u/DeadPants182

I recently bought a PS Classic at a retro gaming convention and have been having a lot of fun with it, especially after getting Project Eris up and running. One game that has been driving me crazy, though, is Tomb Raider II. Every time I get to the end of the first level (or use the level skip cheat), the game freezes. I've tried dumping the disc using both ImgBurn and CloneCD, but it didn't seem to make a difference. I also tried running the game on my PC in RetroArch; ReARMed froze in the same spot, but Beetle PSX worked normally and let me proceed to level 2. Is there anything else I can try to fix this, or should I just accept that this game won't work on my PS Classic?

Fuck my life.

Hi there. You may know me as the creator of the original Tsukasa Enjoyers server. I'm not super active on Reddit or Discord these days, but I wanted to pop in here and talk a little about Tsukasa because I love her so much.

For context, I am a younger twin, and when we were growing up, my older twin was basically the golden child. He excelled in both baseball and tennis, got straight A's, and was a social butterfly. It seemed like anything I could do, he could do better. I had a deep-seated inferiority complex well before high school.

My only respite was playing video games and watching anime alone in my room. I got into Lucky Star the summer after my freshman year of high school, so I was fifteen years old (this was in 2008). When I was introduced to Tsukasa, it really felt like we were kindred spirits. Here was someone who also struggled with being outshined by their older twin. Not to mention she was, to my teenage self, breathtakingly beautiful. By the time I got to the beach episode, and especially when she daydreamed while holding that seashell up to her ear, I was in love. I wanted to hold her tight and tell her how wonderful she was, because I didn't think she heard that enough.

At the time, I thought my feelings were something to be ashamed of. I cried because I couldn't imagine myself as someone Tsukasa would want to be with. Even so, I couldn't fall out of love with her. In the years that followed, I wrote fanfiction and poems about her, acquired merchandise of her, raved to my weeb friends about her, and spent countless nights with her on my mind. I think it's safe to say that I've thought of her every day for the last 17 years.

I used to think that my feelings would naturally fade with time, but they never did. She's still my angel.