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  • I could never get through the 2nd ostrich riding sequence in the 2nd level as a kid. The rest of the game was fine, though, once I used the level select to skip ahead. Turns out, it was because my eyesight was shit and I couldn’t even see the correct obstacles on screen (I was trying to avoid the branches, but no it was pink hippos and bird nests the whole time, so my timing on the double jumps was always off). Replaying the game a couple years back when Disney re-released it alongside Aladdin, I found it still tricky, but doable.





  • HFY in the modern sense was originally the result of angry neckbeards being triggered by James Cameron’s Avatar and venting by writing a bunch of stories that basically boiled down to “chad humans showing the virgin xenos what for (usually via mass murder)”. After a while people calmed down enough (or enough non-angry neckbeards got drawn in) to start expanding beyond that original concept, which is when we started getting more “humans are the tide that lifts all boats” and “humans are weird and that’s OK” style stories. So yeah, I agree that even if the genre is more that that nowadays, it’s still a fundamental part of it.