#+ and splatoon whatnots since splatoon 3 is my first game of it

[sasukeflavor]

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last song: Lucky Star Opening, ahh it is one of my favorite anime ops ❤️ love the animation and the girls silly dances hehe

currently watching: Vinland Sage, yes...another anime. Its been quite awhile since ive watched anything and Vinland Saga is all i can remember..

currently reading: same as kyro/autismsasuke T_T well ..if you count sasuke fics and some splatoon then yes 👍

current obsession: SPLATOON!!! Ahhh its so fun much playing splatoon and esp doing side jobs from grizzo!! My fav things aside from getting spawn killed ^_^ (need them dead). OF COURSE, sasuke is still in my heart no matter what like i even drawn a splatoon octoling of him..

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[risuia]

Is the death of coral affect also sea anemones? /Or/ Are the sea anemones changing color (slowly matching the colors of dying coral) when growing older? (/And/ What about urchins?)

As I was happily thinking, having more references for a sea anemone OC with the new appearance of Annie in splatoon 3’s DLC, I couldn’t stop thinking about Annie’s new design.

Mainly, her ‘hair’ color change. The moment I saw her made me ask a LOT of questions. (maybe for no reasons)

Anyway, here is my (hopefully understandable) rambling!!

- First of all, let’s put basic stuff:

like the fact that sea anemones aren’t corals: they aren’t as rigid, since they are invertebrate, (corals have a skeleton!) and thus, soft. But they are still sea animals heavily related corals.

(I’m not an expert AT ALL on this subject, this just scratch the surface, but hopefully this is correct)

Now, in Splatoon:

In the first game, there is a sunken scroll with a “realistically accurate” (from our point of view as human from their past) sea anemone, …

… acknowledging an evolution that was made through time. Similarly, to inkling and octoling, depicted in a “realistically accurate” way that we see throughout the three games.

While, in the announcement of 3’s DLC we saw, well, dead corals everywhere.

(And they obviously didn’t evolve, them not being sea animals like sea anemones.)

- Now the basic stuff is put, let’s talk about Annie:

In Splatoon 1, while her artwork seemed dull in comparison of her render, it’s important to take account of the warm light source in her shop, which in the end made her “hair” as vibrant as the art.

Let’s compare with the matching light source with the render of her new design:

The main color went from a vibrant pink-orange warm color to one waay less vibrant and more cold-ish, the orange in the color is gone. The same goes with the green accent, they can even seem even white. (or transparent at some point?? With less opacity?? but that may be just me)

White like dead corals.

Once again, corals and sea anemones are different as talked before. But they are still related, and it made me ask:

Are sea anemones affected by the source of what is causing coral death? (which some of us theorized to be from a nuclear winter)

- I could have stop there. But Annie isn’t the ONLY sea anemone, enter Harmony:

She wasn’t in any game before 3, the only resources we have from her BEFORE the 3 is an artwork for Chirpy Chips for each of the two first game.

Here they are, with the art and render from splatoon 3:

She went from pale to vibrant, unlike Annie.

If there’s truly coral dying and impacting sea anemones, there wouldn’t be any reason why Harmony isn’t hit as well.

-Putting aside the ‘coral dying impacting sea anemone’ thing, I thought of other possibilities:

Age:

We can easily imagine Annie being way older than Harmony, being a shopkeeper, and online shopkeeper as well.

So, what If their color is fading growing up?

-But it still won’t fully line up with Harmony, which led to the last idea:

Health:

Harmony is known to have issue taking care of her (poor) clownfish, their color indicating neglect.

She may have been neglecting herself prior Splatoon 3. Maybe from overworking herself, or even from her own neglect to her clownfish (since sea anemone and their clownfish have a symbiotic relationship).

(And thinking about their symbiotic relationship, could it be Annie’s clownfish, Moe, dying? Since their lifespan is different and all.)

-Oh, and by the way; what about the urchins?

Nothing.

They aren’t corals, nor as close by family or whatnot to them!! They are closer to mollusks. So, no ‘withering’ like coral!

Of course, it could be simply just a change of style from Annie, and for Harmony, as I said, there’s not much to work with, all of it is thin ice in the end!!

But I still find it odd the change made for Annie, no other NPC had any change similar like that (change of color, not like Spyke and Murch who had simply grown) but, maybe, in the end, she simply grown old as well!

