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More Super Nintendo oddities. Genghis Khan II: Clan of the Gray Wolf, which is actually the third Genghis Khan, is a much-ported strategy game, vying for world conquest. You explore terrain, trade, talk, recruit, fight and brave the elements, as you do in these things. This grand vision is said to have directly inspired the Mount & Blade titles.

The game, here on SNES, is another of the endless supply that didn't make it to Europe, in any of its versions. As ever... The US, also, had to make concessions, as the harem feature that has you create heirs was removed. It's actually about censorship in video games 🤬

Good news, bad news: Genghis Khan II was eventually modernized for Steam, fucking and all, but there is no supported English version.

God. Depressing. Louisiana is trying to criminalize ALA membership. Libraries or individuals joining the ALA or accepting funding from it would be punished with jail time or a $1000 fine.

In the name of Zoia Horn, let's remember: when they send librarians to jail, things are in a very bad place.

daily knowledge: the first versions of Mozilla Firefox could be bought on a CD-ROM. it was sold directly through mozilla.org, and included alongside the "Firefox Guidebook"

hi. my car got towed this morning because somebody stole the license plate off of it and we can’t afford to have it towed back right now. any help is appreciated

🌸: $400 to get the car released so it can be towed somewhere else. Truly fascinating how a car can legally be towed and held for ransom by an unaffiliated party because the owner’s license plate was stolen overnight.