All videogames have the implicit premise "what if the world worked like a videogame" and there's nothing they can do about it. But then, even paintings have the premise "what if the world worked like a painting (everyone reacts simultaneously to a nearby event while naked)".
I have only a few strong opinions on the Metroid series but I cannot condone recommending Zero Mission first because you will encounter all the music and setpieces it copied from Super Metroid and thus think it's more creative than it actually is.
https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_player&query=193485 - Favourite parts of The Ur-Quan Masters (fka Star Control II) are when you're majestically exploring a galaxy at war, getting messaged by a new undiscovered faction, and finding out that their theme music sounds like this
Today in CSS:
We all know you can change the highlight colour of selected text, but it's impossible to animate that colour.
Unless…
the colour was just a variable inherited from the parent element, using @property to make it animatable…
Hahahahaha…
"Don't ask me how I know. You should ask me *who* I know." –the talking boulder from Void Stranger on LinkedIn
Recently I've been brushing up on web technology, and not just the new stuff like position-anchor, but old stuff that could have been the future but wasn't. Just now I taught myself XPath and document.evaluate() for basically no reason.
To me Ocarina Of Time 2026 feels less like a remake and more like merch of the original game, but in videogame form
They call me the Shadow-Shrouded Prince of Not Posting
