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I clicked on a video about NASB titled "Smash Clone Review!" and the first second of the video was the guy saying "When you think of classic fighting games..." while showing footage of Punch-Out.

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I feel like, if Magikarp was in Smash, it'd be made to appear as a joke character to an untrained player, but secretly have a lot of really good tools that would fly (splash?) over the heads of casual players, and possibly some competitive ones early in the game's lifespan too. A joke with an explosive punchline basically.

I could image it having moves that barely deal any knockback and only deal mediocre damage, but are so fast thanks to their lack of impact that they can pile up quickly and make Magikarp the best at racking up KO percents in the game, or having a slow run speed and low jump height but incredible air speed, making splashing the real secret to Magikarp success. Maybe even give it a Shine-esque move that doesn't deal much damage or have any special properties but is so fast and has such a large hitbox that it's one of the best offensive moves in the game.

In hindsight, the Sakurai collab being Game Center should've been really obvious.

It's funny how fan wikis for actual comedies are straight-to-the-point and serious, while the Transformers wiki is just 2010s meta joke hell.

A while back I had the joke idea of a billionaire giving people copyrights to obscure TV shows for their birthdays and other celebrations, and that's basically what happened with Timmy('s hat) if the NASB playtester is to be believed.

I find it funny how the NASB community has a warped view of which Nickelodeon characters are the most iconic, just like Smash has for general gaming properties.

Like, don't get me wrong, Powdered Toast Man and Oblina are surprising picks, but not at all deep cuts. Your average Joe Schmoe on the street is more likely to know PTM than Danny Phantom, 6-episode filmography be damned. El Tigre is probably the most obscure character in either roster but everyone acts like he was as obvious as SpongeBob.

Someone going on a thread called "Unpopular Opinons" then calling someone a contrarian as an insult is very funny.

It's weird that Morshu isn't taken seriously in Smash discussion, specifically on the "Nintendo All-Stars" side. The CD-i games (and the weird 90s outsourced/multimedia stuff in general) are about as big - if not bigger - a part of not just Nintendo's history, but also their fandom, as Nintendo's work with Rare and Square. Fleeting, but left a major impact, expressed by fans through fan content. I totally get not liking the idea on its individual merits (limited moveset potential without creative liberties, not liking the character design, general COGH vs. NAS divide, overlap with characters like Anna), but brushing him aside as "just a meme" is equally as dumb as it is for Waluigi.

I guess it's more a symptom of Smash fandom's wider issue of anti-bad-game bias than anything Morshu-specific, but still.

I'm making a dumb project where I rename all of the Gen 1 Pokemon (and possibly more) - somehow the first word I reused for a pun twice outside of evolution lines was - of all things - "molar." ("Moular" for Ratticate and "Monar" for Golbat)

Funko Pop Psyduck is the only Funko Pop that looks cute while also looking like a Funko Pop, which I previously believed to be an oxymoron

I've always headcannoned that the beastball item is from this WarioWare microgame.

I asked Bing AI for the lyrics to a parody of Viva La Vida about asbestos. They don't match up with the syllables really, but some of these lyrics are still fire.

"GBC Norbert is not real, he cannot hurt you"
GBC Norbert:

The NASB 2 thread is now just the "cuts thread" where we discuss cuts across gaming history.

It's funny how having a giant filesize was considered a selling point for games in the 16-bit era, but is now considered a blight and sometimes even a dealbreaker.

Finding out that Robert Rodriguez directed Alita: Battle Angel is the least surprising surprise I've had in my life. I don't think anyone else in Hollywood would've earnestly considered making a live action manga adaptation with CGI anime eyes.

Pibby, if it did become real, would've been a production nightmare - IIRC the OK KO guys had to go to every individual cartoon creator for approval for their crossover, and most of those characters were just statues. Like, imagine the process of:

1. Find a willing consultant who worked on a series
2. Find as many model sheets, background graphics, and reference materials as possible
3. Research the show's history to make sure there's no associated real-world tragedies or character inspirations you could step on the toes of as a horror show
4. Learn the individual animation styles and their quirks
5. Watch as much of the show as you can to sort out the character personalities
6. Apply those character personalities to a situation and tone they were not created to exist in
7. Figure out a way to market this episode without drawing the attention of their original target demographic
8. Do this EVERY WEEK.

