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The fact "honorary Nintendo chararacter" is a term anyone has used ever, earnestly or otherwise, says a lot about consumerism.

I like how if you watch Ratboy Genius, Potato Knishes makes even less sense in context - after a rather emotional confrontation scene with piano music, Little King John (the flesh-coloured stretchy rat) just kinda walks off and starts singing about making insects with Jewish foodstuffs out of nowhere, and then it cuts to Summer Solstice Baby (the character John kidnapped) singing a vent song.

Potato Knishes is never mentioned or alluded to again, at least in the Minecraft mini-series (that's all I've really watched)

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In all seriousness though, the idea of a creator refusing to have their character in Smash (as well as the in-universe equivalent of a character themselves refusing a Smash invite) is really fascinating to me - I guess I see a lot of circlejerk about how "nobody in their right mind would refuse a Smash offer!" in speculation circles even though it's really not that simple - they may be opposed to their character being violent (even for sport and especially around women; children; and animals), they may want another studio or developer's character instead (like Oso does in the meme), they may think of their character as aesthetically or thematically unfit, they may not be comfortable with working with big corporate Nintendo, they may see a Smash cameo as selling out, they may want the time they'd spend working with Namco going to their own projects, they may not want to gatekeep an appearance of their character to a single console, they may be opposed to Nintendo's marketing strategies in relation to Smash... lots of reasons, all valid.

This is one of those images I've seen posted possibly hundreds of times now, but is still hillarious to me.

Most pro-Byleth comics and art either A. make Byleth look like an arrogant narcacist like a lot of real teachers or B. come off as extremely emotionally manipulative and end up bringing a schadenfruedic thrill as a direct result.

If I was doing a fake leak, my character of choice would be PaRappa the Rapper - my reasons are

1. I want PaRappa in Smash, and a leak of this magnitude could drive up his support significantly.
2. He fits a sort of pattern within Smash DLC of characters irrelevant to Nintendo but extremely important to gaming as a whole, making him a believable even if unlikely pick
3. People really believing PaRappa is in Smash, even for just a week, would encourage Smash fans to take Sony seriously as a potential 3rd party represented and research Sony's IPs.

"Sony makes their own video games, not just consoles to play them on"
Smash fans:


Is the whole "Smash fans don't understand gaming history beyond Nintendo" joke overdone yet?

90s:
"This time, it's Ninja Turtles but they're COWBOYS!"
"This time, it's Ninja Turtles but they're BIKERS!"
"This time, it's Ninja Turtles but they MAKE the pizzas!"

2000s:
"This time, it's Doug but in SPACE!"
"This time, it's Doug but he's DISABLED!"
"This time, it's Doug but with a TRANSSPECIES DOG!"

Today:
"This time, it's Family Guy but with PETS!"
"This time, it's Family Guy but with the BRITISH MONARCHY!"
"This time, it's Family Guy but with ALTERNATE UNIVERSES!"

Depending on who you ask, the ending of Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter is either the deepest thing ever or the stupidest piece of code ever put on a cartridge.

Even knowing the context and how it's hinted at in the game, I'd still argue the latter.

Top 3 worst things about PSASBR

3. no Crash
2. the way the game's KO system actively encourages toxic and spammy play
1. they called the Fruites Dojo just "Dojo". Put some respect on Chop Chop Master Onion's legacy you filthy rats.

Mushroom Kingdom U, with some slight alterations, could've been an amazing Bowser's Castle stage. Have the grassy plains portion instead be the outside of Bowser's Castle, add some lava bubbles to the catacombs phase of the stage, and finally leave the final portion as is as if you're making a beautiful escape to the skies above.

the world if Fire Emblem's stage-to-character ratio was swapped

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OK, seriously though, imagine how embarassing it must be when a corporation infamous for shafting new IPs and ignoring creator voices allows a small indie dev team to create an infinitely superior online experience for an uproven franchise to you, one of the longest-running and highest profile gaming companies in the world, making one of the biggest AAA franchises of modern gaming that dates back to the Nintendo 64.

Continuing off a post Champion of Hyrule made about the Masked Man a few days ago...

I don't get why people say a third EarthBound rep has to be an antagonist. In fact, if there's any series that needs absolutely ZERO playable villains it's Mother - almost every major villain in the series has some tragic and harrowingly realistic story to them that makes them a ridiculous if not irresponsible pick for a flashy and colourful fighting game with Banjo-Kazooie and Pac-Man in it.

Ridley and Ganondorf are evil just because they are, Mewtwo and Sephiroth were unethical cloning experiments (dark, but unrealistic) and then Mr. Minch over here is evil because he spent his whole childhood being verbally and physically abused by his deadbeat parents, which the protagonist of his debut unknowingly contributed to. Don't even get me started on that poor poor Masked Man, or Giegue for that matter.

