#Wave 1

[desultory-novice]

@gygias-strikes-again

...Well, if you insist!

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Edited to make the text larger/more readable.

Behold, my first attempt at one of those classic spontaneous 5 minute Dess drawn responses...only in color! (Also, it was 1h 05m according to Clip Studio's new time feature. Sob...)

Original post HERE

[dragaliareferencearchive]

Campus Stroll Nefera de Nile - Monster High

*Please note that she's missing her ring

*Higher quality references are available in the Google Drive

[spawn-universe]

MCFARLANE TOYS STATUES MARVEL

Captain America The Amazing Spider-Man #323

1:6 Scale Posed Figure with Scene and Comic - Inspired by The Amazing Spider-Man #323! This 1:6 scale posed figure features an environmental base and backdrop scene. Also included is The Amazing Spider-Man #323 comic book as well as a collectible art card with character artwork on the front and comic synopsis. Guest-starring Captain America! As tensions boil over in Symkaria, Cap provides an assist to Spider-Man and Silver Sable. Will the trio be able to pull a heist of Ultimatum's HQ? More truths revealed about the mysterious Solo.

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Wolverine X-Men #1 - Inspired by X-Men #1! This 1:10 scale posed figure features an environmental base and backdrop scene. Also included is a collectible art card with character artwork on the front and comic synopsis. It's Xavier's X-Men vs. Magneto, the Master of Magnetism! The X-Men's oldest enemy is back and it's going to take everyone the X-Men have to bring him down.

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Deadpool The New Mutants #98 - Inspired by The New Mutants #98! This 1:10 scale posed figure features an environmental base and backdrop scene. Also included is a collectible art card with character artwork on the front and comic synopsis. Introducing for the first time, the Merc With a Mouth, the extra-lethal Deadpool!

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Spider-Man #6 - Inspired by Spider-Man #6! This 1:10 scale posed figure features an environmental base and backdrop scene. Also included is a collectible art card with character artwork on the front and comic synopsis. The Hobgoblin is losing his mind, and it's up to Spider-Man and Ghost Rider to stop his demonic rampage! Will the Webbed Wonder and the Spirit of Vengeance defeat this vile villain?

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[grubhubgamingofficial]

Someone get Sheldon over here if you can.

[curly-fried]

FANGtastic

[kollectorsrus]

[midnightmoonbeams]

Salmon Run in Sploon 3 just feels way harder than Spl2n. Now of course, this is the first time I'd played the mode in a very long time in this video, so that's part of it, but I really don't think we shoulda been struggling that much in Wave 1.

From September 23rd, 2022

[angelfishcake]

dumb joke time yay!!!

[alexthesupernintendogamer-blog]

All 24 Cups and 96 Tracks!!!

[desultory-novice]

I really would like to see interactions between the Wave 1 characters. An earlier post you made did make me think about it some more.

The animal trio would certainly view Gooey as their little pal, but the real question of course lies with Marx. I wonder how Rick, Kine and Coo would interact with him? I interpret that Gooey is similar to Kirby to where he easily forgives and likes just about anyone, so I think he and Marx would have little to no trouble between each other.

I suppose maybe we could extend this subject and wonder how Marx could possibly interact with the DL3 animal trio, too. I had this hilarious thought of Nago stealing Marx's beach ball to play around with, lol.

I'm, of course, rather soft on Marx, as a everyone surely knows by now. I don't dismiss the things he did, nor his less heroic traits (if he can be said to have ANY heroic traits at all :laugh:) but I do like to imagine what he's like in his off hours, so to speak.

Something that I was just thinking about the other day was that, currently, Marx is listed as a "道化師"or "jester" ("ピエロ" or "pierrot"/"clown" in the Dedede Encyclopedia) but when he made his first appearance, he was known as "魔法使いのマルク" or "Marx the Magician."

What all those things tell me is that Marx, in his day to day life, is probably an entertainer. The "magician" thing could have referred to him being a stage magician, or maybe people in Dream Land knew him as the helpful neighborhood wizard? I'd think it would be in his best interest to try and earn a relatively reputable reputation for himself before pulling off his grand scheme.

Going back to the Dedede Encyclopedia entry about Marx, King Dedede talks about him like "...I think he caused some kind of big incident once?" so I'd like to think that the truth of his and Kirby's fight wasn't all that well known and people don't really hold that against him.

Poppy Jr: "Hey, Kirby! How'd it go with the sun and moon thing? Marx said something about checking on you and then he left?" Kirby: "Mmm. Yeah. We fought. He blew up. Everything's good now though. ...Yaaaaawn... Sleepy time..." Poppy Jr: "...???"

Honestly, I find it hard to imagine anyone in Popstar holds anything against anyone? That seems so antithetical to the way we've seen life depicted as on the star-shaped planet.

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What I think is kind of neat about the Animal Friends in combination with Marx is that they all kind of give off this... circus vibe to me?

You know Ricks' one move, where he takes out an umbrella and spins Kirby around on it? That's known as 傘回し��or "umbrella spinning" in Japan and it is a historical performance art. And so, I like to think that Marx, Gooey, and the Animal Friends (DL2 and 3) make up a kind of low-key "circus" act for Dream Land. Or at least bond over festivals and such.

I mean, the Wave 1 team are all pretty laid back and probably much more interested in having a good time than any of the other Waves, who have more outside-Popstar connections. Gooey might be Dark Matter, but that's never mattered to them. And HC aside, Marx on the surface is just a fun-loving, silly little guy. I mean, look at this face! Look at him!!! He just wants to be silly!

But yeah, when I think back to the fact that the opening of MWW has Kirby alongside a Bronto Burt, a Waddle Dee, and a Poppy Brother, I thnk that Marx is probably someone who deals more with the "commoner" side of Dream Land, which is where Gooey and the Animal Friends fit to me too.

As for opinions on him... I think that the older-coded members probably treat him as a funny little scamp. I think that, despite their best attempts not to laugh, Marx's hijinks or bad puns probably get a dumb giggle out of them. They've been around enough to not take him too seriously. (The Nago and Marx fighting over his ball imagery is the cutest darn thing and thank you so much for it!)

As for the younger ones, Chuchu probably loves him WHEN he's being explicitly cute but turns up her nonexistent nose at him when he's not. They probably also share bow tips. I can see Marx playing a lot of games with Pitch, with the others keeping an eye to make sure he doesn't play too rough. (Alternatively, he's taken a couple of painful "warning" pecks to the head by Pitch Mama.)

Yep yep yep! I can see Gooey and Marx having the strongest bond out of the 8 of them too. Because while the others all share the trait of being "laid back" and "easy-going" both Marx and Gooey have something special going on with them. They're both different in a way that the others don't get. Not that either of them have a need to (or CAN) talk about it. But I think Gooey probably looks up to Marx for being weird and unexplainable "like me" and Marx digs Gooey for being kinda "wrong" - like him.

[dragaliareferencearchive]

Wave 1 Cleo de Nile (Indonesia variant) - Monster High (Updated version)

*Higher quality references are available in the Google Drive

[egophiliac]

You can’t pick Lilia for this. But who is your other favorite short character in Twst?

I like the angry little king boy 🌹

[gamershoe]

same package btw

[kizzer55555]

The Vampire Aesthetic

Ok so Danny knows two billionaires personally and they really couldn’t be more different. Yet they had one thing in common. A vampire aesthetic. Sam is fully into goth. Spiderwebs, bats, the color black. She enjoys fangs and fake blood and the darkness of her soul. Meanwhile, Vlad is Vlad. If his name wasn’t enough, the dark clothing, pale skin, and flying around with a cape and fangs with coffins in his mansion really sells it.

Danny doesn’t know many rich people so he thinks this might be some kind of trend. (If Paulina is rich, her family likes the chupacabra) So he just thinks that all rich people have some kind of vampire thing going on.

Cue Danny somehow ending in the Wayne household. Maybe he was brought over as a friend of one of the bats, maybe rescued from a field trip/vacation gone wrong, maybe some other situation. But he is there in civilian form with civilian Waynes and Danny just takes a good long look around the inside of the mansion.

“So where’s the vampire aesthetic?

Everyone freezes.

Danny just starts looking around, checking behind paintings and feeling the walls for secret levers. Used to secret passages with Vlad and possibly Sam. The Fentons definitely had them when they were temporarily rich.

“Come on, I know you guys are hiding it.”

Cue the entire batfamily thinking that this is another Tim and that he is fully aware that these people are the batfamily. Danny hangs around the mansion more and the bats just start dropping their disguises and not even bothering to hide stuff around Danny because they assume he already knows. (Possibly even trying to recruit him to be a new bat) Meanwhile, Danny, who does not know these people are batman and his birds, just does not pick up on any of it.

He grew up in a health violation with a giant ballon observatory lab above his head and a portal to the afterlife in his basement. He is a half dead teenager who has tea with the god of time and his godfather is the other parent to his clone child. He’s used to death lazers being scattered across his home and mysterious stains on clothing.

People are weird! He doesn’t judge!

[orphancookie69]

Nintendo Switch: MK8D-Booster Course Pack!

If you know you know, but the question is...what does one know or not know? Today, 12/7, the world is a buzz about the 3rd wave of 6 for the booster pack for Mario Kart 8! 

Here is my review of the base game: https://at.tumblr.com/orphancookie69/nintendo-switch-mario-kart-8-deluxe/n432izryjhg7

More information here: https://mariokart8.nintendo.com/booster-course-pass/

What is a booster course? It is a fancy similar term for DLC. This is basically extending the life of the base game by adding more courses, and slowly releasing them to “build up excitement”. This cost $25 on its own, but Nintendo also made it a part of the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack. Every one has to have the Nintendo Switch Online membership to play online, it renews annually. The expansion pack is more expensive than the membership alone, but it includes DLC for nintendo games like Animal Crossing, MK8D, and Splatoon. If you pay more for the annual membership, the DLC is free. 

More information here: https://www.nintendo.com/whatsnew/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-nintendo-switch-online-expansion-pack-membership-plan/

I have had to trouble shoot some issues with this, as its easy to be confused that if you overpay for one to not pay for the DLC, how do you get it? how do you update? I personally would rather pay separately for these things and take all those questions out of this process. But if you are wanting to jump into the trend, you have options. 

However you choose to get this, what is the booster course? It adds 12 new icons to your racing tracks option screen. Wave 1 offered the first 2, Wave 2 offered the 3rd and 4th, and Wave 3 offered the 5th and 6th. I believe Nintendo plans to offer the next 3 waves and be completely done by the end of 2023. I will not spoil the tracks, heck if you wanted to do that, I am sure you could find that on Youtube. This “minimal timed” amount of updates is in line with how Nintendo has updated other big titles, like Animal Crossing. 

I do actually worry about the life of games that have a very definitive end to their updates. The longevity of a game comes in two ways-updates or reboots/remakes or even sequels. There are other games, even if in different genres, that have much longer term updates planned that I think will end up playing less Nintendo games and hurting nintendo. It is hard to keep making content, plus the fact they make and update the system. But watch out for games like Disney Dreamlight Valley, their approach seems to be working for them so far. Anyways, hope everyone likes the new tracks!