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Elbruno Mummy Woomy from Chile: Not As Dry As Space! Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Mummy Woomy
#34201: Jan 23rd 2014 at 9:47:58 PM

Yeah, same here. I found Melee tons of fun, but the way the characters felt like they were fighting in freaking Jupiter kind of rubbed me the wrong way. And the graphics... Does anyone else think that Yoshi looked ultra-weird in Melee?

edited 23rd Jan '14 9:52:29 PM by Elbruno

"Yeah, it's a shame. Here we are in an underground cave with all these lasers, and instead of having a rave we're using it for evil."
Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Court Dragon
#34202: Jan 23rd 2014 at 9:48:16 PM

Neither one has an assigned sex in the games.

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Keybreak (Long Runner)
#34203: Jan 23rd 2014 at 9:49:21 PM

Mew and Mewtwo are both canonically genderless. Mew seems like a female because it's cute and small and pink, and Mewtwo seems like a male because it's big and brutish and its voice sounds male.

You gotta believe me when I scare you away, all that I wish for is that you would stay
Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#34204: Jan 23rd 2014 at 9:51:48 PM

[up][up][up]Yeah, I don't like how Melee feels like everyone is fighting on a neutron star. And Yoshi looked weird (I like that Brawl has Yoshi standing more upright, rather than looking like he has an invisible rider), but Bowser looked like some demented chicken dragon in Melee. Brawl's at least looked more like regular Bowser, even if he still hunched too much and slid across the ground as the Bowsermobile.

edited 23rd Jan '14 9:55:07 PM by Anomalocaris20

You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!
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#34205: Jan 23rd 2014 at 9:53:07 PM

Mew is female because it gave birth (or so its said). If being small cute and pink made one female then Kirby and Birdo would be too.

Edit: hey, you know who would really be a better Pokemon than Mewtwo? One no one can make the asinine "not popular enough" argument for? Mew! Every TM, every HM, the most tutors, the special moves from the Orre games and transform.

edited 23rd Jan '14 9:55:20 PM by IndirectActiveTransport

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Keybreak (Long Runner)
#34206: Jan 23rd 2014 at 9:55:11 PM

Well hmm.

I think it's the eyes.

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Elbruno Mummy Woomy from Chile: Not As Dry As Space! Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Mummy Woomy
#34207: Jan 23rd 2014 at 9:55:13 PM

I tend to refer to Pokemon as "she" or "he" rather than "it", even if they are genderless. I don't feel confortable calling them "it", since I've always assumed it = thing.

"Yeah, it's a shame. Here we are in an underground cave with all these lasers, and instead of having a rave we're using it for evil."
Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#34208: Jan 23rd 2014 at 9:58:51 PM

[up][up]Yeah, Melee Yoshi's eyes are kinda weird. I also don't like how wide Fox's face and mouth are in Melee, though it was based on his fairly primitive 64 design so it's understandable.

[up]I just use "it", I hate gendered pronouns especially when applied to genderless or nonspecific entities.

edited 23rd Jan '14 10:00:32 PM by Anomalocaris20

You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!
Elbruno Mummy Woomy from Chile: Not As Dry As Space! Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Mummy Woomy
#34209: Jan 23rd 2014 at 10:02:12 PM

Guess it's a language thing then. In Spanish there's pretty much no such a thing as a neutral gendered pronoun, and perfectly neutral nouns are not common. And even when you do use them, adjectives and verbs will still screw you over since they are also assigned a gender.

This makes for some weird stuff in Pokemon localizations when it says a female Pokemon has been he-debilitated.

edited 23rd Jan '14 10:05:03 PM by Elbruno

"Yeah, it's a shame. Here we are in an underground cave with all these lasers, and instead of having a rave we're using it for evil."
Mukora Uniocular from a place Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Uniocular
#34210: Jan 23rd 2014 at 10:03:00 PM

Pretty sure that applies to all romance languages except English.

English is dumb.

"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."
Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#34211: Jan 23rd 2014 at 10:05:26 PM

Yeah, I don't like that about the Romance languages.

And English isn't a Romance language. It's a Germanic language.

