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Space Riders episode 13

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for example, we have a microscope that is perfectly functional, good microscope, but its software is abandonware because the company refused to maintain it. the company is still in business, still makes essentially the exact same software, but they made all of the old tech incompatible with new software to force people to buy the new microscope tech. it would cost a quarter million dollars to replace this microscope. this perfectly good microscope.

Top: Paper Mario: The Origami King contains an unused setting for text to be displayed at a 90° angle, demonstrated here in-engine.

Bottom: the game often uses text gimmicks for characters who are in nonstandard states. As such, it is possible that this was intended to be a text gimmick for characters who for some reason or another, are arranged perpendicularly to Mario while speaking. This is a mock-up of what such a usage of this text effect could have looked like.

Realized I never made a proper critter version for Clara so here she is - Clara is a hare who first appeared on the late 80s and early 90s cartoon, in a spring-themed episode where she was Bobby's friend and caretaker of a garden. Bobby really wanted to hold the spring festival there, and Clara was helping her prepare, but trouble arises when Clara's constant fear of everything start getting in the way. The end of the episode featured a giant bug crashing the festival and everyone running away, except for Clara, who not only manages to calm down the giant ""critter-eating"" creature, but calls out the Nightmare Critters for scaring the poor thing. When the other critters comment about how brave Clara was, she replies with "me? Brave? But- but that was just a bug! I always see them around my garden, they're my friends!"

The "moral" the episode was supposed to teach was that what is scary to you won't always be scary to others, and that you should respect the fears of your friends. If that was effective or not, who knows! Clara got more apparitions later on