Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
So there is a video called "What if Zootopia was an anime". It's fun, but it's also a reanimation of the "Naturalist" scene from the movie. Don't think I'll be posting it here due to it's slight NSFWness, but I had to watch the original version just to confirm, yes, they actually do strike those poses.
Every smash game released except 4 is pretty broken. 64 is the most broken, followed by Melee, followed by Brawl. (Although unfortunately for brawl almost all of the most broken things in the game are on a handful of characters, while Melee and 64 are at least a little more well rounded in how broken they are.)
Every smash game released except 4 is pretty broken. 64 is the most broken, followed by Melee, followed by Brawl. (Although unfortunately for brawl almost all of the most broken things in the game are on a handful of characters, while Melee and 64 are at least a little more well rounded in how broken they are.)
Smash 4 was also pretty broken at launch, and then the patches happened.
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Every smash game released except 4 is pretty broken. 64 is the most broken, followed by Melee, followed by Brawl. (Although unfortunately for brawl almost all of the most broken things in the game are on a handful of characters, while Melee and 64 are at least a little more well rounded in how broken they are.)
The broken things about Brawl are:
Tripping.
Metaknights B
Metaknights Down Smash
Metaknights Up-Air
Metaknights Recovery + Down Air
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
Yeah, maybe but Werner Herzog is an acclaimed film director who is very busy and doesn't work at SB Nation?
Like you might as well say "Well if Morgan Freeman was narrating this YouTube documentary it would probably be cooler"
Werner Herzog like many works for money I just don't like saying that though
Morgan Freeman on the other hand works for money but seems to be far more available and willing.
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If SB Nation had Warner Herzog money, they'd be better off spending that money to pay their bloggers
Every smash game released except 4 is pretty broken. 64 is the most broken, followed by Melee, followed by Brawl. (Although unfortunately for brawl almost all of the most broken things in the game are on a handful of characters, while Melee and 64 are at least a little more well rounded in how broken they are.)
The broken things about Brawl are:
Tripping.
Metaknights B
Metaknights Down Smash
Metaknights Up-Air
Metaknights Recovery + Down Air
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Every smash game released except 4 is pretty broken. 64 is the most broken, followed by Melee, followed by Brawl. (Although unfortunately for brawl almost all of the most broken things in the game are on a handful of characters, while Melee and 64 are at least a little more well rounded in how broken they are.)
The broken things about Brawl are:
Tripping.
Metaknights B
Metaknights Down Smash
Metaknights Up-Air
Metaknights Recovery + Down Air
It is very Competitive Gaming that features that have yet to be added to the series are counted under 'broken'
Several of those yet-to-be-added features make the game less broken, though. Like side-Bs or tether grabs, which both help the terrible recovery some characters have. As handily demonstrated by Link in the 64 video.
If Game A has something that doesn't work well and its sequel highlights that problem by introducing a new thing, I think it's pretty fair to say that A's lack of the thing made it somewhat broken?
Like, hey, you know how Metroids after the original refill your health on death rather than having you restart with 30 energy, and let you swap between weapons rather than forcing you to swap by picking them up, and let you shoot stuff on the floor? Or how Sonic 1 doesn't have the spindash and is so much worse for it, to the point that the mobile port adding it instantly makes it better? Yeah.
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Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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Yes, and some of their unpaid site contributors have gone on to become paid writers for the main site, like Grant Brisbee, Seth Rosenthal, Tanya Boudrant, I think even Jon Bois himself?
But its still a bullshit system considering how what they expect of them
Every smash game released except 4 is pretty broken. 64 is the most broken, followed by Melee, followed by Brawl. (Although unfortunately for brawl almost all of the most broken things in the game are on a handful of characters, while Melee and 64 are at least a little more well rounded in how broken they are.)
The broken things about Brawl are:
Tripping.
Metaknights B
Metaknights Down Smash
Metaknights Up-Air
Metaknights Recovery + Down Air
also chain grabbing? that was a thing that was kind of busted right?
Yes, and some of their unpaid site contributors have gone on to become paid writers for the main site, like Grant Brisbee, Seth Rosenthal, Tanya Boudrant, I think even Jon Bois himself?
But its still a bullshit system considering how what they expect of them
Hi so I work for Vox Media as one of the site contributors, and that article is pretty out of date with the current situation.
So our overall head Elena Bergeron put out a more general "State of SBNation" over the past few weeks, but the general gist is that over the past year Vox has pumped a ton of money into the individual team brand sites, with the recognition that we do drive a ton of content. This has been great for a site like mine, which is huge and allows us to do things like pay our writers (it's not a huge amount but we're all part-time and it feels pretty fair considering the small amount I actually work) and afford to expand our writing staff. There really isn't anything resembling a "unpaid contributor" anymore unless you willingly decline compensation, and pay has increased across the board for things like site managing editors.
