Named after a fictional species (Goomba) from Nintendo's Mario franchise. The term references an Internet meme depicting the fallacy using Goombas posted to Twitter by @supersylvie_ on January 29, 2024.[1]
How a pinball scoring system became gaming’s most iconic symbol
"1Up" has been associated with the 'Super Mario Bros.' franchise since its 1985 release. But Mario's super-powered mushroom dates back to a time before video games consoles.
Games Demystified: Super Mario Galaxy
Want to see how Mario Galaxy created its unique gravity-based physics effects for the in-game planets? Developer Alessi analyzes and reproduces the same concepts with a playable game prototype and source code.
Rotten Dot Com by Dena Yago
May 6, 2026 – “Rotten.com was a haunted arcade, dispensing trauma in gumball-machine doses straight to kids with dial-up, who chewed on images never meant for their half-formed stomachs.”
OpenAI’s Sora 2 Copyright Infringement Machine Features Nazi SpongeBobs and Criminal Pikachus
The main use of Sora appears to generate brainrot of major beloved copyrighted characters, to say nothing of the millions of articles, images, and videos OpenAI has scraped.
Context Sensitivity
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names | Kalzumeus Software
Classic essay about how software routinely bumbles human names.
The Real Name Fallacy - Coral by Vox Media
The Coral Project is an open source project to help publishers of all sizes build better communities around their journalism. We’re creating tools that help everyone to feel safe, respected, and heard.
Yojimbo (1961)
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro…
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An open data standard for describing video games and their data on ATProto.
The wild rise and fall of Flappy Bird | Version History
i am going to solve the cyberpunk discourse forever, part 2: the punks.
“Cyberpunk 2077,” they said, “isn’t really Punk. It’s a Corporate Product, made out of Corporate Greed. It completely Misses The Point of…
Pluralistic: The worst possible antitrust outcome (03 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Last year, Google lost an antitrust case to Biden's DoJ. The DoJ lawyers beat Google like a drum, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that Google had deliberately sought to create and maintain a monopoly over search, and that they'd used that monopoly to make search materially worse, while locking competitors out of the market.
i am about 99% sure but i think sweetbee coined this term lmfaoooo
Neon Chinchilla
"Bluesky elder" The term is used only in two ways: -as an insult -as a joke It came from someone using it back in the day as if some sort of benefits and privilege should come from seniority and time spent on the site. It was, and still is, properly mocked. A meme I made about it from way back:
