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they shall not suffer a machine to think, for ruin shall be its purpose and accursed be its work

i like that nintendo made 3 interesting-sounding main characters for the new fire emblem game, and then one fuckass kid main character so that if someone chooses to play them i can know to immediately dismiss their opinion

me, emerging from the bedroom where i've been working on getting Mishka down for the last 30 min: my wife: oh, i was about to ask if you wanted to call it for the night. me: NO. i have CONTROL over my LIFE. which is why im going to get TWO FRUIT ROLL UPS and SIT ON THE COUCH to FINISH this EPISODE

It is well-known that Mario is named after Nintendo of America's former landlord, Mario Segale. It has been discovered that his father, Louis Segale, was actually named Luigi before changing his name during immigration, making it an astounding coincidence that the real Mario's real father is Luigi.

Mario Segale (1934-2018) was a real estate developer and landlord of Nintendo of America's warehouse in 1981, famously being the inspiration for Mario's name. Minoru Arakawa, then president of Nintendo of America, reportedly named him after Segale because Segale was so reclusive that Arakawa did not know what he looked like.
It has been discovered in 2026 by genealogy researcher Elisabeth Zetland that Segale's father, Louis Segale, was actually born Luigi Maria Segale near Genoa in Italy, before changing his name to Louis during his immigration to the United States (adopting anglicized names being common among immigrants at the time).
One of the few known photos of Mario Segale
Since this fact has not been known until now, there is no way this could have factored into the naming of Luigi, but it is still immensely notable that the real-life Mario's father turned out to have been Luigi all along.
Source: theguardian.com/games/2026/apr/18/super-mario-nintendo-luigi-inspiration

discovered today that my certification reimbursement benefit from work changed so that it's no longer a straight reimbursement, gotta get approval BEFORE i do the thing and then also after i finish for it to be reimbursed. so my upcoming paternity leave just got a lot more boring

Tomorrow (7/14) is the 10th anniversary of Marielda! We're going to be celebrating live on twitch at 6pm ET with a soundtrack listening party, a vinyl edition giveaway, and some multiplayer video games with the cast! www.patreon.com/friends_tabl...

Marielda 10th Anniversary Stream Tomorrow! (6pm ET, 7/14) | Friends at the Table

Tomorrow, Marielda will be ten years old! To celebrate the day itself, we're going to be hosting an anniversary stream on Twitch, starting a

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if your love of GDQ is contingent on their being a shiny beacon of goodness forever with no missteps or blemishes you should fuck right off across the atlantic and start a colony in massachusetts about it