Pheww, anyway, that’s it!! Thank you for reading this theory/headcanon thingy!! Hope it’ll give ideas or watnot for headcanon or OCs!!!

(also I don’t know if anyone already talked about this before, but here u go!)

(Also, I’m pretty unexperienced using Tumblr, so I apologize if I do something clumsily !!)

[sodapunked]

☆WELCOME TO MY WORLD (A quite interesting introduction post)☆

I don't think I've even done an introduction post ever since I've made a tumblr here so... you know what? I've made the decision to make one.

Before we start...

WARNING: before you proceed, some of my art pieces contain bright colors, sometimes eyestraining maybe.

(THIS PART IN PARENTHESES HIGHLIGHTED IN RED IS FOR THE IGNORANT SISSIES WHO DO NOTHING BUT COMPLAIN AND WHATNOT: I draw busty woman and somewhat dark stuff when i feel like it, nothing I draw is intended to be suggestive in any way, if you have a problem with that, leave, this place is NOT FOR YOU, the block/exit button is right there ➡️🚪If you're going to complain to me about what I draw and what I decide to do with my characters, the answer is NO. your attempts to stop me are futile, come to me if you ACTUALLY have a valid reason. I draw and make whatever I want😏, in other words...)

First thing's first:

Hello, my name is SodaPunked... or SP or Soda, and I'm a 19 year old self taught artist who's been drawing since... the beginning of my life, and who's been drawing digitally for as long as I remember. I'm just here... making art, characters and stories and showing you guys said stuff.I also love... drawing men. (I also draw women too).

I'm also your very VERY average jew.

(Unimportant but it must be said: Also all of my characters are straight, if you have a problem with that, leave)

MY INTERESTS~☆

- Watching true crime, internet rabbit holes, and bad reviews on anything (mostly animated shows, webtoons, movies because it's entertainingly interesting)

- Daft punk my beloved :D

- Rhythm games

- Splatoon (I only played games 2 and 3)

- Anything sparkly

- Doing art (drawing is my life)

- anything that has an OUNCE of spice and crispy texture (im talking about food to be specific)

- my characters (they're like my children)

- music from the 80s, 90s and some 2000s music

- anything bizarre, maybe a bit dark.

- the colors black and pink

ASK BOX?

My ask box is always open if you're looking forward to asking or discussing with me about the lore/story, characters, and universe I created.. or my webtoon that's based on said stuff. Feel free to drop an ask if you want (it's up to you)

RULES:

- Please DO NOT ask me about politics, or anything sexual. I will NOT respond to asks as such.

Important:

- Don't bring up political stuff, or anything regarding social issues, there are other places for you to do that instead of coming here.

- DO NOT talk to me about anything sexual, and DON'T sexualize my characters either. You will be blocked without warning. There are things that you just shouldn't say.

Other stuff~♡♡

☆Instagram

☆My Webtoon

Alright, I think that should be all.

[growinggoblin]

Okay I think I'll be sharing some things and especially pictures. I had a whole thing in mind with a "proper" way of categorising things and whatnot but I for now it's probably best if I just do things, ya know.

So here's my current gaming setup. (It's messier than normal but it's fine for now.) I have not just my Wii U and Switch next to the tv, but I also have my pc here as well. It's not ideal but since I still live with my parents parttime and I have no desk here, this is how I play Baldur's gate 3 and Sea of thieves with my friends. My controller cable is pretty short and so are the wires of my ear buds (even when I supplement em with the Splatoon 2 splitter). So I gotta sit kinda close to the tv, on a dinner chair.

When I'll move, early next year hopefully, I plan to have a dedicated desk for just my pc stuff.

Luckily my gaming items aren't much of clutter, my main thing with them is that I want to organise them better at my new place. I already have plans, but reality is always a bit different, so we'll have to see whether it's going to be good at the first try.

[thecheapsteaks]

VIDEO GAMES... 2018

2018 was a thing.  It felt like it lasted 2 or 3 years.  It is honestly a bit difficult to track which media I consumed during the year. I'll start pondering a game that I feel like I played last year only for it to dawn on me that, oh, it happened this year.  It makes keeping track of this stuff a bit tricky, honestly.  Anyway, I am still going to try to do that, to get my thoughts in order and let everyone see what I had in mind. I will go over all of the important things needed to survive:  video games, music, anime, and other things.

VIDEO GAMES

Again, it's a bit tricky to remember what even came the hell out this year game wise. I am not going to rank things, because I suck at ranking things and also comparing a lot of the things I played this year is like comparing apples and termites.  I'm just going to make a good effort to go over some nice highlights of the year.

