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Build A Mario Church For This Window
9:30PM AJ Glasser | Stained glass is something Jewish kids can enjoy while guesting in their Catholic friends’ cathedrals (like what happened to me on Sundays after sleepovers). If only all stained glass windows were this geeky. More »
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Dennis Hopper Has Cancer
8:30PM AJ Glasser | The actor who voiced Steve Scott in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and played King Koopa in that ill-conceived Super Mario Bros. movie has prostate cancer, the Associated Press reports. More »
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6:30PM AJ Glasser | It’s times like these, I wish I could crochet instead of knit (and poorly at that). More »
Amazing Mario Tanooki Suit Rug
6:30PM AJ Glasser | It’s times like these, I wish I could crochet instead of knit (and poorly at that). More »
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Miyamoto, Asked Why Peach Isn’t Playable, Looks To Skirt Issue
3:00AM Owen Good | Oh, the eminent Nintendo designer still answered the question directly. He just said that Peach’s flowing gown would have required different programming to incorporate her as a playable character in New Super Mario Bros. Wii. See? Get it? “Skirt issue?” More »
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Do I Want To Go As Princess Peach For Halloween?
8:30PM AJ Glasser | I resisted going as a video game character for Halloween because cosplayers’ homemade duds invariably put mine to shame. But now video game costumes are commercial — so I should get my Peach on. More »
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2:00PM David Wildgoose | Time was, nearly every game was 2D. Side-scrolling or top-down view, the vast majority of games from the ’70s, ’80s and early ’90s depicted a two-dimensional play area. But since the proliferation of 3D games, 2D has become a dirty word. Why? More »
Why Do We Look Down On 2D Games?
2:00PM David Wildgoose | Time was, nearly every game was 2D. Side-scrolling or top-down view, the vast majority of games from the ’70s, ’80s and early ’90s depicted a two-dimensional play area. But since the proliferation of 3D games, 2D has become a dirty word. Why? More »
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Toad’s Gay? Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That …
4:30PM Owen Good | Brentalfloss is back at it again, discovering clues to Toad’s sexual orientation in the lyrics to the Super Mario Bros. 2. Or at least the ones he made up for it. More »
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Super Mario Bros. Music On Stepper Motors
6:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Besides being used in robotics, stepper motors were used to read and write floppy discs back in the day. They can also be programmed to make noise — musical noises. More »
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