And that's just for the recent-memory Cartoon Network/Adult Swum stuff. It gets even more complicated once you dip into stuff like Scooby, Tom & Jerry, and Flintstones that likely have strict brand guidelines and very few living original staff members, and then you take into account that some shows have higher budgets than others, (It's gonna be harder to replicate the animation and sound quality of Spielberg-funded Animaniacs than something like Billy & Mandy) that some creators may get cold feet at the last second, requiring a potentially crucial episode to be scrapped, making sure action characters' powers are consistent and not down/overplayed, and - probably the biggest issue and honestly the thing I think probably got Pibby off the menu - potentially pissing off OG fans who wanted a proper revival. Velma pissed OG fans off, PPG pissed OG fans off, Ben 10 pissed OG fans off, Thundercats Roar pissed OG fans off, even well-recieved reboots like Animaniacs and Jellystone pissed OG fans off, and none of those turned the beloved characters into suffering zombies begging to be mercy-killed. Imagine if the outcome after all the fan campaigning for Galactic Kids Next Door was a Pibby crossover.

I think I watched too many angry reviewers as a kid because whenever I think of the abstract concept of "fog", even in the sense of a simile like "foggy memory", I immediately think of South Park for PS1.

i cant believe fido dido, chester cheetah, and bill clinton's cat socks sacrificed their lives to end the confederacy

Hot take: Regardless of if discourse toxicity has increased or decreased or if it will have a positive effect on Smash itself in practice, I actually think COGH has been a positive on the actual characters being discussed in Smash speculation, Smash wishlists are way more diverse now than they were in the 3DS/Wii U days.

imagine if they did smash characters like the minecraft mob vote

I think that people younger than me (since I'm basically at the bare minimum age to have experienced and remembered its mainstream popularity) might think the Y2K aesthetic was just a niche thing that only existed on failed Apple products and Japan-exclusive Dreamcast games, but no - it was everywhere: supermarkets, insurance, movie review shows, educational websites, local ma & pa shops, government-funded TV channels, everyone was rocking the futuristic look in some form regardless of target demographic or futuristic-ness - it's incredible and unfortunate how it just all kinda disappeared.

I'm not ragging on the aesthetic guys for hyper-fixating on bubblegum pop music videos instead of laundry powder commercials mind you, I moreso just find it amusing how someone without proper context could mistake it for being much smaller than it was.

Today is the 2nd anniversary of peak.


Something else too probably. Might have something to do with "Doug".

I do wonder if Nintendo's historically lackluster 3rd party support (especially on the N64 and GCN, which was when most vocal Smash fans grew up) is what leads people to think Cloud and Snake are "Sony reps".

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Some of the crap Reggie's "epic wholesome reputation" has managed to outlive is insane to me. I guess I can understand Reggie's apathetic comments on unions being seen as "good enough" and the death threats being interpreted as "lighthearted banter" (even though neither are true), but the play-to-earn NFT stuff?? That's probably the least damning post-retirement Reggie cringe moment, but it certainly has the least plausible deniability as well.

I find it funny how cartoon characters can completely dominate the mindshare of an entire animal species. Pika(chu) and Wolverine are the funniest examples IMO, because the prior probably wasn't intentional and the latter isn't even a wolverine.

unironically the best leitmotif use in any game ost i know of.

Declaration of war.

hmm yes what a great dessert i sure hope a disgraced 80s sitcom star doesn't say anything racist and victim-blame-y about it

Bowser Monument >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Dry Bowser

Stair Wars in Dynamite Headdy the watertower rescue stage in the SNES version of Animaniacs
Needlessly long and claustrophobic vertical scrolling stages