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Matt

@talkingchicken.bsky.social

Software engineer by day, gamer by night. He/him. PNWAFGC, mostly French Bread when I'm not in the retirement home. Mash. Nanase. FFXIV black mage savage raider and occasional gposer. I guess I post art sometimes now too

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Alan@drpizzastone.bsky.social · 3d ago

The Courtyard Marriott in Taipei has a goofy Diablo 4 promotion going now and it turned out it was cheaper for me to book one of the themed rooms on my work trip than it was to book a regular style room. So now I'm surrounded by demons and ghouls

Supper Mario Broth@mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 6d ago

For fans of special challenges, the final Bowser battle in New Super Mario Bros. U presents the "Defeat Bowser By Throwing His Son At Him Challenge". Normally Bowser dies after 3 hits with the Clown Car. However, the player can also throw Bowser Jr. at Bowser NINETY times to win.

In the final battle of New Super Mario Bros. U, the intended method to damage Bowser is Bowser Jr.'s Junior Clown Car. After knocking Bowser Jr. out of the Clown Car, Mario can ride it into the air above Bowser... ...and perform a spin down onto him. It takes three hits to defeat Bowser in this way. However, if Mario stomps Bowser Jr. while he is running back to the Clown Car after being knocked out... ...he will retreat into his shell, which Mario can pick up. Mario can then throw Bowser Jr. at Bowser... ...which does not even seem to do anything to Bowser except briefly redden the area of impact. Yet, this does actually deal damage to Bowser... being 1.12% of his health. Bowser will die after being hit NINETY TIMES with Bowser Jr.'s shell, making this an extremely time-consuming way to win this battle. ...even more so than hitting him with fireballs, which takes 180 hits but at least does not have a cooldown like Bowser Jr. has. Source: YouTube user @SmashyYT, youtube.com/watch?v=VaBpa6oWQ58; additional images by Supper Mario Broth
Supper Mario Broth@mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 3w ago

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