In Yoshi’s Island, if Yoshi spits out an enemy on the same frame as touching a mid-level checkpoint ring, he will have a glitched object in his mouth that will prevent him from using his tongue for a limited time. If this is performed on original SNES hardware and a world is cleared on that save file during the same play session, then the cutscene of the island that will play after clearing the world will become extremely distorted in the manner depicted.

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i have a lot of feelings and thoughts about coelacanths today

like… they’re blue

you have this mysterious fish that  no one really cared about, because everyone assumed they’d gone extinct with the dinosaurs. an interesting footnote, but one of many, many fossil species. 

and later the coelacanth gets some fame as a so-called “missing link” species, a theory which is now outdated (and not accurate for coelacanths) but was really influential at the time. because they have some weird biological quirks – bones in fins! – people were like “oh, they must be a missing link.” so the coelacanth was launched into some fame with the theory of evolution. it got brought up a lot. drawn in old textbooks as proof.

and then a fisherman finds a weird fish off the coast of south africa and calls a local fish expert who had let it be known she was interested in weird finds, and he brings her the (unfortunately badly rotted) corpse and she’s like “well, this is sure weird,” and sends off the bones to other experts, who start to quietly freak out, and rush to south africa, and rewards are offered for another one, any other one, and a few years later one is caught and frozen before rotting.

and it’s this incredible discovery, this extinct creature come to life (the prehistoric coelacanth lived in swamps and marshes in south america; these now are deep ocean fish in and around the indian ocean, but it’s still recognizably the same species)!

but it’s also blue.

not like, muddy blue, or tumblr-default-background blue.

proper shimmering sapphire blue and white. almost turquoise in some lights. this like… muddy, fossil creature. always drawn in dinosaur browns and grays. and it’s alive and it’s blue. just imagine being the scientist who opened that crate to this creature for the first time. you’re already excited, you’ve known about this fish for decades, you thought it was a story, you know it’s in this box. you expect  to see the weird fins and the strange tail. you know it’s large and odd looking. and you open it up and it’s this beautiful, shining blue, you know?

[img described: a coelacanth. it is blue.]

I like how the people at the Pokémon Company looked at this and thought “well shit, it’s fucking blue, with stars, it’s basically Starry Night on a fish, it already looks like a magical creature, what the fuck can we do to make this into a Pokémon, make it look shitty? make it a shitty brown colour? Make it looks tired and dead and shitty? Fuck it, we’re making it fucking brown.”

Peep the shiny though, getting the best of both worlds

breaking news: prince philip, the dad from the royal family, is a nasty little thottie. and he just died from making it clap on instagram

if you dont like the trash pokemon and the keys pokemon and the ice cream pokemon fuck you

astounding how quickly the Super Mario 3D All Stars announcement went from “oh, Nintendo’s actually doing something cool for once, nice” to “oh fuck you nintendo” at mach 7 speeds

ebay exclusive game release

I should probably says something about how this is an insanely unprecedented scumbag tactic on their part that creates artificial scarcity towards a product people were already complaining was scarce in the first place and that you should pirate media constantly and always to prevent big corporations from doing shady shit like this to you all the time but instead I’m gonna say more like nintendo bitch lol

this is a transgender zone you either support trans rights or you die dude

nintendo’s frothing rage over the existence of emulation is the most embarrassing shit

boohoooooo people don’t want to pay the $100+ aftermarket prices for 15+ year old games we refuse to port and no longer even make money ourselves off of anymore. cry me a fucking river

it says “not a god”

Pre-orders of Amaterasu nendoroid from Okami by Max Factory. She'll be released in November 2020