MelodiousFunk
Why do that when lying and grifting is cheaper?
Ya know, when you put it like that, it adds a whole other layer of fuckedupedness on the rotten lasagna of history.
I've eaten a few cougars in my time and gotta say, taste varies wildly depending on lifestyle and hygiene.
"When coming upon a dragon while adventuring with a halfling, one need not outrun the dragon, only the halfling."
If it was 20, maybe even 10 years later, I might have been diagnosed with ADHD as a child. But I wasn't disruptive and I scored extremely well on tests. In the 80s, that overruled pretty much everything else. And when I had trouble later, it was because I was "lazy." This is why I dislike the narrative that "gifted means everything came easily until it didn't and then they failed because they didn't face hardship." I didn't have trouble because I wasn't challenged. I had trouble because I had undiagnosed ADHD and autism, but got slapped with the lazy label early and often. Nothing I did was ever enough, and I was told my whole life that I just wasn't trying hard enough. All because I learned to read before kindergarten and scored in the 99th percentile on standardized testing.
Meanwhile, the 5-6 people from my elementary gifted classes that graduated with me all kept excelling through school and into their careers. Which also contradicts the easy narrative that sprang up around "gifted." Not sure how many of them had concurrent neurodivergencies... but I was the weird one even among the weird kids lol.
I chanced upon the livestream a minute before launch. It didn't get me quite as choked up as Webb, but it was still good to see.
A People's History of the United States is what opened my eyes, quite a few years ago at this point.
If you're familiar with the English versions, navigating the menus in Japanese isn't bad. The whole roster can be edited, and part of that is being able to change the names to romaji/English. I believe there's a patch available to take care of most if not all of that. Let me see if I saved the post where someone else told me about it.
Back in the day I did all of those edits by hand on the physical cart. I still have the cart... one day I'll boot it up again in the hope that the battery hasn't died.
Edit: I think this is it
https://hack64.net/Thread-Virtual-Pro-Wrestling-2-freem-Edition
I would like to introduce both of you to the wonders of Virtual Pro Wrestling and VPW2, Japan-only games using the same engine. VPW2 tops No Mercy IMO, if for nothing else than by the sheer breadth of the roster. It's just a shame that out of the box so many wrestlers needed so much tweaking to get around the lack of licensing. But the fact that it was possible to "fix" everyone was fantastic.