I guess it must derive from this strange mentality that SSBU is "heroes vs. villains" themed, even though that has never been officially stated or even implied. Prior to the fake leak that planted that idea in people's heads I saw Kumatora and Poo mentioned as 3rd Mother reps way more than Porky.

Like, yeah, I get Porky has cool lasers and a spider-mech, but he's also an overgrown immortal child who was driven to comitting genocide by years of abuse and alien brainwashing, then ultimately faced a fate worse than death all the while still having the mind and mentality of a child. Having dark villains in Smash is fine, but you need to take responsibility with roster picks at some point.

Idea: instead of "annoyed restaurant employee yells at spoiled brat" videos, we should do "psychologist quietly but agressively reads a book of the irreversable mental consequences of yelling at children to the annoyed restaurant employee like a police officer would list off potential punishments for a crime" videos.

What are you trying to tell me about the Tin Toy baby, Disney Wiki?

It makes me really happy to see how respectful Travis fans are of Suda's decision to end No More Heroes. Just goes to show that a little bit of dev-to-player transparency can go a long way.

If Nintendo could just openly say "we're not making any more F-Zero games" or "we're not making any more Kid Icarus games" instead of a cheeky "it's just sleeping" or "maybe in another 24 years!" a lot of people will be satisfied with that. Once Itoi said Mother 4 was impossible requests quickly died down, more game series should take the same approach rather than exploiting the hype culture to keep fans buying.

smash fans when the iconic and popular klonoa (requested for decades) gets revealed as a mii costume in the literal who pong right paddle (inactive smashboards thread) dlc presentation

A small part of me wishes that instead of calling it "Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl" they just called it "Nickelodeon Super Brawl" with no subtitle. It'd be easier to say, not have the much-oversatured "All-Star" that takes over every crossover's title, and pose it as a full-on reboot of the Flash games.

Dream removed the Mask music video

The Pixar Popcorn shorts on Disney+ are some of the most worthless, bland pieces of animation I've ever seen - It's a great concept, see what Pixar characters do every day in low-stakes stories akin to the Lucasfilm/advert-era Pixar shorts, but they're so god damn boring - it's just "hey look, the Cars are dancing!" Even André and Wally B. had more plot than the popcorn shorts.

I wonder if the Popcorn shorts were originally made for some sort of Disneyland attraction - because they'd be perfectly servicable as little animations to play on screens during a queue, which would also explain the lack of voice acting.

Even though it has never been officially used in such a context; is never heard outside of remakes and rereleases; and isn't even the first level or title theme, I've always seen the Band Land (Harmony) theme as just "the Rayman theme song", like how SMB1's overworld is "the Mario theme song" or RBY's intro and title theme is "the Pokémon theme song".

While I'm happy Banjo got in Smash, it's always weird to see people say he was the "most deserving DLC" given he's likely the most obscure playable third party in Smash history.

I don't get the outrage behind the McCree name change - like, yeah, of course it's not gonna change anything or pave the way for a better future, but that's really not the intent - just a small thing to make people more comfortable. Frankly ActiBlizz acknowledging the controversy at all is a (very small) step in the right direction.

Changing Toadstool to Peach was easy to get used to so this should be too, especially with a story arc revolving around it. The only reason people even debate Eggbotnik is because "Dr. Eggman" is an objectively stupid name for a threatening villain, even if we're desensitised to it now. Unless they rename McCree "SandwichGuy" or "PastaDude" there's not much to worry about

I'd argue these 3 fake image leaks to be the most believable in SSBU's lifespan.

And one of them is a T-posing Wurmple.

The leak game has been weak.

Incineroar was better than all Grinch Leak characters combined.

I swear if Sonid Origins doesn't have a 4:3 option...

Remember when people said Steve couldn't be DLC because he wouldn't bring along battle-fit music?

Have those people even heard Donkey Kong music?

Just discovered the Justice Served subreddit. Day ruined.

If that's what justice looks like, give me lawless anarchy any day.

I found this 2000s-era Nickelodeon branding design bible and they actually gave a plotline to it.

To me, Toad in Smash feels a bit like a "completionism for the sake of completionism" pick. He could have a good moveset, but he isn't really inherently interesting from a moveset level - unlike say, Daisy (from for a pre-Ultimate speculation standpoint) where she would both complete a trio with only the first and third most important present, and provide a unique sports moveset.

If Nick Brawl somehow at some point gets as popular as Smash and can have non-Nick cartoons, all I ask is...

Credit to FuntimeShadowFreddy on DeviantArt.

@ People who say Crash Bandicoot isn't a "real 3D platformer"

Is Metroid a real 2D platformer?

We didn't do it.