Fear and Loathing in Mushroom Kingdom

Posted on By Wil

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Joystiq is one of my daily reads, and a frequent source for my Propeller links.

While skipping around the Internets like a pixie this morning, I landed at Joystiq, where I was rewarded with this:

"We had two bags of 1-up mushrooms, seventy-five pellets of fire
flower, five sheets of high-powered stars, a saltshaker half-full of
raccoon tail, a whole galaxy of multi-colored turtle shells, hammers,
POW blocks, laughers… Not that we needed all that for the trip, but
once you get locked into a serious power-up collection, the tendency is
to push it as far as you can."

You HST junkies will enjoy the additional text at Joystiq, which cites PixelGen, which cites ircimages.

Update: Livejournal user steelcaver says:

I’m constantly amused by the randomised collection of
six-degree-separated things that surface on the internet; in this case,
a page where an actor who once worked on a TV show that I watched is
showing pictures based on a video game I used to play, created by some
kid with an computer and image editing software. 

steelcave then discovers that:

[info]thornleaf has located the image’s original source, on suzyage4’s DeviantArt pages.  The image displayed has been replaced with the original version from her pages. 

Six degrees, indeed.

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Comments (9)

  1. I fell asleep at 2am watching Gilliam’s version of this. Waking up to another version is just bizarre.

  2. As a complete and total Thompson acolyte and a proud gamer geek, i have to say this his the best thing since Chocolate and Peanut-Butter!
    -7r0i

  3. off topic: Hey wil, was listening to rounders radio and Chris “fox” Wallace was talking about self publishing a poker book. I immediately thought of you for some reason. Would you care to devote some of your (extremely limited) time to talking to him about this?

  4. Thanks for reminding us how far Dr. Gonzo pushed the literary as well as the fabric of pop culture.
    As a bit of a Thomson buff – I have to say well played.
    He will be missed.
    Beware…this is bat country.

  6. Hi Wil,
    For some reason it took me a while to get the reference, but once I did it made me very happy.
    Off-topic, are you going to Dragon*Con in Atlanta ? I’m assured by gaming folk that the D&D play is terrific – I just go for the costuming and the opportunity to converse with actors like yourself. The featured guest application is here, and I bet folks would be psyched about the opportunity to see you on the east coast!

  7. Ha! This brightened up my bleak, full-of-sickness day. (Damn you, Sinuses! *shakes fist*) I needed that chuckle, even IF it made my throat scream at me.
    I feel compelled to post a link to something I did a few months back… Another bizarre Mario piece. Yes, I’m being “that guy”.
    http://satan666v.deviantart.com/art/Crisis-53070718
    “Crisis on Infinite ROMs”
    I love the melting pot part of the mind that does this sort of thing.

  8. *Cries happy tears*
    HST? And Mario?? It’s like all my favorite parts of the world are coming together! :::sigh:::

  9. *Cries happy tears*
    HST? And Mario?? It’s like all my favorite parts of the world are coming together! :::sigh:::

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