Bayonetta 1 and 2

Bayonetta is a game series I have been interesting in playing forever, but just haven't gotten around to due to circumstances despite it being released on multiple systems I owned.  I passed it on the PS3, couldn't afford to buy it when it was out on the WiiU, so when it came out on the Switch I had to give it a shot, and it was worth it. Admittedly, I sort of sucked at it (I take a ton of damage playing games, which isn't the best for getting high ranks) but I still enjoyed it and am glad that I played both of them (except for that one part in the first game in the angel territory where you fight those thunder and fire claw dudes who are immune to witch time, they can eat my ass).  The characters are fun, the over the top action and enemies are neat, and Bayonetta is just too damn cool.  I'm definitely interested in the third one and looking forward to seeing where the sequel goes. 

(I had forgotten this game had came out this year, it was in February, goddamn how long was this year)

Kirby Star Allies

I will admit, I am heavily biased towards Kirby to a fault.  If a Kirby game makes a reference to a past Kirby game I will gleefully clap as I notice it like a trained seal, and Kirby Star Allies, serving as a Kirby anniversary title, plays into that nostalgia hard.  Compared to the other modern 3D Kirby games (Return to Dreamland and past) I feel that the single player experience is on the weaker end, admittedly. The main campaign, while satisfying, blazes by quick, and the game does re-use boss styles a lot, which is a shame since the past few Kirby games had some very satisfying bosses.  Fortunately the extra content, including the post game modes and extra DLC support, was a marvelous way to keep the game running way after its release.  The nods and references to past games worked wonderfully for me, and it was admittedly great to see long dormant characters such as the animal buddies, Gooey, and Adeline/Ribbon return as playable characters.  The game's single player campaigns, both the initial story mode and the DLC conclusion “Heroes in Another Dimension” have very satisfying conclusions, and the challenge offered by the obligatory Arena mode is wild.  Really, I just love Kirby, and this game is a nice love letter to Kirby.  I have no idea where the game will even go after the plot line from this, but I am ready for the ride.

Octo-Expansion

Being able to play as an Octoling was definitely a long anticipated update for this game, and the way they were integrated into the game was amazing.  The initial Octo-Expansion trailer oozed almost rude amounts of style, and getting a whole new bonus single player campaign made purchasing an expansion worth it.  The additional stages were absolutely geared for challenge, and I don't think I will go back to finish the ones I didn't finish any time soon, but they had so many cool new implementations and spins on the Splatoon formula.  Splatoon on its own would make a decent game if it were just the single player campaign or multiplayer, so having both just makes for a nice, complete experience.  The whole climactic sequence, from finally completing the challenge of the subway to escaping to freedom, has that absurd escalation I just love in video games too. Also I love my stylish Octoling.

Kemono Friends Picross

Somehow I made it so long without ever playing Picross, but this finally brought me into it.  I have no idea how this combination came to be, but it finally got me into a fun puzzle system and I enjoy it. Somehow I have put in nearly as many hours on this game as I have Star Allies.  A lot of it does come from having the game paused as I idly go through puzzles while working on other projects, but having a game that does not demand a ton is pretty nice and fits with my gaming and lifestyle.  I'm looking for friends.

WarioWare Gold

WarioWare is one of my favorite video game franchises and a bit of an underdog, I feel.  The original Mega Microgames was my favorite experience on the GBA, with its unique game play mixed with a silly style.  The games that followed in the series for the DS and Wii were fun, but Made in Wario on the WiiU changed from the Microgame based high score hunting style to a collection of modes and games based on the WiiU game pad.  There were some bright ideas in there that might have done better as their own eShop titles, and the shift towards multiplayer games didn't quite fit as well with my style of gaming.  After that there was silence from the Wario Ware camp until the announcement and release of WarioWare Gold, which like Star Allies is a celebration of the series's past.  It was fun to have another Microgame experience that blended all of the weirdness and frantic gameplay that made me love the series, with a solid selection of classics built in.  It even has fully voiced cutscenes (an expansion on Smooth Moves's narration for each different style) that are oddly charming in a Saturday morning way.  It was good to have this series back, and I hope to see more unique takes on Microgames in the future.

