Xiahou Dun

Xiahou Dun

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    This is my Walmart today. Can't buy any games from these cabinets at all.
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    I played a lot of Super Mario Odyssey. If you think the media pundits covering video game recently look demonically possessed and trying to divert attention away from workplace abuse from the industry and how Trump is diverting funds away from health and education to pay for an oversized garden fence, well, you're on to something.
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    Super Smash Bros. competitive shouldn't have items. They introduce RNG elements in the game.

    Luigi, Peach, and Mr. Game & Watch are fine.

    Erdrick? Uh.

    Competitive Smash is a mistake.
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    It's a shame that the authors behind the Super Luigi Odyssey mod are prime grade assholes Wexos and Atlas (YouTube handle AtlasOmegaAlpha). They're the type that don't want to release the tools they made for modding because they think it'll hurt the modding community (and I guess their reputation?) by allowing people to make crap with their tools. It's a stupid attitude to have. They also don't release some mods they promote such as making a Road Jetter mod for Mario Kart, which is also a very dick move. It would make my day if someone else made their mods and released them.
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    They also don't release it because they think they don't get enough appreciation whenever they do release it.

    I think the amount of appreciation they get is proportional to the stuff they make. Your audience for mods for games such as Mario Kart or Super Mario Odyssey are broke, young people who really cannot pay you more than a like on your release video or showcasing off the mod in YouTube videos. Hell, their Super Luigi Odyssey mod is extremely popular, and it has gotten games journalists to write articles about it as well as being the subject of several YouTube Let's Plays. I say that's the most they'll get out of mods in general, especially of their quality and scope. Frankly, I've seen bigger and better mods out there than their mods, and those are released for free still.
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    Least tern with chicks. This is taken at the wetlands we volunteered at (there's a lot of the verbena growing around there), not recently, but just to give you idea. There's a stick with a 2 marker showing the nest, might be another nest nearby.
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    The little chicks are so hard to find without binoculars! They blend in the ground so perfectly that you have to be patient and know exactly where to look to find them!
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    Quick Time Events are also one of those gameplay mechanics whose cheap implementation negatively affects my experience on video games as a whole. I really didn't like how that Tomb Raider game implemented it at all and now every time I see a flashy cutscene in some other big budget action game, I anticipatze and dread a QTE rather than enjoy the cutscene.
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    Shenmue I and II basically kinda pioneered and re-introduced the concept of quick time events in games. Shenmue was a game so far ahead of it's time and is a prime classic example of how QTE events should be done.
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    What did it do that others failed in?
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    It was more consistent in its mechanics.
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    Games that grade you on your performance after you clear, I tend to burn out faster probably from morale and pressure to do perfectly rather than enjoy the game. Can't hold my attention on Sonic, Bayonetta, GTA V's story mode, Kirby Mass Attack, etc.
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    I'm not a fan of those games because...why the heck I'm being graded, I'm not in school.
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    I wasn't aiming for one, but I somehow got a hole in one in Mario Golf World Tour as Mario. Too bad it was a match play so I didn't get to see the fancy eagle animation.
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    Some of terrible Spongebob's episodes during Season 4, 5, 6, *aka the infamous seasons) would've made for a pretty great horror parody of Spongebob. Episodes I had in mind: "To Love a Patty" Spongebob horrifically rips clams apart over a rotting Krabby Patty. "Skill Crane": Mr. Krabs exploits gambling addicts and the episode overall paints a weirdly mature and uncomfortably too-close-to-home picture of addiction. "Gone" has Spongebob going into psychological breakdown for finding no one around for extended amounts of time. "One Coarse Meal" is just thoroughly messed up as Plankton contemplates suicide. "Squid's Visit" dials up Spongebob's creepiness to 11 and there's real psychological horror elements that that does feel genuinely horrifying at points. IMO they could've made for good, memorable episodes if they weren't part of, y'know, Spongebob.