Splatoon 3 keeps pulling me in when there's events going on, especially since those are about to be finished. But other than that I've been trying to revisit the GameCube, so I've been playing stuff like Wario World that I missed out on as a kid.

Rabbits are my favorite animal! I'm a fan of the bunicorns in the Dragon Quest series, and have a bunicorn OC and an adopt I got that's a holly themed rabbit, and my Neopets account currently has several Cybunnies in it, and I have a faerie one:


Robbit is super cool though I imagine part of that is just that I really like Jumping Flash! I think my family had a rabbit as a kid but I don't remember very much about that, though I do see lots of real life rabbits on walks and bike rides. I think nowadays I'm happy to take care of virtual buns on Neopets and I'm not ready for the responsibility of a real one just yet.

Hi! I'm Nova and I'm a homebrew developer. I used to romhack back when I was a teenager, but I ended up wanting to make my own wholly original stuff while still having it work on the consoles I'm passionate about. But I still continue to approach everything from a similar perspective and relate more to romhackers and fan game devs than most homebrew and indie developers, because I'm still just doing everything for fun and passion, where it feels like a lot of other people are really focused on making products and treat things like they're making products. My current main project has a lot of that "used to hack SMW" baked into it with the terminology, how the level editor is a Lunar Magic clone, how the engine features are very SMW-like, how player/level interaction works very much like custom blocks in SMW, etc. It just happens that I fully own the thing I'm making and the code is significantly more efficient than SMW's haha.

But I still think romhacks are really cool (even if I no longer really do them outside of a game balance or accessibility patch here and there). And it's also where most of the community surrounding old console development is, especially on SNES.

I've been watching the PBS Kids schedule and watching Cyberchase when it comes on, and it's been kinda neat that this show is still airing (and getting new episodes) and neat that I can just get it for free over the air. Aside from that I've been sloooowly working on watching every My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic episode and I'm on season 9 so far so there's not a ton left.

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They are still making new episodes for Cyberchase!?!?!?! Damn, color me impressed!

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Yes, but starting with season 9 in 2013 the show started to shift over toward being more science and environmentalism focused, which is kind of weird for a show that's literally supposed to be set in the Internet. And I know I'm not supposed to take it too seriously but I end up thinking about the overall worldbuilding they're doing and trying to make sense of that, like portals are a heavily emphasized feature of the series, but there are recent episodes that talk about avoiding unnecessary long distance travel to cut down on pollution, when there's a solution to that right there. Like in the episode A Change of Art, Hacker sets up a portal network to get from site to site really quickly, and they have the technology right there, someone did it, and they're just... not? But they also gave Hacker a niece when that doesn't make sense for his backstory so maybe they just don't care lol.

I think I end up enjoying the older math-focused episodes more (like often the fact that math is involved isn't really even prominent, like I could see the stuff they're doing come up as simple puzzles in TTRPGs and stuff and it's polished up with really fun worldbuilding) but the newer ones still have their charm.