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  • One of things people who don’t like pineapple on pizza say against it is “Why would you put fruit on a pizza?!?!?!”

    To which people who do like pineapple on pizza counter with the fact that tomato sauce is a staple pizza ingredient and tomato is a fruit.

    Which has me curious. Do some people who don’t like pineapple on pizza try to claim that tomato is a vegetable in response to this?
    Every once in a while I check out a website called blockfort.com which is a site dedicated to making Top 10s in blog form.

    They have two Top 10s for wanted Smash Bros Characters. One for first parties, one for third parties.

    First Party List:

    #10 - Waluigi
    #9 - Toad
    #8 - Camilla (Fire Emblem Fates)
    #7 - Skull Kid
    #6 - Bald Bull
    #5 - Ashley
    #4 - Elma
    #3 - Paper Mario
    #2 - Wart
    #1 - Pauline

    Third Party List:

    #10 - Rayman
    #9 - Wonder Boy
    #8 - Jack Frost (Shin Megami Tensei)
    #7 - Bomberman
    #6 - 2B
    #5 - Shantae
    #4 - Geno
    #3 - Kunio (The series with games like River City Ransom)
    #2 - Lara Croft
    #1 - Ryu Hayabusa

    Any thoughts?
    So guys, which one is worse?

    Eating Habit A: The fact that I never put syrup on my Pancakes and Waffles.

    or

    Eating Habit B: The fact that since the only part of pizza I like is the crust, whenever I order a “pizza” it’s always from a parlor that will accommodate my request for it to be just the crust. No cheese, no sauce, no toppings, I only get the bread. And for those wondering, no, I am not lactose intolerant.
    Obvious statement is obvious. But there does exist a problem within bits of the online smash community of placing too much importance on movesets being as much of a 1:1 adaptation of the source material as possible.

    For example, I saw an idea once by the retired Smashtuber pizzadudemanguy of a concept for Marin from Link’s Awakening. Said concept pulled absolutely nothing from Marin’s moveset in Hyrule Warriors.

    Instead, it used the fact that Marin is a singer as inspiration for a moveset that used the abilities of songs from all over the Zelda catalog. Like the song of birds from Spirit Tracks as a recovery move.

    I think that’s a great idea. But it is the kind of idea that people might harp on because it doesn’t pull much from Marin’s “canon abilities”.

    Such a thing can be viewed upon with too much negativity. As the disdain out there for the Wario Waft and certain Final Smashes shows.
    Venus of the Desert Bloom
    Venus of the Desert Bloom
    There needs to be a good mix I think. I enjoy characters that have content that is pulled directly from that character’s properties. However, there are certain characters it just doesn’t work for. I see Waluigi as a good example where we can combine both new moves along with content lifted from source material. However, some characters just can’t be included in that way.

    Take Terry. You are a fool if you think that Terry could just get a few moves taken from his games and then call it a day. It works for some characters and it doesn’t work for others and having a creative balance the two are important. Dlc when heavy on the “content must be pulled from source material” and I’m fine with that as those characters generally benefitted from it to an extent.

    I really enjoy taking a look a character and try to work in how that character might be lifted from their home game and into Smash. It adds a realistic layer to it in my opinion. It adds authenticity to that character and shows the development team strived to keep that character as true to the original source as possible while making it work in Smash. To me, that is a more difficult job in the long run but one that eventually pays off.
    psb123
    psb123
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    As Venus said, and as I’m sure you’re already aware, balance is key.

    There are plenty of moments where it’s a good idea, and in some ways and idea that should be done, to stay faithful to source material.

