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    I’ve had an idea before about a new Mario spin-off series called Mario & Yoshi which would be Metroidvania’s where Mario (the standard Mario, not Baby Mario) would always be riding Yoshi.

    And I think an idea for a risk vs. reward type of power-up that could be used in such a game is Pineapple Pizza.

    A power-up that would boost the abilities of the fruit loving Yoshi, but at the cost of downgrading the abilities of Mario because he’s Italian and would just be disappointed and/or disgusted by Pineapple Pizza.
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    When you stop to think about it, hands are more versatile for combat then feet.

    With hands you can punch, karate chop, do a palm strike, whatever that double-handed overhead fist slam is called, and if you feel like fighting dirty you could choke someone or poke them in the eyes.

    With feet you can kick. And that's it.
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    Damn. Guess I better hope those kicks don’t knock out my teeth because I apparently have some words to eat.

    Also I’m legit curious now. Do you study martial arts in real life?
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    Linkmain-maybe
    I study a little bit and I occasionally watch fights.
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    StoicPhantom
    It depends on the context of the fight and your goals.

    In self-defense, you would use a knifehand (Karate chop) to target soft areas like eyes and throat. It's less of a chop and more of a stab done with extreme force. Rather than a poke, it's basically done with maximum force to crush those targets and do serious damage to an assailant. Not something you would do unless the situation requires that kind of extreme force.

    Palm strikes are used to strike the enemy with an open palm so that you can grab them and deliver a quick successive strike. The idea here is to hold the opponent so that they are rigid (stable) and can't dissipate the force of the second strike by stumbling backward. It's the same reason why clapping someone's ears with both hands is so dangerous: with their head locked in all of the force of the blow goes directly into the body and can cause serious damage. It's also why stomping someone when they're on the ground is one of the most common ways people die in a street fight. If you've ever seen people twisting someone's arm before they strike the elbow to break it that's this principle in action. You don't need a lot of force to break something when the body is locked in place.


    In sports fighting, these moves aren't very useful because it is very frowned upon/expressly forbidden to use this kind of force in a friendly match. Sports fighting is generally engineered in a way where fighters are striking naturally hardened areas like the jaw or torso and avoid hitting targets like the eyes, throat, and groin. And if you pay attention, they also aren't striking areas that are being locked in place as much. It's not to say that accidents don't happen, but there's a difference between accidentally hitting someone somewhere soft and deliberately doing it with maximum force. The goal is to minimize injuries and maximize match time as it would be boring/frustrating for the audience if people always went down in seconds.

    Kicks also differ between these two contexts. Kicks are powerful, ranged attacks that can lead to immediate KOs when done well in sports fighting, but are liabilities in self-defense. Kicks in self-defense tend to be low and geared towards unbalancing an opponent because high kicks tend to leave one vulnerable for a lot of reasons. For example, kicks are bad to use against a knife because of how easy it is to do serious damage by wildly swinging a knife. That goes for fighting multiple assailants as well because you want mobility and kicks tend to hamper that. You'll very rarely see high kicks in traditional martial arts for a reason.


    You have to remember that most martial arts were developed in time periods that were far more violent and with far less regard for the sanctity of life than nowadays. Self-defense was considered a life skill as opposed to a hobby and warriors were often training intensely from a young age. Many techniques and methods are much less appropriate to use in modern times with modern laws and aren't good to use in competition and friendly matches with their full power. And thus their usefulness is heavily dependent on context and your goals. A perfect example of this is the difference between Japanese and Okinawan Karate. Japan took the original Karate from Okinawa and modernized it to fit competition and school curriculum. You would have a difficult time using Okinawan Karate for sports fighting like you would Japanese Karate for self-defense. They're essentially two different arts with two different goals in a general sense.
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    You know people have been saying for years that Yoshi, Wario, and Donkey Kong are the 3 Mario characters who also have their own series of games, but I feel like from a certain perspective the same could be said about Luigi.

    So where the heck is Bowser’s spin-off series?
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    I have no idea how prominent it is, but I do know there’s at least something out there in terms of people thinking that Palworld stole designs of fan made Pokemon from fan artists.

    Where do you guys stand on that matter? Personally, while I haven’t played Palworld and honestly don’t know much about it, from the points I’ve seen both sides bring up in what I’ve witnessed of this topic, I’m inclined to believe they did not steal any designs.
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    I had a dream once where a Smash Bros game came out and had the title of “Super Smash Bros Wii U Never Made”.

