstract social commentary. But if I’m understanding it correctly, he left his bones alone? so like, whats the point?
