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Selfish: This Man Found Time to Solve JonBenét Ramsey's Murder While Birdhouse Is Still Unbuilt

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Sorry i saw this car earlier and when i showed it to a friend he said it looked and was named like a festivized tf2 weapon

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"draw hyodo as mr beast" has legitimately been in my notes app for like a month

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While the Metroid (1986) and Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (1987) are usually cited as the founding texts of the metroidvania genre, not without reason, there were actually part of a much larger wave of 2D side-scrolling platformers featuring nonlinear, inventory-gated open worlds that were all released in the same three or four year span.

Some are fairly well known, like Blaster Master (1988) and Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (1987). Others are more obscure these days, like Faxanadu (1987) or The Maze of Galious (1987). There doesn't seem to be any one game that started it – it was an idea whose time had come, and suddenly it was everywhere at all at once.

Of course, given that the genre was just beginning to take shape, there are also a lot of weird edge cases that might or might not be first-generation metroidvanias, depending on how you define your terms. Ultimately, checklists of tropes are perhaps a less relevant metric than which games participated in the creative dialogue that produced what would eventually be labelled the metroidvania.

Which finally brings me to the question I actually want to throw out:

Is DuckTales (1989) a first-generation metroidvania?

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just saw this clip and i think itd make a funny reaction image what do u think... does it have potential

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No Dogs Under Heaven

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aitsf doodles while I was playing this game all month at a snails pace

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been trying to use more gender neutral language lately since ive a habit of referring to the group i hang out with as "the lads". which sometimes works but i currently am mostly hanging around with a bunch of non binary and genderless individuals so i feel like lads is not accurate. but instead calling them stuff like "everyone" ive taken to calling them "pikmin" due to the fact that they skitter around and idle aimlessly unless i take the lead and direct them towards a task such as carrying objects to bring back to my ship in order for me to escape the planet before my life support system runs out of power

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the mary/maria name thing in silent hill 2 always messes me up, like they treat it like there's no connection between the two names at all. in reality it's like if i was looking for my dead husband martin and i found a guy who looks exactly like martin but with sunglasses and he was like "no, you're barking up the wrong tree, never heard of the guy. i'm martín"

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so true

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I'M TAKING BIG DONUT

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about a month ago, i hired the best hitman in the world to deal with a little high-profile problem of mine, and then of course, so nothing was traced back to me, i had the hitman eliminated. that went great. but now i have another high-profile problem and i'm really doubting the formerly-second best hitman in the world's credentials for a job of this magnitude. what do i do here

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come onnn hang out with resident, she's a great buddy!

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making one of those "why i left the left" grifter videos but it's increasingly obvious i was exclusively hanging out with people who draw che guevara and fidel castro getting eachother pregnant and have based my entire conception of communism off of that