The Bergengotian

Igen, vége a tanévnek (már mióta), visszajöttünk Flanciaországból (már mióta), én meg nem írok (már mióta).
Ez rossz dolog és ezen változtatni kell. De nem ma. Illetve egy ilyen radikális változást nem lehet ennyire egyszerűen egy lépésben végrehajtani. Szükség van kis fokozatokra. ͍gy ma este csak egy kis talált tárgyat (oldalt) linkelek be, lehet rajta hümmögni nagyokat, a wikipedia egyik előfutárából, az everything2-ből. Aztán majd holnap jöhet a többi.

Shigeru Miyamoto’s masterwork Super Mario Brothers is truly a classic work of modern literature; borrowing heavily from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and an obvious inspiration for Trainspotting, SMB shows the initial joy but the eventual mental and moral decline due to drugs.

Like in classic Greek drama, much of the story is implied. Because the setting is not a part of our common mythos, however, it comes with a small supplemental text which fills in the history for the reader: the evil dragon Bowser Koopa (a metaphor for a kingpin) has invaded a once-prosperous kingdom, and those residents who did not join him and become goombas (the local slang for dealers) were turned into blocks – that is, they were embedded in concrete, to sleep with the fishes, as it were.

Enter Mario, the fallen hero. At the very outset of his adventure, he is doomed, as almost right away he steals a dealer’s mushroom (obviously mixed with peyote) and begins to hallucinate, that he is big, that he is powerful. As though on PCP, he finds it easy to break solid bricks by punching it and does not perceive the pain; however, when dealers, pushers (personified by turtles much like Thompson’s literal lounge lizards), and other minions of the kingpin cause him pain (in retaliation for his original drug theft), he immediately loses the empowering effects of the peyote, and in fact, seems very small and vulnerable, and must desperately seek out another hit. When he is not seeking out a hit of peyote, he is seeking out much more powerful stuff indeed – a flower (the opium-giving poppy) or a star (a hit of LSD), both of which further his delusions of being strong and powerful.

…és még így tovább itt
(Hát igen, érdekes dolgok kerülnek elő, mikor a Slashdot a kedvenc Mario powerupról kérdezi a közönséget)
A Pac-Man figuráról pedig ezt tudhatjuk meg kedvenc infós majdnemblogunkon:

Maybe they developed it [Mario] as a logical evolution from Pac-Man: “running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music”