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The whole Giygas thing was always the least interesting thing about EarthBound to me. I'm a sucker for gross-out humour; social satire; emotional family/power of friendship stories; weird anthropomorphic object designs; and outlandish situations in mundane locations, but the "I'm h...a...p...p...y..." and robot bodies stuff doesn't do it for me. I do like Mother 3's darker tone though, but that's mostly because it leans more emotional than scary, a different type of dark.

This video is going to have nothing but negative effects on internet discourse, but I also love every second of it

The whole "Multiversus renders NASB irrelevant" mentality is so annoying to me because like... how does Smash not render the either of them by default irrelevant then? It's not like Multiversus is even a cartoon or animation crossover specifically, all it and NASB has in common is being platform fighters and crossovers of mostly nostalgic IP, which Smash also has while - even if I'd argue it to be of a lower quality game design wise than the funny farting bread man game - unarguably having a higher level of polish than either.

LeBron's trailer in MVS feels so incomplete without SFX. That down air looks like getting a velvet pillow thrown in your face - not painful, but a little uncomfortable.

As someone who's been a Bubsy fan as long as I've known what a SNES is, I could give a lot of advice on how to handle being an earnest fan of a game that is memed to death or even objectively bad (specifically for the Balan fandom) - that being said, I think the most paramount are to 1. be unashamed of your fandom, and 2. point non-fans towards the elements other than gameplay or plot (depending on genre) rather than fruitlessly defending the elements that gave it it's reputation or getting mad at said elements being pointed out. I find that people I speak to end up appreciating Bubsy a lot more when I point out the series' solid OST track record; Bubsy himself's surprisingly endearing personality before the cartoon pilot doomed him to "Flanderization"; or the series' proto-Cuphead "living cartoon" ambitions.

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Looking in on Sonic tone discourse is kinda insane because there seems to outright be an opposition to the mere idea of comedy for some 2000s era fans, even within with a darker and serious plot.

Like, I can totally understand wanting a story with higher stakes, or taking offense to self-depriacting "wink at the screen" humour, but it's kinda foolish to make anything for children without some level of humour - ESPECIALLY if the plot surrounding the characters is dark. That's not underestimating children's intelligence, that's just what you generally do when you aim for that demographic. That applies to Pixar; Avatar; 2010s Cartoon Network; and every other example you can think of as "taking kids seriously"

nvm, mvs is actually the most based game ever made

We are submitting a veteran from a previous Smash game as our pre-order bonus! This will be our final veteran and the only crossover character from a video game!

Even as a Mario fan, (even if I'm moreso a fan of DK and Wario) I've never really considered Captain Toad a seperate entity from Toad.

The box art for Kirby's Avalanche looks like it came pre-sun faded. Like, I always assumed it was a bad scan every time I saw it beforehand, but because of the NSO update I now know that's how it's supposed to look

I'm probably not gonna renew my NSO subscription until NASB crossplay comes out.

If we can have both, Puyo Puyo and Kirby's Avalanche, on NSO, I hope that Tetris Attack can be added at some point.

I feel DKC2 is probably the platformer sequel that did the dark push best - I can't really put my finger on why DKC2 works so well for me when 2000s Sonic or Jak 2 just makes me second-hand embarassed, at the very least I think David Wise's compositions and the prescence of (intentional) humour plays a part in it.

Petty fandom drama should be utterly pathetic, but when you consider how attentive devs and publishers can be to their fandoms, it's kinda frightening.

Considering that Kid Icarus Uprising has a Super FX Star Fox tribute section, I find it baffling that there's yet to be a Super FX stage in Smash - be it Starwing; Stunt Race; or one of the Yoshi's Island bosses.

I love this album, somehow it manages to both perfectly capture and completely miss the point of every show on it at the same time. I'd advise listening to it without looking at the tracklist and trying to guess what show it is before they say the name.
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Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue is fascinating to me because of just how much of a time capsule it is for the overcommercialised era of animation - the specific characters chosen; the war on drugs message and how blatant + stigmatising it is; the general aesthetic design; merchandising being the way the characters are able to meet; having only one franchise featured that actually originated as a cartoon (Looney Tunes, before Turner stopped giving out syndication rights to everyone and their grandma) (This is counting DuckTales as a seperate IP from Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck - it also still applies if you count Muppet Babies as seperate from their adult counterparts given their debut as puppets in Muppets Take Manhattan) a fast food restaurant building themselves up as an ultimate moral good instead of being sassy and overstimulating; the fact that every character here sans ALF (who never got a comeback off the ground) and the Tunes (who peaked in the 90s popularity-wise thanks to Space Jam if anything) has the exact same history of their franchise going dormant into the 90s before making a big comeback in the 00s or 10s; the sappy synth piano credits theme that mentions the concept of outgrowing cartoons; the handwaved nature of the alcohol subplot; the seedy portrayal of arcades; so on.

All that combined with the fact it released less than a year before the first 3 Nicktoons (Ren & Stimpy specifically, but the earlier Rugrats episodes to a much lesser extent) would come out with their trippy visuals and aim for a non-sober college student side-demographic; and mere months before Spielberg would begin giving theatrical-quality budgets to cartoons with Tiny Toon Adventures, completely dismantling the "factory line" method of cartoon production, makes it feel almost like a big albeit unknowing farewell to the toy-driven and politically-influenced age of television animation

are we seriously arguing about the security of public government websties on the nasb thread rn

just release hugh already, please. release us from the shadow realm

Preventing Sakurai from uttering the C-O-G-H words in the Byleth presentation will be the thing that pushes future scientists to make time machines.

I still think Banjo over Chief was one of the most comically bad roster decisions in Smash history, possibly the most comically bad.

I actually really like the idea of Splaat (Klasky Csupo logo) in NASB - he's a memorable character to 90s and 2000s-era Nicktoon fans, and he's managed to gain an inexplacable but quite clever cult following with the current day Nickelodeon kid audience. I feel his moveset could, just as Hugh seems to play into his memes, play into the Klasky Csupo memes by giving him wacky logo effects to fight with.

Another NASB character idea I like is Swiper, a good way to rep Nick Jr. without turning a preschool role model into a combatant, given he's a villain and all - he could still have the fake interactivity represented, and I feel his inclusion would probably appeal to Nick's core demo more than Dora herself because: let's face it, 6-to-12 year old kids love making fun of "baby shows", and one of the quintessential outlets for that is cheering on the antagonistic character. Mayor Humdinger (is that his name?) could also work for this to a lesser extent, but he wouldn't really appeal to NASB's nostalgic core demo like Swiper would.

i know im very mvs-critical but velma fighting by using the word "sass" as a projectile is so funny to me.

If the #KiddySweep occurs on SMSB, I'll probably be a bit miffed I went straight for the 120 stage round-up since we wouldn't be able to give him a DKC3 stage - that being said, I feel Kongo Falls makes a decent enough makeshift Kiddy stage. Maybe I'll do a discussion round on a slight Kremisphere retheming should Kiddy win.

I haven't calculated the results yet so I have no clue whether we're getting a #KiddySweep; #BallyhooSweep; #PianoSweep; or whatever, but I do plan to calculate in a few hours as I'm going out tomorrow.

Wait, hold on...
WB just announced STOP MOTION WACKY RACES??? That's a matchup made in heaven right there. I'm a huge stop motion fan and ol' Richard Detestable was a childhood favourite of mine thanks to DVDs and Boomerang.

I find it funny to intentionally misinterpret the "live slug reaction" meme as being not "a live reaction from a slug" but "the reaction from the Live Slug", as if that's his name.

oh my god... Cartoon Network are actually... doing something with their old IPs for once? And getting the guys who worked on them and properly understand the concept back?

Wonder how long it'll take for someone to twist me saying "McDonald's touch screens are video games" into "I want Ronald McDonald in Smash" on Infinite...

TBH, in the context of Smash I don't really care about getting my favourite characters and series in anymore - what I really want currently is Sony; Atari; homegrown Microsoft; and 80s microcomputer rep, with no specific characters in mind (even if I obviously have preferance to PaRappa in Sony's case) which are things I only have passing interest in (none in the case of Xbox if you exclude Windows) but feel are crucial steps in becoming a real gaming museum.

I unironically admire how the lost media community could be looking for extremely significant milestones from the early days of TV or highly influential literature, but instead choose to look for tie-in flash games to mediocre 2000s Canadian cartoons and stuff like that. This isn't even sarcasm, I really appreciate how these guys are using their talents to find things important and significant to them and their own niche little bubble rather than the world at large.

I kinda feel modern Smash games' takes on third parties aren't made with longevity in mind - Minecraft is a good example, having all the biomes in fun as DLC, but it's gonna really slim down the options if they ever want a second Minecraft stage (though I will admit that a mine or the Nether would probably be the first choice even with the other biomes on the table.)

I've been going down the rabbit hole of Japanese "westaboo" Twitter, and honestly "VeggieTales is the Bible version of Pop Team Epic" is not a sentence I ever expected to read. Probably mistranslated but still.

I don't get why, of all the cancelled games, EarthBound 64 is the one people are so interested in and are willing to spend hundreds of dollars to research. Just comes off to me as an uglier and darker version of a released game that basically had the perfect level of dark for the story it wanted to tell - not to mention that the Mother franchise's history wouldn't really be changed by it in the slightest, the fandom probably but not the series as a whole considering it'd end with M3 either way. To me something like Swordquest Airworld; Twelve Tales Conker 64; or Sonic X-Treme is more interesting for that sort of butterfly effect "how would this series, its developer, or gaming as a whole have changed if this released?" theorising.

It's kinda weird that we don't really talk about the Emoji Movie anymore, even in emoji-specific discussions, considering that for a few brief months it was the only thing on anybody's lips.

One thing I'm seeing a lot with the NASB "Smash killer" BS and "dead game" aftermath is YouTubers saying "oh, my thumbnail maker did it" and like... OK, I kinda get that, but 1. why do you need a specialised thumbnail editor when most of these thumbnails could be done on Kapwing in 20 seconds? and 2. how do you have so little communication with any member of your team that they actively promote mentalities you are against on your channel with your face?