The 'Shroom:Issue XLII/Fake News

Fake News

Director’s Notes
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Travel Guide
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Come visit the Puzzle Plank Galaxy! We’ve got a lot of things to jump on with weird gravitation phenomena. There are also Wigglers that you can try to piss off. Funny how they can kill you even when they’re in a good mood. Best of all, we have a Luma! This isn’t any ordinary Luma. It promotes obesity, suicide, and eating metal! Seriously, how the hell is anyone supposed to digest a coin? I mean, consuming Star Bits is ridiculous enough, but this is simply outlandish. Come see our suicidal, binging, metal‐eating freak today!

Fake Music
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Hello everyone, this is Katie Couric BluePikminKong497, coming to you with today’s Fake Music. *audience claps and cheers* Recently, a new band known as The Koop have released their first album, More than a Mushroom. The album has become a hit in bother the Beanbean Kingdom and Sarasaland, and is selling well in the Mushroom Kingdom. The songs are as follows:
 * More than a Mushroom, a parody of More than a Feeling, about a Mega Mushroom
 * Love the way you Die, a parody of Love the way you Lie, about losing in Super Mario Bros.
 * Green Eyed Daisy, a parody of Green Eyed Lady, about Luigi and Daisy in love.
 * Go Blue Shell!, an original song about a rabid Spiny Shell.
 * Won’t be Foiled Again, a parody of Won’t be Fooled Again, about Bowser planning to defeat Mario.
 * Baby Rap, an original rap by Baby Daisy.

BPK, we bid you a fond farewell!

Fake TV
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The Mushroom Kingdom is not always the weak, boring, useless happy go‐lucky place you see in the Mario games. Deep in the suburbs of Mushroom City, crime, most notably murder, is on the rise. The murders are then investigated by a team of inspectors and investigators, who try to crack the case. CSI Mushroom City is an awe‐inspiring show. The pilot will be shown on Wednesday night, at 9:30, so murder put the kids to bed and enjoy. In the pilot, the team investigates the gruesome murder of a Toad. They are then set off track when their main suspect, a Koopa Troopa, is murdered and the killer continuously blackmails them. The famous actor Zip Toad stars in this. It’s on Mush TV One every Wednesday night. Don’t miss it! Or I’ll come and make you watch it.

Fake Games
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Welcome, dear readers, to this month’s review of a random Nintendo game in the making. As you probably know, this year’s E3 left a huge impact on Nintendo fans worldwide. That makes this month’s review even more astonishing, as I will review the beta version of Mario Sports Mix. Hooray!

I was officially invited by Nintendo to beta‐test their product and also was promised an interview with one of the higher‐ups of the company. That was very generous. While I was there I heard some rumors about employees accidentally switching the “People to invite for great beta‐test” list with the “People to kick out of the building on sight” list, but you know how those rumors are.

So, after an official introduction and some more blathering we were finally allowed to play the game.

Gameplay
The first thing I saw in the game was the title screen, as it is common with video games. But no matter what I did, no matter which buttons I pressed, I couldn’t make it go away. Finally, a Nintendo employee stopped and told me what I was doing wrong. I had to hold down the 1 button, draw a circle counter‐clockwise with the Wiimote, press up, down, and up on the directional pad, let go of the 1 button and wait three seconds, and then press the 2 Button three times. That made the title screen go away and threw me into the main menu.

The main menu came with a simplistic white background and two options only: “Character Selection”, and “Back to the Title Screen”. I ended up selecting the latter per accident, since it was selected by default. Of course the combination to get past the title screen changed, so it took me two hours to finally get to the character selection screen. There I got to choose between the seven playable characters: Mario, Dr. Mario, Baby Mario, Daisy, Waluigi, Foreman Spike, and Geno. I heard rumors that Umaro from Final Fantasy 6 was unlockable, but this was denied by the creators. I picked Dr. Mario for simplicity’s sake.

