2023) The 6 Month Post-Surgery Update

Post published:05/28/2023
Post category:Rundowns
Reading time:43 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

That thang between Natalie’s legs
Bad Brain murders executives
Embracer’s $2 billion oopsie
Nintendo kills the 3DS while it stews in its grave
The PlayStation Showcast Fundown
A Marvelous pursuit to the current generation

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Little Noah: Scion of Paradise Review

Post published:05/24/2023
Post category:Game Reviews
Reading time:16 mins read
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A little bit of paradise.

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Rundown (5/21/2023) My re:Dreamer Panic Attack

Post published:05/21/2023
Post category:Rundowns
Reading time:31 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

The most intense reaction I’ve had to a piece of media
The EXP vs XP debate
A brief dismissal of Tears of the Kingdom
The death of another gacha
Activision Blizzard’s lie to pivot to F2P
The announcement of Mortal Kombat 12

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Psycho Shatter 1985: Black Vice Re;Birth – The Day After

Post published:05/18/2023
Post category:Chapters
Reading time:83 mins read
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Rundown (5/14/2023) Transition Speedruns and Slowruns

Post published:05/14/2023
Post category:Rundowns
Reading time:28 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

The extremes of transition timelines
Keywords’ Continued Expansions
Game Freak X Take-Two Interactive
Another Stadia ash kicking
The two kinds of games streaming
Defining difficulty
Natalie’s impatience for the impatient

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Remote Possibilities – Student Transfer Scenario Review

Post published:05/12/2023
Post category:Game Reviews
Reading time:13 mins read
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A 3 year hiatus is not death!

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Mice Tea Review

Post published:05/10/2023
Post category:Game Reviews
Reading time:44 mins read
Post comments:1 Comment

Mice All The Way!

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Reasons Why Natalie Neumann is a Furry

Post published:05/10/2023
Post category:Miscellaneous
Reading time:7 mins read
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The following is a list of the many reasons why Natalie Neumann of Natalie.TF is, objectively, and without question, a furry. She deemed this list to be a necessary preface to her review of Mice Tea, a furry transformation visual novel.

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Rundown (5/07/2023) The Mice Are Nice

Post published:05/07/2023
Post category:Rundowns
Reading time:27 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

Pre-Review musings of Mice Tea
Double Dragon’s latest revival
A poorly named corporate consolidation
A chopping of creative companions
Musings about Genshin IN SPACE!
The introduction of Cassie’s Corner

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Axiomatic – Student Transfer Scenario Review

Post published:05/01/2023
Post category:Game Reviews
Reading time:7 mins read
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Axiom: For every re;birth, four suicides must be made.

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Rundown (4/30/2023) TSF Visual Novel Fiesta!

Post published:04/30/2023
Post category:Rundowns
Reading time:23 mins read
Post comments:5 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

The impending TSF Fiesta Party
NetEase’s continued international expansion
Cygames’ continued international expansion
The unionization saga continues
A linguistic rant
Saying NO MORE to Nintendo
The great liquidation of the closet

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Detachment – Student Transfer Scenario Review

Post published:04/29/2023
Post category:Game Reviews
Reading time:12 mins read
Post comments:2 Comments

Detached from reality, but she’s still got a good head on her shoulders.

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Valentine’s Lies – Student Transfer Scenario Review

Post published:04/28/2023
Post category:Game Reviews
Reading time:7 mins read
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Kept you waiting, huh?

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Psycho Bullet Festival: The Odyssey of Abigale Quinlan – Episode Alternative

Post published:04/27/2023
Post category:Chapters
Reading time:58 mins read
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Rundown (4/23/2023) Spreadsheets Infinitum

Post published:04/23/2023
Post category:Rundowns
Reading time:26 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

The continued development of the V3 Re;Works
A whopping FOUR acquisitions!
A brief history lesson on the developers of Solatorobo

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Rundown (4/16/23) Natalie Complains About Tax Time 2023

Post published:04/16/2023
Post category:Rundowns
Reading time:11 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

Natalie deals with biannual Tax Hell
Doubting some hot leaks
Shrugging off the latest hotness

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Rundown (4/09/2023) Dragalia Lost V3 Re;Works Resumed

Post published:04/09/2023
Post category:Rundowns
Reading time:20 mins read
Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

Devolver continues to consume their friends
The Saudi Arabian acquisition saga continues
Why desktop computers are not going away any time soon
Something about gamification

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Rundown (4/02/2023) Darcy’s Transformation Nightmare

Post published:04/02/2023
Post category:Rundowns
Reading time:21 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

A Pokémon TF comic that’s WAY better than it should be
Pouring gasoline on the corpse of a dead storefront
Natalie’s latest data hoarding hyperfixation
The final knife up E3’s tuchus
Another Cygames Gacha DIES

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Tax Heaven 3000 Review

Post published:04/01/2023
Post category:Game Reviews
Reading time:9 mins read
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How Can My Tax Accountant Possibly Be This Cute?

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Rundown (3/26/2023) One Year After Body Swap Terrorism Incident is DOPE!

