It’s proper there in the Bible—ask, and it will likely be given to you. It’s additionally proper there on gaming Twitter, the place the small gaming podcast Tremendous Pod Saga posed an innocent question on January 15 and other people confirmed as much as reply in droves: “What’s the most ineffective piece of online game data you recognize?”
Apparently, there are lots of people that suppose a variety of ineffective ideas about video video games. Who knew? Within the week and a half since posting, Tremendous Pod Saga acquired over ten thousand responses to their tweet. However a variety of it, I’d say, isn’t essentially ineffective, however important.
Take this response about action-adventure sequence Satan Might Cry, for instance: “Dante and Vergil have an insane therapeutic issue that primarily heals because the injury is being performed, so no wounds or scars. As a consequence of this, they’re probably uncircumcised.”
Inform me truthfully. What was I alleged to do if I had by no means learn that? By no means know whether or not or not Dante and Vergil are circumcised? Be compelled to wander the Earth, alone perpetually in my confusion? Are you able to even think about that?
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Or what about this: “In Xenoblade 3, all characters in the game’s files are listed with a number for gender. Zero is male, One is female; however, the character Juniper is listed as two. Furthermore, in Xenoblade 2, the character Roc’s gender is listed as four. Thus, there are at least five genders in Xenoblade.” I mean, that’s just inspirational.
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Kotaku staffers have been holding onto their own niche video game info, too. I know this, because I begged them to tell me in pursuit of self-actualization.
“The li’l fire breathing dinosaur from Super Mario World is named after the singer in Nine Inch Nails,” social media editor Jeb Biggart told me. “That feels pretty useless.”
Yes, great stuff. More, give me more.
“In the Halo 2 level Quarantine, Flood [parasitic creatures] could be seen driving round in Warthogs/tanks/and so on. That is the only time within the sequence the place they do that, and it’s actually bizarre,” employees author Zack Zwiezen stated.
“The music in NES Again to the Future, a terribly obnoxious, grating repetitive theme that bears no instantly obvious resemblance to something is definitely a wildly sped up model of the hit tune from the film, ‘The Energy of Love’ by Huey Lewis and the Information,” stated managing editor Carolyn Petit. “Maybe as a result of they programmed the music, however then discovered they didn’t have the rights to the tune, so they only sped it means up. I have no idea the explanation for this.”
Thanks all. My energy grows. My thoughts expands. My trivia senses are tingling.
Now, what’s your favourite little bit of random online game data? Let it out, it’s for my well being.
