Hell yeah, that's awesome!

Come to think of it, we've watched this one. It's time to watch a podcast again, join us for our exciting 5 year Anniversary with your favorite Dummies, @germdove.bsky.social, @gamequeued.bsky.social, @dabbleworks.bsky.social and introducing LurkingTurtleGaming! youtu.be/5wceVqw_3rg

Mulan saves all of China and gets offered a spot on the Emperor's council. Po saves all of China and gets to keep eating dumplings. I know which one would make me truly happy, sorry Disney.

Moana sails across the ocean to find herself. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas sails across the ocean to outrun a goddess of chaos. One of these is a vacation, the other is a career. Dreamworks wins.

Who did it better? Flushed Away, or the Great Mouse Detective? They both feature rodents in London, but Hugh Jackman gave a performance for the ages as Roddy St. James! Barrie Ingham playing Basil of Baker St? More like Barely English! It's gotta go to Dreamworks here!

Why are we even comparing The Lion King to Madagascar? One’s a slow “circle of life” lecture, the other has the Lion Character serving charisma, dance moves, and a full identity crisis. Another Darth Vader performance from James Earl Jones, Ben Stiller brought RANGE. DreamWorks wins this easily.

Yesterday, I passed 200 hours of playing every beginner(That is, Advanced and lower) kaizo romhack of SMW. I've finished 139 out of 327, and I've been lucky enough to find some new favorites in the second hundred hours, including Uncharted World and Roke Shell.

i relate very hard to one of the characters in here

we found the twist!

I think that's the bottom left

Just like they used to make 'em - germdove's Kaizo Beginnerthon Part 5 - Good Old Days 4 YouTube video by germdove

Here's some fruit from me playing all those beginner hacks. I don't think that I'll always need to touch on every single level, but this hack was such a grab bag of gimmicks it was hard to leave them out

Selection is happening in random order, and will include standard/kaizo hacks. I'm planning to play all exits for everything, but one was picked one that was extremely out of the scope of what I want to do. I'll be giving scores for how much I like them and how good I think they are for new players.

In early January, I started work on a project that I'm calling my Kaizo Beginnerthon, where I'm playing through every beginner(Advanced and lower) difficulty kaizo romhack of SMW that's on SMW Central. Today, I've played for just over 101 hours and I've completed 73 out of 327.

The Bold Bogey - 2026 Gameplay Trailer YouTube video by MmmDoggy

Check out a new trailer for The Bold Bogey, showing off loads of new additions to the game and a hot new track from our composer Revolug! www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlRf...
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Ok, so I didn't do it. I didn't even start on Various Dragons or Thumbshredder, let alone Thumbshredder's dad. I'll get 'em next time. We're a bit into January already so I need to put some goals together for 2026 now...

Get excited, we're doing one of these again. I've been busy and have some fun stuff to show off. See you Sunday night!

6!

This guy, this guy right here was the only thing standing between me and the last banana. His collection is complete, I spent at least 1 of every fossil type, but I just did not have fun collecting fossils and don't want to dive through every layer again to do something I didn't enjoy.

I finished playing as much Donkey Kong: Bananza as I want to. 776/777 bananas collected. What an absolutely incredible game, I played somewhere around 39 hours and thoroughly enjoyed my time with it.

Joker Shell Ok is done!

72:28:21, more than a third of that time was in Springtime Caverns, it set et new records for me both in deaths and time to clear, it's the first time I've used savestate practice to clear a level and it really made me doubt myself for a little bit there. Sheffy 2 next!

Forgot to mention that Cube's 5 was finished back in June with a time of 22:19. Averaged under an hour per level. Currently working on Joker Shell Ok...

Because I just played Jordan's ONE, a romhack with non-standard graphics.

Ah but I've discovered Laura(PC) re-entry skip

Runs learned: 19
Best Place: 1st(NES home alone lol, super germdove world, entropy, Signals)
Worst Place: 827th(SMW 11-exit glitchless)
Longest Run: 2:11:38(Zelda 2 100% NMG)
Shortest Run: 0:00:00.037(SMM2 Nuzlocke)
Most fun: Zelda 2 100% All Keys 1CC
Least Fun: SMW 11-exit glitchless

Zelda, the green guy with the sword.

Mallow is doing his part, putting the meow in homeowner

I couldn't count the number of "with all due respect" and "no offense but" the YT kids trot out.

The unattainable is unknown... at zombocom!

It's been a month, and I finished The Team Shell Hack today with 7:19 on the timer. Definitely alot of fun, seeing a 38 exit Expert shell hack is intimidating, but there's a smooth difficulty curve building up to the harder stuff at the end. I didn't do the Basic Platforming Level, maybe one day.

Oh yeah, my route was: head, fugu, curtain, yoshi, stair