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Freestyleee, 18
My teenaged son is away on a little summer vacation with some friends and I’ve found his recently used, unwashed dildo in his bedroom and I cannot believe it.😳😬 I’ve become insanely obsessed with it.

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Freestyleee (Owner) – Sept 27, 2026
So I’ve seen it myself with my own eyes properly, a video on his desktop where he’s face down on a bed of some guy who looks to be in his 50s fully gaped with that dildo inside him well past the base. Admittedly I came my pants.

BoringMan – Sept 26, 2026
Find anything else?

Freestyleee (Owner) – Sept 26, 2026
Let’s just say there’s no question that he has.

MatureSaneGuy – Sept 26, 2026
Imagine your son sliding down on it all the way down to the balls… 😳😳😳

 

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snackbar, 21
A regular occurrence in my bedroom – I’m fucking my bf and while I enjoy it, the thing that pushes me over the edge is fantasizing that some masked motherfucker with a gun walks through the door (on cue). He puts the gun to my bf’s forehead and waits … for what I don’t know. If I imagine my bf verbally encouraging the stranger with twisted things like “put that loaded gun in my mouth and pull the fucking trigger”, well the floodgates open and my bf gets what I fantasize he’s asking for. Just putting that out there.

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snackbar (Owner) – Sept 10, 2026
Was.

Bannister – Sept 10, 2026
How dare you use someone else’s picture, you cretin. The twink in the picture is quite a well-known porn star, onlyfans.

snackbar (Owner) – Sept 9, 2026
You take life too seriously.

Rockattitude – Sept 9, 2026
He’s made no contingencies. You’d be arrested for murder so fast your head would spin.

ithinkurhot – Sept 7, 2026
Just be prepared that you would likely need to carry that image with you for the rest of your life, because there will be no “unseeing it” once it happens…

snackbar (Owner) – Sept 7, 2026
Counting on that.

NOMERCYBERLIN – Sept 7, 2026
I must say your bf looks very disposable

 

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Formerlyboywonder, 19
I’ve always wanted to find a man who’d become ‘obsessed’ with me and everything about me.

I post videos on YouTube of me playing guitar and talking about that and I fantasize that a lonely obsessive man would stumble upon my videos and keep watching them over and over and listen to everything I say in them and become obsessed with me and my life story, then he’d want to find me and be with me.

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LuckytheOne – Sept 21, 2026
I’ve watched your videos and I’d like to give you a large dose of a drug like Viagra and strap you to a frame in a suggestive position. Once you get a stiff one, hit you with a low dose of curare to paralyze your voluntary muscles and move you into a commercial freezer to see if your stiffy can be made permanent. It would be kind of like making a lasting piece of art for the world to enjoy.

doesspankinghurt – Sept 19, 2026
A perfect use of adjectives were used throughout the night to remind him what he really is should he have hesitated to think any differently.

Formerlyboywonder (Owner) – Sept 15, 2026
You can leave marks on me as long as they’re easy to explain – “walked into a doorknob”, “broke my wrist skateboarding”, etcetera.

hrnyhenry – Sept 12, 2026
jesus ffucking chrisT son
you are a gorgeous filTh pig
id live inside you consTanTly

 

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IamYoursTonight, 19
I’m down for anything in the world and looking to get emotionally stable.

Bonus points if you won’t judge me for being riddled with ADHD.

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IamYoursTonight (Owner) – Sept 12, 2026
Everyone is ignoring the emotionally stable part.

SickMeat – Sept 10, 2026
I thought of something clever for him to say, and I moved him around while I was saying it, so it would seem like he said it.

destroyurpussy – Sept 8, 2026
I ripped off his saggy jeans to claim my prize and ate his ass with a lot of slime and energy before fisting him to the elbow mercilessly on the bed and up against the walls. Torturing him was also very cool. I won’t soon forget his screaming mouth.

