The "I learned something new today!" Thread

[xSuperMario64x]

I know you said it was like 20 years ago but they won't allow mentions of transgender because it's an "adult topic?" but I thought Birdo was a transwoman?

both characters are described as being trans in the Japanese versions of the game. when they were localized it got lost in translation and they were only described as using she/her pronouns and nothing else on the matter (aka treating them as if they're cisgender). edit: wanted to add it's prob also partly the ESRB's fault.

it's a whole mess, I just read an article recently abt how they've poorly handled birdo's status as a trans character in recent years, again I can only assume it's bc Nintendo seems to think that being trans isn't a family friendly topic. just my guess though.

 

[Jhine7]

Learned today to let your car run for 20-30 minutes after jump starting. Had AAA come because I forgot to turn my lights off overnight and turned the car off after the guy said "all set". Then he had to jump start it again after telling me it probably won't start

 

[VanitasFan26]

Learned that its not fair to put so much work on one person if the other person is not willing to help.

 

[Croconaw]

I seriously didn’t know you could sell your town in New Leaf? I didn’t realize that was a thing.

 

[VanitasFan26]

I seriously didn’t know you could sell your town in New Leaf? I didn’t realize that was a thing.

It was such a good feature too, I don't get why they never brought this back in New Horizons.

 

[ZeldaCrossing64]

I learned that around the time Tomodachi Life was released, there was a sort of movement on Twitter (I think?) called "Miiquality", which was about the lack of same-sex relationships/marriages. Nintendo apologized for it and said that they'll implement it in future games, but I don't think they explained why it wasn't in the game. Now I'm curious.

 

[-Blue-]

I seriously didn’t know you could sell your town in New Leaf? I didn’t realize that was a thing.

I never done it myself, but it was a nice feature to soften the blow of undoing all your progress. NH sorely needs this update and it's really stupid they never added it with the final update.

 

[xSuperMario64x]

looking through the models from Super Mario Galaxy 1 on The Models Resource I found this in the unused section:

apparently the devs planned for there to be bullies in the game, but they were likely scrapped really early in development. I couldn't find any info on it in The Cutting Room Floor. I wish they looked more like how they very likely would've looked in SMG, these just look like an upscaled version of what we see in SM64/DS.

anyways yeah I had no clue there were bully models in this game's files lol

 

[VanitasFan26]

After yesterday I learned that you can't always trust what Doctors tell you. You always have to do your research to find out whats really going on because doctors think they know what's going on but you come to find out they don't ever do research since they seem to jump to conclusions and assumptions. You have to do things that you feel works for your body and that treats you well. If Doctors try to give you treatment but it ends up doing harm than good then avoid taking it. I was given a medication that I know nothing about and after doing research I learned that it causes a lot of severe side effects to the stomach. So the moral of the story is always trust your gut when something doesn't feel right and do what you think works well for your body to be healthy.

 

[ZeldaCrossing64]

I learned that English is actually my second language... Weird! When I lived with my mom for the first seven years of my life, she taught me and my brother Inuktituk (a northern-Quebec Indigenous language). We hardly knew any English until we started living with our dad and he taught us the majority of our English.
It's kinda weird to think about, because my English is actually pretty good. This also makes French my third language... I dunno, I don't speak Inuktituk anymore and I only know a couple select words (like nanuk and kamiik).
Also weird to think that most of my English is from my French dad who is really good in English... That and also from all the books I read since I was little.

 

[xSuperMario64x]

just learned that Toad is 1'4" (40.64 cm)

edit: I also just learned that I share a birthday with @/pottercrossing

 

[xSuperMario64x]

TIL Roger Bumpass is 70 years old

 

[Alienfish]

both characters are described as being trans in the Japanese versions of the game. when they were localized it got lost in translation and they were only described as using she/her pronouns and nothing else on the matter (aka treating them as if they're cisgender). edit: wanted to add it's prob also partly the ESRB's fault.

it's a whole mess, I just read an article recently abt how they've poorly handled birdo's status as a trans character in recent years, again I can only assume it's bc Nintendo seems to think that being trans isn't a family friendly topic. just my guess though.

Probably ESRB and probably also some countries that doesn't allow those topics in children's media or the publisher could get punished etc. or they would have to put and R-18 or whatever limit on it thus only allowing adults or no one to play it. Sad, but yes. But yeah Nintendo have treated a lot of games poorly in the west not only on that topic but also a lot of crappy censorship issues just because it's showing too much skin or stuff.

Honestly I never gendered Birdo and I basically saw Birdo as Birdo and/or some pink character with a bow and even less cared about species either.

Back then it was probably also 'let's not "offend" anyone also we need the $$$' or some crappy excuse for companies as well.
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Doraemon Story of Seasons - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Learned that this exists apparently, now I kinda want it because Doraemon gets like 0 attention here unless you're into the stuff yourself.

 

[Bitsie]

So, I work in a library, I love it very much- it's easily my favorite job ever. I was catching up with a work friend while our afternoon was quiet, and we talk a LOT about the books we like and she showed me this amazing website where you can get pre-owned but good quality books for really good prices (that I'm not sure I can link here), now I get why she is obsessed with it and we spent a good half hour scrolling through titles together and being like "WOW! good deal"

 

[ZeldaCrossing64]

I found an interesting detail in the WSR Swordplay Showdown theme, the song doesn't seem to change/"pick up" until you reach 71% completion for the level. I'm not really sure why Nintendo chose that specific number, though. The music also changes slightly when you're at one heart left.

Spoiler: The Song

The part I was talking about starts 30 seconds into the video, and the other part a minute into the video.

 

[xSuperMario64x]

was flipping through random pages on the Super Mario Wiki (bc why not lol) and I found out that Shigetoshi Gohara is credited with writing the arrangement of the Bob-omb Battlefield music for the Throwback Galaxy in SMG2, so that's pretty cool

 

[ZeldaCrossing64]

TIL that Matt is the only Mii to have two Champion rankings. Damn, he's good.

Spoiler: Matt

 

[Disneyfangirl23]

Guess what!

 

[WhiteLily210]

Was playing some Cuphead and learned on Sally Stageplay, if you don't hit her on her first phase and instead use her blowing kiss to stand on both the angels, you can drop the chandelier and "kill" her husband, unlocking a bit harder secret story for the rest of the level.



(Not saying what happens next. Spoilers!)

 

[oak]

I learned that American products don't have both english & spanish on them. Canada has english & french on all items so I just thought USA would do this with spanish.