Super Mario 64's Invisible Walls Explained Once and for All

Re:Super Mario 64's Invisible Walls Explained Once and for All by bongodongobob on Saturday April 13, 2024 @11:42PM (#40028465)

Not at all. It's the reason we have literally everything we have. This is the type of person that society needs. We've got enough db admins or golfers or LoL players or whatever it is you deem is worthy of your time. There's a reason you have a nice mattress to sleep on. Some guy literally studies mattress springs so you don't have to. You should take some psychedelics or MDMA or something because your viewpoint is kind of fucked up and is likely projection of the fact that your own life is also meaningless and lacks purpose. There is no meaning or purpose, it's up to you to decide. This dude is crushing it and you feel sad? Kinda gross.

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Re:Super Mario 64's Invisible Walls Explained Once and for All by mazdayasna on Sunday April 14, 2024 @12:20AM (#40028620)

This is probably the most condescending comment I have read on HN all year.

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Re:Super Mario 64's Invisible Walls Explained Once and for All by bongodongobob on Sunday April 14, 2024 @12:54AM (#40028761)

Condescending is feeling sorry for someone who is doing brilliant shit because it's a waste of time, they should be bettering themselves. Like working harder at their job, or having a normal hobby like playing golf or watching football or fishing. You know, normal things like I do. It just seems so sad they what they are doing is a waste of time.

Sorry I didn't add a "I don't mean to be a dick" comment like parent did.

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Re:Super Mario 64's Invisible Walls Explained Once and for All by pests on Sunday April 14, 2024 @04:30AM (#40029630)

Who says he doesn't? Stop being so judgemental, get your nose out of others business. He may have a more fulfilling life than you even. Go find a hobby you actually enjoy instead of harassing someone whose found theirs.

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Re:Super Mario 64's Invisible Walls Explained Once and for All by throwaway74432 on Sunday April 14, 2024 @12:03AM (#40028553)

I feel very deeply that my life is full of meaning, so it can't be projection. Not interested in trying to suppress my feelings with drugs either.

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Re:Super Mario 64's Invisible Walls Explained Once and for All by bongodongobob on Sunday April 14, 2024 @12:09AM (#40028583)

Sounds like you're a DARE kid. Promise you that some mushrooms, LSD, or MDMA isn't suppressing anything. You definitely need a perspective change and those are very good at doing that. I hope you find a way to treat your dismissiveness of the human condition and enjoy your limited time here.

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Re:Super Mario 64's Invisible Walls Explained Once and for All by icebergonfire on Sunday April 14, 2024 @12:32AM (#40028683)

I love videogames, understanding how a speedrun is made is technically fascinating for me and I am also known to love some other things under the appropiate set and setting[1]... but I'll defend the OP because certainly don't think it follows that someone is a bad human that needs to do drugs just because they don't see the allure of Super Mario 64 and the people who are knowledge-hungry and obsess in understanding its guts.

[1]: Readers please do the research before experimenting, you are tweaking your brain's running config with extremely opaque tooling that is not fully understood. Most of the time the calamity-event chance is low, it's a high impact event if it happens. Plural of anecdotes is not data, and oh do people confuse these.

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Re:Super Mario 64's Invisible Walls Explained Once and for All by throwaway74432 on Sunday April 14, 2024 @12:23AM (#40028637)

I'm not dismissing anyone, nor am I a "DARE kid", nor am I projecting my own "meaningless life." I'm simply sharing my own unprocessed genuine reaction to this kind of content, and trying to see if anyone else can relate to it. You obviously don't, which is fine, but I don't see why you seem to be taking it personally.

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Re:Super Mario 64's Invisible Walls Explained Once and for All by dang on Monday April 15, 2024 @01:54PM (#40043650)

Crossing into personal attack will get you banned here, so please don't do that.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

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Re:Super Mario 64's Invisible Walls Explained Once and for All by nonethewiser on Sunday April 14, 2024 @12:21AM (#40028625)

> Not at all. It's the reason we have literally everything we have. This is the type of person that society needs

I think this misses his point. I believe the despair is precisely that we dont need speedrunners and such. And that its not benefitting is like the mattress spring expert is.

> There is no meaning or purpose

If you believe this, then surely you can understand why he would feel despair over something that justifies itself in there being no meaning nor purpose.

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Re:Super Mario 64's Invisible Walls Explained Once and for All by whamlastxmas on Sunday April 14, 2024 @12:07PM (#40032110)

The comment you’re responding to is trying to genuinely explore their beliefs and it’s kinda gross for you to shit all over it in an ostracizing way. If you disagree then engage with your perspective without being unkind. The style of your response is in general the root of many society’s problems and I would have thought someone who espouses mind expanding practices would be better aware of that

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