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You know how Mario Party gives each combination of 2 characters their own team name? I'm making that for Smash (or more specifically my Ultimate sequel roster), just for 1v1 duels instead of teams, sorta like episode titles - probably won't finish it, but I absolutely need to say one idea that is so good I cannot waste it if I scrap this idea.
Zelda vs. Dark Samus - "Title Fight".

Of all the game mascots that are actually mascots, Wonder Dog is easily the most bizarre, because 1. they put him in a disc tray cleaning CD and midi playback software and 2. he was the mascot of the X'Eye. I don't even know what an X'Eye is.

I can't speak on the AI voice or asset flip allegations, but I really don't buy that Infestation 88 is a Nazi game or whatever. The number 8 looks like mouse ears, the game takes place in the 80s (which is a really popular time period for horror in general), and gas is used to kill mice. I don't blame anyone for having their alarms raised by the 88/gas combination, but 99.9% most likely is just a very unfortunate coincidence.

Turns out the Inverse Ninjas game DOES have single player, pretty fun!

wait, do you guys actually have a strong moral opposition to crappy cartoon character horror movies, that makes you actively want more strict corporate copyright legislation?

i thought it was just a joke

Extra public domain warning after the whole thing about Tigger: Popeye is coming next year, but he can't eat spinach until '27.

i like how the death animation in this game is the happy ending

Public domain Tigger heads-up, since I'm not seeing this around as much as the Mickey heads-ups and this is the only public platform I have: Only Disney Tigger bounces on his tail, Milne Tigger is quadrupedal and bounces on his legs

i'm watching old burger king/mcdonalds ads and i find it funny how "celebration" is always used as a codeword for "cross-promotion"


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THE RAT IS LOOSE!

I think it would actually be really fun to make a Smash mod that changes every character's moveset to excessive references under one condition: EVERYONE'S archetype is changed. Virtually an all-new game. Like Garfield NASB 2 transitions for everyone. Unconditionally, even characters like Marth/Falcon/Jigglypuff who's Smash incarnations are synonymous with Smash, and characters like Steve, Ryu and Villager who have virtually everything they can do in their movesets - obviously using some real two-flickies logic. Fox is a zoner now with all the arwing's lasers and bombs. swordie Mario attacking with all his hats. Pure-rushdown DK chasing everyone around with Barrel Cannons.

Combo Devils' gameplay looks awesome, I will pick it up if I get a laptop that can run it or it releases on Switch, love the idea of a skateboarding fighter especially, buuuuuuuuut the character designs have once again fallen into "not-a-crossover crossover" syndrome - not as egregious as Flash Party though, at least all the humans look like they're from the same universe with the furries as outliers, but still

Most Smash fan-movesets I've seen for Toad just feel like Mario revamp movesets in disguise as a new character

Seeing Americans discover Horrid Henry for the first time and immediately agree on the (correct) assumption that he's a victim is very funny.

Trust me, this is not the worst the CITV back catalog has to offer in the "victim-blamey misbehaving-child stories" - some day Grizzly Tales is gonna get the Twitter out-of-context meme treatment.

Is there any non-malicious use for "cast to TV"?

They should absolutely call the next Mario Kart "Mario Kart 10", the next Smash "Super Smash Bros. 7" and umm, I dunno if any other Nintendo franchises have Windows 9 situations.

Yet again, I'm sorry for the publicdomainposting as of late, but something I find interesting about Pooh B&H is that if Disney were to sue, they would have a legal case, in fact it wouldn't even be ambigious from a legal standpoint, Pooh is not public domain yet in the UK, and Blood & Honey is a 100% British production, writers are British; actors; distributors; filming locations - not just that, but B&H's Pooh is yellow and wears a red shirt (albeit tartan and under overalls) - but Disney just... aren't taking action?

hour long "horrid henry's parents toxic moments compilation" in the youtube recommended

i WILL be watching

i sniffed too much crack public docaine and now i know who disney's first first first first first first first first first first first first first first first first first first first open first first gay characters are (**** in boots and james from **** in boots (1922))

Sorry for the constant publicdomainposting, but I just found out that this banger is going to be public domain next year.
Also, its association with Mac Tonight lead me to find out that Ronald McDonald (the original one with the tray on his head) and Speedee would be public domain in the Brighter Timeline.

Uh oh, I think "now-reformed copyright law from the 1970s" is my new hyperfixation!

I've been compiling a list of cartoon characters that would've been public domain by now if copyright wasn't reformed in the 70s (it was previously 56 years), and it's honestly an outright tragedy - pretty much everything notable from Looney Tunes, Jay Ward, Osamu Tezuka, MGM, The Beano/Dandy, UPA, or Dr. Suess; all the European cartoons like Smurfs/Asterix/Lucky Luke/Tintin, Thomas the Tank Engine, a handful of Muppets, Alvin and the Chipmunks, a good chunk of the Marvel and DC A-Listers, and a half or so of the classic Hanna Barbera lineup - not just that, but we'd be less than a decade away from Scooby-Doo; Wacky Races; Fat Albert; the earliest version of Garfield; and the first video games. Sonic and The Simpsons would become public domain before most of us would gain a single grey hair.

