Paper Mario is a video game spinoff series of the Mario franchise,
developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for its
various video game consoles. The series began when Square took its Final
Fantasy franchise to Sony's PlayStation console, leaving Nintendo
without a role-playing game (RPG) for the Nintendo 64. The series
follows Mario on various quests to defeat one or more antagonists
(including Bowser) in worlds created with papercraft materials. The
first game in the series, Paper Mario, was released in August 2000. The
series has received praise for its writing, characters, and graphics,
but garnered criticism for its transition from traditional role-playing
to action-adventure, starting with Super Paper Mario for the Wii. The
newest game in the series, The Origami King, was released on July 17,
2020.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_Mario>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1771:
Dene men, acting as guides to Samuel Hearne on his exploration
of the Coppermine River in present-day Nunavut, Canada, massacred a
group of about 20 Copper Inuit.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Falls_massacre>
1968:
Led by Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party
overthrew Iraqi president Abdul Rahman Arif.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17_July_Revolution>
1981:
A structural failure caused a walkway at the Hyatt Regency
hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, U.S., to collapse (damage pictured),
killing 114 people and injuring 216 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
justice delayed is justice denied:
If a wrong is not corrected within a reasonable time, it is as though
the wrong were not corrected at all.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/justice_delayed_is_justice_denied>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
First-time novelists have a tough row to hoe. Our publishers
don't have a lot of promotional budget to throw at unknown factors like
us. Mostly, we rise and fall based on word-of-mouth.
--Cory Doctorow
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow>
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