    Which sounds to me like it’s trying to be a Smash Bros game based on the scenario of what if Smash for 3DS and Wii U was never created. And now I’m a little curious as to what a Smash game that takes that approach would be like.
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    If it's on Switch, I can guess that "Everyone Is Here!" still could happen, just with less overall, but more base game Newcomers. Little Mac, Villager, Mega Man, Pac-Man, Robin, Duck Hunt stay, Greninja and WFT maybe, Rosaluma, Palutena, and especially Corrin, no. Echoes are a maybe. Ryu, Bayonetta, Cloud as DLC, with Cloud getting more content. Moving to the Ultimate characters, Inkling, Ridley, Simon might all stay, unsure if Isabelle would be added as playable in the same game Villager debuts. Incineroar and Plant, I'm unsure, might be a different Pokemon if Greninja doesn't get in this one. K. Rool and Sora's popularity was more demonstrated with the ballot, and that depends on if they do one before this game, even without a game existing already. Maybe they do it leading up to the ballot.

    Just using characters we already know are in both games, you might get
    FP1: Joker, K. Rool, Hero, Ryu, Terry
    FP2: Min-Min, Banjo, Steve, Pyra/Mythra, Kazuya, Cloud [possibly Byleth and Sora somewhere in these E:forgot Bayonetta, she might be base game]
    Possibly just make Piranha Plant and Byleth both bonus characters coinciding with each pass. Then again, Duck Hunt kind of fulfills a similar purpose to Plant in terms of character selection.

    Game Modes would be combinations of the three games, I can see World of Light sort of mixing with how Classic Mode was done in 3DS, the branching paths + matches and all that, and the actual Classic Mode sticking with Smash Ultimate's style.
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    I tried my hand at pursuing a career in game development once, but after taking a couple classes I decided it wasn’t for me.

    But I do remember how the last class I took in the field had a bit of an odd rule set in place. As you’d expect we were able to make games in the class, nothing major though, just stuff on the level of small flash games, but we weren’t allowed to put blood in our games.

    One student even asked a joke “But if I make a food game can I make tomato enemies that explode into ketchup?” and the no blood rule said they couldn’t because it looks to similar.

    It’s a bit of an odd rule looking back on it. Video games aren’t exactly strangers to having blood in them.
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    I’m not going to lie. I’ve been unaware of what has happened with Thems Fightin Herds for a long time.

    I know it was originally a My Little Pony fan game called Fighting is Magic before it got a cease and desist from Hasbro and had to be rebranded.

    I remember seeing the initial announcement of it changing to Thems Fightin Herds and thinking it was pretty neat that they found a way to continue it.

    And then I just didn’t pay attention to the game at any point after that. As a result, I had assumed for the longest time that the game had just released in a fully completed state at some point.

    It wasn’t until the announcement today of that studio doing an Avatar fighting game that I’ve started to get a glimpse at the issues with the studio and that Thems Fightin Herds might not even be finished.

    Anyone care to fill me in on the rest of the story?
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    Based on what the definition is for a Deus Ex Machina in writing, I kind of feel like the bad rep it gets is a little unfair.

    It basically means a solution that a writer comes up with after writing themselves into a corner. And by itself that doesn’t have to be a bad thing.

    It just seems a little unfair to automatically assume every single instance like that is a crazy writing flaw of a solution no matter what. All things considered it is totally possible for solutions that fit that description to still work out just fine without conflicting with the rest of the writing.
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    Should YouTube implement a feature where people can’t comment on a video unless they finish watching the whole video?
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    I was unaware until now that they changed the VA for Bayonetta in Bayonetta 3.

    And I was also unaware that it's the same VA that voiced Samus in the Prime Trilogy, Sam and Mandy in Totally Spies, and Sedusa and Princess Morbucks in The Powerpuff Girls.
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    A character trait that has been pretty consistent with the main series Sonic is that he has too much willpower for his mind to be messed with.

    Like how in Sonic Unleashed, Dark Gaia's influence only got as far as transforming him into the Werehog and didn't cause him to lose himself the way other citizens of the planet did.

    Or in Sonic Chronicles the Dark Brotherhood when the party faced off against a race of mind controlling aliens from another dimension. They were able to mind control most of the party, but not Sonic. So yeah, Sonic has such high willpower that mind control doesn't work on him.