Whatthefck – Sept 6, 2026
I’m straight, but having sex with him was a wonderful gay experience.

cOKEdEALERSuNION – Sept 2, 2026
lol yeah he is so ADHD that anyone could tell from a mile away. He looks like a ADHD, he dresses like a ADHD, he walks very ADHD, he talks very ADHD and anyone would always know he’s a ADHD just by looking at him. the only way he could be mistaken for normal is if guys thought he was a straight girl. i’ll bet he gets asked if he’s a lesbian a lot.

 

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CuteLilVictim, 22
I’m Kevin, a yng looking sk8r dude…. about 5’2… 98lbs, brown hair, green eyes…. smooth… I need to get my ass smashed to bits, using implements of your choice. Your choice will reveal how much you despise me. Your contempt is important because people who hold me in contempt always fuck me the best. You must end it all with a knife because I can’t stop myself. I’m prepared for you all to video sending me and my pretty ass to Paradise. I’m no longer in London, I’m 4 hrs away.

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CuteLilVictim (Owner) – Sept 20, 2026
On the injured list right now thanks to a chickenshit brutalist. No social energy at the moment. Check back later, I’ll be back.

IwantKevin – Sept 12, 2026
I’ve been obsessed with fucking your sweet ass for five years now and will be forever I guess.

ScarfaceRawPig – Sept 11, 2026
Okay one guy says your ass is “gorgeous.” But why don’t you show it? Is it flat and girlish, or muscled or somewhere inbetween? Everyone wants to know why you hide what is most important for us all?

opentop – Sept 9, 2026
What if I ate your ass. Not metaphorically. Put the barrel of a gun in your young, smooth, tight butt. And chew and chew and chew. Pull the trigger occasionally to add some sauce. Munching for hours on the gluts, until they are consumed and I am sated. A pretty boy’s dying butt. So sexy. So tasty.

CuteLilVictim (Owner) – Sept 3, 2026
When I was an escort I had 138 rave reviews.

PupThor – Sept 3, 2026
Speaking from personal experience, you have a gorgeous, tight, really tight ass. A crown jewel. Very hungry yet conducts itself with grace and gusto. I think you should give it a couple of more years.

ARYANCHEMPIG – Sept 3, 2026
Fellow Nazi would love to share a rig with you and carve your ass! Oi bruder!

 

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Nofriendszone, 18
Hi, I’m 18 years old, gay. My name is Marci!
I would like to write a few words about why I decided to come to this site rather than an escort site.
Well, I’ve been living in Budapest for more than a month.
I have to pay 250k every month, but since I moved my job has been terminated, which is not very good, and until I get a new job I have to somehow hold on.
I have to pay until October 10, 2026, otherwise it won’t end well. I don’t want to live on the street, so if you see or read this, please help me, I’ll do anything!
Well here are the prices. It’s a little expensive because no man has ever touched me and it’s unusual for me
If you want to fuck me with a condom and be mean to me it’s 45k
Or if you want to fuck me bare it’s 85k (It’s high because of not knowing if a men is filling me with poz, Syphilis, Gonorrhea, Chlamydia, HPV or Hepatitis sperm.)
I may be very sorry
My place is very messy so be prepared 🤗

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Nofriendszone (Owner) – Sept 14, 2026
If you can pay, you can come.

humble02 – Sept 14, 2026
In the previous version of your profile you set an age limit and said no fat people. Is that still alive or has it been relaxed? I’m old and obese and seriously interested.

Nofriendszone (Owner) – Sept 11, 2026
It’s scary the first few minutes when the man you’re with’s cock isn’t hard and you think, shit I’m wasting my time. After that it was literally non stop all night. It’s a very humbling experience to have your ass totally at a stranger’s mercy for 3 hours with absolutely no agency. Most unique and surreal experience of my life. I highly recommend it.

