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[CosmicQuark]

I headcanon that K Rool went missing for a decade because of several drug related scandals, but I don’t proclaim it as official lore.

If only there was a drug that I could put K in front of to lend credence to this obviously true fact.

Kaffeine.

 

[Wario Bros.]

I did buy one game from the convention: the GBA game Wade Hixton's Counter Punch. They were selling for much less than eBay.

Punch-Out!! fans will definitely get a kick out of it.

 

[Noipoi]

It’s an alien sci fi world. Our laws of practicality don’t apply. There has to be some reason. I chose the one that makes the most sense.

Okay

But that’s still your head canon. As in, not canon. It’s not official, hasn’t been confirmed by anyone who works with Metroid or Nintendo, and has no evidence of being true in the games.

Your allowed to have your headcanons. But they aren’t official lore. Don’t act like they are.

 

[Idon]

It’s an alien sci fi world. Our laws of practicality don’t apply. There has to be some reason. I chose the one that makes the most sense.

The fact she wears power armor isn't because she's fighting monsters while traversing dangerous uninhabitable environments, but because she's insecure about how others perceive her femininity/masculinity?
Listen I don't think most random bugs and lizards are going to care about the gender of the person who killed them with energy blasts.

How does that make the "most sense"?

 

[Guh-Huzzah!]

It’s an alien sci fi world. Our laws of practicality don’t apply. There has to be some reason. I chose the one that makes the most sense.

What makes the most sense is that it is for protection from other creatures. Just be a bit more open-minded next time, and we can leave it at that. mkay?

 

[SnakeFighter64]

The fact she wears power armor isn't because she's fighting monsters while traversing dangerous uninhabitable environments, but because she's insecure about how others perceive her femininity/masculinity?
Listen I don't think most random bugs and lizards are going to care about the gender of the person who killed them with energy blasts.

How does that make the "most sense"?

She’s a bounty hunter. Her typical 9-5 is hunting down whoever she’s payed too. Which I imagine is mostly sentient creatures.

 

[Wademan94]

Clearly this is the look of a woman ashamed of her body:
https://www.metroidwiki.org/wiki/File:Ending_mzm_Artwork_04.png

 

[Guh-Huzzah!]

Let's just drop it.

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

erik/poto is possibly (probably?) fake

well this has been a wild 30 minutes

*starts crying*
I wouldnt be shocked but still, damn

 

[SnakeFighter64]

Clearly this is the look of a woman ashamed of her body:
https://www.metroidwiki.org/wiki/File:Ending_mzm_Artwork_04.png

Okay then mr smarty mouth.

If she’s not ashamed of her body, then why is her suit so bulky? It doesn’t have to make her look like a guy in order to protect her from Alien lizard monsters and lava.

 

[BlueMonk]

this is not a discussion I expected to see more than once in my lifetime

 

[Noipoi]

Thinking the power suit needs huge metal boobs or else Samus is ashamed of her body is kinda sexist imo

 

[ZephyrZ]

Whatever helps you sleep at night.

It seems more like you're the one who's saying these things to help yourself sleep at night.

 

[Metal Shop X]

It’s an alien sci fi world. Our laws of practicality don’t apply. There has to be some reason. I chose the one that makes the most sense.

...But Samus is a human, sure, she got Chozo DNA, and later on, Metroid DNA into her, but while she is quit cold, she is still a person like you and me, so I don't see why she would care mrore about her gender & appareances, when the thing she deal for her "job" are 95% dangerous aliens that will kill her no matter what she look, heck, a good bunch of them aren't even sentient enough to care about that! And the few that are sentient enough don't care about Samus gender, they care about the missions she accomplished and the legends about her, I don't see why she be ashame when almost everyone hold her in high regard. (Well, beside Other M Adam, but we don't talk abotu that one)

Brief, this headcanon doesn't make much sense to me, and seem to only made because you can't understand why a human need enough protection to deal with space dragon inside veeeeeeeeeery hot cavern with lava and even acid at time.

 

[Gentlepanda]

i'd post reaction images but it's smashboards on a sunday

 

[Cosmic77]

I think the most frustrating thing about F-Zero is that the reasons don't hold up.

