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Wario Wario Wario · May 26, 2022

It's weird how whenever I criticise Smash, people assume I'm just saying I want Smash to be more like NASB. On one hand, I like that reputation as "the spunch bop game guy", but on the other I do want to discuss Smash's problems as their own thing without people assuming the medicine I have in mind is orange and slimy.

Wario Wario Wario · May 26, 2022

After we gave Goku a non-0 percent on the NASB RTC, I feel I greatly overestimated the confidence there'd be in the Expired Cow

Wario Wario Wario · May 26, 2022

I have now officially written the longest known serious, analytical piece related to "The Expired Cow" in human history.

Wario Wario Wario · May 26, 2022

If Sega hadn't had their supposed falling out with Evening Star, I feel Mania 2 and Frontiers should've had swapped budgets and scopes compared to Mania 1 and Forces - especially when it coems to advertising.

Wario Wario Wario · May 26, 2022

It really annoys me when people say the toxic nature of Smash speculation is just "bad apples" or "people taking it too seriously" when literally everything about Smash's marketing - intentionally or otherwise - directly encourages this kind of behaviour and extreme parasocial attachment

Wario Wario Wario · May 25, 2022

I find it fun to work with franchises and characters I'm not familiar with in creation threads, especially for stages. Trying to immerse yourself in a universe you have no attachment to and capture the vibe and tropes - I think the ambiguity of unfamiliarity gels well especially, since you can take the blanks you've filled in, look up if they fit in the canon, and reshape it for a good mixture of original and canon.

Wario Wario Wario · May 25, 2022

i almost mispelled "thanks!" as "thanos!"

Wario Wario Wario · May 25, 2022

Every time I see a meta-narriative based on cartoons like the Chip N' Dale movie or Pibby, my first thought is always "How does Itchy & Scratchy work in this?"

Wario Wario Wario · May 25, 2022

There are two voting ties that need resolving - pixel art alts to release with Steve, and Sephiroth's third content,

SmashBoards creates: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - Bonus DLC!

1. 3D Pixel Ice Climbers 2. 3D Pixel Ness 3. Great Lord Lucina (She has armor)

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Wario Wario Wario · May 25, 2022

There's a Nintendo flash game called "Bowser's Lair Hockey" and it looks like this.

Bowser's lair, everybody.

Wario Wario Wario · May 25, 2022

Wario Wario Wario · May 25, 2022

I'm glad my "use colour-coded geometric shapes to describe a stage layout" technique is catching on.

Wario Wario Wario · May 24, 2022

Mario merchandise is insane because - despite inherently having to take it safe on virtue of being merchandise - it draws way deeper cuts than most of the sports games do

Wario Wario Wario · May 24, 2022

Even though it's what most of his support was based on pre-reveal, a Pac-Man World based Pac-Man would've been way less interesting than the Pac-Man we got.

Wario Wario Wario · May 24, 2022

I don't get why people want ninja Impa or Skull Kid over elderly Impa or Majora's Mask alone - might just be that I look to body shape in a fighter above canon powers, but an old mage and shapeshifting mess of abstract limbs strikes me as much more appealing than another ninja or another magic child.

Wario Wario Wario · May 24, 2022

I love the hilariously obscure picks in NASB RTC becasue the predictions round is literally just debating decimals of zero.

Wario Wario Wario · May 24, 2022

It's funny that the defensive minority of Ultimate's fanbase will say "Melee fans don't care about the other Smash games!" as if they care about 64 or Wii U.

Wario Wario Wario · May 24, 2022

what does this image mean

Wario Wario Wario · May 24, 2022

I honestly really appreciate that Namco don't use synthwave aesthetics to promote Pac-Man often - it'd be really easy to do that given that Pac-Man's maze is a product of the 80s neon style that eventually mutated into synthwave, but they generally choose something a bit more colourful and vibrant instead.

Wario Wario Wario · May 23, 2022

It is absolutely astonishing how much of a grip SiIvaGunner had on meme culture at one point, like 2016-to-2018 almost every major meme had some kind of connection, direct or in-, to SiIvaGunner or its staff - like, how does a channel so fundamentally, conceptually niche and specific get such a big footprint?

Wario Wario Wario · May 23, 2022

SmashBoards has created: Super Mario Smash Bros!

Resubmitting Pauline I'm submitting Pauline Appearing all the way back in Donkey Kong and as recently as Mario Golf she has gained popularity and has changed throughput the years

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Reminder that we are submitting 2010s Yoshi/DK/Wario stages, and an RPG clone!

Wario Wario Wario · May 23, 2022

I don't know why prefering things for nostalgia is so frowned upon - like, yeah, someone who grew up in the 90s or 2000s is obviously going to prefer children's games and cartoons from the 90s or 2000s over children's games and cartoons from a later era. You can make all the arguments in the world for how media for children should be taken more seriously and they'd mostly be valid, but the reality is that very few grown adults will really want to - let alone - be that up to speed on the current state of the Nicktoons lineup. It's different when there's an attempt at legitimate analysis and discussion, but there's nothing wrong with just having Gen 1 as your favourite Pokémon gen or thinking of Cow & Chicken as superior to Steven Universe, and is kinda just the natural opinion most people will form if they were raised on the earlier works and grew out of kids' media - not to mention that even without nostalgia there are valid reasons to prefer a lot of these earlier works over their later counterparts (and yes, that includes Pokémon Gen 1)

Wario Wario Wario · May 23, 2022

I think Smash has two major problems holding it back, but weirdly enough they are in and of themselves opposites?

