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[Wario Bros.]

July is almost over and we still have no Sonic 3 trailer.

Is this movie even real or is it a figment of our imaginations?

 

[CannonStreak]

July is almost over and we still have no Sonic 3 trailer.

Is this movie even real or is it a figment of our imaginations?

Be patient. We likely just have to wait a bit longer. After all, the first Sonic 2 movie trailer was released about four months before the actual movie released.

 

[KingofPhantoms]

Porygon is still banned from the anime for crimes it didn’t even commit.

Free Porygon.

I will never understand the logic behind Porygon getting unperson'd from the anime.

The strobe effects were used when Pikachu used an electric attack, so maybe they thought they needed a fall guy so they don't lose their mascot or not have to air the rest of the many episodes that were already complete, but like...why not just simply stick to the move they already made of not re-airing the episode?

 

[SnakeFighter64]

$38.5m in previews for #DeadpoolAndWolverine , could lead to a $210m+ opening weekend. Incredible weekend incoming. pic.twitter.com/EHYxdB0HNF

— EmpireCity Box Office (@EmpireCityBO) July 26, 2024

Holy ****. Deadpool 3 opening to $210M in the US/Canada when the previous highest opening Deadpool movie was $133.7M would be nuts, especially because of the R rating.

Still not sure if I wanna see the movie or not.

 

[TheMightyP]

The Mario Strikers designs of Peach and Daisy are making the rounds of social media (and y'all probably know why), so I wanna take a moment to once again express my disappointment on how badly that franchise was fumbled.

 

[KingofPhantoms]

I think 2 has the hardest bosses in the series as a whole since they have a lot of "Kill a LOT of Pikmin at once" mechanics.


Empress Bulblax with the Bulborb Larvae that eat like a Pikmin a second.

Segmented Crawbster and the RNG boulder spawns.

Man At Legs isn't.... too bad if you know how to fight it, but the one where you have to fight it with Blue Pikmin? That one's evil.

And the Waterwraith... honestly, once you FIGHT it, it's not an issue, the issue is the dungeon itself.

The Pileated Snagret is also no joke, imo.

It's mostly the fact that it has the Burrowing Snagret's already high attack rate and an even higher health pool than the Snagrets from the first game, which sticks out even more with how much the Burrowing ones' health got nerfed in 2.

 

[Noipoi]

July is almost over and we still have no Sonic 3 trailer.

Is this movie even real or is it a figment of our imaginations?

Late August-September is my bet.

 

[Shroob]

The Mario Strikers designs of Peach and Daisy are making the rounds of social media (and y'all probably know why), so I wanna take a moment to once again express my disappointment on how badly that franchise was fumbled.

Zoomers looking at the Peachussy's Skibidi Gyatt Whallahi?

 

[TheMightyP]

Zoomers looking at the Peachussy's Skibidi Gyatt Whallahi?

Korrect, You're Smart

 

[Jondolio]

It'll be a while til I get to it but I'm thinking of buying Persona 5 Royal on Switch. It's really cheap on PlayAsia for a game like that and my PC is currently probably not capable of running it, so I might as well just nab it while I'm getting TTYD for my collection

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

Between the two, I prefer Chie. All romance routes are fanservice and OOC to an extent but I think Naoto's goes a bit too far.

But I say, it's better to decide on your own.

The real answer would be Yosuke but out of all the girls, the only ones I like are Chie and Naoto and Chie wins that battle

 

[Cutie Gwen]

Ben 10 is getting a comic line, could be interesting

 

[Shroob]

Not to beat a dead horse, but to loop back to the Pikmin discussion last night, I think another issue with 4 is


Ice Pikmin are probably the 2nd most overpowered type in the series ever, only beaten out by 2's Purples.


The fact that you can freeze everything and then just, nuke the ****** after makes enemy encounters kind of a joke when you have Ice Pikmin.



That, and the game just throws Spicy Spray at you makes a lot of combat a non-issue.

 

[Will]

Ben 10 is getting a comic line, could be interesting

Did they announce any writers?

 

[Lamperouge]

Yeah, I'm nearing the end of Pikmin 4 myself and I'm only losing as many Pikmin as I am because I'm kinda playing on autopilot at this point. The game just ain't challenging.

Still really fun tho. Oatchi is a good boy.

 

[SnakeFighter64]

They always show up in Scooby doo media, it’s time to give Blue Falcon and Dynomutt their own show again.

