KneeOfJustice99

I basically just learned that Pokemon Rumble U exists, and I'm simultaneously morbidly intrigued, but also kind of kicking myself for not thinking there'd be a toys-to-life Pokemon game for the Wii U. Lowkey I think it had a few interesting ideas - especially the concept of making the toys themselves cheaper to acquire than most and offsetting it with a massive selection - it'd just be better if the game was. Plus like, the selection of actual "toys" itself isn't all that huge compared to others - obviously there's reasons for that (it's Pokemon Rumble U) but still

Toys-to-life in general's a genre/concept I'm... iffy on. It's really cool in concept and there's some cool games and mechanics that've come out of it, but it's also kind of really obviously a moneymaking scheme and in a weird way feels like a real thing of the past. Still think the concept has potential, though. Even if I also kind of don't want to see it come back.

Sorry if this has been asked before, but why are you mostly lurking the profile posts of all places?

it's like 7:20am and i haven't slept so this is probably dumb as hell but like
if you wanna send water to someone then like turn on a humidifier in your place and a dehumidifier in their place and it's like. wireless water. no pipes

Another weird public domain question that comes to mind - if you're from a country where a property is in the public domain, create a work using that property, and then release it internationally - would the work you've created have to be licensed in any other country where it's released, or would Rule of the Shorter Term apply?

As an example, in Canada, the literary character James Bond is partially in PD, and works such as License Expired were written by Canadian authors with this in mind. That said, License Expired hasn't ever been released outside of Canada. Is this because it would also require Bond to enter PD in the country in which the work is released?

Shower thought.

Given the guns the Phantom Thieves use in the Metaverse are all model replicas (albeit highly detailed, shoutout to Iwai), which only work based on a form of belief, it's not entirely unreasonable to suggest that they could use the P3 summoning method for their Personas - given that the Evokers function on a similar principle.

probably one of my weirder takes, but i think persona 5 dancing released way too early

not that it doesn't have some bangers, but idk if having three distinct versions of blooming villain in a roughly 30 song soundtrack feels right. especially when there are so many songs that'd be great to pull from in later projects like royal or strikers if it'd waited a few years. like i know that's not how it works but still

nothing against blooming villain by the way it's not like it's bad or anything but when a tenth of your songlist is blooming villain like. surely there's better picks right?

I think this only applies to the Brits and Europeans among us, but just a reminder that the clocks go forward at 1am tonight. Obviously a lot of clocks in your digital stuff (like phones, computers and so forth) will probably do so automatically, but other stuff like your ovens or whatnot might not do, so be sure to check that tomorrow (or when you get around to it.) Just a heads up!

fun fact: the world map seen on mega man 8's stage select screen is (roughly) accurate to earth's geography, which means that we can use this map to reasonably imply that dr. light lives somewhere in texas



texans, how do you pronounce "wily"?

okay i don't much like elon musk but i don't understand why he hasn't considered using an alternative launch method for his space x rockets or whatever. process is as follows:

1. build a rocket
2. transport to australia
3. drop it into the sky
4. it leaves the atmosphere
5. woo space

i don't see any issues with this. if there are any scientists here please help confirm if this hypothesis is feasible

consider the following:

• in the persona series, "demons" are formed from the collective unconsciousness
• their forms are based on human concepts, hence the religious, mythological, literary or urban legend themes
• the reaper is presumably particularly powerful because of the vast amount of human "cognition" associated with it
• persona 5 takes place in roughly 2016, give or take

ergo, i propose the following; harambe should replace the reaper in any future rereleases of persona 5

one pet peeve of mine i really don't understand is when you buy like, a bag of crisps or a bottle of drink or whatever, and the "serving size" is just. weird. like i learned today that apparently when you buy a 500ml bottle of pop it's considered "two servings" - i've never come across someone like "darn, i've drank half of it, time to only drink the other half tonight when it's all flat", but then all of the serving and nutritional info is based on these utterly arbitrary "servings"

it's even worse when you get something like a kitkat and it's like "oh yeah two sticks of a kitkat is a serving" or when you get a bag of wotsits and it's like "30g is a serving" like, who on earth is deliberately leaving two sticks of a kitkat to melt all day or like three wotsits left in the bag because "oops that's a serving"

Awesome Video Game Fun Fact: did you know that if you insert Mario 3 into Mario & Wario, you can play an enhanced version called Mario 3 & Wario?

Completely random thought - I feel like a Shin Megami Tensei fighting game would be really cool... on the condition that it deliberately makes a point of not just focusing on all of the protagonists. I mean, SMT is pretty much defined by its side characters and demons to the point where a lot of the protags don't even have their own names, so, y'know... that aside, a decent mix between them would be a lot of fun - imagining potential character candidates like Mothman, Heat, Shiki-Ouji, Matador, Terminator and so forth could be fun as hell.

Come to think of it, I suppose you could even seperate characters into different functional archetypes that indicate basic elements of their playstyle. Spitballing here, but maybe a little something like Demon, Summoner and Persona as well as a couple of unique ones like Demonica or Atma for specific, singular characters. Seems like it'd be neat!

