bogleech:

thebigdeepcheatsy:

I don’t understand where the Scuttlebug meme came from and why it’s sticking around

A guy on youtube figured out he could get one of the stars in Super Mario 64 by pressing the A button just once.

But THEN figured out how to do it by technically never fully pressing the A button at all, just pressing and holding it as he enters the level.

And to accomplish that, he takes advantage of how the Scuttlebug enemy is programmed to trick the game into levitating it into the air, then he takes advantage of more programming loopholes so Mario builds his speed in a certain spot for literally twelve real-world hours.

Mario is then bounced off the hovering Scuttlebug, breaks out of the whole stage, traverses four invisible duplicates of the stage (this can only be accomplished with the exactly-12-hour-on-the-dot speed build) and reincarnates where the fucking star is.

The guy spends 20 minutes describing the math and coding behind this like a rocket scientist of Mario games, invents a bunch of original lingo and refers to those extra, invisible stages as parallel universes.

Thus, the Scuttlebug is now recognized as a key to the multiverse and that in itself is probably my favorite meme in forever, though maybe only because an adorable googly-eyed bug is involved. I loved these things when I was a kid, my third favorite Mario 64 enemy after the Gas Mask guys and the giant eyeballs.