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Added by Ryan Davis on May 6, 2009
It's amazing the sort of crazy nonsense you'll totally accept at face value when you're a little kid. Playing Super Mario Bros. when I was eight, I did not flinch at the game's fever-dream logic concerning ambulatory mushrooms or flowers that make you shoot fireballs. This was simply how things worked in the Mushroom Kingdom.
Kotaku reader and Carnegie Mellon student Theyab has taken this line of thinking to its logical conclusion with The Science of the Mushroom Kingdom, which is basically a textbook that treats all of the bizarre rules of the Mushroom Kingdom as though they applied to our world, and explains them in simple, pseudo-scientific terms. It's pretty convincing as a textbook--I particularly like that it's published by McToad-Hill--and it somehow makes the already-crazy Mushroom Kingdom seem even crazier.
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Ah, the science of gaming. Wonder if this could be done with any other games.
Awesome
but I kinda like being an 8 year old in a fever dream better
Still a pretty good idea.
Was this supposed to be an ODB reference or no? Can't tell. "I be droppin' science like girls be droppin' babies, enough to make a nigga go CRAazzz-y!"
On topic, they should totally sell this book.
On topic, they should totally sell this book.
Written by "Herringway," eh? Nice little Paper Mario reference, there.
This brings to mind an actual book about the physics of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. That's all I've got.
This brings to mind an actual book about the physics of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. That's all I've got.
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