The Mezunian

Die Positivität ist das Opium des Volkes, aber der Spott ist das Opium der Verrückten

Luigi’s Mansion — Original vs. Dark Moon

Dark Moon is an anomaly o’ a sequel for me: most sequels fall into 3 categories: Is very similar to its predecessor, but much better or worse. Is very similar to its predecessor, but hardly different. Is completely different from its predecessor & much better or much worse. Dark Moon is odd in that it […]

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Let’s Code a Crappy 2D Platformer Like Millions o’ Other People on the Internet & Lose Interest & Give Up Only a Few Months In, Part XXX

Freaky Forest Well, a’least OpenShot worked ’nough for me to be able to make this video… But then YouTube decided it didn’t want to understand how to process videos anymo’, & also decided that it should just completely erase the uploaded video, too ( wouldn’t e’en show up in “Video Manager” as a “…” video, […]

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Let’s Code a Crappy 2D Platformer Like Millions o’ Other People on the Internet & Lose Interest & Give Up Only a Few Months In, Part XXIX

Flush Flood I still don’t know when I’ll e’er be able to make “The Minus Touch”’s video, but a’least we have “Flush Flood”. Granted, I messed up a bit in editing it: @ the end it shows the gem score having been achieved, though the achievement o’ such is ne’er shown in-video. Would’ve been nice […]

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Sim Theme Park

( Or Theme Park World to Europeans ). Nostalgia has a strange way o’ making games look better than they probably were. For instance, as I’ve mentioned in previous articles, while I have nostalgia for games like Sonic 3D Blast & Sim Tower, I wouldn’t find playing them much fun. What’s stranger, though, is when […]

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October Friday 13 Sonnet

Accompanying music:Your browser doesn’t support HTML5 audio. Here is a link to the audio instead. Lemon drops on milky clouds bound this wistful field above pewter lakes — ¡but wait! ¡Look now! ¿How’d this specter enter such verdant film now ill, when it wasn’t there before. Before I eat my harvest, fix on this ray […]

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Royal Purple Sky Sonnet

Saw outside a lonely time shadow firs are teasing me breezily. Their scents make pine every time all kinds, seasoning. Under skies as pure as opal, bright night dimmed by grim surroundings, worse by wind, won’t hush, but yodels. Houses still for nature’s crowning. For my birthday, I would like tons of air a year […]

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