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I miss smash bros speculation

2018-2021 was a magical time when people would talk about their favorite video game characters and anything was possible, even moreso than the Super Smash Bros. for prerelease-release-DLC hype cycle. people kept watching their made up rules get disproven and by the end of it nobody knew how to predict anything anymore

hbmmaster

there's something I find charming about the category of characters that are like. notably popular ideas for smash bros characters completely divorced from their popularity as characters in any other context. like how a lot of people somehow convinced themselves that Geno from Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (1996) is an "obvious" choice for a smash bros character even though he's not even the most popular character from the mario rpgs

legorockraiders

I was on the smashworld forums from 2004-2007 and man that was a beautiful place and time to be alive. I remember waking up before school every morning and checking the dojo at 7 am to see what was being announced and then in computer lab logging onto the forums and dissecting and discussion it to see if we could find one corner of one shadow in one of the images on You Must Recover that was the corner of the shadow of King K Rools tail or stuff like that. The first flash animation I ever made was a little sprite fight between King Dedede and Kirby and Mario and Luigi. Even back then people were saying Geno and I never bought it at all

guerrillatech

reluctantbroodingdads

So as an Antarctic expert I need to add to this that we had not in fact been to Antarctica when it was named. The ancient Greeks decided that because there was an Arctic at the top of the world, with bears, there had to be an opposite at the other end, without bears. Which is kind of ridiculous except that the fuckers were dead on

hbmmaster

etymology fact check: I doubt the people saying this are like just making it up because it's close enough to the truth that it might just be misremembered but it also might as well just be completely made up

the name "Antarctica" means "against/opposite of the Arctic", because that's where it is (the opposite side of the world from the Arctic). the prefix anti- does not mean "not" or "no", and claiming "Antarctica" means "no bears" is a blatant mistranslation.

the Arctic in turn is named not after the polar bears that live there, but after The Bear, as in Ursa Major.

the idea that ancient peoples speculated that Antarctica existed before anyone had been there appears to be conflating some ideas about Terra Australis, the theoretical southern continent that appears on a lot of old maps.

the part about people conjecturing that this unknown southern continent wouldn't have bears seems to be completely made up, and also doesn't even make sense. any speculation about the fauna of an undiscovered continent in ancient times was in the form of imagining what fantastical creatures would live there. nobody cared enough to talk about the animals that wouldn't live there.

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#deltarune #kris dreemurr #susie deltarune #noelle holiday #castle town

damarassanctuary

was feeling stressed with chores lately so made some portraits based on Openbound Damara's portraits

wiiwheel

More of you should be concerned about the cackling witch rather than the Nintendo switch

grunty-posting

hbmmaster

I support the NSMBU+ community

#new soup

drwhataretheodds

toby posted last night on bluesky that chapter 4 is now being professionally bugtested!

in july 2024, he provided a list of things that still had to be finished before the game would release.

in the december newsletter, he said that the new game_change function had been for the most part successfully implemented, although doing so caused the emergence of both old and new bugs. as of this update, it sounds like this has been fixed well enough to allow for proper bug testing! he also stated in the same newsletter that the japanese translation has had a first pass finished.

i don't think we've gotten any updates on porting to console versions yet, but since things are apparently close enough for them to move to this penultimate bug testing step, id say the game may be finished even sooner than we think!

we WILL be getting a trailer before the game officially releases, so we know it won't be a complete surprise release! but all that being said i really would feel comfortable predicting a release in the next few months!!

drwhataretheodds

some updates toby has provided since i made this post:

the japanese translation is basically finished at this point! he also stated here that testing was ongoing (and provided some interesting info about chapter 4 that im sure could lead to speculation), but yesterday he updated us about this once again!

the fact that it took a little under a month for testing on PC to finish makes me REALLY optimistic for how soon the game could release!!! more consoles does mean more potential time it could take, but i think late march to early april seems like a very fair estimation at this point. are you guys hyped? im so hyped!!!