Nofriendszone (Owner) – Sept 6, 2026
Accountancy student, future CPA

 

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MachoTeenToDestroy, 19
If you can …

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HotHusband – Sept 4, 2026
Salvador Dali said: “Never fear perfection, you’ll never reach it”. Well I think you demonstrate that Dali was actually wrong.

MachoTeenToDestroy (Owner) – Sept 3, 2026
I save my hole and body for only the most brutal, sick, violent men. Tell me your ultimate. The sickest, most depraved shit that fucks your mind and fills you with terror. Spill it all. If it’s filthy enough, I’ll drag it out of you into reality and make you regret ever wanting it.

Faggotdestroyer – Sept 1, 2026
The boy I’ve been using recently wasn’t good enough so I’m currently looking for someone who’s willing to take this great opportunity.

superduper – Sept 1, 2026
I know this guy. Name’s Nate. Bit of a hothead but a good bud. Never had sex with him though. What a weird idea.

 

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Youdrive, 18
These objects are my completely perverted slaves, whom I share totally without limits with others and let strangers fuck whenever it pleases me. No one’s hole can be abused as brutally, relentlessly, deeply and mercilessly as theirs. You can fist them hard, stretch their holes wide open with your hands and ram the biggest anal toys balls-deep inside them — without mercy, without pause. They’re addicted to swallowing men’s juices, licking men and taking everything men give them. It’s an honor to use them regularly as my willing, brainless content fucktoys.

Now I’m both horny and scared about how I will destroy their last remaining limits and push them even deeper into total degradation and ruin. They belong to you with every molecule. You’re welcome to keep using and destroying them until there’s nothing left.

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LoveSperm – Sept 19, 2026
I want something with the boy in the red shirt, but I don’t know what.

Wellspoken – Sept 16, 2026
I’m talking about a porn site/studio devoted to nothing but videos/porn that end in twinks being snuffed. I know there are videos that show snuffing but I want more sexual content lol.

Wellspoken – Sept 16, 2026
As someone who fantasises about snuff but doesn’t have the courage, I wish there was more porn that led to snuffing. Like Silence of the twinks from staxus.com but with actual murders. If there was a website devoted to stuff like that I would happily subscribe. Does anyone know of any snuff twink porn out there?

YouDrive (Owner) – Sept 14, 2026
Flashback. I remember when Piet had that effect. It lasted about a day and a half.

fella – Sept 14, 2026
I led Pete (I think?), on the far right in the photo, into the dude’s playroom. An exceptional decision! A ditsy fembot but once you dig in, he gets inside your head and never leaves. I literally had to pray to God to make myself stop. My most shocking and satisfying sexual experience.

IbuprofenMan – Sept 13, 2026
Not bad, I’d bang two of them.

 

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NoveltyBoy, 23
Experimental adventurous human being
Hypnosis and shock 💫🪽
Ecstasy feel 🌟
You will ⚡️💉 open its holes⚡️💉💉
Lube 🧴 Ice 🧊 Robust 💊 4 Sale ✅

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SlavesDestroyer – Sept 17, 2026
I really want to quit slamming you with meth, but it is too difficult. Please help me.

NoveltyBoy (Owner) – Sept 17, 2026
It just has to finally end its partying. They found a tiny tear in its aorta from too much tina. If that tears all the way they say it’ll die instantly.

Thebestoftheworld – Sept 4, 2026
I’ve known Dani for almost seven years. He’s a good kid. Like many other trans boys who were imported to Europe in the sex trade when underaged, he’s been through both ups and downs. But he found the strength and will to stand up and move forward — although maybe not in the right direction. I’m truly happy for him that he didn’t lose himself in a foreign world. He stood his ground and is moving forward with determination. Well done, buddy.

 

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tramplemetodeath, 19
Stomp and crush me without mercy until I die

Well, I think the title pretty much sums it all up!
I’m a useless piece of shit that gets crushed from its masters without mercy.
Please jump and stomp on me as long and hard as you please, until my body is nothing more than just mush.
The only purpose in the life of this redundant little bug is to be stomped and crushed to death!
I want to die slowly, painfully and suffer in the most inhuman way when a master obliterates my body under his feet while he laughs and spits on my pathetic existence.

