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In Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels and its Super Mario All-Stars version, there is a "brother byte" in the game's memory that determines which brother the current playable character is. It has two valid possible values, one for Mario (Brother 0) and one for Luigi (Brother 1), and 254 invalid ones, resulting in various unintended brothers (as seen in this previous post).

Most invalid brothers cause the game's ending to simply glitch in typical ways, however, Brother 12 has a particularly amusing way in which his presence is handled. Upon seeing Peach in her cage, Brother 12 continuously runs to the left against the edge of the screen, and continues his running animation even after Peach teleports him to her cage after noticing him.

This results in the impression that Brother 12 is not interested in being kissed by Peach and is desperately trying to get away from her.

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Stolen from reddit where it wasn't being properly appreciated

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whenever I see an illustration of some anime girl with wings really far down her back I always imagine her having to fly around like this

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One of my pet culture theories is that the worldbuilding energy that produced genuinely fresh settings like Star Wars and Star Trek and basically every other 80s nostalgiabait property that Hollywood has bleeding out on the cross these days has now more or less migrated to the video game space. Like that's where interesting mass market genre-fic worldbuilding is going to be happening now, instead of in film

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So, uh. Fallen London. If, for whatever reason, you need to get into New Newgate Prison for a bit, but ideally you'd like to do it without acquiring a criminal record in the process, because those are awkward, apparently a nice, handy-dandy solution could be to try and rob hell?

Or rather, hell's embassy in London. And specifically, you need to fail to rob it. Because if you do that and get caught by the devils in the act, the resulting diplomatic snafu results in you being hastily shuffled out of sight and off to prison without any of that pesky stuff like due process.

Which would not normally be a good thing? But because this is going on up at the diplomatic level, it means that smaller people, like, say, the police and judicial system, continue to be blissfully unaware of your existence for a while longer.

Just, you know. As an idle note from someone who is currently staring out of a barred stalactite window? Again.

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FUCK

why is fallen london trending. get out of my house

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I always wonder what English sounds like to monolingual native speakers of other languages. I love seeing the structure other languages through the lense of people speaking English badly. It makes me wonder what I sound like fumbling my way through French or Greek.

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two pieces of kind of obscure baltoy merch i own. the mega bloks baltoy and the mighty beanz baltoy. i call them bloktoy and beantoy

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White Auracite Illustrator: Magali Villeneuve

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Life Story

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yeah great

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What would happen to BABA if I were to just, switch some words around:

IS BABA YOU

IDENTITY IS CRISIS

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okay slur song streaming money got paid out finally so as promised all $2016 dollars have been sent to a charity for homeless LGBT teens

even though what you are apparently supposed to do when you make money is use it to destroy democracy I guess we can always do that next time

thank you all for contributing

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“With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk”

–Jonny von Neumann, proved correct in this paper. 

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