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Cake day: August 20th, 2023

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  • Agreed. I played through it and it wasn’t bad by any means, but the graphics were pretty much the only interesting thing about it. I don’t think I ever went back to it after beating it once, whereas I played through Mario World a lot. And trying to do the collectathon 100% crap was boring as hell, because so many random hidden bananas were off the top of the screen or just down pits, so I hope you like dying a bunch to figure out which pit doesn’t happen to kill you.



  • I’m not disagreeing with your larger point but I don’t necessarily buy the part of your explanation saying

    This is easily demonstrable since “a” and “the” have the same vowel sound in fluent speech (for most dialects of English), but while we get “a cat” but “an apple”, we don’t get “the cat”, but “then apple”

    because in most dialects (at least of American English) “the” before a consonant uses ə while before a vowel sound it’s ē.



  • We played it in school on 5.24” floppies.

    Tech around that time depended a lot on what was affordable. Like I had 5¼ floppies at home but school had Apple IIGS with 3.5" drives that we used for Oregon Trail.

    Also wikipedia is telling me that 5.25 floppies were actually 130 mm, which would be 5.1". I guess “five and a quarter” rolls of the tongue better so they rounded up.