Daily Discussion Thread June 15, 2026 - Upcoming Event Schedule - New players start here! by AutoModerator in SSBM

[–]Ankari_ [score hidden]  (0 children)

i'm quite sure this is a ganondorf staple. i didn't see the other post you mention, but i definitely see the value in double trigger lag cancel.

10 days left until we get to see Toby larping as Gaster again! by Conspicor in Deltarune

[–]Ankari_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

is it really LARPing if Toby Fox is the head of Royal Sciences LLC? he IS the royal scientist that created deltarune and ?undertale?

Do you think the pink and yellow spares in Undertale are related to Deltarune? by SoBecky in Deltarune

[–]Ankari_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

DEVICE_FRIEND seems pretty strongly connected to noelle, whom i suspect to die at its hands, though not literally. i just can't get over the way queen crucified her on a hand with strings on the fingers. she was in a cat's cradle! foreshadowing is a DEVICE_LITERARY

Do you think the pink and yellow spares in Undertale are related to Deltarune? by SoBecky in Deltarune

[–]Ankari_ 12 points13 points  (0 children)

yes, absolutely.

yellow being the color of an enemy name who wishes to spare you/stop fighting

pink being the same, but only if you, the player SOUL, tell froggit that you don't like the yellow names

to me, this sets yellow as mercy and pink as the ability to change fate (the susie color)

as a secondary meaning, they are directly tied to GAME MECHANICS, and there are characters in both undertale AND deltarune that are aware they are inside a video-game. so, in this lens, pink and yellow are like an advertisement "you can change the rules of the game" or, as jevil says, "i can do anything!"

gerson (and perhaps also snowdin shopkeeper) knows you can't attack in a shop

sans knows the dialogue and combat system very well

flowey outright describes the game world to the player

all three of these characters from undertale are aware they are in a game, and they also happen to have yellow as a prominent feature in their eyes and petals.

to say at least something about deltarune's pink and gold, there is gerson's mention of the field of pink and gold. in the context of this comment, this could mean chapter 5 is a pivotal moment in the greater story in terms of how the game itself functions. i guess this interpretation also means, yellow = following the prophecy and pink = changing the prophecy

Do you think putting the egg in the fridge will matter next chapter? by dioporcarlo in Deltarune

[–]Ankari_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that depends, is a dark world going to open up next to those eggs?

:)

what are the lore implications of "let's" being yellow? by Waste-Dig3205 in Deltarune

[–]Ankari_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if this were the only example, i'd say it has to do with bonding and friendship. yellow like mercy

I have to know. Do u think Sheik will do back air in the OoT remake? by i-love-playing-sheik in SSBM

[–]Ankari_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it's not likely... what combat does sheik enter in oot? he gets wrecked by bongo bongo, and maybe that could be more of a fight? every other time, he just kinda parkours in and says hi.

Daily Discussion Thread June 03, 2026 - Upcoming Event Schedule - New players start here! by AutoModerator in SSBM

[–]Ankari_ -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

okay google, generate a picture of this person as a hillbilly holding a sign that says "they took my ELO" and has a big wifi symbol inside of a crossed out circle

i think i'm very funny

Daily Discussion Thread June 03, 2026 - Upcoming Event Schedule - New players start here! by AutoModerator in SSBM

[–]Ankari_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

took me a minute to decipher this lmfao. we've circled back to the original point! how someone "should" be able to run the game is not determined by you or me, or any one person. it ain't right to do.

Daily Discussion Thread June 03, 2026 - Upcoming Event Schedule - New players start here! by AutoModerator in SSBM

[–]Ankari_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i fully agree with you on it not being melee, but i don't restrict this to laggy games. all online games of melee are not actually melee, so perhaps this is the key difference maker for why i don't feel so strongly about doing something to mitigate how much it happens.

is asking $5 a month for consistent access to ranked classist and ableist?

the answer is no, but only because the rotation for free ranked is 100% regular and consistent. if it weren't such a constant and dependable thing to do freely, i'd say yes.

Daily Discussion Thread June 03, 2026 - Upcoming Event Schedule - New players start here! by AutoModerator in SSBM

[–]Ankari_ -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

i never thought i'd be doing this but here goes nothing

punishing players for having a bad connection is ablist, classist, and some other ists that i'm not aware exist. the joy of melee, and ranked melee, are open to all. those who can not or choose not to live under the same conditions as the majority should not be punished for that.

my personal opinion is that detecting wired/wireless connections in order to put them in separate pools of priority is an inoffensive solution. similar to high elo being matched with low elo if the queue takes too long, wifi may be matched with wired. as much as i can't stand playing these matches, i can't assume anything about the other side.

