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Jon the Red @crosstownpubliclibrary.neocities.org · 02/10/2026

apparently this boss is called "Enigma"? huh, I always called it "Costcore" (short for "Welcome To Costcore I Love You", of course)

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Jon the Red @crosstownpubliclibrary.neocities.org · 30/09/2026

it's not enough that they did Peach so dirty with her role in TTYD, having her dig up stale and redundant info (compared to Paper Mario 64 where her espionage is the only way Mario knows where to go next)...but then the game can't keep its own sources straight TTYD Peach doesn't work on any level

A screenshot from a mod for Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. Peach's dialogue has been run through Google Translate dozens of times, and whatever she said originally while standing around in this drab and metallic prison cell now says, "Mmm...no doubt, I am a boring official."

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Jon the Red @crosstownpubliclibrary.neocities.org · 26/09/2026

bro is so zooted on his own plagiarism machine that he's out here paraphrasing dril tweets but without the irony

@dril post on X/Twitter that reads,
the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron"

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Jon the Red @crosstownpubliclibrary.neocities.org · 23/09/2026

need to start a collection of people inadvertently roasting the style of my fashion disaster OC, Lyla Brangwyn

Pixel art of my doggirl OC Lyla Brangwyn. Note the green dress paired with the purplish shirt and pink hat.

A screenshot of Retro Game Mechanics Explained's video on "Bugs & Glitches of High-Level NES Tetris". Here, the glitched color palettes of level 138 and onward are being introduced, and an excerpt of the subtitles reads, "[...]palettes breaks and the board becomes a very odd mix of colors." Note the green and pink of the Tetriminos.

A screenshot of supergreatfriend's Martian Gothic: Unification playthrough. Here, he has just solved a puzzle to dispel a sort of curse that caused a room to be seen only in monochrome. "Hey, someone's turned the colors back on," notes the character. "Turn them back off!" SGF snarks. Note the combination of green and purple in the room's decor.

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Jon the Red @crosstownpubliclibrary.neocities.org · 17/09/2026

R-Type Final 2 accidentally gave me the "all achievements" achievement when I downloaded a free DLC ship, so I went back and got the one that I was missing

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Jon the Red @crosstownpubliclibrary.neocities.org · 09/09/2026

a completely typical Cydia Myssil conversation starter

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Jon the Red @crosstownpubliclibrary.neocities.org · 09/09/2026

started replaying Yoshi's Woolly World recently, and my god, I forgot how charming and pretty it is

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Jon the Red @crosstownpubliclibrary.neocities.org · 22/08/2026

the very first video game I ever remember playing was Sonic the Hedgehog 2...but another game in the household at that time was Rolling Thunder 2 maybe it's that I was 3 or 4 years old and my ability to tell fantasy from reality was underdeveloped, but the opening cutscene *terrified* me back then

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Jon the Red @crosstownpubliclibrary.neocities.org · 20/08/2026

in Paper Mario, soon after finding the hammer, you can shake a nearby tree with it and a girl's lost doll falls out, which you can return for a reward through a series of glitches, you can acquire the doll as a regular item instead of a key item, letting you *eat the doll in front of her instead*

A screenshot of Paper Mario. Mario has just collected the "Dolly" key item, which is not shown here but described as, "An adorable doll that looks exactly like Princess Peach." However, there's also a prompt warning that the inventory is full and something must be tossed, which in turn has been caused by other glitches allowing one to accumulate far more key items than was ever intended.

A screenshot of Paper Mario. Mario and Bombette (the pink Bob-omb) stand in front of Goombaria (a paler Goomba wearing a pink bow). The prompt to use an item is open, and the Dolly from the previous screenshot appears as a choice, when it normally does not. Selecting the Dolly from here would literally consume the item, playing an animation of Mario eating something and then giving a thumbs-up.

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Jon the Red @crosstownpubliclibrary.neocities.org · 05/08/2026

Luigi Logic might be *the* most Lyla-coded RPG mechanic

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Jon the Red @crosstownpubliclibrary.neocities.org · 17/07/2026

I'm not typically one to think about shipping, like, at all...but I have to admit, whatever was going on in Kirby Fighters 2 was very gay

Splash screen from Kirby Fighters 2, depicting the "Sworn Partners" Dedede and Meta Knight standing back-to-back.

Screenshot from Kirby Fighters 2. Once defeated, Dedede and Meta Knight both use the last of their energy reaching out for the other's hand before collapsing.

Menu screen from Kirby Fighters 2. Chapter 3 of Story Mode is titled "The King and His Knight", which just sounds like the title of a romance.

