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Big Walk comes out TOMORROW, August 4. "But what time??" we hear you ask. Well! Let us tell you: • on Switch 2 and PS5: late morning-ish for your console region* • on PC and Mac: 6am PDT exactly (11pm AEST)

Don’t really feel old, but sometimes i remember that when i was a kid, we had 1 and 2cent coins, also computers and the internet basically didn’t exist

whats important to remember is when Big Walk comes out, I actually played the early version of it and also HH are my friends, so any success they get is some how also linked to me

I hate that the whole schrodinger’s cat thought experiment was him just trying to explain how an electron is both a particle and a wave at the same time and you can’t observe it as both and that it’s so culturally famous and probably one of the most piss poor analogies ever imagined

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