I was fine with Maleficent and Ursula because they seemed like complex villains. Gaston is not complex! His song is perfect!

Loving that side-eye.

btw I'm still working on mine, set in a Portland park on the solstice where an outdoor event venue is accidentally double booked by both an astronomy club and an astrology club and the two different kinds of Portland lesbian that there are fall in love

All the sodas started out as an attempt to stop people from touching themselves and a cure for “clotted eye” but now we all go “I love Doc Tipsys Chastity Tonic! It’s made right here in Rockville!”

Adapted using the melody of a Welsh song about boobs. Thanks a lot, Puritans

Right? I was not aware there were so many high-speed chases involving ICE.

One of the highlights of reading G.E.M. Anscombe's "Modern Moral Philosophy" is the utter disdain she has for those kinds of hypotheticals.

This is why pedestrians are at fault in so many accidents, they aren't keeping up with the cars. /s

GenAI being fundamentally based on a rejection of consent is obvious, but it's not as obvious that it destroys the inhibitions of the people who already reject consent.

It makes them act in public the way they used to only act when cornering their employees by the punch bowl or in their office

Seconding I Was a Teenage Exocolonist.

I'd also rec Heaven Will Be Mine and the Magical Diary games.

Potionomics had a lot of romance, but you do have to invest a lot of effort into the item shop component until you crest the difficulty curve.

Not the neatest presentation, but they taste like they came out of a cookie tin, so I'm calling that a success.