Post published:03/26/2023
Post category:Rundowns
Reading time:54 mins read
Post comments:6 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

The BEST TSF idea book
A Loose Ranma Ramble (inspired by Chari)
Why it is ethically and logically correct to take digital copies of every delisted Nintendo game
Bye-Bye Battlefield
Counter-Strike 2² bay-bee!
Sonic Origins: The Better But Not Good Enough Version
Another new Nep-Nep (Feat. BIG MODE)
Tell this waifu your social security number because Intuit is evil!
AI is the next generation of game development (maybe)
Horde for Power – SapphicFuxx Part²²²²

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Rundown (3/19/2023) Natalie Watched A “TSF” Playlist

Post published:03/19/2023
Post category:Rundowns
Reading time:49 mins read
Post comments:9 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

Natalie rambles about TSF-Adjacent videos.
Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 is being delayed to 2024
Student Transfer Scenario Reviews are coming back in May
The enticing appeal yet disappointing reality of AI
One of the most popular games in the world getting better creator rools

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Rundown (3/12/2023) Natalie Reviews The First “REAL” TSF Manga

Post published:03/12/2023
Post category:Rundowns
Reading time:39 mins read
Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

A gushing about Boku no Shotaiken (My First Time) by Yuzuki Hikaru
Austria confirms: loot boxes are gambling
Budokai Tenkaichi 4 announced
Dragon Ball
The JRPG Debate

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Rundown (3/05/2023) Natalie Remembered SapphireFoxx

Post published:03/05/2023
Post category:Rundowns
Reading time:43 mins read
Post comments:5 Comments

This week’s Topics:

Natalie Rambles About another TSF content creator
Natalie goes into frustrating detail about downloading files from the internet
The continued dread of being a Pokémon fan
The remaster/remake/revision of a classic visual novel trilogy
The history of Final Fantasy XV (and Luminous Studios, I guess)
Why Natalie barely got anything done this past week

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Rundown (2/26/2023) Natalie Talks About Some TSF Critiques

Post published:02/26/2023
Post category:Rundowns
Reading time:45 mins read
Post comments:6 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

Natalie Rambles About Some TSF Critiques
A double dose of acquisitions
A voyage in subtitling hell
The delisting (and relisting) of a famous game for SEO
The director of Resident Evil 4 leaving his company
A crisis of productivity and purpose
My next novel becoming a trilogy

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Rundown (2/19/2023) Natalie Continues Reading TSF History

Post published:02/19/2023
Post category:Rundowns
Reading time:39 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

A loose ‘review’ of one of the earliest TSF manga
A loose ‘review’ of the first modern body swap story
The growing budgets of the AAA games industry
The end of an obscure TSF visual novel
The end of the Greatest Podcast of All-Time
Delays due to Natalie’s insanity

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Rundown (2/12/2023) Natalie Reviews Rintarou Panic! (And Other Assorted Treats)

Post published:02/12/2023
Post category:Rundowns
Reading time:97 mins read
Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

The OG Queen of F2M TSF Manga
Gushing about fetish analysis
Musings about digital public libraries
A reminder that AAA games are not the real video games
Nina Tendo’s biannual digest
Stanning the number one coke whore

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Cellular Shift Version 0.6.6 Review

Post published:02/10/2023
Post category:Game Reviews
Reading time:26 mins read
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Rydawg’s Bangin’ Summer or: With the Power of Koikatsu and Science, We Shall Become as Gods!

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TSF Series #016: Darling Lust

Post published:02/06/2023
Post category:TSF Series
Reading time:306 mins read
Post comments:2 Comments

From the ashes of EOS and the soul of VoRE, a true and terrible pleasure lives once more. It is Venturers of Radiance the 3rd!

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Rundown (2/05/2023) Incest Infinitum

Post published:02/05/2023
Post category:Rundowns
Reading time:34 mins read
Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

Natalie Rambles About Incest
Amazon ~~buying~~ leasing the Tomb Raider IP
The downfall of discourse in these modern times
Three reasons why E3 2023 might be bad
The end of Halo’s second era
A (not so) great Xbox delisting spree
The cancelation of the next Titanfall game

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Rundown (1/29/2023) Dragalia Lives

Post published:01/29/2023
Post category:Rundowns
Reading time:24 mins read
Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

Dragalia Lost’s reverse engineered private server is live!
Wizard game discourse
More discussions regarding media that sexualizes children
The depowering and replacement of an abuser
Proletariat’s CEO forcing workers to cancel unionization plans
A game Natalie wants to love… but can’t!

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Rundown (1/22/2023) DRM Has Ruined Books

Post published:01/22/2023
Post category:Rundowns
Reading time:56 mins read
Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

Why the digital age makes Natalie hate books
Analyzing a AAA game budget using BOOTLEG MATH!
Why The Last of Us (2013) is bad, actually
Translation purists (the worst kind of anime fan)
Forspoken‘s awful first 20 minutes
A remaster of the greatest friendship killer
The end of Halo as the world knows it
AVENGERS_EOS

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The Malice of Abigale Quinlan – Encounter Unlimited.3

Post published:01/22/2023
Post category:Chapters
Reading time:26 mins read
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The Malice of Abigale Quinlan – Encounter Unlimited.2

Post published:01/21/2023
Post category:Chapters
Reading time:30 mins read
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The Malice of Abigale Quinlan – Encounter Unlimited.1

Post published:01/20/2023
Post category:Chapters
Reading time:43 mins read
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Rundown (1/15/2023) MILK TIME IS ALL TIME!!!