Katamari Damacy Reroll

The original Katamari was a quirky game I bought on a whim back in the PS2 days that was sold to me on its weird look, style, and nice price point.  I enjoyed the first so much, and We <3 Katamari is one of my favorite games of all time.  Having a nicely touched up port on the Switch was welcome.  Somehow, despite having not played the original or its sequel in decades, I took to it like I had just played it yesterday, rolling up incredible Katamaris like a pro.  The original does have some warts in its gameplay that the sequels ironed out marvelously, and the dual stick controls do bother my thumbs at times, but it's still so satisfying to play and it's great that this game has a new chance.  Please go by this one, it's so enjoyable, but also because I want them to port We <3 Katamari so badly so you can all play that and see Katamari perfection.

Super Smash Brothers Ultimate

Smash Bros games seem to live on hype.  I will admit I never expected to see a Smash Bros game so early in the Switch.  It doesn't even feel that long since Smash 4 came out!  So having a trailer in the beginning of the year and a release in the same year was a bit astounding.  There was lots of drama and intrigue with leaks, character additions, and whatnot, and even if I am sad for some that didn't make it (pour one out for Ashley and Shadow, please) having every character available, along with some fun new additions, is definitely nice.  The spirits mode is a nice twist on the event mode, and the rebuffs to classic are nice.  Really, the best part is just being able to play Smash again with my pals, try out all of the characters, and just enjoy it with everyone.  I look forward to the DLC, and that we get Banjo and Crash to create some sort of bizarre realization of every ones mid-2000s dream game.  It was a fun ride leading up to it, and I look forward to playing it more with pals in the new year.

STUFF I STILL NEED TO FINISH

There are some games I got really recently that I still need to finish as gifts from the Steam Sale and whatnot.  I have right near the end of December received Celeste, Donut Country, and I finally got Cuphead thanks to the kindness of friends.  These will be some nice games to get me started on the new year even if one of them is from last year. At some point I may go back to Hollow Knight and Dark Souls, although admittedly the requirements for the true ending of the former are a bit of a turn off and I am having a bit of difficulty getting into the game play, controls, and progression style of the latter, but who knows!  I am also intrigued and interested in Yokai Watch 3, Yoshi's Crafted World, in the near future, and hope to see some nice news on Animal Crossing. Lastly, may Platinum Games heed my calls and give the world a Wario World sequel where Wario wrestles God or something in the pursuit of money.  Amen.

Also I still need to finish Persona 5.  Really at this point I’m just doing it for Futaba. She’s the best.

Next up, I will write about my favorite music from the year, as well as cartoons and film, which admittedly I have not gotten as much into this year!

[pkmncornerstore]

3/15/22

MISSED A LOT OF DAYS! let me explain that before i get into a long post about what ive been doing pokemon related for the past two weeks. i’ve been very busy with school but worry not! i have still been very busy with pokemon and i guess i’ll highlight all the fun things i’ve been doing because hoo boy this is two weeks of posting to catch up on. one of the first things i did in march was organize my game shelf and whatnot. this isnt exclusively pokemon related but a lot of the things i have ARE pokemon!  3/2/22

the shelf’s organization as been SO fun and its making my room such a fun place. with all of my games in one place i can also start collecting games once i get a job hehe!! MOST of the beginning of march i was big into splatoon but thats not the only thing i got up to! 3/3/22

did some personal shiny tier lists! had some debates with friends about pink shinies and green shinies and all of the like. then, immediately after 3/4/22

for some reason we were talking about our favorite pokemon characters! of course i brought up zinnia and steven stone, absolute favs and never fail to make me smile. 3/6/22 started making custom shinies for every pokemon! idk if i mentioned it here but ive been wanting to for a while, and this was a better time than any since just the day before the day prior(lol) i looked at almost every shiny! ooh, also started playing pokemon shuffle again! 3/7/22 started an emerald nuzlocke that i stopped playing the same day! didnt stop playing it bc i hated it or anything i just lost interest super quick!

various screenshots of my team! maxie ended up killing misandry right before the 4th gym and tipensy died to a self destruct baltoy on route 111! shitface died somewhere while training but i dont remember where. it was to a doduo! took a pause after replacing some members and the team before i stopped was:

rest in peace, misandry, tipensy, and shitface. 3/10/22 started another nuzlocke, this one i DIED in!

i chose bulbasaur for my starter as i do when im playing kanto and dont want to suffer through brock.  speaking of brock, i took him out pretty quick. here was the team leaving that gym.

