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Isaac

Looks like there's interest! Would you rather I use a pre-existing bracket or do noms? A nomination-based bracket would likely be 4 noms to get in, first 64 locked are in, same basic eligibility as a main page bracket.

Spidey

Pushmo (3DS)

Another late eShop purchase for me. I can't believe I sat on this series for so long! It's so fun and addicting (and cute)! I beat every main game puzzle but haven't done the bonus puzzles yet. Will probably do some of those after I finish the series. Nintendo should continue or port this series to the Switch, they really should.

#GuessTheGame #337



https://GuessThe.Game/

Haven't even played this game and it's unmistakable.

azuarc posted...

Would you be revealing where the selection pool of characters was coming from?

Yes. You would know ahead of time which characters are somewhere in the bracket.

ZenOfThunder posted...

bro this forum has been around since 2002 and you came up with an original idea. hell yeah

I literally said in the OP that it was done here long ago and others have said that they remember it haha

I've always kinda said "uh." Almost like I'm saying the name "Tara"

But I know it's "Oh." That's just the way I talk.

pjbasis posted...

I kinda like the idea that if you save wrong you still have to suck it up.

Could make rushes less of a mad dash in big contests

This would be really, really terrible and way too gamey even by Save My standards. I love the fact that this one is so casual and fun. Reminds me of how Save Mys were back in the early days of the board. Now they're serious business and it really turned me off from them a lot.

That's what it looks like to me too.

I saw this done many, many years ago and people seemed to really like it. I think during the 2003 or 2004 Character Battle and it used the characters from that bracket. Basically, it would be a character battle but you never know exactly who you're voting for (you can, of course, make educated guesses). Based on that, I would probably use an existing bracket but could decide to do some sort of nominations. Seeding would be randomized, as would the order of matches in each round, and I simply give hints for the characters in each match. Based on those hints, you can either vote for a character by the hint, OR you can take a stab at it and vote for a character by name, which doubles your vote if you're right, but doesn't count at all if you're wrong.

So for example, let's say we were doing the 2003 Character Battle bracket in this format. On round 1, day 1, I draw up the match Luigi vs. Kefka (this is not necessarily the first match in the bracket, and I'll explain why in a bit). I post the match as such:

Wears a green hat
vs.
A Final Fantasy villain

The first few votes go like this...

Vote 1: Final Fantasy villain (counts as 1 vote for Kefka)
Vote 2: Luigi (counts as 2 votes for Luigi)
Vote 3: Link (doesn't count)

And so on and so forth.

Although the bracket would remain stationary throughout the contest, the order of the matches would be randomized to make it harder to pinpoint exactly which character you are voting for. Let's say Luigi wins that first round match, and the clue for his second match is "Has a mustache." That could be a great number of characters from that bracket (Mario, Wario, Gordon Freeman, Auron, etc) but the only overlap with "green hat" is Luigi, so if matches were done in order, it's a known fact that Luigi is in the first match of every round until he loses (furthermore, anyone could just easily do the math based on the voting). Randomizing the matches allows me to use the clue "protagonist of a Game Cube game" for him in the third round, which could again refer to a decent number of characters that could still be left. I know the "green hat" clue is a bit reductive but some of the clues will have to be at a certain point.

Wondering if this is something people would like to see in 2023. I know the board is a very different place than it was 20 years ago, but I think it'd be nice to see some old stuff come back in the new age, even if just for a quick visit.

Brain

Guile

Gregg

Lyn

GranTurismo posted...

Do any of you like guns n roses more than them?

Very much so.

I've never been a huge fan of Metallica. They're fine, but I don't love them.

Absolutely amazing film

Gregg

Grim (Billy & Mandy)

I feel like I am drunk behind the wheel

Mario

Grim (Billy & Mandy)

I have the same problem on mobile. I have to turn the brightness way up.

