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flobosg
> Street Fighter 3
I think it’s Street Fighter Alpha 3, and it happens in a previous game as well: Super Street Fighter II – see https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/streetfighter/images/8/88/... and https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/streetfighter/images/d/dc/...
nh23423fefe
sf4 as well, but not in 6 yet. one assume capcom will have a "classic" costume pack with that one
hcs
I once made a little puzzle that involves this idea: https://hcs64.itch.io/fitting-words
graypegg
Hey that was really good! Took me a minute to figure out the concept and then suddenly 20min was gone, a sign of a good puzzle!
You should totally try expanding on this
blueblimp
I spent a minute thinking ROTOR was impossible until I realized the asymmetry in the ruleset. Neat puzzle.
prng2021
Fun game! I got stuck on Monotone
lucasmerlin
That was really fun!
arketyp
Treating 'u' and 'n' as symmetric is a bit cheating. Luckily, they are also rotationally symmetric words, like 'snus' and 'pod'.
tobr
I always appreciated the rotational symmetry of “up”/“dn” (as seen on some keyboards in the context of Page up and Page down).
green_on_black
Holy shit. T I L.
croes
Lower case u not so much because in some fonts it's just a smaller upper case U.
But the y is as symmetrical as j or g.
Fnoord
Yet the uppercase G is symmetric to 6. Case in point: 604.
sokoloff
Interesting choice of ‘snus’ as the example, rather than ‘suns’
scbrg
There's an Swedish fantasy role playing game/novel[0] in which there's a city called HOXOH (all uppercase). It's also known as the "City of Illusions" and home to the magical Academy of Illusionists (who are often practicing their art in the streets). It was given its name partly due to the fact that the word could be read and mirrored in any direction without becoming distorted/assymetric.
[0] The RPG is called Drakar och Demoner (Dragons and Demons) and is roughly the Swedish equivalent of D&D, though it's actually based on the BRPG rules. The supplement that introduced HOXOH was eventually used as a basis for a series of (quite interesting) fantasy novels written by the very author that originally wrote the RPG supplement.
zuminator
I don't see how you can allow lowercase "m" and "u" as symmetrical without also by the same principles including "n." In which case there are other words like "nun" and "non." Also "MAM" and "MOM" are symmetrical and are words (at least, Scrabble words. He only includes "MAAM" which oddly enough is not a Scrabble word.)
More along those lines here: http://www.fun-with-words.com/word_records.html
thaumasiotes
> He only includes "MAAM" which oddly enough is not a Scrabble word.
What's odd about that? ISNT, DONT, ARENT, COULDNT, SHOULDNT, none of them are Scrabble words. More generally, you're not allowed to misspell words in Scrabble.
squaredot
I didn't expect to be surprised by this! After thinking about it, it reminds me that game about reading some color names as fast as possible, where the names are painted with another color.
residualmind
I always liked that "yeah" is point-symmetric if you pick the font right.
larsrc
If 'm' and 'u' are symmetric, surely 'n' is as well?
DominoTree
UwU
croes
Isn't also the lowercase l and mirror of the upper case I?
shanebellone
"racecar" is a palindrome that you cannot unsee.
wunderbaba
Actually "butt tub" is a palindrome that you cannot unsee. Even at a young age I had a very sophisticated sense of humor....
diceduckmonk
I’ve seen it many times but had to reverify when seeing your comment.
TacticalCoder
The brand "newman" was a thing when I was a kid.
My mind got blown out the day someone made me notice you could rotate the logo 180 degrees and end up with the same logo.
Wikipedia has the official logo and animation showing it in action:
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There's also the niche use case of vertically arranged English letters — you see this once in a while on signage, but my favorite example is from _Street Fighter 3,_ where the character DeeJay has pants with "MAXIMUM" written down the leg, which means that you can flip the sprite (i.e. to have the character face left or right) and the word stays intact.