i dropped off a few pokemon i wasn’t going to be using and settled with sprout, sammy, and bgart. sprout took out misty with ease and then i moved onto the ss anne and by extention surge. the team leading into the ss anne was this bunch of friends!

following surge’s defeat, the team was looking strong!

pretty soon after this, i grabbed a growlithe who immediately joined my team! bubby<3

bean and sammy ended up...falling.

this double battle DESTROYED me. bean was basically my only hope for defeating koga at this point, and sammy had been there since the beginning. sprout and bgart took out the duo but it left a hole in the team.

ended up grabbing a pidgey from a route i had dupes on and a geodude i’d caught before and the team was looking okay! ended up taking out the fourth gym and going through the team rocket things. i grabbed the eevee from celadon and named him leif, fully knowing leafeon wasn’t in this gen and fully knowing i was going to evolve him into a vaporeon.

disaster struck!

i knew bgart was going to be too weak for later in the game but i didnt expect it to happen to a wild battle.

i jumped into the koga fight completely unprepared and got wiped. unsurprisingly, but still saddeningly. 3/12/22 i drew growlithe! 

later in the day i went to a party, and like a cool teenager with friends, i shiny hunted dialga in diamond and wurmple in omega ruby. got neither, but was fun nonetheless. and in terms of things i have dates for, here’s a bunch of things i’ve done that i dont really remember exactly when i did! old news, but when i got legends arceus i also opened some pokemon cards with my siblings and got a finneon v! more recently, we went to the store and i came back with a pokemon sticker book and the super extra deluxe essential handbook! and, of course, 8 packs of pokemon cards. me and kia opened the first two packs together and both got a v card, the same pokemon, different cards. it was a little silly. and of course i’ve continued that silly bug playthrough. i actually restarted it completely but don’t tell nobody.  i went through this with more ease than i thought i would. took out winona by teaching lux ice beam

this is a slightly old screenshot ; bubby is level 40 now! kye still needs some training, but we are getting there.  also edited brendan to actually be... me!! ft. a net ball because this was a bug type playthrough. be warned, though, i did not catch any of my pokemon in net balls.

and...that concludes the things i have missed updating on! i have been doing SO much, so much of which is completely unrelated to the old things i’ve been doing. i hope to get back to updating consistently, and if i don’t, you’ll get more of these long style posts! as always, seeya customers!

[inkni]

An Overwashed Laundry List

Let’s get to it already! Enough waiting around.

I’d like to kick things off by stating my favorite commonality between Splatoon and Overwatch: I uniformly love each update that’s been made to these games. Even if I nitpick a tidbit, these games have grown stronger every single time a new update is downloaded and installed, and that delights me endlessly.

When OW launched last May, it had—just in the big sweep of things—two fewer heroes, two fewer maps, no competitive mode at all, and the idea of a “seasonal event” had never crossed our brains as players. Here’s to them keeping up this great momentum!

Arranged from simplest to most complex (at least from my perspective/guessing), here are some changes I’d like to see come to OW during Season 4:

1) While the “Stay as a Team” function is possibly the best smallest update to OW ever (changed so much about how I played the game!), it introduced some troubles where players in voice chat became even more hopelessly fragmented between group chat and team chat. To rectify this, and to attempt to get everyone into team chat, Blizzard added a “Join Team Chat” button in the Hero Selection screen. Visually speaking, however, this option is far more difficult to notice than the neon green “Stay as a Team” during the end results; I would like it to be made much more noticeable. I would also like some way for console players to be able to actively encourage their teammates to join. On PC, players can choose to type a message saying, “hey get in team chat,” or whatnot; maybe a custom button or scroll-wheel text command could be added that we could spam in order to request the same? (Maybe this could even help convince Xbox players to leave their party chat and join the game’s built-in chat?)

2) Much of my frustration with competitive stems from feeling like, just on their face, matchups are not nearly as fair as the displayed Team SR (skill rating) averages would imply. Those averages are the game’s way of saying who it thinks will win, and that bet determines partially how much your rank rises or falls afterward. It does not feel accurate to me to say that my team of all Platinum players is evenly matched against a team with two Golds, two Plats, and two Diamonds—especially when the Gold players are put by their teammates onto high skill-floor heroes like Lúcio that can’t be screwed up too badly, while the Diamond players pick Tracer and Reaper and double-handedly demolish my team while carrying theirs.

