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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i am two point five weeks into antidepressants and do not feel great
you’re nearly there. generally i’d say the first month of a new ssri feels vaguely like coming up on a small amount of mdma (which gets very old very quickly) until your brain chemistry adjusts to the new conditions. i think i found escitalopram about the worst and sertraline the least bad, but all were pretty similar.
you just need to push through the transition period. be sure to keep forcing yourself to eat even if you don’t think you can, cancel extracurriculars if you need to, and try to look after yourself.
Some of it takes a long time to kick in. And it sucks pretty much the entire time its coming on. When I was getting on Effexor it sucked for like 3 weeks then started feeling normal