Wario Wario Wario

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.

My Mario movie theory is that Bowser is Foreman Spike - considering that the site calls him a "Spiky boss" and his one-star review has him talking about how the Bros. will "learn their lesson".

I can't believe Rihanna plays on Big Battlefield

"Blues Brothers 2000" probably takes the title of "Real N64 game that looks the most like a low poly ARG"

Brain Numbing was probably the shortest-lived WaWaWa profile pic I've ever seen.

Super Show acknowledgement. Miracle. Utter miracle. Truly LOL AMAZING.

How has Among Us Cluedo not happened yet?

Baby's Day Out (1994) after getting remade twice

Think you've got a good idea for a new move in Kirby's kit? Come on down to submit his new back special move! Plus we're voting for Kirby's home stage - will we add a recent rollercoaster hit or a retro midway oddball?

this is a certified Brain Numbing moment

Who owns this? Where are they keeping it?

I was gonna do a ha-ha funny where I said "Smash calls itself a celebration of gaming history and it does THIS?" and posted this screencap, but now I think about it these instances could be unironically argued as even more damning to Smash's status as a celebraion of gaming than something like Geno getting a spirit instead of Space Invaders.

The video game movie curse after being broken 6 times in a single month

My take on the wizard game situation - as a cis guy mind you, so take it with a bit of salt:

Playing or even legally buying the wizard game isn't inherently immoral, boycotts don't work, we all know this - however, it is a HUGE red flag - not for the act of purchasing the game alone, but the culture surrounding it and the Harry Potter franchise. While not all remaining Potterheads are raging transphobes, the franchise (and especially this specific instalment) has gained somewhat of a dog whistle status and you'd have to be living under a rock to not consider that openly engaging with the IP, especially online, will make a lot of marginalised people (and not just trans people) feel unsafe around you.

HOW DO THEY KEEP FORGETTING TO CREDIT ORIGINAL DEVS FOR REMAKES????

British people looking for the other 82 episodes they remember from the iconic sitcom they watched as a kid.

I had a nightmare where the dancing H gif was declared lost media, and it was replaced with a Windows Vista-style flat gradient dancing H.

So, did Chris Pratt spend hours of his life stomping


Koopas or flipping


turtles? Very ambigious.

Tabby in Toewarmers 2 becoming viral is kinda funny to me, because back when Shrek was a meme I had a personal injoke of how nobody would mention the first Tortoiseshell in Tennisshoes movies in Shrek discussions, and I'd like read Shrek threads on forums and counted how many times people acknowledged the Moggy in Moccasins movie (usually none)

We're submitting Kirby's stage and echo fighter!

Why spend £60 on Hogwarts Legacy when you could buy this?

I'm watching a video essay about Richard and Dom in Da Bungalow, (British kids' show, alliterative title I had to censor) and I only just now learned that Americans don't call snot "bogies"? That's a specifically UK term?