Here are my death spots 🥵🥵🥵
80☠️- spine
90☠️- neck
95☠️- chest/ribs
100☠️- head

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RainbowSalami – Sept 15, 2026
If this is real then thank you very much for everything, you’re very kind.

tramplemetodeath (Owner) – Sept 14, 2026
I might consider getting burnt at the stake. Tie me up naked facing the stake, and build the fire just high enough to lick my butt cheeks until I finally pass out and die. Then burn my body to ashes and dust.

RapeYouToDeath – Sept 14, 2026
I want to rape you to death. Yes, that would take a while, but I am willing to pay much money to your next of kin if necessary.

VickyPark – Sept 14, 2026
Warning: I think he’s famous.

Sirdeathstar – Sept 14, 2026
I’m into punching younger guys to death with my fists but I’m not picky. If that’s not your thing then good luck finding what you want.

 

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thebestboy, 19
Sorry for the dumb noob questions but this seems like a good site 😁

I’m confident, outgoing, in control and a bit of a rebel in my normal life, have lots of friends and live with family – my ‘other’ life as gay is secret. Those that know me wouldn’t believe it as it’s totally opposite to the person they know and see.

So I’m having my first-ever master/slave relationship, I’m 19, he’s 52, I moved in with him recently and we’ve had a lot of oral sex 😛

I trust him mostly, he was my teacher in high school.

We randomly met up this month when I was smoking weed in the park, I told him that I needed a place to stay, he took me to his place and we spent most of the last week sucking each other’s cocks and swallowing each other’s cum 😜

Now he wants me to be his slave and breed me, he has an old airstream way out in the desert where he says I can scream a lot, no neighbors.

Some dumb questions, I don’t have ANY gay friends and this will be my first time being fucked, please help:

1) Am I going to lose my shit all over his cock, make a huge mess even if I emptied myself earlier?

2) How long can anal sex last, realistically? 🤪Sex with him tends to be a marathon, he stays hard even after cumming, he has to cum a few times before he finally goes soft.

3) Is it good or bad if he cums a lot deep inside me? What if he keeps fucking me even with his cum overflowing out of my ass? 🤪

4) How often can he fuck me, realistically, without destroying my anus and making me incontinent?

I’m ready to be his slave, he skullfucked my brains out this week, but he’s not fully satisfied, he wants very rough sex, I know it’s going to hurt, I want it but I’m afraid, please reassure me.

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SONOFSATAN – Sept 12, 2026
I WAS IN MY EARLY THIRTIES WHEN I EXPERIENCED THAT THIS IS THE REALM OF SATAN. LUCIFER AND HELL ITSELF. ALL OUR CARNAL DESIRES RESIDE WITHIN THIS REALM. THE POSSESSION BY SATAN IS LIKE TRYING TO SEPERATE ONESELF INTO PARTS. I SEE IT THAT HE IS WITHIN OUR DNA AND US HOMOS ARE HIS SONS FOR ALL OF MANKIND ITS US WHO CELEBRATE OUR DESIRES URGES AND CRAVINGS. FEEDING THEM AND THE MORE WE ALLOW THE PRESENCE TO GROW WITHIN. ROOTED IN THE UNDERWORLD AMONGST OTHER BEASSTS WHERE THERE IS NO RIGHT AND NO WRONG. NO GOOD NO BAD, JUST WHAT WE CRAVE .. THOUGHTS OF HAVING THE SHIT BEAT INTO US AND US DOING LIKEWISE TO OTHERS. THOSE FORCES ARE IN OUR NATURE, YOU DO NOT ATTAIN THEM YOU FEED THEM AND THEY GROW WITHIN YOU. BECOME MAGNIFICENT ,, POWERFUL. WE HOMOS ARE SPECIAL GIFTS FROM THE UNDERWORLD WE ARE DRIVEN BY OUR URGES CRAVINGS AND DESIRES. TOTALLY SURRENDER TO THOSE WHO DESIRE YOU, BECOME THAT WHORE DOG THAT FEEDS A NATURE WE ARE PART OF AND DO NOT CONSCIOUSLY CHOOSE AS FAR AS I CAN TELL. HEIL SATAN.

