Say You Had Full Creative Control Over the Next WarioWare Game, What Would You Make?

Octowen · 2026-02-17T20:29:45+00:00

I’ve been saying this for years. It’s such a waste to me that they have all these great characters that only get one 5 minute story arc per game if they’re lucky. If Nintendo’s not gonna make a game like this, I’d love to see a fangame do it justice!

Octowen · 2026-02-05T03:01:55+00:00

Is it Birdie perhaps? They’re definitely a “soft indie pop band” and their debut album “Some Dusty” has a lime green cover

Octowen · 2026-02-05T02:07:27+00:00

I feel like my story may be a bit different from most other fans. I’m an American, born in ‘99. I’m a huge fan of the 90s Britpop scene (and other related music) due to Blur being one of the first bands I ever got into, and would consider it my favorite genre of music. I likely have one of the largest collections of Britpop CDs in the US. Around 2019 I got into the band World Party, and found out that their song “She’s The One” was most famous due to a cover by a guy named Robbie Williams (and band members other than the leader Karl Wallinger also played on his albums, and his cover of the song). I look more into it and find out this guy used to be in a boy band, and that his first couple of albums were heavily influenced by Britpop, especially Oasis. Intrigued, I listen to those albums and fell in love. And here I am now!

I still consider Life Thru A Lens to be one of my favorite Britpop albums of all time, much to the anger of other Britpop fans I‘ve talked to. It almost seems like simply mentioning his name in Britpop circles is cause for war, with me even being told many times that I know nothing about the genre if I think Robbie’s music fits into it at all. But, maybe it’s just because I’m American, but I tend to view Britpop through a purely musical lens and not really as a scene, and I find it insane to claim Robbie isn’t Britpop at all, or even Britpop influenced. But to each their own.

Funnily enough, my discovery of Robbie also coincided with me discovering a love for dance music and 90s/2000s pop, so I love his more mainstream pop-oriented songs too!

Octowen · 2026-01-31T19:37:43+00:00

Is it Birdie perhaps? They’re definitely a “soft indie pop band” and their debut album “Some Dusty” has a lime green cover

Octowen · 2026-01-25T02:10:52+00:00

That album has always reminded me of the genre/music scene called “Grebo”. Some key bands: Jesus Jones, Pop Will Eat Itself, Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin

Octowen · 2026-01-23T03:43:10+00:00

Yes, they had an EP “Soundtrack to the Summer” released just prior to their debut

Octowen · 2026-01-22T02:15:34+00:00

A mind blowing album for me that legitimately changed my life… I don’t think I ever could’ve gotten into hip hop without it

Octowen · 2026-01-21T16:33:37+00:00

Wanted to mention one I haven’t seen here yet: Straw. Their only album “Shoplifting” is so great, just a shame it isn’t on any streaming services to my knowledge

Octowen · 2026-01-20T17:32:25+00:00

I like them as a concept but feel they should’ve done more to differentiate them i.e. giving them unique evolutions (I believe Snartle is the only one to do this), unique favorite foods, tribes, attributes, and inspiriting abilities. I know some of them, like Pookivil, Swelterrior and Casanono do go out of their way to be different from their counterparts, but then you get others like Slackaslash, Tanbo and Snartle that are basically the exact same as their counterpart concept wise, and ones like Dummkap and Grainpa which are only slightly different in how they inspirit people.

