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may @maysuser.name · 1h
that's wild
homophobia test:

affective homophobia - 34% (above average)
cognitive homophobia - 30% (below average)
behavioral homophobia - 53% (above average)
total homophobia - 39% (above average)
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may @maysuser.name · 8h
you get it right
may (this is an incredibly lazy fit but fuck you it's saturday)
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may @maysuser.name · 16h
went "could you even fit the checkerboard background in with the game's resolution" and after a few hours you absolutely could
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may @maysuser.name · 03/10/2026
the problem with this version is that there isn't any scrolling checkerboard in the background. there's a static one on the file select screen but that's it. that's half the visual identity!
checkerboard background (it doesn't move)
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may @maysuser.name · 03/10/2026
got bored and remade the tokimeki memorial pocket title screen but in english
new version, i axed the full subtitle because i couldn't figure out a good translation much less how to actually fit it all in. this shit is soooo messy lmfaooriginal
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may @maysuser.name · 02/10/2026
boku no natsuyasumi 2 has my favorite room in videogames
yoshika's room in boku no natsuyasumi 2
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may @maysuser.name · 02/10/2026
does this mean I'm finally out to her or
text from my mom: May, you have a new email??? Do the emails I send you get forwarded???
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may @maysuser.name · 02/10/2026
look at little guy go
poke-kun
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may @maysuser.name · 02/10/2026
magical drop pocket understands the power of poorly translated nonsensical bullshit for making endearing characters
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may @maysuser.name · 01/10/2026
the critics once again do not understand Colleen Hoover; Verity is the most fun I've had at the theater all year
Movies don't have to be good to be fun and Verity is an absolute blast. I've long professed my unguilty pleasure for Colleen Hoover's work and their adaptations—Watching Reminders of Him was the most emotional I've gotten in a theater all year—and I'm pleased to say that Verity is another slam dunk.

Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson are some of my favorite actresses and any film centering them was always going to work for me. At one point Dakota's character describes herself as having "resting bored face" and it's the perfect encapsulation of her entire acting career. And for a film like this one, it absolutely works. Her performance feels perfectly uncomfortable and offputting, and I found myself giggling through the entire third act. Anne isn't given as much to do here, but carries the presence required to make this role work. Josh Hartnett does his job as eye candy admirably, and the chemistry between all three is some great work.

There are some incredibly funny reading montages all over this film. It's one of those things that doesn't particularly translate from book to film, but ends up working quite effectively to set the tone. If you let yourself get taken along for the ride, what's here is a lot of fun. There also might be my favorite needle drop in a film all year, which makes the scene it plays in feel so uncanny that it looped back around to being a lot of fun.

We need to do something about the online personalities who keep showing up in films. I didn't think it could get worse after two separate films featuring Anthony Fantano released within weeks of one another, but back to back Alex Cooper and Sean Evans cameos almost broke me. The final shot of the film made me laugh out loud, it's some absolutely incredible work.

Verity is among the most fun films I've seen all year. On a technical and critical level it can best be described as barely competent, but as a piece of entertainment I had an absolute blast. It's the perfect movie for Dakota Johnson—an …
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may @maysuser.name · 30/09/2026
is my minecraft account's locator bar color clocky
#6EE69D
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may @maysuser.name · 29/09/2026
samurai shodown pocket has some inspired comic sans use
ENGARDE
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may @maysuser.name · 29/09/2026
immediately after this mai has a nightmare about her boyfriend coming out lmfao good shit
screenshot of snk gal fighters (2000):

andy: i've been hiding this...
andy: i'm really a woman...
mai: nooooo!screenshot of snk gal fighters (2000):

mai: thank god! it was a dream!
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may @maysuser.name · 29/09/2026
damn snk really transed that twink for the bit
screenshot from snk gals fighters (2000), edited to show multiple dialog boxes at once: 

MissX [Iori Yagami]: And I'm Miss X. Got that, pal?
MissX: No more 'Yag' and stuff, OK?
MissX: It really bothers me!screenshot of snk gal fighters (2000)

