jadedResearcher

The various obsessive fan and non fan browser experiences I make. Theres a lot of ARGs. I can't stop it.

[jadedresearcher]

wait whats the zampanio retro game?

oh boy is today ever your lucky day! @deadcellsman I get to tell someone about my very favorite topic. Let me grab my notes. Actually it might be easier to post a screenshot of the rambles first AND then go off on them.

Wow thats unreadable. Whatever. Good enough. POINT is.

Maybe two years ago? Right around the start of the pandemic, I stumbled into a WEIRD part of the internet. Lots of dead forums and ancient FAQs and a mostly abandoned discord server about a game that MAYBE doesn't exist? Full of contradictory claims about things this game had, and REALLY anachronistic ones too (come on I'm not gonna believe rpg elements were in a game that was a CONTEMPORARY of PONG) Lots of infighting among fans about whether a copy that surfaces is "real" or not, or if its corrupted in some way by fans adding their own content in, or taking liberties with translation, that sort of thing. APPARENTLY its a meme in the fandom for things to just suddenly vanish on you ,because next thing I know me and a few fans I managed to get in contact with were scrambling to collect as much as we could as forums and discords servers just up and left. '

Here's my favorite spooky image I managed to save during the purge:

(there's a vocal faction that claims the stuff vanishing is all part of the overhyped "mythos" and hates that people have to invent ghost stories and can't just "accept that it was an older, buggy, experimental game with a fucked up development history, and instead of talking about 'curses' and 'crazy coincidences', actually celebrate the game for what it was") (i dunno, i LOVE the vibes) (theres plenty of older buggy games with fucked up dev history. let me have this one to dream about, plz)

POINT is I don't care if there even IS a "real" version of zampanio, the fan works of it have had *immaculate* vibes and it really got me outta a creative slump. One I really liked WAS here but apparently it got vanished because that is just how this fandom *works* and i'd call it infuriating if it wasn't feeding me. I'm trying to see if I can find even one to link yall... Okay HERES a working link, sort of? https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/595060260

[jadedresearcher]

YOU GET IT!!!

You see exactly what drew me to it!!!

[targetedknowledge]

[muffinlance]

Calico out there putting tuxedo on the mats

[do-you-have-a-flag]

[ri5k]

the replacement of websites with apps sounds so backwards when you actually describe it. like hmm you have to download an entire program onto your device each time you want access to a portal, where it takes up storage indefinitely. somebody should invent an app where you can "browse" any portal just by typing in its address... 🥴

[libertineangel]

[dawatcher]

[prokopetz]

You know, when I've remarked that a lot of the responses to my posts feel like people are just plucking out keywords they think they recognise based on the shape of them and replying to what they imagine the post says based on that, the possibility never occurred to me that this is actually how many American schools are currently teaching kids to read.

[prokopetz]

Like, my assumption this whole time has been that when folks go "I misunderstood this post that says [thing] as saying [unrelated thing] because I mistook [word] for [completely different word that happens to start with the same letter]", that was a bit. What do you mean they're teaching kids a reading method that's tailored to produce this exact error?

[rlyehtaxidermist]

essentially every core premise of the whole language movement has been tested and rejected by both qualitative and quantitative research, but that won't stop them because they can't fucking read

[fleshanimal]

A few months ago my mom got our dog a really nice like $60 dog bed that Ellie just absolutely refuses to sleep in because she’d rather be in bed with my mom or on the couch. So my mom gave Josh and I the bed to see if Vincent would like it and it’s an immediate hit, he jumped in as soon as I put it down and won’t move

I’ve never seen this cat knead before and now he can’t stop!

[fleshanimal]

seeby

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[threedollarsdotcom]

dont talk to me or my clone or my shadow self or my reflection or my me ever again

[kata4a]

sorry guys, samsara is my fault, I just really love experiences. yeah I didn't know everyone else wasn't enjoying it, my bad

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[dangerphd]

💞🌺

Bell flower coaster pattern by Nga Hoang

Skill level: Beginner

[animatejournal]

Duck Amuck | Director: Chuck Jones | Studio: Warner Bros. | USA, 1953

[darkwee009]

NOT ME YOU SLOP ARTIST

This is a close up? A CLOSE UP YA JERK! A CLOSEUP!

Alright, let’s get this picture started! (The End) NO NOOOOO!

[bunjywunjy]

[drgaellon]

One of the defining moments of animation history.

“Ain’t I a stinker?”

