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Forum Games / Re: What's on your Paste?

« on: June 03, 2012, 02:14:03 PM »

"Pokemon is a ripoff of Baseball, because you throw balls and run around in grassy fields."

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General Chat / Re: Club Nintendo Rewards!

« on: June 02, 2012, 01:49:33 PM »

EDIT: After registering my games en masse, I'm up to 1020 Coins with Platinum status. Does that qualify me for the Mario badge set, or for the next reward? Is there a certain time at which new prizes are announced? If so, I might hold on to my Coins.

Elite status is based on the number of coins you earn in the year, whether you spend them or not, if that's what you're worried about.

I was afraid I wasn't going to make Platinum this year, but turns out I'd forgotten to register Diddy Kong Racing, Personal Trainer: Cooking, and HeartGold back when I got them, so between those coins, those surveys, and a couple surveys I still had kicking around, I'll just make it, without even having to buy all the DSiWare clocks at the last minute.

(I also forgot to register Meteos and Mario Hoops, but those don't count apparently. And the games I have that I forgot to register that would count (Mario Kart DS and Yoshi's Island DS), I don't know what I did with the codes from them. And I also lost the codes for Partners in Time and Super Princess Peach, which also wouldn't count, even though Super Princess Peach is in this picture on the site and should totally count.)

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Mario Chat / Re: Yoshi, the gender bender

« on: June 02, 2012, 12:47:49 PM »

Asexuality and aromanticism are not necessarily mutually inclusive. It is possible for romance to be separate from sex. Yoshi and Birdo may well be in a relationship even if they don't have a method and/or desire to have sex (again, assuming that sex exists in the Mushroom World in a form somehow resembling our own -- off the top of my head, I can't think of any concrete evidence in any Mario canon pointing in that direction, and Yoshi's Island, while not necessarily disproving it, certainly doesn't help).

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General Chat / Re: Stuck in your head?

« on: June 02, 2012, 01:11:32 AM »

Louis Prima - "Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)"

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Forum Games / Re: What's on your Paste?

« on: June 01, 2012, 11:55:19 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU7kuU2mATQ

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General Chat / Re: The HOPEFUL thread: Be happy here!

« on: May 31, 2012, 08:58:34 PM »

One thing that should be added, which would clear up a lot of confusion about science: A hypothesis is saying "I think there's a dot over here." Once you've performed experiments to see whether or not there were dots at the places you thought there'd be dots, a theory is an attempt to model what's behind the dots. A lot of people (including me, until a few years ago) are under the impression that Hypothesis : Theory :: Pikachu : Raichu.

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Mario Chat / Re: Yoshi, the gender bender

« on: May 31, 2012, 05:47:26 AM »

New theory: Peach's ???/XXX is her scrapbook of pictures of guys doing it.

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Forum Games / Re: What's on your Paste?

« on: May 30, 2012, 10:21:37 PM »

Thanks Nintendo, now I have to buy three hookers

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Game Help / Re: Sonic Generations PC Low FPS/Controller Delay.

« on: May 30, 2012, 06:42:50 PM »

Wait, you're playing Sonic Generations with 2GB of RAM?

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Mario Chat / Re: Yoshi, the gender bender

« on: May 29, 2012, 05:22:28 PM »

Plus it would be cruel for Yoshi to continuously abort his babies by throwing them against enemies. 

Many animals eat their own young -- particularly in egg-laying species like fish and birds, though it's also been thoroughly documented in mammals. Shark fetuses, rather than having placentas, get their nutrition from eating each other in the womb. Not a stretch to think there's a species that weaponizes its young. There probably is one, actually; just can't think of or find one right now.

(some further reading: [1], [2], [3], [4])

A big part of the weirdness comes from yoshis being at that intersection between human and animal. Sharks and pigs and other animals that eat their young are either djur or varelse on Demosthenes' Hierarchy of Foreignness; yoshis are clearly ramen.

We live in a world with only one species, homo sapiens, firmly identified as hnau. There's a case to be made for including other species -- cetaceans, primates, elephants, possibly even some crows and parrots -- but because we can't communicate with them (except for when we can), we're usually mentally able to keep them securely within the animal category. But in the Mushroom World, multiple disparate species with about equal intelligence are fully able to communicate with each other and mingle freely. In examining a truly multi-species society, we're hit with heavy culture shock as we are forced to examine which of our characteristics are inherent to higher cognition, and which are specific to our primate roots -- to recognize the difference between "human" and "person."

(check out this dude for some intriguing theorizing about multi-sapient worlds)


Going back to acting like yoshis are pretty much just human for the time being:

Also, why would Birdo be so attracted to him if he/she...whatever couldn't have sex with him?

Not all romantic relationships are sexual.


(this is using "asexual" in the human sense, referring to people who do not feel sexual desire, not the biological definition used in Melee; it is possible that yoshis are both or neither or somewhere else entirely)

It does make sense, in a way, that the two Mario characters (for the sake of argument, treating Yoshi and Birdo as characters rather than as species) that most clearly defy human heteronormativity would share a connection.

Also... between Yoshi's tongue and Birdo's... um... "mouth"... I think they could figure something out if they wanted to take their relationship to that level.

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Mario Chat / Re: New Super Mario Bros. 2

« on: May 28, 2012, 09:26:56 PM »

"When the first screenshots for New Super Mario Bros. 2 were revealed last month, I had this crazy notion that Nintendo discovered a way to add DLC to NSMB on the DS. It wasn't until I saw that big "2" that I realized it was a full-blown sequel.

"A new Mario game -- not some odd spinoff but a true Mario platformer -- ought to be cause for celebration. Instead, I was deeply concerned that I had trouble distinguishing this sequel from its predecessor. Why should I be? Isn't it typical for a new game in a series to look similar to the ones prior? Well, not when we're talking about Mario."


"We've come full circle. For a game that has "new" in the title, it doesn't present any unique quality to the degree that all previous Mario games did. Every Mario game has been "new" and fresh compared to the previous one, but this game seems to emulate the world of the original Super Mario Bros. It's a return to the first Mushroom Kingdom with some added tricks culled from all the adventures since then. How oddly appropriate that in the Mario world what's new is considered old and what's old is considered new."

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Forum Games / Re: The Pointless Topic!

« on: May 27, 2012, 10:47:57 PM »

<a href=http://yo[dukar]urtle.wordpress.com/>

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Forum Games / Re: The Pointless Topic!

« on: May 27, 2012, 03:21:01 PM »

I've seen the Obama one so many times, but it never gets old.

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Mario Chat / Re: Mario Tennis Open

« on: May 26, 2012, 11:00:23 PM »

Wasn't the online play supposed to make up for there not being an RPG mode?

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Forum Games / Re: The Pointless Topic!

« on: May 24, 2012, 12:44:19 PM »

If you have a Sears near you, you should go check if they've got cheap video games today. A lot of them are getting rid of or downsizing their video game departments and have to get rid of a bunch of stuff. I'm getting DJ Hero 2 and a PS3 remote for $2 each right now, and a pair of PSP-branded earbuds for 60 cents.