MissX: Transvestite? An old term...
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may @maysuser.name · 28/09/2026
rolled credits on cool boarders pocket and unlocked snowgirl mode
you play as a snowgirl now
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may @maysuser.name · 28/09/2026
i hate you already
STOP PLAYING TETRIS WHY DO THEY ALWAYS MAKE THE GAMER SO INSUFFERABLE IN THESE GAMES
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may @maysuser.name · 28/09/2026
mechanically speaking you have a lot more control over your character than you do in tokimemo but i'm honestly not sure that's to the game' benefit
you have two timeslots per day to fill your schedule with
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may @maysuser.name · 28/09/2026
konoha kobayashi you are no shiori fujisaki get outta here
screenshot of pocket love if, the game is asking the player if they should ask this girl to walk home with them
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may @maysuser.name · 28/09/2026
I take it all back patient zero is everything to me
taylor swift and dakota johnson in bed together
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may @maysuser.name · 28/09/2026
it's a little anticlimactic and more than a little clunky, but dark arms: beast buster 1999 is fun enough that it all just works for me
Dark Arms: Beast Buster 1999 offers a fairly novel twist on an otherwise simple action RPG.

Combat could be ostensibly described as clunky, but in a way that really works for me. One button shoots while the other swaps between your weapons. There's a bit of delay on each of your weapons, tied in with a stamina system that forces you to be fairly deliberate about your positioning. Most importantly though is the capture mechanic, where your first weapon slot contains a weaker weapon that can be used to capture monsters to feed into your weapons, giving them elemental properties and allowing them to evolve into other weapons. Because your weapons only level up when you leave an area, I found myself counting my shots on enemies so I could switch over to the catcher at the last second, something that made the fairly simplistic enemy designs feel far more engaging. Bosses are fairly underwhelming. Either you're underlevelled and they drag on, or you're overlevelled and they end before they begin.

The weapon upgrading system is fairly novel, though held back by some clunky menus. Your weapons reset levels each time they evolve and I found myself sticking with the same loadout by the final third of the game because the damage loss wasn't worth it, but the system offers enough experimentation and variety for the game's runtime, and it was fairly easy to level a weapon back up when needed.

As with many Neo Geo Pocket Color games, the presentation is impeccable. As expected for the hardware there's some absolutely great spritework, and nearly every single area has entirely unique tilesets that help them stand out. Enemy and especially boss animations are top notch, and aesthetically the game reminded me quite a bit of Mina the Hollower, given the shared influence of Link's Awakening but horror.

I truly could not tell you what happens in its' story—plot beats come out of nowhere and characters use terms that are never fully explained. Maybe it makes more sense if you've pla…
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may @maysuser.name · 28/09/2026
wait this is what my guy is supposed to look like???
what do you mean that's a completely different guy
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may @maysuser.name · 28/09/2026
anyway i just got to a dungeon where you have to light up a bunch of torches by shooting them with a gun, this might be one of the best games to ever do it
another screenshot; this gun lights torches
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may @maysuser.name · 28/09/2026
absolutely nothing so far has overstayed its' runtime, presentation is incredibly solid. I love how the falling down animation clips out so they didn't have to figure out how to layer your character under the environment
screenshot of dark arms: beast buster 1999
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may @maysuser.name · 27/09/2026
now we're killing cops
same game, now there's cops
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may @maysuser.name · 27/09/2026
damn they even got trannies in this game
dark arms: beast buster 1999 why is this npc so clocky
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may @maysuser.name · 27/09/2026
enjoying dark arms: beast buster 1999 so far and might have the best gun building system i've seen since parasite eve
screenshot of dark arms: beast buster 1999
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may @maysuser.name · 27/09/2026
i'm going to go insane if i play any more of this so i'm switching over to cotton: fantastic night dreams and holy shit they absolutely nailed the look, in some ways i honestly prefer the spritework of the ngpc version to the original
stage 1 in the neo geo pocket color version of cotton: fantastic night dreamssame area in the arcade version
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may @maysuser.name · 27/09/2026
cool boarders pocket might be the first bad NGPC game i've played so far, genuinely what were they thinking with this perspective, it's so hard to judge space or even see shit coming
cool boarders pocket's isometric camera is absolutely terrible
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may @maysuser.name · 27/09/2026
10 NGPC games down, the current rankings
1. neo turf masters
2. snk gals fighters
3. sonic pocket adventure
4. metal slug 1st mission
5. delta warp
6. rockman battle & fighters
7. pocket tennis color
8. pac-man
9. puyo pop
10. pocket tennis
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may @maysuser.name · 27/09/2026
oh my god that's a lot of games, also maybe the most amount of 3 stars i've given in one go
14 games in 2 days???