Post published:01/15/2023
Post category:Rundowns
Reading time:25 mins read
Post comments:6 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

An educational breast feeding manga
Winter 2023 TSF anime
The 2023 creative writing schedule
A domestic abuser behind a popular show
Ubisoft’s managerial failings

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Rundown (1/08/2023) Dash & Write!

Post published:01/08/2023
Post category:Rundowns
Reading time:17 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

My humdrum life (where I do not go dashing through the snow)
The first acquisition of 2023.
A surprise sales success (to westerners)
PlayStation’s accessibility controller
How much longer will PS4 and Xbox One games be released

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Pokémon Violet Review

Post published:01/04/2023
Post category:Game Reviews
Reading time:44 mins read
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Don’t violate or you’ll get violated!

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Rundown (1/01/2023) Natalie’s Back Home!

Post published:01/01/2023
Post category:Rundowns
Reading time:15 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

Natalie’s out of the hospital and back home!
Another Activision Blizzard unionization
Mages. declares insolvency
Natalie read a trans novel

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Natalie Rambles About 2022

Post published:12/28/2022
Post category:Rambles
Reading time:101 mins read
Post comments:6 Comments

NIVEADI RJI IMS OD MIET EMS SETLMIDD OD UCITGKUQOMF!!!

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Rundown (12/25/2022) Boy Functions Terminated – Intersex State Achieved

Post published:12/25/2022
Post category:Rundowns
Reading time:8 mins read
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This Week’s Topic:

Natalie got bottom surgery and spent a few days at the hospital

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TSF Series #005-2: Ghost Milky in… Genocide the G.O.D.S.

Post published:12/21/2022
Post category:TSF Series
Reading time:118 mins read
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From drug-powered spectral eroticism to an all-out MILKY WAR!!!

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Rundown (12/18/2022) Natalie’s Going In For Bottom Surgery!

Post published:12/18/2022
Post category:Rundowns
Reading time:21 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

Tencent bought 20% of that anime booty game.
The continued purging of HBO Max to avoid residuals
A ‘remaster’ of 2005’s Ys: The Oath in Felghana
The next retroactive adventure of Adol Christin
Amazon’s next Tomb Raider game
The END of the Pokémon anime (as we know it)

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Rundown (12/11/2022) Hormonal Hiatus

Post published:12/11/2022
Post category:Rundowns
Reading time:52 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

The acquisition of the originator of visual novels
Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard
Yuji Naka’s return to jail
Nancai Banco’s trademark oopsies
The Game Awards’ announcements (a 3,000 word ramble)

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Rundown (12/04/2022) Hello and Welcome to Natalie Dot TF

Post published:12/04/2022
Post category:Rundowns
Reading time:12 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

A recap of the happenings here at the brand new Natalie.TF
Musings about visual novel presentation
Trickles of gaming news before The Game Awards next week

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Student Transfer Version 7.0 Review

Post published:12/01/2022
Post category:Game Reviews
Reading time:45 mins read
Post comments:5 Comments

Student Transfer Version VII: Future’s Climax

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Nigma Box Is Now Natalie.TF

Post published:11/30/2022
Post category:Miscellaneous
Reading time:8 mins read
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Effective December 1, 2022, Nigma Box has been renamed to Natalie.TF and the primary domain name has changed from nigmabox.com to natalie.tf.

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Natalie Rambles About Dragalia Lost: THE FINAL

Post published:11/30/2022
Post category:Rambles
Reading time:150 mins read
Post comments:2 Comments

Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! …One last time.

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Rundown (11/20-11/26) Student Transfer Version 7.0 is Out!!!

Post published:11/27/2022
Post category:Rundowns
Reading time:30 mins read
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Wherein I discuss: The release of another massive TSF visual novel update. A remaster with a 99% chance of being real. Why the Switch is a tablet! The English release of a long forgotten Japan-only shooter. The re;birth of the queen of TG Captions. Why Natalie does not do video stuff. And the end of Dragalia for the umpteenth time.

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Rundown (11/13-11/19) You Kids Have Fun With Your Pokémons

Post published:11/20/2022
Post category:Rundowns
Reading time:26 mins read
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Wherein I discuss: My lack of participation in yet another gaming event. A pleasant acquisition. My age going +1. The revenge of Cooking Mama: Cookstar. And how Mr. Yuji Naka is not “alright.”

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TSF Series #015: JK no Sarariman – A Turnabout of Despair!

Post published:11/18/2022
Post category:TSF Series
Reading time:83 mins read
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When the possibility of happiness is gone, the comfort of despair is all that remains.

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