Up on the rooftop, Reindeer paws

Out jumps the keeper of mutant reindeer that have paws instead of hooves

And also Mailbag #86

Did you miss Mailbag? No? Well, you get it anyways.

That's right, after nearly a whole decade of KRR going without a proper Mailbag, it makes a triumphant return to close out a year during which KRR was mostly going without KRR~!

"Is this guy trolling us now with all these updates?" you might be thinking.

And would be correct.

Anyway, as a bit of a throwback to when I would make updates that were actually just pointing out really old features I had coded a long time ago, I am finally announcing that -- after eleven years -- I am removing the experimental status from the Next In Line collaborative writing system which I secretly added to this site and actually managed to be used all the way up till the time of my(/its) removal.

The above was a single sentence. I'm not putting the best example forward.

This was actually one of my favorite things I've ever created, and now that there is no one left to poo-poo it, I am affixing it as an official feature of this site so that it will never be lost again!

Y'know, this place has had a gap on its main page layout since it was still hosted on GameSpy, where it was supposed to accommodate a banner ad.

Might as well take this opportunity to throw up some fun, seasonal imagery.

The main page features artwork from Leirin, and all of the other pages feature Aru's classic art.

Just putting it here in case anyone has any questions whence they came.

Don't mind me. I'm just unbreaking the site and gallery, as per ush... uzh?... Fine, usual.

The host made a few changes that broke a lot of things, so I've had to spend time figuring out what things those even were so that I could spend more time fixing them.

Sure, Forums and Oekaki, too. Why not?

User Matthew250 recently started a comic, and it's pretty. I know, right? It came across my desk (still delusional about being in an actual office) some days ago, but I was holding off in case more pages were gonna get finished. But I think Matt may have been holding off on any further until what was went up. I blinked first.

Continuing on with the slow change of media contributions into the current year, more submissions of Let's Plays, this time by Ivysaur, not to be confused with any sort of J. Spyders (for those of you who are old enough to appreciate that reference).

Currently, Ivy S. is covering the Canvas Curse title in periodic installments. These entries will be added to the list here, or just follow 'im, I guess.

Another loaded bullet from the ever-more-familiar Mr. Game & Pie, shooting straight into your spleen and giving you hematological issues. That's... a metaphor? A good one, probably. This one is regarding -- if the title was any clue -- Kirby fan games.

Additionally, he has another installment in his Kirby Let's Play series, this time covering Kirby 64.

Sure, I could post news about the latest mentioned games in the pipeline, but ain't y'all already getting your info from much more hip and up-to-it sources? Most I could do is post a link to one of their articles or paraphrase what one says here. That's just inefficient and silly, and we all know that silly has been scientifically proven to be the least efficient*. Born a retro-fan site, dying/been dead as a retro-fan site.

* citation needed

Speaking of fans, long-time site fellow Game/Pie has submitted not one but two ability reviews. See? The system works**.

** citation also needed

(update) Further contributions include another review and a rare fan though.

(upper-date) Ya know what? I may as well say here, "Who knows what will happen?" as another review and some more thoughts. Will more be there in the coming days? Probably!

To celebrate the lack of things happening, I figured a call-back to the tumultuous year of 2011 would be fitting. Remember then? No? Well, few do.

As part of the underground resistance to the past ousting of the Brothers Gobbo (yes, this did happen), there was a poorly known I.F. related to Dream Land royalty. I felt that it needed an actual moment in the sun after six years. That sounds like too long of a time to me.

This year for April Fools Day, the joke was that there was no joke.

In other news (or actual news for the first time in a month), regular bloke MrGameAndPie shimmied over some Let's Plays and asked "Is this a thing for a KRR?" But, like, he asked in interpretive dance (somehow through email, which just further complicated things fo' sho').

Anywise, now that's a thing, 'cuz videos are the hip, new trend of probably five-to-ten years ago.