I suppose the other way of doing it is to have you select a (or multiple) demon summons with their own unique abilities and then fight with a character capable of summoning them (such as characters with COMPs or Wild Cards), though I feel that might be a nightmare to balance out, and could run the risk of making some characters difficult to implement (such as non-protags/Velvet Room attendants from the Persona series).

random question - do people actually, like, enjoy the knuckles/rouge stages in the sonic adventure games? what exactly are people's issues with them? the main thing i've heard before now is that the radar system in sa2 only focusing on one at a time in order feels a bit rough and that sa1's knuckles stages feel too cramped but are there any other ways you'd want to see a "knuckles treasure hunting" game improved beyond that?

another legendary kneeofjustice99 shoutout - shoutout to the gamecube kiosk demo music, of which there's like 20 something tracks. idk how to quite describe it, they're such a vibe

random idea i'm like, 90% certain someone has to have done before but i'm a little curious about - does anyone know of a game of some kind that uses some kind of qr code as an alternate save system? like, grab your qr code (maybe a screenshot with the code in a corner, like a stamp?) from an image, scan it into the game, and you get an equivalent save? (more akin to retro "passcodes" admittedly compared to modern saving systems but you get my vibe)

HEBEREKE (ufouria) 2 IS COMING???? HOW HAVE I NOT HEARD ABOUT THIS

y'all go on about how loud the smash brawl wii channel sound was and yeah i totally agree but i also gotta say that the flingsmash sound was like four times louder, people probably thinking the yellow thing is descending from heaven to pick out the folks being ****ing raptured when you're just trying to play a damn wii game

if they ever did another sonic april fool's game (kinda like the murder of sonic the hedgehog) it'd be pretty funny to keep with the theme of just doing funny things with your average joe in sonic's world. like, imagine barry getting a job at the local council where he has to constantly tell the people building the roads not to put loops in them because literally nobody can actually drive on any of the roads anymore

the crazy thing to me about akira toriyama is that he's undoubtedly saved at least one life during his time through his art, specifically that one kid who got stung by like 400 bees but survived by attempting to go super saiyan (this actually happened)

silly d&d concept: you arrive at the obligatory starting tavern and come across a small group of excitable looking goblins playing a tabletop game, known as "houses and humans".

shoutout to sonic 3d blast (saturn) for having literally the best invincibility jingle in the entire series


honestly, i feel like the general vibe of sonic's music in the saturn era was genuinely so cool, it'd be nice to see that kinda more chilled out vibe in modern "classic sonic" stuff ngl. like after they went with rock for adventure it's not something they really came back to, but this one's a great example of how literally just drum samples, pads and a piano works great for him

Random point, but I reckon one thing that'd be really pretty amazing... if a little unlikely due to prescedent, is a more exploration-focused Sonic title centred around Knuckles specifically (whether in 2D or 3D!) Then again, Chaotix isn't really well-liked by people, so I guess... man, he's probably never likely to get his own game again, huh.

Or maybe, after his standalone series, he might have a chance. Ya never know!

Damn, apparently I cracked 2,000 messages/posts on here recently? That's kinda crazy... though, even if it is because I've been here for a few years now, maybe I ought to go outside. Heh.

Just wanna say, as ever, this place is awesome. Love you guys.

how do you think the internet would react to the first "fourth party" character in like smash 6 (or 7 or supreme or fracas or whatever it's called) being john lennon? (reference image attached)

I'm honestly a little saddened there was never (from my knowledge, I would love to be proven wrong on this) a mobile phone with a built-in Minidisc player. Or even a built-in cassette player. The idea of a "musical phone" has been one thrown around for some time even to this day - and it honestly feels like a really natural fit to combine two small digital devices you'd keep in your pocket, even if (for the time) it'd probably have been pretty... chunky. Then again, I guess MP3 became cheap enough to be an easy inclusion onto a lot of mobiles by the time this concept got popular... pensive emoji.

i think there's been a lot of downright bizarre fortnite collaborations, but in my mind, one of the weirdest has to be tron. not only was it released at a point in time where the franchise is less relevant than it's been for like 15 years, but it didn't even feature any actual content from the franchise - rather, a collection of original characters in new tron outfits. considering how easy it'd conceptually be to make the identity disc a weapon... yeah.

it almost feels like they were originally planning it as a completely seperate, original costume, realised they were running the risk of a lawsuit, phoned the guy at disney they already had partnerships with and were like "bro can we use these?", the disney guys were like "lol it's ****ing tron who even cares" and it kinda just got added anyway

It's kind of weird to think that George Orwell's 1984 has led to not one, but two British television programs named after terms from the book's world that are only vaguely-at-best associated with the concept of the show in question - specifically, Big Brother and Room 101.

I have to imagine the upper management of Channel 4, who as I recall are currently going down in flames, are probably flipping through 1984 as we speak in search of a new television series name - with that in mind, I'll propose the following candidate for a new television show to get their numbers up.