PolishBoyfriend – Sept 9, 2026
Nothing is bad.

SweetMcCrunchy – Sept 7, 2026
HI IM ALSO A NO LIMITS SLUT TO BREAK BREED AND RUIN THATS ME IM BRAIN DEAD CURRENTLY TAKING APPLICATIONS

plancu – Sept 7, 2026
If you were my student, i would have taken that pussy of yours as soon as you turned 12. And every day after.

 

 

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p.s. Hey. ** Dominik, Hi!!! Let’s just say that when you’re in a major city and the best Mexican food you can eat is at a Chipotle, something’s wrong. At the moment, the London event will be the last screening that Zac and I attend, but something might come up. We keep getting requests to show it. My brain is still kind of bleh. I need to try another coffee brand. There’s a new Placebo song? Are they still on the money? Love wants something with the boy in the red shirt, but he doesn’t know what, G. ** Steeqhen, I’m old enough to have been an N64 boy. In fact I think ‘Mario 64’ was the first platform game I ever played. I only played CD-rom games before that. When I was young, reading the Narnia books extremely uncool. If you saw someone reading one you immediately dismissed them as a possible friend. Tolkien readers were okay. The coolest people read ‘Dhalgren’. I never did because I was never the coolest. ** Bill, For you maybe, haha. So sorry about the family emergency. I hope whatever it entails calms way down. If I made an indie horror film, a shot of that busker would be how it started. Hang in there. ** caro, Hey! I’m happy you came back. Very interesting trajectory you’ve had there. Chile! I was there once, in the south part. I think feeling like a child when you’re an adult will save you, or at least keep your life interesting. I guess I feel more like a teenager, but maybe that counts. Cool about your chapbook. Is it gettable? I’m okay. Uh, I think everything going on is kind of terrifying. I haven’t played games in a while. Long story. I’m a Nintendo guy. The last games I played were, let me think, ‘Paper Mario 3’, ‘Resident Evil: Village’, ‘Stray’, and … I forget. I’ll look for ‘Count Lucanor’. Computer game, I’m guessing? Happy day and beyond. ** _Black_Acrylic, I’m trying to avoid games these days for the very same reason. But they are pretty educational, or can be. ** Carsten, Fingers strangling crossed re: the apartment. So I’m guessing you don’t like Douglas Sirk? I more tend to get hung up on a particular artist or band and listen to them incessantly for a short period, although I did listen to Cheap Trick’s ‘Auf Wiedersehen’ about twenty times in a row the other day. ** laura w., ‘Au hasard balthazar’ and ‘Mouchette’ are ultra-top tier Bressons for me. ‘Country Priest’ is maybe my least favorite Bresson, not that it’s not great. My favorite Herzog doc is ‘The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner’, but it’s an odd one. ‘Jack the Modernist’ is a total classic. Maybe the greatest New Narrative novel. That Ernaux novel I read was definitely not didactic. ** HaRpEr //, At the time, ‘Mario 64’ seemed like a huge leap forward for video games. I remember being flabbergasted by it. It’s true that back in New Narrative’s heyday, Kristeva was very, very frequently mentioned by them. ‘Paris Spleen’ is my favorite Baudelaire, maybe by far. ** Sam F, Hi, Sam! Shame that the dialogue was so mediocre in ‘Backrooms’. Otherwise I really dug it. ‘To Die For’ is one of Van Sant’s best, I think. ‘Yeezus in Furs’, for sure. And ‘Alone’ too, obviously. Thomas Moronic, Check out Sam F’s comment yesterday if you didn’t see it. Writer love-fests are what life should be all about. Very same wish regarding your week! ** i🌙, I love Paris in the winter, although winters are not what used to be. My brain is still weirdly asleep, but I’ll get it woken up and attentive again one way or another. I don’t really remember why ‘Brief stay with the living’ didn’t satisfy me. I barely remember it, which may be the answer. She and I share the same French publisher. She’s really nice. Eek your face! ** Thom, I played ‘Mario 64’ on its release, and it seemed like LSD. Newness galore. So obviously true about R-G. I should spotlight something of his. It’s been a while. Excellent about the Dark Rides music progress. Classical music to my future ears. Not so much art making going on over here at the moment, but I can feel the pressure building. ** Okay. It’s clearly the last day of the month. See you tomorrow.