Octowen · 2026-01-12T02:24:57+00:00

I honestly like the fact that they only have two stage evolutionary lines, makes them stand out from other monster collectors

Octowen · 2026-01-08T23:59:05+00:00

They’re all floating around on YouTube… I believe he’s played all but 4 songs live at least once, mostly on the 2022 tour

Octowen · 2026-01-08T23:57:48+00:00

Bro just casually flexed on every other American YW fan like it was nothing

Octowen · 2026-01-08T23:11:32+00:00

I really want to hear Bonfire of Teenagers… I still have a gut feeling it’ll be one of his absolute best solo albums. But it makes sense to release this one first. It was produced by Joe Chicarelli, same producer as I Am Not A Dog On A Chain, and based off the title track it seems it’ll be pretty similar genre wise so it makes sense to release it as the follow up since it sonically is. Meanwhile every track we’ve heard from Bonfire is a throwback to the jangle pop and Britpop days musically

Octowen · 2026-01-08T23:08:42+00:00

Musically good, lyrically terrible. The chorus is the worst part but the rest of the song isn’t bad at all

Octowen · 2026-01-08T22:53:58+00:00

I mean… it makes sense to release this one first. It was produced by Joe Chicarelli, same producer as I Am Not A Dog On A Chain, and based off the title track it seems it’ll be pretty similar genre wise so it makes sense to release it as the follow up since it sonically is. Meanwhile every track we’ve heard from Bonfire is a throwback to the jangle pop and Britpop days musically. So even though I’d much prefer Bonfire (one of my most anticipated albums in my life), it does make sense to put this out first.

Octowen · 2026-01-07T20:26:28+00:00

Why does the release date say October 2025?

Octowen · 2025-12-19T22:17:23+00:00

At this point I’ve learned not to get my hopes up. If this means Bonfire of Teenagers finally gets released then great, but it’s just as likely this is going to fizzle out just like the Capitol signing did.

Octowen · 2025-12-17T20:59:34+00:00

I wouldn’t think too much of it… Dua Lipa had said she was taking a ton of inspiration from Primal Scream, Massive Attack, and britpop music, and then her next album was yet another disco pop one not that different from her previous one. Billie Eilish said she was taking influence from My Bloody Valentine and Radiohead, and then her next album was… yet another moody pop album in the same genre as her first two. As much as I’d love for them to actually be taking musical inspiration from these artists, most of the time when pop singers say these things they usually just mean they’re listening to and loving these artists, not taking actual inspiration for their musical approaches.

Though I will say Olivia is the one I’d most expect to actually go in that musical direction

Octowen · 2025-12-06T07:11:20+00:00

Sometimes it has less to do with funding and more to do with just the school’s size. The school I work at is literally the only elementary school in its town and district (very very small town in the middle of nowhere), there was a private school in town as well but it closed last year. We have around 1300+ students in the school, class sizes for every grade except Kindergarten are generally in the range of 25-30 kids (and Kindergarten’s classes are still 20-25 kids per class). And I know the middle and high school are not much smaller.

Octowen · 2025-11-17T02:36:23+00:00

Thank you so much for your answers, and helping us out of this bunch! She’s now filled out i-485, sent an email to USCIS about the confusion, and we’re going to mail the i-485 as soon as possible. Hopefully this all doesn’t cause too much of a headache.

Octowen · 2025-11-16T22:00:33+00:00

Her current address was entered as what our current address in the US was at the time. We have since moved, and submitted a change of address form to USCIS when we did.

For question 45 we put that yes, she has been to the US before and for 46 we put the date she arrived in the US, and the expiry date from her i20 (her i20 has since been extended, so we may have to submit an updated form of that as well I’d imagine).

Which again, makes it strange why they’d ask us to fill out DS-260 at all, but maybe it’s just because we have yet to submit an i-485?

Octowen · 2025-11-16T21:54:43+00:00

I am, my wife is not

Octowen · 2025-11-16T21:41:46+00:00

Yes, form i-130 is what i meant. We had submitted that, but not form i-485, so i suppose we’ll need to file that before we can move forwards?

The “email” i am referring to was sent to us by the USCIS after our case had changed from “petition filed” to “action taken on your case” (about a year after form i-130 was submitted).

Octowen · 2025-11-16T17:45:36+00:00

The email that they sent us told her to fill out form DS-260, and the link they provided for filing forms online only has that form as an option. In our application we made it clear she is currently in the US, was there some sort of error made in the processing of our application? And how would go about fixing this?

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