this is the interests page! here you're gonna be seeing my ramblings about a buuunch of the things im incredibly tismed and Criminally insane about. i am sorry in advance. expect some way to jump to different categories up here soon
in fact, i don't even know where to start, so i'm just gonna kick off with the one thing i know i can:
SUBJECT 1:
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Okay Actually Bad Idea because Where do I begin with this now.
I. So. So. To preface. I'm just gonna state that I'm what you could call a
(which means I am incredibly hyperfixed on the Mario franchise in general. as you could probably tell by now based off Quite a few things on this website actually!)
Like I'm just gonna go from the top. Being born in 2009 into your average family of
1. American
2. Nintendo console-owning
3. Nerds™,
the first video game I ever got to play was New Soup Wii. This did irreparable damage to my brain as a wee lad. Whoops!
Now, as any impressionable young child would, I immediately became incredibly infatuated with That Pesky Plumber and at the ripe age of Three (I Think) I got my very own Nintendo DSi. (i know it had to be when I was at least 3 because i got a matte blue dsi and those came out in mid 2012.) oh yeah and then the year immediately after that I got a 3DS . So the next Mario games I had really played by then were New Soup DS and 3D Land.
I should also mention my father had modded our family Wii, which gave me access to the rest of the Mario library on the console. I didn't put that much time into those though... Except maybe #SuperPaperMario 😄 #Yep #ImAnSPMEnjoyer 🌈
(I also got to play the Wii rerelease of Super Mario All-Stars, which was my first experience with SMB1, 2, USA, and 3)
Now it should be duly noted that after that point I just kind of played whatever Mario games came out after that point. I've kept mostly up-to-date with the mainline games (i still have to play through the RPGs, i know they're rad ESPECIALLY Legend of the 7 Stars) and there was really only a few select games I didn't really get into like New Soup U and Captain Toad
(...though I did eventually get around to NSMBU later, and I'm still playing through it on the Deluxe version. I don't know why I didn't play it before!!! It's still a perfectly inoffensive Mario game!! Maybe it was just stupid child me's attention span lol)
(By the way I don't think I'm going to get to say it anywhere else, but I am a New Super Mario Bros defender. All 4 of those games are really good regardless of artistic direction.)
my NSMBU savefile as of September 18th, 2025. Just over halfway done with the game actually.
After the release of Super Mario Maker, my memory kinda gets foggy, actually... As far as I know, my Mario hyperfix kind of died down during the late 2010's. It's not like I suddenly hated Mario, but I wasn't crazy into the franchise like before... Really the only thing of note being that I still got the new games during this period like Maker 2 and 3D All-Stars, and I was also an avid fan of SMB35 before they hung Mario by the gallows...
It took a pretty good long while for the hyperfix to come back in full swing... mainly because during this period of time I had actually Gained Sentience and began Thinking On My Own at the age of About Eleven. which, between the Other things that happened in 2020 and whatnot, gave me some time to find some other interests of mine (which i'll detail later on in this page!) ...in the meantime though, I did take the time to do the occasional thing in Mari0 or whatnot, just small interactions with the series, frankly.
2023 really marked the year I got back-back into Mario, mainly because of the announcement and release of Wonder. This game really reignited my love for the series ... not like the metaphorical flame ever actually went out, but it definitely made me dig it out of the back of my brain. I know this because I'm capable of remembering all of this off of the top of my head and I can mostly rattle off Mario lore whenever I'm asked of it. Hi :)
Now I'm gonna be honest with you. Genuinely forgot if there was anything more I was going to touch on. That kinda covers everything I wanted to talk about at least as far as I'm aware. It's also been like, a week since I wrote anything on this page (before I started writing these last 3 paragraphs, all I had was up to Mario being hung.) All I'll say is that I'm not just gonna start rattling off my Mario knowledge here unprompted. Maybe I'll have a chart of my favorite stuff or something ... that sounds cool ...
marlee's table of her favorite mario stuff
there'll probably be more added here soon i frankly um. dont. know what more to put here
| Character | tie between Luigi, Yoshi, Birdo, and Wario |
| Enemy | Dry Bones and Wiggler |
| Game | Super Mario 3D Land |
| Music | Brobot Battle - Super Paper Mario |
| Powerup (gameplay-wise) | Ice or Bubble Flower |
| Powerup (aesthetically) | Metal Cap, Goomba's Shoe |
You've made it to the bottom of the Mario section. Before I immediately jump to what comes next, I'd like to show cool souvenirs of my Mario hyperfix over the years that I have lying around...
This is a photo of my entire Mario plush collection from ...I think 2020? 2021? It's pretty old, that's all I know.
A tier list of every single (mainline and non-mainline, not including the really esoteric ones) Mario game. Made this in early January 2025.
Hi just realized this tierlist didn't have the Mario Artist games as options, but it had Mario Paint what??? This sucks actually wtf
Speaking of really esoteric Mario games, here's My Personal List:tm: of what I'd consider to be the mainline Mario games. Because everyone has one of those, right?
SUBJECT 2:
My very first exposure to anything related to Team Fortress 2 was through the very last shot of the timeless YouTube Poop known as "Hotel Mario - Ultimate Bloopers". Through a Pootis joke.
Fast forward to around 2019, Heavy is Dead comes out and becomes popular, parodies are made, et cetera, so on and so forth, and by March of 2020 I had played Team Fortress 2. I already wasn't normal beforehand, but this is what sent me past the point of no return.
by the way actually i started playing it actively in like, March of 2021. the first time I booted the game i was on my main pc at the time (shoddy old laptop) and it changed my resolution like most source games do by default and it scared me and i didnt play it for like 7 months LOL
Now I'll be frank. Given I've only been playing the game for about 5 years as of reading this, I don't nearly have the same amount of history with this game as I do Mario, so there'll be a lot less to write about here. Though, good lord I made the most of this hyperfixation when I first got into it. There was a time in which I found the Boston Basher description to be the funniest damn thing in the world.
These were good times.
Anyways Right. Right. Um. So you know how my Mercenary says I first booted the game on February 29th, 2020 right. And in the italics below that I said I picked the game back up 7 months later. Yeah so I really actually first played the game during Scream Fortress of that year—I know this because the Very Next thing in my inventory is a Soul Gargoyle.
And it's a Joyous one at that. It's collected 10277 souls as of writing this. Big big fan of Scream Fortress. Anywho, in terms of my memory, what I CAN tell you is that the image of going onto the PC downstairs and attempting to boot up this "TF2" game for the first time in almost a year just to be met with Heavy on the spooky Halloween background was an incredibly formative experience for me.
Um
I Also have No idea if Scream Fortress was actually the first time I played TF2, because it says the very first match I ever played was on Pier???? And that was during February 2021???
Though, knowing me, I probably just spent that session of the game playing the Training Mode and then called it quits. Who Knows!
What I do know is when I decided I had had enough of Text communication is not availible for this account, because what Steam does keep track of is your purchase history. The only way you could give your account the capability of using chat as a free-to-play during the whole bot crisis situation was to buy something on the Mann Co. store—and surprisingly, I knew enough about the game to know exactly what to get first.
this video is from May 16th, 2021. I actually got this taunt on March 27th of that year, but this is the very first recorded video of any of my TF2 gameplay. I figure its sentimental value makes up for the date innacuracy.
From there, I'm not wholly sure where else to go... Um. Um. Look at this. Very first TF2 screenshot I took. From March 27th of 2021. Cool Right
