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The King of the Mushroom Kingdom
This past weekend Shigeru Miyamoto visited Nintendo World in New York City. Hundreds of people stood in line for hours to get a few moments with the man behind some of Nintendo's most well known games. The Game Chair has a look at what it felt like to be on the ground at the event, while Joystiq has a more information based writeup of the event. From Joystiq's post: "While there, we learned that Miyamoto is left-handed. That had to have been tough for him growing up, because in Japanese culture left-handedness is loaded with negative meaning and experiences. It's considered rude to hold your chopsticks in your left hand in Japan and China, for instance. It's also a helluva lot more difficult to write classic kanji with the left hand. Top calligraphers are never left-handed, as brush strokes look wrong when pushed across a page rather than pulled across the page with the right hand. It's also considered a sure sign of creativity and artistry, according to some."
I thought i had it bad being left handed. In college we had only right handed desks, but compared to this guy i had it easy.
Great man, great life
To Hell with the Queen of England!
Well, thanks to the reverse-wiring of the human brains, it's well established that only us lefties are truly in our right minds.
Famous lefties include Joan of Arc, Michaelangelo, Paul McCartney, and David Ortiz.
...so 9 out of 10 of us are always right. Thankfully for the rest of us, those crazy left-handed people have shorter lifespans: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-handed#.22Disapp earing.22_Left-Handers/
That's Slashdot for you: a story about a video game industry legend turns into a thesis on left-handedness. And completely speculative, too, it's not like Mr. M. himself went on a long rant about how hard it was being left-handed.
Slashdot: Rants by nerds. Stuff we made up.
Quick, somebody make a Simpsons reference so this story's Slashdot quotient will be complete!