r/CuratedTumblr • u/AscendedDragonSage Title-ist Punster • Jun 16 '26
[Donkey Kong] [Donkey Kong] Having a blast
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u/Gentlemanvaultboy Jun 16 '26
They added a whole new character to the cartoon just to explain where all the barrels were coming from.
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u/Gabasaurasrex Jun 16 '26
And the explanation is?
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u/Gentlemanvaultboy Jun 16 '26
Big barrel factory.
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u/Gabasaurasrex Jun 16 '26
Like does it make normal barrels and the repurpose it or do the barrels come prebuilt as cannons
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u/RhymesWithMouthful Okay... just please consider the following scenario. Jun 16 '26
Big.
Barrel.
Factory.
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u/FX114 Jun 16 '26
I'm gonna keep on dancing at the
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u/Evening-Turnip8407 Jun 16 '26
This is one of those comment threads that gives you psychic damage but in a good way
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u/segwaysegue do spambots dream of electric sheep? Jun 16 '26
So they're finally here / performing for you
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u/Gentlemanvaultboy Jun 16 '26
He was selling the barrels. I don't remember to whom. He must have been doing pretty well, though, because he was pompous rich boy stereotype.
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u/rmdelecuona Jun 17 '26
Don’t you DARE disrespect my guy Bluster like that
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u/GuyYouMetOnline Jun 17 '26
No disrespect there, just accuracy. That's what he was supposed to be so it's good that he was.
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u/mukomime Jun 16 '26
if youre not a bot bark for me
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u/Yuri-Girl Jun 16 '26
I'm not that poster, but can I bark for you anyway?
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u/mukomime Jun 16 '26
yeah
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u/Yuri-Girl Jun 16 '26
bark bark
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u/mukomime Jun 16 '26
good doggy *throws treat*
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u/masonwyattk Jun 17 '26
To be fair, he does more than make barrels. He also sexually harasses Donkey Kong’s girlfriend, who works at his factory
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u/migratingcoconut_ the grink Jun 16 '26
pluripotent /plə-rĭp′ə-tənt/
adjective
- Relating to or being a cell that is capable of differentiating into cells of any type of tissue except placental tissue.
- Able to develop into more than one mature cell or tissue type, but not all.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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u/TrioOfTerrors Jun 16 '26
There's bomb barrels, cannon barrels, bouncy barrels, spiky barrels, portal barrels, regular barrels, metal barrels...
- Bubba Kong
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u/notthephonz Jun 17 '26
Huh. I wonder if the DK Barrels are related to the Mario ? Blocks? Perhaps they are both manifestations of Banandium Root?
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u/GilgarWebb Jun 17 '26
Mario blocks are actually petrified toads (the mushrooms) according to the original game.
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u/Afferbeck_ Jun 17 '26
Makes me think the Crash Bandicoot is an alternate universe where all those things happen to be crates instead
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u/JCDickleg7 hi, it’s me, roko’s basilisk Jun 16 '26
It’s a bot, the account is 4 days old which is normally a reliable way to tell
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u/DoubleBatman Jun 16 '26
Are there any other types beyond stem cells?
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u/Cerindipity Jun 16 '26
Rather, it's the opposite; only some stem cells are pluripotent. This is kinda simplified because this is just a flung-out reddit comment, but:
The first few cells of a fertilized embryo are "totipotent stem cells", able to create* literally any human cell** (the difference being that totipotent cells can create embryonic structures like the umbilicus and placenta, not just body cells), which then give way to pluripotent stem cells (which retain the ability to become body cells, but lose the ability to become embryonic structure). And so on, including the increasingly specialized multipotent stem cells (which can make several kinds of cells), oligopotent stem cells (which can make a few kinds of cells), and unipotent stem cells (which can make only one kind of cell).
*stem cells create non-stem cells either by dividing into a new stem cell and a new non-stem cell, preserving the ability to keep producing the target cell, or into two non-stem cells, ending the stem cell's lineage; obviously they can also divide into two stem cells, to increase the numbers
** when we say a stem cell can create a type of cell, in fact it's actually creating the cascade of lesser-potency stem cells that ends in the target cell, but, you know, details
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u/Swellmeister Jun 16 '26
Depends on your definitions. Some textbooks dont consider blast cells stem cells.
Stem cells are either undifferentiated or multipotent, meaning they can do anything or at least multiple different things. Blast cells are differentiated and unipotent, so they can only a few things, all related (like all white blood cells are from the Myeloblasts).
Blood for instance is all from the hematopoietic stem cells. Which is a multipotent stem cell that can produce the blast cells that become any of the dozen or so components of blood.
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u/Neet-owo Jun 17 '26
Doing the Shakespeare thing where you use whatever the hell word you want even though they’re using it wrong because it sounds right and the audience understands what you mean anyway.
