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ok i’ve been curious about something. can you name a character who is, all three at once,

1. canonically female (no variation)

2. canonically the protagonist of her story (if it’s an ensemble cast you have to say you can legitimately see her as The main character)

3. your personal #1 favorite character in that story (ties are acceptable)

?

yes

no

super nuance bald extract button (use this wisely)

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ethereal-crossroads

I want to say Lightning FF13. Considering her THE Protag might be a little bit of a stretch for some though. But the runner ups for most important plot characters in the party are also women lol

razzmothazz

still caring about internet friends you lost touch with years ago is so embarrassing. yeah i had a deam we met up irl recently. the last time we spoke was maybe 7-8 years ago. i still wear the laces we randomly decided was a sign of our friendship. i dont know what any of your socials are or if youre even active on any. sometimes i see someones art resemble yours and i wonder for hours. do you still go by that name you chose? whenever i see it i wonder if its you. we couldve passed each other in this vastness a thousand times and not have a clue.

razzmothazz

we were lonely kids having fun together. do you remember?

#and irl friends too

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you just teleported to the last game you played how is it going? {you're plot involved}

good

bad

great

awful

dead

I don't play games/results

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Soma 😔

ethereal-crossroads

Just hit some of the big Xenoblade Chronicles 1 reveals. Is "Uh...not well. Not well at all." a response?

evilsexy

toothsalad

suppermariobroth

In Super Mario World, whenever Mario completes a level, the path to the next level is revealed in a rather slow tile-by-tile manner. It is easy to assume that the effect is deliberate, to lend cinematic weight to the achievement of having beaten the level.

However, it turns out that the game is actually trying to perform the animation as fast as possible but is legitimately encountering slowdown due to the console not being able to process that many operations on each frame. The footage compares the speed of the original game's animation on the left and the speed after letting the game make use of a co-processor chip (not included in the original release) to achieve the speed the game is trying to display the animation at on the right.

Please note that this post is merely making a statement about the game from a programming perspective (the code is trying to execute faster than the game displays it) rather than an artistic perspective. We do not know if the slowdown was merely tolerated by the designers who would wish for the animation to be faster, or whether they actually wanted it to be this speed and the slowdown came in handy in that regard.

Source: kaptajnen, luansoliveira

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existennialmemes

They should invent a kind of burnout, where after you reach your limit of existential exhaustion for the third time, your health bar doubles and you transform into a bigger, stronger iteration of yourself. Like you're a nintendo boss in the final boss battle.