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KamikazePotato posted...

It's weird, but I think my interest in the contest more or less dies with Tifa, and I don't actually like her very much, I just the think the rest of the contest isn't going to be super interesting

Vivi loses tomorrow and then I have to look forward to uuuuuh

i for one cant wait for Link vs Ganondorf II
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2101 will be the year of Amaterasu

Okami now on over 40,000 gaming platforms
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thanks lopen <3
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ed boon is pretty american yeah
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zelda's ALBW and Smash5 design is so good


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i feel like kp/extha/leon can answer this question
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LeonhartFour posted...

eh it's mostly just been everyone going LOL BURN at Zen's GIF

of which this match has nothing to do with what I was saying in that post, which is partially why it's annoying me

well if it makes you feel any better i actually get a count from imgtc of how many people have watched that gif and it's at like... 16. two of them are me and i've only seen like 5 people even comment on it
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i had my dream crushed when the bracket dropped and I saw who Metal Sonic was up against; this was basically his only time to ever get a win and he never had a shot

i do feel bad for leon, today's match is definitely the end of an era for Squall. i don't know if he'll come back from this unless there's somehow a FFVIII remake after the FFVII one.
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daily? no

today in particular?

maaaaybe, there has to be some lightharded ribbing for the pre-contest squall > zelda train

although leon smartly got off the train when he knew it wasn't leaving the station
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i dunno if anyone is specifically laughing at you though, i'm not, that was one of two pics i had in the archive of you actually talking about Zelda and I thought it was funny that it will be one month tomorrow that you made that post and had the "waiting" bit in it, it lined up too good
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Leon I post my gifs in the same 4 topics every time i post one
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i apologized in another topic!
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if Geralt wins i'll be 4/4 today, somehow i took Aeris > Fox even though I have no recollection of doing so
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Janus5k posted...

Question to people who have played Geralt's games

Do witchers actually hunt witches

Because this seems relevant

"witching" refers to the act of boning hot witches
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FSABot posted...

DoctorJimmy133 posted...

BlAcK TuRtLe posted...

This site has turned into Kotaku!

Dont worry, its nothing like that, were just objectifying female characters and voting for the ones we want to have sex with the most!

Kinda creepy if people are voting for family friendly characters like Zelda for that reason

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i forgot i made this
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@LeonhartFour sorry I made a gif specifically calling you out and using a post saying Zelda isn't good in a clutch, I didn't think it would be this much of a slaughter and the "i'll wait" thing worked too well
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i made this one in case squall won. if Square Enix can recycle assets then so can I
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i'll change it when i archive everything itt on thursday

great job as always!! keep it up, very entertaining reads
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I was pretty down on this game but that Polygon closing remark gave me a change of heart. I'll probably pick it up at some point. If I don't like it my girlfriend probably will.
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this one goes out to LeonhartFour
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made this one with LeonhartFour in mind <3
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I need a good movie subtitle for topic 4
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Big Boss
Alucard
2B
Phoenix
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@Wreath thank you! I had him winning the division but I ended up changing to Big Boss at the last second lol. Just happy to have him going far at all.
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The Netflix Castlevania show is incredible, easily the best video game adaptation of all time. I'm pretty critical of most adaptations (they're basically all shit) but Castlevania is the real deal.
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such a flirtatious match. they're both so close
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such a flirtatious match. they're both so close
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Alright, here's my thoughts on the whole thing:

I don't expect to get custom match pics, and since the beginning of the contest I've said the odds were low.

As you can see from the URL of the match pics:

https://gamefaqs.akamaized.net/images/x/char/14.png
https:// gamefaqs. akamaized .net/ images /x /char /14.png

We have a directory just labeled "Char" and under that no other subdirectory. The character pics are just numbers going from 1-136, the number of entrants in the contest. There isn't a subdirectory before that labeled "R1" or anything. It's just 136 pictures.

So right off the bat you can assume he wasn't planning to do more. In a lot of ways I get it, we had people going off on paulg for the Vincent pic and calling it "sabotage." Yes, we've had "pic sabotage" before, but none where we quite went off on a user that badly and savagely. The dude basically had a breakdown in the middle of it and responded with "yes, I did it, and fuck all of you!"

I don't believe paulg actually intended to pic sabotage. My take on it was that we'd used all the pics possible for most characters over the course of 7 years, and he wanted to do something new. I did this all the time. I used Old Man MGSV Ocelot. I didn't mean to pic sabotage, we just only had a handful of Ocelot pics.

Of course, Allen is ultimately responsible for choosing the match pics, and as we saw through his choices of "anonymous user"-made pics, he was probably sick of some of the weird or bad shit we were churning out in 2013. To be fair, there were 247 characters and it was hard to get art for them, but when even Ulti isn't making stock pics with stock Smash art, you know there's a problem there too.

So Allen cuts out that factor completely. No more "sabotage." No more waiting on B8 to make pics when all we do is submit weird fanart or straight garbage. It's just Allen and he made the contest and he made the pics and he is in complete control. There's no more harassment of any user but him.

That being said, Allen totally dropped the ball with pics this year. Some of them were alright, and you can tell the pics were low-effort. He used a lot of the stock Smash renders cuz they were already done. But as you can see from Joel and Ammy's pics, he didn't put a lot of time into doing proper renders. They're really messy. I'm not talking about his choice of pics, but you can see he didn't spend more than a few minutes actually making the pics presentable. It shows a lack of care in what could be a big determining factor in a close match.

If Allen wants to do the pics, go ahead. Board 8 really has run the well dry, but I'll admit that in the 5-year gap between Character Battles I had been stocking up on new pics for classic CB entrants to debut in this contest. I was excited to see some new art on the front page. Match pics were also an excellent way to get involved and learn new skills. I taught myself Photoshop because I wanted to make match pics the first time they were open for user submission.

Me, KP, Ulti, we all figured it out because we love these contest and this community. I taught a Photoshop class at my college using the skills I learned from making match pics. I still use Photoshop to this day. I taught some users here how to make pics. Picsmithing is a huge part of the culture now, and it's an absolute shame it's been taken away.

But I want you all to take a step back, think about all the intentional pic sabotage, think about all the people who harass Allen and other users, think about all the weird shit we've submitted (myself included, lol Katherine hentai pic) and you'll understand why Allen did what he did.

That doesn't excuse the poor quality of the Allen Pics, but hopefully everyone here understands why they may have been necessary.

sorry i didnt spellcheck this post much but enjoy
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@Lopen please finish your KOS-MOS write-up with my TheStupidRaptor GIF:



do not feel obligated to oblige me

thank you very much for your time
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