[amandalasubfosaanaso]

In Babylon 5, didn’t one of the non-humans think Daffy was the god of frustration?

[seasonallydefective]

Holy shit, this is nearly 70 years old. This would have been right on the heels of color television being commercially available to the public.

[bigahhhhhhhh]

@amayatepes look at this

[amayatepes]

LMAO

[mister-christmas]

Huh. That’s just a whole ass Daffy Duck cartoon.

[lew-basnight]

Everything about this cartoon is top-notch. The timing, the animation (watch Daffy’s different walks) the art; this is a treasure

[dragon-in-a-fez]

the important thing to remember about corporations is that they are so so stupid

[dragon-in-a-fez]

this post brought to you by my ex employer claiming that they can't have done disability discrimination against me because there's no proof I had PTSD in January 2025, although they do admit I had it both four months before and six months after that

[dragon-in-a-fez]

asked my lawyer if this was the dumbest thing she'd ever seen and she gave me the ol' dead eyed stare that has watched a thousand civilisations fall

[lastnunswithguns]

The skull of Mary Magdalene in St Maximin Basilica in France.

[redtailed-dreamwalker]

if animorphs characters were knights radiant from the stormlight archive

Cassie- Edgedancer

Edgedancers’ ethos is ‘I will remember those who have been forgotten’. They focus on supporting the underdog, and saving the downtrodden.

This suits Cassie, as she cares for all animals, tries to avoid casualties, and even helps the enemy, with her work in the Yeerk Peace Movement.

Progression- healing and plant growth abilities reflect her nature/tree-hugger side

Abrasion- Can change the friction of objects, including her feet to skate across any surface as if it were ice. Allows edgedancers to move quickly and heal their allies. Cassie is versatile and quick in her wolf morph.

Tobias- Willshaper

The Willshaper ethos is ‘I will seek freedom’- a bit of a no-brainer for Tobias, who chooses to live as a bird so he has freedom to fly and freedom from other’s expectations. He is the biggest advocate for Hork-Bajir freedom, and is always in favour of freeing captives

Cohesion: similar to Earth-bending, involves manipulating stone

Transportation- basically teleportation. Wish he could be an order with gravitation (flight) but they dont suit him as well as Willshaper

Ax- Skybreaker

Skybreakers focus on seeking justice- Justice for Elfangor, justice for his human friends, justice for his new home Earth. Ax follows a rigid moral code like many skybreakers, and struggles to deviate from it. He feels the need to prove himself and avenge the death of his brother

Gravitation- flight

Division- decaying objects upon touch, can create fire. Often considered the most dangerous of the 10 surges, requires a lot of discipline and caution.

Jake- Stoneward

‘I will be there when I’m needed’ fits Jake very well. Jake is the leader, and the others rely on him to keep them together. He is the glue, the team falls apart without him. He has to be strong, and can’t let his friends know that he is breaking. He is needed throughout the war, and collapses without this purpose.

Stonewards are tanks and are heavy infantry/frontline forces. Teamwork is an important thing for them.

Cohesion- stone-shaping

Tension- manipulating rigidity of objects

Rachel- Windrunner

‘I will protect those who cannot protect themselves.’ Defending the innocent, protecting her friends, even at the expense of herself? Prioritises martial excellence, and being at the frontline of the fight? Yeah thats Rachel.

Gravitation- flight. Can also propel other people into the air, to help or hinder. Can then drop those people from a great height.

Adhesion- Can stick objects to each other, and propel them toward each other. often used to stick people to walls, ceilings, other surfaces

Marco- Lightweaver

‘I will speak my truth.’ Lightweavers are known for self-deception, secrets, and lies, and often cover up their traumas with jokes and deflections. To grow in their powers they must be honest and face up to their demons. Marco is the Animorph who keeps the most secrets (in the early books specifically)

Illumination- Illusions and Light

Transformation- Can turn any object or person into one of 10 essenses.

[shencomix]

[sexhaver]

that Brian Eno quote about how whatever you find most repulsive about a medium (film grain, record scratches/fuzz, CDs skipping) will be the first thing you try and emulate once that medium is obsolete because it's "the sign of a moment too powerful for the medium assigned to contain it".... man.......

[funkylilpunk]

“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.” -Brian Eno

[pyaarisms]

just so you know 'jfc' (which you use in a lot of the tags on your posts) is an abbreviation for jesus fucking christ and you probably shouldnt use it if ur not a christian

I can't believe I read this with my own two eyes

[thatstupidache]

They gatekeeping blasphemy now too 💀