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Re:First-Person Mario by tomrod on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @09:18PM (#33186020)
Mario passes in front of things like backgrounds and similar. Since there is a notion of over/under, he lives in a two dimensional world.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros.#/media/File:...

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Re:First-Person Mario by dudeinjapan on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @10:07PM (#33186317)
What proof do you have that he isn't displacing the supposed "background" like a bacteria moving in a petri dish?
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Re:First-Person Mario by tomrod on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @11:11PM (#33186714)
Calvinball rules say the volume of bushes, as a liquid, aren't compressible. Pixels are not moved, outline is overlaid by the body without surrounding the body.
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Re:First-Person Mario by dudeinjapan on Thursday October 13, 2022 @02:27AM (#33187912)
Perhaps they are transmogrified?
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Re:First-Person Mario by tomrod on Thursday October 13, 2022 @08:48AM (#33190273)
Then Mario is above them during the transmorgrificalization.
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