Holy crap you actually write the music that the polar bear sings? Also THOSE OUTFITS.

I'm reading that you pick from stock phrases, rather than writing in syllables with katakana or something, which is a shame. I mean, if I could somehow make a video of a polar bear in a leisure suit singing "GLORIOUS TRAINWRECKS IS FUCKING RHINOCEROS" in broken synthesized phonetic Engrish, I would import a PS2 right now.

One more:

I tried BYOND once, many years ago. Most of the games on there were unspeakably horrible -- and I'm led to believe that this remains true -- though I did get really into one for a while.

Tanks was pretty amazing: a team-based action game with randomly-generated levels that you could reshape while playing. I think the intent was to allow players to build interesting and intricate base defenses, but there was nothing preventing you from building anywhere else on the map, and so there tended to be a lot of weird, madcap structures and half-baked, hilarious strategies. Despite all that, I remember it being pretty balanced -- and it was also being actively developed at the time, so there was always something new to try out or experiment with. It was like the beautiful lovechild of Battle City and Team Fortress, or something.

Anyway, that doesn't really have anything to do with the above image, which I happened upon whilst randomly browsing the BYOND site a few months back (after seeing it mentioned on this very site, in fact!)

hum.

also why are all the mappy games that are not the original mappy horrible without fail