Playing Mountain of Faith, and Waterfall of the Nine Heavens is kicking my :butt:

Haven't at all figured out Momiji's bullet pattern yet other than "Don't be on the left side of the screen when she appears" and even if I do make it to Aya, I usually have 0 lives and immediately get trounced before seeing a single spell card, challenging!

I'm talking new gameplay innovations, enemies, level designs, movement techniques! The characters are just what bridges it together, the differences between Mario 64, Galaxy 1&2 and Odyssey are miles apart! The only major thing they have common is the standard Mario cast, everything else is new and different.

Bah, I don't even buy Nintendo products anymore (:pirate-jammin:), so I shouldn't care, but I do, cause I still think they're good and innovative games when they put their best into it.

Yeah, Odyssey was the exception last decade, and so far Nintendo has definitely let their developers and design teams play more fast and loose with their most recent entries. I think if the games see good sales numbers, then they will keep the trend up into the upcoming "Switch 2" era. But, if the sales numbers are deemed to be disappointing by whatever arbitrary metric is used by the company, then we might just see a reverse in course, and doubling down on the restraint-of-wackiness, "reinforcing the brand" once again so they can profit of Mario and Co's recognizable design for merchandise and keep the games only to remind people that Mario is in fact a video game character with all his wacky pals (NOT: Toadsworth, King boo, E. Gadd, Any and all Paper Mario characters, Petey, the Piantas, the Lumas, the Bees, those woodcut fellas from Galaxy 2, anything from Odyssey, and many many more characters that will *never* return! ).

Nintendo: "If its not making us all the money, it might as well be in a 6ft deep grave!" :quark:

Well, if I were to guess, it has to do with Nintendo's entire "securing the brand" thing back in the late aughts to late 10's. You know, when every single mario game was basically just New Super Mario Bros? When Paper Mario started to really blow? And the party games forgot their entire gameplay loop? I dunno why, but for over a decade Nintendo played everything super safe with the Mario series, there were like 3 new enemy types each game. People like Scott the Woz and Arlo put it much better than I ever could (simply watch 7 hours of Wii U reminiscing), but the point is. Nintendo is scared of a console or franchise doing bad, and they often come to the wrong conclusions as to why their projects fail. The Gamecube wasn't out competed by the PS2 or XBOX cause it was a bad console, but because it didn't offer the conveniences such as dvd playing or catering to the teenage-male-dominated market Nintendo helped to grow the previous two decades. (Talk about getting hoisted.) Nintendo went on to make a more convenient and popular console, sure, but their conclusion was also to play it waaaaaay safer with the Mario brand. Aside from the Galaxy games (all 2 of them), the Mario games lost a lot of their personality. Just look at the travesty that is PM: Sticker Star , or the blandness of NSMB U and NSMB 2. So a lot of their previous decade's catalougue was very lacking in both old "off-brand" characters and new fun ones. And probably for the same weird reasons, Nintendo has an aversion to GC era characters, cause it was one of the worst revenue-wise for Nintendo aside from the Wii U (Which was also created from the same unnecessary caution, wacky, eh?)

Geh, enough ranting, I gotta go get back to playing Mountain of Faith on the Windows PC! (Why don't we have any Reggie Fils-Aíme emotes)

The last time I can clearly remember the police going armed for an extended time was after the Utøya massacre and terrorist attack on the AP offices, otherwise cops don't have guns other than one locked in the trunks of cruisers.

:nerd: gaming good actualyl

Personally I prefer Gleeby Glep: Gleeb Zams Nilp over Gleeby Glep: Zeb Bleps Dorbagarp, but both are very Ack Ack Ack

I found this at 8 am while browsing this morning. It is now 10:30 and I am not even halfway through. Holy shit death to America and death to Elan what the absolute hell is this. Thank you for sharing this website, I'll make sure to inform others who I know will be interested in this

E meina, Engelsk e et ganske spesielt språk, ordan flyt så fritt og enkelt mellom folk, mykkje meir enn på Norsk. Det har ett så stort ordvalg som passa til kvær einaste situasjon (selv om den mangla ett par av spesialordan Norsk har, som overigår.) E studer no Engelsk sammen med historie, så eg har utdypa meg litt om språket, og e meina det har en dybde ulikt Norskt.

Det e no mulig at hvis ett anna språk blei brukt over heile verden at eg ville ha sagt det samme, men betyr det da ikkje at det språket ville ha blitt globalt på grunn av mange de samme grunnan som Engelsk? Latinsk va Lingua Franca på grunn av Romerriket, og Spansk og Fransk blei ikkje så utbredt som i dag uten imperialisme. Ville vi ha satt fremfor TVen og hørt på Fransk propaganda istedenfor Amerikansk? Ikkje for å si at det ville ha vært umulig å instituere ett globalt språk på fredelig hvis, eg tror det går heilt an, men eg tror den dagen e langt unna i framtida.

Er du glad at halvparten av de gode folkene du kjenner til lever flere tusen kilometer unna?

De bor rundt en til tretti kilometer unna. Eg e student. Eg kjenna ikkje personli en einaste person som bor i USA.

Hviss e ikkje kunn Engelsk så kunn e ikkje ha prata med halvparten av de gode folkan e kjenn tel. E syns å ha en "lingua-franca" e ganske greit, det e fint å kunn snakk med næsten kem som helst, når som helst. Men e e no enig i at vi kunne ha kvitta oss med en stor del av Amerikansk media, å at vi træng sterkare Norskspråklig media i landet for å forfremm språket blant både de som kan Norsk å de som fortsatt driv å lær se det. E har no til å med opplevd at eg hadd møsta litt teken på Norsk ett par ganga på grunn av mængden av Engelskspråklig media eg hadde sett, og nåen ganga så mangla eg ord som eg hadd på Engelsk, men ikkje på Norsk. Eg mått ha tatt me sjølv i nakken ett par ganga og begynt å bruk Norsk meir aktivt de siste par åran, og det har hjulpa en del, eg lura osså litt på kor mange andre har gjort det samme?

I think I oughta move my posting to c/badposting someday

Feeling like I'll become the kind of person who re-watches DS9 3 times a year

Come out ye Hawk and Tuahs! Come out and spit on that thang! Show your wife how you Hawked your Tuahs down in Thangders!

I've been having internet issues the past 4 days, first it was out for nearly an entire day, then its been slow as molasses. I'm talking points where it was 0.4 mbps down and 0.0 mbps up. It's better now, but not as good as it should be yet.

You gotta Ark-Noah and flood on that thing 🤣🤣😆😆😆😂😂🤣

I was informed by a Polish friend that strawberries with macaroni is a dessert there, my thoughts were negative after I received that info

Still sick. Lost all my appetite, I can barely drink tea, I can't find joy or entertainment in anything right now, I am completely mirthless. And cause of this, there is no way I am going to that b-day celebration I am invited to tomorrow, cause 1, I feel like trash and 2, infecting people with contagious disease is usually perceived as rude.

The WOKE Romans with their WOKE DEI (Divide Et Imperia)