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Compilation of fascists getting their shit rocked for the soul:

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Top: this is what the regular ending of the Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2, known internationally as Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, looks like. It is extremely similar to the ending of the original Super Mario Bros., except instead of Mario walking up to Peach directly after defeating Bowser, he first approaches a door, which then turns into Peach (presumably either he walks through a door and she is on the other side, or she walks through it) before she speaks.

Bottom: there is a commonly known glitch in Super Mario Bros. whereby Mario activates Bowser's axe on the same frame as touching Bowser, resulting in him both winning and losing at the same time. The camera then usually scrolls over to Toad or Peach who speak to nobody before the level ends.

In the case of the ending of Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, there is an additional side effect of that glitch. The door never turns into Peach, so that the text from Peach starts appearing without either Mario or Peach being physically present, with just the door being on screen. Normally, the seven Toads also appear after this (not shown in the footage); these also fail to appear during this glitch.

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Oaxacan Patchnose Snake (Salvadora intermedia), family Colubridae, Oaxaca, Mexico

photograph by Halla Draco Sebastian

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Goldeneye/Bucephala clangula/knipa, juvenile. Mariehamn, Åland (25 May 2026).

[herpsandbirds]

can you show me some corvids? perhaps?

YOU COME HERE? TO ME HOUSE? AND YOU ASK ME? FOR CORVIDS??? IN THIS DAY???

Sure.

Black-throated Magpie-Jays (Cyanocorax colliei), family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, NW Mexico

photograph via: Gulf Coast Bird Observatory

Racket-tailed Treepie (Crypsirina temia), family Corvidae, Kaeng Krachan NP, Thailand

photograph by Michael Gillam

Common Green Magpie (Cissa chinensis), family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary, India

Photograph by Sandeep Chakraborty

Tufted Jay (Cyanocorax dickeyi), family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, endemic to Mexico

photograph by Daniel Garza Tobón

Pied Crow (Corvus albus), family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, Etosha National Park, Namibia

photograph by Frank Vassen crowcorvidaecorvusbird

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Hi, I’m currently obsessed with Ovenbirds (Seiurus aurocapilla) after taking a field ornithology course this spring. They were very common and we caught and banded several of them, very cute and chill birds. May I request some pics of them? Thanks!!

Ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapilla), family Parulidae, order Passeriformes, Alabama, USA

This species is not related to South American Ovenbirds (family Furnariidae), but is instead in the New World/Wood Warbler family Parulidae.

The common name comes from the oven-shaped ground nest they make, which is domed, and constructed of woven together plant materials (such as grasses and pine needles).

photograph by Robin Rudd

Florida - photograph by Ken Schmidt

New York - photograph by Tim Lenz

Minnesota - photograph by David Brislance

Maine - photograph by Puffin Ponderings

photograph by Rhododendrites

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Top: in Donkey Kong Bananza, the elephants in the Tempest Layer are a community of weather forecasters. While at first this appears to be simply a deliberately odd combination, similarly to the zebra ice cream makers or snake sculptors found elsewhere in the game, this may actually be based on a real-world scientific fact about elephants.

Bottom: it was long suspected and finally confirmed in a 2014 study that, using a combination of not yet understood subtle signs in the environment, elephants are able to predict rainfall from 150 miles away and migrate towards it to increase chances of finding food and water. It is theorized that the mechanism of their detection involves their acute hearing and an ability to sense atmospheric pressure changes.

Whether this connection is deliberate or merely a remarkable coincidence is unknown.

Source: altermentality, original study

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by Michael Gimenez Rodriguez de Vera

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Grey-winged Robin-Chat (Sheppardia polioptera), family Muscicapidae, order Passeriformes, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda

photograph by Birdquest

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The battle system in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is designed in a modular manner so that every entity, whether it's Mario, his partner, or an enemy, can theoretically use any move simply by calling its script. Of course, most moves are only supposed to be used by specific entities, causing many unintended effects if they are given to others.

A humorous effect occurs if an enemy is made to use the Earth Tremor special move. The enemy correctly hops onto the giant Crystal Star, and the move correctly deals damage to Mario and his partner (as those are that entity's enemies, and thus the targets).

However, the script for that move calls for Mario's partner specifically to jump onto the Crystal Star alongside the move user, even if the user is not Mario. This can be seen in the footage with Goombella joining the Goomba that is using the move on the star.

The visual result is that Goombella looks like she is "betraying" Mario by joining the Goomba in performing the move against him.

Source: SilverGames136

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Tiger-striped Tree Frog (Callimedusa tomopterna), family Hylidae, Tarapoto, Peru

photograph by Jack Small

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Promotional shirt from the Tour de Fun, an event held in Chicago by Nintendo of America in 1990.

Source: 5starvintage

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Original Donkey Kong 64 illustration found on a cover of a 1999 issue of EGM magazine.

Source: FesteringAynus

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(DISCLAIMER: no birds were harmed in these photos, they were caught and banded under the appropriate permits for research; these were pics from my Field Ornithology class at Itasca State Park, MN. Everything was done by professionals and/or under professional supervision and the birds were released safely.)

Ovenbird girl again, here is the handsome little guy (can confirm he was a male, we checked) that helped me fall in love with the humble Ovenbird. I have many more pics of Ovenbirds and a variety of other songbirds that my class banded, it was an amazing experience to get so close to these animals.

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Variable Reed Snake (Calamaria lumbricoidea), family Colubridae, Malaysia

photograph via: Explore Herpetology

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Crucifix Toad (Notaden bennettii), family Limnodynastidae, QLD, Australia

photograph by Will Hunt

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In Paper Mario: The Origami King, one of the jokes that can be optionally encountered in the brief visit to Peach's Castle late in the game is attempting to open the door on the right side of the foyer, which is locked. Bowser will then suggest there is nothing on the other side to begin with.

While this is true in the sense that there is no actual way to open the door and it does not lead to a room, looking behind the door reveals there is actually a space there that is identical to the spaces used for loading zones behind other openable doors in the game, so the door could in fact accommodate being opened and taking Mario to another room. It stands to reason that the space behind the door would not be modeled at all if it was not intended to be opened at any point, as is overwhelmingly the case with unopenable doors in 3D video games.

This suggests that the door was possibly intended to lead somewhere during development and the room was removed, and Bowser's comment is not merely making fun of unopenable doors in video games but also is inside joke for the developers. It should however be noted that it is possible that the space was simply copied over from the other side of the room when it was modeled (since the layout is symmetrical), though the room is not actually exactly symmetrical making this slightly less likely.

Source: noclip.website

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