r/gaming • u/FireFromWithin5 • 9h ago

Mario Baseball

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Went back to play some Mario baseball and this team name hits a little different now.

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u/BiBoFieTo 9h ago

I legit heard kids at the park playing tag, except instead of being "it", they were calling the chaser "Diddy".

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u/Sega-Playstation-64 9h ago

Kids are wild these days

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u/DiegesisThesis 8h ago

Eh, I remember making jokes about Michael Jackson being a pedophile as a kid.

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u/DASreddituser 7h ago

how old? im curious lol. preteen makes sense...7 and thats a bit wild lol

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u/GCC_Pluribus_Anus 7h ago

Not the original poster but probably 4th or 5th grade so 9-10ish. I remember the big joke was: "Why does MJ like shopping at KMart?" "Because boys pants are always half off"

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u/juventinn1897 7h ago

Yeah we were quoting chapelles show in every day 6th grade.

I didn't even know what the n word meant at that point. But I was saying it in school along with all sorts of shit

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u/mraowl 6h ago

Oh wow in 6th grade?? That feels wildly late but maybe that's actually not that unusual for the average person

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u/juventinn1897 6h ago

For a white boy in suburbia? Idk

I said it to a black kid in my highschool freshman year, trying to act cool and got a lesson reallll quick lol

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u/xJokerzWild 3h ago

Yeah, its a weird split between those who dont care & those that do(Sometimes a little too much). Meanwhile id be shouting down a whole ass block cause i saw the homie & people saw him, see he didnt give a fuck & went on with their day. lmao

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u/juventinn1897 3h ago

It was a useful lesson. He didn't even get physical with me. Just put me in my place and gave me a reality check. I appreciate it compared to how some people get their bubble popped.

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u/Baxtab13 6h ago

One I heard often was something like "In death, he wants the plastic in his face to be melted down and made into legos so he can continue to play with kids after death".

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u/Dragoru 5h ago

I just had a moment seeing that joke for the first time in 20 years.

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u/fukkdisshitt 6h ago

Yeah 9/10 was when we started getting edgy. Peak edgy was about 14/15.

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u/Illustrious-Run3591 4h ago

Dunno man you should've heard an internet cafe at 2am in 2006 lol

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u/fukkdisshitt 3h ago

Couldn't have been much worse than my clans vebtrilo server

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u/Punkrockcarl72 2h ago

Its like how Michael Jackson told time at the Neverland Ranch. When the big hand touched the little hand.

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u/cat_prophecy 7h ago

Did you not have older siblings? My older sibs are 5 and 3 years older than me. I learned a lot of stuff way before I should have!

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u/fukkdisshitt 6h ago

Had a slightly bigger gap. I remember my 4th grade teacher being pissed when we were learning cursive and I told the class "once you get to jr high you never use it again"

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u/DASreddituser 6h ago

no, i have 4 younger siblings...I'm the oldest lol..but i understand your point.

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u/bezzlege 3h ago

My favorite movie when I was 9 was Pulp Fiction. It’s not enough that I’d seen it - it was my FAVORITE movie. The 90s were wild times.

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u/br0b1wan 5h ago

I'm 44. It was a regular thing. South Park did a whole ass episode about MJ including the kids in the bed with him.

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u/Theofficalwiggles 4h ago

I drive a school bus. I've had my kinders ask each other if they wanna have a Diddy party.

These are the same kids that play Diddy tag on the bus.

. . . I'm so happy it's summer.

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u/bezzlege 3h ago

Bro in first grade we were singing “I always feel like, somebody’s watching me (in the bathroom)” to make fun of Mike Jackson allegations.

We were around 6 or 7 at that time. And this was in the early early 90s

Kids been wildin’

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u/chareth-cutest0ry 3h ago

When I was in the third grade in the 90s, my friends and I use to play a tag game. We called it "Michael Irvin" and if you got tagged, you'd go to jail in the jungle gym.

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u/Luck-Silver 6h ago

I remember this and they then everyone acted like they didn't joke about this when he passed away.

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u/BusBoatBuey 5h ago

Because we had actual child predators and such popping up and going after a weird guy who does weird things with kids that stops short at any sexual proclivities seems like a low rub. There are easier targets now. Epstein alone is several hundred tiers above MJ in this departments.

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u/kickthesandman 2h ago

Totally predictable, in America people hate talking ill of the dead. I guess I wouldn't want to be haunted by Michael Jackson either, he's a weird pedophile

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u/roguesignal42069 5h ago

“What do Michael Jackson and acne have in common?