touhou rououmu
puyo pop
pocket tennis color
pocket tennis
delta warp
rockman battle & fighters
neo turf masters
metal slug 1st mission
sonic the hedgehog pocket adventure
neo turf masters (arcade)
metal slug 1st mission
pac-man
neo turf masters (ngpc)
mega man v
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may @maysuser.name · 27/09/2026
even something like sonic pocket adventure still has more configuration settings than nearly any other game in the series
sonic pocket adventure options menu, multiple difficulty settings, time limit toggle, starting player count, what other sonic game would do this
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may @maysuser.name · 27/09/2026
the character portraits in the NGPC version of mega man power battle are delightfully terrible
screenshot of mega man power battle for the neo geo pocket color, look at those faces
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may @maysuser.name · 27/09/2026
honestly neo turf masters might have one of the best UIs ive seen in a golf game
neo turf masters
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may @maysuser.name · 26/09/2026
need to get back to playing ff11 so i can finally meet the only catboy in the game who loves to play chess while sitting so homoerotically that none of the women who want him for being the only catboy in the game stand a chance
lehko habhoka in ff11 being a faggot
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may @maysuser.name · 25/09/2026
specifically games that have had an influence on me (in chronological order) as a person, if we're talking about taste in games specifically that's a different list and if we're talking about favorite games that's an entirely different list
9x9 list of games, in chronological order of when they impacted me:

new super mario bros (2006)
super mario 63 (2009)
wii music (2008)
minecraft (2011)
cave story (2004)
final fantasy vi (1994)
xenoblade x (2015)
final fantasy xiv (2013-)
breath of the wild (2017)
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may @maysuser.name · 25/09/2026
is this a threat
madison beer promo email, subject see u on twitch
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may @maysuser.name · 25/09/2026
styling this filter menu was maybe the most productive thing i did at work today but i'm pretty happy with how it turned out
bunch of squares
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may @maysuser.name · 25/09/2026
terraforming update
look at all that grass, ignore the part where i haven't filled in that entire middle section yet
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may @maysuser.name · 25/09/2026
full album ranking, still her weakest to date by far but at least the back half of the album isn't entirely awful now

1. Father Figure
2. Opalite
3. [+] Babylon
4. [+] Pink Clouding
5. Elizabeth Taylor
6. The Fate of Ophelia
7. Ruin The Friendship
8. The Life of a Showgirl
9. [+] Patient Zero
10. Eldest Daughter
11. Honey
12. [+] Cleveland!
13. CANCELLED!
14. Wood
15. Wi$h Li$t
16. Actually Romantic
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may @maysuser.name · 25/09/2026
that being said I'm pretty sure this port is based on the psp version and some of the UI scaling is absolutely massive here, probably fine on switch handheld but weird anywhere else
screenshot of the sky fc console port (ps5 edition) look at how massive that text box is
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may @maysuser.name · 24/09/2026
wait they got worse I don't even know where to begin with this one
the main Metroid story is now two distinct trilogies

the Metroid Arcs

The Zebes Saga (Zero Mission, Samus Returns, Super) - focuses on the chozo home world, the space pirates, and the Metroid threat

The Samus Saga (Fusion, Dread, Ravenous) - focuses on the x parasites, the legacy of the chozo, and samus' past and evolution
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may @maysuser.name · 24/09/2026
this was about Samus "aura farming"
This was the moment I knew MercurySteam understood Samus perfectly. They've yet to disappoint
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may @maysuser.name · 24/09/2026
presented without context
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may @maysuser.name · 24/09/2026
oh good they think i'm an adult
discord account standing thing, you're in the adult group
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may @maysuser.name · 24/09/2026
while i was flattening out this hill and building it out there were some flowers that made me want to build a graveyard so i guess we're putting a church up here too
outlines of where buildings might go who knows
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may @maysuser.name · 24/09/2026
to some extent i do think this might be a little too close to my starter base to impede on the isolation i was originally going for, but i think i might rework that area as well to incorporate it better into what i have in mind
starter base in the background
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may @maysuser.name · 24/09/2026
built up a basic perimeter, i think i like having a cliff here but it's going to need a decent amount of terraforming
look at how hard that edge is
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may @maysuser.name · 24/09/2026
i think the plan is to basically just extend it to that tiny island over there and then flatten things out a bit
above image but marked up a bit
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may @maysuser.name · 24/09/2026
the island i built it on is actually quite small but i think i want to do a little bit of terraforming to expand it a bit and then build up a small village of some sort
said island from above
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may @maysuser.name · 24/09/2026
buoys weren't enough so i built a lighthouse
better than adventure screenshot of a lighthousesaid lighthouse at nightinside of the lighthouse, spiral staircase yayview from the top, you can see my starter base
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