Not just that, but pre-reform copyright law required manual extensions on the 28th anniversary (which is why some Bugs Bunny, Mickey Mouse, and Popeye cartoons are public domain, but not the characters themselves) - so a ton of dead/failed IPs from the 80s and 90s would likely be in our grasp by now. Who doesn't want to revive the ever-beloved Shnookums and Meat?

I generally think lost media guys looking for promos for baby shows for babies instead of the first Doctor Who or whatever is based and cool and good, buuuuut the fact that there are 3 pieces of Dumbo lost media, and the only one people don't care about and haven't bothered to put on the Lost Media Wiki or anything is literally the first version of Dumbo that the Disney movie was adapted from, is a little frustrating

OK, I'm in public domain brainrot mode, and I'm gonna ramble a bit about Pooh and why we're only really seeing crappy horror renditions of him so far - there's a few possible reasons for this

1. There are probably hundreds of Pooh stories, both sincere and subversive, in development right now, but all mediums take a long time if you're trying to release something people want to pay for in money - if you have no intent in actually making money off of Poohing in public and just want to goof around with the IP, well you don't really need to wait for anything.
2. Tigger is not public domain yet. He's the second most popular character in the franchise, and probably the most popular with its core target audience of small children - most people writing a Pooh story would consider including Tigger a maker-or-breaker.
3. Horror movies are cheap and quick - Halloween was made on a budget of $325,000 and filmed in less than a month, and famous film stars are considered a detriment to the atmosphere of a horror movie. Combine this with the fascination on "What if babby show but SPOOKY" that predates, but really boomed with, the internet, and animation (the medium where a bipedal talking bear would best thrive) being infamously costly and time-consuming and it's obvious that this will be the first to come out of the floodgates.
4. Disney still owns the Pooh trademark - this is not much of an issue for indie studios, but restricted merchandising is a MAJOR problem for large companies. If say, Dreamworks, wanted to do a Pooh movie, it would be nigh impossible to sell plushies and t-shirts of their Pooh, which is where the money is in for animation - not impossible of course, (take "Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates", another show that riled up Disney and had to put its production company in the title) but distinguishing their Pooh from Disney's would be an uphill battle not worth pursuing when you could just license a more contemporary book and officially establish your version as a seperate trademark, a business model that gained Dreamworks a majority of its hits. This also erases any incentive for any Video Brinquedo sorts, since confusing people is the whole point (and animated mockbusters are a dying art as is)

I have a feeling this song-and-dance will happen again with Mickey, and Popeye, and Bugs, and The Flintstones, and SpongeBob in 3858 or whatever.

GUYS I JUST REALISED THE BEST THING ABOUT STEAMBOAT WILLIE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN

This phrase gets thrown around a lot, but Pokemon Concierge is the show I've wanted since I was a kid. Can't wait to watch it tomorrow.

Thomas the Tank Engine enters the public domain in 18 years

Chicken Run 2 surprised me - I was one of the few people who had confidence in it when it was first announced as opposed to seeing it as a cash grab, but I was not expecting to like it as much as (if not more than) the first one.

watching the masked singer half-asleep on christmas night as someone who neither celebrates nor visits family is a fever dream

"Forced villain for the sake of forced villain" Smash picks ranked from worst to best (mostly based on surface-level knowledge like JPGs and Vs Battle wiki articles)

• Dr. Coyle
• Gruntilda (I swear this list wasn't swayed by my disdain for Nintendo-tied 3Ps)
• Medusa
• Dragonlord
• Porky
• Black Shadow
• Xehanort
• DJ Octavio
• Kamek
• Dr. Wily
• Smick
• Liquid Snake
• Andross
• Zanza
• Father Balder
• Polar Bear
• Captain Syrup
• Medeus
• King Hippo
• Plasm Wraith
• M. Bison
• Yaldabaoth
• Giovanni
• Geese Howard
• G&W Octopus
• Crazy Redd
• Ender Dragon
• Dracula
• Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde
• Dr. Eggman

remember when pixar movies didn't have a reputation for being heartfelt and stuff so all the marketing presented them as if they were friedberg and seltzer slapstick-gross out movies

i think the most surreal thing about the 80s from a zoomer-looking-in perspective is how mcdonald's tried to present as a philantrophy first and restaurant second.

i wonder which streaming service will pick up the rights to the king's christmas speech when the bbc satelites go off the air.

I'm kinda tempted to do a million-character Smash roster - if I do it'd probably be more defined by its exclusions than inclusions.

I think Professor Pac-Man probably wins the award for "Game with the most conceptually interesting but least sourced popular facts"