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Super Mario (out of this) World!

ichikorisposts

Te prometí colores para llenar tu vida, un gozo eterno e infinito latiendo en cada rincón tuyo.

Quería vivir dentro de ti, como las flores que nacen de la tierra...

Con la diferencia de que mi amor brota y jamás se marchita.

Pero tú eres como el universo:

demasiado hermoso, demasiado peligroso.

Sé que detrás de tus luces se esconde la trampa, que eres un agujero negro devorándolo todo.

Un abismo que fascina, un peligro donde quiero perderme.

~κσгι.~

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If you want it bad enough, you will chase it. That one dream. No matter how many hurdles you face you'll keep going. If you fall several times you will pick yourself up again no matter what. It will become your routine. It will be so well incorporated in your life you won't forget it. And no matter how much chaos there is you will stick to it. If you have to try and fail several times you will try everything. If you want it bad enough you will forget to sleep. You will dream and dream endlessly. But you will also act on it, every single day. And even if you fail one day you'll try again the next day. If you give it up, it wasn't truly your dream. But if it is then you'll stay. And one day, without realisation you will be on the top of the world, at your desired destination. And when you look back there'd be miles and miles you've left behind, it's a reminder of how far you came.

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king lear (jean-luc godard, 1987)

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Scary to think this-- a world without entertainment!

vintagegeekculture

George Plimpton was the first ever celebrity spokesperson and pitchman for a video game, for the Intellivision, between 1980-1983.

A well known advertising pitchman, George Plimpton was a polymath and prankster who might have been one of the most well rounded and interesting people to ever live. He was friends with Ernest Hemingway, and like Hemingway, he was an author who loved sports and competition, writing several first person memoirs about boxing and competition. He also was the man who grabbed and tackled Sirhan Sirhan after he shot Robert Kennedy. He was also an actor, made movies and television, and especially was famous for being a product pitchman, mostly because he was one of a few people left by the 70s and 80s who still had that wonderful trans-atlantic accent associated with Ivy League New England (you know, the FDR, or Thurston Howell III voice from Gilligan’s Island).

Decades after his time as a product pitchman, however, George Plimpton would become the subject of one of the strangest memes of all time. At a time when Newgrounds was the center of the meme world, an offhand comment from Joel Hodgson about a “George Plimpton’s Video Falconry” game caused a lot of people to try to find this fictional game. This is mostly because a “bit” about John Hodgeman’s persona is that, as he sounds so authoritative, he can say absolute nonsense and pass it off as true. To quote Hodgeman himself: “the idea of something sounding true is more important than it being true.” There is no George Plimpton’s Video Falconry, but there kinda could be, right? That sounds like the sort of sporty, Ivy League, Patrician rich guy thing George Plimpton would be into, right? Falconry, or polo? In reality, George Plimpton wasn’t that much of a cartoon, though. He enjoyed boxing - as Sirhan Sirhan discovered.

Either way, there is no George Plimpton’s Video Falconry, but people on Newgrounds made fake trailers, fake art…and who can blame them, “George Plimpton’s Video Falconry” is fun to say.

One person even took it a step further, and created the actual game, George Plimpton’s Video Falconry, as if it was an actual game for the Intellivision, down to the all-important detail of creating an Intellivision control slider: