Kamek the Magikoopa

Digital Magikoopa Extraordinaire and regular gaming nut.

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Dr. Seuss’s publisher once bet him that he couldn’t write a book using only 50 different words. 

He decided to prove him wrong, and ended up with Green Eggs and Ham.

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In 1897, Indiana almost passed a bill to change the value of pi. An amateur mathematician decided he had proof that pi was not 3.14, but actually 3.2, so he convinced the state to take on the bill. It passed the House unanimously, made it through a Senate committee, and likely would’ve been approved if a professor from Purdue hadn’t been in town. After hearing the news, he went to the state- house, watched the debate, decided to intervene, and eventually convinced the Senate that the theory was nonsense. 

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Watermelons used to taste awful.

The fruits, which are technically berries, originated in Africa, where they were only harvested for their water content.

At that time, they had a nasty, bitter flavor, but centuries of selective breeding made them extra tasty.

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The red planet has blue sunsets. 

Just as colors are made more dramatic during Earth sunsets, Martian sunsets make the blue around the sun look more prominent, because all the fine dust in the atmosphere is the perfect size for scattering blue light across the sky more efficiently than any other.

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Senator William Maclay of Pennsylvania observed that ‘even the great Washington trembled when he faced the assembled representatives and senators:’ 

“This great man was agitated and embarrassed, more than ever he was by the levelled Cannon or pointed Musket.”

The first line of Washington’s First Inaugural Address, April 30 1789:

“Among the vicissitudes incident to life, no event could have filled me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and received on the fourteenth day of the present month.”

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When asked about the many people who question the meaning of Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody,’ Freddie Mercury said, ‘F— them, darling… I’ll say no more than what any decent poet would tell you if you dared ask him to analyze his work: If you see it, dear, then it’s there.’ 

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When you eat a pineapple, it eats you back. Pineapples are the only known carriers of bromelain, an enzyme that breaks down proteins. Since your body is made of proteins, the pineapples you eat are also trying to digest you - which is why a fresh pineapple can turn your tongue into a sore piece of sandpaper. 

[kamekthemagikoopa-phl]

No blog updates this time, but it’s been 10 years since I joined Tumblr. 🥳🎂🎁🎉

[pianokantzart]

I try to make an effort not to debate people online about completely pointless nonsense like Switch 2 misinformation.

So imagine my absolute delight when my sister and brother in law tried to explain to me that “you won’t really own any of your switch 2 games because they’re all on keycards,” accidentally giving me permission to ascend into my true form: the most insufferable nerd you’ve ever met.

[nerdlebirdle]

Can you please expand upon this??

I want to know more and be able to proper share this information!

Or if you know how i can access further information on this, i will gladly read it! Im just not sure where to start!

[pianokantzart]

Okay… so a lot of videogame companies are trying to transition away from physical media, since putting so much information on mass produced cartridges carves a chunk out of their profits. It’s reached a point that some videogame consoles, such as the Xbox series S and certain versions of the PS5, have removed the disk drive entirely.

As a workaround, Nintendo is offering Switch 2 “game-key cards” which contain just a download code instead of the actual game, so that games can be given as gifts and placed in physical collections while still being relatively cheap to manufacture.

But people who care about videogame preservation and media ownership rightfully have a bone to pick with this idea. Not only that, but Nintendo made the mistake of not being abundantly clear that this was only an option for game developers and not the new normal for all their games. In fact, Nintendo has no plans to put any of their first-party titles on game-key cards. Mario Kart World, Donkey Kong Bananza, Zelda BOTW and Zelda TOTK, Mario Party Jamboree + Jamboree TV, Kirby and The Forgotten Lands… all of those cartridges are going to contain the actual game.

Here’s a complete list of the Switch 2 games with a physical release, detailing which ones will be on a key card and which ones will contain the actual game for all who are interested.

And shoutout to Cyberpunk 2077 for being an absolute GOAT and actually putting their game on a cartridge.

[mossdftba]

THANK YOU! Some librarians in my system were discussing (in a group email chain) how they were going to add Switch 2 games to their library's video game collection!

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In 1997, two composers created ‘The Most Unwanted Song’ by issuing a public opinion survey and compiling all the lyrical and musical elements that most people found annoying.

