The Mezunian

Actually, sadly, this negative review o’ Wario Land 3 isn’t as bad as the positive one I made fun o’, since this writer actually managed to consistently follow his thesis. Still, his arguments are shallow, so let’s take the effort to defend this 10+-year-ol’ game. This reviewer argues that Wario Land 3 is not only […]

It’s ironic that Our Grand Lord Keynes has the gall ( & silliness ) to rave ’bout the “the horde of deranged, lying liberal and leftist media” like the conspiracy theorist he is when he himself is conspicuously silent ’bout Hairpiece’s proposal to increase military spending, despite LK praising Hairpiece for being s’posedly anti-militaristic, unlike […]

Those who felt that they could get away without recompiling and redeploying have been found—and dealt with. ( Martin, R. C., Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftmanship, p. 47 ).

There’s no ‘scape.

Mart Cart Madness: This was a level I’ve been sitting on for a while, & I finally got round to finishing it — which mainly meant drawing all the graphics. I still worry that the level may be unfair. I make it look easy in the video; but I’ve played this level a’least 100 times […]

Since my deepest youth I always considered Super Mario World to be better than Super Mario Bros. 3; however, in the past few years, & ’specially recently as I’ve been looking @ Super Mario Bros. 3’s level design for ideas for my own sloppy mess o’ a game, that certainty has withered. My reasons for […]

Soupy Sewers @ 1st I had qualms ’bout the sloppy inconsistency o’ the sewer hole monster’s frames, but I’ve come to appreciate it in a Ren & Stimpy kind o’ way. It actually made me curious ’bout the prospect o’ an entire game animated that way. I actually hadn’t lost interest, but was spending copious […]

A common dictate in literature is that one should avoid referencing current events to avoid “dating” one’s literature. There’s 2 problems, the 2nd being the most major: Dating a work isn’t inherently bad. In fact, sometimes people enjoy works swimming in their era, not just for nostalgia, but also for people too young to have […]

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There’s not much time for laughter. Laugh.