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Tom and Jerry described as a "collateral damage" character, they're only trying to hit each other and whoever gets in the way is just unfortunate. That's...actually a pretty brilliant concept for them!
Nintendo's PR team is blatantly lying to you. Emulation is not illegal and every attempt made by Nintendo to fight it in court (and god knows they've tried) has failed. Slippi likewise does not require piracy to operate. I repeat: Nintendo. Is. Lying. To. You.
#FreeMelee
Fun fact of the day! Did you know in Fire Emblem, Ike is fast and has projectiles, but these traits were removed in Super Smash Bros. as director Sakurai felt a fast projectile swordsman would be too strong? He then went and added Cloud in the very next fucking game. Fascinating!
Stop dissing Smash YouTubers, ok?
Alpharad is CREATIVE
Introspective is FUNNY
Little Z is DETERMINED
Please don't MAKE
This meme WITH
Real people IT'S
Kind
Of fucked UP
MockRock is CAUCASIAN
Fun fact of the day! Did you know that despite being slower than Mario in Super Smash Bros., Doctor Mario actually weighs exactly the same? This is a reference to the countless lives he was unable to save during his medical career, which weigh heavily on his soul. Fascinating!
Fun fact of the day! Did you know that Super Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai was originally hesitant to introduce a fighter from the Animal Crossing series, as he did not feel they would be possible to add in a satisfying way? He was, in retrospect, correct. Fascinating!
Fun fact of the day! Did you know that of all the many costumes to appear in the Super Smash Bros. series over the years, as of September 9, 2021, there's still only been one where using it revokes your rights to healthcare and clean water? Fascinating!
In this Famitsu article Sakurai explains the importance of being able to count frames as a developer.
#SmashBros
Find out his full thoughts in the video!
Fun fact of the day! Did you know in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Mewtwo's tail was changed to be extremely vulnerable? Proponents of the change argue that while it may be competitively unfair, Nintendo clearly values the realism of attacking all a character's limbs. Fascinating!
In light of Panda/Nintendos lackluster response I’m happy to announce
🎉The Scuffed World Tour🎉
A one day melee/ultimate event
Sunday 12/18
Featuring the 8 highest placing SWT competitors
All with the goal to raise money for VGBC
See you there :)
Fun fact of the day! Did you know that scientists have managed to teach apes a number of skills once thought unique to humans? These skills include using sign language, solving jigsaw puzzles, and (less impressively) winning with Mario in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Fascinating!
Fun fact of the day! Did you know Kirby's Hammer, considered one of the worst moves in Super Smash Bros. history, is actually very useful in popular Brawl mod Project+? You won't see it at any upcoming major tournaments, though, as corporate Nintendo are dick bags. Fascinating!
Fun fact of the day! Did you know that Steve comes from the most popular video game of all time? This means he's set to be a fighter in Super Smash Bros. forever, and we'll all be dealing with block spam and up air combos until the icy hand of the grave claims us. Fascinating!
Fun fact of the day! Did you know every new Fire Emblem protagonist since 2012 has appeared in Super Smash Bros.? Despite this, another Fire Emblem lord is still going to be added before that beloved one-off character from the 90s you’re personally campaigning for. Fascinating!
Fun fact of the day! Did you know that in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate patch 11.0.0, Wario was nerfed? He lost like 3 frames on a couple moves. Wario fans immediately started telling anyone who'd listen that their previously top 5 character was now unplayable. Fascinating! ☁️
Super Smash Bros. is a video game that can be enjoyed by everyone, which naturally involves putting adults and minors in contact with each other. Please, watch out for yourselves and each other.
Fun fact of the day! Did you know that in Super Smash Bros. Melee, Mr. Game and Watch’s development was rushed, resulting in glitched aerials and a shield that didn’t fully cover his body? Modern Smash players colloquially refer to this era as “the golden years.” Fascinating!
One thing I've learned from comments is that Inklings are LITERALLY DYING every time they get "splatted," and only respawn because technology is forcing their departed souls back into the ink.
But, like...it's still kids dying.
Over and over.
On the playground.
Wild series.
We're live! Final Smashes are most of the strongest attacks in the Smash series, but how accurate is that to the games' lore? Today let's dive in and rank every Final Smash by CANON power over on MockRockTalk!
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Super Smash Bros. has terrible online play. In one minute, let's talk about what makes it so bad, as well as why that "rollback" netcode you might have heard about (the one Smash doesn't have) is so important for modern fighting games.
I can't remember a person in my lifetime I've respected more than this man. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a former COMEDIAN of all things. He's remained in the Ukraine to personally fight Russia despite being their first target. A modern legend, and true hero.
Fun fact of the day! Did you know that despite having English voice acting since 1997 in Fire Emblem, Marth spoke only Japanese in Super Smash Bros. until 2018? 🤯 Some people were extremely upset by this change. These people are nerds and owe you their lunch money. Fascinating!
