This is one of the main reasons I think wafrn is pretty neat

Society began to fall apart when they replaced finite length progress bars with infinite spinners.

20 years later, Nintendo's weird RPG Mother 3 remains the greatest game never sold Mother 3, the sequel to Earthbound, came out 20 years ago today--but not in America, where it's never been released.

Today marks 20 years of people complaining about Mother 3 not getting localized, and I celebrated the occasion by writing about how the complainers have a very real point:

Parapa the Rapper doing Linked In Park "One thing I don't know why it doesn't even matter how hard you try"

Alex says "well, economy's fucked. Time to start camming." She asks herself "what's my niche?" She gets an idea. She has set up a sexual version of Cow Tools. Her friend says "I don't get it..."

Refrain of Evangelion - Komm, süsser Tod (KIDA-155) YouTube video by Alexandre Vieira Machado

My fave official variant of this song is the one where the choir continues into the latter half of the song, morphing into a wonderful chaos
youtu.be/vEsIg8B69oA

"For all we know, at this very moment, somewhere far beyond all those distant stars, Benny Russell is dreaming of us."
- Cmdr./Cpt. Benjamin Sisko, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. 🖖🏾

dude how are there so many fucking video games

if you just say aloud the prince of persia sands of time line "no, no, no, that's not how it happened" then reloading is part of the game narrative

Also please give Charlie Day's Luigi a Luigi's Mansion movie, it would be so perfect

In short, the Mario movies are fun and I'm excited to see what comes next

For the criticisms of relying too much on game references, it's impossible (and not desirable, really) to divorce the movie from the games. The movie isn't designed to stand on its own, it is intended to be a companion to the games. It is The Super Mario Bros Movie, the relation is in the title

"But what about Super Mario RPG or Paper Mario or the Mario & Luigi series?"

As great as those are, they are spinoffs. Nintendo is making these Mario movies in the vein of the main line Mario games, like it or not. That's the objective, and so far the results are consistent

I will be much more critical of the storytelling in the Zelda movie when it comes; Zelda is a series where Nintendo has always been at least somewhat concerned with its themes and lore, even if only within the individual titles. But Mario? That's just always been about having a fun ride

Story in Mario is scaffolding to support the platforming gameplay. In the movies, due to them not being interactive, the platforming gameplay has been replaced with action set pieces, which is a smart change in my book. The movies are doing the exact same thing the main line games have always done

So The Super Mario Galaxy Movie was delightful and I think anyone seriously critiquing the story is being a bit dishonest about the role that story plays in Mario media in general. Was whimsy and fun delivered? If yes, then the Mario story did its job, full stop. That's all Mario's ever been doing

Michael Collins, the chap who took this photograph, remains the only person on earth to have taken a photo that had everyone in shot aside himself.

If Artemis is going up then it gives me an excuse to once again post this photo, the only one to contain every human being in the universe but one.

forgot the most important of the genre

Molly Lambert @mollylambert I respect the moon's unwillingness to be photographed on a phone 12:31 PM • 12/12/19 • Twitter Web App 59.5K Retweets 294K Likes

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dustin Couch @Dustinkcouch nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early astronaut: moon's haunted nasa employee: what? astronaut: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* moon's haunted 10:18 PM - 29 Oct 2018

please enjoy these classic Moon Tweets™

It's true, Wafrn's cool

You raise a good point

Now, was it _my_ blood that I gave? Dear reader, I leave that up for you to decide

Just gave blood today for the first time in like a decade. Gotta get in the habit of doing this more often, I think

For Those who Play... with Flavour!™

First playthroughs of the Xenoblade Chronicles 2 main game and the Torna story DLC are now completed to my level of satisfaction. Now begins the New Game+ runs for both. Should move a lot quicker since all the "big" things I care about should carry over. A surprisingly bittersweet feeling, honestly

For a song called piano man, that guy on the harmonica just won’t shut the fuck up

Youtube thumbnails from ancient times

K'eeg @armormodechang - 6h The Emperor's New Groove august @regularaugust • Feb 14 Movies that can be considered "Metroidvanias" t7 536 2.9K 1ll 71K L K'eeg @armormodechang - 6h Kuzco loses his abilities near the beginning of the movie, he and Pacha learn various skills to traverse different obstacles. there's a sequence where they backtrack through an area they ve been through and cross it more efficiently @ 3 セ145 604 thi 5.1K Keeg @armormodechang the end is reached in under two hours; the final sequence shows the protagonist in less clothing than usual

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It's funny to look back at how, as a kid, I thought that the overly evil/cruel villains in fiction were a bit unrealistic. "Like, aren't people and their motivations a bit more complicated than that?" How naïve I was