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cottoncandylesbo

oh hello delightful forest boar. why are you charging at me so fast

sm64mario

bob-omb bagel field

paperandpencilsandskips

This is fucking killing me. Like what

aflo

Lend your power to me, lion...

suppermariobroth

In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, being Electrified is a purely beneficial status condition for anyone who receives it (whether it is Mario's party or an enemy), as all it does is deal contact damage to whoever attacks that character with a non-ranged attack.

However, it turns out that in the game's code, an unused functionality for Electrified exists that would have made it act more like the Paralysis status common in RPGs (e.g. like the Pokémon series games), whereby it would also have a chance of preventing the afflicted character from making a move on that turn. Note how in the footage, Mario and Goombella only briefly shake instead of being able to perform their attacks.

This actually explains an odd behavior in the game whereby enemies would sometimes use items to cure Electrified when it never needed to be cured in the first place (bottom image, dramatization from an earlier post explaining this phenomenon). These enemies must be acting upon a script written under the assumption that Electrified is still able to incure the Paralysis-like effect, which was not updated when the effect was removed during development.

The Spiky Goomba in the scenario means well, he is simply acting on outdated information.

dustinkcouch

*explaining the backrooms to my grandmother*

see how your hallway looks like my childhood? that's called liminal. you are what's known as an "entity"

daily-super-dictionary

chair

sm64mario

please do not'a remake my game don't do it do not remake my'a game

chr0n0mage

they already did, mario. on the ds

sm64mario

oh yeah...

hmm

mario will not be afraid of change any more!

sm64dsmario

Thank you.

sm64mario

why do you look like that

squidkidghoul

beacause... you look like that....

zolurk

this video is really funny to me right now

dustinkcouch

me in the Ghost Hunting group chat: good find tommy! there's something up with that tire for sure

me in the Disney Exec GC that I was added to by mistake: Agreed. People will love seeing "Little Yoda" on the "Big Screen"

me in the smaller Ghost Hunting GC: tommy thinks his tires are haunted hahaha

heathcliffbot

06/09/2026

evilwizard

it’s time for demons to come out of the ground and for everyone to get special powers

#Luxavern circa 4000000 BCE #royalbane

pukicho

Nintendo direct predictions: Honestly just Bowder

squidkidghoul

Bowder

orteil42

i strongly feel there should be a bart simpson emoji

orteil42

roaldamundsen

never ask a woman her age a man his salary your mutual how late it is in her timezone when she starts posting about that bisexual man

roaldamundsen

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roaldamundsen

can people stop saying insane things on this post

bogleech

I've had this conversation 4 times this week but characters in stories aren't SUPPOSED to be bluntly verbally confronted by other characters about their bad behavior.

I get that a lot of people naturally have difficulty with non-literal communication but in *serious* storytelling, the morality of the characters is supposed to be "addressed" symbolically and wordlessly. If a character is mean, and then gets eaten by a dinosaur, that *is* supposed to be enough acknowledgement that they were an asshole. The author, their god, metered out karma.

I scrapped a much longer post about this but it's only mostly in kid's media, and frankly only recently, that characters explain in words what was right or wrong about one another's actions, and that only happens because Disney Channel forces the writers to shoehorn that in against their will. Writers expect you to be smart enough to already know right from wrong, and the "justice" experienced by characters is often expected to be partially or completely meta.

squidkidghoul

On the one hand, yeah, the audience shouldn’t need to be handheld through the morality of every story. On the other hand, though, it’s always much more cathartic to have the villain proven wrong by the story rather than killed via deus ex machina, and redemption arcs and characters grappling with their actions are interesting in their own right.