Ellie Gibson on mortality and Mario Odyssey

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Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and can't get back to sleep. As I lie there, I think about the people in all the other bedrooms on my street, and wonder if any of them are awake. Then I think about the people who slept in these rooms a hundred years ago, and where they are now, and how death is coming for us all. And I imagine what my funeral will be like, and wonder if my husband will obey my wishes and play C'est La Vie by B*witched. (Seriously, watch the video. I have yet to find a closer approximation of my personal vision of Heaven captured on film.)
Weirdly, this can all get a bit depressing. So to cheer up, I remind myself that the whole of humanity deserves to be doomed to eternal oblivion by reading some comments on YouTube.
The chat about the recently released trailer for Super Mario Odyssey has been a goldmine. All the classics are here, from fair points asserted for some reason in all caps to nonsensical insults ("If 3D World, Sunshine, and Galaxy had a baby, it'd be this." "It would be your mom.")
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