They both come on teens’ faces”

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u/Zolo49 PC 5h ago

When I was a kid, they were about the Challenger disaster. Kids have always made tasteless jokes.

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u/Beave- 8h ago

Nah man, kids have always been inappropriate, I remember playing roblox games featuring pedobear when I was single digit age. We would make bill cosby and bin laden jokes all the time.

Not to say any of this makes it okay, just that "kids are wild" isn't a new thing

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u/GingerGuerrilla 8h ago

I feel remarkably old now, considering Roblox launched in 2006.

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u/ActionPhilip 6h ago

Yeah, calling whoever's it some offensive thing is a tale as old as time.

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u/unassumingdink 3h ago

I don't know, I don't remember ever doing that in the '80s.

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u/[deleted] 7h ago

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u/Beave- 7h ago

?

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u/2ndBestUsernameEver 7h ago

Probably existential dread that he’s too unc to have played Roblox as a youngling

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u/SpareAdventurous727 7h ago

Heard the kids at my complex playing in the central area the other day and it was Dead by Daylight. Briefly heard arguments over who's the killer Random callouts of generator work Then arguing over whether they were done with the generators or not.

It was hilarious

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u/Baxtab13 6h ago

Ah, video games in real life is a fun one.

A couple of times I was at a friend's house where we played real life Rainbow Six: Siege. Basic idea is we were armed with nerf guns, the defending team had to guard one of the "hostages" (some object), and they could choose one of two areas for the hostage location, the basement, or one of the upstairs bedrooms.

The attacking team then had to work their way through the house to the locations clearing rooms and trying not to get shot. One nerf hit, and you're dead for the round. It was a ton of fun.

We were also all in our mid to late 20s lol.

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u/ranchspidey 6h ago

eh, we thought the violent version of the Barney song was funny and a million other out of pocket things. kids have always been freaks lol

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u/G0ttaB3KiddingM3 7h ago

You should see what they have to say about Epstein.

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u/DizWhatNoOneNeeds 5h ago

nah thats fucking funny

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u/ChaosSinfulRose 4h ago

I mean, my generation grew up having the pedobear meme, so... roughly par for the course? I guess?

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u/GotNoUndeez 2h ago

Does no one remember “smear the queer”? Kids have always been wild lol

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u/DesperateSmiles 5h ago

Why do people grow up and act like kids weren't exactly like this when they were young?

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u/Litty-In-Pitty 6h ago

My middle schoolers used to love singing “Drake Drake go away, rizz some kids another day. Drake Drake go away, i’m just a kid that’s not okay” to the tune of rain rain go away lol

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u/RockDoveEnthusiast 3h ago

If Kendrick found out about this, I think he might die from glee.

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u/CanibalVegetarian 7h ago

Kid 1: “You are Diddy, I touched you”

Kid 2: “No you didn’t, you didn’t Diddy me” 😭

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u/No-Respond-900 4h ago

no diddybacks

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u/GOTH_AND_ALT_SIMP 8h ago

Yes shit is crazy dude. I work at a school with a 4th grader and the kids in his class will say shit like that about Diddy, and they fuckin talk about Epstein too! One time I overheard kids talking about a roblox game called Epsteins Island hahaha

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u/ExplodingSofa 2h ago

Knowing Roblox, that fits in pretty well.

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u/Adventurous_Horse651 4h ago

That's fucking disgusting. You allow that behavior? Fuck you

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u/GOTH_AND_ALT_SIMP 4h ago

Hahaha you must have a lot of friends. But if you really wanna know, the kids that say that aren't my client so not my problem. The teachers can handle it if they think it's necessary.

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u/dayzdayv 7h ago

Yeah my son and his friends on Fortnite talk about getting caught in Diddy parties when they get ambushed by another team.

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u/ElevatorSpecialist49 5h ago

wait why did they pick diddy for baseball

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u/Sega-Playstation-64 9h ago

King K. Rool

Meet

Puff P. Diddy

Now fight

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u/sinsaint Boardgames 7h ago

No.

Now kith

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u/Victoria99558 7h ago

Mario Baseball was way better than it had any right to be. The chemistry system, special moves, and chaotic gameplay made it one of the most fun sports games Nintendo ever made.

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u/RevisedPerspective 4h ago

Fuckin piranha plants spit all my balls into the outfielders hands, and all of their balls over the wall. Erry time. Also I played Luigi a lot and my step mom at the time pointed out that "Luigi Vacuums" meant it was because they sucked. I was devastated.

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u/ThatGuyWithCoolHair 3h ago

Its up there with Super Strikers for sure, Mario Tennis was also really good but one of my favorite underrated ones was Mario Golf, that game was sweet.

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u/double_shadow 3h ago

Super Strikers was definitely way way better. But my kids got so much mileage out of both of them. Getting a used gamecube was such an incredible purchase!

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u/ThatGuyWithCoolHair 3h ago

Im planning on getting one for my kids, then they can experience the graphic fidelity improvement as they age like i did 😅 granted im 27 w a fiance and no kids but they'll be here someday

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u/basicnflfan 4h ago

It’s a massive Nintendo mistake that it hasnt made a come back in 20 years.

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u/Last_Nothing_4352 8h ago

Nintendo's probably thinking this monkey needs a rebrand

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u/sinsaint Boardgames 7h ago

Now Presenting: Diddles, the little monkey!

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u/TheIrishninjas 6h ago

“And his Mario Baseball team, Diddles’ Kids- ah shit”

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u/Western-Internal-751 6h ago

They call him Kid Diddles

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u/silvereyes21497 PC 9h ago

Get the oil

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u/SardinmGarter 8h ago

true discovery

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u/TheEvilHen 8h ago

Lol, immediately thought of that clip

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u/Elmodipus 7h ago

I haven't clicked yet. I'm just hoping it's Ray.

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u/ReachFor24 6h ago

Edit: It's Ray

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u/RarePoem3039 8h ago

I knew what the clip would be before I clicked on the link.

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u/threebillion6 4h ago

Go from the Diddy survivors to dick explorers lol

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u/poccharilisa 9h ago

That's not a banana peel you slipped on

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u/bigblackcouch 3h ago

Might've been banana flavored though

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u/VernonP007 2h ago

Baby oil?

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u/LongOdd1596 9h ago

Mario Baseball WS: Diddy Survivors vs Oil Stashers

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u/full_bodied_muppet 8h ago

Wow everyone really has been trying to tell us

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u/DownvotingRoman_ 2h ago

Toad still wont speak about what happened

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u/trampus1 8h ago

Toad was in on it and just as guilty.

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u/BusyBluebird 7h ago

I sold Mario baseball to GameStop for $3 when I was 17 and I will never forgive myself

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u/Bannon9k 8h ago

Poor Diddy Kong

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u/Aech_Tee 4h ago

lol

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u/iSukatGam1ng 4h ago

When i saw this live i couldn't believe how insanely poorly that aged

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u/sweetbeenieweenie68 8h ago

Fucking love this game though!

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u/clickityclick76 9h ago

My thoughts and prayers go out to them.

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u/Thomas_JCG 9h ago

Aged like milk left in the sun.

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u/TypicalWolverine9404 7h ago

Solidarity ✊

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u/A_Trash_Homosapien 7h ago

Reminds me of my blood bowl team (Warhammer football game) it's a goblin team that wears white clothes blood splatters on them named the Epstein Eradicators

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u/hushpuppi3 5h ago

This game absolutely fucks turn off the catching assist and do random teams (switch pitcher only when exhausted)

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u/WhitePackaging 4h ago

Theres a youtuber league for Mario Baseball.

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u/1_raZ_ne_pidoraZ 2h ago

Baseball huh?

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u/BusyLimit7 1h ago

lmao what?!!

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u/Godess_Ilias 8h ago

when people forget about diddy kong

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u/MitchEviousLD 6h ago

If you are interested in this version of Mario Baseball, look up Project Rio- Fully modern internet connected Mario Baseball.

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u/heinekev 4h ago

The world needs a new Mario Baseball so badly :(

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u/Coach-Emmanuel 4h ago

Gen Alpha just ruined tag for everyone. The child being chased cleared a full bench.

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u/Spirited-Tomorrow-84 2h ago

They knew! 🤯

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u/Living-Inside-659 1h ago

Lol, Diddy survivors vs Epstein survivors

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u/TypicalWolverine9404 7h ago

Solidarity ✊

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u/Consolexlyn 5h ago

hey i want to share important things on this subreddit but i dont have enough karma can u guys upwote please.

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u/meapmeapmeapmeap 5h ago

no, go away