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Forbidden Spirit battles

Felt it'd be fun to do a random wheel-determined Mario Kart roster. My hopes of "an unbiased, varied roster" were dashed by an influx of Toads and cartoon tie-ins.

“Elite Smash”

Just found out about Scots Wikipedia.

Imagine having your entire language nearly demolished by a teenage brony.

Just found out about a website that lets you buy any Wikipedia article as a t-shirt. If the t-shirts I already wear haven't confused people enough IRL, these certainly will.

Continuing this thread about how crossovers and references in games could be handled differently, I love the idea of a one-on-one crossover instead of a multi-IP megacrossover - I remember when the SpongeBob Cosmic Shake teaser image was posted I thought it was teasing a crossover with Invader Zim. There's this blob thing that, in the final image, is revealed to be a portal with a big zipper but without full context looks like a piece of Irken archetecture.

It would make sense IMO - if you narrow down Nick's biggest IPs next to SpongeBob, Zim would likely be the best choice for a one-to-one crossover. Loud House, Garfield, and Rugrats don't have worlds that lend themselves well to games; Ren & Stimpy doesn't really have a world at all, just two characters who do anything and go anywhere as long as it's funny; Avatar and to a lesser extent Turtles would be too serious and make SpongeBob feel out of place less in a "fish out of water" sense and more "fish in a chip shop" sense; FOP and Jimmy Neutron have worlds that are to an extent too similar to SpongeBob's and therefore wouldn't have a good juxtaposition factor; and then Zim is an IP that could play off SpongeBob in a comical way, being dark and bruding to juxtapose happy go lucky SpongeBob against, but also a series with loud and silly humour that SpongeBob would fit well into, as well as a unique world both on Irk and Earth to explore in a collectathon setting.

Even though I don't like the idea of Nintendo Kart, as is known by now, I thought it'd be an interesting challenge to do a Nintendo Kart roster that would be aimed at Mario Kart's actual target audience, with minimal aesthetic/tonal clash; a focus on franchises familiar to casual fans; and lesser-known characters prioritising distinct, expressive designs.

I feel Smash Ultimate, Fortnite, Fall Guys, and Brawlhalla among others have unintentionally fostered a very negative "slippery slope" attitude towards guest characters in games, one even I'm guilty of falling for. There's this kind of persisting worry that if a game adds more than two or so guests it's gonna become a ridiculous crossover palooza - you just have to look at NASB fandom reactions when Goku is brought up to see this. Doesn't help that you've also got the other side calling for ridiculous crossover paloozas (Nintendo Kart, anyone?) further muddying the difference between guest characters and a shifted focus.

This is the sort of content I live for.

Put the "mass" back in Christmas. Buy a bunch of useless Hawkin's Bazaar junk, don't use it, refuse to sell it, go bankrupt, and get thrown into the streets - then just sing a happy Latin song like in the Grinch and pretend the problem will fix itself, content with your mass of novelty gifts.

Honestly, I'm probably not going back to SSBU any time soon. Every time I've played it after NASB it's rapidly become less fun. I'll take 20 well designed if samey characters over 80 undeniably unique but inconsistent-quality characters any day - I say this as a casual player too.

In gaming discussion, "this is a rip-off!" usually - not always - means "I like monopolies."

Me: "Humour needs to be unpredictable yet sensical with hindsight, otherwise it does not work"

Also me when someone says the full name and make of a car in the middle of a sentence:

I have been seeing Nickelodeon characters in my dreams a lot lately. One where the Ninja Turtles released a book teaching kids how to bottle up their emotions, one where there was a meme of SpongeBob running in front a confederate flag with the caption "Mai shirnui", one where I was investigating a car crash with John Krisfaluci, and last night I had a dream where M. Night Shaymalan's Avatar movie got a sequel that wasn't just whitewashed but explicitly racist.

I've been playing too much NASB

It's funny how Deltarune, a game where a character full-on says "Keygen" with fitting BGM, was promoted by Nintendo.

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From the clips I've seen, Amphibia doesn't really strike me as appealing - comes off as a little too edgy with a way-too-chaotic sense of humour for my liking... that being said, I respect any show that implies a shared universe with both Wallace & Gromit and EarthBound.

In the Smash Infinite universe:

1. WarioWare is dead because they made a bad sequel to Game & Wario
2. The Noid is indirectly referenced in Smash
3. Nintendo got the rights to use a Bubsy music remix made by an NSFW artist for a meme YouTube channel
4. Drill Dozer and EarthBound got remakes
5. Buck Bumble has a near-equal Smash prescence to Rayman
6. Sonic's moveset still hasn't been fixed
7. Twitter has a stage and two Mii costumes in Smash
8. A random boss from Mole Mania plays a role in the story mode.
9. Sonic's second remix is a reggae song
10. A Mr. Mime Spirit was added as to reference an obscure 70s Nickelodeon mascot.
11. Mario Super Sluggers has a stage
12. Iron Checkpoint Crate is one of the only two legend-class Crash Bandicoot spirits
13. There is an item called "Goku's Staff" in Smash
14. Sephiroth can wear a tutu
15. The Sus Imposter is an assist trophy and Fall Guy is a Mii costume
16. There is a gamer room mode
17. Nintendo acknowledged Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy again
18. The Smash Run sequel mode has Satanic and early 2000s advertising-themed dungeons
19. One of Metroid's music tracks is a Brinstar remix sung by cats from WarioWare
20. Trivial spin-offs like "Wily and Light's Rockboard: That's Paradise!" and "Learn with Pokémon: Typing Adventure" have music tracks avaliable.

Yes, most of the things I listed here were because of me.

I think it'd be pretty cool to have a version of coin mode in NASB - there's probably some game show or memorable episode you can base the coin equivalent on (or just do slime blobs if need be) and it would actually give the game a slight edge for casual Smash fans.

The perfect typeface doesn't exi-

I really didn't like the first season of the Animaniacs reboot, that being said - what I've seen of the second season (the Christopher Columbus diss track and the Big Bang Theory reference) it seems a lot funnier and more true to the original.

I adore the way Toby Fox's games use voice samples.

I like the implication that Pluto isn't completely morally pure - I think that's actually funnier than it'd be if they implied Pluto is evil.

So, which character is supposed to have the good flaws and which character is supposed to have bad flaws? Because I find nervous striped shirt guy way more interesting than mohawk scarf blue cyborg.

I have this weird thing I do sometimes where I play a game but pretend I'm in the attract mode, so I just play in a very simple way and, in a game with multiple characters, exclusively show off the most popular characters when possible.

I like how the entire NASB fandom has silently yet unanimously agreed to call CatDog's Dog strong up air "Updog"

The metaverse is just a fancy word for virtual reality, which is itself a fancy word for video games.

I got an UberEats ad where a guy just looks into the camera and says "McDonald's Big Mac" with a psychedelic Big Mac background behind him. That's the entire ad.

NINTENDO ACKNOWLEDGED THE CDI GAMES
WE WIN

Multiversus will find it's own niche, but that niche likely won't be the same people hyping it up, and thus like NASB it'll be labled "dead" when it's really just as healthy as any other non-Smash platfighter. Repeat the cycle for every licensed platfighter to come.