Megazone 23 (1985-1989)
In Donkey Kong 64, Cranky's Lab has two electrodes that are constantly producing an arc of electricity on the roof. Getting close to the lab makes a crackling sound from the electricity audible, which gets louder the closer the camera is to the roof.
Top left: a model view of Cranky's Lab in Jungle Japes, showing the active radius of the electricity sound in green.
Top right: however, in Frantic Factory, the sound plays in the middle of the room and not near the building itself. This is the only location in the game where the sound is decoupled from the lab.
Bottom: this is due to the fact that in the game's prototype version (remnants of which can be found in the kiosk demo), the lab did not share a room with Candy's Music Shop, and instead was in the middle of the room. As such, it is almost certain that when Candy's Music Shop was moved into the room, the position of Cranky's Lab was changed without updating the location of the sound.
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This song has single-handedly taken over my life and it’s only been like a week
me the first time i saw this: oh sure that's fun ig
me seeing it again now: fuuuuuuuuck yes the axolotl is back
My students literally request this song regularly.
I dont think people realize how much money the US spends on Official anti-china propaganda. over a BILLION. do you know how much that is? Do you have any idea how many people you can pay for that? How many news articles you can buy? How many hoaxes? How many reporters you can keep on retainer? How many analysts you can pay to drum up fake statistics? How many studies you can fund? How much social media you can manipulate?
Not a lot of people know this but during the height of COVID the USA funded anti-vaccination conspiracy theories in the Philippines in an attempt to undermine the PRC's influence, using hundreds of (confirmed) bot accounts (potentially far far more), rallying under the tag #Chinaangvirus ("China Is The Virus"). While initially the program primarily drummed up claims of the virus being China's fault, it ended up going far beyond that into making claims about vaccines provided by the PRC being unsafe, in particular leveraging concerns of religious minorities against China.
Hardly any outlets reported on this at all
The clandestine operation has not been previously reported. It aimed to sow doubt about the safety and efficacy of vaccines and other life-saving aid that was being supplied by China, a Reuters investigation found. Through phony internet accounts meant to impersonate Filipinos, the military’s propaganda efforts morphed into an anti-vax campaign. Social media posts decried the quality of face masks, test kits and the first vaccine that would become available in the Philippines – China’s Sinovac inoculation.
By the summer, the propaganda campaign seemed to have moved beyond the origin of the disease to the vaccines developed to protect against it, inflaming anxieties among Muslims that the Sinovac shots from China had been manufactured with pork products prohibited by Islamic law. Quite quickly, Reuters reports, Facebook flagged the accounts as objectionable, but the Pentagon defended them as parts of a legitimate counterterrorism operation, and the accounts remained active through the spring of 2021
So So many people died because of this, and its had a lasting impact on the culture and attitudes towards vaccines in affected communities. Its not even the first time the U.S. has propped up these kinds of anti-scientific conspiracy theories in other countries for their own political goals, either
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