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Wario Wario Wario · Jun 4, 2024

This is horrible news, oh my god. I was really excited to see where post-Lassetter Pixar goes too, but rip.

Pixar is now focusing on films with “clear mass appeal” with less focus on directors’ “autobiographical tales” like ‘Luca’ and ‘Turning Red’

“The studio’s movies should be less a pursuit of any director’s catharsis & instead speak to a commonality of experience”

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— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) June 2, 2024

Wario Wario Wario · Jun 4, 2024

One weird response that comes up a lot when I say a game is better than its sequel (64/Melee and NASB1 specifically) is "you're disrespecting all the hard work the devs put into it!" and like... in a charitable reading, that's mild emotional manipulation, and at worst, that's a hypocritically backhanded way of saying the first game took no effort to make in disguise as a complement.

Wario Wario Wario · Jun 3, 2024

Disqualifying DKC (it's British, it was born from the ribs of the C64 SID chip, unfair advantage), first-party Nintendo music peaked here:

Shoutouts to Muda Kingdom from SML1, Moonman's Fandango from Galactic Pinball, and Dire Dire Docks too

Wario Wario Wario · Jun 3, 2024

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weird/obscure thing

Wario Wario Wario · Jun 3, 2024

While my primary issue with them is their insistance on having genuine stakes instead of just being a silly fun adventure with multiversal friends, I think one of the things serverely missing from Smash's story modes is an element of "meta" - not in the sense of "Isn't this all a bit weird? Wink wink nudge nudge" but in the sense of "these are video game characters inside a video game." The only thing Smash's characters have in common - even within just the first party lineup - is video games, it makes no sense to put them together into a story and not tell a story that is directly, non-allegorically (in case someone brings up the MatPat theories) about video games. They don't even have to be aware they're in a video game necessarily

Wario Wario Wario · Jun 3, 2024

I'm surprised nobody has brought up that Multiversus' rifts mode actually has pre-rendered CGI cutscenes. You'd think with the lack of cutscenes being such a major criticism of modern Smash, that'd be something people would be gassing up hard. I guess 2 out of 3 thus far are performing double duty as trailers, but still.

Wario Wario Wario · Jun 3, 2024

oh my god jim henson was ahead of the curve on the market for "cartoon characters paying taxes"

The Muppet Income Tax Show

The Muppet Income Tax Show was the working title of one of several 1970s proposals for Muppet specials built around holidays or seasonal events, similar to the aired The Muppets Valentine Show.[1] Less of a traditional holiday, The Muppet Income Tax Show took the concept of taxes and paired it...

muppet.fandom.com

Wario Wario Wario · Jun 3, 2024

drawn to life spongebob edition daughter or meteos disney edition son

Wario Wario Wario · Jun 2, 2024

i love how monotone the va work here is

Wario Wario Wario · Jun 2, 2024

NASB1 REVIVED MY GRANDMA

Wario Wario Wario · Jun 2, 2024

I have mixed feelings looking back on K. Rool's inclusion in Smash. On one hand, he's one of the best designed SSBU newcomers, a really fun character, and represents a great classic game series - but on the other, he got in through the ballot, which I feel was super exploitative; he contributes to the major issues of SSBU's roster being too monetarily-minded by being a fan demand pick; and a lot of his supporters did have a kinda strange (even if not necesarilly malicious) ulterior motive where they wanted him as a trojan horse to get him in a new DK platformer and not Smash alone. I might just be thinking of this negatively because being so excited for K. Rool was a bit of a minor trauma for me, but still.

Wario Wario Wario · Jun 1, 2024

me on the way to commit tax fraud and plagarise rejected TV show pitches (AND YOU CAN'T STOP ME, CLAUDE ROBINSON!!!!!)

Wario Wario Wario · Jun 1, 2024

Wait, so when Nintendo was accused of union busting, they were actually found guilty??? Why did nobody talk about this???

Wario Wario Wario · Jun 1, 2024

Absolute legend

Video Game Music Legend Geoff Follin Has Passed Away

Geoff and sibling Tim were responsible for some of the best soundtracks ever

www.timeextension.com

Wario Wario Wario · May 31, 2024

I just read the officially-released Pibby storyboard and it's both sad and a little funny how people were expecting the show to be a commentary on strict corporate possession of dormant IP when in reality it seems to more be taking aim at meme and remix culture in a kinda spiteful way.

It's weird too, because despite that "don't corrupt our precious IP" vibe, it (at least judging from this probably-non-final storyboard) also seems very resentful towards the kind of show Pibby as a character is pastiching - Pibby's friends seem less like "over-sheltered innocents in a scary situation" and more "absolute idiots who walk into death like lemmings", feels a lot more Happy Tree Friends than the relatively serious tone of the trailer.

Wario Wario Wario · May 31, 2024

The Simpsons Game is probably the single game I've gotten the most YouTube reccomendations calling "forgotten".