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Jon the Red @crosstownpubliclibrary.neocities.org · 30/06/2026

oh yeah, I forgot about Mega Man X DiVE having a couple Monster Hunter events but I want a collab in the opposite direction...let me thump Flame Mammoth and Neon Tiger over the head with a hunting horn

Image of Rathalos Armor X extracted from a Mega Man X DiVE collaboration. Instead of the blue, rounded armor X normally wears, here he is clad in spiky red and black gear and exudes a fiery aura. One of his hands grips the hilt of a Rathalos Greatsword.

Chameleos Chameleon, another part of the X DiVE / MH Rise collab. Sting Chameleon, normally a green chameleon-like robot, here takes on a purple paint job with pink spots. A leaf-shaped tail and a pair of spiky wings complete the look reminiscent of the elder dragon Chameleos.

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Jon the Red @crosstownpubliclibrary.neocities.org · 27/06/2026

welcome back to another episode of Street Fighter As Political Praxis, guest starring Dark Night of the Scarecrow

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Jon the Red @crosstownpubliclibrary.neocities.org · 29/05/2026

"Doin' great, Mac, baby! But one backup ain't enough for your most important files! The cloud ain't no place to put 'em, neither...go out there and get yourself a USB drive!"

Little Mac sits in the corner between rounds while his cornerman Doc Louis advises him from the other side of the ropes.

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Jon the Red @crosstownpubliclibrary.neocities.org · 29/05/2026

the Iffie of my EO3 team has shifted to a support role, but her philosophy still rings true you can skip pretty much all of B14F if you don't play the game of cat-and-mouse, don't use gate traps to capture your pursuers like the game sets out for you to do, and just murder the prison warden instead

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Jon the Red @crosstownpubliclibrary.neocities.org · 28/05/2026

to be honest, I'd fallen off of EO3HD for awhile simply because I reached a point where the story picks up, and the story kinda sucks tbh...mostly for spoiler reasons, but Kujura, one of the NPCs, is so thoroughly unlikable that even the normally objective EO wiki dunks on him on an unrelated page

Excerpt from https://etrian.fandom.com/wiki/Shogun that lists the strengths and weaknesses of the Shogun, an unlockable class of Etrian Odyssey 3.

Strengths: Often dramatically shortens fights. Unmatched weapon versatility due to dual-wielding and excellent Strength and Agility. Buffs and commands help out the party.
Weaknesses: Terrible defenses, especially when dual-wielding. Conferred buffs come with accompanying downsides. Potential team-killing liability. Available only after siding with Kujura.

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Jon the Red @crosstownpubliclibrary.neocities.org · 28/05/2026

I keep forgetting I modded Reyn's portrait in the Status menu to be Like That asdjhdsfj

A screenshot of Etrian Odyssey 3 HD. I've modded one of the character portraits to replace it with my own original character, Lyla Brangwyn, here rendered in pixel art.

Another EO3HD screenshot. The character portrait for Reyn has been similarly modded, but instead of digital art, her portrait has been changed to a photograph of her as a doll, looming much closer to the "camera" than the art of Lyla.
( Reyn belongs to @bhcrafts.bsky.social )

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Jon the Red @crosstownpubliclibrary.neocities.org · 27/05/2026

I'm imagining the "tweet jacket" is kind of like Vanilla Ice's coat of many words in "Cool as Ice" but it's covered in screenshots of nonsense tweets like "dogs are like cars except you can't drive them"

Vanilla Ice as he appears on the box art for Cool as Ice. He wears a black leather jacket, covered on all sides with words and catchphrases written in all sorts of fonts, like "yep yep" near his bicep and "roll[in'] deep" running down his right shoulder and torso.

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Jon the Red @crosstownpubliclibrary.neocities.org · 24/05/2026

this post contains Etrian Voyager III: The Borg'ed City pro tips

A view from above of the USS Voyager overlaid with text referencing Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City. "Bandage + Mystic Calm is a Better Source of Out-of-Battle Healing Than Monarch March," it says.

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Jon the Red @crosstownpubliclibrary.neocities.org · 18/05/2026

it can't be understated how much my brain chemistry was changed by being exposed to Kirby's Adventure as a little kid not just the spectacle turning me into a lifelong fan, though of course it did, but imagine going through a happy cartoon world and thinking the game is over only for this to happen

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Jon the Red @crosstownpubliclibrary.neocities.org · 16/05/2026

such a ridiculously gorgeous game, especially near the end where the game's gone through all the normal video game biomes like "cliff" and "ocean" and jumps straight into abstract dreamstuff

A screenshot of the "lobby" area of Kirby's Adventure's last world, Rainbow Resort. Light blue bubbly hills roll against dark purple starry ones into a valley. In the upper center, clouds roil around the Fountain of Dreams.

A screenshot of Kirby's Adventure. Shooting stars race through a dark sky full of distant stars and rings. The rings have an almost crayon-like texture, while some of the nearby hills look like they're made of that rainbow scratch paper.

