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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • I’ve said this on smash forums before and had the toxic side of the fanbase lose their shit over it, but the next Smash Bros iteration should be a complete reset on the roster and that roster’s movesets. e.g. Samus Aran should be reworked to incorporate skills from Samus Returns, Fusion, the Prime series and Dread. Right now her moveset is stuck on her Super Metroid form. Link should be reworked to be more based on BotW/TotK. Mario should be reworked to incorporate Odyssey, Galaxy and Wonder.

    I LOVE the Smash franchise and have devoted thousands of hours of my life to the series - but that doesn’t change many characters growing stale and being trapped in their pasts. Right now Smash celebrates gaming legacies, but it should be changed to celebrate more than just the distant legacies. The last 10 years of most characters are completely ignored by the current roster. It should celebrate those characters’ futures too.









  • Eh, I don’t feel strongly enough to debate it in-depth, but if parents really don’t want their kids on websites just about every device imaginable that connects to the internet has parental control features. It shouldn’t be on the government to block websites when the actual action should be for parents to educate themselves on the devices and do their job by setting their own child’s limits - not rely on the government to blanket ban it for everyone else.

    That would require parents do their jobs though and keep educated on the world around them, which overwhelmingly a lot of people just don’t feel like doing.

    EDIT: Last thought, I was on the internet learning to do shit in middle school and owe a lot of my current career to that. I don’t think limiting children to the world around them is a recipe for success and is just a way to make people collectively stupider from lack of exposure.




  • PC bros jerking off to 120 FPS, etc drive me nuts. If you play games just to compete over frames per second and not to enjoy games what are you doing? I’ve had multiple convos with PC nuts who said nothing about the game they were playing, just talked about how their rig was handling it.

    Dude/dudette, I’m playing on a Switch. I don’t care lol


  • These days I primarily play games that are Nintendo IP (Nintendo’s couch co-op output is unrivaled and my partner and I play Nintendo games together often) or Sony exclusives (quality output is top-notch). I on-and-off look at Steam and have never been overwhelmingly impressed by the catalog of indie devs and am generally turned off by the over-saturation of lower-end pixel art prevalent in many indie titles. Sure, every so often something like Celeste or Hades comes along, but it’s somewhat rare for me to be taken by indie games. An immediate example of an indie game I’m playing with a friend right now, Children of Morta, the pixel art design makes it incredibly hard to see what is going on.

    I’m also not willing to shell out $1000+ for a PC and accessories that I don’t want nor do I have space for that. The Steam Deck has my attention, but the screen is too low quality for me to pay that much for it; I already lived through that with the Switch. I barely played the Switch handheld and only traveled with it twice. If the Steam Deck has a V2 with a better screen, I’d consider it, but I’d still rather have a tv connected setup as those are way more comfortable to play than a handheld.

    Everyone’s got preferences and mine are Sony/Nintendo consoles, a preference I’ve come to over many years and attempts at other things. It just sucks that shit has gotten so expensive again.


  • I skipped the PS4 gen to take a break and focus on other aspects of my life that needed attention, but was surprised at prices when I jumped back in. With how expensive gaming has gotten ($70 games, even more expensive consoles, required online payments to fully utilize systems/games, time investment to actually find a console before scalpers) I don’t know what my future in gaming looks like.