    It’s just not something that should always happen for absolutely everything.
    Venus of the Desert Bloom
    Venus of the Desert Bloom
    we also need to remember that many of the earlier Smash characters had content drawn from earlier versions of their series. They included content relevant to that time frame. Had Smash64 designed Link been scrapped for BoTW Link, we could have saw a Link who can craft items, utilities the Sheikah Slate, and has a durability mechanic. Thank god they didn’t go that route. Design philosophy has changed over the years (which tends to be a good thing as it avoids stagnation) and that design philosophy has changed to “let’s incorporate elements and mechanics found in this character’s home series” to be authentic and true to it. Not only to create an authentic and fun character but also to keep it true for that fans. As someone who has played FF/KoF a lot waaaay back in the day; seeing Terry and how he was designed was amazing. It felt like how I did when learning those techniques at the arcade.
    I have an embarrassing confession to make about the Spyro games.

    Now I have yet to play one, but I've been interested in doing so for a long time. And one of the first aspects of the series I learned about that appealed to me was the variety of elemental breaths. I've always loved multi-elemental abilities, so I thought it was pretty cool that these games had that kind of feature.

    I wasn't until much later on that I learned these elemental breaths debuted in Enter the Dragonfly and that the original trilogy didn't have them. They only had fire breath.

    That's the embarrassing part is that ended up being a bigger turn off for me then it ever should have been. And it kinda sorta didn't help that fire is my least favorite of the 4 elements.

    It took a number of mental shouts at myself that this isn't a big deal for me to realize it's not a problem.
    In Superstar Saga, Mario got the Firebrand ability and Luigi got the Thunderhand ability.

    Sure that was the only game where Luigi had Lightning Powers, but still, let’s say Wario and Waluigi got their own elemental hand abilities.

    What would their elements be?
    Did you guys know that despite being a character of manga origin, Natsu from Fairy Tail has a workaround to the video game characters only rule?

    The mangaka of Fairy Tail, Hiro Mashima, likes to reference his older works in his newer works. Like with how Elsie Crimson from Edens Zero is very similar in appearance to Erza Scarlet from Fairy Tail.

    And there’s a mobile game out there developed by Square Enix called Gate of Nightmares that Mashima was so involved in that it’s honestly more of a Hiro Mashima game that Square Enix just happened to develop.

    Gate of Nightmares has ended service, but during its run Mashima made a character for the game named Manatsu who is Natsu in everything but name.

    -They look pretty much exactly the same.
    -They have the same Voice Actor.
    -They are both Fire Element Melee fighters.
    -They are both Dragon Slayers

    Despite this, Manatsu is still a character designed for a video game. Therefore, he is of Video Game Origin.

    So there’s the workaround. Put Manatsu in Smash and you basically have Natsu in the game =P
    So because backlogs are a pain, I only just recently started the Dragon Ball Xenoverse games. Playing through 1 currently and haven’t even bought 2.

    Before I started seriously getting into the actual game, I spent a lot of time deleting the save data and restarting so I could get the created character just right.

    That ended up requiring some research into the stats and traits of each race. During which I saw a lot of opinions that the only good race from a gameplay perspective were the Earthlings.

    Problem is, I couldn’t make an earthling I liked. I tried making myself but I just couldn’t get over how all the options for brown hair in XV1 suck, then I tried making Erza from Fairy Tail (my waifu) and while the results were better the lack of a hair length long enough to match hers just made it look too different to really feel like Erza.

    So I eventually just said screw it and decided to make a character of the Frieza race with an appearance mostly based on my favorite breed of dogs (Boston Terriers).

    The low opinions of the stats on that race had me a bit concerned but I figured that if I’m just trying to get through the main story first it should be fine.

    And it looks like I was right because there’s not been any trouble so far.
    If Twitter was a human being and they were in captivity by a Yandere who’s too much a fan of the Twitter website, why would that Yandere not allow Twitter to take a Shower?

    Because they’d want to breath in that natural Elon Musk.
    Remember in the first episode of Sonic For Hire’s 5th season where Peppy was explaining to Sonic and Tails that they needed help since Fox left?

    And then Tails said “Well I’m a fox, so naturally I should be in charge.”only for Peppy to reply “Thanks but uh no thanks. We’ll go with the blue guy. Not the gay fox.”

