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Shigeru Miyamoto x Shigesato Itoi – 1989 Interview - shmuplations.com This lengthy interview captures a high-level meeting of the minds between Shigesato Itoi, Shigeru Miyamoto, and author Seiko Itou.

Today we have an amazing interview from 1989 with Shigeru Miyamoto and Shigesato Itoi. Conducted shortly after the release of Mother, it's full of deep musings about realism, creative exhaustion, the moral panic over kids & gaming, and prescient visions of the future. shmuplations.com/itoimiyamoto/

capitalists: "without a profit motive, nobody would do anything. society would collapse."

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mood

I was reminded of a dream I had years ago, where the hot new trend sweeping the internet was something called "Goofdropping". It's where you bring up Goof Troop, then go "YOU JUST GOT GOOFDROPPED!" That's it.

Oh dang, I guess I just goofdropped all over y'all

they call it chekhov's gun because you put the gun on a todo list and then you have to remember to chekh it ov before the movie ends

PANEL 1: A group of sailors in a WW2 submarine. HENDRICKS: "You think that U-boat's still out there, cap'n?" CAPTAIN: "Mr. Hendricks, never in this salinated void have I met 'luck.' Today would be a silly day to star believing in it." PANEL 2: Mr. Earsley, the sonar operator, listening intently at his console and sweating. EARSLEY: "Luckily Captain Cutlet doesn't need to rely on outdated superstitions like luck now that we have perfected the science of SONAR DETECTION!" PANEL 3: CAPTAIN: "Men like Mr. Earsley there are the future of war. Men seated at consoles for whom victory is but a byproduct of OPTIMIZATIONS..." HENDRICKS: "Still, if it gets the princess to the wedding..." PANEL 4: Hamburguesa, a sailor standing behind Earsley's console, speaks up. HAMBURGUESA: "Any idea what kinda grub they're servin at dis weddin reception? All dis ring-around-da-rosy with da waterkrauts has me STARVIN'!" EARSLEY: "Everything has you 'starvin,' Hamburguesa." HAMBURGUESA: "Dat's true." PANEL 5: HENDRICKS: "Word from British intelligence is the King of Mars has spared no expense on the wedding of his first-born daughter to FDR Jr." HAMBURGUESA: "Just so long as it's not all MARTIAN GLEEP-GLOOP!" CAPTAIN (smiling): "Never change, Mr. Hamburguesa, never change."

PANEL 1: A Martian princess is in a bunk reading a Martian magazine next to her robotic maidservant. PRINCESS: "As if your brute Earthling palates could ever appreciate Martian culinary arts! Nursetron, did you know they still eat animal corpses here?" NURSETRON: "Please, Majesty, my diodes can't process this much backsass." EARSLEY: "Permission to gag the cargo while we listen for the blockade of killer U-Boats, Captain?" HAMBURGUESA: "Riskin' our lives ta protect dis pampered dame who don't even wanna get married!" PANEL 2: PRINCESS: "I certainly don't want to marry some MAN I've never met! Nursetron, give me a backing track, Key of Blix." NURSETRON: <a backing track> PANEL 3: The Princess Oxyltottlemy begins to sing the number 'Down to Earth': Yes, I'm a pampered Martian princess. Yes, of royal Barsoom birth/But hear my tragic Martian story, and you might find me down to Earth/On Mars there is no water/All we've got to drink is gin/And it's with that clear elixir that my true life begins:" PANEL 3: PRINCESS: "I used to sneak out of my tower like a creature in a trance/and spend my nights down in the canyons, where the sweaty bodies dance." PANEL 3: PRINCESS (now dressed like she's Liza in Cabaret but with a crown): "See, as princess I was nothing. But as a dancer? I was queen./And I had many loyal subjects (if you know what I mean)."

PANEL 1: PRINCESS: "I'm the privileged Martian princess/who wound up down to Earth/'cuz it wasn't 'til those gin joints/that I found my own self-worth. Yeah, I'm the royal Martian princess who wound up down to Earth/And here's where my self knowledge receives its just desserts:" PANEL 2: PRINCESS: "I would stay out until morning/got my hair cut in a bob/And then one of Daddy's viziers recognized me from his job/Daddy's vizier then told Daddy/And then Daddy went berskerk/such that Daddy's showgirl princess was put neatly out of work" PANEL 3: The princess presses her face against a porthole on the submarine. PRINCESS: "I was sealed up in the tower/with a sleepless robot nun/and I likely would have died there/if Earth hadn't needed guns./My father's made a treaty/by which Mars will gain a son/while its daughter's prospects ended/just the moment they'd begun." PANEL 4: The princess, still singing, superimposed over the submarine cruising through the water. PRINCESS: "See this wartime alliance/is all I was ever worth/Shipped as a body to my wedding/in this underwater hearse/You're afraid of German U-Boats/Well, I'm afraid there's nothing worse--" PANEL 5: The princess, small in a shrinking spotlight. PRINCESS: "Than to be a cast-off Martian princess whose dreams came/crashing/down to ea-arth" PANEL 6: Hamburguesa looks choked up by the end of the song. HAMBURGUESA: "What a sad song. Guess it's true: rich folks do got it worse 'den us palookas..." Earsley freaks out, surprised by the SONAR console. EARSLEY: "INCOMING TORPEDOS! THEY MUST'VE DETECTED OUR MUSICAL NUMBER!"

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Earthbound screenshot showing juice for $4, coffee for 6, fries for 8 and a hamburger for 14

Upset how accurate these prices are in 2026

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

Do you happen to have a fact sheet for Zero Racers too?

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I don’t think a Clickhole bit has ever gotten me as much as this one:

I dared to ask "What if the truck from Duel (1971) was an Umamusume?" and I'm very glad I did

Twitter: @/kopperion

Woman on the right was using her walker to advance into the tear gas

Let us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.

🚨BREAKING🚨

Zohran Mamdani will FORCE all New Yorkers to complete a MANDATORY playthrough of Lifeline for the PS2 using untested third party PS2 microphones.

What are your thoughts on this!?

10/10 no noots

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I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

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Today, we published a security release for @nodejs.org that fixes a critical bug affecting virtually every production Node.js app.

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JRPG inn jingle but it never resolves

Attachment issues

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Paddington in Tokyo Godfathers (2003)

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Wishing everyone a safe and merry Christmas this year.

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