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30 years of Super Mario 64 and I genuinely don’t think people who weren’t there can understand just how magical this game felt.
Walking into Peach’s Castle for the first time. Hearing the music. Running down those hallways, finding a painting, and realizing you could literally JUMP INTO IT and enter an entirely different world.
Every door was a mystery. Every painting was a new adventure. Every star felt like you’d discovered something nobody else had.
The first time you flew with the Wing Cap. Racing that stupid penguin down the slide. Swimming through Dire, Dire Docks. Running around Bobomb Battlefield with absolutely no idea what you were supposed to be doing, but somehow having the time of your life.
And the music. God, the music.
There was no YouTube tutorial telling you where to go. No internet spoiling every secret before you found it. Just you, your N64, and an entire new game to be explored.
I think what makes me emotional looking back is realizing we weren’t just experiencing one of the greatest leaps in gaming history. We were experiencing a kind of childhood wonder you can never quite get back. Those mornings sitting on the floor in front of the TV, completely lost in a world that felt so big.
I can still hear the castle music and immediately feel like a kid again.
Briefly returned to twitter and every tweet is promoting a *totally sick account* that i must follow
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This instantly reminds me of a mother in Gaza who had to take 580 Heparin injections & went through hell to conceive a child via IVF, only for Israel to murder her son
She clutched to his lifeless body while shaking in terror & kept saying "forgive me son"
Anyone who had IVF would understand the huge pain involved in the process. Israel bombed Gaza's fertility clinics, burning thousands of embryos.
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A white co-worker at my old job told me that she didn't believe racism was as big of a deal as ppl made it out to be until she started dating a black man.
They saw a woman getting beat by a man on the street and called the cops. Her boyfriend told her they should leave because when the cops arrive they will think HE is the suspect. She thought he was being paranoid about racism and waived off his concern.
The police pulled up quickly and drew their weapons on him immediately. She had to jump in front of him and beg the police not to shoot and told them the man beating the woman is the WHITE guy a hundred feet away from them.
She broke down crying when she told me this and said she never felt so ignorant in her life and didn't know how she went 40+ years as a parent whose kids had several black friends who she would always invite over but recognized she still never understood the racial reality they faced until that moment.
She said it caused a crisis inside of her and she had to ask herself some very hard questions for a while but came out on the other side more educated and understanding.
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In the 90s, Hitachi came up with a bizarre way to conserve memory bandwidth.
Their SuperH architecture, intended to compete with ARM, was a 32-bit architecture that used…16 bit instructions.
The benefit was really high code density. If you can fit twice as many instructions into every cache line, the CPU pipeline stalls way, way less.
This was *really* important for embedded devices, which were often extremely bandwidth constrained in the era.
Sega famously used the processors for the Dreamcast, and ARM actually ended up licensing their patents for Thumb mode!
I think perhaps the weirdest thing about SuperH was its concept of “upwards compatibility”. The ISA itself is a microcode-less design, all future instructions were trapped and emulated by older chipsets.
It’d be slow…but you could run future code on very old chips! Very neat design, a massive success through the 90s and 2000s, that slowly faded.
Don't ever stay at @SheratonDallas or @sheratonhotels
These people double charge you for a hotel and make you go through hoops for a month for a possible refund, they also lie about adding points to your account for the inconvenience. Poor service
Got an email about a 2br duplex apartment in Houston Heights at $975
not bad not bad
zillow.com/homedetails/1413-…
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Thank you so much for sharing my story 🙏🏾 I truly appreciate the support. I’ve started a GoFundMe to help me continue my fight for justice. If you’re able, please follow me to stay updated on my journey. gofund.me/8a4e46f2a
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Reworking old explorations of my diesel punk/cassette futurism world from a few years back.
Defense Contractor Suits mainly used as a deterrent for hostile intentions.
Continuing with my ethos of the mundane and utilitarian.
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An average picture that you save on your phone or PC has a size of around 400 kilobytes. It doesn't do anything, it's just a static image.
Now divide that by the factor 10, so you drop to 40 kilobytes. That's the size of The Last Ninja, developed by System 3 and published in 1987.
I still struggle to comprehend, even in the slightest, how programmers back then did what they did - and the worlds they created with the limitations they had to work with.
I was simply blown away by the graphics (isometric on the C64 with such an amazing level of detail - simply gorgeous) and absolutely mesmerized by the kickass sound. What Ben Daglish and Anthony Lees conjured up musically will forever be part of gaming history - an iconic masterpiece.
40 kilobytes man...
