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Post by cheat-master30 on Apr 26, 2011 19:39:22 GMT -5
Really Nintendo, why did you put killer swordfish in a graveyard pond? Real life versions don't tend to live inland, and likely wouldn't survive in temperate climates (they live in the Pacific Ocean, somewhere near South America in the real world)
So Mario fans, let's try and figure out how the heck a tropical salt water predatory fish is supposed to survive in a fresh water, inland pond in Horror Manor!
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Post by kingkoopa on Apr 26, 2011 21:09:48 GMT -5
Maybe there was a drought?... a really big one...
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Post by Sarisa on Apr 26, 2011 23:13:41 GMT -5
A quick glance at Wikipedia informs me that the monsters are transformed pieces of treasure, so I'm going to say that it's sustained by direct magical power, not biological processes.
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Post by Koopalmier on Apr 28, 2011 16:10:12 GMT -5
All monsters are originally Wario's gold, transformed into monsters by magic. So, really, it's not a swordfish, it's a bunch of gold coins.
Plus, the Wario series seems to be more bizarre and less logic than the Mario one, so it's not a surprise.
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Post by cheat-master30 on Apr 28, 2011 19:36:59 GMT -5
Ah, since I never played Wario World, I never heard that part of the story before. Kind of explains it.
And yes, the Wario series is bizarre. Look at Cuckoo Condor for the best example.
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Post by dey on May 1, 2011 13:52:52 GMT -5
You know enough about Wario World to say there's a swordfish in a graveyard pond and not to know the general story?
And no, no important info here, so you can move on.
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Post by kingkoopa on May 1, 2011 14:29:55 GMT -5
Wait... who are you?
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Post by dey on May 3, 2011 9:35:50 GMT -5
New guy. You can boss me around if you want
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Post by kingkoopa on May 4, 2011 20:59:06 GMT -5
Bossbossbossbossbossboss... so where were we?
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Post by Sarisa on May 4, 2011 22:41:28 GMT -5
Looking for realism in one of the only places in the entire series it has no possible claim?
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Post by thedude3445 on May 5, 2011 18:28:51 GMT -5
Isn't that what this forum is about  |
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Post by Sarisa on May 6, 2011 0:31:55 GMT -5
True. In that sense, this topic is the very distillation of the forum's essence.
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Post by thedude3445 on May 6, 2011 2:43:05 GMT -5
so we should explain it.
I think that the Mario world doesn't have any fresh/saltwater, just one type. Otherwise how could there be the exact species of cheepcheeps, bloopers, and urchins all over the Mushroom Earth. If you looked closely at DKC I bet the Marlin guy (can't recall his name) in there has gone in "freshwater" areas multiple times.
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Post by Koopalmier on May 6, 2011 9:53:59 GMT -5
so we should explain it. I think that the Mario world doesn't have any fresh/saltwater, just one type. Otherwise how could there be the exact species of cheepcheeps, bloopers, and urchins all over the Mushroom Earth. If you looked closely at DKC I bet the Marlin guy (can't recall his name) in there has gone in "freshwater" areas multiple times. Except we don't know if there are any Cheep-Cheeps / Bloopers / etc. outside of the "Mushroom Sea" (well, the one shared by the MK, the Beanbean Kingdom, Rogueport and the MW). |
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Post by Sarisa on May 6, 2011 15:10:47 GMT -5
Come to think of it, I can't recall Bloopers outside salt water off the top of my head, except for the Toad Town and Rogueport sewers, and those might be brackish.
Cheep-Cheeps must have an unnatural tolerance for salinity, since they appear in both salt and fresh water.
But they definitely haven't been seen except on the shores of the south sea and lakes that feed into it.
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Post by cheat-master30 on May 6, 2011 16:22:17 GMT -5
They have been seen in fresh water:  See the small unconnected pond where Vanilla Secret 3 is? That's got the Porcu-Puffer, which is probably a Cheep Cheep variant. It lives in both salt water (NSMB Wii) and Fresh water (NSMB Wii and Super Mario World) There's also a very small pond in the Forest of Illusion with sea creatures in too, as well as the area of Yoshi's Island 4. None have a connection to the sea. |
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Post by Sarisa on May 6, 2011 16:49:36 GMT -5
Endorheic lakes? Those are salty, since the salt just accumulates in the lake and never leaves. The best example in the US is the Great Salt Lake.
They're nonexistent in wet areas on Earth, though.
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Post by thedude3445 on May 7, 2011 14:59:50 GMT -5
I don't think a salt lake would be in the middle of a forest... |
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Post by Sarisa on May 7, 2011 15:08:34 GMT -5
That's because lakes in the middle of a forest almost always drain to the sea. |
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Post by SMBBQ on May 15, 2011 14:12:31 GMT -5
So...does that mean that maybe there isn't a difference in water type anywhere? I can't recall any water being explicitly called "salty" anywhere, anyway.
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