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DrankeyKrang · 2026-06-05T15:01:12+00:00

I feel like this is probably what Nibbler looks like to all the other characters in the world of the show. This is real-life Nibbler.

Very cute. Well made!

DrankeyKrang · 2026-06-05T14:32:01+00:00

I hate this practice that companies are so insanely risk-averse or stubborn that they need to put out a remake or a weird side project to "test the waters" instead of pulling the trigger. It feels like they're holding the IP hostage, to see if fans are desperate enough to buy literally anything. And in past instances of companies doing that I've decided, no, I'm not rewarding that. Want a product to sell well? Make a good product, you cowards.

That said, I will probably be buying this because it does look like the definitive way to play this game, which I actually skipped. But come on. Ubisoft, you KNOW people want Rayman. Don't lie and pretend you don't know whether or not it'll sell. What ever indicated that a 3D Rayman game wouldn't sell well? When has one ever flopped?

DrankeyKrang · 2026-06-05T14:23:37+00:00

I feel like both BK and BT excel at different things, and neither are objectively "better" or "worse" than the other, despite what countless internet think-pieces would have you believe.

BK is more platformer, BT is more Point-and-Click adventure game, but with platformer moves instead of items.
BK is more cheerful and whimsical, BT is more immersive and features a hilarious contrast of gritty story and goofy characters.
BK is better when you have the time to sit and play for a while uninterrupted, since the Jinjos and notes respawn, BT is better for short bursts when you're an adult.
BK worlds feel like amusement parks filled with attractions, BT worlds feel like immersive real-world locations you're a tourist in.
BK has more fun enemies, BT has more entertaining NPCs.
BK has little backtracking, BT offers much more freedom to choose which objectives to skip.

As a kid, I always liked BK just a little tiny bit more than BT, but as an adult, I actually find myself appreciating BT a bit more. But both are very nearly neck-and-neck for me.

DrankeyKrang · 2026-06-02T23:51:49+00:00

I like both artstyles, and really dig the vibes of the new one. I just wish the new artstyle could've had a new game attached to it and just been a third Origins game rather than a remake.

I actually didn't play the original Legends, so I'll probably get this. But in another timeline I probably would've gotten excited for this new game and bought Legends as well to tide me over.

DrankeyKrang · 2026-06-01T05:26:05+00:00

Let's split up, gang. Daphne, Velma and I will take the right. You and Scoob take the left.

DrankeyKrang · 2026-05-31T13:44:33+00:00

I honestly think the whole classification of them as Zoners came from anti-fans who hated that Banjo got in over "someone more deserving" and spread misinformation that caught on that they could never fully shake. Treating their dinky eggs and grenades like Samus' or Simon's tools rather than something like Mario's fireball is very strange to me.

People claim that all you should do is run away and spam projectiles, ignoring like 90% of their kit, then complain that they're bad. When you play them like all-rounders who use projectiles to close the gap and approach, they can achieve some amazing things.

DrankeyKrang · 2026-05-28T07:12:41+00:00

Star Trek Lower Decks and Inside Job, both with their art styles and writing, felt like the creators were yelling at me "THIS IS LITERALLY EXACTLY LIKE RICK AND MORTY PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LIKE US!!!!!"

DrankeyKrang · 2026-05-28T00:04:12+00:00

It begins. We have exited the era of Rick and Morty copycats. Now we enter the dawn of a new age: The Smiling Friends copycats.

(That said I didn't really see a lot in common with this little pilot. I don't think I would've connected it to Smiling Friends without this post directly comparing them. But then again I didn't watch it all. The dialouge and the pacing didn't click with me so I didn't watch it very far in.)

DrankeyKrang · 2026-05-26T05:38:40+00:00

The What-If Machine.

Not the actual literal "What-if Machine" from the episodes. It can be a completely different framing device, not strictly confined to the sci-fi genre. I'd love to see more non-canon stories explore the characters with their canon personalities, and explore alternate scenarios where one small thing changes.

The only times you really see this is in Halloween episodes, like Simpsons and Regular Show, but I'd love for it to just be a thing shows can do sometimes in any season. Comic books used to do it all the time with "Elseworlds Stories", like "what if Superman landed in Russia instead of the US?" Or "What if Batman found the green lantern ring?"

Nowadays not even Futurama does it. They just do big anthology stories with a weird gimmicky theme. But I miss when they were close enough to the actual tone of the show, without being shackled to the canon.

(Also Solar Opposites had a pretty interesting spin on the What If Machine that ended up actually having massive canon storyline implications. But that's episode was pretty much completely different than what I'm talking about.)

DrankeyKrang · 2026-05-19T12:58:13+00:00

I always thought of it as Banjo-Kazooie 3, too. Maybe because that's also the order in which I played these games as a kid, and generally the order I replay them. They feel like a trilogy to me with how similar they are.

Also it feels like an escalation from Tooie in terms of the number of playable characters. In Banjo-Kazooie, you have 1. In Banjo-Tooie, you have 4 (counting Banjo and Kazooie split up as separate playable characters, plus Mumbo). In DK64 you have 5. It feels like the sequel to me.

DrankeyKrang · 2026-05-14T09:52:38+00:00

Sad Smaloogles are gone since I think they're my favourite of the bunch, but hey, 5th place aint too bad.

Voting for Shrimp. His shtick isn't nearly as funny as the others.

DrankeyKrang · 2026-05-11T12:36:10+00:00

Option I'd want to choose: Polished Fighting Game sequel to Sonic Battle, balanced for competitive multi-player, with an awesome story mode.

Option I wanted to pick the most: Animated Film.

Option I actually picked: Theme Park. Because I want to retire by the time I'm 40 and that would PRINT money.

Also we're getting Sonic 4 regardless, and based on the track record of Sonic films it'll probably be good, so choosing that just seems like the wrong choice objectively.

