lynn

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mario has 5 "sensor pixels" used for physics... his feet pixels check for solid ground to land on, of course. the side pixels check for walls, and eject him outward. the head pixel checks for bonking against a ceiling. if his head misses a block but his side enters it, he gets nudged sideways

I don't know if I should read too much into it, but I'm surprised that super mario bros. uses 0 for "water" and 1 for "overworld", the water areas are stored first in the table of levels, etc

I've been reverse-engineering / porting Super Mario Bros. to C++ to understand how it works on the inside! I guess this looks exactly like an emulator but it's not, the "RAM" is recreated from internal state

until now I had been reasonably certain that piezoelectricity was named after an italian guy, probably called something like Giuseppe Piezo

I really wonder what kind of person decides they want to be a soccer referee. I'm multiplying "really passionate soccer guy" by "forum moderator" in my mind