After that I got to see some actual gameplay. There are no further choices to make, the game just starts. The only game mode is a one vs. one match. The player characters are positioned on the right and left edge of the screen and can be moved vertically by tilting the Wiimote. By doing that, the players can bounce a tiny ball around. The objective of the game is to get the ball to the border of the screen behind the opposing player. I could have sworn I’d already seen that principle somewhere, but I just couldn’t remember where at that point. Anyway, after one player scored enough points, they win, and the game goes back to the title screen! Gaah!! Enough!!

Interview
After I was done playing the game and switched it off (by punching through the screen), I was led into a separate room where I interviewed some guy who was present during the whole event.

Edofenrir: So yeah, hi.

Nintendo Employee: Greetings, Mr. Egofennec. I heard you wanted to interview me for the Fire Flower newspaper of that MarshmallowWiki place.

Edofenrir: Uhm… I guess…

Nintendo Employee: Well then, ask your questions.

Edofenrir: So, uhm… after playing your game for so long I can’t help but notice that it is somewhat… let's call it “curious”.

Nintendo Employee: *grins eerily*

Edofenrir: Let me begin with the title screen of the game. It is totally unintuitive and silly! Why is it so hard to even start the game??

Nintendo Employee: That’s because we paid attention to the fans’ criticism this time.

Edofenrir: …Please elaborate.

Nintendo Employee: People always complain that our games are becoming easier with every installment. They wish for more difficulty, like we did back then with Super Mario Bros. 2, you know, that SNES game where you could transform into a weasel and fly. As a reply to these complains, we tried to make the title screen as challenging as possible.

Edofenrir: I see, that makes sense… in some twisted way… The next point that raises questions is the character selection.

Nintendo Employee: Ah, the heart of our game. I hand‐picked all the subjects myself.

Edofenrir: Yes, and that’s where the problem begins. I mean, it’s nice to see some obscure characters like Geno or Foreman Spike, but why are there three Mario clones?

Nintendo Employee: Oh, those are not clones, mister. They are highly different! Dr. Mario has a doctor’s light for example, and you cannot play as Baby Mario after 8 pm.

Edofenrir: Ok… Then there are balancing issues. Waluigi, for example, is twice the size of every other character, and it’s virtually impossible to get any ball past him.

Nintendo Employee: Oh, but you have to admit, a balanced game is pretty boring.

Edofenrir: *sigh* Next, why is there only one game mode? What happened to all the other things we saw in the trailers, like hockey, or dodge ball? Why is there so little content?

Nintendo Employee: That is due to an error in our calculations. We accidentally blew out our entire budget to make the trailers look fancy and interesting. That’s why we ended up with only 500 dollars left. We invested some of the money into something else and continued to make the game with only two dollars. But I swear, with these two dollars we created a two dollar masterpiece!

Edofenrir: So, you spent two dollars producing something that will probably sell for 50 dollars in the stores…

Nintendo Employee: I know, isn’t that great?

Edofenrir: No, it’s not! It’s horrible! The whole game is horrible! You cut out all the good stuff and replaced it with nonsense! And on top of that, you made the whole game a clone of Pong!! That sucks!! It’s an abomination, and I’m gonna tell everyone just that!!

Nintendo Employee: *draws a gun* Can’t let you do that, Mr. Dragon.

Edofenrir: *gulp*

Nintendo Employee: This 498 dollar gun was the best investment I ever made. Now go and write your summary! I’ll be watching you.

Summary
To sum everything up: This game is great. Yep, just that. Greatness in its greatest form. I can’t exactly say why it is great, but it is. You should go and buy this game as soon as it gets released so Nintendo won’t shoot me— uh, I mean, will get rewarded for this great game! Great! So, in the end, I can close this section, and say: Hey Everybody, Let’s Play this Masterpiece Endlessly. Good day, and see you next month… maybe.

