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You are a real woman. You have no womb, you have no ovaries, you have no eggs, but that doesn't matter. You are a valid human being who is just trying to feel comfortable in her body. All the validation you get is pure. Behind your back, people love you. Your parents are happy and proud of you, your friends laugh at your jokes behind closed doors. Boys love you, and girls envy you.

Men absolutely love and fantasize about being with you, and you look completely natural and attractive to a man. Your bone structure does not matter. Estradiol widens the hips and makes your body irresistibly hot. You will be happy. You will smile every single morning and tell yourself it’s going to be ok, and deep inside you feel the euphoria creeping up like a weed. This happiness is what defines you, not the transphobes.

Eventually, it’ll be perfect for you – you’ll come out, find a wonderful boyfriend who loves, cherishes, honors and respects you, start HRT, get top surgery, and finally be your ideal self. Your parents will find you, happy and relieved that they finally have a happy daughter. They’ll congratulate you on your hard journey, and every passersby for the rest of eternity will know that a happy and fulfilled woman is what you are.

I am quite enthusiastic about this masterpiece, and I've been sad that there has been no fourth installment since it released. But I am here for you, who also feel the same about it, friend.

On the record, I've installed this game 292495 times now, played it 317404 times, completed it 327306, took 338666 screenshots, recorded 352827 videos about it, streamed it 387481 times for a total of 438311 viewers.

I trust you understand my meaning? ;)

The good: It's classic ROTT, in HD! Every level of the original including all levels from expansions and site license CD are included. All the comforts of modern gaming with all the charm of DOS, into one neat package. Sound can be toggled between 1994 original in both OPL and MIDI (sounds like Roland Sound Canvas emulation), or Andrew Hulshult's excellent 2013 reboot soundtrack. Runs extremely smooth, supports high frame rates, etc. the cheat codes from the 1994 original like dipstick, chojin, goto etc. all work on this one as well, so you won't have to relearn anything to get that go at the vomitorium again. Also, Lorelei

The bad: I'm still a scrub at this game, I guess?

The unforgivable: They've removed the Will of Iron, Knees of Jell-O quote in the difficulty screen and replaced it with Knees of Gelatin. You screwed up!

9.5/10 and you don't get a perfect 10 for removing my Jell-O. Not cool. I bet El Oscuro paid you good money for this sabotage. Bahahahaha

I'm turning 30 years old in two days from the time I'm writing this review. I grew up with this game. I was a newborn and my mom had been playing this game on her Mega Drive while she held baby me in her arms. She's 60 now, and still mentions this game from time to time. Because I always come back for more, in fact, I have a setup with a CRT monitor to play the games I grew up with, this one included.

Having played the MD version of Twin Cobra for as long as I can call myself a person, through all ups and downs of life, with almost 3 decades experience, and being quite acquainted with the arcade version, the one thing I can tell you about this game is that it is so damn HARD! You'll be proud if you can make through the past first level on one credit, and I don't think I have ever gone through a full loop spending just one. It requires an insane amount of skill and precision to beat this game in one credit, and it gets progressively harder with each loop (enemy bullets become faster and faster).

There's an incredible amount of attention to detail, a frame with useful statistics for those on widescreen monitors, supports screen rotation, controller remapping, rewinding function (believe me, I think it's unplayable without it), has a sound test mode, looks great on a CRT... and even features a super smooth 60fps mode! The complaints that I heard about sound emulation must be in the past because it sounds pretty faithful and awesome to the arcade version. The only issue I found is that by using practice mode the music will always be the one from the first level (Break a Leg!), but if I recall correctly using the level select cheat (Up, Down, Right, Left, Start after the heli lands on the title screen on the MD version) also has this effect, at least until you die the first time.

200% recommended! but beware, this game is not for the faint of heart, it's extremely difficult even on "very easy"... the best 2.5 MB you will ever spend on your SSD.

If you like shmups, or an old school challenge... In fact, you know what, just buy it. It's an amazing game and a piece of arcade history.

Will of Iron, Knees of Jell-O™

This review doesn't account for the (relatively poor) technical state of the PC version of the game. It focuses solely on the content itself.

Mechanically, it is a decent, if not great game - with the extreme downside of being heavily censored and watered down to PG, with consideration for modern, woke audiences. For this reason, I don't recommend you buy this game at full price, especially if you have not watched the anime or read the manga before. Consider that you are not taking the entire experience home with you, due to the abject censorship this game is subject to.

