Ok, people might see me differently after telling this, but it REALLY happened during speculation period precisely after the leaked videos were released.
Listen to this for best reading experience:
Warning: compressed audio listening can cause questioning, frustration and hating the art of VGM. Please, beware that this is not showing a close version of the original quality and should burn in fire, but the original is a fantastic experience on headphones. Just keep in mind that compressed audio is garbage. FLAC or ALAC encoded AAC from iTunes is great tough because it's lossless.
Normally, I'm usually able to contain strong emotions. The emotion really needs to be a lot more strong than usual for me to give huge reaction. This is why I don't cry that much in life, but this one...that made me realise how much I love people here.
You're maybe aware of this, but since April, I was the OP of the Paper Mario thread, but I only became to advertise more on June - July where I was in the POTD thread every day. That...was the good times especially after July 29.
When the videos got released, I instantly was worried. Not because of Paper Mario chances as some might think, but it was just because of being worried to loose support for that. I didn't find this leak to be that much hurting his chances, but my worries were confirmed the same night: there was indeed people assuming [deconfirmed].
It might be really weird, but even tough I was still confident on his chances, the state of the thread was worrying me A LOT more. The fact that it happened on my first college class day just made it worse. Eventually, it got into me getting depressed (and I mean it like I was playing final hours and I swear to you that it was fitting). The day after, it went into insanity. I came far enough to call myself being stupid and I really feel ashamed and sad to admit this, but yes, there was a point where I considered leaving smashboards. Let's just say I cared a little too much here, but after some time, I asked in a PM conversation (I guess I'm ok to tell it: I host a private PM mostly with the best supporters for giving toughs about stuff I don't want to say publically and having fun) why did I became OP in the first place?
I just want to dedicate (if you're reading this, yes again) this part to @
MegaMarioMan9
He reminded me that the true purpose I was there was to gather people around a same dream. I was there to revive a long forgotten thread (if you want, I can provide stats, but the thread really was dead before) and so, my goal was to by sharing my love for him, spreading it to invite others to share theirs. It was only for supporting purposes.
I didn't copy pasted the thing, but this was written a lot better with the we believe in you mario music at the end...
I just couldn't take it...
This was my heart being broken from its ice prison and so, I played song of healing on VLC and I cried for 30 minutes. I'm not joking, It was so awakening on me that it really felt on me being just sad to have come there in insanity and I was just happy that I at least was able to do my true goal.
After tough, I got INSANELY hype. To this day, I've never felt that much hype and the day after, I wrote a huge hype speech that I put on the header of the OP until [decnfirmed]. It ended for the good after all (except those who based dr mario in the thread...I didn't like that).
Anyway, I'm sure you might think I got too emotional (and I was), but to me, passing this proved me that I really cared about my place here and for that, I will probably not leave until a LOOOOOONG time even if not playable, I'm actually working on a general series thread (doing the OP now) so, I can still share my love for him outside of smash.
Thus, it was my story of when I cried. That was pretty intense.
You're actually not supposed to know it as it's not common knowledge even for TTYD fans, but it's the weirdest glitch I've ever found out of my 6 months of TTYD glitch hunting.
Those are indeed, Paper Mario's arms. An upscaled version to be exact, but I had the proof by ripping textures that if you take the original files, flip them vertically, you get the exact same form, just upscaled.
You can see those at 2 points: if you fall in the water, you see them going from underneath the map (so, can't see them with normal camera) to the sky, but the cutscene is so quick you don't have time to see them on your screen at all. The second time tough is even weirder: in the chapter 7, in the canon cutscene when you land on the moon, they spin around Mario in circle for unknown reasons, but you have to zoom out so much that you can't possibly see them on normal camera.
Free look utility allowed me to spot them, but I discovered that in a complete fluke that it was just funny to think this is in the game. I have yet to know why the heck this is present, but I don't think I'll know...
Here's a video I made to show those in game with free look (you normally have a more zoomed in view):
I decided to use it as avatar because it not only reference TTYD, but is also representing my experience with it and is also a weird images
