wikipedia claims to be 'the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit' but when you venture beyond the realm of 'basic' editing (fixing typos, correcting broken links, removing obvious spam/vandalism), you'll discover that a great many articles are effectively controlled by either a single editor or a clique of editors who regard it as being their own personal fiefdom for them to do with as they please (namely promoting their own specific POV of the subject of the article)
I JUST LEARNED THAT SAMUS ARAN WAS NAMED AFTER PELÉ????????/ THE FOOTBALLER????????
(if you're wondering how: hiroji kiyotake, a football fan and designer on the orignal metroid, named the character after pelé's real name except he thought pelé's real name was 'samus arantus nascimentos' and not 'edson arantes do nascimento')
didn't realize until i saw this image but congrats to modern paper mario for getting rid of all the female characters sans peach, birdo, and then one third female character in each game, i guess?
(i am not seriously congratulating them obviously, fuck them for this shit like genuinely)
i still have not started paper mario the thousand year door or princess peach showtime but i cannot start princess peach showtime because i think the shrinkwrap nintendo uses is what they wrap fort fuckin knox in lol
people will join this forum and make like 6 posts and they're all completely insane and then their threads get
moved to thread storage and they never show up again for like 4 months and then come back and start posting the exact same shit again and then get hit with a permaban by the mods
In the Greek dub of Thomas the Tank Engine, the Fat Controller/Sir Topham Hatt is called Kýrios Chontropatátas, which basically translates to MR FATTY POTATO
I have Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door and Princess Peach Showtime now.
BEFORE YOU SAY ANYTHING LIKE 'Wtf Viola your grandpa died and you bought video games???????????????????' let me point out two things:
1. I had an NSO voucher to use that I redeemed to get TTYD digitally yesterday. (I bought the vouchers back in March because I wanted Pokémon Shield and was saving the other for something else)
2. I bought Princess Peach Showtime physically yesterday with cash BEFORE my grandpa died, OK. He died at 8:42 pm and I was at GameStop at like 7pm when I bought the game. I was not out shopping knowing he was dead, I was at home when I learned it.
THIS ALL HAPPENED YESTERDAY BEFORE HE DIED, I AM 100% GUILT-FREE WITH THESE PURCHASES.