Sakurai said this through Brawl, but Nintendo has backed way off that stance since Wii U and the patches they issue cater to the competitive community primarily. So even if your opinion had meaning in the old days, it’s no longer applicable.

I don’t mind favorites, but my biggest frustration with Golden State is how much they benefited from the abnormal spike in the cap with the new TV deal. They were following the same rules as everyone else, but they really weren’t, because they were the best team and got to add a free superstar who wanted to win…

Daily workplace Smash sounds amazing. Don’t have anyone I know that plays here sadly.

True but they made them easier across the board in their first patch, so not as big of an issue anymore.

If you’re a fellow former-Melee guy, give this an extended shot. Movement mechanics are different, but the result is the same, it’s a tremendously dynamic, free-flowing game with far more freedom of movement and action than the last two titles once you start picking up how to do it.

If you quit every 10-20 minutes and get the challenger fight, you’ll eventually outpace your progress in Adventure mode relatively quickly. Think I only got 10-15 characters out of Adventure mode before I had everything unlocked.

Happy to be writing that, while I’m not sure it can be better than Melee (just because it hasn’t been out for long and the meta still needs to develop), it’s surely still capable of being on par, which is a pretty amazing sentence to write. They finally seems to have realized that games are more fun when the mechanics…

Eh I’m happy with the physical act of painting for now, part of the point is to have something in my life actually taking me off screens. :)  Just curious if there was some hybrid work going on offscreen to get to these.

Really stupid question, but as an almost-40-year-old who’s recently started painting for fun, are these digital or physical works?

You have great taste, good sir.

And I’ll ask you to consider that words have meanings, and while you certainly have the freedom to say whatever you want, you don’t have the freedom or ability to control how people receive said words. It has nothing to do with “pleasing the ears of our oppressors” haha.

Just because you don’t take anything away from someone saying “white people suck” does not mean everyone takes it that way. And it also does not mean that the person saying “white people suck” is always saying it in the harmless way you intimate. Rhetorical and hyperbolic language hurt productive dialogue and break…

Yes, I do actually. Prejudice is different from institutional inequity, but most people nowadays can’t tell the difference. I have no problem with addressing institutional inequity, but I don’t excuse ignorantly placing blame on vast swaths of innocents because of their race/gender/sexuality.

Literally just had an extended group Slack chat the other day about HR.

That has nothing to do with what I wrote. If 5% of men are abusers, that says nothing about the other 95%. Inferring that it is a “male” problem taints and implicates the other 95%, who could very well be doing more to combat this problem than 100% of females. You don’t know, yet you are assuming that you do know that.…

I’m sorry, would you be willing to be assigned partial responsibility for the heinous acts of a woman who lives across the country of you on the basis that “women don’t do their part to speak up enough against this?” or “why can’t women just stop raping people?” That’s why you’re getting backlash; the vast, vast…

Why would it mean they were wrong? I think that’s a little harsh. Nintendo’s philosophy tends to be, you never know until you try. Sometimes it pays off, sometimes it doesn’t, but it usually at least gives you a fun and unique experience. All it would be admitting is that the motion controls weren’t as fun as normal…

Believe it or not, a lot of us really do enjoy playing in tournaments and all of the winning, losing, and growth that comes with it.

Even in the competitive scene, there are at least 10 tiers of players where, say, if you’re in tier 2, you’ll rarely steal a set from Tier 1, rarely lose a set to a Tier 3, and go 50/50 with everyone in your group. The first 3 tiers of players only span like 20-25 players. I played with a small group of people who…

Kirby’s Epic Yarn deserves a highlighted spot too!