#i play as an octo but if i were in the game id be a squid u__u not cool enough to be an octo

[rassicas]

do you have any guesses/confirmed stuff about the timeline of events in-game? for example, how much time passed in splat2 throughout the splatfests, when exactly the octo expansion happened compared to the splat 1 & 2 campaigns, etc. (sorry if this is a dumb question that's already known btw, like I've heard the amount of time that passes between games is the same in-universe but during the games...?)

Events within the game also generally follow real time as well. However, the exact placement of octo expansion and hero mode 2 on the timeline were intentionally left vague so that players wouldn't feel like they were missing out on crucial story stuff if they played octo expansion before hero mode. all that's really solid is that the events of splatoon 1's story happened before splatoon 2's, and splatoon 3's happening after all of that from a 2018 famitsu interview:

Amano: We had to create a gameplay system that was different from Hero Mode in a short time, so we had to make some decisions. Otherwise, there could be inconsistencies. For example, if Pearl mentions Octolings when she doesn't know what an Octoling is, it would be strange.

side-eyes NOA for inserting in octopus jokes in the stage dialogue which they then had to backpedal in octo expansion by making up a totally different reason for why pearl was shocked to learn marina was an octoling

Nogami: The events in Hero Mode and Octo Expansion take place on the same timeline. Therefore, the stories of Hero Mode and Octo Expansion don’t interfere with each other, and you can play either one first. However, with the release of Octo Expansion and the increase of Octolings in the city, the time in the world of Splatoon 2 has moved forward a bit. But if you haven't played Octo Expansion and are just looking at Inkopolis Square, you'll think, "Wow, there are a lot of new hairstyles.” The Inklings are so hedonistic that they don't even notice the coming of the Octolings (laughs).

on one hand i understand the reasoning behind the decision to not explicitly put the hero mode before octo expansion... but on the other hand i speculate that this choice is potentially what held back octo expansion's story. several early concepts for the DLC show that it was going to be that story about an octoling leaving the octarian domes, which is a story id imagine would really only work with prior knowledge of the other hero modes.

so basically based on following updates and changes in the inkling world in late 2018, we can assume the "canon" time of octo expansion was sometime around the DLCs launch, and hero mode 2 is just. somewhere.

With splatfests we can also assume it's real time, but with how different regions have different splatfests at the same time there's some haziness there lol

For my sanity I just assume the global splatfests are the most "canon" splatfests, and everything else is '????'

[daydreaming-scheming-demon]

i guess this isn't entirely related, since im not sure how much of this can really be called society's fault. but most of my own childhood was sitting inside all day playing video games and watching youtube videos. sometimes i wanted to go out, but there wasnt really anywhere for me to go. and the most exciting things to happen to me at school was maybe having time to do something on my laptop during lunch. walking to the store alone was one of the most exciting things i done outside my room. didnt have many friends to do anything with, either.

my adult life doesn't feel much different. only it's worse now. the place i live isn't very walkable, and there's nothing around to do anyway, and if there was i know it'd be too costly to do, and if it weren't i know i wouldnt have any friends to do it with. and i dont want a car because i know i couldnt afford it, or at least itd eat up enough money that i wouldnt have enough left for other things.

im an introvert and have always loved games, movies, shows, all the good shit found on the internet. i even look back at my childhood and feel nostalgia. remembering back when i used to play splatoon all day, the excitement i got out of the octo expansion for splatoon 2, discovering fnaf for the first time and getting scared because it was my first real horror thing. discovering undertale for the first time, that was a big one, loved undertale, really changed my perspective as a kid. playing minecraft all day, i still remember my very first minecraft experience and my 3 block high dirt house. and how i remade the fnaf maps in creative mode.

it's nice and nostalgic looking back, love it. but sometimes i get sad that none of those nostalgic memories include anyone besides myself, and that all of them were spent in my room.

in fact, thinking about it now, my childhood isn't much different than my adulthood. still in my room a whole lot, still watching youtube videos, still playing video games.

dont get me wrong, id love to go out. there's just not many places to go, and not any people to go places with.

im sure part of this is probably my own fault, or due to how i was raised, or the area i live in, or just plain bad luck. but it's just depressing sometimes. and it's depressing knowing that other young people didnt really live much of a childhood either, because i know then that it's definitely a problem with society, and a problem that's going to be difficult to change.

i still have hope for the future. or at least my own future. im not sure what im going to do, especially with the housing crisis here in australia. it's difficult to find a place for rent to begin with, and even more difficult to find an affordable place, and if im gonna dream of buying a home i might as well dream of riding a dragon while im at it.

it's all so bleak. it's even bleak for the ones who found success, let alone me. but i dont know, there's still an insane little part of me that still has hope. and still wants to try make things better. somehow.

