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    Based on what the definition is for a Deus Ex Machina in writing, I kind of feel like the bad rep it gets is a little unfair.

    It basically means a solution that a writer comes up with after writing themselves into a corner. And by itself that doesn’t have to be a bad thing.

    It just seems a little unfair to automatically assume every single instance like that is a crazy writing flaw of a solution no matter what. All things considered it is totally possible for solutions that fit that description to still work out just fine without conflicting with the rest of the writing.
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    Should YouTube implement a feature where people can’t comment on a video unless they finish watching the whole video?
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    I was unaware until now that they changed the VA for Bayonetta in Bayonetta 3.

    And I was also unaware that it's the same VA that voiced Samus in the Prime Trilogy, Sam and Mandy in Totally Spies, and Sedusa and Princess Morbucks in The Powerpuff Girls.
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    A character trait that has been pretty consistent with the main series Sonic is that he has too much willpower for his mind to be messed with.

    Like how in Sonic Unleashed, Dark Gaia's influence only got as far as transforming him into the Werehog and didn't cause him to lose himself the way other citizens of the planet did.

    Or in Sonic Chronicles the Dark Brotherhood when the party faced off against a race of mind controlling aliens from another dimension. They were able to mind control most of the party, but not Sonic. So yeah, Sonic has such high willpower that mind control doesn't work on him.

    Which makes it all the more weird that the one and only exception that was actually able to mentally manipulate Sonic is the final boss of Sonic Rivals 2. Unless games I haven't played yet like Frontiers had moments like this as well.
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    So do these rumors that Microsoft might stop making consoles have any decent basis to them?
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    ssbashworld
    ssbashworld
    Not that ive seen (could be wrong) just assumptions based on them bringing their games to other platforms.

    Surprised to see no one bringing up limited time exclusivity. Feel like many people are impatient & would still buy an Xbox if they can play the next Halo a year before PS.

    In general think there is still a market for consoles & if they cant get GamePass on other systems would still make sense to release something.

    Wonder if there is a way to improve game streaming utilizing a hybrid of that & console hardware to run high end games letting them release a weaker but decently cheaper console & maybe appealing to a new audience. Idk just some speculation on my end.
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    Say that Smash starts adding non-video game characters and one of them is a Yu-gi-oh character.

    The dubs of the various Yu-gi-oh Anime always change the soundtracks so would the Yu-gi-oh character have a different victory theme in the US version of this Smash game than they would in the Japanese version?
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    Scenario:

    They make Chocobo a playable character in Smash and each of his 4 specials is one of the character abilities in the original Chocobo Racing.

    That means the options are:
    Dash
    Flap
    Grip-Up
    Mug
    Magic Plus
    Barrier
    Receive
    Charge
    Megaflare
    Gunblade

    Which ability do you choose for each special?
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    What the next big main series Zelda game will be like is a curiosity, but I hope they not only keep the cooking mechanic, but add more ingredients to it.

    I’d love to seem them add Chocolate and Potatoes, and I will keep mentioning the idea of a postgame where you can make Ganon Bacon until they actually do it.
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    One of the weirdest things for me to look back on is the era when YouTube didn’t allow people to upload videos longer than 10 minutes.
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    Internal Frickface
    Internal Frickface
    makes sense cause youtube wasn't a giant mega corpo back then, it was still pretty small and was mostly just for making videos rather than pumping out 30 minute video essays every week like sunnyv2
    most likely didn't have the money back then to have a bunch of people uploading stuff like 10 hour loops of cirno's math class. it's why a lot of long vids had to be split into seperate parts
    KneeOfJustice99
    KneeOfJustice99
    I actually think there's a possibility that upload length limits might be brought even lower in the near future - as well as potentially a weekly upload limit - given the sheer volume of content being uploaded onto the platform and how expensive it is to maintain. YouTube's basically never been profitable, as we all know - it's only really kept around by Google so they can use it to monopolise the online video market - and I think that following the automation of almost all staff, saving on server costs to try and recoup literally any of these losses might be a big thing for them going forward.
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    I recently heard an idea for Geno’s Final Smash being a brand new triple move that debuts in Smash used by Geno, Mallow and Johnny Jones.

    And thinking of that idea a little further on my own. Johnny has access to two magic spells. The Fire Saber and the Diamond Saw. So with that in mind.

    Idea 1: Geno calls forth two giant stars that Mallow freezes into snowflakes and Johnny launches those frozen stars in the same manner as the Diamond Saw spell.

    Idea 2: Geno and Mallow gather the heat of a star (Geno) and the heat of the sun (Mallow) into a condensed beam that Johnny strikes the opponent with in the same manner as the Fire Saber Spell.
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    I don't make videos very often, but I just re-downloaded the software I've used for years whenever I do try to make some, one that I have to pay a monthly subscription for to remove watermarks mind you, and apparently in the time I've been gone it's implemented options to use Ai for things like Background Removal, Image Generation, and Voice Changing.

