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I cannot emphasize this enough: CHECK YOUR VOTER STATUS, THESE PEOPLE ARE FUCKING EVIL AND TRYING TO TAKE AWAY YOUR ABILITY TO EVEN TAKE PART IN THE PROCESS

🦊 MythiccVixen 🔞@mythiccvixen.bsky.social · 21h ago

Check your voter status! Vote.gov Doesn’t matter what state you’re in. Always check your status before voting day. Do it months before because there are often deadlines to fixing it. Make sure everything is active and accurate.

A 1993 Kellogg's Apple Jacks promotion for Super Mario Land 2 contained a score sheet for the game, to "keep track of points". Somehow they missed the fact that the game does not have a score system, rendering the sheet profoundly absurd and, fittingly, completely pointless.

This is a 1993 official Kellogg's Apple Jacks/Super Mario Land 2 promotion.
It contains a score sheet for the game. "Keep track of the points you earn", it says.
"SUPER MARIO LAND 20: 6 GOLDEN COINS
While you're helping Mario track down the six golden coins, keep track of the points you earn in each zone of Mario Land."
Super Mario Land 2 does not have a score system.
Like Super Mario Bros. 2 before it, or Super Mario 3D Land and Super Mario Bros. Wonder after it, it simply does not have "points".
If the writer somehow meant something else the game does track, like coins or enemies defeated, this is a failure of communication as the game or its manual do not call them "points", nor do they function as a score in the way points do in other Mario games.
It is much more likely that the writer simply assumed that all Mario games have points, and did not check the specific game in question.
Source: eBay user "altaircollectibles", ebay.com/itm/178239934327

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Four baby goats at mobile petting zoo in North Carolina test positive for rabies

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services said the petting zoo held events involving children and elderly people between July 28 and Thursday.

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Hey, critters. The media's interested in furries again. As someone who's been in the fandom for well over two decades and has worked as a journalist, here's a quick guide to Dealing With The Press: If a journalist approaches you, SHUT THE FUCK UP SHUT THE FUCK UP SHUT THE FUCK UP SHUT THE FUC

One of the most blatant lies in a Mario-related game is "Tetris Attack inspired by original Tetris." In fact, Henk Rogers, the founder of the Tetris Company, literally regrets giving Nintendo the right to use the name "Tetris" because Tetris Attack has nothing to do with it.

In the ending to Tetris Attack, Yoshi walks along a rainbow while this text appears:
TETRIS ATTACK INSPIRED BY ORIGINAL TETRIS
Fact 1: Tetris Attack is a reskin of Panel de Pon, a game that has nothing to do with Tetris.
Panel de Pon:
swapping adjacent rising blocks to make lines of 3 to 5 blocks of the same color
Tetris:
steering and rotating falling blocks, the color of which is irrelevant, into full horizontal rows
The only commonality between the two is that they both use blocks.
Fact 2: Henk Rogers, founder of the Tetris Company, literally regrets giving Nintendo the rights to use "Tetris" for Tetris Attack because the game has nothing to do with Tetris.
"When Nintendo came to us, and said 'we would like to take this Japanese game called Panel de Pon, and rename it Tetris Attack', I'm saying, 'it's not Tetris'. But my partner's saying 'but it is money!' So, uhhhh, so, we, I, reluctantly agreed. In retrospect, we should never have done that. I don't think that's a good idea. It dilutes the brand, it's like naming another cartoon character Mickey Mouse just cause you need the money. It's just a bad idea. So I wouldn't do that again."
-Henk Rogers, 2009 interview with Destructoid
Source: vgmuseum.com/end/snes/a/tetrisattack.htm, destructoid.com/interview-with-alexey-pajitnov-and-henk-rogers-on-tetris/