    When you stop to think about it, isn’t Peppy basically saying he’d rather have Falco as a leader than Fox?
    Not sure who here remembers Sonic Rivals, but as you'd expect from the title the idea of that game is to feature Sonic and the characters that have served as rivals to him over the years.

    I don't know if what I'm about to mention is actually true, but I heard once upon a time that Jet the Hawk was considered to be a playable character in the game since he is a rival to Sonic, but they decided against him since his speed comes from him riding extreme gear.

    I would be able to see the login behind that if not for the fact that extreme gear that comes in the form of Jet Boots, has been around since Sonic Riders began. Just give Jet one of those and you're good to go.
    Would it be considered an unpopular opinion for one to say they prefer Silver over Gold?
    A couple weeks back I made a post talking about the idea of an alternate Dragon Ball timeline where Goku was a mage.

    It was kind of a satirical post, but seriously speaking, let's assume that such a thing actually does happen.

    Dragon Quest also has it's characters done in Toriyama's Art Style. So would the magic Goku uses in this scenario just be copy-pasted from Dragon Quest? Or would they try to do something different?
    Should the Babylon Rogues have been playable in Team Sonic Racing?
    Many video makers who have been around for years said things when they first started out that they cringe at in the modern day.

    I’m sure that Stuttering Craig from Screwattack.com is no different.

    Back in 2007 (pretty sure it was that year) Screwattack released a video called “Top 10 Worst 2D to 3D Games” and the description for that video on Screwattack’s website said “If you’re like Stuttering Craig, you think that gaming peaked at the SNES, and that 3D wasn’t necessarily a good thing.”

    Yeah, I don’t think I need to explain the issues present with that statement.
    Wario Wario Wario
    Wario Wario Wario
    Really, for the time that's a pretty sensible statement, even if I disagree with modern context - it took a very long time for devs to properly "figure out" 3D, and for quite some time it was considered an outright replacement for 2D (and for some genres, fanbases, and franchises both statements still apply) - the 2000s in particular is probably second to the 70s for "most major well-recieved games that have aged like milk". This comment was only a year after New Super Mario Bros, so that's the point where there'd be the most demand for 2D but the least supply.
    Gotta be honest, I feel a little weird about the statement of “4th Party Characters”

    To explain why, let me put it this way.

    I saw a Twitch stream once where the streamer said “There’s no such thing as a 4th party franchise. That’s just a term the Smash community made up and no one else uses it”.

    And honestly, he’s kinda right.
    CannonStreak
    CannonStreak
    MBRedboy31 MBRedboy31 I previously thought third party would do, whether or not it actually dealt with games. I see the flaws that may have, but just saying fourth party? To me, that is just lazy.
    MBRedboy31
    MBRedboy31
    CannonStreak CannonStreak The main thing is that, in Smash speculation, there is a massive difference between gaming third parties and non-gaming third parties due to Smash’s current game-franchises-only rule, hence why there is a colloquial shorthand. In franchises that have crossovers but do not have a games only rule, such as Fortnite or Fall Guys, there is no point in having that distinction, so third party is sufficient.

    One thing that is a bit strange about “fourth party” IMO is the fact that, based on its definition, Nintendo itself used to be fourth party before they started making videogames, based on this definition (hence why things like the Ultra Hand, Ultra Machine, hanafuda cards, etc. have no representation in Smash, despite the frequent reoccurrence of these things in first party Nintendo games…)
    CannonStreak
    CannonStreak
    Yeah, I see your point. Weren't Nintendo also third party before the NES was made? I could be wrong.

    Still, I think third party can equally be used for gaming and non gaming companies. Aside from the gaming part, a single game franchise rule shouldn't be enough of a reason to separate the two kinds of things into third and fourth parties. I mean, they're basically the same thing, anyway. I know it is easier, but doing things the easy way is not always right.
    If Sakurai ends up binging The Big Bang Theory at just the right time for deciding the roster of a Smash game, then watch him include a Pokemon Trainer who, instead of Rock Paper Scissors, has team synergy based on Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock.
    Confession time. Aside from Guardians 1 and 2 and the first Ant-Man, I have never seen a single MCU movie all the way through.