Cooking Guide
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Hello…welcome…to…Cooking Guide. Baby Mario Bloops…here to…inform…that…budget…dropped…badly…from last…month…so…have to…use less…words…this episode…

No…guests…I make…Chocolate Cake. Let’s begin…


 * Chocolate
 * Cake Mix
 * Oven.
 * Bowl and Spoon.
 * Pie Pan


 * 1) Crag…shrink and buy Chocolate.
 * 2) Flopside Basement shop…buy Mix.
 * 3) Pour and mix together…until moist.
 * 4) Fill Pie Pan…place in 350° Oven.
 * 5) 35 minutes…done.
 * 6) Cool 20 minutes then enjoy.

Wow, I actually have a lot of limited and a itty bit amount of wiseful words to use sparingly for the rest of the show. Then again, I did just use a lot of words just in these last couple sentences. Who knows, maybe I have unlimited no—

Ads
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* walks onto stage and hears applause*

Thank you! Thank you my kind and wonderful monkeys!

For being such good monkeys, I am offering a special deal on bananas. Yup that’s right! You unintelligible apes will go bananas for such deals.

First, we have this plain ol’ banana. It may look like a regular old banana, but it has such a refined taste, you’ll be heading to your local produce centers to buy bunches of these.

Next, we have these um…colored bananas that are genetically modified grown with special ingredients to give them…color… Blue, purple, green, red, your pick of the lot. And they taste just like regular bananas and turn your tongue blue too! :O

And then we have this…Wait, what, a Luxury Banana? Today definitely is my lucky day!

* eats the banana and throws the peel on the floor*

BURP! Ah, that was delicious. Too bad you insolent monkeys cannot have such a refined banana. Now you will all dance before me! … … … I guess this ends my speech for today. Hope I don’t have to repeat anything to you bumbling simians.

* walks off the stage, but slips on the banana peel and falls to his doom*

(Note: If you do not get the jokes, leave a message on my talk or a PM on the forums and I’ll gladly explain it to you).

Interview
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Hello all my wise and trustworthy readers. Welcome to the character interview with I, Black Mason Bob Baby Mario Bloops! Today we have a special chat with the enemies that are known to have a nasty habit of stealing from others. Being among many, let’s give a cold warm welcome to Bandit!!! Let me just hide all my stuff, and begin…

Baby Mario Bloops: Bandit, I see that you are all hyped up. What are you running for?

Bandit: Must…steal…money! (Attacks the crowd)

Baby Mario Bloops: Backup! I need three tranquilizers stat!

Security Guards: Aim and…Fire!

Bandit: OUCH!…Sleepy now…moving normal…boring.

Baby Mario Bloops: Well, now that I have your sane attention, shall we begin?

Bandit: What is there to talk about? I “find” many items, and they usually have my name written on them, after I write it.

Baby Mario Bloops: So you’re saying you steal it?

Bandit: No…I just happen to find money that fell into someone’s unguarded pocket. But stealing…no.

Baby Mario Bloops: What’s the difference!? That is still stealing!…Whatever, moving on. Are you related to the Shy Guy family?

Bandit: Don’t categorize me there…I’m no fat hideous monster that talks as if they were retarded. Stupid little a*******.

Crowd: *Gasps in Surprise*

Baby Mario Bloops: Wait…what did you say?

Bandit: Umm…damn it…I said Stupid little awesome…rs. Yeah, that.

Baby Mario Bloops: I’d like you to know that I have recording devices planted all over this room, and they catch the smallest sounds, like a heartbeat that picks up when the person lies, or a cuss word that will get them kicked off.

Crowd: Ooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…you’re in twouble!

Bandit: The crowd doesn’t even know how to say trouble! I’m sure that they could verify that I did not cuss.

Baby Mario Bloops: Don’t need them, remember? I will come back later, and bring Shy Guy up to the chair that you sit, and play what you said.

Bandit: You know what? I’m going to kill you!

Baby Mario Bloops: Guards!

Security Guards: Got him Boss…time to go, you little troublemaker.

Baby Mario Bloops: Alright, interesting show today. Hopefully the drama didn’t get too overwhelming today. I will see you all next month…as long as I don’t get attacked when I’m walking alone. See ya!

