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An extremely obscure detail in Super Mario RPG is that there is one inn in the game that allows Mario to stay even if he cannot pay for it, being the Seaside Town inn. Since it is encountered in the latter half of the game, it is unlikely Mario would not have the 15 coins to pay for it, and a player with no money left would likely simply rest at Mario's house for free instead.

This is the only inn that normally costs money that allows Mario to stay even if he cannot pay; the Rose Town and Monstro Town inns are free by default, while every other inn will not let him stay if he does not have enough money.

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Extremely rare officially licensed 1993 British Bowser figurine.

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Various early concept art for Mario's design in the 2023 Super Mario Bros. movie.

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A relatively obscure music track in the Paper Mario soundtrack is "Happy Sun" (unofficial name given by the community since the track does not appear on the official soundtrack CD).

When the Sun Tower is visited during Chapter 6 while the Sun is being prevented from shining by the clouds created by Huff N. Puff, a sad song (commonly called "Sad Sun") plays in the area. After destroying the source of the clouds, the player then sees the Sun ascend in a cutscene, and has absolutely no completionist reason to ever go back to this area since it is barren and has no collectibles.

However, if the player does go out of the way to return to the Sun Tower after completing the chapter, this original "Happy Sun" music will play. It is bizarre that the developers decided to dedicate two unique pieces of music to an area that has nothing in it except an NPC that needs to be talked to exactly once.

Source: DaintiiMusic

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Previously, I have posted about how in the prototype version of Mario Artist: Paint Studio for the Japan-only Nintendo 64DD add-on, crashing the game shows a bizarre "You've been DINGLED..." screen with a British school crossing patrol officer, colloquially known as a "lollipop man" (included since the game being mainly developed by Software Creations, a British studio).

Interestingly, this is barely visible in the game itself as the actual "You've been DINGLED..." screen appears for only 2/3 of a second before being replaced with the crash debug information. As such, it appears that even during the prototype phase this was intended to be a sudden moment of surprise that requires viewing it multiple times to fully process the image, and was likely inserted as a prank between the British programmers.

Top: how the crash appears in-game. Bottom: the "You've been DINGLED..." screen, isolated.

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the extended atla franchise is really proof for why an IP-based approach to art does not work because while it is true that michael dante dimartino and bryan konietzko Created atla, it should be clear from the quality of the rest of the installments in the franchise with their name/stamp of approval on it that they were not the deciding factor in the quality of the original show. in fact, many if not Most of the series best episodes were written by head writer aaron ehasz and his then-wife elizabeth welch. neither of theses two have the Right to make more avatar even though they're a big part of what Made It in the first place.

ehasz then went out to put out 'the dragon prince' for netflix which was not a show i was crazy about but i think i feel pretty confident in calling it better than legend of korra.

now what's also notable about this situation is that ehazs is a notorious enough misogynist to have a section of his wikipedia page devoted to his alleged professional mistreatment of women

elizabeth on the other hand has absolutely no presence online whatsoever. ATLA is her only writing credit. She wrote eight episodes of the show including Zuko Alone, The Avatar and the Fire Lord, and The Southern Raiders. She and aaron are now also divorced.

Now, if you know anything about how misogynist male creatives working in the same field as their wives operate, then you can probably reach the same conclusion I have. If a man is willing to treat female coworkers like his nanny and assistant as a baseline, imagine what he feels entitled to expect from a female coworker that is also his wife. I would not be surprised if much of the work on ATLA that ehasz was able to build his career off of would not have been nearly as good without a lot of behind the scenes assistance from elizabeth.

so of the 4 people mentioned here, the one with the absolute least claim of any entitlement to the Intellectual Property of the avatar franchise is overwhelmingly likely to be the most responsible for the meaningful character and narrative writing that caused ATLA to even earn enough accolades to be worth franchising in the first place.

