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DID YOU KNOW
The famous Earth logo that also serves as an "O" in the title, is a vectorized version of the famous "Blue Marble" photo, allegedly the first picture of our planet taken by a human being. The original picture showed a picture of earth with with the South Pole on top, but NASA flipped it upside-down when they published the picture, simply due to North bias (and because human rationale would expect North to be up, and South to be down)
So basically, the "upside down" Earth on the Mother logo has the original Blue Marble in it, the one that was actually flipped over was the officially published one.

Mother thread.

>> No.4149858
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>allegedly

>> No.4149863
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>The Blue Marble was not the first clear image taken of an illuminated face of the Earth, since similar shots from the ATS-3 satellite had already been made as early as 1967.

"The Blue Marble" is neither the first picture of earth from space, nor is it the first one to show the earth as a whole circle. If you're referring to the "taken by a human being" aspect, that's also false, Humans have taken handmade shots of earth all through the Mercury and Gemini programs.

>> No.4150148

>>4149863
It is, however, the first (and only) image to combine all three.

>> No.4150179

Fuck off /x/; this smells like a backdoor Flat Earth thread.

Was Nintendo of America correct in thinking that Americans didn't give a shit about console RPGs in 1990?

>> No.4150237

>>4149848
Thats actually pretty cool

>> No.4150240

>>4150179
DQ and FF on NES flopped so yes they were not wrong

>> No.4150245

>>4150179
>spoiler
Well, take a look at the Playstation. That should answer your question.

>> No.4150268

>>4150148
>the first (and only) image to combine all three
[citation needed]

Also, being taken by a human does not make it "more special" in any way compared to an equal picture taken by a robotic probe. You sentimental twat.

>> No.4150375

>>4149863
Blue Marble is the first shot of Earth as a whole taken by a human, and not just a portion of it.

>> No.4150376

>>4150268
STFU YOU FUCKING CUNTLICKING EDGELORD I WILL END YOU AND SHIT IN YOUR EYES

Sometimes it's nice to be sentimental, not that it applies in this case of course

>> No.4150383

>>4150245
>1990
By 1997, Anime was already pretty popular in the west.
In 1990, other than stuff like Mazinger, Robotech or older classic stuff like Astro Boy, anime wasn't really that big, Dragon Ball was still a Japan-only thing in 1990.
Also, even though Nintendo themselves published Dragon Warrior 1-4 in North America, their marketing campaign wasn't as big as the one Sony did for FFVII. Also FMVs.

>> No.4150576
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>>4150179
>Flat Earth
Hold on a sec, you might be onto something.

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>>4149848
https://youtu.be/CbRQlgt0mfE

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>>4149848
Flip it and it says sex in the clouds

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>>4150576
Math says it s flat
Go outside and measure for yourself

>> No.4150619

>>4150613
>there's mountains and hills and canyons outside
>people think the earth is flat
friggen tards

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>>4150613
>Go outside and measure for yourself
I honestly don't care, it wouldn't change my life at all.

>> No.4150695

>>4150613
That picture is just a representation, earth is not that round.

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>>4150695

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>>4150832

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>>4150839

>> No.4150862

>>4150613
Holy shit, do you have any idea what the fuck you are doing

>> No.4150880

>People still think the Earth is real

>> No.4150897

>>4150880
This, life is just some neckbeard video game project

>> No.4150903
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>>4150897
>ITOI: Well put. Like I said before, I’ve started to grow fond of people who like the MOTHER games, but to put that in a cooler way, I might say, “The very lives you’re living now are MOTHER 4.” I really feel that way. “Today we had lots of ridiculous thoughts, today we felt sadness, today we laughed a lot.” That’s what I had set out to do within the world of those games.
>“The very lives you’re living now are MOTHER 4.”

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>>4150862
Yes

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>>4150912

>> No.4150946

>>4150903
Do you think Itoi is aware the bottle rockets are not as strong as actual rockets?

>> No.4150952

>>4150946
I seriously doubt he gives a fuck.

>> No.4150961

>>4150946
t. has never been hit by a bottle rocket

>> No.4150968

DONT LISTEN TO DISINFO!!!! I HAVE HEARD THE TRUTH----- A DRAGON LIES ASLEEP UNDERNEATH THE ISLAND!!!! WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!!!

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>>4150968
Pfft, look at this delusional conspiranoid.

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4150979

whats your favorite starman type?

>> No.4150983

>>4150979
Ancestor. So cool.

>> No.4150990

>>4150975
The best pun ever. I'll never forget the lead up and then that glorious pay-off.

>> No.4151052

>>4150979
The silver one my friends on facebook like

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>>4150946
To be fair the name "bottle rocket" was made for the English script. In the original Mother 2 they are called "Pencil Rockets".
>>4150979
There all so cool. This pic is missing the junior ones, weird too considering that last one to the right doesn't exist at all.

>> No.4151069
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>>4151068
The Mother 2 manual has some CGI illustrations of items in the game, including the pencil rockets. They look dangerous.

