To illustrate, allow me to present the manga version of the backstory between God (the Master in the U.S. game) and Satan (Tanzra).
God's notably-finite divine omnipotence is running out - he's getting too old to be God, you see - and he needs someone to be New God. To find New God, he conducts a Star Search of humanity, finding a promising candidate in Noted Human, Satan.
(Satan is actually human, not pretending to be human.)
God takes Satan as his God Apprentice. Unfortunately, God's lofty plans to have his human bestie Satan succeed him as God are shockingly - shockingly! - derailed when Satan betrays his sterling reputation and uses his appointment to New God for evil.
Never mind game canon; we can't even get Abrahamic canon right.
(The angel from the game is actually the rat narrating the tale, as a rat is the only form God's celestial messenger can take in manga continuity, which here is less commentary by a proud rat owner and more a signal of the regard in which the artist holds the original material.)
Mark the calendar, it's a momentous occasion: for the time in my site's 25-year history, someone's trying to DDOS me. Well, it's just one IP, so the attack isn't Distributed, but if you say "someone's trying to DOS me," the natural response is: "you think someone's trying to Disk Operating System you?"
The attempt is, predictably, not going well, since the site is built on 25-year-old HTML and 30-KB text files. The best the attacker can do is reload the largest HTML file on the site (the 1.1-MB Angelique script translation) about 800 times a day, which still isn't exactly buckling the servers, particularly given the nominal size of normal downloads. It hasn't had any impact on standard traffic or operations, so it actually took me a while to realize what was going on: "Huh. I wonder why that one person's been reloading the Angelique translation so much. ...Oh, it's an attack."
My response has been to move the file temporarily, which seems to have ended the whole matter. Which makes for an awfully polite attack, honestly: to cease without muss or fuss once noticed. I have no idea what prompted the DDOS in the first place, though. Did I just win the script kiddie lottery? Did LunarNet at long last get sick of me and decide to try to do in my site once and for all? Was someone angry at steps being made toward getting Angelique translated, suffering from the syndrome that leads certain otome fans to react with inexplicable hostility toward anyone attempting to patch a Koei title?
Hey, if the DDOSer's reading this: how about telling me? Shoot me a reply below. You can just make up an email address. I won't publish the post if you don't want me to do so. Just tell me what it was about.
But this article on the Legend of Zelda cartoon that aired with the Super Mario Bros. Super Show is excellent and yields a number of revelations, such as that a Charlie's Angel played through the game for the writers:
Some...dubious claims about Zelda completion times are made:
A writer's 16-year-old D&D-playing sister wrote a couple episodes!
The same writer's mom successfully pitched an episode:
This is the woman who voiced Zelda:
She looks awesome! She looks just like an older Zelda from that show!
The title even uses the second-place spelling for "Excuuuuse me, princess!", though it falls short of the hallowed 5 u's:
Vittorio in this new outfit looks like he's on Day 5 of a 3-day Vegas trip. I respect the needs of the bear community, but the combined effect of the color tones and scraggle and shades speaks to fatigue of a depth that can come only from multiple nights of casino-induced eyestrain and 2 a.m. highballs. Then again, after centuries of running from mad killers, I suppose the man deserves to pass out for a bit at the $5.99 steak buffet.
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