    That's a bit of a sweat drop type of revelation. Not going to lie. Not like I'll ever make use of such features though.
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    Remember those “literal lyrics” videos? Like the one from years ago about the opening song for Brawl?

    Out of sheer curiosity have those died off because both makers and viewers of those sort of videos started to feel like they were racist?
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    You know how a number of fighting games have a reputation of having super cheap final bosses?

    Well how about this? A One Punch Man fighting game where Saitama is not a playable character. He's instead the final boss and if he hits you with just one attack, no matter what attack it is, then you instantly lose.
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    There’s this Disney Channel Cartoon called Dave the Barbarian where in one episode a tailor from 1994 finds a way to go back in time and does just that in an attempt to conquer the world by using the advanced modern technology of his time back in medieval times.

    And he actually succeeds in enslaving the people to build him an empire with a Sphinx of Gold, a version of Mount Rushmore dedicated to him, an 18 hole golf course, and a pyramid with one of those switches that garbage cans have where you press the switch with your foot to open the lid.

    How did he enslave the people to do all this? He got the medieval era obsessed with the Gameboy and made it so that he was the only provider of batteries. So when someone’s gameboy ran out of power they had to do this sort of labor for his empire to earn batteries.
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    Getting woken up late at night when you’re trying to sleep can be annoying, but one moment I had of that where I actually look back at the memory fondly was this one time at 10:00pm a few years ago when my younger sibling in their mid 20’s texted me and asked me “What’s a Bowsette?”
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    Youtube just recommended me a video by Tats TopVideos of Top 20 Creepy Music in platforming games.

    The thumbnail had Mario, Sonic, Donkey Kong, Conker, and Banjo & Kazooie on it. And the way they're positioned on the thumbnail made the initial glance cause my brain to think it was the roster of Mario RPG but with those characters instead.

    Now I have the idea of a game that plays like Mario RPG, but with those 5 characters as you're party throughout the game. A very curious thought, that's for sure.
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    Which Dessert sounds the best?

    A 4 tiered pound cake made with Marzipan, Mascarpone, and Meringue
    A giant plate of Eclairs
    A city model made of Donuts
    A life sized Moose made of Chocolate Mousse
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    Baysha
    1st one for me. The others are just another dessert but a lot without anything else going on.
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    Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft have been the 3 console makers for years now and that's probably not going to change any time soon. But some attempts have been made at other consoles. Most of which ended in disaster like the Ouya and whatever the heck that weirdo Soulja Boy tried to do.

    But here's an idea someone could try with a new console that would result in it being an even bigger failure than those. They could take a page from the ColecoVision and make an expansion module that you can connect to the console and let's you play games of an entirely different console on this one.

    Whether they do that for Xbox, Playstation, whatever system Nintendo has at the time, or dare I say more than one of those examples, whoever would try to pull this stunt would be in such deep trouble that you'd be able to dig to the Earth's Core before you dug that deep.
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    therunawayguys just posted the newest episode of their Kirby Star Allies LP and Chuggaaconroy was talking about how Sonic X wasn't that biggest sensation in Japan but was a big hit everywhere else which led to the Metarex Saga actually being a result of 4kids pushing for another season while Japan was content with just letting Sonic X get cancelled.

    While listening to that, I was immediately reminded of Wario Wario Wario.
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    I feel like I’m not someone who’s qualified to try and get people to debate on which one is better between McDonald’s and Burger King.

    Once it becomes out in the open that I always get my hamburgers plain, aka meat and buns only, both sides of the argument would just reach a truce to shun me.
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    Back when the Smash series Rosalina Amiibo first came out, I had heard a story that some guy who really hated Rosalina bought every one of those Amiibo that he possibly could (something like that anyway) because he didn’t want Rosalina fans to be happy by having an amiibo of her.

    Did this actually happen? I won’t lie, I’m skeptical.
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    I read an article on Mario back when I first discovered Wikipedia and it mentioned how the Mario franchise makes a lot of money. Saying that at the time it had a net of over a billion dollars.

    But this was mentioned on an article for the character of Mario, which combined with the internet still being pretty new at the time, especially for me, I thought that the article meant that the Mario character earned a net of over a billion dollars from being the owner of the only toy company in the Mushroom Kingdom (Mario vs. Donkey Kong is what caused me to think this).

    I've long since realized what the article meant, but it's an amusing moment to look back on.
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    The Switch has received a lot of praise for it's ability to be either a home console or a handheld. And that feature led to me having a pretty rare, but pretty cool, experience with the system once.

    I was playing my Switch on the TV at night, but it was really windy outside and lo and behold, the wind did knock over something that cut the power in the area.

    If you were playing a GameCube or something like that, this would mean the game stops because the system shuts off from no power. Which BTW would really suck in situations like playing Pokemon Colosseum and it's been like an hour since the last time you had access to a PC in the game.

    But since the Switch's handheld part is the system itself, when the power went out this night it just switched to handheld mode and my game kept going like nothing happened. Was pretty neat.
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    Back when Screwattack was a thing they had some enjoyable videos, but every once in a while they said a few eyebrow raising things.

