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Into the Depths: Super Mario World - Bonus Episode!

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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The Unmodified Mario Credits Warp in Super Mario World

Doug: tom seven style of humor is like a genre of humor that is very common in engineering and computer science which is to do the over designed thing in a clever way such that you're making an inside joke. master june's work in tool assisted speedrunning is within doing the mario credits warp from different levels as if they're the first level in super mario world, he says. Doug: i feel like a lot of tasks work in this way when they're not working explicitly to just beat the game as fast as possible but through this kind of backwards or self-referential way  it's just funny if people if you know the joke.

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