 

[KingofPhantoms]

Not to beat a dead horse, but to loop back to the Pikmin discussion last night, I think another issue with 4 is


Ice Pikmin are probably the 2nd most overpowered type in the series ever, only beaten out by 2's Purples.


The fact that you can freeze everything and then just, nuke the ****** after makes enemy encounters kind of a joke when you have Ice Pikmin.



That, and the game just throws Spicy Spray at you makes a lot of combat a non-issue.

Part of me wishes they just brought Ultra Bitter Spray back.

It was semi-OP but at least you usually really had to work (or get to get it.

Yeah, I'm nearing the end of Pikmin 4 myself and I'm only losing as many Pikmin as I am because I'm kinda playing on autopilot at this point. The game just ain't challenging.

Still really fun tho. Oatchi is a good boy.

Oatchi is one of the best things in the series and I hope they rework the dogs in Pikmin 5 so they can stay in the series without being OP.

 

[Wario Bros.]

I played with the Wiimote and Nunchuk for the first time in years. It felt a little weird.

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

God damn, these Olympic opening ceremony for Paris is boring as hell. You would think with how pretty Paris is that it would be more entertaining

 

[Shroob]

Part of me wishes they just brought Ultra Bitter Spray back.

It was semi-OP but at least you usually really had to work (or get to get it.



Oatchi is one of the best things in the series and I hope they rework the dogs in Pikmin 5 so they can stay in the series without being OP.

Pikmin balance is such a funny thing lol.


You go from Pikmin 1, where Yellows were basically worthless


To Pikmin 2, where Reds were basically worthless, Whites were strong but the trade off is they had to die for their max combat prowess, and Purples were.... Purples...

To 3, where a swarm of Winged Pikmin with Spicy Spray were an unholy terror


To 4 where Ice Pikmin just, make the game easy mode


As much as I don't like the 3 Pikmin limit, they're going to have to seriously balance these guys in the future if they ever try an "All of them 1 one game together" again lol.

 

[Jondolio]

I hate Teddie but I have to admit that he slays

 

[Shroob]

I hate Teddie but I have to admit that he slays

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Hello Alice from the Persona spinoff series Shin Megami Tensei

 

[TMNTSSB4]

Invincible getting renewed for a 4th season does not surprise me

Edit: and also…

Spoiler: it’s time

 

[Jondolio]

Invincible getting renewed for a 4th season does not surprise me

Edit: and also…

Spoiler: it’s time

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LET'S GOOO

Season 2 was peak fiction so I'm glad we're getting more

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

I hate Teddie but I have to admit that he slays

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You know who ate and left no crumbs? Kanji

 

[Noipoi]

I hate Teddie but I have to admit that he slays

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If I ever wanted to know what Disney’s Alice in Wonderland would look like in the Atlus artstyle, I guess this is it.

 

[cashregister9]

I can't watch these Olympics, wheres the Mario and Sonic!?

 

[Jondolio]

You know who ate and left no crumbs? Kanji

Yu also ate tbh. They just weren't ready for big bro

 

[TheCJBrine]

I played through Yume Nikki.

Why did Madotsuki have to die

Also I really like gobou’s animations, they’re why I finally played the game tbh. YouTube recommended me one recently, and I’ve seen a few before, but I guess the new one they made caused me to be more curious about the others and then I wanted to play the game a lot more.

I even found a Minecraft resourcepack someone made based on the game, called “Madocraft”; it’s for 1.13, but I still made an instance specifically just for Yume Nikki in Minecraft xD

 

[Shroob]

I played through Yume Nikki.

Why did Madotsuki have to die

Also I really like gobou’s animations, they’re why I finally played the game tbh. YouTube recommended me one recently, and I’ve seen a few before, but I guess the new one they made caused me to be more curious about the others and then I wanted to play the game a lot more.

I even found a Minecraft resourcepack someone made based on the game, called “Madocraft”; it’s for 1.13, but I still made an instance specifically just for Yume Nikki in Minecraft xD

As you have now played Yume Nikki, you're now mandated by law to play all the other classic RPG horror titles like Ib, Witch's House and Ao Oni

 

[Wario Bros.]

I can't watch these Olympics, wheres the Mario and Sonic!?

Both were banned after testing positive for performance enhancement drugs.

 

[Jondolio]

Both were banned after testing positive for performance enhancement drugs.

