That makes a lot of sense. Katamari Damacy is also an excellent game with such a bizarre story. I’m guess I’m a fan of absurdity.

My favorite game in the series was Super Mario 3. I first played it on the SNES when it was part of the Super Mario All Stars cartridge. I really liked the levels, especially the variety of landscapes and the secrets you could find if you had the right powerup.

Super Mario World is just as good imo. Everything I liked about 3 and more, plus the star road levels, that was a good game.

The most recent game I loved was Yoshi’s Wooly World on the WiiU. Excellent art style and super fun levels, especially the unlockable bonus levels.

Oh and let’s not forget Legend of the Seven Stars. That was a fun and bizarre story.

That being said, does anyone else think the Mario universe is just fucking weird? How did the creators come up with Italian plumbers who can jump really high saving a Princess from an oversized turtle in a fantasy land with walking mushrooms? Who thought that was a good idea? What inspired them? I think the only reason it became popular was because Super Mario on the NES was one of the first decent games, and most players were kids who didn’t care about the game’s universe and narrative beyond saving the princess.

If Mario wasn’t the first popular platformer in the 80s and was instead introduced today, nobody would take it seriously. Since we all grew up with Mario, it’s a thing we accept as is. Of course high jumping Italian plumbers discovered the mushroom kingdom and rescued their princess from Bowser, again and again and again. Of course little dudes with mushroom heads are ruled by a blond haired human. Of course giant pipes are a normal mode of transit. Of course goombas and koopa troopas are the baddies.

Seriously, how did this universe come about?

If anything, such an event would create more demand for government actions that mitigate climate change.

About 6 montha ago I wanted to replace my S21 battery and checked with Samsung, who redirected me to iFixit. The only genuine Samsung S21 battery they had was only sold with the screen, which cost ~$130 or something. I didn’t need the screen…

Last month I checked again and saw they had a third party replacement battery for ~$30, same capacity. I bought it and popped it in. It’s been working fine.

Was it Samsung’s requirement that the battery only be sold with the screen? At the time, I would have rather had the genuine Samsung battery and would have paid a bit extra for it, but not $100 extra.

They show how particularly northern Europe from Britain to Scandinavia would suffer devastating impacts, such as a cooling of winter temperatures by between 10 °C and 30 °C occurring within a century, leading to a completely different climate within a decade or two, in line with paleoclimatic evidence about abrupt ocean circulation changes. In addition they show major shifts in tropical rainfall belts. These (and many more) impacts of an AMOC collapse have been known for a long time but thus far have not been shown in a climate model of such high quality.

Anybody know any further details about what to expect if it collapses?

They definitely act like it

This lack of action, is this a human characteristic, a capitalist characteristic, or a Western characteristic? I ask because through most of recent history and especially today, it feels like the general population of each country has little to zero real control over what happens within their borders, be it at the local or national level. Would we still end up where we are today if a different socioeconomic system(s) dominated the world? I have this nagging feeling we wouldn’t be in this mess if people had real control over their government’s actions.

Like, if you could give anyone an objective viewpoint and ask them, hey, if we keep doing this there’s a high chance we’ll damage our children’s or grandchildren’s ability to produce and procure food and the weather will get really fucky in a bad way, they’re going to say we need to change where we get energy asap. I don’t believe they’ll say anything else unless they think “we need to beat this other nation for reasons that don’t benefit me,” or “I need to keep doing what I’m doing because that’s how I make money and there’s no easy alternative.”

It just feels like regular people haven’t been in control since forever, we’re not in control today, and we have no real legal means of seizing control. We either simply don’t have control, or we technically do, but are manipulated so thoroughly by those with the means that we have no real control.

Thanks!

Is the modeling the problem? I thought we just had one particularly hot year but we still haven’t passed 1.5°C when the average is considered.

Why have a target at all instead of just saying we gotta do this asap? Is there a psychological reason? I feel like having a target and missing it may be worse than not having a target. I’m probably wrong, someone correct me please

If they don’t today then they will once things get weird

We use these at work. We’re contractors who spend one to a few days at residential addresses working outside. Instead of using the customer’s bathroom, each of our enclosed trailers has a toilet built in, so we always have one accessible at our jobsites.