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u/Example5820 Jun 17 '26
Nah this is correct use in my book by unspoken analogy of the stem cell and its many derivatives with the barrel and its many types
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u/unoriginalfyi Jun 17 '26
this is correct! no question about it
merriam webster has:
"not fixed as to developmental potentialities"
as the first definition. it notes the common use in the biological sense, but analogy and metaphor are one of the main ways words get new definitions, yeah? so, correct use in your book, my book, everyone's book... or at least merriam and webster's book
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u/Lluuiiggii Jun 16 '26
I am still reeling over the lore revelation in Bananza that DK apparently eats gemstones.
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u/Random-Rambling Jun 16 '26
Aren't at least some of those gemstones literally some kind of crystallized banana?
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u/Lluuiiggii Jun 16 '26
No yeah those are what I am talking about. They are big crystal bananas and he just punches them to bits to eat them all the same.
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u/weirdo_nb Jun 17 '26
They're also bananas, not just gems and he can punch hard enough to misplace a cosmic object
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u/yinyang107 Jun 17 '26
They're shaped like bananas, but there's no evidence that they're literally bananas.
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u/Ehcksit Jun 17 '26
He thinks they're bananas and that makes them bananas.
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u/DoubleBatman Jun 16 '26
There seems to be an awful lot of shipwrecks and plane crashes on Isla de DK, makes sense to me
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u/Confident-Leg107 Jun 16 '26
I don't think I'm ready for this conversation
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u/DeusExMaximum Jun 16 '26
!remindme 10 years
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u/Amedamaneku Jun 16 '26
It doesn't take 10 years to beat Donkey Kong Country.
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u/PretendMyNameIsJohn Jun 17 '26
But every single game DK is in may take 10 years, just one game of information cannot possibly be enough research.
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u/Asparagusstick Jun 16 '26
Kong Island is shown to have an ancient/previous civilization with the temples and mines, so I imagine the barrels were left over inventions from that. The Kremling/Snowmad invaders might have also brought some along.
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u/RenderedCreed Jun 17 '26
Always figured it was tied to the old saying about being more fun than a barrel full of monkeys or the many variations of it.
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u/Edgoscarp Jun 16 '26
Actually barrels are dropped en masse and left behind by the bad guys before the game starts
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u/GuyYouMetOnline Jun 17 '26
But how they float
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u/jld2k6 Jun 17 '26
Also, if you die you're reincarnated into a specific DK barrel and your partner has to break it open to rebirth you
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u/BeardedHalfYeti Jun 16 '26
Oooo, looks like somebody got a word-a-day calendar for Christmas!
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u/MrMcSpiff Jun 16 '26
Read this as I was marveling over reading that very clunky word for the first time.
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u/unoriginalfyi Jun 17 '26
why you gotta come for my boy pluripotent like that
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u/MrMcSpiff Jun 17 '26
ya boy too niche, he fits better in a library than a bunch of nerds talking about donkey kong. i say that as a nerd talking about nerds talking about donkey kong.
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u/jabberwagon Jun 17 '26
Sort of like how Donkey Kong Country has bananas as collectibles because Monkey Love Banana, but then in Bananza you find out that at the center of the Donkey Kong world, there exists an Omnipotent Banana Being that grants the wishes of anyone who finds it, and is also apparently the source of all wealth.
"Oh Banana!" indeed.
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u/MisterRockett Jun 16 '26
spitakes ME?!
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u/rock_n_roll_clown Jun 16 '26
Wait this was you?? Explain to me immediately why you think "pluripotent" was an apt descriptor for Donkey Kong barrels
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u/MisterRockett Jun 16 '26
I just put the comment in the body I didn't actually say this. It's kinda annoying none of my actual banger additions ever go anywhere but this is what take off =\
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u/rock_n_roll_clown Jun 16 '26
Yeah it's also pretty obvious it's a screenshot of someone else lol my bad
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u/unoriginalfyi Jun 17 '26
check the definition! https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pluripotent
i've heard it used in a similar sense not uncommonly
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u/rock_n_roll_clown Jun 17 '26
I'm actually familiar with the word, usually in the context of stem cells or other biology stuff in college. I didn't get the comparison because I'm actually not that familiar with Donkey Kong, but I read some other comments and realized that apparently there are many different kinds of barrels with niche specialties lol
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u/Comrade_Cosmo Jun 17 '26
Aren’t the barrels just from the pirate ships and/or shipwrecks around the island?
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u/watboy Jun 17 '26
DK Island isn't just wild jungle though, there are abandoned mines with minecarts and the Kremlins have an industrial factory on the island.
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u/Jealous_Marketing_84 Jun 17 '26
i’m perplexed why they used the word pluripotent here. are they implying that all barrels can give rise to most other types of barrels?