Fun fact of the day! Did you know that Super Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai is a big fan of fighting games, which is why he enjoys adding so many different fighting game characters to Super Smash Bros.? 😃
This is not always a good thing.
Fascinating! 😃
Fun fact of the day! Did you know that Master Chief is one of the most-requested fighters to be added to Super Smash Bros. in Western polls? A great choice, since famous projectile characters are always well-liked as Smash DLC and have never, ever backfired before. Fascinating!
Hey, a factor that I didn’t even think of but is starting to pop up in my comments: there’s been some confusion about whether abuse accusations have been levelled against me recently.
No. That was RockCrock, the Ganondorf player.
Not thrilled with the overlap.
Fun fact of the day! Did you know that despite getting stronger attacks in every new game, Ganondorf has now underperformed for 2 decades in Super Smash Bros.? Nintendo is pretty sure if they make his attacks even stronger in Smash 6, though, that’ll finally do it. Fascinating!
@OXY_Crimson
You have your Twitch account in your bio, do you need a breakdown of the shady things they’ve done? YouTube? Twitter? Most corps suck. Picking and choosing which ones your peers can associate with, based on how much they’ve messed with your personal niche, gets swampy very fast.
Wait...I love this detail in Sakurai's new video. Rather than being translated as "Smash 4," the video uses "Smash for," as in "Smash for Wii U and 3DS."
"Smash For" is clunkier to write out that "Smash 4" so I get why we didn't do that, but...was this a pun the whole time?
@keksidy
This isn't my gameplay, it's from the new footage that was put on YouTube today:
Tom appears to be the main entity with Jerry separately killable with a respawn timer, Rosalina and Luma might be the better comparison? Can't say for certain.
Most people have gotten the obvious tongue-in-cheek nature of “Fun Fact of the Day,” but ngl, it’s a bit scary exposing yourself to like a 5000% increase in this type of comment. To all the people the series has hurt, I’d just like to say:
Go outside. They’re video games.
Lol
I want to make a "Characters that should be in Smash 6" tier list at some point. Let's hear 'em, give me your characters that you'd want to see in the next Smash game!
Video game characters only, I'm not getting into the Goku debate 🤨
“No you see, it’s actually okay for a grown man to berate a child after beating him in a video game because-“
I spent the day in my underwear recording a video game to put up on my gaming YouTube channel and I still think you people aren’t living in the real world lmao
@IntroSpecktive
These confused the living hell out of me as a kid, I could not for the life of me understand how a computer character was laughing at the camera
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"We're cancelling all Smash DLC characters, so that we can instead completely overhaul all the old veteran characters."
Would you be happy to hear this, or no? I'd personally be very excited but suspect I'm in the minority.
@SalemBane_
Regardless of your understanding of their ages, hell, regardless of whether or not it was purely a fantasy being described to you, in what universe is it okay for a man in his 20s to have a conversation like this with a 15 year old?
@PJiggles_
1. The camera lags behind when you reset training mode right after someone dies
2. Multihit SFX don't cut off properly (hit Pit partway through nair and it'll still play the full sound)
3. Character renders loading slowly, can't believe they never found a fix for that
4.
"leo should play marth" "leo should play aegis" "leo should play byleth" "leo should play corrin"
You’re all wrong.
Leo should play bass, it really is the foundation that drives the rest of the band.
Fun fact of the day! Did you know Lucario heavily references Dragon Ball in Super Smash Bros., even using Goku’s voice actor? Despite pandering to such a colossal fandom (to say nothing of the furries), he still has literally zero players, which is almost impressive. Fascinating!
THE TWITCH BAN
Hello, I'd like to make a quick statement..
Lets cut the fucking bullshit, as you know there's no filter with me. I've always been up front and real with you guys on anything that I can be up front about, and I'm always willing to accept responsibility... which
Fun fact of the day! Did you know that in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Zelda doesn't appear in her expected Breath of the Wild incarnation because the developers thought she was too interested in research to be a good fighter?
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Fascinating!
If I go to a tutorial video and see a high dislike ratio, I know it’s probably not a helpful tutorial and can avoid wasting my time. This kind of sucks.
To reduce targeted dislike attacks & their impact on creators (esp on smaller creators), you’ll no longer see a public dislike *count* on YouTube starting today (the dislike button is staying).
This comes after lots of research, testing & consideration →
Making "The Top 10 Best-Designed Platform Fighter Characters of All Time" soon. Covers every Smash game and all other platform fighters out there too.
I've got a rough list, but if you've got a character you'd like to plead a case for, this is the place 👍
Evolved this guy over my holiday after managing to avoid spoilers.
This is one of my all time favourite starter evolutions wtf?!?
And it’s Ghost type just to make it even cooler?
I feel so sorry for my brother who evolved the creepy duck thing LMAO
Watch Master Chief be released for Smash and he's just the lamest, campiest, most hated character in history. A tragedy poets will write about for centuries.
Idk if this is a hot take, but personally I’m not that interested in HDR because I’m just so burnt out on these “we made Melee again” games.
