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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 19/09/2026

I think part of the problem (both with the arguments you've been having and with game developers) is lumping Silent Hill in with Resident Evil when it's a lot more like D NO SHOKUTAKU—Silent Hill isn't really survival horror; it's psychological horror. the puzzles are part of the storytelling.

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 20/07/2026

this is what Tel'Arin looks like in Shadow over Mystara. Not quite a drow but not albino. I think how I heard it characterized was that Shadow Elves wear a sort of purple woad or sunblock to protect themselves from the sun

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 27/06/2026

I'm sorry but fantasy jumped the shark the moment it started being ashamed of Mystara

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 22/06/2026

“A survey of 5400 Japanese-speaking people who willingly read a hoary, dogshit trade rag has revealed that a plurality of them desires an AI-upscaled Chrono Trigger" is not a news story, it is an accusation

Genki✨
@Genki_JPN

Famitsu did a nationwide survey of the game people most want to see get a remake or remaster! (5,400 people)

1. Chrono Trigger
2. Xenogears

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 11/05/2026

All English proper nouns should look like this

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 10/05/2026

The fact that this “there can’t possibly be fascistic undertones in Mass Effect, because this commercial product adopts a bold stance that racism is bad” argument is just a pro-Harry Potter argument with different proper nouns says something deeply poignant and I’m not awake enough to unpack it

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 16/04/2026

I think it's gotta be a ROMhack, Fire Emblem: Dream of Five, which has as far as I'm concerned the richest and most politically complex storyline I've ever seen in a tactics JRPG short of like Final Fantasy Tactics. The game also has a female protagonist and several pairs of lesbians, so, perf

The fake game cover for the front and back of Fire Emblem: Dream of Five

Some screens from Fire Emblem: Dream of Five

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 09/04/2026

Well, that they traveled in time is explicitly the point—they fall into a black hole and they end up finding a version of Earth that hasn't collapsed into complete evil yet

Mieu:
Hurry, we've got to get out of here!

Wren:
There's no time, we'll never make it!

(Mieu casts Grantz.)

Narrator:
Mieu used the Grantz technique automatically. The entire
party was instantly teleported to a place of safety far
from the falling city.

(Lashute falls from the sky.)

Narrator:
The evil city seemed to scream a hideous cry as it fell
from the sky and sank deep into the lake.

(The ship approaches a black hole.)

Mieu:
Look! We're going into a black hole!

(The ship passes through and appears near a new planet.)

Kara:
We were knocked out by that collision.

Wren:
The stars aren't in the right places. We were transported
across space and time when we went through the black hole's
surface.

Mieu:
We're getting a message from a planet that orbits the star
ahead of us....

Voice:
Greetings, alien craft! Identify yourselves. This is the
London Communications Center on Earth of the Sol system.
Over and out.

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 09/04/2026

Like take Amia Amirski, for example, the designated badass woman of PSII and basically the prototype for Alys Brangwin of PSⅣ. Amia is explicitly said to be a “Counter-Hunter”—a member of the Hunter organization who hunts Hunters who’ve become criminal or corrupt. Does this ever matter? Fuck, no.

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 09/04/2026

Like, this is Motavia in Phantasy Star Ⅰ (those round things clustering the right side of the map aren't geography, they're antlions). Phantasy Star Ⅱ wants me to believe that this got terraformed into the above map, despite entire mountain ranges having literally ceased to exist completely.

Phantasy Star I map of Motavia from Phantasy Star Cave

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 09/04/2026

And one of my most petty complaints about PSⅡ is that I hate Motavia's world map. Hate, hate, hate it. It's doing representative geography but it's NOT executing the technique well even by 1989 standards. It's representative geography the way Hello Kitty is representative geography of a Maine Coon.

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 09/04/2026

Phantasy Star Ⅰ couldn't have made this mistake because it was first-person, meaning that when someone's right up in your face they're literally right up in your face. And by Phantasy Star Ⅳ, the developers apparently realized this themselves, because the Neifirst-equivalent villain *has this fix*

Zio, the main villain of Act Ⅰ of Phantasy Star Ⅳ, as he is seen in his dungeon

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 09/04/2026

Now, to be clear: Neifirst is by far one of my favorite video game characters of all time. I don't just mean “villains”. I mean, period. But it is hazardous to the gravitas of the prose that you have to find her tiny ass in the center of a long clusterfucky maze like you're playing Where's Waldo.

One of five levels of Climatrol where you finally encounter Neifirst right in the center, after ages and ages of navigational error

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 09/04/2026

In fairness: the game DOES foreshadow that you've been declared wanted felons before you begin this undertaking. But that ambush I mentioned? You turn the final key, and then the battle animation just *plays*. Instantly. And then there's these three fuckers, and it's a hopeless bossfight.

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 26/03/2026

remember when Mokona created the Earth

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 21/03/2026

Texted my little sister about this and realized she was right

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 23/02/2026

Rent-a-Hero by the same team is on the same level of ambition—it's an Earthbound-esque modern Japan setting JRPG where you play a *mercenary superhero* and all the combat is *a 2D fighting game like the sections in Sid Meier's Pirates! Gold*

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 23/02/2026

This is the very first dungeon map. I need you to make sense of it at a glance. Note how every single level of it has EIGHT TELEPORTATION TILES.

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 02/01/2026

To whoever it was who chose to Sharpie this in a stall in the women’s restroom at a Chevron station off the I-5 somewhere in Fresno county: did you really have nothing in that moment that you’d rather be doing

The Life is Strange “This action has consequences” butterfly UI message drawn on a perlage finish bathroom stall

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 15/12/2025

Excuse you I very clearly prepared my escape route in advance

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 11/12/2025

Here's a case of what I mean—Toree 3D uses a parody of the US Playstation trade dress in its itch thumbnail, which is fitting because it's a pastiche of PS1 platformers, but Toree 3D is not something that can play on real hardware. It's less egregious because there's no PSX equivalent to GB Studio.

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 11/12/2025

Occasionally but somewhat rarely, devs will photoshop the classic Game Boy or Game Boy Color trade dress (almost never SGB trade dress which was distinctive in its own right), or a slight parody thereof, but there are Godot games that pull this shit too, and I've seen PSX-inspired titles do similar

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 11/12/2025

Every single image of that guy looks like

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 21/11/2025

The internet was never meant to evolve beyond this

A YTMND page featuring a photoshopped image of Michael Richards as Kramer noclipping through the second Death Star with the text:

“Mike Richards
Caught In The
Death Star”

This was accompanied by an audio clip of Michael Jackson's “Thriller” in which the lyric “Night Creatures Call and the Dead Star(t)” is sung, which does sound like the above

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 11/11/2025

apropos of nothing, I stumbled on a five-year-old Reddit post somehow, that argued that if the Chūnin exams in Naruto went as planned that Temari would end up sweeping the whole tournament by being repeatedly fed utterly exhausted opponents and you know what, I actually cannot argue with that logic

The original tournament bracket from like Season 2 of Naruto from like a million years ago

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 05/11/2025

This is the corner badge on the SNES btw

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 05/11/2025

Also added some metal badges to my Mega Drive just because having an internally modded machine that looks the same on the outside was bugging me

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 05/11/2025

Put a metal Cyberdyne Systems badge on my custom SNES where the raised Nintendo wordmark would be on a stock machine, both in reference to the various Terminator games on the console and the fact that it’s a company I’d be marginally less embarrassed to give money to at this point in my life

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 19/10/2025

And because nobody asked here is the SNES with an FXPAK Pro in its port, lewd, I know

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 19/10/2025

I also finally added the replacement faceplate to the controller ports, though they're a lighter shade of translucent plastic than the case, which results in an interesting effect I don't totally hate bsky.app/profile/nymp...

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 19/10/2025

This is the back of the console if anyone's curious (compared to someone else's picture). You'll notice that the ABS panel for the outputs is original and that's because there's basically no replacing it without soldering tools I did add the maintenance number sticker myself

photo of my casemodded SNES in rearview, featuring my replacement shell and a custom holographic SNES maintenance sticker based on the original SNES maintenance sticker

Someone's original yellowed SNES in the same rearview, technically with a replacement maintenance sticker as well but in the more exact representation of the original sticker

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 19/10/2025

This is the bottom of my SNES after I added the rubber feet and a bunch of other fancy flourishes

The underside of the new SNES shell, now featuring a bunch of stickers that one finds on an SNES as well as rubber feet.

The expansion card latch is pink because it’s one of the original SNES ABS parts that I boiled in a pink Rit dyebath.

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 18/10/2025

my friend who is learning to draw asked me to tell them to draw something for my birthday, “even if it sounds insane or hard”, so I said “Draw Otto von Bismarck getting anally vored by a giant zombie wolverine” and I forgot about it and then they drew it and yes now I'm gonna post it

Otto von Bismarck getting anally vored by a giant zombie wolverine, by Sun-Kiki.

The handwritten text is “Wolverine's undead anus devouring Otto von Bismarck. I tossed him into the post-modern layer of hell on the off chance that it Makes Penelope happy near her birthday. (I have no idea who this guy is but if Penelope wants him in hell, fuck him!)”

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 03/10/2025

I also have to add rubber feet to the bottom because for some truly ridiculous reason the case doesn't come with rubber feet =\ (For some reason even Nintendo scaled back the number of rubber feet from four to two at some point early on, which is stupid, I hate that they did that)

comparison of two original-model SNES units from somebody's Reddit post. The one on the right is a newer console with two rubber feet and two plastic feet (which are still for some reason hollow, like you could stick a smaller rubber foot inside them??)

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 03/10/2025

by the way, the internals are also pink (because this is a translucent case, though it's so dark you'd be hard-pressed to tell in normal light)

the upper assembly of the SNES, which is extremely pink

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 03/10/2025

It’s not like I was expecting it not to, it did before just fine, but I put it back together and, huzzah, it still works Note the trim around the controller ports I gotta unfuck

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 03/10/2025

Before and after. I made my SNES gay

SNES in stock shell that had browned DRAMATICALLY from heavy UV exposure and had an incredible brittleness like an eggshell. There were cracks everywhere

Same picture as above. The slot flap, power and reset slides and eject button are the same as in GR previous picture.

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 03/10/2025

Unfortunately not totally finished (needs some more decals, gotta replace the wonky controller trim that snapped, also a screw broke), but it’s assembled

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 03/10/2025

If anyone cares I have discovered that boiling the dark grey ejector lever of a SNES in Rit super pink synthetic dye will turn the piece a nice purple color that almost matches the power and reset levers

Me holding the ejector lever of a SNES over my bathroom sink after dyeing it a color that turned out to be purple.

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 02/10/2025

If anyone has too many doohickeys, I have a solution: buy a tube of M&M's minis, eat all the M&Ms, remove the label on the tube, stick a handwritten label to the tubes and decorate them (mostly to differentiate them from other tubes that still contain M&Ms) and bam you can put screws or whatever in

my hand holding a bunch of tubes decorated with patterned duct tape. they contain cables and plastic styluses and tiny screwdrivers and shit

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 02/10/2025

does this wording sound like a conviction

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 29/09/2025

I don't want to shit up Bsky with more discussion of this billionaire degenerate but as a formerly homeless person I really need to take issue with this Jo Murray's dad was an aeronautical engineer. She had a college degree from Exeter. Her apartment in Leith was massive. Poverty is unknown to her

Rowling added: “Like other people who’ve never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she’s ignorant of how ignorant she is … I wasn’t a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women’s rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.”

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