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#this is such a confusing post?? nickelodeon controls the ip of atla and the creators have made that very clear#they said when the live-action movie came out they had no say in it being made or by whom#so they blundered by making korra (even by not hiring back elizabeth whose career begins and ends with atla according to imdb)#how does that make them responsible for the poor state of the ip at al???????? you’ve failed to convince me lol

i didn't expect this post to get any traction and be seen by anyone other than my immediate followers who already know how i feel about this sort of stuff, so i didn't really Explain my point here. but i'm not arguing that bryke are responsible for mishandling the ATLA IP at all, i'm making the case that an IP-based system just does not facilitate good artmaking in general.

like it's not that i think elizabeth welch is The One True Genius Mind Behind Avatar and is the person who actually deserves the real credit/the one who could have Made The Franchise Good if they'd let her. but what i am trying to point out by bringing her up is that there are so many unsung people working on these sorts of projects who are critical to their execution (notably what ideas live and die by) but who don't get factored in to either the legal understanding of who has the right to produce More of it, or our cultural ideas about who gets to claim authority over a work.

like if you remember when the new netflix show was announced the whole big thing among the fanbase was Bryke Are Gonna Be In This One So It Could Be Good For Real! obviously they ended up leaving the project so we will never know if their version of that would have been good or not (i suspect not, personally) but. point being is there's a common conception that because bryke hold the status of Creator over this work, they have the capacity to imbue continued ventures in this IP space with legitimacy and quality in a way other people don't. and i feel like that's just been proven to be untrue based on how underwhelming and dissonant korra felt.

in a world where we had no real legal structures in place or deeply entrenched social ideas about who has Ownership over a fictional setting and it's characters, anyone would have the liberty to produce related works in a more legitimized context than fanfiction and contribute to a greater and richer collective body. we'd have the luxury of picking and choosing whose interpretations of these ideas and themes we like, as we currently do for public domain works and those based in fairytales/myth.

i think that would be much better than having to sit around and cross our fingers hoping that a profit-motivated corporate entity will deign to produce anything other than hollowed out nostalgia bait.

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Wh-what do you mean it’s from a birthday cake

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We could have been eating him

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"if there's a revolution disabled people might die" wow so glad thats not happening right now.

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i just dont think communists are going to cut power to hospitals while on the other hand private equity might and quite literally "america" and its collaborators will bomb a childrens hospital

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And once again for the people in the back: political revolution is about regime change - something that happens pretty regularly around the globe without massive disruption to manufacturing or trade. If you hear "revolution" and think we're going to somehow lose access to modern technology and have to go back to subsistence farming and herbal medicine, I suggest reading less dystopian YA and more history.

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back to testing. here is the essence of wrestling

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this fight legitimately took forever and I have no one to blame but myself for piling the boss with all the defense

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a ton of people have unexpectedly followed me over the last 2 days so here is my rent-lowering gunshot:

the american south is the most racially diverse and poorest region of the united states, and any political sentiment that treats the south is stupid or expendable is inherently racist and classist. a lot of y'all are racist and classist. the south is also the heart of american culture. argue with a wall. you cannot deny that everybody in the entire world does not emulate artists from atlanta. there is vested interest in keeping the south poor and uneducated BECAUSE this is the most racially diverse region in this country. if you actually give a fuck about progress, you would fight for the south, not mock us.

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back to testing. here is the essence of wrestling

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back to the testing mines after personal stresses from yesterday

i continue to find more issues, like the fact that i messed up the above sentence

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Not sure if I need to raise the prices of everything yet, since you'd be juggling around the needs of 11 separate people at the point the last store upgrade is available

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oh yeah no I don't need to raise prices I'm getting stabbed lol

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i have no problem showing this map because it's not as if people can discern how to navigate anyhow without playing

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need to figure out how to reposition HP bars if enemies are too tall...

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back to the testing mines after personal stresses from yesterday

i continue to find more issues, like the fact that i messed up the above sentence

[scitydreamer]

Not sure if I need to raise the prices of everything yet, since you'd be juggling around the needs of 11 separate people at the point the last store upgrade is available

[scitydreamer]

oh yeah no I don't need to raise prices I'm getting stabbed lol

[scitydreamer]

i have no problem showing this map because it's not as if people can discern how to navigate anyhow without playing

[scitydreamer]

back to the testing mines after personal stresses from yesterday

i continue to find more issues, like the fact that i messed up the above sentence

[scitydreamer]

Not sure if I need to raise the prices of everything yet, since you'd be juggling around the needs of 11 separate people at the point the last store upgrade is available

[scitydreamer]

oh yeah no I don't need to raise prices I'm getting stabbed lol

[scitydreamer]

back to the testing mines after personal stresses from yesterday

i continue to find more issues, like the fact that i messed up the above sentence

[scitydreamer]

Not sure if I need to raise the prices of everything yet, since you'd be juggling around the needs of 11 separate people at the point the last store upgrade is available

[scitydreamer]

back to the testing mines after personal stresses from yesterday

i continue to find more issues, like the fact that i messed up the above sentence