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>>4151069
I believe in game the three versions are called "pencil rocket", "5 pencil rockets", and "20 pencil rockets". I guess they went with bottle rockets to save space and that bottle rockets seems like something a kid would make.

>> No.4151820

>>4150179
they still don't

>> No.4152083
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>>4150979
Final

>> No.4153018

>>4151097
Well in EarthBound, I know the last two are named Big Bottle Rocket and Multi-Bottle Rocket respectfully, but iunno about the original Japanese names.

>> No.4153024

>>4153018
It literally says in the post you replied to.
>"pencil rocket", "5 pencil rockets", and "20 pencil rockets"

>> No.4153174

>>4153024
He said "I believe". We were both unsure. Why the aggression?

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>>4149848
>allegedly
it's not even the first photo of earth by an Apollo Crew member.

>> No.4153230

>>4149848
0/troll
10/redit

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>>4151068

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>>4153224
I don't think that little bit is important in what OP is trying to convey, which is that the original picture has the south pole on the upper part, so the Mother logo has the original Blue Marble, and the officially published one is a flipped picture of it.
But what do you know, on the Mother ending, Earth is now normal, with south pole on the bottom.
Did the dragon made Earth flip upside down with his awakening?

>> No.4153698

>>4153695
Maybe there just at the bottom of the world.

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eh eheheheheh

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Have you seen my rope?

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>>4153224
They should have used the space balloon to take the picture. The one that had a postage stamp.

https://youtu.be/ztnlb1Bj_L0

https://youtu.be/oM5fKcU5ClI

Interesting to consider how the game ends and how Earth pic has the word sex in the clouds

>> No.4155051

>>4150621
my beautiful dreamer nigga
such a good movie

>> No.4155062

>>4150946
Bottle rockets are better
>all the power of a regular rocket
>but smaller

>> No.4155074

>>4155062
I'm not sure if I understand how exactly that works.

>> No.4155279

Did anyone else think Mother 3 was kinda shitty? I wanted to like it but I just couldn't get into it like the first 2.

The music isn't as good, which is a real shame because of the whole combo mechanic with the battle system.

It didn't have that same small-town Japmerica feel, Nowhere Islands seemed more like an appropriate setting for a Pokemon or Digimon game. I also didn't like the chapter structure, which I think was kind of a cop-out, since the whole narrative structure of the first 2 games is built around talking to NPCs to figure out what to do and where to go next.

I didn't really like any of the protags except maybe Duster. The NPCs weren't very interesting either. Dialogs just seemed more annoying than funny and weird. They really should've kept with the Kids vs. the World of Adults theme instead of the Luddite Proles vs. the Industrialist Pigmen. At first I thought it was supposed to be a tongue-in-cheek joke about playing video games, but after a while it felt like the message was sincere.

>> No.4155290

>>4155279
I thought it was the only good game in the series while the other two were decent at best

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>>4155074
It's a small rocket. What's not to get

>> No.4155298

>>4155294
but bottle rockets are just fireworks. And they aren't as strong as actual weapon rockets

>> No.4155349

>>4155298
If you use enough of them, they are

>> No.4155352

>>4155349
but you only use one in most cases

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>>4155279
It's just different. Itoi has kind of talked about this, he has said he felt long time fans might be disappointed with Mother 3 but that he wanted to make a sequel that felt distinct.

It really just depends on the person. Personally I actually love all three games equally as I find all three have their strengths and weaknesses.

>> No.4155365

>>4155352
I'm being purposefully iditic btw

>> No.4155376

>>4155365
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1gTP1GV6gg

>> No.4155541

>>4155279
>It didn't have that same small-town Japmerica feel
It didn't? Tazmily village feels like a very comfy town, and when time passes and it becomes more "modern", it feels like Onett.
I also think the music is fantastic, Shogo Sakai did a really good job, I wasn't expecting to like the soundtrack of Mother 3 as much as I did.

>> No.4155585

>>4155541
Are you confusing "cozy" with "american small town as seen by a japanese person"?

>> No.4155590

>>4155585
Well, Mother 3 isn't set in America, but Tazmily still has that american western feel (Flint being a cowboy and all), and as I said, modern Tazmily was pretty much like Onett.

>> No.4155693

>>4155590
Nowhere Islands seemed more like an Okinawan Australia or New Zealand, what with all the strange and unique animals roaming the land. I also thought "Tazmily" was supposed to be a reference to Tazmania.

Flint also struck me as more of a Crocodile Dundee type than a traditional gunslinging cowboy.

>> No.4155698

>>4149848
>vectorized

Bitch they didn't vectorize shit back then, they traced like MEN.

Cool trivia though

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>>4155698
Yes they did you inbred troglodyte.

Vector graphics for publishing have been around since the 60s.

>> No.4155996

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqA709sKoVA

>> No.4156016

>>4149858
this lady does not know how to smile