Smash takes itself too seriously - it builds up even its smallest additions as a bigger deal than they should be; rarely branches out into further merchandise or spin-offs; uses overly dramatic theming unfit for the type of game it is even competitively; and refuses to be self-aware about its fundamental absurdity even when representing comical and "meta" series like WarioWare and Banjo-Kazooie.
Smash doesn't take itself seriously enough - it only pays lip service to competitive players at best; adds characters based mostly on fan demand and marketability instead of moveset or their place in an "ultimate crossover"; juxtaposes its dramatic story mode with wacky, abstract battles based on promotional PNGs from the 90s; and has strange mechanics meant to give a less skilled player the upper hand that can bleed into competitive play.

Wario Wario Wario · May 23, 2022

Wario Wario Wario · May 23, 2022

here is my nasb revamp to make spogebob more accurate to the source material

when you press down b the battle stops to play the entire "hall monitor" episode

Wario Wario Wario · May 23, 2022

It's been 4 days and Venus still hasn't given me an explanation for why he won't allow Clippy.

Wario Wario Wario · May 23, 2022

what were they thinking making it impossible to give course worlds names in mario maker 2

Wario Wario Wario · May 23, 2022

PAC-MAN IN FORTNITE WHAT

Wario Wario Wario · May 23, 2022

It's kinda interesting how most Multiversus hype I've seen has been "look at this cool detail/reference!" rather than "look at this cool technique/move!" - nothing wrong with that, but it really does confirm my suspicion that the drop in NASB interest isn't because it's a low quality product but just that it attracted an audience it wasn't aiming for.

Wario Wario Wario · May 23, 2022

We are submitting clones from the RPG games and a 2010s spin off stage!

SmashBoards has created: Super Mario Smash Bros!

Resubmitting Pauline I'm submitting Pauline Appearing all the way back in Donkey Kong and as recently as Mario Golf she has gained popularity and has changed throughput the years

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Wario Wario Wario · May 22, 2022

When I make movesets my process is often

What is this character's single most iconic ability or trait?
What playstyle and attributes would that ability or trait fit with?
What other moves can I make that can flow well with that move?
How do I theme those moves to fit the fighter, and how can those themes enhance the moves?

I'll use my SMSB Birdo moveset as an example here

Birdo's most iconic ability is shooting eggs out of her mouth
Since the eggs can be stood on in Mario 2, Birdo's moves should provide different movement options - as a dinosaur, it makes sense for her to be heavyweight and slow
As a fighter with enough movement options as is, Birdo should have a non-offensive Up B; a move that propells her backwards with nose suction; and an offensive move that the Up B goes into
Birdo's Up B could be a parallel to Yoshi's Side B, and given the origins in Story that move could also be chargable. If Birdo's going to have an inhale move, she should follow it up with a kiss since she's a feminine character. On the topic of femininity, how about being able to cancel the Up B into a ballerina drill attack, and in turn make it a multihit?

Wario Wario Wario · May 22, 2022

Reminder that we are submitting movesets and alts for Birdo + animations for Klump and Captain Syrup, and voting on accessory uses! We also have a fighter job coming up tomorrow due to the schedule change

SmashBoards has created: Super Mario Smash Bros!

Resubmitting Pauline I'm submitting Pauline Appearing all the way back in Donkey Kong and as recently as Mario Golf she has gained popularity and has changed throughput the years

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Wario Wario Wario · May 22, 2022

why do so many animation-related youtube videos use that distracting shakey cam. its literally jangling keys even matpat doesn't go that far

Wario Wario Wario · May 22, 2022

Both Microsoft characters adding Windows content in the Bonus DLC thread is based (even if one was an automatic win on virtue of no other submissions)

Wario Wario Wario · May 22, 2022

Oh my god, imagine if a Simpsons fighting game was called "The Simpsons: Bonestorm"

Wario Wario Wario · May 22, 2022

We are submitting Birdo's content!

SmashBoards has created: Super Mario Smash Bros!

Resubmitting Pauline I'm submitting Pauline Appearing all the way back in Donkey Kong and as recently as Mario Golf she has gained popularity and has changed throughput the years

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Wario Wario Wario · May 22, 2022

Did you know that HBO Max installs potentially unwanted software on your computer if you watch certain direct-to-DVD Scooby-Doo films? Search "Scooby-Doo PUP Computer" for more info!

Wario Wario Wario · May 21, 2022

There is just something significantly more special about seeing a classic character's new look for the first time through a still JPG on a blog post than there is to some elongated fully-animated reveal with teases and ****.

Wario Wario Wario · May 21, 2022

It's kinda weird how many times the appropriateness of references to characters who have comitted suicide has come up in the Infinite thread. Of all the perpetual Infinite arguments, that is by far the weirdest - but not really in the funny way that Clippy and such are.

Wario Wario Wario · May 21, 2022

I've been thinking of speeding up the pace on SMSB - it's been really hard coming up with jobs to fill Saturday and Tuesday through Thursday, and given how popular the fighter sub jobs tend to be that may attract people to submit more for non-fighter and fighter-related jobs.

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