The Mezunian

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

Super Mario Bros. 3 vs. Super Mario World ( ¡Happy Mar10 Day! )

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 […]

Posted in Video Games

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 XV

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 […]

Posted in Boskeopolis Land, Programming

The Futility o’ Avoiding Current Events in Literature

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 […]

Posted in Literature Commentary

Nationalist Socialism: Socialism for the 1% 17%

Out o’ all the superstitious political ideas that still have power, probably the only 1 dumber than laissez-faire is nationalism, ’specially “left-wing” nationalism. Thus it’s with deep misgivings that I see inane laissy libertarianism be surpassed by an e’en dumber ideology. That this ideology’s primary defense is simply to assert that it’s the only thing […]

Posted in Politics