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Wow. That Pokemon Presents was a waste of my time.

This Yo-Kai Watch character hates and easily beats this Pokemon character.

I'm borrowing Legends Arceus from a friend as I'm not convinced abput it for several reasons.
I just beat the Kleavor in Legends Arceus.
Having played 3DS monster collector with real time battling that are way harder games like Yo-Kai Watch Busters, Legends Arceus feels like it was made 8 years ago.

All I did was throw bags at it and I won lol.

I've been thinking lately.

Alot of weaklings on the internet are usually turned away from a fandom or franchise due to generalizations and petty nonsense.

Gatekeeping in recent times is proven to be a GOOD thing as it prevents a fandom or space from getting infected with more spinelessness like that.

I knew this absolute scumbag that loved MegaMan. I don't play MegaMan because of a person like that. I don't play it because I don't care and would rather spend my time playing other games.

However, if I really wanted to spite a person like that, I would have played MegaMan religiously and gotten better at it than they ever were.

Generally, it seems to be a pattern where casuals always love to demonize more knowledgable, skilled or even competitive players no matter what game it is.

That's how you really get a gatekeeper to shut their mouth; you outperform them at their own game with a show of backbone through skill and knowledge.

I've gotten tons of Pokemon fans needlessly angry at me just by being knowledgable and skilled at a game I love.

From my own experience, Pokemon fans have claimed other monster collectors have "bad game design" because you're encouraged to actually change up your team to progress instead of being able to mash the A button with any common low tier trash monsters on your team. On top of the fact, we're dealing with a game where an anomaly like Whitney is considered "difficult" despite the fact she just requires basic counterplay skills to deal with, so this is hardly surprising to me.

Also IGN just sucks at games.

Glad I took the time and effort to meme this cuz it still manages to be relevant to my life.

A friend shared this post with me.

Honestly brings a tear to my eye reading people saying the same things I have for years now.

20 hours into Shin Megami Tensei 5, got myself a King Frost and made myself a Basilisk that inherited Bloody Glee and Beast Eye. Those are no doubt going to be worth investing in for long term.

Should probably play something else to avoid getting burnt out tho. Game's so addicting.

Been grinding out early game of Shin Megami Tensei 5 and having an absolute blast. Didn't struggle as much as I thought I would on the bosses on Normal Difficulty cuz I know how to play these games. Love how the world looks so huge, open and gorgeous in spite of it being a desolate apocalyptic wasteland. I also love how I get rewarded for exploring every nook and cranny in such a huge world.

Speaking of big maps, one friend has been playing Yo-Kai Watch games and keeps coming for me for advice either cuz he gets stuck on bosses or gets lost in how big the maps are.
He just finished Yo-Kai Watch 2 and can't believe how big it is and also can't believe it when I tell him Yo-Kai Watch 3 is twice as huge.

Both are very unlike SWSH in that regard lol

Looking forward to Shin Megami Tensei 5 being another modern monster collector with actually good overworld visuals and animation work unlike the trash heap that is SWSH.

Just like Dragon Quest Monsters' 3DS games

And Monster Hunter Stories 2

And of course Yo-Kai Watch

"All Yo-Kai Watch fans must be arrogant jerks because of you alone."

Okay. Guess all Smash fans are child predators and Pokemon fans are too cuz of people like Xenochu.

Being an arrogant jerk is certainly the lesser of the two evils compared to being a child predator. No idea why people want to play a game like that where they've already lost.

What's funny to me is that people that try to play that card on me are always repeating and insisting that I hate Pokemon and I hate Smash, trying to make that decision FOR me, so there goes my fan status and any status as a child predator that came with it.

It must be really sad to have so little empathy that you'll generalize people so unfairly like that.

If you wanna accuse people of acting like they're some kind of spokesperson or representative, Joe Merrick does that all the time. More like Schmoe Merrick lol.

I like how someone that never actually played Yo-Kai Watch games had to grasp for straws to claim a game they never played wasn't hard by trying to make up an imaginary person that would say the bosses are actually easy when no such person that has actually played these games exists.

Setups like this are hilarious memes in the first place BECAUSE of how obscenely hard the bosses have been, the fact you have to go through all kinds of trials and difficulty to even get the equipment shown on top of getting Auras and the fact of how easy it i for Yo-Kai like Pandle to die so easily.

Game's hard. Get over it and git gud.

I had this conversation with a friend lately that made me realize a few things.

Yo-Kai Watch 4 is honestly severely overhyped by the vast majority of westerners that have never actually played Yo-Kai Watch games.

They just drool at the footage of the real time combat even though that's been a feature in several games for several years now with Busters.

Then they go on and on about how much they wish Yo-Kai Watch 4 came out in English.

Having played YKW4, I can fairly say it's really not that good. I have an immense amount of issues with it.

There's no guarantee YKW4 will ever be in English anyway, so instead of focusing on something you can't immediately change, just focus on what you CAN change.

What you CAN change is that you can get yourself a Nintendo 3DS and then get a larger SD card and then download a digital copy of Yo-Kai Watch 3 which is easily the absolute best and the absolute biggest game in the series and has already been available in English for several years and is certainly a way better game than 4 anyway.

Updating my monster collector tier list.

Now that I've at least played through the story of Monster Hunter Stories 2, I'll give my thoughts.

