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A secret about the world of Mario

BiggNife said:
Please tell me I wasn't the only person that assumed the OP was going to be "the bushes in SMB1 are recolored clouds"
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I thought the same thing...

wth is the point of the thread? To give me hope that somewhere a Mario exists who, instead of rolling a boulder up a hill like Sisyphus, is eternally in search of a princess who keeps getting captured?
 
JKBii said:
Some theoretical physicists believe there are alternate universes where the things we think of actually exist. I think this is true in the Mario universe and all of Mario's adventures exist for him to get from his universe to another. Every time he beats a task, he is thrown to world with slightly different objectives and graphics and he keeps doing them in the hopes of finding clues about how to get to the next place (it happens after the credits of a game).

One minute he's in Super Mario 64, and then after he saves the princess, the cake has a message for how to go to Mario Kart 64 and race. And when he gets the 150 cc Special grand prix gold trophy, boom, he goes to the next game, and so on. The dimension warps are so staggering that a lot of times, characters don't make it into a game, or they end up in a universe that overlaps with someone like Sonic or Fox or Pikachu or that smelly guy Wario.

Anyway, the other characters all have objectives too. Obviously Bowser doesn't want Mario to get to the next world in most cases, unless he screwed up really badly in the last world and needs to get out of this new world (that's when he ends up like how he is in Paper Mario or Mario & Luigi games). I wonder what Peach's objective is?

The real interesting thing about this is that instead of Mario going to a variety of universes, he could just be one guy in one world and we've heard a bunch of different stories about him from a variety of sources. If that's the case, I wonder who/what they were and how they are able to communicate with us at all.
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JKBii said:
Some theoretical physicists believe there are alternate universes where the things we think of actually exist. I think this is true in the Mario universe and all of Mario's adventures exist for him to get from his universe to another. Every time he beats a task, he is thrown to world with slightly different objectives and graphics and he keeps doing them in the hopes of finding clues about how to get to the next place (it happens after the credits of a game).

One minute he's in Super Mario 64, and then after he saves the princess, the cake has a message for how to go to Mario Kart 64 and race. And when he gets the 150 cc Special grand prix gold trophy, boom, he goes to the next game, and so on. The dimension warps are so staggering that a lot of times, characters don't make it into a game, or they end up in a universe that overlaps with someone like Sonic or Fox or Pikachu or that smelly guy Wario.

Anyway, the other characters all have objectives too. Obviously Bowser doesn't want Mario to get to the next world in most cases, unless he screwed up really badly in the last world and needs to get out of this new world (that's when he ends up like how he is in Paper Mario or Mario & Luigi games). I wonder what Peach's objective is?

The real interesting thing about this is that instead of Mario going to a variety of universes, he could just be one guy in one world and we've heard a bunch of different stories about him from a variety of sources. If that's the case, I wonder who/what they were and how they are able to communicate with us at all.
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-edit

thought he fainted
 
JKBii said:
Some theoretical physicists believe there are alternate universes where the things we think of actually exist. I think this is true in the Mario universe and all of Mario's adventures exist for him to get from his universe to another. Every time he beats a task, he is thrown to world with slightly different objectives and graphics and he keeps doing them in the hopes of finding clues about how to get to the next place (it happens after the credits of a game).

One minute he's in Super Mario 64, and then after he saves the princess, the cake has a message for how to go to Mario Kart 64 and race. And when he gets the 150 cc Special grand prix gold trophy, boom, he goes to the next game, and so on. The dimension warps are so staggering that a lot of times, characters don't make it into a game, or they end up in a universe that overlaps with someone like Sonic or Fox or Pikachu or that smelly guy Wario.

Anyway, the other characters all have objectives too. Obviously Bowser doesn't want Mario to get to the next world in most cases, unless he screwed up really badly in the last world and needs to get out of this new world (that's when he ends up like how he is in Paper Mario or Mario & Luigi games). I wonder what Peach's objective is?

The real interesting thing about this is that instead of Mario going to a variety of universes, he could just be one guy in one world and we've heard a bunch of different stories about him from a variety of sources. If that's the case, I wonder who/what they were and how they are able to communicate with us at all.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo4LPpeAvTE
 
cuyahoga said:
Hello, I'm San Francisco's favorite weatherman and total hardcore gamer, Barry Blizzard, and this is your KPIX Weekly Pixel Break--a weekly segment where I definitively look and the highest and most high-tech developments in the ever-evolving video-gaming world in just five minutes.

This week we take a look at and review the newest Super Mario Wii video game, Dr. New Super Mario Party Strikers Brothers, which has been controversial because of its startling content.