Wario Wario Wario · May 31, 2024

I like to call Twitter "Twitter X" because it makes it sound like an edgy late 90s/early 2000s reboot.

Wario Wario Wario · May 31, 2024

It's always weird to go on any other Smash discussion place and be reminded that common SmashBoards takes aren't particularly popular opinion.

Wario Wario Wario · May 31, 2024

A moment of silence for everyone born in 2007 or later. They will never be Time Person of the Year.

Wario Wario Wario · May 30, 2024

If I manage to make game design an actual career, I WILL make a NASB1 spiritual successor and there's nothing you can do to stop me.

Wario Wario Wario · May 29, 2024

yo wtf they put a discord bot in multiversus

Wario Wario Wario · May 28, 2024

THE DONKEY KONG JR. MATH FANDOM IS DYING

LIKE IF YOU'RE A REAL MATHHEAD

Wario Wario Wario · May 28, 2024

Wario Wario Wario · May 28, 2024

The fact that the main criticism of Fraymakers is "the animation is TOO GOOD" feels really emblematic of the wider platform fighting community's strange priorities.

Wario Wario Wario · May 28, 2024

So I can't play MVS OFFLINE when it's down for maintenance?

Oh dios mio

Wario Wario Wario · May 28, 2024

i am reading the multiversus bios, and god they are obsessed with the phrase "protector of the innocent".

Wario Wario Wario · May 28, 2024

I love the juxtaposition of one of the Title.WMAs sounding you're ascending to godhood and the other being European vacation music

Wario Wario Wario · May 28, 2024

Where was Garfield today in 1979?????

Wario Wario Wario · May 27, 2024

Watching an MVS tierlist video and

Listening to someone seriously talk about The Rock's Black Adam as a fighting game character feels borderline like they're being exploited.
There's a nice irony to the best character in the 1v1 gamemode being Jake, a character who likely only got in (at least so early) because of the 2v2 focus.

Champion of Hyrule · May 27, 2024

Wario Wario Wario · May 26, 2024

"Bubsy 2 is the best Bubsy game" might just be JonTron's worst non-political take

In all seriousness, Bubsy is a really tricky series to evaluate, because the quality of a Bubsy game as a whole package is usually opposite to the quality of a Bubsy game as a game if that makes sense? The reboot games (thus far) are completely forgettable outside of their soundtracks and dialogue, but very compotent platformers, while the original 90s games tended to be absolute messes mechanically, but had a lot of interesting ideas and outright well-executed visuals - the only constant is that Bubsy 2 sucks.

Wario Wario Wario · May 26, 2024

Trying to figure out how to represent "The [game name] game" in Smash.

Wario Wario Wario · May 26, 2024

You know, thinking back about that awful Sakurai Dolby take, maybe it's just me growing up autistic, but it never really crossed my mind until then that people wouldn't like logos, even the long and unskippable kind. Even watching CinemaSins as an edgy teenager I thought the joke with the running logos bit that I compared Sakurai's take to was "Yeah, they point out everything, even if it isn't a flaw", not "logos are too long, this is a flaw".

Wario Wario Wario · May 26, 2024

I had a dream where it was revealed that all copies of Super Mario Kart eventually self-destruct and slowly lose game features one by one after 30 years.

Wario Wario Wario · May 25, 2024

why does annalynn's big brother look like mr enter

Wario Wario Wario · May 25, 2024

"Why are the new Star Wars movies so obsessed with nostalgia pandering?"
Star Wars came out in 1977, 16 years after Yuri Gagarin entered orbit and exactly 22 years after the start of the space race and beginning of the mass popularity of space toys, fitting right into the 20-to-30-year-nostalgia bubble, Star Wars is fundamentally based around "nostalgia pandering".

Execution, on the other hand, is another matter - but critcising the simple idea of "nostalgia pandering" as a whole as opposed to how it is done is, for many IPs that have managed to sustain themselves for a long time, completely neglecting their historical context.

Wario Wario Wario · May 24, 2024

Had a go at an MVS wishlist aaaaannnnddd ok, to be honest, half way through I was already just putting in characters less because I'd really want them if I was into MVS and more because I wanted a full image and happened to think they'd be at least somewhat cool or funny, I'm not actually dying to see Goopy Geer or the Revolting Slob in there - or really anyone here except Dastardly, Muttley, and Mung.

Wario Wario Wario · May 24, 2024

Disney Speedstorm making Kermit a bonus and not doing a Muppet season is a huge missed opportunity. I guess a Muppet track would run the risk of overlapping with the cinema section of the Steamboat Willie stage, but still.

I really can't bring myself to care much about Speedstorm as a whole though, just because they stopped making all the unlocks free for local play, and since then I've heard there's been some other suspicious things going on with monetization.

Wario Wario Wario · May 24, 2024

Early Mario and Early Mickey have a bit in common

Animal abuse
Mistaken for having a different name, despite not being so
More blue-collar than magical
That's it really

Wario Wario Wario · May 24, 2024

i just realised that immediate next letters after ai are "bj"

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