drwhataretheodds

UPDATE 2/16

(embarrassingly i saw this tweet a few minutes after it was posted but didnt make this addition until now)

console testing is unsurprisingly still ongoing. again keep in mind pc testing was january 6th to february 2nd, so we might still be on track to see console testing finish around the beginning of march. again, the amount of consoles MIGHT make this a bit longer, but i'm holding to my late march-early april estimate in light of this news!

still no sign of that new newsletter also... do we think he might be holding it back until the game releases?

drwhataretheodds

new update!

drwhataretheodds

!!! NEW UPDATE !!!

surprising no one, it turns out that my incredibly genius and well thought out predictions were EXACTLY right and bug testing is in fact ending right where i predicted it was!! it did in fact take almost exactly one month to finish the bug testing.

i'm getting scared guys. i feel like we're in the real end game here. its been a long 4 years....

drwhataretheodds

minor update:

this is referencing this phenomenon from undertale/deltarune and this old tweet

it seems like bug testing is still ongoing even if it is winding down!

drwhataretheodds

UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE!!!

this type of thing is exactly why you guys need me looking out for you. this INNOCUOUS DETAIL about IARC updating the rating for the demo might not indicate anything about the full game release. BUT IF YOU WERE AS FAMILIAR AS I AM WITH THE RELEASE TIMELINE I EXPLAINED EARLIER IN THIS POST!!! you would know that in december 2024, toby said GETTING THE GAME REVIEWED BY THE RATINGS BOARDS was one of the LAST THINGS to be done before the game releases!!!! it seems VERY VERY LIKELY to me that toby only noticed this update because he was submitting the final version of the game TO IARC IN ORDER TO GET IT READY FOR RELEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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weirdmarioenemies

Name: Bowser's UFO

Debut: Super Mario Galaxy

Remember Bowser's UFO? I rarely do! He has all these grand vehicles that tend to appear, do something, and then slink away forever. Remember his submarine? We all know his submarine. We get to go on it once! And then never again. Weird! Good thing his Cool Car ended up being marketable, or he would need to keep making even more!

At least, I assume the UFO is Bowser's. He uses it, and he SUMMONS it, with his Electricity Hands. Everyone loves Bowser Magic! He can discharge lighting just like King Dedede in Kirby's Pinball Land! The thing this moment confirms is that the UFO is not PILOTED by Bowser... Maybe it's a goon. Hired goon.

There could be ANYONE in that UFO! There could be anyTHING! A species the likes of which we've never seen! And an individual character, or characters, of this species. It wouldn't just be any old Alien letting some guy use its ship for evil. Perhaps even Tatanga...?

To save ourselves from disappointment, we can also choose to believe that it is simply piloted by some random Koopa. Perhaps a UFO Control Panel Bro, who throws UFO control panels and then uses them. You must admit, that would be a convenient fellow to have if you need a UFO! Just maybe have him throw it onto a mattress first to avoid damage.

I've been focusing on what could be inside of the UFO, but it's what's on the outside that counts: its three boobs. It seems it's Super Mario Galaxy tradition to have massive machines with three boobs! This is why we don't have Super Mario Galaxy 3. That's the Number of the Boob. If they can't make the perfect metal boobs for the occasion, they will make none at all, and that's fair.

I'm not even saying this to be cheeky! These just look so much like boobs! It's not like Megahammer where they're POSITIONED like boobs, but in this case the details are all there. And what does it lactate? Laser beams! Forget unsweetened vanilla oat milk, this is my new milk substitute of choice!

The UFO uses its nefarious nipples to kickstart the big conflict, allowing Peach's entire castle to be ripped out of the ground and taken away... and then it does nothing. We get to see it briefly while flying toward the final level, and it's just there. No last ditch attack, no climactic battle against it, no venturing within it. Whoever's piloting this vessel was paid for one particular job, and they did it, and now they're getting out of here! Good on them, really. Bad on them for doing some big evil ultimately leading to the destruction of the universe, but you have to respect the independent contractor grind!