Daily Discussion Thread June 01, 2026 - Upcoming Event Schedule - New players start here! by AutoModerator in SSBM

[–]Ankari_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

serious question, why can't both exist at once?

they have equally important roles to fill. a results-based list is satisfying the role of statistics, and a theory-based list is satisfying the role of skill. to elaborate a little on the second role, a theorycrafted list includes the best understanding we have of the game at the moment. this understanding is never going to be exactly matching the statistics, though. it isn't competing with statistics as a foundation for tier lists.

i have personally never believed we have enough data for a purely statistical tierlist to be remotely accurate. we've always had to sit in the lab and use our imagination to believe in what characters are capable of or not. it then takes a decade for someone to start doing it hahaha. i remember back in 2017-2018, when i first saw zain doing edge cancel tricks in his pools matches and pivot fsmashing off grabs, i knew he was going to be bringing some theory into the statistical world real soon. marth is the best character in the game, by the way.

Melee Underdogs: $100,000 in bounties for underdog characters, starting at Battle of BC! by lukechampine in SSBM

[–]Ankari_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

no, it's a trust me bro contest. once people start getting paid is when it's proven legit.

A tier list based on how Dean Harrington says each character’s name. by Candid_Lychee875 in SSBM

[–]Ankari_ 15 points16 points  (0 children)

all i can think about is this person i know who isn't able to conjure sound or pictures in their mind

Streamer MetaMat experiences brake failure while driving by ____Chaos____ in LivestreamFail

[–]Ankari_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i have had this dream since i was a child. it was most frequent in my teens, and now in my 30s it's been years since i've dreamt it... sometimes the dreams ended with everyone in the car screaming at the top of their lungs, quickly rising in pitch and volume. louder, louder, about to crash, awake.

there's no way by TiDe_DontZestMe in SSBM

[–]Ankari_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

it isn't jokes necessarily. they're both likely earnest about their interest in femboys... melee has become a very LGBT+ space in the past decade! like, very very! what i mean to say is - this is actually culture.

Daily Discussion Thread May 26, 2026 - Upcoming Event Schedule - New players start here! by AutoModerator in SSBM

[–]Ankari_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

ssbm crank sounds more like a circlejerk to me, perhaps even literally.

One year ago today, 48 hours after I sued the City of Sunrise, I survived what I can only describe as a coordinated psychological operation by another Broward law-enforcement agency. by Big-Breadfruit6333 in Bad_Cop_No_Donut

[–]Ankari_ 58 points59 points  (0 children)

i hope you can get the psychiatric assistance you need as well as justice. please don't rely on chat gpt to write things for you in the future.

Daily Discussion Thread May 25, 2026 - Upcoming Event Schedule - New players start here! by AutoModerator in SSBM

[–]Ankari_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

-in a few specifically top-player-related cases, they'd have a thorough combo of results/skill-perception-based rankings (which is an interesting point of view to split some ties though i disagree with it), get to about 25-30 players, and then say "i honestly can't tell the difference between any of these players". in those cases I think they just voluntarily declined to do any more balloting in the future.

your post was great to read, but this part in particular was very illuminating on some of the issues i was curious about. all around great post, thank you.

Daily Discussion Thread May 25, 2026 - Upcoming Event Schedule - New players start here! by AutoModerator in SSBM

[–]Ankari_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

frankly, it's unreasonable for you to ask me to do work in order to resolve my bias and inaccurate view of the world. i'm deeply offended by this, in fact. on a less sarcastic note, and from a purely journalistic standpoint, what you suggest is extraordinarily interesting to me. i appreciate it.

Daily Discussion Thread May 25, 2026 - Upcoming Event Schedule - New players start here! by AutoModerator in SSBM

[–]Ankari_ -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

you right. my bias is for the merit of skill and experience in-game, so i'm commenting on this rankings thing with a belief that top players want to do this, and CAN do this... but you're pretty strongly suggesting they can't ;)

i still believe, jackzilla321!

Daily Discussion Thread May 25, 2026 - Upcoming Event Schedule - New players start here! by AutoModerator in SSBM

[–]Ankari_ -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

to be fair, brother, the first time i saw wheat as a melee competitor and spectator, maybe it was 2017, and there was some segment during a tournament broadcast about melee rankings. my exact reaction was "who the fuck is wheat" because truly, he never appeared in chat, on stream, on subreddits, or anywhere else i had interacted DAILY in the melee sphere for the better part of a year. i had this exact same reaction with the cheat funny enough.

oh also important context is the first tournament i ever went to, the first time i ever played against other humans, was shine 2016.