• No Demand- The Fast Series has been a huge sucess and it's F-Zero meet Ikaruga
• Too difficult- Dark Souls and the aformentioned Fast series are massive successes
• No new hook- Why does F-Zero have to do five times the work to get a fifth of Mario's output? IF new hardware is enough of a reason for Mario KArt then what's holding back F-Zero?
• Forgotten series- Nintendo brought back Punch-Out and Kid Icarus.

Is it just me or do Nintendo just have a hard time saying "We just don't want to, ok?"

I think the most obvious answer is that Nintendo just sees it as a risky investment. They've tried bringing back a few forgotten series like Starfy, Punch-Out, KI, etc., and while some have found some moderate success, Nintendo isn't as interested in using them as other more reliable IPs. That's part of the reason why Star Fox and Metroid have been so quiet in the past decade and why Golden Sun still hasn't made a return.

 

[Zinith]

Where's that Knuckles clip from Sonic Boom when you need it?!!!

 

[CosmicQuark]

I mean, when I was a kid, Samus looked like a robot, neither a guy nor girl. I feel like all of those back in the day thinking she was a guy was more a reflection of our culture's male-centric biases than anything about the suit.

 

[Noipoi]

Where's that Knuckles clip from Sonic Boom when you need it?!!!

Knuckles is the progressive figure we all need in our lives

 

[Guh-Huzzah!]

Where's that Knuckles clip from Sonic Boom when you need it?!!!

Here you go chief.

Well said, Knuckles.

 

[kirbsmash]

How's everybody's day?

 

[Noipoi]

I just saw a cat try to get through a hole in a fence only for another cat to block him. Like a bouncer at a club or something.

What’s on the other side of the fence? Why can’t he enter? What secrets lay there?

 

[Z25]

Hey, fellow steven universe fans, check out this new trailer :D
also, one more week, get hyped!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc-3Lk9tgcQ

This gave us so much more, it looks amazing! Lars finally opened that bakery!

 

[Metal Shop X]

I mean, when I was a kid, Samus looked like a robot, neither a guy nor girl. I feel like all of those back in the day thinking she was a guy was more a reflection of our culture's male-centric biases than anything about the suit.

Yeah, Samus armor as always been one of the reason why I love her, I really like her ZSS too (wooow, really?), but the fan of cool armor/robot that I am can't ignore how awesome Samus suit can look at time, especially the Gravity Armor in Samus Return, god, I love what they did here.

That said, gotta go to bed, getting really late here, so, good night everyone.

 

[Noipoi]

How's everybody's day?

Drifting through the stars

 

[SnakeFighter64]

...But Samus is a human, sure, she got Chozo DNA, and later on, Metroid DNA into her, but while she is quit cold, she is still a person like you and me, so I don't see why she would care mrore about her gender & appareances, when the thing she deal for her "job" are 95% dangerous aliens that will kill her no matter what she look, heck, a good bunch of them aren't even sentient enough to care about that! And the few that are sentient enough don't care about Samus gender, they care about the missions she accomplished and the legends about her, I don't see why she be ashame when almost everyone hold her in high regard. (Well, beside Other M Adam, but we don't talk abotu that one)

Brief, this headcanon doesn't make much sense to me, and seem to only made because you can't understand why a human need enough protection to deal with space dragon inside veeeeeeeeeery hot cavern with lava and even acid at time.

Except protection doesn’t require a masculine design.

Like, look at the bayonetta version. Or Rescue in Endgame. Full coverage and armor, but you can still tell it’s a woman.

I just saw a cat try to get through a hole in a fence only for another cat to block him. Like a bouncer at a club or something.

What’s on the other side of the fence? Why can’t he enter? What secrets lay there?

I’m gonna take a nap. Hopefully I dream up the answer.

 

[Dark Bagel]

If only there was a drug that I could put K in front of to lend credence to this obviously true fact.

Kaffeine.

Actually, as a result of him stealing an absurd amount of bananas from DK's horde in Donkey Kong Country, he's developed a potassium dependence and has been living in a K. Rackhouse for the past 10 years to fuel his addiction, before Sakurai made arrangements for his time at rehab.

 

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We had a WHAT board

And I didn’t know about it???

Posting from Twitter because the site is on fire again.

There was a problem fetching the tweet

 

[SnakeFighter64]

Actually, as a result of him stealing an absurd amount of bananas from DK's horde in Donkey Kong Country, he's developed a potassium dependence and has been living in a K. Rackhouse for the past 10 years to fuel his addiction, before Sakurai made arrangements for his time at rehab.

