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Sonic's personality was based on Bill Clinton and Doctor Eggman's design was based on Teddy Roosevelt

These would be some for me

I have to get this off my chest. I wasn't alive in the 90s and didn't grow up playing games from that era. A few years ago I had the Switch Online thing and played Super Mario World, and ever since I've always said it's the best game I've ever played.

Whenever I say it online, people often assume I'm an old guy who's just nostalgic for it, and say that games like Oddysey and Wonder are objectively better or whatever. One person when I told them my age told me they were genuinely shocked that someone with no personal connection to the game could consider it the best game they've ever played.

The best way I can describe it is that every other game I've ever played I could name significant flaws with. For example, I'm a massive Donkey Kong Country fan, but some of those games have bad boss fights or water levels that bring it down. I also like fighting games and first person shooters but those have their fair share of flaws too. Even Super Mario Bros. 3, which is the game most frequently compared to Mario World in terms of quality, has a huge step down in level quality with World 3, and the Frog Suit which feels awful to control on land.

I'm not saying Mario World is a perfect, flawless piece of art, but it's flaws are so minor compared to any other game I can think of. If I had to criticize it, I'd say that some of those super secret special world levels kind of suck (Tubular being the worst example). But that's an almost comically small flaw considering those are just bonus challenge levels that aren't part of the main game.

It's just such a well crafted execution of what it sets out to do. Every level is fun and well designed. The world map feels like an actual connected world rather than an unrelated series of levels. There's only two power ups because the game didn't need any more; they're both so fun to control and different from each other. The gimmick of having to find a secret exit to progress is used exactly once because it would have gotten annoying if used any more than that.

It's probably the only video game I'd mention among the best works of media I've ever watched/read. I don't even know what the second best video game I've ever played is because it would be such a distant second.

I hope this post doesn't come off as super pretentious or anything but I just wanted to talk about this game.

Also r/Mario removed my post so that's why I'm posting it here. Idk if this is the right sub to post this in.

Something I've been thinking about is that most of the presidents I have in A tier are ones I'd describe as "Near-Great" presidents.

Jefferson is a good example. He saw great success in his presidency with the Louisiana Purchase, but also had a major drawback with the Embargo Act.

With Teddy though, I don't really have any major criticisms of his presidency, and I would just call him a "Great" president rather than a Near-Great one.

But with Teddy, I don't really have any *major* criticisms of his presidency. So it got me thinking what should he have done differently to be remembered as an S tier president instead of an A tier one?

One of my more unconventional takes has been that I have Polk as the 5th best president after the usual top 4. It's not for any ideological reason, but just because I feel that Polk was genuinely the most accomplished and successful presidency outside of Washington, Lincoln, FDR, and Teddy.

But I want to hear the other perspective on why most people believe these 3 are superior presidencies.

I've seen both takes on this sub pretty often

Such as the Siena 2018 which has Washington and FDR at 1 and 2 respectively.