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took the kitten to his first (with us) vet appointment in his snazzy carrier

That was my favorite part of the presentation. The whole "Don't they know what kind of game Minecraft is? The wizardry required to make it work in this game... it's impossible! So, I laid it out straight for them. I said 'Yes, I can do it.'" That was great.

Of all the fish I have I think this one is my favorite

Voted yesterday. Line was an hour and ten minutes long, and supposedly the waits have been record breaking for Texas. And I'd have preferred to go absentee, but lmao, Texas.

My fish tank is really coming together. All of my plants are live and I would say I have the tank about halfway stocked with fish.

A lot of good stuff in this Mini, and wow I know it's probably at least partly because of Covid pushing games' release dates back but early 2021 is looking jam-packed for the Switch now. Bravely Default II: Glad to see some news since a 2020 release seemed unlikely at this point. Also glad that they are once again taking fan feedback to heart since the demo definitely had some rough edges. Immortals Fenyx Rising: Looks like exactly the kind of Ubisoft game I like, looking forward to trying it out. No More Heroes III: Still looking amazing and can't wait to play. Re-releasing the previous games is a nice touch too (not sure I'll double dip on those just now though). Hitman III Cloud Version & Control Cloud Version: Whoa, did not expect to see these games on the Switch, even through a cloud streaming service. I actually just picked up Control on the PS4 and am looking forward to playing it, it looks really cool. Griftlands: This looks kind of cool, though "rogue-lite deck-building game" kind of scares me a bit. Part-time UFO: This looks adorable, not surprised to see it came from HAL Laboratory. Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity: Totally agree that it's awesome to see the Divine Beasts in action. It's so satisfying to see the champions and the beasts really put up a fight against Ganon's forces since, yeah, the original game kind of made it seem like they got rolled over pretty easily. The original NMH was also released on PS3/360, so maybe they just have a normal controller set-up for handheld mode? Hopefully they don't expect you to swing your Switch around to execute finishing moves.

I also have this pretty lady

New Zealand's election was last night. The results were unprecedented. Labour has enough seats to form a government alone (a first for our MMP system), the populist NZ First party has been booted out, and the centre-left to left parties comprise over 60% of the seats. Chlöe Swarbrick - a 26-year-old Green MP famous for saying "ok boomer" in parliament - also won Auckland Central. Unexpected, but incredibly exciting. This is the most excited I've ever been for an election in my life.

There was a fly on Pence’s head. LOL.

Possibly poor taste, saw on FB

Since Isabell, Nook, the Nooklings, the Able Sisters, and Orville have started getting into the Halloween spirit (Go check out their new looks if you haven't yet).... What's everyone going as for Halloween in ACNH? Betcha can't guess what I'm going as! Here's my costume: Hint: Look at the face paint A:

Here's a clip compilation video:

I caught shiny Blacephalon last night!

Is @Chrom going to play Fire Emblem and finish it this time? I call dibs on Merric again.

It'd be nice if this was just part of NES Online but since it's translated to English and has some bonus features I guess I don't mind ponying up $6 for it. It'll be a neat little piece of gaming history to have on my Switch. Nintendo had better cut it out with this limited time availability for digital downloads though. Really no excuse for this for digital games aside from a marketing ploy.

My registration has officially been processed for Texas. Was a bit worried about that since I had to rely on mailing it. Anyway, I'll have to go to a polling place (during early voting) because, lmao, Texas doesn't allow absentee voting especially during a pandemic, but given Texas flipping isn't out of the question, I'll do my part. Even if it's probably just voting D all the way down.

Here are a few clips from last night!

Nintendo has kinda become a more impersonal generic corporation post-Iwata, but I wasn’t expecting this from them. They need to lose this case to be kept in check for consumers’ sake.

Finally got 1st place!

steve's moveset looks so cool! i'm a huge fan of minecraft tho so i think its especially neat the only complaint i have is the music, which has no place in a game like smash imo....way too atmospheric to be fitting for a fight, but other than that he looks great

The 9 nice throws....f that

In all the recent direct madness, I forgot to post that my pins arrived today. Well there's the late October for me.

Anyone up for Halloween theme this Thursday (Use spooky characters like, King Boo, Dy Bones, Dry Bowser, etc.)? HAPPY HALLOWEEN! :

They’ve gone full Final Fantasy with Bravely Default II. Subtle. But, finally No More Heroes on Switch!

What about Paper Jam?

Nice to see Nintendo is listening. I didn't have any issues with the camera controls in SM64 (I've yet to play the other 2 games), but it's nice to see the option being added and especially, an option for inverse controls when using F.L.U.D.D. in SMS. I still wonder why they felt they needed to remove the inverse controls in SMS that were in the original GCN game...? Now if only we could get true GCN controller support for SMS (analogue trigger support with GCN adapter).

Update: I didn't miss it.

Mario was $60. ----------- $50 is fine for a bunch of collectible trinkets, but this "limited time only for a digital game" shit has got to fucking stop.

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/10/luigi_can_be_unlocked_as_a_secret_playable_character_in_super_mario_bros_35

Bayonetta Nendoroid: Melia 1/7 Scale (wip): Off the Hook Figmas: Lyndis 1/7 Scale: Marnie and Morpeko Nendoroid (wip): Which ones are you going to pick up?

These showed up today... I wasn't expecting these to come in this nice little box. I was expecting something like THIS.

i'm gonna try to sneak in sometime after the first few days of early voting here so it's (hopefully) not swamped. NC has a really solid chance to flip back blue. I'm cautiously hopeful.

