see the bird as it flies by

Extremely rare 2026 Koopa Clown Car tote bag from Japan for winners of one of the drawings of the Ichibankuji lottery. Only 50 pieces were produced.

Source: blacktangent

Found this randomly while looking for footage of that river dance sequence from FF9 and I fucking unironically LOVE IT

In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, being Electrified is a purely beneficial status condition for anyone who receives it (whether it is Mario's party or an enemy), as all it does is deal contact damage to whoever attacks that character with a non-ranged attack.

However, it turns out that in the game's code, an unused functionality for Electrified exists that would have made it act more like the Paralysis status common in RPGs (e.g. like the Pokémon series games), whereby it would also have a chance of preventing the afflicted character from making a move on that turn. Note how in the footage, Mario and Goombella only briefly shake instead of being able to perform their attacks.

This actually explains an odd behavior in the game whereby enemies would sometimes use items to cure Electrified when it never needed to be cured in the first place (bottom image, dramatization from an earlier post explaining this phenomenon). These enemies must be acting upon a script written under the assumption that Electrified is still able to incure the Paralysis-like effect, which was not updated when the effect was removed during development.

The Spiky Goomba in the scenario means well, he is simply acting on outdated information.

In a 2019 interview with GamesRadar, Donkey Kong 64 creative director George Andreas explains that the reason the game has so many collectibles, and so many playable characters, was because Rare co-founder Tim Stamper felt that it needed to distinguish itself from Banjo-Kazooie (which was released a year prior).

If Banjo-Kazooie had not existed, or if Donkey Kong 64 had been developed first, it is entirely possible that the game would have had much fewer collectibles, and only two playable characters, like the previous Donkey Kong Country series games.