Actually there have been several studies which show those glasses don’t do anything.

So what you’re really saying is that Smash is not suitable for tournaments.

Bingo. And the larger point is that you don’t get to just not play to avoid a loss.

It’s also not fair that you can simply quit playing to avoid a loss. Pretty sure most people around here get really pissed when people do it in other games, and in real sports a forfeit counts as a loss. Not sure why Smash gets a pass on that.

Exactly. In a real sport you can’t just decide not to play because your equipment isn’t to your liking. Once the brackets are set you can forfeit which counts as a loss.

These players are not “gods” at Melee. They may be “gods” at a very specifically limited subset of the game, but not at the game as a whole.

No, it was not a technological step forward. It’s old tech that had a brief comeback due to newer display capabilities. It fizzled for the same reasons it failed in the past; it’s not really 3D, it looks OK but not awesome, many people can’t use it due to vision problems, and it requires significant cost increases to…

If you publish something, the public has every right to critique it.

Fair Use doctrine requires that you credit the source. It’s also considered a requirement for any serious academic paper to credit sources and provide references and attributions.

I’ve seen high school kids do a more thorough and well thought-out analysis in a few weeks, with no budget.

Most people would consider white-washing to be a form of censorship. Using your argument, it’s not.

I don’t care what kind of doors you have, after this kind of collision you’re lucky to get them open even using Jaws of Life.

If you’re just playing for fun then you shouldn’t care about losing.

The original Mario Kart games were hop crazy if you wanted to be any good at all.

Ya, long gone are the days of Double Dash, when you could dodge the blue shells if you were good enough.

The N64 Rainbow Road shortcut was an exploit, and if you didn’t learn to use it you were a loser.

It’s supposed to be easy to learn, but hard to master. Taking those bits out is why the more recent versions aren’t as fun as the older ones were.

Mario Kart has always been about learning the glitches and using them to win. All the way back to the days of split screen.

Bikes aren’t karts. They’re basically gimping the karts so that the bikes, which shouldn’t even be in the game, aren’t at a disadvantage.

The solution is simple. Just introduce a population of an aggressive species that eats them. Large wolf spiders will do the trick, but there are other options.