Beautiful big overworld spaces

Love how you can explore them riding monsters

Animations are exceptional

Appreciate that you can skip cutscenes and text.

Game isn't easy

Love that you get rewarded fir investing kn everything including doing quests.

Great music.

Overall, an absolutely fantastic monster collector.

Would recommend.

Knowing how much Pokemon Go sucks under Niantic compared to games like Yo-Kai Watch World, I'm not gonna be surprised if Pikmin Bloom falls in the same boat but if Pikmin fans don't show interest, Nintendo will be stupid enough to think no one cares about Pikmin anymore.

This was worth every bit of effort from how good it came out.

Nick All Star Brawl's online is such a different experience.
Unlike Ultimate, I don't feel like I want to rip my hair out.
I actually want to play more even when I lose.

This college semester I took a public speaking class.
Probably one of my favorite classes since I love to hear myself talk.
Got to give speeches on why Yo-Kai Watch is an infinitely better game than Pokemon and how loli drawings don't actually cause any crimes.
Always so reassuring how people out in public are open minded to those that can back up what they have to say.
Passing the class with an almost perfect score.
Just one more class and then I'll graduate with a degree.

Koichi Sugiyama's passing is an example of how weak people have gotten, unwilling to have respect for the dead or separate art from artist.

May he rest in peace.

It makes me laugh a little when Smash fans bring up "muh polish" when comparing Nickelodeon All Star Brawl to Smash Ultimate.

Smash 4 fans went on and on about polish in Smash 4 days when comparing it to Melee but they aren't playing 4 anymore. They're playing Ultimate despite its visuals being worse while Melee lived on.

Should another Smash game come out in the future and Ultimate players immediately drop Ultimate for that new "polished" toy while Melee and NASB live on, I won't be surprised at all.

Something funny happened to me today.
I have some good friends that invite me to streams and play multiplayer games with them both in parties online and even friends that invite me to events offline.
Yet in plenty of online discussions, I find these absolute losers that say "you must be fun at parties" when they have nothing of actual value to add or say just cuz they disagree with something I say that I can fairly back up. Considering how many good friends I have that want me around, yeah. I am. Now make an actual counterargument lol.
Another such person said such dumb stuff and it really helps me appreciate the friends I have that invite me to things.

Loving this game to bits already.

I'm fine with Sora. Another dream comes true and another dumb imaginary fan rule bites the dust.

Hearing the "complaints" about NASB feels familiar.

Considering the fact Nintendo tried to cancel a Melee tournament where the money would have gone to cancer donations, I would NOT be surprised if they specifically made their last character reveal October 5th JUST for Nickelodeon All Star Brawl making their blood boil that competitive Smash fans are excited about it but Nintendo can't give the game a cease and desist.

Really didn't care about anything shown in the Direct.
All the games I'm already excited for, I know are coming out soon anyway with Nickelodeon All Star Brawl, Shin Megami Tensei 5, Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania and Mario Party SuperStars.
Unless the final Fighter in Ultimate is Waluigi or Jibanyan, I'm extremely unlikely to care about that either.

Cranky Kong after realizing he'll be in the Super Mario Movie:

Seems Ren and Stimpy are one character even though I would have preferred to play Ren by himself.

Oh well.

I'm sure I'll still enjoy playing as them.

So about Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania's "paid DLC", it seems they pulled a bit of a fast one on us. Now I'm happier I pre-ordered it.

Today's my birthday and I got a bunch of money that helped me pre-order both Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl and Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania. Having a great day!

I legitimately hope Ren and Stimpy are standalone, separate characters.
CatDog already has the whole tandem thing going on and I'd rather play as Ren by himself.

Smash players: "Man [insert projectile character] here is so lame."

Nick All Star Brawl players: "Just grab the projectile lol."

A friend of mine who ended up getting SUPER into Yo-Kai Watch sorted the current Smash Ultimate roster into Yo-Kai Tribes.

It's no exaggeration at all to say "Orcanos is the Landorus-T of Competitive Yo-Kai Watch 2"

There's almost no reason to not run him. He has the highest HP stat in all of Yo-Kai Watch 2 and the 2nd highest Defense stat and his Strength stat is also super high. He gets a Skill that boosts his Defense just for being front and center and being Tough Tribe makes it so his Defense can get even higher.

Orcanos is a super powerful wall in YKW2 meta.

So how come this guy goes from being everywhere in YKW2 meta to being nowhere to be seen in YKW3 meta?

He wasn't nerfed at all. His stats appear to be exactly the same in 3.
The reason you don't see him as much in YKW3 meta is actually simple.

The biggest being that in 3, magic attacks ignore Defense, making magic attackers in general much stronger compared to how they were in 2. Now any Yo-Kai that is a magic attacker with a high Spirit stat is turned into a powerful wallbreaker.

Having high Defense isn't as good as it used to be.

Orcanos's Skill was also changed slightly. It still has to be front and center to buff its Defense but now it has to be on the center TILE. Now it has to work more to get that buff especially since the center tile is the easiest to cover with Soultimates. Plus, the grid being 3x3 and standing in the center, you can't defend BOTH your teammates with a vertical link like you would with tons of other Tanks. This stuff made it so Orcanos had to compete with way more S Ranks to justify its spot on a team. It still has incredible stats and a good Skill but everything changed around it so the stuff it could usually get away with no longer works.

How to make Donkey Kong into a better game than it already is: