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I don't really think it's a good idea to have any live action sitcom characters playable in NASB, but I am 100% down for the iCarly set as a stage.

Is Sonic Colours Ultimate good yet?

There is no way people would've taken the N64 version of Mother 3 seriously with these Cadbury Dairy Milk-looking dialogue boxes

I miss that genre of fangame where they'd just make the most boring, unfun game imaginable; slap in poorly drawn versions of iconic characters; have extremely solem and lonely stages; and make all the music memes.

Even as someone willing to defend NASB's stranger roster choices, the roster for that Nick tennis game that got the NASB thread doomposting is really weird to me. Why Angelica instead of Tommy or Chuckie? Why two Hey Arnold characters but only one SpongeBob/TMNT/Garfield character? I understand the 80s TMNT in the arguably older-audience-aimed NASB but why here? Why are Danny and Zim always the only 2000s characters to show up? No Loud House? Shouldn't you be promoting Middlemost Post or Star Trek Prodigy here?

I think I said this before but it fozzie bears repeating: The Muppets would simultaniously fit perfectly and horribly into Kingdom Hearts - the general themes of comradeship and making millions of people happy at once fit to a T, but the meta-commentary and referential humour would be really out of place.

The best way to tell if someone's being paid by Disney is if they call Baby Yoda "Grogu".

One of my biggest concerns with Multiversus is just how far reaching its roster could be - you're gonna end up with a division between fans who want more DC heroes, more live action stars, more Cartoon Cartoons, more Hanna-Barbera, more Looney Tunes, so on - and then there'll be divisions of those divides, like people who want the live action characters to be kid-friendly and people who want the live action characters to be more adult; people who want to dive deep into the DC canon and people who want to include all the iconic heroes first; Looney Tunes purists who need everything to be classic and Space Jam fans hoping for modern favourites; 90s/2000s Cartoon Network fans wanting their childhood repped and 2010s Cartoon Network fans not wanting to settle for "nostalgia pandering", it could be a mess.

Another consequence of this "everything is fair game" approach is that a lot of really promising but more obscure characters could miss out because of it - you can have the Arrow, but Wild Dog? No chance. You can have Dexter, but don't hold your breath for Dial M for Monkey! - while it would mean less people playing, surely a specified roster would make those fewer people playing more statisfied?

your decapitated bezos head sir

I thought this Snoopy thanksgiving balloon was the London Olympics mascot for a second

You know it's gonna be a good movie when you see this

Aaaaand the NASB thread is going doomer mode again. Typical Tuesday.

This excert from a marketing guide given to Fox networks syndicating The Simpsons in the 90s is vaguely ominous and I can't place my finger on why.

Unironically hyped for this - I'm a sucker for redemption stories.

The merchandising of Roblox Piggy is weird to me because I have no moral qualms with using this form of parody (or any fanmade merchandise) for profit, but it also gives me a weird empty feeling to not see the Peppa Pig copyright holders acknowledge it or take legal action.

Super Eyepatch Wolf's Garfield video is really fascinating, but at the same time I think his analytic research on Garfield comics was a little flawed, albeit unavoidably so - at one point he mentions that Garfield (and in turn the strip) never shows Jon empathy, even though a quick Google search for "wholesome garfield" can prove that wrong, however I can totally understand that conclusion considering that he used a mix of RNG and Garfield fan videos for his comic samples, and those cute and happy strips are few and far between - you'd likely get the same results if you watched an RNG selected batch of 50 SpongeBob episodes or 100 Simpsons episodes, it's just that those two properties are designed for people to be invested in and have extremely big and vocal fandoms who can direct you to and will gush about the sweetest moments, compared to Garfield who is a character designed to be enjoyed casually in quick bursts and therefore doesn't have a large fandom talking about their favourite gags and moments.

Multiversus (2022)

This magazine is where I learned Santa isn't real.

I love the fact that Wario's third appearance was his first starring role, it's deliciously on-character for a self-centred anti-hero to be thrust into the spotlight so quickly while other, longer-established characters stay in side roles possibly forever.

NASB and Ultimate are interesting games to compare because they're like dark mirrors of one another - almost every way Ultimate succeeds, NASB fails; but in almost every way NASB succeeds, Ultimate fails.

On one hand, it's a shame Crash 4 didn't have many Dingodile or Tawna levels, but on the other we were spared from more Cortex levels.

I find platform fighters being called "party fighters" just as annoying as them being called "Smash clones".

My third Smash Mother rep of choice would be Lloyd - I feel he'd composite in some of Jeff's weapons as well as his own, but his (IMO) more unique personality and representing an instalment with no Smash fighter justifies including him over Jeff.

Even though Smash Flash 2 is trying to cut down on the "4th parties" after Luffy, I think it would be cool to bring back Mr. Incredible if just to have a cartoon character to compliment the anime characters

The Game Boy Colour is really cool to me because it's an 8-bit system that's games were made with more advanced technology, but also no desire to appeal to nostalgia - making them both authentically 8-bit and beyond anything the NES or its era of game design could've handled.

Crazy Frog went from "based" to "cringe" in a matter of hours, SMH.

When even a very small part of your game's fandom is upset Sephiroth was chosen over Geno, it may be worth reconsidering the idea of making it a "celebration of gaming history", or at the very least how it goes around trying to earn that title.

I watched Surf's Up for the first time yesterday, and despite having heard and trusted all the rave reviews for years, I was surprised by how good it was. A new favourite for me certainly.