Maybe this is the wrong platform to pose this question given the average tumblr user but

Is it just me or did our generation (those of is who are currently 20-30 ish) just not get the opportunity to be young in the 'standard' sense?

Like, everyone I talk to who's over 40 has all their wild stories about their teens and 20s, being young and dumb, and then I talk to my friends and coworkers and classmates, and we just... dont.

[vendily-blog]

Splatoon 3: Side Order Trailer

With a new trailer for the Side Order expansion, that means a new trailer shredding post from me.

Of course, everything goes under the cut, as per usual.

So first things first, the setting. AKA, we entering the matrix, baby!

The Dualies are shown appearing as wireframes for about a second before materializing, and these walls of characters are prominent inside the Spire of Order.

I suspect that this tower is not a physical location, as this elevator shaft disappears into the blocky yellow lights, and we also see Agent 8 and the Pearl Drone walk into these yellow walls as the walls shift around them.

The characters on these walls seem to be the standard inkling language seen elsewhere in the series for the curious.

Mind that only the Spire of Order has these yellow digital artifacts hanging around it. The other buildings in Inkopolis Square do not have them.

It also appears that Agent 8 and the Pearl Drone are not here by choice, as Acht comments that they were "Just another bystander who got sucked in." This suggests that the entire area was forcibly converted into this state.

Minor tangent, looking up Acht on Wiktionary has one of the origins in German, with it being the number 8 turned into a noun. But I find the definitions of it interesting so I have replicated them below

Acht f (genitive Acht, plural Achten)

the natural number eight

the numeral sign 8

a playing card with the value eight

a figure eight shape; a bicycle wheel bent out of shape

Splatoon has previously played with the number 8 with respect to Agent 8's campaigns, with their ID in Octo Expansion being 10008, and 1000 is also 8 in binary. So I don't believe this is just a name chosen at random.

The Figure 8 shape in the definitions is significant as well, as the logo on the Palette is a Figure 8 too.

Acht also states that they and Marina go way back. I have suspicions that they are hiding their true nature, as Acht is clearly Dedf1sh, and Sanitized Octarians were previously established to have no life energies or free will, and explicitly stated to not even have signs of life anymore.

It's not quite clear if Marina knows the fate of Acht, but if it is way back, we know from the Octo Expansion chats that Marina went AWOL when she was 16, at the time of the first Splatoon game. Posts from the Squid Research Lab suggest that time in the real world passes at the same rate as in Splatoon's world, so with Splatoon 1 releasing in 2015, about 9 years would have passed by the time Side Order releases (but we can call it 7 years if Side Order takes place at the same time as Splatoon 3's Story mode, much like how Octo Expansion takes place at the same time as Splatoon 2's Story Mode).

Did both Acht and Marina leave the Octarian Army at the same time? But Acht definitely got caught up by Kamabo Co. I have some suspicions now with this new information of them knowing each other, it explains in part why Pearl and Marina were in the vicinity of Mount Nantai, where Captain Cuttlefish and Agent 3 were when they were captured and taken to the Deep Sea Metro. Was Marina investigating Kamabo Co to track down what happened to her lost companion? Pearl didn't quite seem to know what's going on to the same degree as Marina who instantly offered her help to scan the surroundings and provide support.

Speculation period over, let's talk mechanics. The biggest one is of course, the new Palette system, which holds Color chips, which seem to act similar to ability chunks on gear.

Each chip seems to have a category they belong under, though only the categories have icons. There are very slight colour differences between chips with the same category but different effects. The side bar appears to only show effects that have associated chips in the palette. As far as I can tell, there seems to be, beyond the 6 visible chip types, at least 3 more unidentified chips, with Teal/Aqua chips sharing the same design and likely falling under the same category.

I am able to specifically identify 1 of them, the Teals in the top left of the palette, which are Drone Splat Bomb chips, reducing the cost of the Drone's splat bomb. Interestingly, it seems the Drone is charged up by painting turf, similar to using specials. It doesn't seem to replace normal specials, as in the palette menu, we can see Agent 8's loadout too, and it includes the Reefslider special. I can confirm that the Drone's Weapon can be changed, as it is shown to use a Burst Bomb instead of Splat Bomb. What appears to be an Inkstrike is also shown, but I am not sure if the Drone or Agent 8 used it.