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Power Star

 

For many, Super Mario 64 was the first glimpse or experience of gameplay in a 3D environment. The beguiling pre-rendered promo art sparked my interest before I ever picked up an N64 controller: the game went to the top of my holiday wishlist in 1996.

My personal memories of playing Mario 64 are somehow like those about a physical location — or perhaps more like an uncanny dream of a place that never existed — than like memories about a game. As a kid, I spent time running around Mario 64 just for the fun and mystery of the game’s expansive environments, which ranged from snow to desert to under the sea, just as often as I acquired stars within courses and hidden throughout Princess Peach’s Castle.

Super Mario 64 (partially found Spaceworld ’95 demo of Nintendo 64 3D platformer; 1995)

 

Mario 64‘s popularity has endured through the years. People have returned to the game again and again, or discovered it for the first time, including in a new form on Nintendo DS with additional playable characters and features in 2004 and as part of a limited 35th anniversary release for Nintendo Switch in 2020. Additionally, the community of Mario 64 speedrunners angling for new world records has resulted in the discovery of glitches and techniques that enable progressing through the game in creative ways.

The persistently fun, occasionally clunky, and strange charm of Mario 64, hazy memories of childhood mystery, and the drive of passionate players to modify and manipulate the game in seemingly unlimited ways have ensured that rumors, videos purporting to contain lost footage, and more have been circulated around online. The dark and weird side of all this has perhaps reached its ultimate form in the shape of the Mario 64 Iceberg.

The iceberg illustrates, tongue-in-cheek, the deepening levels of galaxy-brained obsession and questioning that spending a little too much time in the grasp of Mario 64 and its unanswered questions can lead to. Here, I will spend some time on 10 intriguing items about the game. This will include a few iceberg offerings as well as other tidbits that piqued my interest, and plenty of links to go around should you wish to dive deeper.

 

Wet-Dry World’s “Negative Emotional Aura”

“Considered one of the most bizarre levels in the game because of its strange atmosphere, Wet-Dry World is commonly associated with negative feelings and anomalous sightings.” – MIPS Hole SM64 Conspiracies

Wet-Dry World is a stage in the game that involves raising and lowering its water level strategically to access different areas divided into “Uptown” and “Downtown”, the latter of which is like an abandoned village in appearance. The lower or higher that you jump into the stage’s painting determines how high or low the water level will be when you arrive.

Skyboxes in video games form a background that helps to create the illusion of a more expansive world. The skyboxes of the courses in the Nintendo 64 original are a little uncanny to begin with, but there is something even more off about Wet-Dry World’s skybox.

This could be because Wet-Dry World’s skybox, shown at the bottom left in the collection of them above, contains an edited photograph of Casares, Spain that looks rather out of place in Mario 64. It is no surprise that this curious image ended up on the massively popular Twitter account Images with Elegiac Auras (“Images with haunting, unexplainable auras.”).

Wet-Dry World also includes doors that cannot be opened, which happen to share textures with those used in The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time. In the massive 2020 leak of Mario 64 beta content, it was confirmed that an early version of Wet-Dry World did indeed share assets from an early Ocarina of Time town.

