Reminds me of the time I saw a little girl at Costco that looked soooo familiar even though I’d never seen her before in my life. realized later that she was a real-life version of Phoebe from Phoebe and Her Unicorn. I really, really hope she saw the comic with basically herself as the main character.
Phoebe wears dresses and skirts frequently in the strip. It’s actually nice to see a tomboy also dress femininely, usually a tomboy character always wears pants. Also, she really likes stripes as we see her in striped tights a lot in the winter and on outfits, like this dress.
Zombies are very much the “slow and steady wins the race” stereotype. They can be outrun… until they can’t. Whether that’s due to non-zombies becoming exhausted or there being too many zombies to escape it still works.
I’m quite sure Phoebe enjoys being strange and confusing to others. She’s never shown any interest in conforming to fit in or be popular, unlike Dakota. (Although Dakota’s a lot stranger than she realizes she is.)
It’s nice to hear that, since there really were a lot of great games back then that never got proper updates to work properly on modern PCs. (GOG and Dosbox has done a lot to help with that, as well as the community, of course.) I actually got further into Theme Hospital with the community-updated version that increases resolutions and stuff than I ever did back in the past. I do have to say that Two Point Hospital is a better version of it, though. They really nailed the humor and the difficulty curve wasn’t as steep.
I’m pretty sure if they’d done it properly it’d have worked quite well. Letting kids solve things in the way that works best for them takes a lot of the friction out of math, making them dislike it less.
Ironically you can “win” Tetris on the NES version. There’s kill screens where the game crashes, so you reach an end point. The first of those can happen at level 155 (due to the way the game is coded there’s some randomness involved in getting one), but back in December a 13yo kid became the first person to hit a kill screen at level 157, clearing 1,511 lines over 40 mins.
First time I did it was with a text-based MUD (Multi-User Dungeon, basically a text-based MMORPG with no graphics) and ended up becoming a legend in the game world. Not for how much I played, but for standing up for integrity against a horrible guild master with absolutely none.
Reminds me of the time I saw a little girl at Costco that looked soooo familiar even though I’d never seen her before in my life. realized later that she was a real-life version of Phoebe from Phoebe and Her Unicorn. I really, really hope she saw the comic with basically herself as the main character.