Something that I don't quite understand yet is what this Common Tones means. I did note that the palette has more chips than cleared floors, with 20 chips when only 15 floors were cleared so far (becoming 21 when entering floor 16). Perhaps these Common Tones are similar to brands on gear being more likely to roll certain sub abilities? Though it is also possible the extra 5 chips are a pre entry set up, as Side Order has its own currency, and these could be purchased instead. Alternatively, as it's shown on the floor selection what appears to be a button to return to the previous floor, it may be possible to repeat floors, and that's where the extra chips came from.

Shifting to floors themselves, each floor seems to have specific themes, each with different pre-entry chips and completion rewards. You can also see the button labeled 15F, the floor before the one Agent 8 is about to enter.

Each of these floor names seems to suggest what the floor's layout will be, with the icon being the floor challenge.

The Easy floor features an icon of the fish robot spawners, which are shown to be destructible, in an explosive manner similar to the rainmaker shield. Perhaps the objective is to clear out all the spawners?

The Normal floor Icon is clearly that of Splat Zones. Perhaps you are forced to defend the area against an excessive amount of fish robots until a timer finishes, similar to ranked?

The Hard floor Icon has me at a bit of a loss, as I don't quite recognize the structure. It vaguely reminds me of Salmon Run's basket, but also a sprinkler. I'm not quite sure what it is supposed to be.

To cap things off, here are some unsorted observations.

These meat grinders pouring out ink bring to mind the blender. In the background, we can see that the ink seems to be collected in storage tanks. I'm not sure if the ink here is used for similar purposes as it was in Octo Expansion, to sanitize subjects. The only enemies we see seem to be more robot that creature, so I am not sure of the purpose of this room. Are they used by the machinery in the background creating boxes of odd objects?

There are a number of objects in these crates. Of the ones I can reasonably identify, there appears to be a memcake of a tentacle, an octopus shaped doll or plush, and Marina's Turntable. The memcake has never appeared before, so I don't have a poem for it. And I suppose that makes sense as well, as the memcakes in Octo Expansion belonged to Agent 8, these memcakes would belong to Marina, or perhaps to Acht?

The breakable crates in levels still show the Squidbeak Splatoon logo on them, rather than the figure 8 of the Spire of Order. Octo Expansion had these crates feature Kamabo Co.'s logo on them, so I find it interesting that is not the case here.

These odd additional lights on the dualies and eyepiece with an antenna seem to be what the combined level 2 armor set looks like with the level 1 set being just the weapon lights, as I only found instances of the weapon lights alone.

One of the Pearl Drone upgrades seems to give it properties of a sprinkler, though this does not replace the weapon it has equipped as a different shot has both the Burst Bomb and the Sprinkler effect at once (seen earlier in this post).

And that's basically everything I want to comment on at the moment.

[captn3]

7, 13, 17 for splatoon SMILES. if you cant think of a splatoon answer though choose whatever else you want

YAAAAAAAY okay here we go 7. what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them? hmmm this one is hard. i dont think i reallyyy hate any of them because of the fandom.. none of the idols- the way ppl act about shiver is annoying but it doesnt make me hate shiver. i love all the agents dearly.... in general this question doesnt really fit me i dont think ive ever hated a character because of fandom. because of other people YES but not the entire fandom 13. worst blorboficiation oh my fucking GOD for sure tartar. and grizz too the people who woobify and tumblr sexyman-ify tartar did the exact same thing to grizz too and its so annoying. thats literally just a fucking telephone why are you giving him a humanoid body and putting him in a suit and tie and making yaoi of him and grizz. grizz literally fucking accepts that mammalians are GONE for GOOD at the end of the game he would like. flick tartar with his paw. away from him. they wouldnt like each other at all. not to mention this is in a scenario where both tartar and grizz are still like. yknow. On Earth And Alive. tartar is fucking DEAD are you kidding me every goddamn character in octo expansion would make sure for a FACT that his programming is nowhere to be found. and grizz is fucking floating in space. as much as id like to see a redemption arc for him because he could be a fun character to play around with. how the HELL is he getting back down to earth. also not as important but everyone who does this to tartar gives him a human mouth and eyes and its like HES A FUCKING TELEPHONE. STOP HUMANIFYING EVERYTHING and almost always he has those racist shiny eyelids it drives me insane. 17. there should be more of this type of fic/art literally anything with dedf1sh im SERIOUS like. just Her in general. aus of her being cured. hanging out with the squidbeak splatoon personally I think shed be like. a great hacker type on the sidelines to figure out whats going on. next to marina probably but like if marina is mia or something she'd be a great replacement. she just has hacker vibes. guy in the chair guy in your earbud etc etc. less calf1sh (i love lesbians dont get me wrong but i think you guys were just desperate to ship the idols with SOMEBODY.) more just dedf1sh being a guy. sipping splatoon universe monster energy drink while typing on the computer and making music you get me. more ideas on how exactly dedf1sh is doing right now. why she made a song in octoplush. i need her to be relevant. they didnt go in detail of turqoise october or octoplush or any of them they only went in depth on dedf1sh's whole deal?? INCLUDING A REAL NAME??? SHE HAS TO BE FUCKING IMPORTANT WHY ELSE WOULD THEY DO THAT

[weaselmcdiesel]

omg!! what!! squid?! i heard so much about you!!