Lastly, one my personal favorite pieces of recently released “beta” material has been this alternative soundtrack interpretation:

 

Luigi / “L is Real 2401”

One of the best-known Mario 64 rumors concerns the idea that Mario’s brother Luigi can be unlocked as a playable character. The star statue in the castle courtyard, with illegible writing beneath it, has helped fuel this rumor, as many have interpreted this text as a coded message: ‘L is Real 2401’. A supposed letter from Nintendo of America clarifies that it has “no meaning”. Nonetheless, over the years there have been countless elaborate rumors about “how to unlock Luigi” include specific instructions on what order to get the stars in, playing the game without saving, and jumping into the volcano in Lethal Lava Land.

One of many fake screenshots circulated over the years.

 

It was confirmed that Luigi was originally intended to be in the game:

Yoshiaki Koizumi (Assistant Director of Super Mario 64): When we made the first prototype, Mario and Luigi were on a flat field…We ran it that way, but when we made the landforms, because of hardware limitations we had a choice between cutting Luigi or making more elaborate landforms. Then, in tears, we had to ask Luigi to leave. (Iwata Asks)

A kind of satisfaction was achieved at last in the July 25th 2020 leak, which included parts and color palettes for a Luigi model with different proportions from Mario.

 

Super Mario 64 DS

(bLUWOOOL on Twitter)

 

Super Mario 64 DS is the Mario 64 experience with a few additional bells and whistles, such as being able to play as other characters. Not Waluigi, though.

The white room mentioned above refers to a DS-specific secret star you can only get as Luigi after becoming invisible, walking through a mirror, entering the reflection of the door you originally came through, and entering into a white void.

I would add more, but…there is something about Mario 64 DS that makes it actually almost too weird for me to play. Perhaps I will summon the courage to reach for it next time I am in the mood to re-enter the world of Mario 64.

 

Camera Strangeness

Super Mario 64 introduced the camera as a friend and foe in video games

 

Throughout your Mario 64 journey, you are being filmed by one of the Lakitu Bros. Recalling the framing device of Super Mario Bros. 3 as a stage play with curtains, Mario being filmed as part of a live television broadcast is part of the game’s story from the very beginning.

Many Nintendo 64 players will be familiar with the trials and tribulations of early 3D gaming and finicky camera controls. A wrong turn when trying to perform a difficult wall-jump, perhaps, could send you into the abyss as the perspective swerved to a wall rather than to Mario.

(Supper Mario Broth)

 

Unused / Beta Assets

Early, harrowing penguin renders used on a Kellogg’s cereal box

 

Though touched on in other areas so far, the number of unused assets and (actual) beta differences in general is worth a special mention. The Cutting Room Floor contains a great run-down of these assets, including entirely different enemies, textures, and sounds.

The artist mushbuh has created a delightful hi-res interpretation of the beta enemy Motos (uncovered in the 2020 beta leak):

 

Super Mario 64: Chaos Edition

Chaos Edition is a romhack that activates / deactivates codes that modify how the game functions. All kinds of surprising effects can occur, including being chased by game assets, Mario’s head spinning through his body, growing unexpectedly larger, and starting a course embodying a sign-post instead of Mario’s body.

 

Super Mario 64 Theme Park Lost to Time – Reino Aventura, Mexico

I was pleasantly surprised to see a video had been made dedicated to an explanation of this strange theme park I had, up to then, only seen in pixelated, hazy photos circulating on social media that I initially presumed to be fake.

 

Parallel Universes

“A Parallel Universe, or PU, is an area in a Super Mario 64 map at which the game creates phantom collision for objects “outside” of the level. This is because some of the values for collision detection are truncated into the range of the real map’s coordinate system, allowing some space that is intended to be Out of Bounds to become habitable.” – Unofficial Pannen Wiki

If you ever want to end up utterly enmeshed in the programming and mathematics of how Super Mario 64 works, and see some baffling tricks, you must visit pannenkoek2012’s channel. I can’t promise that you’ll immediately understand everything you hear, but it is fascinating.