Closing or minimizing their North American offices isn't necessarily a guarantee that Level-5 will no longer release games outside of Japan. In the past few years they've tried self-publishing their games, but consider that many of their biggest properties were published by Nintendo (Professor Layton, Yo-Kai Watch) or Bandai Namco (Ni No Kuni). It might be better for Level-5 to continue to look to outside publishers for worldwide releases rather than self-publish, especially since they seem so insistent on making every game franchise into a big multimedia IP with tie-in manga and anime, which is harder to land in America. That said, personally my interest in Level-5 games has waned quite a bit since the heyday of Professor Layton. Stuff like Yo-Kai Watch and Inazuma Eleven just never clicked with me. I don't want to see them stop releasing games in America but I'm not really interested in buying any of their recent work.

joycons came back. That was faster than expected I don't know when I'll go back to TMS given I'm like 40+ hours into Persona 5R (currently in summer break after 8/21 event), but TMS is back on deck. But it's nice to have a Switch again.

Bruh...this one isn't going ANYWHERE. What in the actual world?

I agree with almost all of this. My opinion on all of them has changed a bit after playing them again 64 is incredible despite some obvious warts but it's aged way better than you'd expect from a 3D platformer from 1996. there's some cheap deaths because of the camera and weird level geometry but it's so classic lol. Sunshine is insanely frustrating and clearly went through some kind of rushed development or development hell but it's also really charming with the environments and levels and I like how the island feels like it has a real sense of space. I can't help but not like it a lot despite all the massive problems it has. playing Galaxy again... not really feeling the complete lack of any momentum on Mario's controls. he's just not very fun to move around... and the level design isn't very memorable at all. but I really love the space theme and the general atmosphere of the game and the visuals are really great. It's way more polished than the other two but I wonder sometimes if that's a good thing...

I've done some updates on the server to help further improve performance and consistency.

Well, I did it! I got my first win! The two matches before this I lost and got 2nd, because I was puppy-guarded by a Hammer Bro. and then a Bowser on the next match. There was nothing I could do, but take the loss both times. T_T

Took a few rounds to get my feet wet and shake off the rust. Then hit #1 five times in a row... Drop the 50 coins and start with a flower, though if you start in 1-1 you should get a flower before things get hairy anyways. Speedrun and kill everything. Grab your powerups for the extra timer. Get the Star in 1-1 and blaze through the level. When you hit 1-2 get your powerup at the start, pass that first section of 'towers', get the Star in the first section of bricks, blaze through every enemy you see. Use the Warp Zone. Take 1-2 if it's an option so you can repeat the process. If it's not, take 1-1 and repeat the process. If neither are, take what you feel comfortable with. You don't need to use Fire on Bowser to kill him, the ax is fine, it'll still dump him on someone else. Start off with "Lowest Timer" for your attacks, then when you get down to like 5 people, swap to most coins to keep them from getting powerups, Don't be stingy with your coins. You'll want to be in Fire Flower mode as often as possible so you can run and obliterate everything. If you're shrunk to small, take a breather and roll powerups. After those first few rounds once I picked up on this routine (and I suppose having a decent knowledge of the levels and hidden blocks from decades of playing it), I never got lower than 5th and take 1st or 2nd about 90% of the time.

UPDATE: Tom Nook keychain is OUT OF STOCK I knew this was going to go quickly after it went up. ------------------------------------------------------------------ AC:NH physical rewards are now available via the NA My Nintendo.... *NOTE: Shipping fees apply* These are kinda of cool, but having to pay for shipping to get a cheap reusable grocery bag or a bandana isn't worth it IMO. It really defeats the whole point of a "FREE reward" if you have to pay for shipping.

a rhythm character would be so fuckin cool for smash, miku or not personally, im in the rhythm heaven camp but there's also so many 'characters' in that it'd be hard to pick just one

I'd also note a character being in Smash is very different from their game outside of Smash. You don't have to like a character's games to enjoy playing them in Smash. You don't have to have even played a character's game to enjoy playing them in Smash. Using myself as an example, I do like playing as the Wii Fit Trainer, even though I've never played Wii Fit.

Oh great, another sword fighter. /s I have played a bit of Minecraft and while I'm not really interested in the series you can't deny that it's one of the most influential games of the past ~10 years—probably the most influential game of the past ~10 years, really. And like always it looks like the developers have made some interesting abilities out of the character's mechanics. Looking forward to seeing how tricky/annoying that block building ability will be.

Eternal Darkness is a survival horror game for the Gamecube with a unique "sanity" mechanic. As you encounter monsters within the game, your character's sanity meter will gradually decrease until they begin to hallucinate. These hallucinations can range from creepy (i.e. your character's head randomly exploding) to outright fourth wall-breaking (i.e. the game pretending to delete all data from your memory card). Which ties into this chat thread: since some users here have a certain distaste for Fire Emblem and how many chat threads it's had in the past, this thread pretends to be yet another Fire Emblem one, only to reveal that it's actually Eternal Darkness, as if the reader were suffering from a hallucination caused by a low sanity meter.

Smash hype? All aboard...

I wore a mask at Walmart today. Three of my lungs collapsed as I got carbon monoxide poisoning from breathing in my own bacteria. A brave patriot wearing an Affliction shirt, a MAGA hat, and sweet wraparound glasses saved me by giving me CPR. I thanked him and asked if he was a doctor and he said “Who needs doctors when we have our fellow Americans, the ones who are here legally I mean.” I hugged him and threw my mask on the ground. The star spangled banner played on the speaker system as everyone in the store ripped off their masks and threw them to the ground, chanting, “down with communism!” God, Jesus, and all the angels looked down upon us from Heaven and clapped.

You'll always miss me.