Lurkarf

@lurkarf.bsky.social

🔞 A lurking freak who like games and tasteful art Minors DNI.

I don't like hopping on trends (or trends period) but I thought this looked fun enough that I want to share the games that molded me. My game choices are so unique and subversive /s.

Star Fox 64, Mega Man X4, Mischief Makers, Final Fantasy X, Mega Man Battle Network (Legacy Collection chosen to choose the series as a whole, can't choose just one sorry), The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Kingdom Hearts, Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door, Sonic 3 and Knuckles.

I think in the modern internet age people often forget the line between "keeping up with the news" and giving yourself the mental health version of radiation poisoning. You don't ALWAYS need to be absorbing the horrors. It's not healthy and arguably not productive. You weren't put on Earth for that

Many games for the GameCube use only a fraction of the storage capacity of the disc. I have analyzed the data to determine what the maximum number of retail Mario games that can fit on a single disc would be, creating the Luigi & Wario + Puzzle + Rhythm Maximum Value Pack.

A GameCube disc has a storage capacity of 1.46 gigabytes. Many Mario games use only a fraction of that storage. Below is the optimal distribution of the smallest Mario-related games on the system to fit 6 entire retail games on a single disc.
Unused space 54 MB
Luigi's Mansion 186 MB
DDR Mario Mix 264 MB
Wario World 257 MB
Donkey Konga 2 312 MB
Donkey Konga 250 MB
Please note that this pie chart is for data visualization only. If the games were in fact put on one disc, the data would be arranged in rings, not in slices.
Concept for post based on an idea from a comment by @vinchvolt.bsky.social

ill take the opportunity to inform people of an alternative to discord called fluxer. theyre foss but aim for a very discord-like experience with optional nitro-like features to support the devs. if you dont want this age verification and gambling bs, migrate to fluxer.

Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga contains a "Spanish Peach Protection" exploit. Normally, Peach gets kidnapped in a cutscene when Mario is distracted by Toadsworth. Setting the language to Spanish helps mash through Toadsworth's text so fast that Peach never actually gets kidnapped.