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Nintendo would buy Disney before Disney did anything to help Nintendo.

Imagine drinking soda

Just tell them you voted republican but when you go to vote, just vote democrat.

You can lie.

Zikten posted...

Why is being interested in history seen as weird?

It's not. If I wasn't clear, I was discussing the subset of kids in every generation who tend to be the werido history nuts. For every once of those, there's at least two more non-weird history buffs as well.

Not a Gen Z thing. There's always a bunch of weirdo kids who are into history for a time. It's been every generation.

I'm waiting for the one person here who still is rocking XP.

EmbraceOfDeath posted...

Switch has been out more than 6 years. They are definitely well into development of its successor by now.

You don't know that, and so far Nintendo hasn't made any indication that they are deviating form their current strategy which is make stupid amounts of $$$$ margins by selling 2015-era hardware in 2023.

You guys realize that an "in-development Switch model" can mean literally anything, right? And it may not be interesting either, such as a minor invisible-to-the-consumer's-eye revision of the existing SKUs or something uninteresting like a "Switch with 4G"

wackyteen posted...

America is so got damn large

This joke was funny in 2003 but it isn't really true today

Nope.

However, ethernet can run via power lines in your house. Research powerline adapters. That'll likely be the solution you're looking for.

I wouldn't call it "good" but it's alright comfort food now and then.

Stick to the drinks.

Not sure you've been around the internet enough cuz that's def not the definition...

Note that TC hasn't replied to anyone. It's a copypasta-and-run.

What are tags?

buddhamonster posted...

They are third in market share, and the deal sees the games being released on all of their competitions consoles.

Explain to me, exactly, what makes it a monopoly.

Oh sweet uninformed summer child....

Sufferedphoneix posted...

No I like what they did. Remove the gimmick it had going but otherwise do the same things. What I mean is every level start with a flying section then go to ground combat. Mix it up. Some levels all flying some levels all ground some levels the flying portion is at the end etc.

But for the love of God keep the idle banter. That made the game imo

I don't want it to be 3D or have absolutely incompetent controls like Uprising did. I just want a sequel akin to Of Myths and Monsters.

I was gifted one of those pillows from a conservative family member one year and it feels like a trash bag with foam in it

A properly done Kid Icarus 2D platformer.

FFS why are they letting this happen? This is legit poison for the industry. MS can't just be allowed to be a monopoly again.

DarkBuster22904 posted...

Also. XD took a massive step back into kiddieland. Colosseum was hardly high art, but it was a nice, gritty change of pace tonally. Criminal protagonist, stealing pokemon, two evil teams doing legitimately evil things, etc. Then we get to XD and right out of the gate we get... Chobin. And Jovi. And that basically set the tone.

Soooo much this. I skipped XD due to the tonal shift "we need to be kiddie again" whiplash.

legit question how do y'all keep up with these exciting suspensions?

Colosseum is a better 3D Pokemon game than any of the Switch titles.

It also dared to make the protagonist actually interesting (he's a former villain)

Never played XD though, aged out of Pokemon by that point.

Is Elon in jail yet? It's gotta be soon.

Ultrahand

Liberal use of the word "objectively"

My 10 kink fanfics are already in drafts

Gamefaqs has rate limited your board browsing.

Just one and the last time I touched it was over ten years ago (LoL)

also wtf where's the actual top PC games like Counter-Strike, TF2, Minecraft, etc? What makes these games the top 10? I haven't even heard of a few of these.

Two-face?

Careful, you might win a prize if you do.

Jonah Hill, a guy who whips his dick out in The Wolf of Wall Street, is telling his girlfriend to cover up?

https://youtu.be/amis-XGapag

Nope. Mastodon is the way.

You can call me master.

Considering a PhD but ehhhh too much work.

old'd

Crystal's focus on Suicune was also rather...odd. Yellow's focus on Pikachu made sense as Pikachu was the mascot of the entire franchise, but Suicune? Nobody cared about Suicune except for when the anime tried to make it a big deal for a few episodes. It didn't make any sense though. You don't see people walking around with Suicune shirts, merch, or anything else of the like.