Anyway, I wonder what the update one hour from now will be. I'll need to sleep before then, but I'll check first thing in the morning. I feel like we'll get something like a new stage or assist trophy, since the only real update we had this week was Monday's peculiar singleplayer screenshot.

edited 23rd Jan '14 10:06:07 PM by Anomalocaris20

You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!
doctrainAUM White Hindu from New Jersey Since: Aug, 2010
White Hindu
#34212: Jan 23rd 2014 at 10:14:38 PM

When I played Melee, it was after trying Brawl and years after I last played Melee. It felt simultaneous more slippery (it was easy to accidentally run off the stage as Fox or C. Falcon) and stiffer (when performing attacks and specials). I think the lack of buffering was responsible for the latter.

"What's out there? What's waiting for me?"
Mukora Uniocular from a place Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Uniocular
#34213: Jan 23rd 2014 at 10:16:45 PM

And English isn't a Romance language. It's a Germanic language.
How? Isn't most of English derived from Latin?

"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."
RedM Since: Oct, 2012 Relationship Status: You can be my wingman any time
#34214: Jan 23rd 2014 at 10:17:46 PM

I played Melee nonstop over Christmas break, then got back to school and returned to Brawl. It was pretty hard to get used to. Brawl felt super slow. But I can't tell you how much I like that Brawl lets you grab onto a stage backward.

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#34215: Jan 23rd 2014 at 10:34:52 PM

English is derived from German, like Swedish and Danish. Spanish, Italian, French and Portuguese are derived from Latin. German and Latin are both Indo European Languages though, so it all goes back to Sanskrit.

Anyway, I like Brawl more than Melee, just as I ultimate liked Melee more than the original, but just as the original had some touches that I am glad came back for Brawl, Melee has some things I missed and mainly that is speed. I Brawl could play virtually identical to me otherwise, I just want a faster game. (Not that there are not other improvements I would not suggest, just that is the only thing I miss from Melee)

The original, well, I liked entrances. Call me petty. I liked that everyone's shield did not double as a reflector. Call me casual. I liked that projectiles overall seemed more effective. Call me a spammer. I liked that there were fewer "plain" stages (fountain of dreams, battle field, final destination and temple was a bit too high a ratio of boring). I did not think the music sounded as good as it did in the original, nor did I feel there was enough of it from Nintendo's library(problem with both till Brawl). I liked that none of the characters felt nearly as cloned (Luigi had much different B moves effects from Mario than Marth and Roy did). Brawl fixed all that and more in my eyes.

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Midna Blorbonmyoji (he/she/they) from way down south in the land of the traitors (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
Blorbonmyoji (he/she/they)
#34216: Jan 23rd 2014 at 10:49:44 PM

What would we replace her stick with though?

Just keep it as a separate item I guess? The Mario Bros. can still throw fireballs without needing a Fire Flower.

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Midna Blorbonmyoji (he/she/they) from way down south in the land of the traitors (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
Blorbonmyoji (he/she/they)
#34217: Jan 23rd 2014 at 11:03:56 PM

Apparently if Toon Link is a fighter on the Spirit Tracks stage, Alfonso drives the train instead.

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Mukora Uniocular from a place Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Uniocular
#34219: Jan 23rd 2014 at 11:12:55 PM

... What news? That's just a drawing of Ridley and the Retsupurae logo.

edited 23rd Jan '14 11:13:39 PM by Mukora

"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."
DrFurball Since: Jan, 2001
#34220: Jan 23rd 2014 at 11:13:41 PM

[up] Maybe the implication is that Ridley's a big fan of Spirit Tracks?

Nintendork64 Since: Jul, 2011
#34221: Jan 23rd 2014 at 11:15:53 PM

Ridley confirmed for Retsuprae guest commentator! [lol]

Null ... from ... Since: Apr, 2009
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#34222: Jan 23rd 2014 at 11:26:02 PM

The implication is that a character can be both stage hazard and playable.

(I'm not very good at implying things.)

...
Mukora Uniocular from a place Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Uniocular
#34223: Jan 23rd 2014 at 11:28:03 PM

Ooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhh

but hes too big

"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."
TPPR10 Craving for fish from up north Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Craving for fish
#34224: Jan 23rd 2014 at 11:57:42 PM

No. Everyone else is too small.

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Odd1 Still just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
Still just awesome like that
#34225: Jan 23rd 2014 at 11:57:46 PM

wild mass guessRidley is going to be a playable character in the game, and he'll be voiced by slowbeef.wild mass guess

Mew is female because it gave birth
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