    Which makes it all the more weird that the one and only exception that was actually able to mentally manipulate Sonic is the final boss of Sonic Rivals 2. Unless games I haven't played yet like Frontiers had moments like this as well.
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    So do these rumors that Microsoft might stop making consoles have any decent basis to them?
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    Not that ive seen (could be wrong) just assumptions based on them bringing their games to other platforms.

    Surprised to see no one bringing up limited time exclusivity. Feel like many people are impatient & would still buy an Xbox if they can play the next Halo a year before PS.

    In general think there is still a market for consoles & if they cant get GamePass on other systems would still make sense to release something.

    Wonder if there is a way to improve game streaming utilizing a hybrid of that & console hardware to run high end games letting them release a weaker but decently cheaper console & maybe appealing to a new audience. Idk just some speculation on my end.
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    Say that Smash starts adding non-video game characters and one of them is a Yu-gi-oh character.

    The dubs of the various Yu-gi-oh Anime always change the soundtracks so would the Yu-gi-oh character have a different victory theme in the US version of this Smash game than they would in the Japanese version?
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    Scenario:

    They make Chocobo a playable character in Smash and each of his 4 specials is one of the character abilities in the original Chocobo Racing.

    That means the options are:
    Dash
    Flap
    Grip-Up
    Mug
    Magic Plus
    Barrier
    Receive
    Charge
    Megaflare
    Gunblade

    Which ability do you choose for each special?
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    What the next big main series Zelda game will be like is a curiosity, but I hope they not only keep the cooking mechanic, but add more ingredients to it.

    I’d love to seem them add Chocolate and Potatoes, and I will keep mentioning the idea of a postgame where you can make Ganon Bacon until they actually do it.
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    One of the weirdest things for me to look back on is the era when YouTube didn’t allow people to upload videos longer than 10 minutes.
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    makes sense cause youtube wasn't a giant mega corpo back then, it was still pretty small and was mostly just for making videos rather than pumping out 30 minute video essays every week like sunnyv2
    most likely didn't have the money back then to have a bunch of people uploading stuff like 10 hour loops of cirno's math class. it's why a lot of long vids had to be split into seperate parts
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    I actually think there's a possibility that upload length limits might be brought even lower in the near future - as well as potentially a weekly upload limit - given the sheer volume of content being uploaded onto the platform and how expensive it is to maintain. YouTube's basically never been profitable, as we all know - it's only really kept around by Google so they can use it to monopolise the online video market - and I think that following the automation of almost all staff, saving on server costs to try and recoup literally any of these losses might be a big thing for them going forward.
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    I recently heard an idea for Geno’s Final Smash being a brand new triple move that debuts in Smash used by Geno, Mallow and Johnny Jones.

    And thinking of that idea a little further on my own. Johnny has access to two magic spells. The Fire Saber and the Diamond Saw. So with that in mind.

    Idea 1: Geno calls forth two giant stars that Mallow freezes into snowflakes and Johnny launches those frozen stars in the same manner as the Diamond Saw spell.

    Idea 2: Geno and Mallow gather the heat of a star (Geno) and the heat of the sun (Mallow) into a condensed beam that Johnny strikes the opponent with in the same manner as the Fire Saber Spell.
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    I don't make videos very often, but I just re-downloaded the software I've used for years whenever I do try to make some, one that I have to pay a monthly subscription for to remove watermarks mind you, and apparently in the time I've been gone it's implemented options to use Ai for things like Background Removal, Image Generation, and Voice Changing.

    That's a bit of a sweat drop type of revelation. Not going to lie. Not like I'll ever make use of such features though.
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    You know how a number of fighting games have a reputation of having super cheap final bosses?

    Well how about this? A One Punch Man fighting game where Saitama is not a playable character. He's instead the final boss and if he hits you with just one attack, no matter what attack it is, then you instantly lose.
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    There’s this Disney Channel Cartoon called Dave the Barbarian where in one episode a tailor from 1994 finds a way to go back in time and does just that in an attempt to conquer the world by using the advanced modern technology of his time back in medieval times.

    And he actually succeeds in enslaving the people to build him an empire with a Sphinx of Gold, a version of Mount Rushmore dedicated to him, an 18 hole golf course, and a pyramid with one of those switches that garbage cans have where you press the switch with your foot to open the lid.

