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Not a video game, but since I try to reference relevant Threadiverse communities when I can, if you're not aware of it, you might enjoy !militarymoe@ani.social.

Note that this is Jane Goodall (a famous researcher on chimpanzees, who studied a troupe in Africa for some time). Relevant:

https://files.catbox.moe/1h368p.jpg

This sparked a controversy:

https://www.cbr.com/far-side-jane-goodall-gary-larson-feud/

Okay, in August 1987, Larson did a strip where the punchline involved Goodall. The strip drew the following letter to the editor at the Arizona Daily Star...

To the editor:

I was appalled when I saw Gary Larson's "The Far Side" cartoon in the Star Aug. 26. This was of two Larson animals - presumably chimpanzees - in a tree. One, which was evidently supposed to be the female, was picking a long hair from the other's shoulder. The caption read: "Well, well - another blond hair...Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?"

To refer to Dr. Goodall as a tramp is inexcusable - even by a self-described "loony" as Larson. The cartoon was incredibly offensive and in such poor taste that readers might well question the editorial judgment of running such an atrocity in a newspaper that reputes to be supplying the news to persons with a better than average intelligence. The cartoon and its message were absolutely stupid.

Dr. Goodall is a world-renowned scientist who has devoted 28 years of her life to studying chimpanzees in the wild. Her findings have caused the scientific world to redefine the meaning of the word "mankind" with her discoveries that include the erroneous presumption that man was the only primate to make and use tools, a distinction that - until her findings disproved it - been a measure of superiority of human beings over other primates.

With no alignment to any animal welfare group, Dr. Goodall is working very hard to instigate better treatment of chimpanzees in biomedical laboratories. Dr. Goodall has vowed to speak out for those animals that cannot speak for themselves.

"Tramp?" Hardly.

The irresponsibility of the Star in choosing to run such an obscenity is disgusting. In fact, any woman should be insulted by the reference that the female - in this case, a typical Larson eyeglass-wearing animal - would be unaware of what Dr. Goodall's research really is, its seriousness and the assumption that a female only would have the mentality to look for sexual implications.

Sue Engel

Executive Director

The Jane Goodall Institute

Yikes, so I guess Larson really offended Goodall, huh? Well, not so fast...

Goodall hadn't actually seen the strip herself, and when she DID see it, she thought it was funny. She didn't think it was ACTUALLY calling her a tramp (and that's clearly not the implication of the strip). She would later write an introduction to one of Larson's Far Side collections.

Going further, she even licensed the strip for shirts that were sold at The Jane Goodall Institute for years!

EDIT: Ah, I just discovered that someone else just posted this in another post on !thefarside@sh.itjust.works, and I assume that merde

being merde

probably posted this image in response, so I'm probably working backwards here, but I'll leave it up.

Not what you're asking, but I can probably do better.

I'd give decent odds that the issue you're hitting is the thing that many Fediverse instances are hitting. There have been a lot of badly-written and very aggressive scraper-bots hammering servers all over (the Web, not just the Threadiverse) to try to find text to train AI models. If you've seen discussion on Anubis recently, that was aimed at trying to mitigate the load from that.

Many instances dealt with this by disallowing anonymous access. This sucks, because it'd be nice to let people use an instance without logging in, but it did apparently drastically reduce the bot load.

You can probably just pick an instance that doesn't provide for anonymous access.

goes to Steam, searches for items with tags "Anime", "Singleplayer", and "Shooter", type "Game" to exclude bundles, sorts by "User Reviews"

https://store.steampowered.com/search?sort_by=Reviews_DESC&tags=4085%2C4182%2C1774&category1=998&supportedlang=english&ndl=1

295 results match your search. 97 titles have been excluded based on your preferences.

That's not logged in, so I assume that the 97 probably have adult content or something that Valve defaults to not showing, so figure ~400 games.

EDIT: It looks like "Shooter" can also mean stuff like shmups or rail shooters. You may be interested in that, but if not, replacing the "Shooter" tag with the "FPS" (first-person shooter) tag:

https://store.steampowered.com/search?sort_by=Reviews_DESC&tags=4085%2C4182%2C1663&category1=998&supportedlang=english&ndl=1

Or the "Third-person shooter" tag:

https://store.steampowered.com/search?sort_by=Reviews_DESC&tags=4085%2C4182%2C3814&category1=998&supportedlang=english&ndl=1

EDIT2: Apparently and obnoxiously, Valve didn't make search URL links compatible between the mobile version of the site and the desktop version of the site. The above was from a desktop browser. But if you're on mobile, you can probably recreate the search by adding the same tags.

On one hand, I agree that "fascist" is broadly overused to talk about things on the right, extending beyond what it should technically refer to to. And that's not something specific to 2025 or the US -- it's been a phenomenon for decades.

On the other hand, that's a two-edged sword. It's also true that "socialist" and "communist" are very broadly overused by the right to try to paint things that they didn't like as being more extreme than they were. During the Cold War, this was maybe more understandable, but it's not at all uncommon for people on the right to call center-left people "socialist" or "communist" even today.

Here's Stephen Miller himself pulling out "communist":

https://www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-miller-demands-americans-side-with-donald-trump-against-communist-judges-in-unhinged-rant/

Stephen Miller Rants About ‘Communist’ Judges in Immigration Meltdown

Obama and Harris also both tended to get painted as socialist or communist at every opportunity possible. Neither is anything of the sort.

I used Compuserve only a few times, on someone else's computer. So I'm not terribly familiar with it. However, it looks like they provided a Web interface to them until they shut down the forums at the end of October 2017.

Archive.org has snapshots of that Web interface.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170920031241/http://member.compuserve.com/forum_center/

They do appear to be readable from that point. You'll need to wait for a few reloads after clicking on a forum, as there are some HTTP 302 redirects, but it eventually comes up.

I don't know how long Compuserve retains messages on a forum

if you saw this in, say, the 1990s, and they expired prior to the Web interface and archive.org archiving them, they may not be on archive.org.

But if you can remember where they were, that might get you there. Good luck!

Hah! Glad to hear that that's another white whale harpooned, then!

I assumed that if you could check it, it'd either have the song or not.

Back around 1991 or so, I saw a promotional piece of art in a centerfold in a Nintendo Power magazine, which was a high-resolution and not-cropped version of the artwork that appears on the Secret of Mana title screen. I really liked the image, and wished that I could get a copy. I thought that someone must have scanned the art at some point, but couldn't find it anywhere online. Back around 2023

32 years later

after repeated, sporadic hunts

I finally found a high-quality scan, and uploaded it to !gameart@sopuli.xyz:

https://lemmy.world/post/18353742

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/4f16e6c1-2174-45fa-b9e9-c8ae6e1a3f7d.png

I promptly ran into another Threadiverse user in that thread who had been saying that he had been looking for the same thing for ages.

EDIT: Based on this Reddit post of a lower-quality version, the artist is Hiro Isono.

Probably not it

I'm about 30 years out of date on D&D

but it does sound overpowered and it is associated with Rillifane:

https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?448029-Post-Your-Chosen-Templates-Here

It seems that a lot of people come to the FR boards looking for info on Chosen of the various deities. To put it quite simply, the majority of them don't actually exist. So on the old FR boards, a group of members got together and started making their own homemade Chosen templates.

I have no idea what "the old FR boards" are, but if it was old in 2013, it's probably getting back towards the time you were looking at.

Could have been taken down due to a copyright complaint if it was using unlicensed commercial music.

Relevant community: !tipofmytongue@lemmy.world