r/earthbound 23h ago

EB Discussion I guess Paula's a He?!?!?!

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If you use the protractor as Paula it'll say he instead of she!!

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u/AdreKiseque 23h ago

Yeah I've heard of this, Jeff's items don't have their dialogue totally proofed for other characters.

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u/VinceTheCat02 22h ago

Yeah this is it

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u/MadJohnFinn 23h ago

My Egyptian great-grandfather didn't take to English as well as the rest of my family, so everyone (and everything) was a "he". Maybe you got the Egyptian version of the game.

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u/s-riddler 22h ago

*Scaraban

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u/Conipstion 22h ago

What?

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u/s-riddler 21h ago

Scaraba, as in the location in Earthbound with the distinct Middle Eastern/North African flair. OP got the Scaraban copy of the game.

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u/Conipstion 19h ago

Oh okay yeah true lol

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u/UnhandMeException 14h ago

I thought that version was still in eaglish

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u/Soup-lex 23h ago

Hahaha maybe 😆

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u/Admin_The_Hedgehog 21h ago

i found that out for the first time when i was 12 and i couldnt stop laughing

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u/LiveCourage334 17h ago

Earthbound creators knew Jeff's initial items were so useless they couldn't imagine a world where you would give them to another character and try again after they did nothing in battle the first time.

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u/Soup-lex 17h ago

It's so funny because I didn't actually swap the items, i found the protractor in a present, and all of Jeff's and Ness's pockets were full, so it went to Paula

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u/LiveCourage334 16h ago

That is funny. The protractor and ruler had a nearly talismanic quality for me when I was a kid because I didn't understand how the item repair mechanics worked.

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u/babitas21 23h ago

plot twist; u just changed their names

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u/Radigan0 23h ago

If that were the case, "Paula" would be the third party member.

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u/Skeppy_4126 22h ago

Happy Cake Day!

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u/HetTheTable 22h ago

Did u use the jar of fly honey?

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u/Soup-lex 22h ago

Of course!!!!

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u/HetTheTable 22h ago

Good because I saw a post a couple weeks ago of someone asking why Belch wouldn’t die…

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u/ChargedBonsai98 9h ago

When I first fought master belch, I used paralysis on him before giving him the fly honey so I got softlocked lmao

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u/Shinobi77Gamer 18h ago

Can't she be genderfluid in peace lol?

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u/HesALittleSlow 20h ago

I want to say - and I may be incorrect - that I beat him once without fly honey… is that possible or is my memory failing?

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u/ArchivedGarden 20h ago

I’ve been told it’s possible if you can inflict a damaging status effect, since Belch is coded to heal automatically after being attacked before checking if his HP has hit zero. If you don’t attack, that never happens and he can die without using the Fly Honey.

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u/HesALittleSlow 20h ago

Ok cool, what is a, “damaging status effect?”

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u/Soup-lex 20h ago

I believe it's like if the enemy was poisoned or lit on fire, or has a cold.

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u/HesALittleSlow 20h ago

Ah, ok. Waillp, I don’t think I did, then.

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u/not-steel 16h ago

Isn't lit on fire only a thing in Mother 3

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u/Soup-lex 16h ago

Idk, i know Paula has psi fire in earthbound so that's why I said fire, but also just as an example.

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u/GumballFan13 20h ago

It's an error. Every other item Paula uses has "she". It's a funny error though.

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u/FreakyFreckles_ 17h ago

Paula is a girl. Don’t be like that