Provided that you can purchase it on a heavy discount and on the condition that you already know the Dragon Ball story like the back of your hand, play it, though the censorship is prevalent and everywhere. I'm not kidding, I can't stress this enough: practically every scene which depicted anything that could be even moderately objectionable has been censored or removed entirely.

To be fair, this is a problem that Western dubs that were based on the American script had already accumulated over time due to oversensitive burger audiences, but it's tripled down in this game. If you are from a region which the anime was dubbed from the original Japanese edition or experienced it in the original Japanese, it's going to feel like the story has been robbed of its soul.

Obviously, contains spoilers, but here's a quick list of what's been cut in the main game:

https://dragonball.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_censorship_in_the_Dragon_Ball_series#Censorship_in_Kakarot

4/10 and 3 of those points are because it's Dragon Ball Z

What if there was a place with all the zip of Nuka-Cola?
Wouldn't that be the cheer-cheer-cheeriest place in all the world!
Where the river's made of Quantum, and the mountaintops are fizz
With fun and games and rides for all the moms and pops and kids

Well it turns out there's a place with all the zip of Nuka-Cola!
Come on down to Nuka-World and see it for yourself!
Kiddie Kingdom's lots of fun for tots like you and me!
And Safari Adventure's full of animals to see!
Blast off to Galactic Zone for otherworldly thrills!
Down in Dry Rock Gulch there's cola up in them thar hills!
The World of Refreshment is the most wonderful place!
The friendly streets of Nuka-Town put a smile on your face!

Now you know there's a place that's just as great as Nuka-Cola!
Come on down to Nuka-World and see it for yourself!
A vacation that refreshes, a trip you won't forget!
A park with every minimum acceptable safety standard met!
Quench your thirst for adventure at Nuka-World!

nnngh get this out of my head

All-caps disclaimer: THIS CONTENT IS TO BE CONSIDERED IN EARLY ACCESS AND IS STILL UNDER HEAVY DEVELOPMENT AS PER RECENT DEVELOPER BLOG POSTS - DO NOT BUY IF YOU WANT A FINISHED PRODUCT! Read the Steam news blogs for this game to see what, when and why you are getting this.

Buy Far Territory now if you want the lowest price, can wait for the development (Hinterland takes time but they always deliver, you can take my word for it - I have been a TLD player since 2014 with over 2,300 hours on Steam) and want to support the studio's efforts. Otherwise, purchasing this DLC is currently not necessary to have a fully fleshed out experience in The Long Dark.

"(Say, how many rules are there about what to shout before dying in battle?)"

Luvha dume
Duhara menua lusi
Luvha lue
Telame fteli musui ha
Luvha lume
Duhamaf tiseha hesi
Luvha due
Duayi ale musui halu
Duarumani kurigame naque na e a woejou lapagirenu zoe
Duarumani durigame naque na e a echo koici
Echo songu melavi

~

Sjool paran moy'hi
Ar jar'ruk noy' sin
Dha gya'left tal fooyryuu
Malich fuide aslaat erensboiye
Yool ta tiera hareiku hare
Falan leiu hoo
Yool migietta ya krokran no hai khai'meri kara
Yool ta tiera hareiku hare
Falan leiu hoo
Yool migietta ya krokran no hai yama
Tei khai'meri kara
Dhai iirah jyou

Developed by Ukrainian studio 4A Games and based on the namesake book series from Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky, the Metro series are easily the best first person shooters since Half-Life, and Metro Exodus is probably the best game of its type since Half-Life 2.

In the Metro games, you take the role of Artyom, a survivor of the nuclear war, who embarks in a journey to better understand the world around him. From his humble beginnings at the ruins of Exhibition in the Moscow Metro to the post-apocalyptic remains of a Novosibirsk hit by a salted bomb, every chapter of the Metro story is worth experiencing, and these are games that I always happily return to.

The games are very cheap, so don't hesitate to buy the complete collection. Start with 2033, then play through Last Light and finally Exodus, preferably in its Enhanced flavor - Exodus Enhanced Edition has the most stunning lighting effects in any game out there right now (fully path and ray traced) with Atmos audio, as well as full DualSense support with adaptive triggers for a true next-gen experience.

For maximum immersion, play the game in Russian (with English subtitles).