    So I don't know for sure if my Avatar is from a later movie in that line that had Star Lord in it, but I get the feeling it is.
    The main power source in Dragon Ball is obviously ki. But magic is present within the franchise as well.

    And a lot of the alternate timeline stuff Dragon Ball has been doing lately have introduced some crazy concepts. Some characters have even been using cards to summon other characters as if they were Yu-gi-oh monsters.

    So what if we got a timeline where rather then being a martial artist, Goku was instead a mage?
    Some people prefer the original Banjo-Kazooie over Banjo-Tooie. Others prefer Tooie over the original.

    It all depends on who you ask, but one of the reasons people who prefer the original have that preference in the first place is Gruntildas Rhymes.

    I even used to watch a YouTube channel by someone who prefers Tooie over Kazooie yet he still said this at one point.

    “It’s a shame that the rhymes in Tooie were taken away from Gruntilda, and given to that little pest Jam-Jars. Grunty would absolutely DESTROY Jam-Jars in a rap-off. Heck, I’d bet money on that match.”
    If Tears of the Kingdom expands on BOTW's cooking system what new ingredients do you think they'd add?

    I myself would expect Potato's and Chocolate. I'm a little surprised those weren't ingredients in BOTW to be honest.
    Bit of a weird question, but do any of you have a moment where not understanding how a certain game mechanic worked actually added to your experience with the game in some way?

    For me, when I got to the final boss in age of calamity, I was initially playing as Link. But then the cutscene played where Terrako sacrificed himself to weaken Ganon and then I thought “You know what? This is Zelda’s fight to win.” And switched to Zelda.

    The problem was, I didn’t have Zelda at as high a level as Link. So during the final phase when Ganon lowered me to a measly quarter of a heart I got worried. I considered switching back to Link, but I didn’t know if Zelda could take that hit as an AI without dying.

    And since Zelda being defeated was part of the levels fail conditions, I thought it was a risk I couldn’t take so I kept playing as Zelda…..with a quarter of a heart……at the final boss.

    The fact that I managed to defeat Ganon before he scored that last hit still feels pretty great to this day.
    I used to think that the Indie Game known as Have a Nice Death was the kind of game that THOSE kind of people would accuse of being a rip-off of Hollow Knight.

    Then I learned that Have a Nice Death is a Roguelike instead of a Metroidvania and felt unintelligent.
    Any fans of the Hitman games or Dead by Daylight around here?

    I'm putting together another Victory Theme Compilation video and both Agent 47 and The Trapper will be in it. But I don't really know what I want to use for backgrounds for them.

    They were in the previous video and I had backgrounds for them.

    But considering that I just decided "that looks like it would be a decent smash stage from their game. I'll just use that" for that video I don't know if they really fit the characters that well. This time I want a mix of a background that fits the character while still being an area that can at least work as a stage.

    To get an idea for what I'm doing for background this time, here's a few images for the new video that I've already put together.

    Fox, Falco, and Krystal
    Metal Mario
    Vaati
    Peppino

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.
    Superman is capable of surviving off of Solar Energy alone. He doesn't need to eat food or breathe oxygen like humans.

    This probably extends to keeping his teeth healthy as well. So why would he ever need to brush his teeth?

    Because one of his powers is Super Breath that can become as a strong as a hurricane. So the last thing anyone wants is for him to have bad breath.
    I remember one of the top 10’s Screwattack did back when they were a thing was top 10 video game wimps (only they chose a more vulgar term than wimps).

    When they got to the entry talking about Punch-Out on the NES, they acknowledged that most people would think of Glass Joe for this category since being pathetic is kind of his trope and he has a record of 99 losses and only 1 win.

    However, they instead focused on the fact that he has that 1 win in his record. Meaning someone actually lost to him.

    They put whoever lost to Glass Joe on as the Punch Out Entry on that list and said “whoever he is, wherever he is, that dude sucks some serious ass”.
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