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  • not to brag, but at today's MarioWiki AMA, i got a vague impression that my overwrought barrel description may have been elevated to the echelons of Pirate Goomba and "barrel in the darkness"

    (...should i feel proud or embarrassed?)
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    LeftyGreenMario
    LeftyGreenMario
    proudbarrassed
    Flowey
    Flowey
    In the Mario universe, barrels do not differentiate from those in the real world. A barrel is made of several vertical convex staves (fourteen in the latest appearances) bound to form a pseudo-cylindrical vase, which is the barrel itself. Four gray steel hoops (only three in the New Super Mario Bros. games, and two in Wario Land 3) circle the staves: two of them are each placed at one of the barrel's base, while the other are donned on the barrel's bigger circumferences.
    LeftyGreenMario
    LeftyGreenMario
    and you can carry them in the darkness as a bonus
    budget drake meme

    (Drake gestures disgust with his hand) Correcting someone's statement in a plain and uninflammatory manner.

    (Drake points his finger with a smile on his face) "*sniffff* *adjusts glasses* umm, uhhh, you REALISE that x is actually y, RIGHT?"
    twitter and reddit users have such a binary outlook on everything, and they never ever consider their options may have ample overlap or that neither may be ideal. it's like they have to choose between 2 working brain cells when they emit an opinion.
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    Natalie J.
    Natalie J.
    I've also noticed that okayness is dead. Everything has to either be the best thing ever or the worst thing ever. There's no such thing as being mid on the internet anymore.
    Veneer
    Veneer
    Am a Reddit user and can confirm the userbase annoys the hell out of me with their black and white thinking. It's abhorrently bad in fanbases, which is why I like to stick with the Mario community and specifically here, ha.
    Ray Trace
    Ray Trace
    Several reasons for that but mostly outrage is what the algorithm likes and favors and people are more likely to respond to extreme opinions so it causes a satisfying feedback loop.
    The Nintendo Kids Club site recently shut down, and welp... much of its content is now lost media.

    Fortunately, the Mario Wiki has preserved practically all Mario-related content from that site, including screenshots and sprites of the little HTML-based games featured on it! For what it's worth, pictures formerly used on that site also appear to still be on nintendo-europe.com's servers as of writing.

    The bad news is that Wayback Machine itself couldn't be used to archive the site integrally (something tells me European copyright law had a hand in that, but by no means should you quote me on this), and archive.today did a poor job archiving such that you can't actually play the games--it archives web pages as if they're screenshots, though your cursor still changes shape when hovered on buttons and links.

    I'm just a little bummed, but I had fully expected this to happen
    Patissiere Peach
    Patissiere Peach
    I knew this was coming. The site never got updated with new content after 2017, and the Cat Mario show stopped the same year, so it was bound to happen sometime.

    It wasn't a good alternative to Play Nintendo in America/Canada, as it had less activities, less variety with their browser games (mostly puzzles and other low effort content, with Kirby's Quick Draw being a carry-over from the Kirby and the Rainbow Curse website (it was also the only game that stopped working prior to the shutdown)), and its other content being stories, quizzes, and videos from Paper Mario Color Splash, Yoshi and Poochy's Woolly World, and the Cat Mario show (whose content was carried over from its American counterpart, minus some segments only featured in the European versions and a change in voice actors) so I wasn't that fond of it.
    Is the taxi service in Romania as bad as this video suggests?
    Koopa con Carne
    Koopa con Carne
    worse. if seagal's daughter utters even a single phrase, anything at all (e.g. "wow the city sure is busy today"), the driver will somehow jumpstart that into an academic dissertation on romania's socio-political role in the EU sourced from facebook comments.
    Nintendo published an article with an AI-generated banner. Doesn't seem to be directly related to any of the games they are promoting, just something they came up with quickly. I can understand why: when you're worth billions of dollars, your money overflows past some point and what cash you're left with is too little to pay an artist to do your art.
    zel
    zel
    god yea it really looks like they just took to neuralblender and then they took the generated image and typed some text in ms paint over it
    so a thread on twitter apparently dedicated to making fun of a person who said that murder is wrong, in the context of some current drama, got thrown my way for fuck-knows whatever reason. my morbid curiosity got me to sift through the replies and i came by this:


    can please someone smarter and more social media literate tell me if this meme is satire or not? with the amount of horrible takes i've seen from twitterites and how facetious everyone in that particular thread is acting, it's really hard to tell for me.
    Koopa con Carne
    Koopa con Carne
    can't really tell if your response is a joke too so i'm just gonna accept i'm out of the loop with this and move on
    LeftyGreenMario
    LeftyGreenMario
    Big Joel is left-wing youtuber who posts really well-thought out video essays on stuff, so I recognize him for being ironic when he's posting something about a terminally online far-right troll
    Koopa con Carne
    Koopa con Carne
    "this unlikeable person should outright die for saying something bad and you're stupid for criticising my extremist views" suggests an attitude more fit for the middle ages. not exactly good publicity for his supposed well-thought out material.

