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Janx_uwu

Janx_uwu

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  • Janx_uwu
    You know what's weird? Parents insist that the mall santas are the real Santa's helpers, but when it comes to Disneyworld, no, that is the real Mickey Mouse. You didn't just arm wrestle with one of Gaston's lackeys, that was the actual Gaston from the movie.

    That would make sense if these characters were treated like real celebrities - kinda like the Muppets - but no, if Mickey Mouse is ever brought up outside the context of Disney then everyone above the age of 5 or 6 knows he's a cartoon. Why does that change for Disneyworld?

    There are some plot holes here but i still think how we treat licensed characters and sports mascots versus how we treat santa claus is weird
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    MartianSnake
    MartianSnake
    The thing about Santa Claus is that people are more willing to create a stronger illusion with him because they genuinely want kids to believe in him for a good while. The whole santa's helper thing is designed to wave away any questions kids might have if two mall santas look or act different.

    As for stuff like mickey mouse, that's more like kayfabe, kids are more expected to pretend they're real than actually believe it. There's no need for a clever coverup for nitpicky kids in this scenario, so there's no need to bother coming up with a complex mythos for why mickey just stands around the park all day signing autographs when he should be on set filming the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse reboot and doing mo-cap for the Epic Mickey Remaster.
    Janx_uwu
    Sorry i really need to sleep but i need to get this out there.

    Can Sonic manipulate his hands for speed as well? Like the Flash, could he spin his arms and make tiny blue tornadoes? Can he punch a guy with his finger? Or is it just that he runs fast?
    Janx_uwu
    There's at least one guy from ancient history who stayed up for a day or two just watching the sun and moon intently to make sure nothing happens to them while he sleeps.
    Janx_uwu
    TIL that high-fucntioning autism means when you are able to do daily tasks well (eating and bathing and stuff), and low-functioning autism means you have severe difficulty or can't do those. Which really surprised me, because I thought it was the opposite. Like, I thought it meant the autism was high-functioning, not the individual. So to everyone who I've told I have low-functioning autism...uh, forget about that.
    Janx_uwu
    Speaking of Sonic X Shadow Generations...been wondering, this could be a good standard to have for a bit, remastering a game and making it partly a solo game for a side character...

    Do you guys think Sonic Lost World X Silver would hit? Maybe Sonic Unleashed X Knuckles?
    Janx_uwu
    I have to wonder, where did that theme of Luigi about being "in his brother's shadow" start? Like officially, where was that first heard? I have to think probably a Nintendo Power or something like that, right?
    Janx_uwu
    Why does Chris Pratt have so many father issues recently? Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Onward, Mario movie, and Garfield movie.
    Janx_uwu
    Quarantine has had a really negative effect on my education after the fact. Pretty much every single thing we do anymore is on our laptops - my math class is the last one where I have to use a pencil. So that 4 or so hours looking at my laptop, combined with the 3-5 hours of leisure time I'll have at home, and the hour or so I'm on my phone in the in-between periods (lunch line, class change, etc)...it's really exhausting and I'm hardly doing anything. Maybe I would feel more energized if I had taken tougher classes, but it is what it is.

    Question for my college-goers here in the profile posts. How often do you guys have to use screens for classes?
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    Janx_uwu
    Right, cause college has a lot more lectures. That would be nice yeah, I'll take a hand cramp over sore eyes any day.
    FazDude
    FazDude
    It's kinda weird for me, since I was already used to using a computer for a lot of my assignments since fifth grade (my handwriting is dreadful, and my disability renders me eligble for using Word for assignments). They're a lot more normalized in college, though, even pre-Covid (source: my sister)
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    StoicPhantom
    Things like this make glad I was schooled in a time before computers were popular. Like, I stare at screens way too much as it is, but I can't imagine being forced to stare at text on a light bulb all day. What an embarrassment of an education system.

    You should check to see if your laptop has a blue light filter or eye strain relief in the settings or buy one of those glasses that are supposed to achieve the same effect (be careful of frauds though).
    Janx_uwu
    Does anyone else feel that social media feeds just show you a type of content MORE if you say "Not Interested?" YouTube and Instagram particularly. If I had to guess, they want your attention for ads no matter what, so they'll engage you however they can, negatively or positively.

    I could be completely wrong, I just have never noticed the Not Interested button ever working on any website.
    Janx_uwu
    The below post reminded me about this. A few nights ago (the very night I started playing SF6) I had a dream where I was using the game's new "secondary" function where you could pick a character (w/alt and control style) to instantly swap to in between online matches, like when you're grinding matches with someone or just playing a set. That's highkey a really cool feature my brain came up with there.
    Janx_uwu
    I wonder if Shadow Generations will confirm what Ian Flynn said, that the Time Eater is made up of remnant matter from Mephiles that survived the erasure of events. (especially since Flynn is the one writing it)

    TBH as a kid I'd always assumed the Time Eater was an evolved Void wisp, since it's implied that Eggman discovered him after being stranded in space in Colors. Plus the general mouth shape and the whole eating thing.
    Janx_uwu
    When I first heard about Sonic X Shadow Generations, I didn't know about the State of Play leak, I thought the main leak was that the website was a 404 error. Which lead me to believe it was a dilemma similar to 'what was up with the guy who found out we could milk cows'

    this probably won't be the last post I make about this game's title specifically, I'm not sorry
    Janx_uwu
    So I had a dream where I was playing Shovel Knight 2, and it has two antagonist groups, the army of the wizard who made the cursed amulet, and a modern technology-based army. I know I played the whole thing but don't remember anything except the last level, where you scale the ruins of the Enchantress' castle that has now been repaired with high-tech stuff. Also, part of the plot was like the old SMB fan theory, because the royal family had been turned into blocks. At one point of the game, it's seemingly required to destroy a block that used to be the king's brother because it's in the way of the next room, but I didn't want to, so I fumbled around for a bit until I found a secret passageway to the secret bosses and the true ending of the game. Everything goes 3D, and you fought a giant sorcerer, a giant mech, and then both simultaneously while they have a kaiju fight with each other. You also get the parry from Rivals of Aether in 3D, idk why. Anyways I died on the last fight and had to play through it again, but this time the game turned into Spider-Man 2018 and the bosses were completely different (but still the same concepts).