 

Endless Stairs

If you haven’t acquired quite enough stars to reach the final boss behind the Big Star Door, you’ll end up getting stuck on an infinite staircase. The effect is caused by Mario warping backwards repeatedly.

“The music which plays while climbing the endless stairs is a Shepard tone, a sequence of notes which are made to sound as if they are infinitely ascending in tone when in fact they are looping.” – Mario Wiki

 

“Every Copy of Mario 64 is Personalized” / 1995/07/29 Beta Mario 64 Build

Every Copy of Mario 64 is Personalized is relatively new on the block when it comes to Mario rumors. Part meme, part creepypasta, and part nostalgic indulgence in the conventions of a bygone era, it has captured the attention and creativity of the fan community.

Inspiration for the concept originated in the appearance of a “Wario apparition” voiced by Mario’s voice actor, Charles Martinet, at video game trade event E3 in 1996. Snowballing from the apparition as “a ghost that manifests itself in select copies of Super Mario 64, and will eventually manifest itself in the real world,” to “the belief that every copy created of Super Mario 64 differed from each other at release date” based on an advanced AI that adapts to the player, the idea has spawned a collection of videos and images purporting to contain beta footage from commercials and gameplay.

A compliment to these theories, and returning to ideas touched on earlier regarding Wet-Dry World, are the experience and presentation of liminal spaces and the concept of backrooms. The articulation of these spaces, and what they mean, does well to capture what the landscape and gameplay of Mario 64 has symbolized to so many of us.

(Images with Elegiac Auras)

 

“I know for me, when I was younger I always had this nauseating urge to just explore the rest of the world of the video games I played. The rational part of me knew there was nothing, but still I was drawn to areas I couldn’t normally reach, and I would stare at static skyboxes forever, just wondering what was out there. I get a similar feeling as an adult when I view these liminal images. I’ve seen posts about the uncanny settings of the Mario 64 backgrounds, and I think it’s because everything is so unexplained. Where am I? What are these huge sprawling wastelands of nothing completely surrounding the level? What else is out there?” – u/Starman926 in r/LiminalSpace

(The Internal Plexus)

 

 

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Yeah, Lynch deification, it’s true, although I guess because films are so mostly unadventurous and non-visionary these days, especially in the US, it’s hard not to get into really treasuring what he did. ** Steve, I should try to find out if the blog’s nasty habit of eating comments runs on a schedule. Doubt I could, though. Your old laptop is scaring me even in description. And it sounding Halloween-appropriate is not enough. ** HaRpEr //, Oh, sure, me too on a film’s interests being so up my alley that my forgiveness trigger gets pushed. I don’t know Mark Jenkin’s work, and I don’t think I’ll go out of my way to discover him, thank you. Moritsugu’s cool. There’s a director whose continuing existence proves that there still is an actual underground. The Nobel thing kind of put me off reading Ernaux, even though Claude Simon won the Nobel too in some seeming happy fluke, but, boy, based on one book, she’s really a prose master. ** caro, Hi, caro! It’s so nice to meet you. Thank you for being so kind about my work. How are you? What are you up to and all of that? If you feel like passing more about you along. In any case, cool, take care. ** Thom, Thanks, yeah, I tried to cover as many mask bases as I could without getting blah. I haven’t read that Roubaud book, but he’s pretty terrific in general. ‘Project for a Revolution in New York’! Now that’s a great book. Among my favorite Robbe-Grillets. And not just because of its spectacular title. Week ahead remains vague but with intriguing glimmers so far. Yours? ** Okay. If you’re of a certain inclination, you have a really excellent post in front of you today made for the blog years ago by the artist Marilyn Roxie. A treat instead of a trick. See you tomorrow.