I now own two Donkey Kong '94 cartridges that won't save, presumably because of a dead battery. I should have just tried to manually replace the battery in the first one I got.
(walk into the store)
Store employee closest to the door: The f*** are you doing here?
(look at him, find out he was talking to his co-worker and it was meant and recognized as a friendly greeting)
That's Northern Britland for you. It's probably quite a few other places too but that's the one I'm most familiar with.
Attention, any of y'all with a surname that also works as a first name: You may or may not already be an interesting person, but either way, you'd be even more interesting if your middle name was "and/or". So for example, John David becomes John and/or David. Doesn't that sound like an interesting person?
old mcdonald had a farm
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and on that farm he had a bus
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and the wheels on the bus went round and round
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and on that bus there was a baby
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and the baby on the bus went wah wah wah
Whenever someone says "such and such was the first time Charles Martinet voiced Mario," someone else comes along with an earlier instance. Very specific versions of Mario Teaches Typing 1. That Mushroom World pinball game. Live events.
But I'm here to put all that to rest. Because the first time Charles Martinet ever voiced Mario was in 1591, in a performance of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.
Originally the character was going to be called Petruchio, but Martinet convinced Shakespeare that "Mario" rolled off the tongue so much better. Ironically, the revised script with the newer and much more popular name was lost to time, and surviving copies still call the character Petruchio.
Sometimes it's fun to take clickbaity Youtube thumbnails at face value. For example, doing so with this one briefly puts me in a world where Nintendo put the CD-i games on Steam.
Louis Armstrong: I'm gonna write a song about how wonderful the world is!
All sorts of people: We're gonna play it over footage of the world not actually being all that wonderful!
Louis Armstrong: oh
So is there a fan comic where Banjo and Kazooie try to Wonderwing with one of Sephiroth's shedded feathers or something? Because I feel like there should be.
(somone working with sakurai hears about microsoft buying zenimax, and by extension bethesda, and by extension id)
That Someone: Hey Sakurai, I think Smash could use another Microsoft rep.
Sakurai: I know exactly what you mean leave it to me.