it's quite funny how when it comes to 2D games people are so purist about recreating them perfectly as-was to the point of arguing over CRT and composite artifacts but with N64 even the official emulators are like nah kill the blur crank up the resolution I want those elf ears sharp enough to cut me
I am concluding I would probably rather play this on an emulator tbh.. the blurriness and low res of the N64 is Very apparent when played on a large TV
idk if the reference is even that well known but it's this https://legendsoflocalization.com/articles/hana-no-star-kaido/
this thing i saw on aliexpress is really hitting my weak point for really stupid video game consoles. check out the fucking gamer king. kingof jighter37 https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005012109252041.html
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one thing i've noticed reading the hansard transcripts of the debates over online restrictions for under 16s is this great emphasis and panic over "stranger pairing" which i believe is what we used to call "making friends"
https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2026-04-28/debates/10561CF6-2D3B-4460-BE8A-0194D12E146C/Children%E2%80%99SWellbeingAndSchoolsBill
i've now made it display thumbnails & it shows the filenames & markup for the image when you click on it. made it like 100x more useful. progress is being made
the bulk of this was done in 2012 when i launched hhug with a few improvements over the years. the bit that handles image uploads somehow dates back to the website i had before that & it looks like this. i just embedded it in an iframe in the current interface & was like fuck it that'll do for now
was looking on wikimedia commons for public domain lion pictures i could use for a thing & i found this good one https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Druidofthejungle%27s_lion_drawing.jpg
went on some website to look for good examples of the body type i want him to have & it's literally number 1 on trending. good