In Which My Opinion On Waluigious Is Summarized

[The_Cat]

I stumbled across the site from a TV Tropes link to In Which I Admit (or, whichever was about the article writer's non-attachment to SMB3), around when Mario's Poem of Bowser Smiting was posted.

I was instantly hooked, taking it upon myself to read through the entirety of the archives (minus the Music of the Week, and a handful of others). I loved them; They're great articles, and I'd like to thank the crew for making them.

I believe what really got me hooked was that no other site really does what Waluigious does. Not really sure what that qualifies as (Mario theory?), but hey.

To go off topic somewhat, I will never be able to tell the difference between Reed's and Artemendo's articles. It's odd, I can tell the difference between Artemendo's and Pyrosheep's (usually), and there's definitely something different about Cheatmaster's articles compared to the others, and yet Reed seems like a clone :^P

So, in other words, thanks for all the fun, guys.


To give this topic slightly more use, when did you guys find out about Waluigious?

[cheat-master30]

No problem. I think the difference in article style between me and Artemendo is pretty much these two things:

1. I like videos in articles, and Artemendo is pretty much the opposite. As a result, you'll notice a massive amount of media in my work, compared to maybe one or two pictures in most articles Artem tends to write. He even admitted this a few times via e-mail, that I probably use too many videos and perhaps even images.

Anyone who's seen both a copy of my Mario and Philosophy draft/work and an old article from my previous site can tell this quite well, the former has far less images and videos than the latter due to the format.

2. Most of Artemendo's work is rather... flowery in terms of writing and descriptions. This is because he's actually studying some form of linguistics in university, and as a result, you can kind of see it in his writing.

There are others... Artemendo is the only person who can use 'In Which' in article titles (you'll notice neither myself, Reed or Pyrosheep use the term) for some reason, and Reed tends to use 'The One With' in article titles, but those are the main ones.

I believe what really got me hooked was that no other site really does what Waluigious does. Not really sure what that qualifies as (Mario theory?), but hey.


Coin Heaven kinda used to. Then it died. Other people did the same. Their sites died as well. The Waluigious content style is practically a death curse to site activity.

To give this topic slightly more use, when did you guys find out about Waluigious?

Not sure. All I remember is that originally, I had no idea whether the content was of a similar level of sophistication to my own writings, since my own site was a tad informal and other sites I visited like Coin Heaven were a bit more... general, a bit less Mario obsessed if you will. Or simply, something about Waluigious seemed more 'intelligent' in regards to writing about the Mario series. I actually remember e-mailing Artemendo to ask him to link to my site some time back.

[The_Cat]

Coin Heaven kinda used to. Then it died. Other people did the same. Their sites died as well. The Waluigious content style is practically a death curse to site activity.

Never heard of CH outside of a link somewhere on Waluigious. Probably should try checking it out some day.

And I never noticed Artemendo was the only one using "In Which" titles. I feel stupid now :^P