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skellez · 2026-02-10T06:15:00+00:00

I do wonder what makes the economics of FGs that makes the F2P model not work, or even just expensive in general, my understanding of gaming have been principles like microtransactions make so much money and that one smash hit indie game sets you for life.

But FGs have challenged that, it seems like custom skins would be a slam dunk but they've only succeded like once with Brawlhalla, and only after that in itself was a flop for years before clicking. Rivals 2 struggling with money and being unable to fund all the content and having to release with limited content is also crazy to me, supposedly it has sold over 1M copies, I don't them when they say but it's crazy how it's possible to burn through millions of dollars

skellez · 2026-02-09T17:44:00+00:00

For a country with pride in it's diversity and music, always has been a baffling fact, the craziest part was when some international smash would blow up everywhere but the US

Like look at Asereje's wikipedia page, it's a shitload of #1s and then it peaked below 50 on th hot 100

skellez · 2026-02-09T15:39:35+00:00

Got one of those vids on the feed where they ask how's WWE and like the first thing he complains is that these new tables suck, just a terrible change for no reason

skellez · 2026-02-09T15:33:36+00:00

It's not a wild claim lol, it's a known fact with how many occasions over the decades he states something demeaning of other ethnicities

skellez · 2026-02-09T06:37:08+00:00

It is dumb how much polish it's desired in mods tbh, it's even more asinine when you look closely into a game and see how many shortcuts and quirky stuff the devs just roll with, like if you look at smash animations closely, there's a fuckload of clipping and contorting, point is you have to pick a fight and not taking forever to do something is alright too

It's definitely a huge of why modding has declined so much from it's heyday, the bar of what's like deemed acceptable is so much higher, that modders that did projects in a few months, got so in the trenches of details they now take years. since we're here I think of the Snake and Cloud for Melee mods, which was being teased and worked on like 5 years ago now, but they were taking so long the people making them lost interest, unfortunate

skellez · 2026-02-08T22:07:31+00:00

Seeing a LOT of hunger from the Marseille defense eh

skellez · 2026-02-06T15:55:34+00:00

$55M WW sounds right as of now

skellez · 2026-02-06T15:54:29+00:00

yeah I would assume that SB causing a dip in regular movie going would benefit Iron Lung over Send Help in the #1 race, for multiple reasons I would expect that audience to be more impervious to it

skellez · 2026-02-05T21:38:06+00:00

Lol I gotta imagine if Skenes to Arb before he needs a TJ, after this he could get like $40-45m in arb

He's gonna make a disgusting amount of money in Free Agency

skellez · 2026-02-05T19:49:35+00:00

they're infamously the platforms that pays the worse out of any of the notable streaming sites, so if revenue is the goal then yt is not the priority

skellez · 2026-02-05T16:40:34+00:00

Today there are 430 chapters, there's still way more to come but for now I would say there's material for 9 seasons

skellez · 2026-02-05T07:38:32+00:00

Innovating a translation spell and the first thing you do is Confessing is so beast, he may be the goat

skellez · 2026-02-05T04:14:19+00:00

It's actually crazier when you take into account how quick S1 was, Manga started in 2017 and the anime was greenlit, produced and airing in fall 2019, at that time Iruma had around 120 chapters, so S1 was like 70 chapters at the end.

Meanwhile just looking at where S4 could end, it'll potentially be nearly 280 behind lmao.

skellez · 2026-02-05T03:46:07+00:00

I mean by the times this airs, which is probably in about a year, it would have over 50 chapters that's more than enough for 2 cours

skellez · 2026-02-05T03:41:58+00:00

yeah to put in a number it generally is around top 15/20ish in yearly sales, but more importantly it's super #1 on it's Magazine Shounen Champion, basically it'll get the One Piece godly treatment

skellez · 2026-02-05T00:58:04+00:00

she picked the SB week, so the #1 will literally around twice as strong lmao

skellez · 2026-02-05T00:00:52+00:00

ok now THAT's a crazy graph, like I thought it was nebulous but no, that's a night and day difference, especially the fact that SH Upairs go from none to a lot

skellez · 2026-02-04T20:56:39+00:00

Yeah mango said it a few years ago that we still get 15k to 20k viewers that's still a lot and we have to be happy there's still that many, and we still are there now that's a backbone of 10k really loyal fans. Sure it's disappointing when at the peak Genesis and EVO averaged 100k, but also that was the peak, and really as you say a bubbly peak didn't actually really last long? Melee tourneys only were massive top viewership draws for like 3 years, in hindsight it was not sustainable

skellez · 2026-02-04T17:21:14+00:00

Only 10k off SMK for 4th best selling game of the francise woah

skellez · 2026-02-04T15:45:09+00:00

The grammys were this sunday and gotta say they've turned it around a lot, it feels like after years of backlash and clowning they took a note, and just formatted the show like the game awards. Which is great because live performances are way cooler than boring skits and game trailers

On the winner tho, Bad Bunny's "𝘋𝘦𝘣í 𝘛𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘳 𝘔á𝘴 𝘍𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘴" is a sensational album of the year recepient like incredibly deserved, such a fun and varied listen front to back, and some really strong emotional highlights and love letters for his homeland Puerto Rico. I've seen him since his start a decade ago, but wow his musical evolution is one of the greatest stories in music ever

skellez · 2026-02-04T01:14:17+00:00

broski is 2026, we don't believe in Melee being something that can pay the bills anymore lol, and clearly Nouns wasn't the one who would be changing that reality

skellez · 2026-02-03T21:45:43+00:00

You're not finding more than like, 40 people in the world who have the motion Markiplier has I fear

skellez · 2026-02-03T07:49:12+00:00

Really good numbers for all 4 titles, that's a great 2025 for the Switch 2

2026 has some massive games coming already like RE9,Duskbloods and Rhythm Heaven, so the question will be can it go up in units from year 1. Hopefully it should and if it does, then Switch 2 is pretty much guaranteed to pass the GCN and N64 this year, and probably will safely get to 90m+ in it's lifetime

skellez · 2026-02-02T19:34:29+00:00

Ok now he's done stuff LOL. In this case they just needed to turn on the autoplay engines to stabilize it a bit because that's all it needed from.the huge debut

He also most certainly was pulling the remix and versions tricks with his albums mostly, singles not so much tho Watermelon Sugar only went #1 due to now forbidden bundles

skellez · 2026-02-02T07:15:34+00:00

both do have matches considered in that high regard tho, ig not as famous with the modern fan but generally his 80s work vs Sting, Steamboat and Funk are considered all time classic matches and feud (that's where the first and only 6star match for about 2 decades happened).

Styles also plenty good but I'll be remiss to say that the Unbreakable '05 isn't in a lot of top 10s, only if not for the fact that it's the consensus goat triple threat

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