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the Retropals somehow dug up the absolute worst, least fun, most passive-aggressive edutainment software I have ever seen. It kept throwing absolutely absurdly torturous sentences that no human would ever say at the player to grammatically correct, and after several mistakes it starts telling you off, in recorded audio, about how bad you are at grammar and how deserving you are of punishment. That sounds like a parody but afaict it was serious

https://www.twitch.tv/retropals/clip/AlertFlirtyEagleNerfBlueBlaster-beLeXQjhEOKaYm57

RetroPals - world's most passive-aggressive edutainment

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Mar 18 at 10:36amWeb
Show threadabadideaMar 18
the game itself doesn't have any overtly Christian elements, but this is big "we are a Christian shop and we make Christian software for Christian children in Christian schools" energy
Show threadCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠Mar 18
@0xabad1dea The Knuckle Slapper hardware add-on sadly wasn't approved by legal
Show threadROTOPE~1 ⭐️Mar 18
@catsalad @0xabad1dea the only problem at the time was "it couldn't be sure that it was hitting knuckles". If they remade the title today, it would use your webcam and AI to verify that your knuckles are being correctly held in the path of the ruler.
Show threadStoneBear Mar 18
@0xabad1dea ugh.
Show threadbuheratorMar 18
@0xabad1dea This sounds pretty much like foreign language education in the post-Soviet block
Show threadKatherine the SixthMar 18
@0xabad1dea Spelvin Goolie made me suspicious (Svengoolie!) but uhh no I found the artist’s resume online and it’s definitely edutainment shovelware from 1993