Namely, Ministry of Love, a dating show involving various politicians, civil servants, and members of Parliament.

Silly concept: first-person Minesweeper. Every time you stand on a tile, it reveals it. You can't jump, so you have to walk from tile to tile, hoping there's no bombs.

It also introduces a 9, which is a timed landmine that explodes you after you reveal it.

I unironically think that one of the best things for online education in the last 30 years has been the Rickroll. Mainly, because it's a very simple and fun - but memetic and memorable - method of telling people to be weary of clicking suspicious links.

Why is it that people can comment on videos saying people's suits are "drippy" and their faces are "mewing", but when I walk up to tell my uncle that his suit is absolutely soaking wet and his face is yapping, I'm asked to leave the funeral?

one of the things i really feel like we've missed out on as a generation due to the movement of phones to being abstract glass slabs is just outright ****ing weird phone designs that... somehow work?

i'm not talking like the blackberry where it's kinda just a small keyboard - i'm thinking **** like the nokia 7600 which literally looks like a mango, or the samsung serene which keeps getting photographed the wrong way up to show its keypad, or the nokia 7280 that's supposed to look like lipstick but actually looks like a prop stolen from the set of tron (1982), or the toshiba g450 that looks like you'd use it to open your garage door or shave your legs or something.
like, the weird thing to me is that while this level of experimentation is often associated with the late 90s and early 00s (which is, after all, when it was most prominent), we had this kinda stuff going up to the mid 2010s - the g450 for instance came out in 2011! - but in 2024, like, almost all phones nowadays are just abstract glass slabs because the functionality of the device is completely digitised and thus the need for buttons beyond a power button and maybe volume controls is gone.

idk, it's kinda a shame that so many elements of the consumer tech industry just feel... devoid of personality now. like we've reached some kind of singularity to the point where absolutely everything is just derivative of the same concepts. i'd love to see more weird **** on the market, as opposed to nokia making a modern 3310 where the "gimmick" is "omg, look, a phone with buttons, that's so wacky"

why does the us manual for mega man 1 state in the controls section that mega man can crouch when he... can't? unironically, did anyone at capcom usa get the opportunity to play the game at any point, or was it kinda just described to them?

Never forget: Pong was a clone.

No, seriously. Nolan Bushnell has stated that the inspiration for Pong was the demonstration of Table Tennis for the Magnavox Odyssey, about a month before Pong was first tested in arcades. He saw this demonstration at a tradeshow in which his name was provably in the guestbook. However, to obvuscate this, he proposed the idea to Allan Alcorn, who actually did the programming for it.

Not that Magnavox were any better, to be honest - for context, part of the Odyssey's patent basically patented the ability to interact with player-controlled objects on a television screen (or... yeah, make a video game console, basically), and they deliberately waited a couple of years before suing Atari, Midway, Empire and others for patent infringement (the argument being that they could... make more money from it.) In 1977, it was determined by judge John Grady that the defendants were, in fact, guilty - and Magnavox would continue to sue companies until their patent lapsed, each time being successful or settling because of precedent. This went on until the 90s.

It actually got so bad that Nintendo tried to sue them in 1985, arguing the 1958 game Tennis for Two constituted "prior art" and thus invalidated the Magnavox patent - but they lost, because Magnavox argued that Tennis for Two being played on an oscilloscope instead of a television invalidated this claim.

Man... almost seems like corporations in the gaming space have always been ****ty, huh?

i wonder how many copies chrono trigger & knuckles would sell

>meme compilation video came on in autoplay whilst i was working on uni stuff

banger song comes on in the background for like 6 seconds
"i wonder what this is"
that's okay, i'll look in the comments
mfw posted like 40 minutes ago so no comments
that's okay, i'll post a comment
mfw this isn't gonna get responded to
that's okay, i'll use shazam
mfw shazam has to be downloaded to a phone and i found this on youtube. on a phone.
that's okay, i'll use another songfinder thingy
mfw i try three of them and none of them work
that's okay, i'll send the youtube video to my laptop, play it from there, and use the shazam app
mfw the shazam app directs me to some ****ty hip-hop flip instead of the original
that's okay, i'll check whosampled to find the original
mfw the hip-hop flip is so obscure it's not even on whosampled

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why must the gods stare upon me with not ignorance, but with malice?

silly idea for a jump force 2 - instead of being everyone coming together to stop a bigger threat or something, the plot just follows goku already having become the most powerful being in the dbz verse purely through training, so now he travels between the worlds of jump in search of stronger opponents, (unintentionally) leaving utter decimation in his path

Shoutout to the boxart for the Atari 400/800 Pac-Man for making me feel... vaguely unsettled whenever I look at it. It's interesting, actually, seeing how the fairly abstract concepts behind games like Pac-Man were reinterpreted into boxart from the era - people tend to mention things like the classic cabinet art look for him, but I think this kind of design - while very strange, in retrospect - is a fascinatingly interesting one to look at.