hidamari sketch is the madoka world without kyubey's influence

in retrospect that's obvious but back then they didn't know that. there would be a slightly different camera angle or shot and people thought it might be important. it NEVER was. only the first and last variations mattered. in the light novels it's just one short chapter. the studio was trolling people from the beginning so it's be to expected. there was never any deep reason to having the first season air completely out of order they just felt like it. I love that.

I remember the nyoron edits



and endless eight. that too. that was hilarious. I didn't even watch the show but hearing people lose their minds to that episode repeating eight weeks in a row was the best. they HAD to keep watching because there were slight differences each time the day repeated. 

after the point the anime stopped, the light novels present an interesting concept of a rival club that's trying to usurp haruhi's powers because they don't trust her with them or the SOS people to handle her. apparently the writer had no idea where to go from there and the light novels went on forever-hiatus. I might still read them anyways.

I hit my 666 subscriber goal and as promised will go to hell

haven't drawn these guys in a while

speaking of accumulated sin I want to make more comics



I have a couple in motion I just need to hack away at them

Quote from: Slurpee on March 12, 2026, 01:29:58 AM1. white fudge oreos

the best iteration of oreos. the mint fudge ones are great too.

only around 2000 longer and heavier

but in all seriousness the real high water mark of human culture was the invention of twix pb. the second version with the plain cookie and creamy peanut butter just wasn't the same. but you can get packs of cookies which are basically the same thing so society has managed to continue functioning.

we never progressed beyond popipo. that was our cultural peak as a species. the high water mark.

it was all downhill from there.

I test all my poetry in speakonia with all punctuation replaced with exclamation points

overdose on datura and walk around the city with green and purple 3D glasses and a character sheet. very similar in my experience except there's less chance of dying. I tried to explain to the cops that I was just MMIRLLARPing but they kicked me out of the park anyways.

the gameshark codes are for useless crap like infinite hp and money. nobody thought to make one that just maxes out your friend list on the spot. the only realistic way to play those dungeons in english is to download a modified save file and I didn't find this out until halfway through the game. you of course don't get to choose your character name this way and there's no gameshark code for that either. the wii u virtual console version comes patched so if you choose the communication option it just unlocks everything on your save file instead of waiting for another player, but that's not the version with a translation. there's no way to upgrade the ricebird hot spring in it either but I think that's just visual changes. I think the only way anyone accomplished all this on the original japanese copy was through an event they held after the game released just for that purpose.

so basically I'm locked into the sit+spin route unless I buy two flash carts, move my save over to one, and restart the other's save file a hundred times. I doubt I'll play this a second time but if I do I'll try a save file with everything on it already.

so brownie brown, who worked on mother 3 and some other stuff (including kappa's trail which I also want to play), made this fun and dreamy little gba game called magical vacation.



in magical vacation your healing items are carbonated gummy frogs that run wild in the region. if you keep reloading the area and catching them all they start to dwindle in number until they go extinct. love spirits increasingly start to reject you. I think the gummy worms taste like soda too they're for MP but they can hide in holes if you don't catch them fast enough. they can go extinct but nobody gets pissed off at you. beauty spirits think they're gross and make you dump them after a certain amount though.



now say you want a gummy frog to join your party. this game expects you to find at least one person with a physical copy of it to link with you for every magic element you didn't pick except for three, five of the same type as you to get one of those other three, and then you have to level up all of those elements until you learn all their spells which unlocks dark magic which FINALLY lets you get light magic at the end of the game. you also need 100 total individual people to link with. this unlocks two entire secret dungeons and several secret characters, most importantly an ACTUAL gummy frog party member who you battle alongside instead of catching and eating like the rest of their species.



this process also upgrades a hot spring resort managed by regular talking pigeons but that isn't important. what's important is that this game has a variety of spirits to befriend including one variety who you can't fully befriend without EVER catching a gummy frog before you find the last one. all the different spirits represent a different element and they don't have the same moral code so doing some stuff to befriend a spirit will piss off another one. you can't get dark spirits without catching gummy frogs. you can't get light spirits if you recruited dark spirits. blade spirits demand you get rid of any gummy frogs you have even the ones you got as regular drops. but if you have the guy who actually uses blade magic he secretly picks up all the gummy frogs again after the spirit joins you and tells you not to be so serious.



the main thrust of the game is that you're kids at a magical school sent on a vacation that's secretly meant to train them for war. they're attacked right away by creatures called enigmas which can never be permanently killed but can't act effectively outside of their dimension without posessing someone. some people get possessed on purpose because you do become the dominant personality, but if you lose control they can take you over for good. which they usually do.

the gameplay starts out overwhelmingly compleicated and then you realize it's just a regular jrpg and you don't need to be so serious. just worry about the elemental interactions as they come. MP isn't an issue you gain a chunk back every turn. importantly you eventually get access to the magical dimension hopping school bus which you can ransack for random crap hidden in the cushions. there's a dedicated option for it. I found some shoes and a gummy worm once.  every character has some sort of use in the overworld and one of them is to scare off giant floating pirahnas from mugging you. another is to find worms under rocks. nobody else knows how to do that.



also there's a robot called flounder. they're all named  after fish but the game just happened to leave me with it in my party longer than the others. imagine that. robots are a waste of a team slot because they don't level up or respond to cutscenes but you can stuff them full of string and old fruit and rocks which makes them stronger.



right now I'm in the death plane, the last of three and the only one that's physically real. in this world when you die you return to this plane feeling as if you just finished a good book, your accumulated memories and experiences are absorbed into your true self, and you're reborn again and again until eventually you become a sentient star that becomes a new planet. Not enigmas though they just get reborn right away as they were but a little stronger. they're all assholes. I'm gonna march into hell at beat their king's stupid out of him before sasuke ganache does. did I say everybody in this and every location is named after food? that's very important.



so far I'd give it an "okay yeah I liked that" out of ten. pretty good. as the replacement for super famicom wars as my "I need to dick around on my phone for a bit" game it has done its job very well.

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/1006633

lot of drawings in this one but there's still more than a few PNGs. also here's the audio I didn't use:

https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1490881

I have every tab possible on newgrounds now. my profile is complete.

Quote from: Slurpee on October 16, 2025, 02:01:47 AMI didn't even know there was an Ape Escape 3

and that negligence is why they keep escaping

Quote from: PannacottaClock on October 17, 2025, 04:43:49 AMthe writing is as subtle as a bird hitting a window and heaving and dying but i don't know i really like it

I didn't listen to anything after hospice and that album was nothing if not unsubtle and emotionally manipulative so can't say I'm surprised. two was a good song though. I liked two. if that strategy works it works. the album is listenable and the bird is dead. also I like the name "the antlers" it's a good band name. you'd think we would be out of good "the asdfsadf" names by then but no.

Quote from: Slurpee on October 16, 2025, 12:34:25 AMdid you miss the number 3 somewhere in that post lol

nope

it existed to advertise metal gear solid 3 though

after careful consideration of my experience with the franchise I can now say that mesal gear solid is the best incarnation of metal gear. still, it's weird that the penultimate boss is the revolver ocelot piloting the shagohad when the rest of the game is like solid 1. the actual final battle is absolutely intentional foreshadowing for metal gear solid 4.

*uploads it to anime bath scene wiki*