Amiya Game Theory

And by luma, I think I've got it.

Grab as many what-ups as you can, friends, and let's-a go.

In order to do this, we're going to need to figure out how to measure Mario's pain.

It's worth mentioning that we are questioning whether Mario feels pain, not if he's immortal.

We see him die a lot.

When he stays underwater for too long, he drowns.

If he gets hit too many times by a Goomba or any other hazard, his body simply cannot go on and he dies.

What we want to know is if there is any pain involved in these instances.

The easiest answer would be to listen to him like a doctor in a hospital, but given he doesn't

really talk outside of the odd phrase or yahoo, I'm not sure how helpful that's gonna be.

Okay, and does it hurt if I put pressure here?

Okay, and how about here?

And here?

Interesting.

So, because we can't really talk to him, we need to instead go off his reactions.

At first, my mind went to the pain scale we see in scrubs, where you select from a handful of faces to determine someone's pain.

But there's no way this thing was real.

Surely it was just a gag.

Lo and behold, it is real, or at least similar systems do exist, like the Wong Baker Faces Test.

However, what is for comedic effect is the very literal interpretation of this test.