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Videogame facts that blow your mind (SuperMarioBros. SHOCKING SECRET INSIDE p #70)
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There's dozens (if not hundreds) of falsified google research results... It's your first?Ramma2 said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb
More evil than Satan himself was going to Microsoft, Dumb Motherfucker to Bush related merchandises, miserable failyre its biography, weapons of mass destruction returns a fake 404-not found, French military victories to "No document match the query. Did you mean French military defeats?", "asshole of the internet" in French was bringing french president homepage, etc.
dreamcastmaster
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bernardobri said:
That is fucking amazing! :lol
This isn't really mindblowing, but still quite neat. I read a few pages back (OK, a lot of pages back) that the SSBM theme was similar to the Zelda Dark World theme and SM64 Bowser level theme. But that's not all. Listening to the various Super Smash Bros. themes, you can hear bits from loads of different Nintendo games; for example, the Super Metroid theme has the same rhythm, and a similar melody. Melee's Final Destination theme has sections from, for example, Star Fox 64's opening. Melee's opening theme (and some other one I can't remember) have a bit very similar to a melody from the Kirby's Adventure Butter Building theme. There are definitely more Nintendo themes hidden in the Smash Bros. music I missed.
ImNotLikeThem
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Ok now I want to go back to this again. What exactly are you asking to be explained? It does seem like the image explains itself pretty directly. But I do suppose if you haven't even played the game it would be harder to get.voltron said:
Tarin02543
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The music in the Bowser levels in SM64 always remind me of Terminator 2.
viewtiful_dru
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interesting comparison (listen to both):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtXbdrsQVP8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxd_jSUeD6o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtXbdrsQVP8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxd_jSUeD6o
Subliminal
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jaxword said:
This is GAF and you sir are a second class citizen.
Slightly Live
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Subliminal said:
You know folks that have acted like this have regretted it.
There's an infectious tag for folks that act smarmy to juniors!
Hopefully the ever watching eyes above are turned in your favour.
jecclr2003
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bernardobri said:
That's great!
Red Scarlet
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bjork said:
Place has been a shell of its former self for about 4 years now.
Trojita
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SuperAngelo64
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Dani said:
That was actually my first time calling out a junior. I'm usually against the kind of arrogance... but.. 'tit for tat' in this case. Retro-gaming elitism is starting to really grind my gears lately.
So whatever.
Koren said:
In which?
In the DS Castlevania one, look at the part 2 video. He goes "in" the walls with a glitch that tricks the game, then when he resumes his game he can warp right to the end. Can't be something intentionally programmed.
In the Ducktales one the guy does something similar, but remains in the same stage, just further along.
I am sure plenty of people knew this, or understood it originally, but "Phoenix Down" in Final Fantasy refers to down as the feather, like a down comforter full of goose down. I discovered this through listening to giant bombcast.
I always thought the "down" conveyed it's ability to resurrect a dead player. It blew my mind.
I always thought the "down" conveyed it's ability to resurrect a dead player. It blew my mind.
oracrest said:I am sure plenty of people knew this, or understood it originally, but "Phoenix Down" in Final Fantasy refers to down as the feather, like a down comforter full of goose down. I discovered this through listening to giant bombcast.
I always thought the "down" conveyed it's ability to resurrect a dead player. It blew my mind.
I perceived the word "down" the way you did when the item was listed as "Fenix Down" in Final Fantasy III on the SNES. At the age of 10, I think I just thought Fenix was a word I didn't know the meaning of, or that it was an invented but acceptable word in the world of FF. :lol I'd pronounce it as "Fennicks down", not realizing what fenix was supposed to be a mangled version of.
As soon as I saw it corrected to Phoenix in a later FF, I was like, "oh, down are the feathers." FU FF3's text character limit! :lol
Houston3000
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They even call them "Tufts of Phoenix Down" when you loot them in more recent Final Fantasy games.
out0v0rder
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kinda like "tango down" in shooters.oracrest said:I am sure plenty of people knew this, or understood it originally, but "Phoenix Down" in Final Fantasy refers to down as the feather, like a down comforter full of goose down. I discovered this through listening to giant bombcast.
I always thought the "down" conveyed it's ability to resurrect a dead player. It blew my mind.
This is so simple, that I'm surprised I can't find it mentioned before; perhaps it's well-known, and I've just missed it, but a friend just stumbled on this by accident, and I can't believe it's not deliberate; it's a remarkable coincidence if not.
Rot13 is quite a popular basic spoilering and (extremely simple) encryption tool; quite simply, each letter of the alphabet in the phrase you're changing is replaced with the one 13 letters ahead, so a->n, b->o and so on. http://www.rot13.org/ is a convenient way to do the conversion on-the-fly.
In Mass Effect, Wrex is a popular character. He's grumpy and a bit of a pain in the ass, but that's why a lot of people like him.
Try ROT13ing Wrex.
Rot13 is quite a popular basic spoilering and (extremely simple) encryption tool; quite simply, each letter of the alphabet in the phrase you're changing is replaced with the one 13 letters ahead, so a->n, b->o and so on. http://www.rot13.org/ is a convenient way to do the conversion on-the-fly.
In Mass Effect, Wrex is a popular character. He's grumpy and a bit of a pain in the ass, but that's why a lot of people like him.
Try ROT13ing Wrex.
slaughterking
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Heh, funny. And certainly not well-known. 
PetriP-TNT
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Furcneqmclem said:
StevePharma
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zvaq oybja :lol
Snytbaggen
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JerkPetriP-TNT said:
EmCeeGramr
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Listening to those roars from last page again, I actually think they might be elephants. This isn't that rare, actually. The famous Alien screech when they get shot is actually... a young elephant trumpeting.
Anyway, another thing which was probably brought up in this thread before, but SEARCH LOLZ. Playing Rondo on VC reminded me of this.
However, the phrase "Un miserable petit tas de secrets" lived on in Malraux's name, where it eventually ended up in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.
So now you know, that phrase isn't awkwardly thought-up script writing or Engrish on Konami's part.
Anyway, another thing which was probably brought up in this thread before, but SEARCH LOLZ. Playing Rondo on VC reminded me of this.
That phrase is commonly misattributed (it supposedly comes from an aphorism used in the psychiatric community) to French writer and statesman Andre Malraux. The original saying amongst psychiatrists was, "Man is what he hides, a wretched little pile of secrets." Malraux responded to this with, "Man is what he achieves."
However, the phrase "Un miserable petit tas de secrets" lived on in Malraux's name, where it eventually ended up in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.
So now you know, that phrase isn't awkwardly thought-up script writing or Engrish on Konami's part.
RelentlessRolento
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i see a green vagina
PantherLotus
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Did you know that NeoGAF's avatar maximum dimensions (90x120) has the same ratio as a 600x800 wallpaper on its side?
PetriP-TNT
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FurcneqSnytbaggen said:
PantherLotus
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oatmeal said:
That's dangerously close to obvious, man.
darksonatine
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Did you know that Robin Williams' daughter Zelda was in fact named after the Legend of Zelda and then she grew up to be a gamer? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelda_Williams