At the start of this more realistic M-rated game, Mario is still a plumber but he's in Minneapolis instead of the Mushroom Kingdom. And Princess Peach? That's just her stripper nickname, and you better call her Regina. At the start of the game, Mario learns that Luigi was not his brother by blood and is kid out of his apartment by a pregnant Princess Peach because of his chronicle alcoholism--which causes him to see a warped personal reflection Wario. Wario the even worse person that Mario can potentially become--a boorish, constantly hungover jerk whose only human contact is one-night-stands with mediocre bartenders; think Randy from The Wrestler sans any opportunity for redemption. (Like The Wrestler, Bruce Springsteen contributes the game's theme song, "Plumbin' Away," and Mario is quite obsessed with a NES video game about someone with the same name as himself.)

The makers at Nintendo have expertly weaved a character whose complexity rivals that of contemporary literature and cinema, and blows the gaming competition out of the water; the pain induced by this initially pathetic 33-year-old plumber afraid to confront a life gone eschew following a terrible decision to drop out of NYU is heart-crushing to say the least. Tear-inducing on a level that Nicholas Sparks or James Frey only wishes, and, like, the amount of tearage could, like, serve as hydro power for a small Eastern European community between two or three thousand people. I'm even starting to tear just thinking about tearing over the tears this might cause. (Stay strong, Barry--there's only two more minutes.)

I don't want to spoil much of the experience, but I'll just say the beginning where you use the Wii Balance Board to attempt to walk in a straight line for a police officer even though you are completely plastered is completely extraordinary. When you use the Wii Zapper to shoot out what haunts you mentally--the inability to see your newborn child and the disappointment of not living up to even the ambitions of your parents--it's, like, oh man, dude, a page out of the book of real-life, like, beautiful. I've never encountered play mechanics used as such a stirringly subtle metaphor, and they're, like, reminiscent of the quintessential male deterioration and recovery found in so many of the Great American Novels. It's true you don't have to get better, and you can avoid enrolling at the local community college and turn into Wario, yes, but do you want that virtual kid not to have a virtual father? I DO NOT THINK SO.

Simply put, it's a Pixel Break approved artful piece of mature entertainment, and until next week it's game over.
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Good read man

McBacon said:
If there are really infinitive universes acting out infinite possibilities, then somewhere there's a NeoGAF where every reply to this thread is "You are a genius".
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Thanks

Grampasso said:
Don't panic guys, I did a search about the OP and I discovered that his opening post is his 1000th on the forum.
Congratulations JKBii!
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Thank you, this is a beautiful coincidence.
 
Thunder Monkey said:
I totally get what you're talking about.

The human subconscious has connections to each plane of reality through our alternate realities counterparts.

The trick isn't to look for them, it's to look around them. Once you do that those thoughts will traverse across realities and come to rest in your mind, generally received through your 3rd eye.

From that point worlds of possibilities are at your fingertips.
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This guy gets it
 
Anyone else expecting this to be in the OP?

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Then again, I'm told this is from Pokemon? I always thought it was the hills in SMW :lol
 
POWERSPHERE said:
I watch Tim & Eric and laugh along AT this lump of shit we call modern society.
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Preeeeety sure that's not what the show is about, but whatever floats your boat. I watch it because it's fuckin random and reminds me somewhat of internet humor.
 
Whimsical Phil said:
A long long time ago, the Earth was ruled by dinosaurs. They were big, so not a lot of people went around hassing 'em. Actually, no people went around hassling 'em cuz there weren't any people yet. Just the first tiny mammals.

Basically, life was good. Then something happened: a giant meteorite struck the Earth. Goodbye dinosaurs!

But what if the dinosaurs weren't all destroyed? What if the impact of that meteor created a parallel dimension where the dinosaurs continued to thrive and evolve into intelligent, vicious, and aggressive beings... just like us?

And hey, what if they found a way back?
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Well I must say we have a very exciting proposal.

A videogame, based on your many adventures!

But what would you call it?

Iggy's World?

The Indomitable Spike!

...

THE SUPER KOOPA COUSINS
 
"The real interesting thing about this is that instead of Mario going to a variety of universes, he could just be one guy in one world and we've heard a bunch of different stories about him from a variety of sources.."

That actually sounds pretty cool. I like the idea of the tale of Mario as a myth or folk story.

Your other shit is wayyyy out there though dude.
 
JKBii said:
Some theoretical physicists believe there are alternate universes where the things we think of actually exist.
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True that theoretical physicists believe that alternate universe exist, but not universes that reflect what we think, such as "dream worlds". This would be more in line with metaphysics and more or less Mario would be in a kind of Astral Plane or the Dreamrealm, which reflects our hopes, dreams and imagination. This idea was more elaborated on in the game Little Big Planet in the introduction.
 
JKBii said:
Some theoretical physicists believe there are alternate universes where the things we think of actually exist. I think this is true in the Mario universe and all of Mario's adventures exist for him to get from his universe to another. Every time he beats a task, he is thrown to world with slightly different objectives and graphics and he keeps doing them in the hopes of finding clues about how to get to the next place (it happens after the credits of a game).

One minute he's in Super Mario 64, and then after he saves the princess, the cake has a message for how to go to Mario Kart 64 and race. And when he gets the 150 cc Special grand prix gold trophy, boom, he goes to the next game, and so on. The dimension warps are so staggering that a lot of times, characters don't make it into a game, or they end up in a universe that overlaps with someone like Sonic or Fox or Pikachu or that smelly guy Wario.

Anyway, the other characters all have objectives too. Obviously Bowser doesn't want Mario to get to the next world in most cases, unless he screwed up really badly in the last world and needs to get out of this new world (that's when he ends up like how he is in Paper Mario or Mario & Luigi games). I wonder what Peach's objective is?

The real interesting thing about this is that instead of Mario going to a variety of universes, he could just be one guy in one world and we've heard a bunch of different stories about him from a variety of sources. If that's the case, I wonder who/what they were and how they are able to communicate with us at all.
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I have pondered over your theory that was presented here and have come to some interesting conclusions. If there are indeed universes in which anything we can think of exists, and since this is true for Mario it is also true for other things. Although the idea of Mario hopping through universes in his universe is certainly one of the most interesting ideas, there are many others. With infinite universes, every game we have played has actually happened.

Perhaps instead of just hearing different stories of Mario, and instead of a universe-hopping Mario, perhaps the laws of his universe allow his universe to be changed in such a way that all games in fact take place in the same universe. In this case, none of the characters get lost in the warp, they are just absent from the present events. When Mario completes a task, the laws of his universe are altered in such a way that it looks like a completely different universe. This would kind of agree with your last statement. Mario would just be a person who's story has somehow came to us.

The stories we see in games have actually come true somewhere else and maybe the idea has leaked through the universes into someones conscious and that person happened to develop it into a game to be played by us.

It all suddenly makes sense.

All we can do is be glad that we live in a universe where GAF exists. I think we can all agree on that.
 
Often I hate the way GAF treats new or unpopular ideas when it comes to games or the gaming business. The automatic dismissal of what could be a valid point. The GIF's and smilies without explanation and the false aura of superiority. This is not one of those moments.
 
C4Lukins said:
Often I hate the way GAF treats new or unpopular ideas when it comes to games or the gaming business. The automatic dismissal of what could be a valid point. The GIF's and smilies without explanation and the false aura of superiority. This is not one of those moments.
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You're right.

Zelda timeline theory threads are the proper place for this.
 
Welp. Couldn't sleep a few minutes ago until I read the OP, now I've laughed so hard I don't have the energy to stay awake. Thanks, dude. You should charge for your services.


-Kimo
(zzzZZzzzZZZzzz)
 
EmCeeGramr said:
Mario trading cards

in a binder


maybe during lunch and recess we can head out under the tree and trade Mario trading cards in our binders. better not leave my binder full of Mario trading cards in the cloak room or my cubby. we'll drink some Capri Sun and eat some of those Lunchables with the sticks you dip into cheese product. we'll discuss the latest escapes of a television team of powerful rangers who are either new or in the expanses of space. mayhaps a brief dialog on the nature of shiny rocks we've found in the dirt, or plotting a stratagem against a local enclave of fiery formic foes.

alas! the bell is ringing and Mrs. Muller and Ms. Bertrand are waiting for us and our peers. the trading of Mario trading cards in binders will have to wait until tomorrow. we must now focus our attention on mastering the arcane secrets of indirect objects.
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:lol
 
C4Lukins said:
Often I hate the way GAF treats new or unpopular ideas when it comes to games or the gaming business. The automatic dismissal of what could be a valid point. The GIF's and smilies without explanation and the false aura of superiority. This is not one of those moments.
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While I agree with that last sentence, it did remind me of one of my favorite examples. After seeing Wii Sports shown with Nintendo execs' heads on the players, GAKMAN theorizes wiimotes can store data for customized "Wiiple".
 
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