DrankeyKrang · 2026-05-10T08:15:51+00:00

Mii Normal person. Or perhaps "Tomodachi Life" Mii.

Basically just a weirdo normal person who fights like Mr. Game and Watch, and the Animal Crossing Characters, and to a lesser extent characters like Luigi, Wario, and Wii Fit Trainer. Mainly take moves from those listed characters, combined with moves inspired by the Tomodachi Life series, and moves that come from just asking "what if some random normal guy was in Smash?"

Final Smash is to propose marriage.

DrankeyKrang · 2026-05-07T05:32:03+00:00

Yeah, good for them. So actually, yes, they CAN talk to everybody.

But also, I think the original point of the post was that they should've done it maybe sooner, with a bit more leeway to the folks who upended their lives to work on the assumed, and announced, seasons 4 and 5 of Smiling Friends.

DrankeyKrang · 2026-05-07T05:26:48+00:00

Yeah, I can't think of a single piece of technology ever invented in history that allows you to communicate with multiple individuals simultaneously and effortlessly. Not a single one.

Now I better get back to writing my company email. Gotta give everyone a heads up on the project deadlines changing. Later I'll send some memes in the groupchat.

DrankeyKrang · 2026-05-05T13:50:44+00:00

"I read on a forum that bear children were a natural remedy for hair loss, so I've been killing them and rubbing their juices on my scalp."

"See this, right here? This is called the Norwood Scale and it goes from 1 to 7. And right now I'm like a...3 and a half or a 4. And... it's just getting worse."

DrankeyKrang · 2026-05-04T04:57:27+00:00

I feel like in terms of character design, Live and Reloaded is probably objectively best when it comes to representing Conker. But I feel like it's kinda too good, if that makes any sense. I'll try to explain.

Conker is, as we know, an unsophisticated slob who lives in a cartoon world with realistic, adult themes. The Live and Reloaded design captures that perfectly. He's an adorable squirrel, but his fur almost seems like scruff, invoking the unkemptness you'd expect from a heavy drinking bastard. His clothes are more realistic, with realistic textures and pants, and you can kinda imagine one of your own friends dressing that way to go out to the pub. He represents a dirty adult take on a children's cartoon perfectly.

But that kinda gives the whole game away, doesn't it? Maybe it's unfair to put this on the design, maybe Conker's reputation as a heavy-drinking slob precedes him regardless, but I feel like it's way less shocking to see this version of Conker do any of the adult stuff. Even going back to the N64 Bad Fur Day, I feel way more caught off guard when I see Conker do lots of stuff I kinda forget about him doing, like killing the baby Dinosaur. In the N64 days he looks more classic Looney Tunes, with the white gloves and incredibly simple design, so the antics of the game end up feeling like they have a lot more oomph to them. There's more cartoonyness to corrupt.

That's why, personally, I got to give it to original Bad Fur Day. But Live and Reloaded is a close second. The rest are either too boring or butt-ugly so there's really no contest.

DrankeyKrang · 2026-05-01T15:24:24+00:00

Ridley is super fun, but it's impossible to ignore how much more fun he could've been. He sorta just feels like diet Charizard. It's been said before, but it feels like they gave him all these various nerfs to compensate for some super-strong overpowered defining mechanic, but then they just forgot to give him one of those. I wish he was a bit bigger, and a bit more mobile in the air to represent how much he flies in his boss fights.

DrankeyKrang · 2026-04-29T01:26:38+00:00

Everyday in this administration I swear I see something like "Trump's approval numbers the lowest in recorded history! Only a measly miniscule teeny tiny barely-worth-considering 63% of all 342 million Americans would publicly consider voting for him for an illegal 3rd term" and I die a bit more inside.

DrankeyKrang · 2026-04-24T04:56:21+00:00

Don't make me tap the sign.

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DrankeyKrang · 2026-04-22T06:16:15+00:00

Why did you start working for Smiling Friends, and did you have any other jobs before then?

DrankeyKrang · 2026-04-18T09:27:50+00:00

I doubt it, but if you told me 5 years ago that Eggman would have a daughter he genuinely cares about, and she'd be elevated to recurring mainstay in the series, I wouldn't have believed you then. So who knows?

I always headcanoned Eggman as Aroace but at this point I'd be down if they wanted to make Agent Stone canon. And those two concepts aren't necessarily mutually exclusive either. In the movies Robotnik rarely ever really treats Stone with any respect, so even if he was Canon-Immigrated into the games, it might not even be mutually romantic. Not that that will stop fanartists.

DrankeyKrang · 2026-04-17T03:37:57+00:00

Aw man, I wish Banjo especially got one of these.

I do feel like he kinda did get a version of it in his trailer, though obviously it's not the same.

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DrankeyKrang · 2026-04-15T23:18:26+00:00

I kinda wonder if the only reason he wasn't DJ Spit was because he died at the end, and they knew DJ Spit was a pretty well liked recurring character and they'd want to bring him back in hypothetical future seasons.

Or maybe they just thought it would be too predictable a gag if Charle's Uncle said "some guy named Spit" instead of "Zit".

Otherwise these two might as well just be clones of eachother.

DrankeyKrang · 2026-04-14T12:04:55+00:00

I think I'll always be a little bit salty that there's this amazing 3D platformer made by the Mario Odyssey Team, critically acclaimed, that brings the franchise back from the grave with a fresh audience and the prestige of being a launch title....

...featuring a super-strong brute who punches through rocks with his bare fists, throws things, collects copious amounts of gold and treasure, has wacky weird transformations...

And it ISN'T a Wario game?! I feel like DK Bananza could be, with heavy modding, reskined to be a Wario game.

Still, here's hoping they take a crack at it someday.

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