    I'm not sure about all the 3D stuff, but I would honestly love if the next Shovel Knight had some kind of reference to Rivals.
    Janx_uwu
    The first 100% completion bonus I remember was the dance party in Sonic Boom Shattered Crystal. I remember the game needed you to get 52 emblems for it, but there weren't enough levels for that high a number, so for like 10 days I had to play the game to do a daily quick time event. It was such a strange game.
    Janx_uwu
    I have thankfully never sunk to depression since quarantine, however the holidays and their following January is always hardest for me. Not only do I feel the loneliness hit hard, not being able to see my friends almost at all, and staying in my room a lot because of the cold, but that loneliness results in me feeling like I'm simply not enough. I don't get enough "practice" at living per se, I spend the whole two months almost entirely in my head and on the screen, so I have no time to truly just go out there and exist in my own beautiful and creative way.

    However, I got the urge to look back at my profile posts tonight. I never had realized just how much of a personal diary SB profile posts has been for me. I mean, some of the stuff on here is genuinely really surprising to me. Like, wow. I was that funny, or oh, I remember how much that moment hurt. Dang, I actually had that terrible opinion? (Specifically referring to when I said I didn't like Metro Boomin's Spider-Verse soundtrack.) Parts of me I never knew existed because I'm so prone to thinking of myself as a boring white cis kid who hasn't faced real struggle and hasn't done enough with the privilege inherently granted to him.

    Looking at these posts, though, I feel comforted. I'm laughing at myself, I'm thinking "wow, this guy's cool" and that guy is me. It's not that I have low self-esteem. I know I'm a good natured, handsome person who is pretty smart and creative. But in reflection, I'm second-guessing my every move, wondering why I'm not making more plans with people, why I'm not writing right now, why I fumbled that one girl that one time, etc etc etc. And whenever I'm asked about myself, I can never answer. I've had to memorize pre-written answers for those kinds of questions. Which is how, for a whole week, "The Terminal starring Tom Hanks" was my vocal stim, because I had to train myself to know what to say when I was asked for my favorite movie. I have no, absolutely no clue who I am or what I'm here for. I'm not sure if I'll ever know, really. But knowing who I was in the past is a big help.

    (And then of course, at the back of my mind is always the "does God exist?" question, which is always a ****y one, because the Church has this way of saying very manipulative statemenets. Like you know how Moses broke the rock with his stick and God got angry at him, because Moses tried to make his own path without God who he should have taken the strength from, instead of himself? I think that's how it went? Churches love that story and try to use its morals to get you to come back, saying that you must be humble and submit to God, or else you will fail in life. That the aimlessness we experience in life is purely because we do not trust in Him. But I feel like if I rely too much in God, won't I become too relient on Him and become a less resilient, less determined person? Damned if I do, damned if I don't. Maybe I'll try being super religious during Lent (though don't worry, I won't listen to Bible verses that make zero sense in the modern era), and if that works out then I'll continue it, and if it doesn't then I'll drop it. Sorry for the religion ramble, it had almost nothing to do with this post but it came up adjacently and I had to type my thoughts out.)

    I guess the point of me posting this is to say that I have never spoken to anyone with the level of comfort and trust that I scream into the SmashBoards profile post void. And looking back on my posts gives me a really unique sense of clarity of myself and my worldview and my relationships. I guess I have really undervalued the importance this site holds to me. So thank you, to my friends and to the people who made the website possible, for providing such a space where I can confide. And also a place where my stupid ass ideas for videogames get turned into fun theorycraft thanks to corporate-adjacent-democracy-based D&D games.
    Janx_uwu
    I really love Doki Doki Literature Club, but I don't want to download it for myself. I'm cool with just watching let's play's. Even the thought of having some of the **** from that game on my laptop screen churns my stomach.

    I think it may have something to do with how I can't watch horror movies by myself. I need someone else there and YouTubers suffice when it comes to stuff like DDLC.
    Janx_uwu
    New Super Lucky's Tale is a pretty fun game. The guy moves a bit slow for me (would've loved for that momentum-slide move to be expanded upon, and not just available on hard surfaces), but the level design is tight and there are enough gimmicks to keep me posted. Probably won't 100% it though, it's hard for me to do that in platformers with non-essential levels.
    Janx_uwu
    I had a dream where all of SB was watching the new Smash trailer, and in the trailer Mario was about to open two treasure chests. The first one he opened had the Lens of Truth in it, which apparently summoned Skull Kid and the Moon. Then after the Smash Brothers fought Skull Kid, Mario opened the next chest, in which there was someone who was apparently from Xenoblade 3, but it wasn't based on any specific character, my brain just made one up based on the general concept of Xenoblade I guess. They were like some kind of cyborg jester with a katana. Anyways our Smashboards trailer watch party got upset about the characters so we stormed Nintendo to complain. When we busted down the doors, the inside of the building looked like the first diverging pathway in the Stanley Parable, with two TV's on each side. One was cycling through upcoming trailer footage, where we learned that the next two characters were TOTK Ganondorf and Dee Jay, and that was so based that most of us walked home satisfied. The other TV had Sakurai on it (kind of like the Joker TV's in Arkham Asylum) and as soon as I saw his face I woke up.
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