Without any info on how they compile the “Top 50 viral” list, I’m not sure how significant this really is.

Never heard of that chart before, so this feels like it was just an easy article for click farming.

Original Super Mario Galaxy logo: U R MR GAY

Galaxy 2 logo: (backwards) YA I M R U

Super Mario Bros movie logo: U R MR BI

And now, HE MR GAY

There’s precedence for it to be gay, based on the stars on the original game box art.

Yeah, paying off loans.

Alternatively and less boringly, upgrade my desktop and peripherals, new laptop for me and my wife, get nice homelab/server stuff, smart home stuff/sensors, surround sound system for my family room and office/gaming room, proper furniture for my office, new matresses for almost every bed in the house. That would most likely eat most of it, give or take ~$2,000.

I never took to 7 like I did to this one. Couldn’t really tell you why.

I miss how they ditched the more unique character karts for the generic mix and match parts now. Let me race in a backhoe again you cowards!

Oh my god does he pray!

Am I stupid, or is that the equivalent of using a novelty check for like $25 for these rich motherfuckers? That seems like it would be chump change for them.

They’ve kept it up for 5 months. Downvotes and disparaging comments haven’t stopped them. Just block them if it bothers you.

To anyone saying they like the battle system of “turn based with QTE/rythm” you might also like Super Mario RPG, Paper Mario (original N64 and Thousand Year Door), and the Mario and Luigi series (first three of them). Mother 3 also has a rythm element matched to the >40 battle tracks. Go emulate them rather than trying to track them down at scalper prices.

They all use turn based battles with timed button presses for extra damage with attacks, blocking/dodging, and specials. Definitely not as pretty, as good a story, or as complicated mechanics, but same sort of battle system.

Huh, why do I hear someone shouting about Windows 11 requiring TPM?

No-Intro should be pretty easy, there’s significant chunks of the NTSC rom sets up on archive.org

I don’t hoard like I used to, especially as I got into romhacks, but RomVault always seemed to be the way to go.

Now that I don’t just keep full sets sitting around, I usually just pop onto archive.org and grab whatever I need from the nointro sets there. For disc based games, there’s some redump collections on archive, but for most disc based past PS1 or Gamecube I have to check the piracy megathreads for whatever sites haven’t been taken down yet.

Lol, this post is going to be removed too, as ask lemmy is not a support community (as stated in the sidebar).

Anyway, just like reddit and subreddits, every lemmy community has a sidebar that usually describes what it’s about and the rules. It’s just to the right if you’re browsing on desktop. If you’re in an app, it’ll vary, but usually if you open the community most apps have a three dot menu with an option to view the sidebar.

Hell yes! I love this series, and the second one is even better than the first.

That said, from what I hear, the remaster of the first one is dissapointing. Hopefully this one is better.

Oh, all the screenshots are 4:3. Not the best sign if they aren’t planning on having widescreen.

20 minute old account and posting abrasive things. Goes together like peanut butter and jelly.

Very few things “come with” a bin. Houses don’t. You generally have to buy one.

The last president to talk about that got a magic bullet for his troubles.

I might also look into Social Fixer, if that addon is still around. Used to be the best one for customizing Facebook’s bullshit away.

Maybe her other books are better, but Atlas Shrugged was such a slog for me. I can’t even reccomend it as a curiousity.

Ayn made even the sex scenes mechanical and cold, which would have been a great artistic choice to show how dead inside the MCs all were, but she was going for “this makes Dagny strong and empowered!” It wasn’t intentional at all.

Then there’s the section in the middle where they fuck off to “galt-land” and everything the was building up in the real world just kind of stops mattering, until they decide to leave. Another thing that would have been great if intentional, if there were consequences for running away from things, but they just come back like nothing happened.

Except for the biggest problem of all in the book: The fucking radio broadcast chapter. It’s 3/4 of the way into the book. If you don’t understand the themes by that point then you’re blind. But she devotes an entire fucking chapter to having John “perfect representation of the themes in human form” Galt blather on for (iirc) over 20 pages reiterating the themes explicitly.

Some jackass takes over all radio broadcasts, spends hours rambling about the supremacy of people who make things happen… and nothing fucking happens as far as I can recall.

It’s been over a decade and a half, but I had the opposite problem with my English courses.

My writing classes established such a rigid pattern to our essays that they would give us an outline with what kind of sentence went where, you filled in the blanks and ended up with an essay. Which is great for kids struggling, but it didn’t allow for any fucking deviation from the pattern at all.

Only need two supporting paragraphs with a little more in each to make your point? Like hell you do! Three supporting paragraphs or you lose points.

Things would flow better if you broke one of your supporting paragraphs into two smaller ones, for a total of four? Well that’s just impossible! Three supporting paragraphs or you lose points.

One of your supporting paragraphs have a point that needs two sentences to communicate well? No it doesn’t! One sentence for each detail in your supporting paragraph!

You have four supporting details/sentences instead of just three? Get fucked kid!

Lose points for any deviation.

It wasn’t until my junior year of high school (penultimate year of non-university school, for folks who use a different structure) that one teacher finally went “Hey, this kid is reading college literature course books for fun (Don Quixote, at the time) and can hold a decent conversation about the themes and such. Maybe I could try letting him off the leash.”

I went from the English class for kids who underperformed to the “Hey, take a college course for college credit early kiddo!” class, and killed it.

Nice, an analognowhere I missed!