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Rosalina was an attempt to rework Ice Climbers and you know it in your heart of hearts

This is also part of why I'm partial to her.

 

[Mechalico]

my kingdom for mario party remixes in smash 6

 

[Let's go shuckles]

I think that Rosalina is a good addition to Smash because fighting with Luma gives her interesting properties that help her stand out among the cast. For a franchise of this nature, all other concerns are secondary to me.

Rosalina was a bad addition to smash since fighting her made me hate the character

 

[Local Dog]

Berdly is a legend and if you don't recognize him as such, YOU SUCK

***Spoilers for chapter 2 of Deltarune following***

1) he's genuinely impressively strong and competent. He landed in a dark world without any explanation and immediately understood how to fight and immediately knew to team up with Queen, he fought the fun gang and gave them genuine trouble, he fought Kris and Noelle and stood his ground against them. And he was the person to save the day by creating the thrash machine, Queen would've otherwise destroyed the fun gang without him. There were 4 powerful warriors, a Queen with an entire kingdom and he still accomplished by himself the most out of the parties in chapter 2

2) he's such a genuinely good kid. He cares very deeply for Noelle, realizes that she's intelligent and doesn't feel intimidated by that despite knowing that she's much smarter than him. He was literally willing to fight to the death for her safety in the weird route. And he kept no hard feelings towards anyone at the end of chapter 2

I love him ngl. I hope we can go to the festival with him. Maybe he'll see someone slip on some grease and make a weird wavedash reference

 

[clowncarcrash]

Smash is a fun game but it's absolutely not worth getting into competitively

1) The community is bar none the worst gaming community out there. From them protecting sex pests, Leffen and making excuses for every kind of predator whilst punishing the victims in basically every situation, it's not only an extremely toxic environment, it's also genuinely unsafe. It's no wonder that it's the only competitive environment where there is maybe, at absolute best, one woman for every 200-300 men. Like these environments always have a surplus of men, but absolutely not to this degree. It makes sense however when you look at the community and their treatment of women, children and vulnerable people of any kind

2) It's not worth getting carpal tunnel and completely unfixable tendon issues for tournaments where you can get maybe a half eaten burger and some napkins for being the best player out of thousands of attendants for. Art, office work, most competitive games are detrimental for the wrists, but getting sick Fox combos is basically just a wrist destruction speedrun

Getting some friends together, playing some Slippy and taking it easy is fun. Getting competitive is awful. If you really need the fix, play Rivals of Aether competitive, the community is significantly less toxic and the game is much less taxing on the wrists. Or just go with any other fighting game, most of them have questionable communities too but not to the degree of Smash

This post seems to ring more true with Melee than a Smash as a whole? I bifurcate the communities in my mind although they will share tournament events.

 

[DrumstickGaming]

Chekhov's Gun is secretly the worst thing to happen to storytelling. It's a good concept of having unimportant things come back, but it leads to modern overanalyzing where everything must be be important and story beats can never have lighthearted filler because goodness forbid we have some chapters where the characters hang out like regular human beings.

Similarly, Breather Episodes are a great trope and writers should use them more, that's what made Teen Titans (2003) so good.

 

[adjectivenoun]

Chekhov's Gun is secretly the worst thing to happen to storytelling. It's a good concept of having unimportant things come back, but it leads to modern overanalyzing where everything must be be important and story beats can never have lighthearted filler because goodness forbid we have some chapters where the characters hang out like regular human beings.

Similarly, Breather Episodes are a great trope and writers should use them more, that's what made Teen Titans (2003) so good.

I don't think there's anything wrong with reading symbolic or other meaning into the seemingly inconsequential details of a story, but I do think it's unnecessary for every detail in a story to have plot relevance later. As a writer, it's nice to just deploy some details for flavor or to indicate things about a character's personality from time to time.

 

[phoopes]

I don't think there's anything wrong with reading symbolic or other meaning into the seemingly inconsequential details of a story, but I do think it's unnecessary for every detail in a story to have plot relevance later. As a writer, it's nice to just deploy some details for flavor or to indicate things about a character's personality from time to time.

Reading this post as part of the adjectivenoun filler arc

 

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Reading this post as part of the adjectivenoun filler arc

This has been every post I have ever made on this website. Except the ones related to football, of course.