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Video Games => Mario Chat => Topic started by: Themetaknight on October 17, 2013, 08:38:01 PM
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I think dead
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Dry Bullet Bills would be the dead ones
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DELETE THAT BEFORE MIYAMOTO NOTICES AND PUTS THEM IN THE NEXT NSMB
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If they were dead, they wouldn't be able to move you silly,
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Bill Blasters?
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Bill Blasters are probably alive too
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Bill Blasters are probably alive too
That's ridiculous
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Ah-ah, this poll is asking about Bullet Bills, not Bill Blasters.
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I think dead
Dont you see smiling and the eyes? But..maybe are painted bullets....umm...But i paper mario when you hurt them open wide their eyes so are alive.
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That's ridiculous
Unlike the rest of the Mario series, which is completely serious.
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I think dead
But wouldn't Mario have to jump on them first?
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But wouldn't Mario have to jump on them first?
Thats because their moving
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but how can they move if there dead!!!!!!????!!!???!?!??!?!?!??!?!?!??!!!???!?!?!?1
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Y cant Metrod crawl
I mean.. They are able to move because they've been shot from the cannons.
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They also manually turn with their little arms, so it's a safe bet that they're alive. And they can aim themselves in the 3D games.
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Missiles can have on-board guidance systems. Not every video game homing missile is alive.
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There are sentient Bullet Bills in Mario Party Advance and two of the Mario & Sonic games. They even have dialog.
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Then the cannons are probably alive too. Think about it. If Bullet Bills are alive would they REALLY hang out with a dead cannon that often?
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Don't knock it 'til you've tried it.
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but how can they move if there dead!!!!!!????!!!???!?!??!?!?!??!?!?!??!!!???!?!?!?1
Bill blasters
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Bill Blasters are probably alive too
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Bullet Bills, Bill Blasters, and Bob-ombs are Metal-type
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Bullet Bills started out as just standard missiles with scary faces painted on them. Over time, more technology was added to them, starting with the heat-seeking models in SMB3,and later onboard computers able to make basic decisions, eventually culminating in models that are now fully self-aware. Different models coexist side by side, for cost reasons, and there are still dumb ones, but many of them are now sentient.
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How much must one cost to make? Bowser has to be losing a fortune.
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Consider for a moment that this is a world where gold coins are literally everywhere and that Bowser is the king of his own nation....
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Then the cannons are probably alive too. Think about it. If Bullet Bills are alive would they REALLY hang out with a dead cannon that often?
Ah, but Bullet Bills are dead
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HEY how about torpedo teds?
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Bullet Bills aren't dead and Torpedo Teds probably have gills.
The Teds' launchers must be alive. They even have hands for goodness' sake
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Everything in Mario is alive. EVERYTHING
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Not when I'm through with 'em!
#whoa #confidence #iwentthere
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Themetaknight, do you think they were once alive? Because then they would technically be a living thing. Thus, they would be alive.
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I feel stupid for bringing any kind of serious speculation here, but my guess is that they are as alive as Mecha-Koopas.
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There have been sentient Mechakoopas too. :V
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Not when I'm through with 'em!
#whoa #confidence #iwentthere
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my guess is that they are as alive as Mecha-Koopas
that means dead
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Mario can play as several enemies. Can he play as a Bullet Bill? That'd be fun.
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that means dead
does it?!?!??!??!?!?!?!??!???!?!?!?!?!1
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"Dead" would imply that they were once living, though.
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Oops..... I mean that means the bullet bill was never sentinent
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To quote the Mario Wiki:
A Bullet Bill appears in Mario Party Advance as a track and field athlete at the Mushroom Stadium. The Bullet Bill's quest involves challenging him to a race. When the player defeats him, Bullet Bill gives them the Gaddget Mini Soccer.
Non sentient objects do not give prizes.
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Have you never used a vending machine?
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I'm sad that Godot had to quote Mario Wiki.
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Non sentient objects do not give prizes.
most bills aren't sentinent
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The Teds' launchers must be alive.
That at least I agree with
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I would think that, logically, torpedo ted launchers and bill blasters would be in the same order at least. Maybe Bob-omb cannons and FLUDD too. Bullet Bills, Torpedo Teds and Bob-Ombs would likely be in the same class but a different order. Families would be divided up further by defense mechanisms and habitat, and there'd be several in the same genus as Bill Blasters, with Bill Blasters, Bombshell Bill Blasters, Bouncing Bill Blasters, Missile Bill Blasters, Banzai Bill Blasters etc. being unique species.
Billogy
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most bills aren't sentinent
Why would some, but not all, of the same thing (Creature? Species?) be sentient? It seems weird for an arbitrary selection to be sentient when others are not.
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I wouldn't say sentient and organic have anything to do with each other in Mario anyway. The question is more of what the minimum requirement is for something to be "alive," as examples of all combinations exist.
Clearly alive but probably not sentient: M&L:SS Goombas, Yoob, Little Mousers
Clearly sentient but would make sense to be inorganic: Yakkey, Monsieur Broque, some Thwomps
Clearly organic and clearly sentient: Lubba, E. Gadd, Wario
Clearly inorganic and clearly non-sentient: Coin, hammer, boot
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Little Mousers (aka Squeeks) are pretty sentient in Paper Mario. Ms. Mowz is one of them. :U
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She's driven solely by primal, animalistic, instinctive lust, not reason.
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The ones in Yoshi's Island and Mario Kart don't seem to be. Renaming them in TTYD I took as a retcon to them being little mousers at all
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They're both still called "Chū-san" in Japan. I took it as the localizers wanting to give them an English name more in line with their Japanese name, as they otherwise have nothing to do with Mouser.