Shishiwakamaru posted...

I remember taking about the Pokemon fad from the late 90s and a lot of responses were just it wasnt a fad, Pokemon is still popular today

Really annoying honestly

Kids who say that now likely weren't old enough to experience the 90s version of the Pokemon fad. There was nothing like it, and today's Pokemon popularity simply doesn't compare. It was an absolute monolith in the 90s/very early 2000s.

Puglia77 posted...

Ruby/Sapphire definitely did enough damage to almost kill Pokemon. It was one of many reasons why the Pokemon Center in NY had godawful attendance rates during 2003/2004, it was unprofitable in those years, which is why they had to rebrand as a general Nintendo store in 2005.

FRLG helped to bring the popularity back a little bit, but by 2006 for the 10th anniversary the fanbase looked to be very much alive again and gen 4 definitely brought its popularity back.

No matter the opinions of gen 3 now it was super unpopular at the time, much like Mario Sunshine, Windwaker and other games during that era. Homestly I admire people who stuck through Pokemon during that rough time. They were the ones who kept the franchise alive.

This era of Nintendo was pretty rough on fans of a certain age. I know it drove me away from Pokemon at that time.

Solar_Crimson posted...

Yep, and in some ways beyond the missing Pokemon, Ruby/Sapphire was also seen as a step back, having no visible day/night cycle (it was still there, but much less emphasized), and only one region to explore (granted, that one region was much more fleshed out than either Johto or G2 Kanto were, but kids/teens back then didn't see it like that; all they saw was that they went from two regions to only one).

Yes yes yes this too.

I remember being kind of perplexed by Ruby/Sapphire in general, mostly because Gold/Silver were so damn good in terms of the sheer amounts of content they packed in, as well as having two regions, intercompatibility with gen 1 as well as continuing gen 1's worldbuilding, day/night cycle, and so much more. Ruby and Sapphire felt like a straight downgrade or left me thinking "so why isn't <feature from RBY/GSC> here?"

Combine that with the general lethargic gameplay of Ruby/Sapphire, annoying GBA-sound-chip music, "too much water" (which IMO was pretty true), and a slew of other problems which ultimately kind of drove me away from Pokemon for more than a decade aside from briefly returning to play FireRed/LeafGreen.

Crystal was released way too late into the GBC's life. The box art even touts how it "plays on Game Boy Advance" (just in regular GBC compatibility mode) and we were also getting close to Ruby/Sapphire at that point.

What was also the final buzzkill was that Ruby and Sapphire had absolutely zero compatibiliity with RBY/GSC so any pokemon you had from those generations could not come forward.

Also I agree with all the other posts talking about how the Johto anime outstayed its welcome by like 50+ episodes and the general hype cycle slowly died out during Crystal's release period. The initial fad phase couldn't go on forever.

Can also confirm that the Yu-Gi-Oh craze effectively killed pokemon for the original demographic that was into it around this time (myself included). We had moved on.

CreekCo posted...

Ignoring the title of this thread, this ruling is a GOOD thing

It's being invoked maliciously so no, false, wrong.

Fireworks are bad for literally everything and everybody.

Honestly I'm looking forward to it. Not overly excited, but looking forward to it.

I finished Mario RPG only once and that was some time in the 2000s. It's been long enough where I've forgotten a fair chunk of the game and would welcome replaying it with touched up visuals and HD aspect ratios.

TC you're being weirdly negative without a cause and that's just off putting.

barf

Mario games have no soul anymore. It was a long and slow death but ever since roughly Super Mario Galaxy 2, every Mario game feels like it was just churned out in a factory based on a strict template. This seems to track with when Nintendo cracked down on Mario games requiring very specific scenarios, characters, and formulas with no deviation allowed which is why Paper Mario TOK only has Toads for NPCs.

Diapers fix all of this

Not really sure why you thought it would be a clean process. Kids destroy everything for at least 18 years.