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I like how the Smash Wiki has tournament legality paragraphs on every single stage page, just in case you can't figure out why people don't play on 3D Land in tournaments

nintendo fans when they realise their childhood memories of mario 64 were on a crt with a giant SONY logo at the bottom

peppino jumpscare

"Irony poisoning is bad! love things sincerely and don't apologise!"
2 minutes later
"Ummmmm... you LIKE Hanna-Barbera's Starsky and Hutch Meet the Dracula Family (1978)? You're either being ironic or you're just a nostalgia blind boomer, go away."

We're submitting Ness and Luigi's echo fighters and home stages!

mid-90s Legends of the Hidden Temple contestants recieving a prize that won't exist for another 4 years

Hot take: Live action How to Train Your Dragon is not a terrible idea. Live action remakes of animated movies are crap generally, but a story about human vikings befriending non-talking dragons feels utterly perfect for the medium of live action. Will it be good though? No, certainly not.

I never really realised how few colours there are until I started doing Smash alt lists with 16+ costumes

Imagine what Subspace Emissary would look like if Nintendo bought Rare - it's hard enough to take it seriously with Mr. Game & Watch and Wario there, now imagine if a character like Banjo or Conker who's entire world is designed on a fundamental level around cheeky British humour was there as well.

I really hope Luigi's stage in EAC isn't a spooky/mansion stage

Acclaim using the money they were supposed to pay the Olsen twins with

Whoever uploaded the Subspace cutscenes to YouTube and upset Sakurai enough to kill Smash story modes forever is a hero.

When I was a kid, I brought my 3DS to a youth activity group I was in - for some reason, in my infinite wisdom, the game I chose to show off and brag about to my fellow youths was - of all things - Game & Watch Gallery 2....

It worked. IIRC I was banned from bringing my 3DS again because everyone else was so enamoured by Donkey Kong Jr. Parachute and Wario Helmet (I knew the secret code) to the point of not doing the activities, but I can't remember for certain. Could be my mind playing tricks on me.

Smash fans when Jibanyan is capable of using the items not introduced in the current game (it's unfaithful to the source material)

WHO WAS GOOGLING SANS IN 2004?

I don't really get why people call Mario 64 a 2D to 3D transition at all, let alone a good one. It wasn't going for the same style of gameplay as the 2D Mario games.

How the mighty have fallen

I had a dream where Dreamworks made Home 2 as a 2D animated movie and it's title was "Home r-slur". The film had no backgrounds, voice acting, music, plot, or props (though it did have colours); the animation looked like it was done with permanent marker; and Oh was the only character. Despite literally just being a cartoon alien dancing around for an hour, it managed to offend everybody, even those who weren't offended by the title

if the microsoft activision deal goes through before we finish eac you can bet im gonna try to make the man eating plant hugh neutron (verb) crash

DriDim players RN

One thing I'd advise when submissing a season for DriDim is to include a character who would otherwise drown in voting in your first 3.

I think the reason why the "car scene" is so common in CGI character movies is because 1. you don't have to animate the legs and - depending on the character's size - hands; and 2. drivers generally don't make eye contact when talking to their passengers, meaning the actor also doesn't have to.

Not an animation expert so I can't say for sure though.

I saw the Little Joel video about the Nostalgia Critic pausing after all his sentences and now I'll never unsee it. I'm not gonna watch the entire Nostalgia Critic videography to confirm this, but I did some research and found out something interesting by selecting random lines from a set of videos from a few years (basically just clicking around and looking for a line that doesn't involve making a face as part of the joke)...

Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue review (2008) - Pause after "That was lame, but I like his next speech much better": 15 frames
Cool as Ice review (2009) - Pause after "The white-o-meter is up there, but there has to be something to make this scene even whiter": 9 frames
Son of the Mask review (2013) - Pause after "For a movie that doesn't know the defintion of subtle, you don't really explain these two things very well": 8 frames
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle review (2016) - Pause after "this cameo just fixed my pipes in my summer home": 19 frames
Click review (2023) - Pause after "Leaves about as much impact as when she's not on pause": 21 frames

The Nostalgia Critic has truly gone back to his roots... and beyond.

We're doing our first double day - stages and echoes for Fox and Pikachu!

Analysing B/C-tier scrimblo bimblo platformer discourse is so funny because - without fail - the root of the controversy is always just some poorly thought out joke that went over kids' heads or a hyper-localised ad campaign/TV adaptation.

IMO Cartoon Network PTE XL had a worse story mode overall than Brawl (gimmicky minecart, Angry Birds, and shmup sections with wonky physics + every single enemy being as annoying as the Mites = not fun), but the cutscenes are infinitely better. More true to the shows than SSE was to the games; has some genuinely funny moments (as opposed to no funny moments); and the entire conflict is resolved by Chowder ripping a fat one. Also makes better use of stock PNGs than WoL.

Virgin Johtoians "NOOOOO YOU CAN'T JUST EAT SLOWPOKE TAILS!! THAT'S CRUEL AND UNETHICAL!!!"

Chad Galarians "mmm yummy slowpoke and curry in my tummy"

pomguin

i cant believe one of the showbiz pizza bands was actually called "confederate critters"

like, that sounds like a simpsons or south park gag, not actual children's characters.

Broke: Bring back Smash Run
Woke: Bring back the Race half of Smash Run and create static versions of all the scrolling stages for it

Sega abandoning their plans for a crossover platform fighter when they realise they can't claim the record of "first platform fighter to have an alien namedropped in Childish Gambino's Bonfire"

The "this game stinks" ad for EarthBound is honestly one of the best Nintendo ad campaigns of the late SNES era. It actually uses imagery from the game; the subject matter reflects something from the source material; it's not completely inappropriate for the game's young target audience; and the text of the print ads explains the "suburban JRPG" concept really well.

I find it funny how official YouTube uploads of songs from TV shows near-consistently have the sound mixing ****ed up.

1950s superhero fans when they see a monkey

I personally prefer the idea of Poké Floats just being giant barely-animated Pokémon flying around in a weird pink pocket-dimension for no reason than being a balloon parade.

I feel the problem with the Smash roster - specifically but not exclusively the first party portion of it - has less to do with bias and more to do with a lack of bias. If the Smash roster made no attempts at obectivity and was just unapologetically the characters the team wants regardless of fan demand; recency; and popularity/imporance, the series and it's discourse would be way better off for it.