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Earthbound’s creator reflects on Iwata’s passing ⊟ 

Mother/Earthbound series creator Shigesato Itoi collaborated with Satoru Iwata, Nintendo’s celebrated president and CEO who passed away suddenly over the weekend, a number of times over the years. Iwata is even said to have come in and saved Earthbound from programming issues that would’ve likely killed the project, and the two men had been friends since.

Itoi posted a farewell to his friend this morning – here it is translated by Yomuka/Lindsay Nelson (Hobonichi Techo translator):

“When I’m parting with a friend, regardless of the circumstances, I find it best to just say, ‘See you later.’ We’ll meet again. After all, we’re friends.
That’s right—nothing unusual about it. I’ll see you later.
You went on a trip far, far away, even though it was planned for many years from now. You wore your best outfit and said ‘Sorry for the short notice,’ though you didn’t say it out loud.
You always put yourself last, after you’d finished helping everyone else. You were so generous as a friend that this trip might be your very first selfish act.
I still can’t grasp what’s happened. It feels like I could still get a light-hearted e-mail asking me out to lunch at any moment—after you’ve made sure lunch wouldn’t disrupt my schedule, of course.
You can invite me out whenever you want. I’ll invite you, too.
So for now, let’s plan on meeting again. You can call me up whenever you like, and I’ll give you a call, too. I still have a lot to talk to you about, and if I come up with any particularly good ideas, I’ll let you know.
So let’s meet again.
No–I suppose we’re already meeting. Right here, right now.”

The sprites of Iwata and Itoi above come from an interview with the two conducted by Japanese magazine BRUTUS – read it in English here.

Source: yomuka.wordpress.com
#AAAAAA I'M CRYING
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Science is Amazing: An A.I. Designed to Play League of Legends Was Found Playing Cave Story Instead.

Researchers at MIT were surprised when they discovered that an A.I. which was designed to play League of Legends was instead found playing the popular indie game, Cave Story. The A.I., dubbed Playtron 2000, was created to test logic and learning in machines. “We wanted to create an A.I. that could learn and strategize over time based on its experiences.” spoke Dr. Richards, head researcher at MI, “We chose League of Legends as Playtron 2000′s testing grounds as we wanted to see how an A.I. that was designed to learn from its mistakes would go up against an expect human player.”

However, the researchers plans were cut short when they found on Tuesday morning that Playtron 2000 had uninstalled League of Legends and installed Cave Story in its wake. “At first we thought there may have been an error in Playtron 2000′s code,” spoke Dr. Richards, “but we discovered that Playtron 2000 had indeed gone through a complex trial and error process and had made its decision entirely logically.”

Similar experiments were ran earlier this year with two A.I.’s designed to play DOTA 2, which ended in the A.I.’s uninstalling DOTA 2 to play Bejeweled and Castle Crashers respectively. Research into why this happens is still ongoing.

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The original pitch for the Powerpuff Girls was a student film called Whoopass Stew.  Craig McCracken originally intended to show what the perfect little girl was before Professor Utonium added a can of Whoopass to the concoction.  The perfect little girl (sitting on the rainbow) was supposed to be the perfect mixture of sugar, spice, and everything nice.  When the accidental extra ingredient was added, the three original ingredients split up to match the personalities of the three new girls.  Bubbles being sugar, Buttercup being spice, and Blossom being everything nice.

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Chemical X is whoopass.

This is the greatest day of my life.

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