The Kirby Paradox

Sometimes even hardcore sucking doesn’t mean what you think it means. Yes, this is a post about Kirby, the most dedicated sucker in the history of video games — but a brief aside before I get into it.This week, you can listen to the second Retronauts episode about my big Mario history project. It’s a good conversation, especially toward the end when we’re freed from the tyranny of the order the games were released and able to get into the nitty-gritty of the supporting characters. So consider this, right at the top of the post, me jostling you to listen to me speak words out loud in addition to reading them. If you listen, you will hear a Super Mario-related matter come up that I promise to investigate further. I am doing that, but since this investigation involves emailing people who have never heard of me, I can’t write that post yet. The post I’m choosing to write instead is something that I bring up right at the end of the episode, in reference to my item about Prince Florian from…

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