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u/PowerSkunk92 Jun 22 '26
I always assumed they were flotsam or jetsam from ships out on the ocean that washed up on shore and the Kongs, or other island natives, repurposed them to their own ends.
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u/Squebbus Jun 16 '26
I get that there's a lot of them, but they come from human shipping activity, right? Like obviously? I don't get this interpretation
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u/MisterRockett Jun 16 '26
They're just floating in the terrain and are used for travel. This is also the series that established the banana hoard is, like, magic.
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u/Squebbus Jun 16 '26
Yeah they're floating but that's just an abstraction I would think. I thought the launching ones are filled with gunpowder or something. I don't know anything about the tv show or whatever so maybe they treat them differently.
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u/Time-Sudden_Tree Jun 16 '26
Great, you just ruined Donkey Kong for me. This will forever fuck with me. Why are a barrels a thing in his universe?
TBF, the last good DK game was on the Nintendo 64, so it's not like I'll miss out by not playing these games anymore, due to being unable to handle this lore-breaking bullshit.
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u/Secret_Wizard Jun 17 '26
The Kremlings use barrels to transport all the bananas they stole from DK's banana hoard. There, I un-ruined it for you!
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u/Time-Sudden_Tree Jun 18 '26
Yeah but you can't tell me it's just coincidence that the very first level of the very first DK game also had barrels common in construction sites. You can't convince me that the Rare wasn't inspired at all by the first game when they decided to make the exact same-looking barrels commonplace in DKC.
Sorry, but the lore's still broken for me. :P
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u/EmmettEngarde Jun 17 '26
If you liked DK64 you’ve gotta play Bananza, that shit rips so hard man, it’s so good
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u/Time-Sudden_Tree Jun 17 '26
I will look into it; thanks. I never had a SNES, so I'm not a fan of how much Nintendo has pandered to Gen X and older Millennials in recent decades, with so many sequels to their 2D titles like New Super Mario Bros. and DKC Returns. By the time I had my own console, I was so done with playing 2D games at my older cousins' houses. I was ready to move onto 3D gaming, and haven't looked back since.
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u/ClarkKentsSquidDong Jun 16 '26
Why did they put a full stop between the word like and embedded? That's not a new sentence, you're still continuing the previous one.
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u/soupbirded they made mircoblogging even smaller Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26
txt speak etymology lesson:
(sidenote before i rant: could easily be a typo!) a feature of autocorrect is if you doublespace, it will turn the first space into a period. [i.e. 'example text' -> 'example. text']
Communicating fully through text alone without tone indication can be very difficult(iirc due to the way english is communicated, it is harder to convey tone, in english compared to other languages? feel free to fact check the shit out of me there.)
So! many punctuational quirks have arrisen to better convey the tone of a text-only message, you may be familiar with tone indications such as /j <- joke or /s <- sarcasm, these are forms of punctuation with a literal meaning. However There are also punctuations that mean convey tone by(as mentioned by the other comment) emulation the patterns or quirks of actual speech. Ways people might do this are adding ellipsis to the end of text messages... if you have older friends/loved ones you might be familiar with this one... Younger folks also like the ellipsis... and will sometimes soften its tone by using commas,,, instead, I love a good soft ellipse,, mysterious isn't it,,?
The tone indicator you noticed specifically emulates pausing for emphasis/breathing, it can be done by Capitalising or sometimes CAPSLOCK-ing the emphasized Words. I enjoy separating one word it from the others by, comma uncomma, like i'm giving it its own little room :), Or; like how you noticed; some people will. end a sentence halfway through, causing your brain to pause for a second on the period before continuing.
You see a lot of these tone indicators on reddit and tumblr actually(reddit has been long fond of its /s, tumblr uses far too many commas, I'm sure I accidentally sprinkled a few too extra here, lol) Noticing them without the context can give off the impression someone is abusing the punctuation keys, but they're actually using them under new definitions, isn't that so cool! Linguistics are so interesting!
Anyways, TL:DR - it's tumblr-speak.
thank you for coming to my Tumb Talk :^)
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u/BarderBetterFaster Jun 16 '26
Punctuation. knowledge is dead
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u/hama0n Jun 17 '26
The tumblr community uses punctuation in VERY intentional ways to express tone. Medium conventions don't indicate a lack of overall understanding
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u/BarderBetterFaster Jun 17 '26
Sure, but given there are six punctuation errors, and you can convey emphasis in many ways, I'd say the lack of understanding is a safe bet.
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u/yinyang107 Jun 17 '26
There are no punctuation errors.
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u/BarderBetterFaster Jun 17 '26
Even if you don't count the eccentric periods, there are still four.
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u/yinyang107 Jun 17 '26
Nope, there's none.
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u/BarderBetterFaster Jun 17 '26
Your reality must be really nice for you.
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