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#15: Leaking Battery Acid
November 26th, 2014 · 57 minutes
This week Federico and Myke discuss a scientific study of Mario Galaxy, the merits and disadvantages of crowd-funded games, a GameBoy HDMI extension, tales of recent local multiplayer experiences and they talk about the iOS games they've been playing.
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Daniel Vuckovic (@VOOK64) | Twitter
Daan Koopman (@NintenDaan) | Twitter
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Physicists call Super Mario Galaxy's scientific accuracy into question | Polygon
"Clearly, the degeneracy pressure far outstrips the gravitational pressure by eleven orders of magnitude," the paper concludes. "The outcome of this discrepancy is that if constructed, the planet would survive for only a very brief moment before violently destroying itself and any short plumbers who happen to be running about on its surface."