    Like when they made a top 10 about the worst robot masters in Mega Man they put Splash Woman on the list because "she's the only female robot master in the series yet she's the easiest boss in Mega Man 9 which implies that women are inferior to men."

    From my perspective this argument falls flat because I think Galaxy Man is a much easier boss than Splash Woman.
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    Way back when, the Cartoon Network website had this browser game based on Kids Next Door called Operation Trick or Treat, and it used basic ideas of Halloween costumes like a Witch and a Vampire to grant your character different abilities.

    Thanks to that game, I’ve had an opinion for a very long time that a 2d Platformer themed around Halloween that used costumes as power ups would at least be a neat concept.

    Which makes it feel a little weird to me that the closest thing we’ve gotten to that is the Costume Quest games. Which are RPG’s.
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    One time on Discord I was in a conversation about Richter Belmont and one of the other people involved misspelled Richters name, to which another user replied with “his ass cannot spell”.

    I replied to that by saying “I mean, Richter was never a mage in the first place. So it’s not too surprising that his butt can’t perform magic.”

    It was funny at the time, but a realization about that statement recently dawned on me.

    I haven’t seen Castlevania Nocturne yet (that’s the name of the Netflix series with Richter right?) so feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the case that Richter is actually pretty adept at magic in that show?
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    Legitimate question. When it came time for the developers who made Fortnite to give the game a name, did they know that “fort night” is a term that refers to a period of 14 days?
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    As I already mentioned, I saw the Sonic movie for the first time yesterday. But now that I’ve had enough time to take it all in and process it, if I’m being honest, I don’t think I care for it.

    It wasn’t an aggravating experience to sit through it or anything, and it is a good movie for what it goes for, it’s just not for me.

    I might see the 2nd one someday but I’m not entirely sure right now.
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    So about this whole entering of public domain for you know who, I gotta ask.

    I heard that it's only Steamboat Willie who has entered public domain and that Mickey Mouse is still a Disney Copyright.

    Is that actually how it works? On the one hand that could make sense for some kind of "differing brand names" reason, but on the other hand it would be kind of weird because aren't they still the same character?
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    Wario Wario Wario
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    Mickey Mouse is in the public domain - "Steamboat Willie" is not the name of proto-Mickey, he was always called Mickey, Steamboat Willie is the name of the cartoon and the boat. However, the only Mickey Mouse in the public domain is the mischevious rubberhose Mickey, not the happy-go-lucky modern Mickey. You can use this Mickey however you want in a creative work for a profit as long as you don't evoke later Disney creations. Minnie and Pete are public domain too, but the likes of Donald; Pluto; Goofy; Daisy; Scrooge, e.t.c. will have to wait.

    Mickey is still trademarked - trademarks, unlike copyrights, don't expire, and are essentially equivalent to logos. You can make a Mickey movie; game; TV show; what have you, and you can probably call it "Mickey Mouse" - what you can't do is slap Mickey on merchandise (t-shirts, cereal, plushies) or present your Mickey creations in a way that makes them appear like Disney-endorsed products.

    This article goes into more detail both on this, and why Mickey going public domain is so significant beyond "i can make mickey say crap words and make dividends"
    web.law.duke.edu

    Mickey, Disney, and the Public Domain: a 95-year Love Triangle | Duke University School of Law

    by Jennifer Jenkins, Director, Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain CC BY 4.0 On January 1, 2024, after almost a century of copyright protection, Mickey Mouse, or at least a version of Mickey Mouse, will enter the United States public domain. The first movies in which the iconic mouse...
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    tonygameman
    tonygameman
    It appears that even a silent version of Plane Crazy (sounds come out the next year; woud love to see a hand-drawn Popeye crossover that time) and The Gallopin' Gaucho are also in public domain now, so Steamboat Willie isn't the only one as others around social media seems to imply.
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    Saw the Sonic movie for the first time ever tonight (only the 1st of the 2) and I gotta say I was impressed with Tom's wife. When Tom was in a really bad situation that painted an equally bad picture of himself, she gave him a chance to explain and didn't just automatically assume the worst in him.

    I appreciate it when media portrays partners as being trusting and faithful like that without abandoning their significant other at the first sign of a bad situation. So props to her for that.

    Even if her sister was the exact opposite in a way that made her the only bad part of the movie.
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    What if the way they decide to reboot Smash Bros is by making the starting game in such a reboot have a roster like what they wanted Smash 64 to initially have now that restrictions like animations for Pits wings or Fire Emblem not having any presence outside of Japan are no longer a concern?
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    Some people want the next Mario Kart game to be called Mario Kart 10 so that Tour is officially acknowledged as Mario Kart 9.

    But what if, because of the two Mario Kart Arcade games, they call the next one Mario Kart 12 instead?
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    I know a few people here (or at least WaWaWa) didn’t particularly like the design of WaPeach when it was first revealed.

    I raised an eyebrow when I saw the design too, but seeing it in action through fan comics and fan animations has warmed me up to it. Seeing personality and antics on display does the design a lot more justice than a single still image.
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