{"id":8466,"date":"2020-09-04T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=8466"},"modified":"2020-09-03T10:59:57","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T15:59:57","slug":"mind-blown-but-in-the-worst-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=8466","title":{"rendered":"Mind blown (but in the worst way)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday, Nintendo uploaded a fun new promotional video to show off all the junk they&#8217;re going to try to sell you for Mario&#8217;s 35th anniversary. You can watch it below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Super Mario Bros. 35th Anniversary Direct\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s_UcjEq2Dgk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And it&#8217;s like, okay, most of these products I don&#8217;t really give a sniff about. The LEGO, the t-shirts, the AR Mario Kart&#8230; thing, a <strong>Super Mario 3D World<\/strong> re-release. Cool things that fans might enjoy, but are not for me, specifically. But there were a couple items that I would <em>definitely<\/em> buy, like the <strong>Super Mario 3D All-Stars<\/strong> collection. And maybe that neat Game&amp;Watch machine. And also <strong>Super Mario Bros 35<\/strong>, which is free-to-play so why not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But then you stop and think about the history of Nintendo and special merch like this. That <strong>Super Mario Bros<\/strong> Game&amp;Watch machine is going to be obscenely rare, and will quickly skyrocket in price on eBay and whatnot. So I&#8217;ve already convinced myself that I actually don&#8217;t care about it and that I&#8217;m not even going to bother trying to buy one. It&#8217;s unfortunate because the consumer whore in me is hurting, but the reality is that there&#8217;s really no need for it anyway. I&#8217;m better off without. I already have many avenues through which to play Super Mario Bros.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m also completely perplexed by the idea that Nintendo is only going to be selling Super Mario 3D All-Stars for six months. And then it&#8217;s gone. Into the Disney vault, as they say. I could understand a short run on physical cartridges, but the digital version too? It&#8217;s an incredibly weird choice. But it doesn&#8217;t really affect me because you know I&#8217;m picking that collection up on day one anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The thing that really, truly makes me grumpy is that Super Mario Bros 35 is going to be a limited time only thing. I know that nothing lasts forever, and that I should focus on enjoying it while it&#8217;s around, but I just can&#8217;t understand why Nintendo wouldn&#8217;t choose to support this <em>awesome<\/em> idea for more than a few months. I could absolutely see myself picking it up for a run or two every so often like I do with <strong>Tetris 99<\/strong>, but it is not meant to be. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, grumps aside, I&#8217;m really happy that I&#8217;ll be able to play <strong>Super Mario 64<\/strong> on yet another machine. That is, after all, the true meaning of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Nintendo uploaded a fun new promotional video to show off all the junk they&#8217;re going to try to sell you for Mario&#8217;s 35th anniversary. You can watch it below. And it&#8217;s like, okay, most of these products I don&#8217;t really give a sniff about. The LEGO, the t-shirts, the AR Mario Kart&#8230; thing, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=8466\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mind blown (but in the worst way)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mario","category-retro-gaming","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8467,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8466\/revisions\/8467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}