Fake Sports
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Last week, Waluigi faced off against Birdo in the World Ping‐Pong Championship of Championships Tournament Cup, better knows as the WPPCCTC. Birdo was leading in the fifth set, ten points to three, and hit what seemed to be the winning shot, but Waluigi reacted quickly and impaled the ball on his hideous, pointy nose. He did this another 3,103 times until the tournament organizers had run out of balls. While the organizers went to the store to grab more balls, Waluigi impaled Birdo with his nose, therefore ending the tournament. Waluigi was disqualified and Birdo was unable to receive the trophy, so the third‐place finisher, Poochy, was declared the champion.

Fake Weather
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Hello, I’m New Super Mario with the Weather report. It appears that many Koopas have still been suffering from the cold brutal weather, ever since it started snowing outside. But there is no fear because today it looks like Fire Snakes are building up in the clouds. Those Koopas will be happy, it will be warm outside, and watch your heads. At least, that’s what Baby Luigi said… Also in the weather report, it looks like we’ve recently spotted a giant Monty Mole coming this way in a huge tunnel. So I’m New Super Mario saying “watch out for the earthquake”!

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Hello readers, this is your weather forecast for September. As you may have noticed, the days are getting shorter and shorter with each passing day as we are leaving the summer season and approach fall. Trees are starting to lose their leaves and get moody about it, and it’s getting colder. Clouds dominate the sky in most regions inside and around the Mushroom Kingdom. And then there is the occasional rain falling over Goomba Village.

Speaking of clouds, an unnaturally large gathering of clouds over Toad Town has been reported. The whole city is covered in a thick fog, and you cannot see farther ahead than three feet. Of course there have been mass panics in the town (as usual), but weather scholars reported that there is no imminent danger. Upon closer inspection of the incident, experts discovered the cause of the unusual phenomenon. It’s the annual Lakitu convention held in Toad Town. Lakitus from near and far are coming together within the city walls and talk about fashionable goggles and the newest cloud models. The convention is scheduled to end after two weeks and scholars assume that the clouds will vanish along with the Lakitus.

Fake Characters
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Princess AppleBerry


The weirdest and freakiest person in world, Princess AppleBerry, born in CrazyShroom Town, has a weird look and stranger personality. She has a big mouth, she can’t keep a secret for even one second, and, believe it or not, she has a real, true, and big Koopa mouth. She hates Peach and Mario, and is in love with Waluigi, but everyone gets scared and runs from her when watching her Mario foot! She says in public that she will marry Bowser and destroy Mushroom Kingdom. Beware the Apple! I mean, Beware the Apple Berry Canon! I mean! Beware the Freak Princess!

ComicThrower Weirdmagikoopa


This Magikoopa is so strange that Bowser is fearful when seeing him! He had two very different eyes, copied from Mario and Peach, and because he was destroyed twice, he has three different clothing styles in one. He is known for attacking with C4D Bubbles and Throwing mini comic covers! Not very many people know his secret, which is that if he falls into a hole, he will morph into a Phoenix hole!

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Mario has a younger self, Baby Mario, but there is one piece missing from Mario’s chronology puzzle: the future Mario. So you will be glad to hear about the star of Nintendo’s newest game: Old Mario! In his old age, Mario has lost the ability to jump high, and looks like a lunatic when he runs. Launch Stars reject him, young Toads call him Medusa, and Yoshi gets embarrassed hanging around with him. He has gained new abilites, however – a walking stick. Instead of jumping on Goombas, he hits them on the head with his walking stick and gives them a long lecture about how much better yesterday was, usually starting with “Back in my day…” You may say, “This is too easy. Where is the strategy?” However, our hero has to give different lectures for different kinds of enemies.

Anyway, since he is too old to jump higher, he has to wait for the lift. Other challenges Old Mario faces include waiting in line for the disabled toilet and going to the hospital for his annual check‐up, and babysitting the grandkids. Instead of getting Fire Flowers, he uses walking frames. He also likes to Kart like his former self, but instead he uses a mobility scooter.