pidge, the Super Jumper 🇨🇦

@pidgezero.one

Super Mario RPG, Love Live, Animal Crossing, Blue Jays, Mets fan. Speedrunner, software engineer, randomizer developer. Smash 64/Brawl ex-TO, SSC'19 Combo Contest judge. 💚 @seancass.xenogears.info

In Super Mario RPG, Mario's house is made out of pure darkness by default, and every object inside it is only colored in manually by a script when Mario enters. This is the only area in the game that works like this, for an unknown reason.

In Super Mario RPG, the graphics for the inside of Mario's house are completely black in the files and only get colored in manually by a script when he actually enters it. This is the only area in the game that works this way.
How the house looks when Mario is inside during regular gameplay
(background color changed to make silhouette visible): regular screenshot
How the house looks when Mario is not inside: completely black
Only Layer 1 (furniture) colored in: black house with visible furniture
Only Layer 2 (floor and walls) colored in: black furniture with visible floor and walls
Source: @pidgezero_one, x.com/pidgezero_one/status/1723822981103644982

In 2023, concept art was revealed by Super Mario RPG artist Jiro Mifune where the party was inspired by The Three Musketeers, and included Wario. The posts were soon deleted, but I have restored the images to the best of my ability.

In November 2023, Super Mario RPG artist Jiro Mifune shared early concepts where the party was themed after The Three Musketeers. The posts were soon deleted, but were preserved by Super Mario RPG expert pidgezero_one. The photos are taken at oblique angles and have very low contrast. I have enhanced them to the best of my ability. Translations of the original text accompanying the concept art are provided.
MARIO
The Captain of the Royal Guard of the Mushroom Kingdom. A swordsman with a long and distinguished career.
LUIGI
Deputy Commander of the Royal Guard of the Mushroom Kingdom. Mario's younger brother.
QUEEN PEACH
Queen of the Mushroom Kingdom. This time, she is imprisoned in the Slug Kingdom.
KINOPI
the name is just Kinopio (Japanese for Toad)
A rookie soldier in the Royal Guard of the Mushroom Kingdom. The older brother of the kidnapped Toads.
WARIO
A soldier in the Royal Guard. He was once a leader of a band of thieves, but had a change of heart.
KING KOOPA
King of the Turtle Kingdom and their No. 1 knight. Captured by the Slug Kingdom, but joins Mario later.
Source: pidgezero-one.notion.site/Jiro-Mifune-1acf6519baf34a7fbed21dca2ba35044

I just figured out how we can get people to stop fighting over if FF6 or FF7 is better. As soon as the topic comes up, just say the game's names out loud but WITHOUT the FF part. Then everyone will just get mad at you instead of each other

one of the most useless and most funny things i ever built was a mIRC script that would listen to every message sent in a channel and roll a 1% chance to change my name to a random word from within whatever message it reacted to

I think a lesser known internet social thing is that if you come across a post looking for volunteers or donations or contributors or selling something, you don't need to reply explaining why you're not going to (don't have time, don't have money, etc), especially if you're the first one to reply

Can't wait for tax season where I get to claim all the repeated donations I made to No Reset marathon a few months ago that made the donation total end in 67.67, which encouraged viewers to succumb to the cringe and donate to fix it