I just rewatched Cookie Princess yesterday which was really confusing in tone re: trans allegory, looked up thoughts about it and hit a ton of people from when it aired- "they're not sticking trans stuff into a kids cartoon" "they cut stuff that felt like wlw between PB and M" lolol. lmao.

in times like this we return to the ancient texts

Fantastic picks, I'll have to work my way through the ones I haven't heard!

I was also terrified of raw bacon, but it could be parma ham/prosciutto.

It makes me think the writer had his work/vision sabotaged. I really hope they're looking back at it and the criticisms from their core player group when crafting the next expansion. Instead of chasing new audiences.

I was thinking recently about the fact the writer did 4.4 and 4.5 (good content), and how Yoshi said something about wanting to bring in a younger audience, along with the CEO being an ass and pushing more game production from the dev group (they're working on 3 other games rn?)

Thank you, this is perfectly put. I felt like a pariah at the time as someone who actually enjoyed the base of Wuk and her VA but wept for the overall reading level going down to 5th grade and/or cheap mobage. I wanted to love Tural but even how it was treated culturally felt like a cop out.

why are there multiple Things and why are they all coming