    you're saying he's ironic but he must be covered in a hundred layers because i'm not really getting this vibe at this point. besides, no, you don't excuse batshit insane claims with "haha it was just a joke bro"
    Donkey Kong. Castlevania. Wario Land. Earthworm Jim.

    Why the hell am I so attracted to dead franchises.

    Good thing Metroid Dread came out last year or Metroid would've been up there too.
    Natalie J.
    Natalie J.
    That first line reminds me so much of the way I started my English paper with "Super Mario. 80s music. Fanfiction."
    With TVTropes excising their coverage on wiki sites, I'm reminded that I honest to god want to see a take on Super Mario Wiki from Encyclopedia Dramatica.
    Patissiere Peach
    Patissiere Peach
    (little me feeling super sad about this): Boo…now I'll never get to see anyone make a page on there about MCCW. The only notable thing about it other than the RP itself is a wiki on fandom that isn't even being edited that much. I wish more people on the web would talk about it outside of us Marioboards people! We need more recognition or else we won't get any reviews or merchandise deals!
    MightyMario
    MightyMario
    Nintendo would smite us into a pile of ash and flames if merch of the Mushroom City Car Wash were to exist.
    I want a Mario Party minigame where you have to imitate a belly-dancer's movements, Simon Says style, using motion controls.
    Question for native English speakers: how do you express, as colloquially as possible, that a drink doesn't quench your thirst? In Romanian, it would be (word for word transl., sort of) "it doesn't hold your thirst"; I'm wondering if something similar exists in English.

    I was once asked by people who don't speak my native language why I prefer bottled water over tap water; when I candidly replied, in English, that tap water "doesn't satisfy me" (simply because I wasn't aware of a less snobbish way to put it), they looked weird at me. I'd, uh, like to avoid situations like that in the future.
    i beat sonic 2 on fucking mobile
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    Ray Trace
    Ray Trace
    How was metropolis zone
    Koopa con Carne
    Koopa con Carne
    not too bad, y'know! it becomes less frustrating if you learn to be vigilant and traipse through it. the mobile controls aren't a huge hindrance. getting the chaos emeralds beforehand helps a lot, too.
    winstein
    winstein
    Reminds me of the time I beat Sonic 1 (Game Gear) on the PDA. Those PDAs have a tiny analogue stick to which you control Sonic, as well as a button where you can press to make Sonic jump. The game's difficult meant that I usually used save states to beat it, so I can't say that I did it the proper way.

    Thank you for reading.
    Do you want a PINGAS? Or a Pipe Bomb? Or do you want a trollface? Maybe a rickroll?
    This list of tragic events on Wikipedia has an expansion tag! Get it??? 'Cause it's like it invites you to *expand* the list by actually committing more of what the page covers!!! Hahahahaahahaha follow r/darnkmeme for more funny reddit mems!
    Need a good intro sentence for your game-related video essay? Just say "[game] is one of my fffavourrrite games of aaaall time. In fact, I'd go as far as to say it's my favourite, period!", with emphasis in your speech.
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    LeftyGreenMario
    LeftyGreenMario
    I know you will always love Toad, don't lie to me
    Koopa con Carne
    Koopa con Carne
    well, i still like Toadette.

    but if you start employing cloning shenanigans to make her the second most common NPC in the universe just so you can annoy me... i'll retaliate by asking Wario to Wario Waft the entire state of California, in addition to having him throw Birdo eggs on your walls. TRY ME
    LeftyGreenMario
    LeftyGreenMario
    All I want is to make Wario a common NPC so I don't have to continue having to hack to kill multiple of him in games
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    "Carol of the Bells", barring the lyrics, honestly sounds to me like something you'd chant with your comrades as you ride into battle, not something you'd sing on Christmas.
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