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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Based on the description, my guess is that the script solved the problem of having the line interrupted by only doing a single 56k transaction per phone call.

    Lots of times, phone calls were billed $$$ for the first minute and $ for every minute after that. If her script only did one transaction per call and not even using the full minute, that could add up fast.

    And, given that it took a month for the bill to come, she could have been doing something wrong even during the day. Nobody would have noticed until the bill, and the 1am calls stood out the most when the bill finally came. Maybe there was a local exchange that didn’t require long distance?








  • There were so many issues

    • Final boss was lame and level leading to it was slow and tedious completely killing the momentum
    • Camera system was wonky
    • Rocket nozzle barely got any play
    • Jet nozzle was too difficult to control to be useful outside of specific racing segments
    • Pachinko machine physics were fucked
    • The lily pad level was unfairly difficult
    • There was no way to track which blue coins you found. Like even a grey coin marker for already collected coins would have been super helpful.
    • The reward for getting blue coins was pathetic
    • Yoshi was criminally underutilized. The whole juice mechanic was used like twice.

    The whole thing just felt rushed. Like there was another third of the game that they didn’t get to make.