A screenshot of Kirby's Adventure. Purple auroras dwindle in the sky like great ribbons, above a series of much more angular chunks of ice.

A screenshot of Kirby's Adventure. The Fountain of Dreams sits against a purplish sky, surrounded by a lake that reflects stars and rings in the sky. Nearby stands King Dedede.

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Jon the Red @crosstownpubliclibrary.neocities.org · 12/05/2026

props to whoever is going on reading or at least window-shopping sprees through my works on itch every so often, I'll see the viewership bars go nuts with different segments for all my different books sorry to them that L&U 2 is taking so long, I'm getting there, I promise

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Jon the Red @crosstownpubliclibrary.neocities.org · 22/04/2026

sad that staff would choose to die on the AI hill...it used to be, when you scammed and alienated your userbase, it was over mangosteen

A screenshot of a now-infamous SomethingAwful post. Site founder "Lowtax" posted an ad for an herbal supplement drink containing mangosteen fruit; in the pictured post, he responded to criticism by throwing a tantrum, claiming to have peddled the drink out of genuine love for the product, tossing out some slurs, and ending with "thanks for running me out of my own goddamn forum".

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Jon the Red @crosstownpubliclibrary.neocities.org · 10/04/2026

one of the most common recurring elements of the Punch-Out!! franchise is the Virgin vs. Chad match

Super Macho Man holding his sunglasses in a boxing glove-clad hand, in a still from his Punch-Out!! (Wii) intro sequence

Chad, the infamous muscleman of "Virgin vs. Chad" meme fame

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Jon the Red @crosstownpubliclibrary.neocities.org · 10/04/2026

Red-Eyes Darkness Dragoon: how 'bout I negate one of your cards and boost my ATK to 4000? me, building up my spaceship to 6000 ATK anyway:

A cropped screenshot from Silent Hill: Homecoming, where Curtis the redneck mechanic reclines in a chair and holds a gun, yet threatens to "slap and kill" the protagonist.

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Jon the Red @crosstownpubliclibrary.neocities.org · 08/04/2026

never understood why they did this, could've been a good time for some cross-promotion but none ever happened

An altered screenshot of Wikipedia. The release timeline they show of the Gradius series has been truncated to show just the decade of the 2000s. In between Gradius V (2004) and Gradius ReBirth (2008), the spot on the timeline for 2006 has been filled in with the text "that one episode of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX where the bad guy has Gradius-themed cards".

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Jon the Red @crosstownpubliclibrary.neocities.org · 22/03/2026

Iphigenia: I became a Legendary Duelist right away! What took you so long? Lyla: I guess my ace monster just isn't as impressive as yours. Iffie: Speaking of... Lyla: Huh? Oh, right! No matter the dimension, no matter the foe, giving up is not an option! Let's shoot for the stars! Vic Viper T301!

Pixel art I drew of the flagship spacecraft of Gradius, the Vic Viper.

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Jon the Red @crosstownpubliclibrary.neocities.org · 15/03/2026

when a Symphony of the Night sprite appears in another Castlevania game

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Jon the Red @crosstownpubliclibrary.neocities.org · 06/03/2026

one of my favorite details about Final Fantasy VIII is Gerogero a first-world nation has a monster they use as a body double for their president, and it's also a known enough entity that there's a playing card with its likeness--like if one of Topps' Desert Storm trading cards was of Freddy Krueger

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Jon the Red @crosstownpubliclibrary.neocities.org · 01/03/2026

Pokémon has released a 30th anniversary logo for every single Pokémon. quote this with your favorite! www.serebii.net/pokemon30/

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Jon the Red @crosstownpubliclibrary.neocities.org · 28/02/2026

I will say, it's very funny that I decided "one of my OCs would make a Pokemon team that has at least one 'Dance' move for each of them" and I completely forgot about Tierno in the process well, regardless, Lyla Brangwyn and her Pokemon team

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Jon the Red @crosstownpubliclibrary.neocities.org · 24/02/2026

yes, you can pet the dog in Tales of Maj'Eyal

A screenshot of traditional roguelike Tales of Maj'Eyal. Pizs the Temporal Warden enters a canyon where some orcs lie in ambush. Using his mastery of time and space, Pizs teleports around the canyon with a Blink Blade attack, briefly summons a bow-wielding version of himself with Warden's Call, then uses Time Stop to halt the orcs and even the particle effects so he has time to pet his temporal hound.

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Jon the Red @crosstownpubliclibrary.neocities.org · 22/02/2026

corporate needs you to find the difference between this picture and this picture

Cyrus (Cuba Gooding Junior) stands in a 2003-era CGI recreation of the respiratory system in Quest for the Code.

Edward Carnby stands in the cthonian caverns beneath Derceto Manor of Alone in the Dark, both he and the caves rendered in 1992-era graphics.

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