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2024 September 14th

Do you ever wish you could beat into a character's head that they're loved? Because I sure wanted to beat Siffrin during my first playthrough of In Stars and Time. Then I thought about that figure of speech too literally, laughed at my own joke, and now here's me using Odile as a proxy to do just that. :)

I absolutely adore Odile's "you will be safe and happy and that is a threat" approach to emotional support. Her and Siffrin's dynamic in general is just chef's kiss.

Sorry about your hat, Siffrin, but it was destroying my panel composition when I tried to put it on your head.

Promotional image showing various Mario character-themed flavors of frozen yogurt available as a Nintendo/Yogurtland cross-promotion in 2016.

The official 2004 Japanese guide for Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door features a removable dust jacket. Underneath, on the inner cover, the guide is decorated with a pattern of Punies.

2001 Japanese print ad for Mario Kart: Super Circuit.

In Super Mario 64, whenever a baby penguin in Cool, Cool Mountain falls off a cliff, it respawns back at its initial location. However, it has an activation radius whereby it will not load if Mario is outside a specific range around its respawn point. Usually, whenever the penguin despawns, Mario is too far away to cause it to respawn right away.

One exception is the location shown in the footage, which happens to be high enough above the next cliff that the baby penguin despawns while falling, and close enough to its respawn point for it to immediately respawn, which can be seen by zooming out the camera. Note how instantly after disappearing near the bottom of the screen, the penguin reappears on the platform near the top of the screen, directly above Mario.

Don’t cross ‘im!