What do I want to be done about this? I’m not sure. At the least, I’d like more clarity on how the matchmaking and ranking systems compute this stuff. (Also, some more clarity about why it feels like win/loss streaks have waaaay more impact on rank gained or lost than anything else. If my team was a huge underdog and won despite that, I should always be getting a lot of rank points—I don’t care if I’m coming off a four-game losing streak. Having my rank only bump up by 15 points afterward FeelsBadMan! And yes, this means the opposite is true as well. An upset of a loss should be punished even if on a win streak.) If I had to proffer a suggestion, I’d say this: weigh the rankings before averaging. The further away above a player is from the 50th percentile of the game (which is the 2500 ranking, ostensibly)—or maybe the further up they are from the median of all 12 players in the match?—the more their ranking should impact the computed average of their team. I.e., some sort of system that would reflect the ability of higher-skilled players to carry teams of lower-skilled players.

3) There’s complexity in this one, but we already know Blizzard is on it: FIX 2CP MAPS! Hanamura especially. And don’t wait till after Season 4 to do it! How should it be done? I’m not sure, exactly. On Hanamura, I’d throw up some more walls around the back of Point B to make it slightly harder to reach when emerging from spawn. On all of them, I’d increase respawn timers for Defense on Point B. And yeah, maybe find some way to measure incremental progress in capturing the points. The “3-Tick” system wouldn’t be ideal for this, but it’s absolutely true that if one attacking team was on Point B long enough to achieve a 2/3 capture, they were more skilled than the team that achieved zero of the ticks.

4) Leavers still fuck up competitive! It’s not as huge an issue as it was in earlier seasons, but it’s also far from perfect. If someone leaves during a match where at least 75% of players are in placements, just cancel that match! And double the punishment of the leaver—plus fuck up their rank, or something. Outside placements, I have two ideas:

A) Add in a player queuing for a ranked match, if they said they’re okay joining a comp match already in progress. Unlike in Quick Play, though, the developers couldn’t just say, “it’s a win for you if you win when joining late, but we won’t count the loss if you lose!” because that would fuck up the ranking system. However, surely they could find some way to incentivize joining regardless? A big XP bonus? Loot boxes? Of course, it could be that the latecomer would troll or not try since their rank isn’t on the line, but considering the alternative was a nearly always doomed 5-v-6, I wouldn’t complain.

B) Just a damn bot! I’m not the first to suggest this. Throw me a freaking Lúcio bot programmed to head to the largest group of his teammates he can find and heal them while amping it up whenever someone hits critical health. Boom. Done. You’ve increased my chances of winning the 5 (humans)-v-6 already, even if just by a bit.

5) This one is also coming, but I want it ASAP: a replay system! If Mario Kart 8 could pull off Mario Kart TV, surely you can follow suit, Blizzard. I want to be able to save the whole match and view it later from multiple perspectives, as in Spectator Mode. It would be soooo helpful to be able to analyze my plays. And yes, I’m aware that replays don’t always catch things the way they actually transpired live, and thus could be used by players to bemoan ‘cheap’ deaths they experienced or shots they think shouldn’t have missed... but so what. Fuck the haters!

I think the above list would be an amazing start to things, and leave me even more helplessly in love with this game than I already am. Lastly, in terms of new content, lemme just make my personal beliefs known, in order of what excites me from most to least: balance updates, then events, then new heroes, then new maps. Is that a strange ranking?! I dunno. I think that big balance updates are just soooo neat, and want them to keep coming. Symmetra 2.0 in December was as exciting to me as Sombra in November. I would love to see Mercy receive a new ability, for instance! (She’s the only hero lacking a secondary ability, pretty much. An “E,” they’d say on PC.) The events have been so amazing and so unexpected—I still remember my surprise at the Summer Games in August being unveiled—I can’t wait for them to continue. New heroes are awesome, but they can only really release probably 2–3 per year.

I started things off with a similarity between Splatoon and Overwatch, so here’s a difference for the end: maps. A new map in Splatoon was always a cause for joy, because it worked across four game modes: Turf Wars, Splat Zones, Tower Control, and Rainmaker. A new map in OW, though, is just one more addition to payload, KotH, etc. Not terribly exciting, in my mind. I would love to see a truly new game mode come with the next map! If Capture the Flag was broken on Lijiang Tower, maybe a map built from the ground up for the mode could work? Or they could dream up some totally new mode, I dunno. I’m thirsssty.

That’s all for now! “Look at this list—we’re gonna do great!” :D