Rev's Abyss

In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, being Electrified is a purely beneficial status condition for anyone who receives it (whether it is Mario's party or an enemy), as all it does is deal contact damage to whoever attacks that character with a non-ranged attack.

However, it turns out that in the game's code, an unused functionality for Electrified exists that would have made it act more like the Paralysis status common in RPGs (e.g. like the Pokémon series games), whereby it would also have a chance of preventing the afflicted character from making a move on that turn. Note how in the footage, Mario and Goombella only briefly shake instead of being able to perform their attacks.

This actually explains an odd behavior in the game whereby enemies would sometimes use items to cure Electrified when it never needed to be cured in the first place (bottom image, dramatization from an earlier post explaining this phenomenon). These enemies must be acting upon a script written under the assumption that Electrified is still able to incure the Paralysis-like effect, which was not updated when the effect was removed during development.

The Spiky Goomba in the scenario means well, he is simply acting on outdated information.

An official remaster of the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil was announced today, releasing this September. The first time a Touhou game has gotten this treatment, and notably the first time EoSD is available digitally at all (I think). Featuring art and music redone by ZUN, updated gameplay, and notably, inbuilt translations for 10 languages!

Back in December I was struggling with a commission. An image came to mind and I thought, "Maybe I, someone who doesn't paint and is slow as molasses, can do a quick speed paint of it as a break! What's the most it can take, Michael? Ten minutes?"

Weeks later I was still chipping away at it and eventually forgot about it. Reopened it this week and realized I have no idea what I'm doing or how to make it "finished" so may as well just post it.

closer upper:

i produced+designed+illustrated (top rows) + animated (bottom row) a bunch of new stuff for the digital live ver. of the FLAVOR FOLEY Digital Stars set from MIKU EXPO! please check it out!

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Day 3817 - 18 May 2026

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[Hello everyone! Makeship has been very kind to continue our collaborations, and we have come out with our newest creation: The Longlegs Plushie! It stands up perfectly on its own and goes well with pretty much any concrete-based set design.]

if you fight me, to me you will be unique in all the world, and to you i will be unique in all the world.. please.. fight me!