The writers for the main site actually operate as their own separate thing, and they have a union that I believe Vox Media has recognized, but for what you are talking about things have certainly gotten much better over the past few years.
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Every smash game released except 4 is pretty broken. 64 is the most broken, followed by Melee, followed by Brawl. (Although unfortunately for brawl almost all of the most broken things in the game are on a handful of characters, while Melee and 64 are at least a little more well rounded in how broken they are.)
The broken things about Brawl are:
Tripping.
Metaknights B
Metaknights Down Smash
Metaknights Up-Air
Metaknights Recovery + Down Air
also chain grabbing? that was a thing that was kind of busted right?
People made a huge deal about it, but it actually wasn't a huge thing competitively. Because chain grabs only worked on certain characters and also required that you grab them.
And others had a hard limit to how long you could do them, like MK had a chain grab on a lot of characters but it only worked for the length of the stage.
The bigger issue was things like Snake using his down throw to secure kills with his up-tilt.
Like, a lot of things in that video weren't actually a problem in the competitive scene because the good characters in the game had a shitton of good aerials because the fear of tripping (which can happen anytime you move the joystick to the left or right from a starting point on the ground) meant that you often wanted to stay in the air as much as possible to limit the chances of tripping into a smash attack.
Also to note, the biggest problem with MK was that he could basically just hover and throw out Down Airs then B over to the other side of the stage and start again and be ridiculously safe. So a lot of MK users would get a small % lead and then just fucking hover stall while daring the other person to approach them. I got people complimented my MK because of how fuckin aggressive I was with him. Despite all his amazing offensive options, just using all that shit in a purely defensive way was the objectively best way to do it and it made a lot of games vs MK very boring.
But I also won more than my fair share of tourneys by spamming downsmash and saying "Eventually, it will get you." So...
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Yes, and some of their unpaid site contributors have gone on to become paid writers for the main site, like Grant Brisbee, Seth Rosenthal, Tanya Boudrant, I think even Jon Bois himself?
But its still a bullshit system considering how what they expect of them
Hi so I work for Vox Media as one of the site contributors, and that article is pretty out of date with the current situation.
So our overall head Elena Bergeron put out a more general "State of SBNation" over the past few weeks, but the general gist is that over the past year Vox has pumped a ton of money into the individual team brand sites, with the recognition that we do drive a ton of content. This has been great for a site like mine, which is huge and allows us to do things like pay our writers (it's not a huge amount but we're all part-time and it feels pretty fair considering the small amount I actually work) and afford to expand our writing staff. There really isn't anything resembling a "unpaid contributor" anymore unless you willingly decline compensation, and pay has increased across the board for things like site managing editors.
The writers for the main site actually operate as their own separate thing, and they have a union that I believe Vox Media has recognized, but for what you are talking about things have certainly gotten much better over the past few years.
That's good to hear. That article is over a year old now actually.
Yes, and some of their unpaid site contributors have gone on to become paid writers for the main site, like Grant Brisbee, Seth Rosenthal, Tanya Boudrant, I think even Jon Bois himself?
But its still a bullshit system considering how what they expect of them
Hi so I work for Vox Media as one of the site contributors, and that article is pretty out of date with the current situation.
So our overall head Elena Bergeron put out a more general "State of SBNation" over the past few weeks, but the general gist is that over the past year Vox has pumped a ton of money into the individual team brand sites, with the recognition that we do drive a ton of content. This has been great for a site like mine, which is huge and allows us to do things like pay our writers (it's not a huge amount but we're all part-time and it feels pretty fair considering the small amount I actually work) and afford to expand our writing staff. There really isn't anything resembling a "unpaid contributor" anymore unless you willingly decline compensation, and pay has increased across the board for things like site managing editors.
The writers for the main site actually operate as their own separate thing, and they have a union that I believe Vox Media has recognized, but for what you are talking about things have certainly gotten much better over the past few years.
That's good to hear. That article is over a year old now actually.
Like I said, I get it. I just didn't want everyone to start thinking that the company is still trying to actively fuck everyone when instead they were actually responsive and made the correct moves to fix a big issue.
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Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
I have played against the guy rated as the best 64 player in the states, possibly world. He was a regular at smash nights when I went years ago.
64 is you are hit you are dead at high level. Just any hit translates into immediate death.
And shielding anything at anytime is an utter death sentence.
I couldn't even hit the guy.
And it's pretty much Jiggs, Kirby, Pika then everyone else.