    How did he enslave the people to do all this? He got the medieval era obsessed with the Gameboy and made it so that he was the only provider of batteries. So when someone’s gameboy ran out of power they had to do this sort of labor for his empire to earn batteries.
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    Getting woken up late at night when you’re trying to sleep can be annoying, but one moment I had of that where I actually look back at the memory fondly was this one time at 10:00pm a few years ago when my younger sibling in their mid 20’s texted me and asked me “What’s a Bowsette?”
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    Youtube just recommended me a video by Tats TopVideos of Top 20 Creepy Music in platforming games.

    The thumbnail had Mario, Sonic, Donkey Kong, Conker, and Banjo & Kazooie on it. And the way they're positioned on the thumbnail made the initial glance cause my brain to think it was the roster of Mario RPG but with those characters instead.

    Now I have the idea of a game that plays like Mario RPG, but with those 5 characters as you're party throughout the game. A very curious thought, that's for sure.
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    Which Dessert sounds the best?

    A 4 tiered pound cake made with Marzipan, Mascarpone, and Meringue
    A giant plate of Eclairs
    A city model made of Donuts
    A life sized Moose made of Chocolate Mousse
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    1st one for me. The others are just another dessert but a lot without anything else going on.
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    Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft have been the 3 console makers for years now and that's probably not going to change any time soon. But some attempts have been made at other consoles. Most of which ended in disaster like the Ouya and whatever the heck that weirdo Soulja Boy tried to do.

    But here's an idea someone could try with a new console that would result in it being an even bigger failure than those. They could take a page from the ColecoVision and make an expansion module that you can connect to the console and let's you play games of an entirely different console on this one.

    Whether they do that for Xbox, Playstation, whatever system Nintendo has at the time, or dare I say more than one of those examples, whoever would try to pull this stunt would be in such deep trouble that you'd be able to dig to the Earth's Core before you dug that deep.
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    therunawayguys just posted the newest episode of their Kirby Star Allies LP and Chuggaaconroy was talking about how Sonic X wasn't that biggest sensation in Japan but was a big hit everywhere else which led to the Metarex Saga actually being a result of 4kids pushing for another season while Japan was content with just letting Sonic X get cancelled.

    While listening to that, I was immediately reminded of Wario Wario Wario.
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    I feel like I’m not someone who’s qualified to try and get people to debate on which one is better between McDonald’s and Burger King.

    Once it becomes out in the open that I always get my hamburgers plain, aka meat and buns only, both sides of the argument would just reach a truce to shun me.
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    Back when the Smash series Rosalina Amiibo first came out, I had heard a story that some guy who really hated Rosalina bought every one of those Amiibo that he possibly could (something like that anyway) because he didn’t want Rosalina fans to be happy by having an amiibo of her.

    Did this actually happen? I won’t lie, I’m skeptical.
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    I read an article on Mario back when I first discovered Wikipedia and it mentioned how the Mario franchise makes a lot of money. Saying that at the time it had a net of over a billion dollars.

    But this was mentioned on an article for the character of Mario, which combined with the internet still being pretty new at the time, especially for me, I thought that the article meant that the Mario character earned a net of over a billion dollars from being the owner of the only toy company in the Mushroom Kingdom (Mario vs. Donkey Kong is what caused me to think this).

    I've long since realized what the article meant, but it's an amusing moment to look back on.
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    The Switch has received a lot of praise for it's ability to be either a home console or a handheld. And that feature led to me having a pretty rare, but pretty cool, experience with the system once.

    I was playing my Switch on the TV at night, but it was really windy outside and lo and behold, the wind did knock over something that cut the power in the area.

    If you were playing a GameCube or something like that, this would mean the game stops because the system shuts off from no power. Which BTW would really suck in situations like playing Pokemon Colosseum and it's been like an hour since the last time you had access to a PC in the game.

    But since the Switch's handheld part is the system itself, when the power went out this night it just switched to handheld mode and my game kept going like nothing happened. Was pretty neat.
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    Back when Screwattack was a thing they had some enjoyable videos, but every once in a while they said a few eyebrow raising things.

    Like when they made a top 10 about the worst robot masters in Mega Man they put Splash Woman on the list because "she's the only female robot master in the series yet she's the easiest boss in Mega Man 9 which implies that women are inferior to men."

    From my perspective this argument falls flat because I think Galaxy Man is a much easier boss than Splash Woman.
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