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In the Free Roam mode of Mario Kart World, a spot exists on the Dry Bones Burnout track where the player can consistently clip out of bounds by Wall Riding against an overhanging bone from below. Doing so makes the player character fall through the course and land on an invisible floor that spans the entirety of the open world underneath the visible geometry.

Interestingly, this type of failsafe with the invisible floor appears to be a direct influence of Monolith Soft, the creators of the Xenoblade Chronicles series, who have worked on Mario Kart World. In their previous open world Nintendo franchise games, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, similar floors are implemented underneath the world to stop the players from falling infinitely if they somehow clip out of bounds.

What makes these floors specific to that company is that they are sometimes angled and actually join up with the visible floors in specific spots to allow players to walk/drive back into bounds instead of simply being a flat rectangle underneath the entirety of the world.

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after the first playthrough, I always make a point of keeping him sweet, because it makes him let his guard down and fully trust me, and that makes it all the sweeter to atomize his head with a holorifle

Dean Domino is actually really great narrative design, especially if you manage to befriend him, because the revelation that he’s a massive piece of shit aligns with the moment where you have to decide to kill or spare him. Like, those things take place simultaneously.

You’re running through the Tampico, gradually piecing together the past and realizing that Dean is a deeply, deeply evil man, but he’s shouting encouragement at you through the wall the entire time. He’s beaming down at you from the stairwell and calling you “partner,” applauding you both for how well you work together as a team. And then he tells you the whole disgusting story, but it doesn’t seem to have entered his head that you would view him any differently, because this is the moment where he’s come to fully trust you.

You spend the entire DLC gradually concluding that this guy isn’t so bad, really, only for him to demonstrate in the final fucking act that he’s worse than you ever imagined. And then you have to decide whether you’ve got it in you to execute a man who has done unforgivable things, but has let down his guard because he thinks you’re his friend.

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read @ikroah btw (ft. guest art for a forthcoming issue by @rad-roche so if you catch up now then you can look forward to that)

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"it was in 2020" oh so like a year or so ago. a couple years. im sorry 5? did you just say five? five years ago ?

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rambus drams

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rambus drams

Nintendo 64 T-shirt distributed at trade shows in 1996, promoting the Rambus DRAM included on the Nintendo 64 motherboard, featuring Mario.

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vault experiment where we freeze everyone forever and then do nothing

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for a minute i definitely forgot that kanye west had changed his name to ye and was wondering why this accusatory headline was written in shakespearean language

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Hm...

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My tumblr notes when mutuales clock in to like my posts

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Im always putting my lunch a little bit away from me on the floor

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