Reposted by Michael 🐉
There was a period when Nora was in middle school when she was obsessed with Pi and could recite it to 30 digits and so of course when she saw this strip she knew what she had to do.
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![The rim lighting effect in Paper Mario is created in an extremely simple manner.
[the sprites are taken, copied, recolored black, then the black version is offset, made transparent, and trimmed to the original sprite]
Note how this coincidentally results in a realistic shadow of the cap on Mario's face because the shadow is just the brim recolored black
Source: info: YouTube user @JasperRLZ, youtube.com/watch?v=K3OrK0nvWCg; presentation by Supper Mario Broth](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:heeihz7xdhf7dbjx4befobqw/bafkreifokse6ijqxcni6odqwkvo7nwqftjnkwczah5zlnnvt3mz3wxw2rm)
![Comparison of rainbow color schemes used in textures of various Rainbow Roads in the Mario Kart franchise
[various rainbow color swatches]
Please note that due to addition of rainbow filters at runtime, the textures do not always reflect the in-game appearance of the tracks.
Source: noclip.website, textures extracted from game files by Supper Mario Broth](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:heeihz7xdhf7dbjx4befobqw/bafkreibyy5imessac4jvwx7pth7helqzmkfzncsrjppbmnd2djvetjdjgu)
![Comic. [Person with a white hat and person with a ponytail face a third person with a poster behind them. The poster shows Earth and space beyond, and in space there is a rectangular banner with different space features on it.] PERSON WITH PONYTAIL: Aren’t you worried these will be disruptive for ground-based astronomy? PERSON 3: No, why? [caption] My new company is being criticized for our satellites that deploy 100-mile-wide banners painted with inaccurate pictures of the night sky.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicl2mt6mek7jhpnxezslwvo67jrifzp6oqdgyta4ojopfsio5qsbe)