PM/P+ get a pass, but every other time I see “we gave Falco his Melee Shine” pop up I’m out, he already exists man just go play him lol
If you want more players to try out your mod, you should shit less on vanilla Ultimate. From the outside it looks like the whole HDR community are just elitist people and not a lot of players want to engage with you if your only incentive to join is "HDR good, Ultimate bad"
Replies acting like MK animations being bad is some kind of wild take.
No, they’re awful and have been for ages, idk if the studio considers it the signature look of the games or whatever but it’s instantly and dramatically noticeable compared to basically any other fighter.
forgive me if I’m being ignorant because I haven’t played many mortal kombat games but…
does anyone else think this kinda looks like an unpolished / unfinished video game?
can’t quite put my finger on it
All the top players tweeting out
#BanSteve
#Please
sure made a super funny joke :)
Sure hope the Steve players who are going to be getting very real hate from the drones encouraged by those tweets think it's funny too :)
Wait…a Steve beat Tweek and now I’m seeing people unironically calling for him to be banned?
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
Steve’s not getting banned. He’s annoying as all hell but if Meta Knight and Bayo bans couldn’t stick there’s 0% chance. We’re all stuck with him, learn the matchup.
You know what Global Smash Power incentivizes? Dodging anyone better than you and sticking in the lobby with anyone worse.
You know how you get better as a player? THE EXACT GOD DAMN OPPOSITE.
Great system, big fan.
Always been a Steve supporter, but ngl, this hitstun cancel stuff is sketchy. Personally don't think you can preemptively ban him for it before it's proven to be an issue, but if he's out within the next year I won't be shocked.
There's no way you're just banning the tech lmao
If your response to the phrase "explicit material should be banned at all-ages tournaments" is literally ANYTHING except "I agree," then you can fuck right off.
There are a LOT of people who want to be professional YouTubers, something like 30% of kids list it as their dream job.
The truth is that most people would not like the job if they got it
Consumers advocate for consumers.
@NintendoAmerica
's decision to C&D Big House is a blatantly anti-consumer practice that harms the wellbeing of everyone involved, themselves included.
#FreeMelee
Find a parent with their child at a Smash tournament, point Salem out to them, and explain this situation. How many of those parents would be happy to have him there?
The next video after this Falcon Punch one is wrapped up will be called "The Worst Stage in Super Smash Bros. History." Which one do you think I'll be talking about?
I want to play Incineroar
I've wanted to play Incineroar since 2018
He's Ganondorf, but if the devs tried
I want to, but I cannot
Because Incineroar's tiny legs creep me out
Why does Incineroar kick so often
This is unironically why I don't play Incineroar
Thank you
Who would win:
Dual blades forged by a goddess whirling through the air faster than your eyes can track
Or
One kicky boi
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Fix the Pits Nintendo holy shit.
Fun fact of the day! Did you know it’s been 19 years since classic stage “A Destination” debuted in Smash Melee? 🤯 It was followed by "Another Destination" in Brawl, "Yet Another 2 Destinations" in 3DS and Wii U, and finally, "Final Destination" in Ultimate. Fascinating!
I want to make another "Underrated Moves" video. I've got a tentative list made up, but if your main has a secretly disgusting attack nobody talks about, now's the time to make their case ⏬⏬⏬
To the many creators about to fill my feed with Byleth “guides” after 3 hours of play: look, I get it, it’s good viewership and we’ve all gotta eat. That said, can at least one of you come back later after you have any clue what you’re talking about and update it? Would be cool.
I want to play Incineroar
I've wanted to play Incineroar since 2018
He's Ganondorf, but if the devs tried
I want to, but I cannot
Because Incineroar's tiny legs creep me out
Why does Incineroar kick so often
This is unironically why I don't play Incineroar
Thank you
I love how there's like no character-specific tech at all in Ultimate and then along comes Steve with his 500 frame-perfect setups and an army of zoomers happy to put them to work 🫡
Me: *Temporarily changes intro colours to match the Ukrainian flag*
Comments: "This new intro is so much better, thank god you changed it from that old trash."
😔
I am sick. I am coughing, I am tired, my chest hurts, I can't record and barely even have the energy to play video games. These are trying times, but thankfully, one ray of light shines through and keeps me going at my lowest.
Reasons why Halo Infinite will flop:
- Plant Collision
- Fruit Physics
- Tire Flattening
Welp, time to pack it up boys. Don't see much point playing Infinite anymore.
Wow. By far the most complicated, detailed Smash character we've ever seen, no comparison. I kinda suspect people are gonna hate him after a couple months lmao, but god damn did they pull out all the stops and you have so much creative freedom while playing, love it!
I want to make a video going over the history of Smash montages on YouTube at some point. What are some of the best/most important ones to include (creators or specific videos)?
@VGBC_GimR
Worth the wait, this seems practical enough to be worth the effort and pressure is going to become insanely cool once it starts getting put more into practice. Good stuff!