“If Microsoft is capable of releasing a vcr in 2013 who knows what they could do?!” was funny af.
I always wanted a wood grain version of the og xb1.
Vinyl stickers can help you get that look
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Smash 4 was also pretty broken at launch, and then the patches happened.
The broken things about Brawl are:
Tripping.
Metaknights B
Metaknights Down Smash
Metaknights Up-Air
Metaknights Recovery + Down Air
I feel Werner Herzog would have been a better narrator and brought more to this but I wait for the other parts before I cast judgement
Yeah, maybe but Werner Herzog is an acclaimed film director who is very busy and doesn't work at SB Nation?
Like you might as well say "Well if Morgan Freeman was narrating this YouTube documentary it would probably be cooler"
Werner Herzog like many works for money I just don't like saying that though
Morgan Freeman on the other hand works for money but seems to be far more available and willing.
Huh I did not know that
welp
Glad my only exposure to SB Nation is Jon Bois, then
Here's some goddamn ska. I know I needed some.
Handily, this is all covered in Brawl Is Broken
But man. the buzz words in the first 30 seconds of their new product overview video...
... Immediately made me start thinking about Weird Al's Mission Statement.
My favorite story about the brawl competitive scene, as a guy who loved MK, is this.
The US carpet banned MK at one point.
Then a huge tourney was hosted where Japanese players showed up. Since MK isn't banned in Japan, they unbanned it for that tourney.
So all the US players are playing MK. But the Japanese players aren't.
The US players get fucking rocked.
MK becomes uncarpetbanned.
Several of those yet-to-be-added features make the game less broken, though. Like side-Bs or tether grabs, which both help the terrible recovery some characters have. As handily demonstrated by Link in the 64 video.
If Game A has something that doesn't work well and its sequel highlights that problem by introducing a new thing, I think it's pretty fair to say that A's lack of the thing made it somewhat broken?
Like, hey, you know how Metroids after the original refill your health on death rather than having you restart with 30 energy, and let you swap between weapons rather than forcing you to swap by picking them up, and let you shoot stuff on the floor? Or how Sonic 1 doesn't have the spindash and is so much worse for it, to the point that the mobile port adding it instantly makes it better? Yeah.
I mean, we have someone here who is an SBNation site contributor.
@Nirya
But its still a bullshit system considering how what they expect of them
also chain grabbing? that was a thing that was kind of busted right?
Hi so I work for Vox Media as one of the site contributors, and that article is pretty out of date with the current situation.
So our overall head Elena Bergeron put out a more general "State of SBNation" over the past few weeks, but the general gist is that over the past year Vox has pumped a ton of money into the individual team brand sites, with the recognition that we do drive a ton of content. This has been great for a site like mine, which is huge and allows us to do things like pay our writers (it's not a huge amount but we're all part-time and it feels pretty fair considering the small amount I actually work) and afford to expand our writing staff. There really isn't anything resembling a "unpaid contributor" anymore unless you willingly decline compensation, and pay has increased across the board for things like site managing editors.
The writers for the main site actually operate as their own separate thing, and they have a union that I believe Vox Media has recognized, but for what you are talking about things have certainly gotten much better over the past few years.
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People made a huge deal about it, but it actually wasn't a huge thing competitively. Because chain grabs only worked on certain characters and also required that you grab them.
And others had a hard limit to how long you could do them, like MK had a chain grab on a lot of characters but it only worked for the length of the stage.
The bigger issue was things like Snake using his down throw to secure kills with his up-tilt.
Like, a lot of things in that video weren't actually a problem in the competitive scene because the good characters in the game had a shitton of good aerials because the fear of tripping (which can happen anytime you move the joystick to the left or right from a starting point on the ground) meant that you often wanted to stay in the air as much as possible to limit the chances of tripping into a smash attack.
Also to note, the biggest problem with MK was that he could basically just hover and throw out Down Airs then B over to the other side of the stage and start again and be ridiculously safe. So a lot of MK users would get a small % lead and then just fucking hover stall while daring the other person to approach them. I got people complimented my MK because of how fuckin aggressive I was with him. Despite all his amazing offensive options, just using all that shit in a purely defensive way was the objectively best way to do it and it made a lot of games vs MK very boring.
But I also won more than my fair share of tourneys by spamming downsmash and saying "Eventually, it will get you." So...
I hope this Felix guy is way less annoying here than he is on Chapo
That's good to hear. That article is over a year old now actually.
Like I said, I get it. I just didn't want everyone to start thinking that the company is still trying to actively fuck everyone when instead they were actually responsive and made the correct moves to fix a big issue.
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