Seattle

Framed #398


https://framed.wtf

Chaeix posted...

that was the worst episode of all seasons ever

No way. It's not even bottom 5, as without giving it much thought at all there's at least two episodes of All-Stars, at least two episodes of IotI, and the HvHvH finale that are all worse. If I deep dive, it may not even be bottom 10. But it was really bad, and just to summarize why:

-A stupid, convoluted tribal twist the very next episode after already doing the really stupid now-commonplace one.
-Poor Matt doesn't even get the dignity of playing his Shot in the Dark because of the stupid way it's activated and the fact that he didn't arbitrarily go "I'll take all my shit to a challenge for no reason."
-Instead of something like letters from home for the winners that would have been a nice character-building moment, we're treated to a long scene of people running around looking for keys.
-The least-relevant person left in the game gets a really shitty advantage designed to make an already inorganic vote even more unnatural, but in the end she plays it in the least-effective way possible and makes the entire time spent on it fucking pointless.
-The Ghost Island-esque cocktease that maybe Matt and Yam-Yam might both be spared that didn't pan out and was a waste of time.
-We lose one of the best characters of the season and the only real story thread ends abruptly halfway through the season. And the alternative wouldn't have even been much better.

It was awful and I'm sure the backlash will be vocal enough that Jeff will have to respond to it, and will do so in the most condescending way possible as always.

I still like this season as a whole better than last, but it's still solidly in my bottom half, and last night's episode was the worst of the post-COVID era.

I agree with Matt's take that it feels like the best player really doesn't necessarily win. I used to feel that was the case but somewhere in the 20s that started to change drastically.

I vehemently disagree with Brandon that there's always a way out. I suppose technically there is in the sense that you could get down on your knees and say "please don't vote me out," and there's a 0.01% chance they go, "you know what, he said please." But like, what the hell could Aaron have done to escape that mess in China? And that's in a season that I think had very reasonable twists, both in nature and in quantity, and we still saw one of the most screwed over players ever.

Pokemon

This was the single worst episode since at least pre-merge Winners at War. Dear God.

And they least-relevent person left gets it.

And this advantage sucks but at least it expires tonight

Out of the four that are vulnerable I'd honestly most want Lauren to go which is horseshit. What a terrible shake up

And they don't even have their idols and possessions unless they brought them to the challenge? WTF is this show even anymore

I was ACTUALLY rooting for Brandon there because the Danny blindside would have been fun.

Dear God I hate this. WHY does every episode need a twist?

Gregg

Lyn

Vegas

Ditto what everyone else said.

Isaac

Mario 64

Framed #397


https://framed.wtf

It already hadn't aged well three years later when Perfect Dark came out

Theatrhythm

Smash

#GuessTheGame #333



https://GuessThe.Game/

WhiteLens posted...

On another note, does anyone have Tri Force Heroes and they haven't played through it yet?

*raises hand* Dunno when/if I'll be able to commit to playing it with someone though

LeonhartFour posted...

I figured it's a decent time for a Mario level discussion in the wake of the movie, and this video felt like a good launching point for it.

Very well, I'll put in my two cents with my probably pretty controversial 64 level ranking.

Top Tier:
Big Boo's Haunt
Wet-Dry World
Whomp's Fortress

High Tier:
Cool Cool Mountain
Lethal Lava Land
Hazy Maze Cave
Tick Tock Clock

Mid Tier:
Bob-Omb Battlefield
Tall Tall Mountain
Rainbow Ride
Tiny Huge Island

Low Tier:
Jolly Roger Bay
Snowman's Land
Dire Dire Docks

Bottom Tier:
Shifting Sand Land

Yeah it's weird that they didn't include a major course from 64. And Blanco Hills is pretty good but I probably would have made Ricco Harbor my Sunshine pick.

NintenD'OH of the Day (well actually the news is about a month old but this is the first I'm hearing of it) - Apparently if you don't use your Wii U for a long time (like, several years) it can brick upon being powered on. It seems a lot of people discovered this when it was time to make their last-minute eShop purchases.

Yes

When you made this topic the answer was no. As of Sunday the answer is yes. Go figure.

hombad46 posted...

Leave it to a Vegas supporter to gamble on a last second trade

If Han's post were from like, 20 minutes ago I wouldn't have risked it, but for three minutes I was willing to take it.