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sebmal@mrdo.pro · 3mo ago

toby posting this and 1000 teens scrambling to figure out What It Means in the replies is exactly what i needed to see tonight lmao

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Supper Mario Broth@mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In Paper Mario: Color Splash, a Shy Guy is trapped in a water wheel after being bullied. The internal name for this pose is "crucify". This suggests that the original intent may have been for him to actually evoke a crucifixion before it was decided this may be in bad taste.

In Cherry Lake in Paper Mario: Color Splash, a stack of 4 Shy Guys try to bully a fifth one to join them. Not wanting to be forced, he runs away. As he runs away, he becomes caught in a water wheel, with one of his feet being trapped in it. It drags him through the water, making him soggy. Internally, this pose for the Soggy Guy is called "crucify". Looking at the way his foot is caught in the wheel, it does seem like there is nothing to actually get caught on and the sprite may have originally been drawn for something else. It is possible that originally he was caught on two crossed planks or something similarly evocative before it was decided this may be in poor taste. Artist's conception of a possible crucifixion. Source: tcrf.net user "Scrooge200", Random Talking Bush, spriters-resource.com/wii_u/papermariocolorsplash/asset/84164
Supper Mario Broth@mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In Donkey Kong 64, Diddy, Tiny, Lanky and Chunky are all unlocked by freeing them from cages. While DK appears to be unlocked by default, this is false: internally, the game only unlocks him by opening the door to exit DK Island. The entirety of DK Island is his personal cage.

The tutorial segment of Donkey Kong 64 takes place inside DK Island. After exiting out into the overworld, Donkey Kong gains access to a Tag Barrel, which shows the other four Kongs, yet to be unlocked, as colorful question marks. The Kongs are all unlocked by freeing them from their cages that they were imprisoned in by King K. Rool. It is logical to assume Donkey Kong is simply unlocked by default, but this is false! Clipping out of DK Island and entering the Tag Barrel with another Kong later shows that DK has his own "yet to be unlocked" question mark! So what causes him to be unlocked? It is hitting this switch to open the gate to exit the inside of DK Island, which counts as his own personal cage. Source: tcrf.net user "Alley", tcrf.net/File:DK64_YellowQ_TagBarrel.png
Derek Yu@mossmouth.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Genuinely, this concern about AI is one of the reasons why I think having friction in video games is good and why it's increasingly important to have games that simply exist instead of catering to our expectations. Reposting this message from Kojima about "pre-digested" art:

And he said, "If everyone likes it, it means it's mainstream. It means it's conventional. It means it's already pre-digested for people to like it. And I don't want that. I want people to end up liking things they didn't like when they first encountered it, because that's where you really end up loving something."
Andrew Hinton 😷🧡@andrewhinton.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”

David J Prokopetz@prokopetz.bsky.social · 4mo ago

LEVEL 1: The text supports a transgender reading of the protagonist. LEVEL 2: The text supports a transgender reading of the author. LEVEL 3: The text supports a transgender reading of the reader.