Donkey Kong Country Returns 3. Play through a Donkey and Diddy campaign, or a K. Rool and Krunch campaign.

 

[Wademan94]

Except protection doesn’t require a masculine design.

Like, look at the bayonetta version. Or Rescue in Endgame. Full coverage and armor, but you can still tell it’s a woman.

In some cases it doesn’t matter if the design is masculine or androgynous or hell it might even be better cause it makes it that much harder to identify her considering how likely it is for her to make enemies as a bounty hunter?

 

[Metal Shop X]

Except protection doesn’t require a masculine design.

Like, look at the bayonetta version. Or Rescue in Endgame. Full coverage and armor, but you can still tell it’s a woman.

Bayo is on a whole other level that Samus when it come to power, that suit is just for show, and ridiculous looking too, which fit Bayo, but not Samus. (also, does that mean you want to see Robot Boobs on Samus???)

Anyway, good night, for real.

 

[CosmicQuark]

Except protection doesn’t require a masculine design.

Like, look at the bayonetta version. Or Rescue in Endgame. Full coverage and armor, but you can still tell it’s a woman.



I’m gonna take a nap. Hopefully I dream up the answer.

I'm all for you having your own personal headcanon. But... I feel like this insistence on there being a clear delineation between masculine and feminine... suit design... a very bizarre thing to be passionate about. These are all cultural norms that we, humans on Earth, invented, and if a space-faring society is so advanced they have the technology for protective and revealing armor they also are advanced enough to have either never had these cultural biases, or if they're future us, have advanced to the point where these gender norms don't apply.

 

[Deleted member]

tbh Samus' armor isn't really even that bulky. Modern designs for it tend to make it pretty slender around the waist and midsection and place slight emphasis on the thighs, and while it could pass for being gender-neutral it definitely leans more into being feminine. If she really wanted to come off as masculine she would probably look more like Doomguy.

 

[Noipoi]

Conker Mii fighter with chainsaw sword

Or

Minecraft Steve mii fighter with diamond sword

Only one can come with Banjo. Who do you choose?

 

[Guh-Huzzah!]

Conker Mii fighter with chainsaw sword

Or

Minecraft Steve mii fighter with diamond sword

Only one can come with Banjo. Who do you choose?

whydontwehaveboth.png

 

[CosmicQuark]

Conker Mii fighter with chainsaw sword

Or

Minecraft Steve mii fighter with diamond sword

Only one can come with Banjo. Who do you choose?

As an old-school Rare fan, I'd have to go with Conker. As a video game fan, I'd have to go with the one with a chainsaw sword.

 

[Wademan94]

Conker Mii fighter with chainsaw sword

Or

Minecraft Steve mii fighter with diamond sword

Only one can come with Banjo. Who do you choose?

I’m going with Rash costume.

 

[SnakeFighter64]

I couldn’t agree more

GoldenEye 007 has turned 22 years old. Time for a remaster? 👀🙌https://t.co/7ABCk7kTP5 pic.twitter.com/ca1Bfjra6V

— LADbible (@ladbible) August 25, 2019

 

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I think the most frustrating thing about F-Zero is that the reasons don't hold up.

• No Demand- The Fast Series has been a huge sucess and it's F-Zero meet Ikaruga
• Too difficult- Dark Souls and the aformentioned Fast series are massive successes
• No new hook- Why does F-Zero have to do five times the work to get a fifth of Mario's output? IF new hardware is enough of a reason for Mario KArt then what's holding back F-Zero?
• Forgotten series- Nintendo brought back Punch-Out and Kid Icarus.

Is it just me or do Nintendo just have a hard time saying "We just don't want to, ok?"

Honestly I think most would just be happy with a HD version of GX with Online. Ask SEGA for help again or something. 30 player online is really the only hook you need IMO (granted I'm a random internet commentator who knows next to nothing about game development).

 

[Schnee117]

I couldn’t agree more

GoldenEye 007 has turned 22 years old. Time for a remaster? 👀🙌https://t.co/7ABCk7kTP5 pic.twitter.com/ca1Bfjra6V

— LADbible (@ladbible) August 25, 2019

Done

Now remaster the remaster