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Four-Story Pixellated Mario Mural
MasterPlaid writes "A group of anonymous cowards (eningeers) has apparently constructed a four-story mural of scenes from the NES Super Mario games. The best part is, they did the whole thing out of Post-It Notes, recreating the wondeful pixellated goodness we expect from Super Mario. The idea for this mural seems to have originated in the Strong Bad email of the same name."
I wonder if they could use the smaller post-its for "hi-res" effect? Maybe it would be fun to do a pin-up next time :)
I might know what I'm talkin' about, but then again, this is Slashdot...
Which lucky lady inspired them engineers to do this?
Come on. Can this do anything but benefit Nintendo?
Don't blame me -- I voted for Roslin.
Original post says these draings are out of SNES Mario, Yet those are definately 8 bit sprites.
Laziness is a virtue, anyone who bothers to tell you otherwise, is clearly lacking it.
How old is your son? If he's a teenager (or older), there's really nothing to worry about. If he's younger than that, there's really nothing worse than you'd find in a saturday morning cartoon, but I doubt he really understands some of the jokes. As for "moderately bad language"... I don't ever recall any of the characters cursing, but feel free to show me an instance of such. Not that it makes any difference to me, but I'm curious where you got the idea they they are foul mouthed.
no obvious means of generating revenue
Link to their online store
They make a ton of money off of t-shirt sales. In fact, they make enough to pay for bandwidth and support themselves so they don't have to get a real job.
I've been to the site and it just looks like a bunch of crap in Flash.
It's comedy goodness. Just because it's Flash doesn't mean it's crap. I bet you're the type that judges anime as "child stuff" because it's animated. Since you didn't notice the store page, I really wonder how much time you spent at the site. The most popular part of the site are the Strongbad emails. There's a link directly to them at the bottom of the page labled "SB Emails". There are over 100 of them and are produced once a week. If you really want to get an idea of what they're like, I recommend just starting at the first one (at the bottom) and working your way up.
They're also fond of making flash games that are similar to and somewhat make fun of old 8-bit games from the 80s and early 90s. They're surprisingly fun and always have humor to them.
It's basically just some guys (and one girl) who are quite creative and funny (to a lot of people, though as for humor there's never any accounting for taste) and having a good time.
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I just bought 2100 Post-It Notes(r) from Costco, I think it was about $11.
They used "~3800" for this artwork... Even if it were 5x the cost isn't that only $100.
Define "expensive"? Maybe it was a joke, but divide the expenses among the "12 people" involved and I hardly find it "expensive".
Now, if they get caught and charged with some sort of criminal littering offense, that's expensive! (And wasn't there some sort of law passed against "destroying art?" - hmm, maybe this needs to stay up...)
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
Which was actually released later in japan as Super Mario Brothers USA, and was quite popular.
I wouldn't consider SMB2 to be crappy. The whole pick-up-and-throw mechanic was quite original. It's the only non-party Super Mario Brothers game where you can play as Mario, Luigi, Toad, or the Princess. Throwing bombs, riding projectiles across pits before picking them up and throwing them at bosses, the dark universe... The game was pretty darned good. If people didn't have expectations for what being a Super Mario Brothers game meant, the game would probably have been extremely well liked. Especially considering the time frame that the game was released in.
Nintendo recognized an underselling gem, and gave it a major boost. Good for them. The Doki Doki Panic guys deserved it.
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