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Since the star collection and post-star collection cutscenes in Super Mario Galaxy 2 have an average length of 30 seconds and a full playthrough collects 240 stars, the player spends at least 2 hours per playthrough simply watching Mario collect stars.

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Extremely rare banana putter given out to Nintendo employees who participated in the marketing of Donkey Kong 64.

In Super Mario Sunshine, Mario is immune to bees while talking. He will be pushed around by them, but not be harmed while he's engaged in conversation. Note that he is not simply immune to damage - e.g. he will still die to heat stroke while talking. It is specifically bees.

Just spend about 4 hours fixing my G305 LMB

Ronald Reagan
Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Trump

obvs the most important key here is that every time someone with "onald" in their name gains power in the Merkin Hegemony the world becomes a markedly worse place

Super Mario World has an extremely eclectic art style whereby many enemies are drawn in completely different ways. Development files reveal Mario went through many stylistic changes; it is possible that all the enemies were made to fit Mario, but at different points in time.

and there we have it

cloth mother and wire mother should have stayed together for the sake of the kids

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when i see an ernie bushmiller 'nancy' comic featuring aunt fritzi or any other young lady, drawn with an eye for women's fashion rather than the male gaze, im reminded of that devastating hisashi eguchi quote

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and the way he did, made this my favourite sermon about That in all the sermons about That that i've heard from a sample set covering 2000 years

"biological pronouns"

we as a civilization need to understand that, inasmuch as law could possibly have any legitimacy outside of mere raw threat of violence on the exact same level as an armed robber, everything coming out of SCOTUS should be treated as equal to a sovereign citizen document

my commissions are still open if anyone is interested btw 👀 some art I have made before is on my profile ...

> If you or someone in your family has a subscription, now it's a good time to explain what boycotts are and what they can do.

Libraries matter. Access matters.

After years of legal battles, the Internet Archive is still here—and still fighting for a world where everyone can read, learn, and remember.

@arstechnica tells the story: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/the-internet-archive-survived-major-copyright-losses-whats-next/

rockstar is the south park of video games and that is extremely not a compliment