Tuesday, March 31, 2015

MSPixel Madness: Amiibo Tournament Round 2

Let's look at the highlights from today's game!

Today we played at Hyrule Castle. I hate this level. They did better than I do. They all tended to pool down here at the bottom though.

I think it's cute when Mega Man does the bird thing.

Rosalina got the stuff for her final smash twice today! Link's about to get it.

Link and Shulk totally had it out for each other, I'm not sure why. I guess there can only be one pretty anime boy in Smash Brothers. (No one tell Pit.)

Moving on.

I was trying to get a good one of Shiek. She evades the camera a lot, almost like she's a ninja or something. Link, having learned from Rosalina's final smash, is shielding himself. Mega Man doesn't know what the fuck.

Today's results:

So congrats to Link! Here's our standings so far, point wise:

Would you like a bracket to fill out? Of course you would! Start taking bets at your office now.

Monday, March 30, 2015

MSPixel Madness: Amiibo Tournament Round 1

So it's football season! I think! To be real frank with you, I hate sports.

Isn't there some sort of football tournament this weekend? Fuck that, you don't want to watch that. You'd much rather deal with an amiibo tournament.

I'm off on Spring Break, so I've got time to do all this. Here's how this is going to go down. I have eight amiibos. Our contestants are pictured here:

well gdi max OKAY HERE THEY ARE:

Each day, I'm going to let them practice a bit, and then wail on each other in eight player smash on a random stage. I'll give them points for their places every day to determine their seed. This weekend, we'll do a big tournament! With brackets and everything! It won't be nerdy at all!

Here's pictures from today's match up! The random stage today was the Super Mario World stage.

(PS, jfc I had no idea it was an act of fucking congress to get photos off the WiiU. I had to pull them off MiiVerse.)

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Zelda, watch out!

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Looks like Kirby got an eyeful.

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This guy was on the cover of Pokemon Pearl but I can't remember his name.

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It kept getting dark like this because the amiibos kept fucking up their final smashes. It's pretty obvious I trained them.

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They also found the hole pretty challenging. Rosalina lost her head.

Anyway, here's today's standings:

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That's pretty much everyone's seed, too, since we'll have to wait until tomorrow's results to start doing points.

Anyway, see you tomorrow!

Friday, March 27, 2015

Citadel: Shepard's Perfect Solution

It's time to talk to all our squadmates, but they mostly say generic stuff. ("Wow, you sure did fall through a fish tank!")

Except maybe Vega.

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"Hey Bean, why do you hate Vega?"

Anyway, let's go hang with Liara. Liara did all the hard work for us.

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Did you ... did anyone catch this?

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Does the Inquisitor fuck everything that moves?

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Liara et all discuss the layout of the casino. It's mostly technobabble, you're not missing too much here.

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(I'm not even sure why they ask EDI. If Tali's out because of tech ... I mean ... come the fuck on.)

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I hate cutting here, because this is a little short, but this section doesn't divide as nicely. Obviously Bioware should be more considerate of MSPixel.

Either way, NEXT TIME: gibson hacking

Friday, March 20, 2015

GBS Friday

I've been off my game most of last week and all of this week.

Husbando~'s been extremely sick, you see.

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Even though that is a real live actual factual thing said to me by him, I'm being a little shitty, because he's actually been quite a bit sicker than that. They actually had to put me on a compliment of drugs to keep me from dragging his disease and pestilence to work. (I work with children in the public schools, and some of my homies have severe medical needs, so I was sweating bullets.)

Point being, caring for him hasn't left me with much time, but I miss you all, so. Let's talk and enjoy shitty art together. What have you been doing?

I've been playing Captain Toad Treasure Tracker. It's kind of perfect for my current situation because I can play it a little bit at a time. Also, Captain Toad? You guys, Captain Toad. I love that tubby little bastard. I'm also madly in love with Toadette, she's my new favorite Mario homie.

We call the game Captain Toad's Fat Stacks over here.

The Mario Party amiibos come out tomorrow! Who's ready? Who's hunting? I'm going after work! I want a Toad. They only made the non-ranking Toad (so far!), but I still want him, because he is deeply presh.

I imagine there's three types of people who will be hunting tomorrow.

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1. Me, and similar nerds.

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2. Real children.

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3. The actual Internet.

That's the best Pinkie Pie, Mountain Dew and fedoras I can draw.

I heard that (Mario Party 10 spoiler, if there is such a thing} Toadette is unlockable. I'm hoping there's a wave 2 with Toadette in it. I will bowl motherfuckers over to get my Toadette amiibo. I'll bowl you all over like it was fucking Ness. Speaking of, believe right now that I will cut a motherfucker for Ness.

I went looking for Mass Effect news for us to all enjoy, but there is none! Apparently Bioware announced recently that they'll be announcing the ME4 release date and showing hella footage at E3, but that's not news. I could have told you that. I could have told you that by pulling it out of my ass. Hey, I bet Nintendo shows off Zelda footage too. I bet Microsoft shows off a cover shooter. I bet GameExplain releases a video 15 minutes later talking about the dancer in the cover shooter.

I did find this cool Mass Effect video, please enjoy:

I'm super exited for Splatoon. It was at PAX East, but I can't find much information on it! That's so weird. Enjoy this little scrap, I guess.

I know this is dumb, but I'm excited to customize my squid girl. I usually don't care about that sort of stuff. In Animal Crossing, I just want a non-ugly shirt and then I wash my hands of it.

Finally, bunnies, because bunnies are the best thing ever.

Friday, March 13, 2015

Citadel: Mr. Biscuits

Last we left Shep and pals, we were all at the used car lot, about to be rescued.

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Which is totally going to happen, by the way, Shepard's going to 100% get rescued.

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So anyway this is going on:

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One complaint about Mass Effect 3: people were sad that certain characters were missing from the playable roster. Mass Effect has a bazillion great characters anyway that Mass Effect 3 makes every effort to kill off, so it was kind of surprising to see so few playable home boys. Especially since there were so many playable characters in Mass Effect 2!

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There was, however, one particular character that people missed more than the others.

Try and guess before scrolling down.

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Yeah, naw, that happens, Wrex drops out of the fucking sky and starts punking bitches.

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Thankfully, Joker and Brooks roll by to pick Shep et all up.

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Anyway, let's reconvene in Anderson's apartment.

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THAT'S WHAT ALL CAT PEOPLE SOUND LIKE.

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Glyph is, of course, Liara's droid, if you've forgotten.

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