The song features a harp with an accordion, out-of-tune children singing about Christmas and Walmart, lots of high-pitched flutes with tubas and keyboard demos, someone yelling random political terms through a megaphone, and an operatic soprano rapping over cowboy music, bagpipes, and screaming.

It’s 22 minutes long. 

We're sorry.

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Researchers will be pleasantly surprised as popular search engine, Google, on Wednesday celebrates one of the most popular Filipino dishes... the adobo.

The Google doodle features two kids take in wafts of a meal of adobo and white rice with the ingredients that include garlic, bay leaves, and sauce.

The adobo has numerous variants that can be found in different parts of the country.

The Filipino dish may contain meat, seafood, or vegetables marinated in vinegar, soy sauce, garlic, bay leaves, and black peppercorns.

The ingredients are cooked in oil, left to simmer in its marinade. (source) (via Celebrating Filipino Adobo)

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Google is honoring legendary Filipina writer Paz Marquez-Benitez on her 129th birthday today, March 3, with a specially designed Google Doodle. Marquez-Benitez is well-known for her pioneering work in literature, particularly for her contribution to the modern short story in English from the Philippines through her famous work Dead Stars.

The Google Doodle showcases an illustration of Marquez-Benitez set against a backdrop of shining stars, symbolizing her popular short story’s title. Dead Stars is a love story between engaged lawyer Alfredo Salazar and the charming Julia Salas, framed as a somber and melancholic tale that explores the American occupation’s impact on local culture and social norms.

Apart from being a successful author, Marquez-Benitez was also a popular writing professor at the University of the Philippines until her retirement in 1951. Her work and teachings at UP inspired and encouraged many highly-regarded writers over the years. Moreover, she founded the Philippine Women’s University, a pioneering educational institution that helped advance women’s education in the country. (source) (via Paz Marquez-Benitez's 129th Birthday)

[genuinehumanboy]

today is video games’s birthday.

[wheel-skellington]

Happy birthday videogames

[ubuyo]

[plutotheforgotten]

Video games will have existed for 50 years next year

[radish-snail]

Happy 50 video games

[gaming]

Happy 50th birthday, video games!

[kamekthemagikoopa-phl]

My, how old are they right now?

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Google commemorated Rosa Sevilla de Alvero, considered as one of the noted suffragists in Philippine history, on her birthday with a doodle. She would have been 142 on Thursday.

The doodle of her casting a ballot, with the hands of other women from succeeding generations doing the same thing, is showed on the Google homepage. Sevilla de Alvero was a journalist, educator, and activist who rallied across the country in 1916 to fight for women’s right to vote and be voted into office, according to a post from the Google blog. In support of her cause, she founded the Liga Nacional de Damas Filipinas (“National League of Filipino Women”), it added.

She and other revolutionary women in the suffragist movement eventually succeeded in their crusade after several years of struggle. On September 17, 1937, Filipino women finally gained voting rights. (via CNN Philippines)

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Noticed today’s Google Doodle of a female diver on the main page of the search engine?

That is Filipino-American Victoria ‘Vicki’ Manalo-Draves, who won gold medals in the 3 meter springboard and 10 meter platform events in the 1948 London Olympics.

The Doodle celebrates the heroic feat of Draves in the Games on this day 72 years ago.

Draves, who was born in South-of-Market district in San Francisco, became the first American woman to win two gold medals in diving and the first Asian-American woman to win an Olympic gold. (source) (via Celebrating Vicki Draves)

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Multinational technology company Google pays tribute to a second Filipino artist this month, this time the subject of a Google doodle is the late visual artist Pacita Abad.

The first Filipino was the King of Comedy, Dolphy or Rodolfo Quizon in real life.

An internationally renowned artist Pacita Abad, based on a website dedicated to her, is known for her “experimentation with colors and materials.”

Born in Basco, Batanes, Abad’s painting career spanned three decades.A graduate of the University of the Philippines, she has also traveled to the United States for her graduate studies. (Source) (via Celebrating Pacita Abad)

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Rodolfo Vera Quizon (a.k.a. Dolphy) would’ve turned 92 today.

We will miss him dearly. (via Dolphy’s 92nd Birthday)