B-but Mario said drugs will make you go to hell before you die

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

Buzz buzz here comes the Rabbug

She comes out in the summer and lives to be a nuisance to you by flying outside your window and glowing and goes to sleep in the fall

 

[Noipoi]

B-but Mario said drugs will make you go to hell before you die

He clearly hasn’t been watching the Super Mario Bros Super Show.

Which of course means he will turn into a Goomba.

 

[cashregister9]

Both were banned after testing positive for performance enhancement drugs.

I knew "White Wisp" was code for something...

 

[Shroob]

I knew "White Wisp" was code for something...

So that's the "Sunshine" they were feeling all along.

 

[Z25]

I was watching the Joker 2 trailer and I’m 90 percent convinced Harley is not real in this movie.

The highest indicator is that she does the finger gun to the head thing that joker did to his first love interest in the first film.

Something that if she was a real person would likely not have any idea of/reason to do this.

The other thing is that she has free rein of Arkham despite being a patient. So I think they’ll subvert the trope that this is actual the patients doctor, and instead we will learn she isn’t even real to begin with.

But we will see, it looks good either way though.

 

[KingofPhantoms]

Pikmin balance is such a funny thing lol.


You go from Pikmin 1, where Yellows were basically worthless


To Pikmin 2, where Reds were basically worthless, Whites were strong but the trade off is they had to die for their max combat prowess, and Purples were.... Purples...

To 3, where a swarm of Winged Pikmin with Spicy Spray were an unholy terror


To 4 where Ice Pikmin just, make the game easy mode


As much as I don't like the 3 Pikmin limit, they're going to have to seriously balance these guys in the future if they ever try an "All of them 1 one game together" again lol.

Aren't there some puzzles in Pikmin 1 where Yellows are outright required for their high jumps and Bomb Rocks? They're not worthless but they certainly weren't as balanced or as helpful as they were in later games, where electricity is an actual hazard and later a puzzle element, plus their ability to be thrown higher is used far more often.

I also personally just like having a balanced squad in every game, so I manage to find extensive use for every Pikmin in every game. At the same time, though, regardless of balance, that makes the lack of customization for squads in Pikmin in 4 (outside of caves, anyway) all the more frustrating lol.

 

[Shroob]

Aren't there some puzzles in Pikmin 1 where Yellows are outright required for their high jumps and Bomb Rocks? They're not worthless but they certainly weren't as balanced or as helpful as they were in later games, where electricity is an actual hazard and later a puzzle element, plus their ability to be thrown higher is used far more often.

I also personally just like having a balanced squad in every game, so I manage to find extensive use for every Pikmin in every game. At the same time, though, regardless of balance, that makes the lack of customization for squads in Pikmin in 4 (outside of caves, anyway) all the more frustrating lol.

There was like.... 3/4 puzzles that you needed Yellows for in 1, 2 for Bomb Rocks(The bolt in Area 1 and iirc opening up Beady Long Leg's room in Area 2, and the Libra in Area 2 and a piece in the Distant Spring, but other than that they were kinda just... there.

They were needed for Emperor Bulblax sure but like, 5/30 ship parts where you actually 'needed' them compared to Reds and Blues was a bit... yeah lol.



They weren't.... entirely useless, but there was no real reason to use them for general purpose when you'd rather have Reds and Blues out in 1.

 

[KingofPhantoms]

There was like.... 3/4 puzzles that you needed Yellows for in 1, 2 for Bomb Rocks(The bolt in Area 1 and iirc opening up Beady Long Leg's room in Area 2, and the Libra in Area 2 and a piece in the Distant Spring, but other than that they were kinda just... there.

They were needed for Emperor Bulblax sure but like, 5/30 ship parts where you actually 'needed' them compared to Reds and Blues was a bit... yeah lol.



They weren't.... entirely useless, but there was no real reason to use them for general purpose when you'd rather have Reds and Blues out in 1.

I remember there being far more locations that were outright blocked entirely by rock walls in 1, and I'm not talking about just shortcuts but entire section and ship parts that were blocked off by them and can't be reached without sequence breaking or glitches, and even then, not everyone is easily able to pull off sequence breaks.

Yellows definitely see a lot of use in the first game, but I agree that they have very limited general purpose uses when Reds have higher attack power and Blues can enter the large bodies of water in the later levels. Pikmin 2 onward have realized Yellows' potential far better.