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My daughter call the coins in Mario as money
- Thread starter FernandoRocker
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Yeah, this is a great teaching opportunity. You won't get many chances (especially this early in her life) to honestly get across that everyone gets it wrong sometimes, even dads, and that it's fine to change your mind.
OP
OP
bonus opportunity to show off the coins in many different mario game contexts
Tell her to call them chocolates,like those 1 dollar coin sized wrapped ones(well they do this because of the Looneys up here in Canada). ;)
They're coins. Correct your newbie piece of shit daughter once and then wash her mouth out with soap if she keeps calling them money. You gotta nip this in the bud now.
OP: it's not money, it's coins.
20 Years from now:
Twitter: What one obvious thing did you realise way too late in life?
OP's daughter: I somehow grew up not knowing coins were currency...
20 Years from now:
Twitter: What one obvious thing did you realise way too late in life?
OP's daughter: I somehow grew up not knowing coins were currency...
Coins are just a reference to the tokens/medals from arcades. So they are a currency in a round about way. Since arcades are mostly dead or designed around gambling now, Nintendo has just retcon'd them into actual currency.
Now Rings are definitely not a currency. They seem to be some sort of magic item that can protect you from 1 hit regardless of intensity, get absorbed into the body until hit, and can teleport you to magical realms if you collect enough.
Now Rings are definitely not a currency. They seem to be some sort of magic item that can protect you from 1 hit regardless of intensity, get absorbed into the body until hit, and can teleport you to magical realms if you collect enough.
Check out this editorial from Kotaku.
https://kotaku.com/why-there-are-coins-in-super-mario-bros-5715916
When Miyamoto was asked why he added coins to Mario, he said:
"Thus, when we were thinking about something that anybody would look at and go 'I definitely want that!', we thought, 'Yep, it's gotta be money.'"
https://kotaku.com/why-there-are-coins-in-super-mario-bros-5715916
When Miyamoto was asked why he added coins to Mario, he said:
"Thus, when we were thinking about something that anybody would look at and go 'I definitely want that!', we thought, 'Yep, it's gotta be money.'"
Money can be exchanged for goods and services. So if you rationalize the exchange of 100 coins for a star or life, she isn't technically wrong, even if its a non SMO game.
Just don't let her try to plug up cuts with dollar bills though. Don't let SM64 and Sunshine give her the wrong message.
Just don't let her try to plug up cuts with dollar bills though. Don't let SM64 and Sunshine give her the wrong message.
"Honey its not money its coins"
"Shut the fuck up dad"
Is how that would go if your daughter was mean but I'm sure you've raised her quite well and I think calling it money is kinda cute
"Shut the fuck up dad"
Is how that would go if your daughter was mean but I'm sure you've raised her quite well and I think calling it money is kinda cute
I think FernandoRocker has a backlog of threads kept specifically for the weekends.
OT: Coins are money.
OT: Coins are money.
I remember one time in the sixth grade my friend tried to argue he was smarter than me because all of the games he played had some form of currency so he learned financial management through games. I then countered his argument by trying to argue that most of the games I played also have some form of currency. He brought up Sonic, to which I replied that in the Sonic Adventure games rings can be used as a form of currency in the Chao Garden. He didn't know how to respond to that other than bewilderment, but ever since then I have wondered if things like coins and rings really count as "money," in platformers, but I'd lean towards yes. Coins are literally used to buy things in practice.
How about you don't start mansplaining to your daughter?
- "Get the money, dad!"
- "COINS, sweetie."
- "Get the money, dad!"
- "COINS, sweetie."
"They're coins."
"oh ok dad"
(Two weeks later)
"Dad I'm playing Sonic the Hedgehog and I collected all the coins"
"oh ok dad"
(Two weeks later)
"Dad I'm playing Sonic the Hedgehog and I collected all the coins"
Did you take the opportunity to admit to her that she is right about something that you were wrong about all this time?Playing Super Mario 3D World right now.
Great chance to teach her about admitting when you're wrong, and learning things from each other :)
Not all Coins have monetary value. Most do, but it is exposure. I am sure alot of people here can think of examples of coins that you cannot use in any economy to purchase a product. But in this case, the history of mario games prove that coins have monetary value in the kingdom. The only reason you would correct her is because it should be a habit of using the correct wording when you can. Words may have multiple meanings, and there really is no excuse to be lazy.
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Yeah, though historically "coins" have basically been a defacto medium of currency / exchange. I can't even think of any coins right now that aren't considered money, or something you exchanged for money to use in an arcade setting, etc.