[flingza-roller]

Sorry if this is bad timing, but I just saw your post about lorikeet and I love them! Could you tell me a bit more about them and your other splatoon OCs?

OHO YES! there is no such thing as bad timing to ask about ocs, im just incredibly happy that somebody is interested!! heheh time to Ramble (this is long sorry)

ok so im gonna stick to the bird kids cuz theyre a lot easier to explain GSJFD (maybe someday ill give my other ocs refs and backstory stuff....)

all four of em are very much based off how i play the game as each character, so i pretty much just grab my in-game behaviour and give it to em as a personality.

so, lorikeet! splat3 is still very new but i think ive somehow already solidified their personality lmao. theyre super reckless, pretty much always falling off stages and getting themself splatted by doing stupid things like running headfirst to a tacticooler or trying to challenge the eliter that wont leave them alone (i think mahi-mahi is the absolute worst for this). they like to go a little bit cazy and get as many kills as possible, which is silly when the only mode u play is turf war... (on that, there is not a single splatoon game that has gotten me to like ranked/league. i played it a few times and then swore off it, so now all four of the kids hate ranked lol)

lori fucking ADORES deep cut so theyve got the three earrings in their right ear bc they wanna be like shiver and frye. on deep cut, they love splatfests and all the music n fun stuff that comes with it. theyre weirdly not too competitive when it comes to defending their team, BUT they will go extra feral during splatfest turf wars and go complete beast mode. they still dont have a main weapon? favours brushes but thats pippins thing so they should probably pick something else GDKGS

oh they have the worst adhd brain. if they see something cool happening in the bg of a stage they will just straight up stop in their tracks and watch for a while, completely oblivious to whatever is happening in the match. and of course the moment they hear the tacticooler they will run for it even if theyre literally in the opposite end of the stage.... stupid. favourite stage is yet to be decided, gotta let the game marinate for a while longer

as the new agent 3 lori is pretty good at following orders, they just kinda... die in the dumbest possible ways. trying to jump through walls, walking straight off ledges, accidentally attracting attention to themself by throwing lil buddy right next to them. but theyre pretty good at fighting! also they like annoying the captain, because of course (this doesnt bode well for kiwi)

id like to build more on their character eventually but that requires me playing more splat3 and ive been rly unmotivated to do so >:/ ive barely played any salmon run and still havent touched table turf. augh. lori u will grow as a person i promise

now PIPPIN! (she/they) theyre my kid from octo expansion! shes very silly but surprisingly strong and skilled. never asked for help from OTH and went through every single test multiple times to get every weapon ticked (hell). also enjoys fighting inner agent 3 because ??? clearly a lot more competent than theyre letting on.

so once pip came to the surface they were very much like "id rather NOT do the whole fighting thing again" and jumped into turf wars with the intention of just having fun and messing with people. her gear set is 100% QSJ cuz she likes annoying the enemy team and then jumping away like a coward when theyre cornered (it jumpscares people bc they dont expect an octo to jump THAT fast).

she uses brush so that they can draw love hearts in enemy base :] they think its very cute and gets sad when ppl ink over it. also if an enemy tries to initiate a party they will always join bc make love not war etc. always goes for the highest inkage (highest score excluding win points was over 2000) favourite stage is inkblot art academy!

zero sense of fashion btw they either wear the QSJ gear or whatever they think will make her look hot (big fan of the octoling armour and marinas crop top). sometimes changes gender to Boy bc why the hell not, gender is arbitrary.

when grouped up with the others, they like teaming up with pigeon to cause chaos and havoc. shes very excited to see lori joining the team cuz theyre equally as insane as the other two! kiwi is the only one carrying a braincell here rip

PIGEON time!! (also she/they) technically my first oc because splatoon 2 was my first game! so she definitely has the most going for them. foil flingza main (my beloved), absolutely a frontliner and goes for the kill as much as possible. very good at sneak attacks! main gear is almost entirely special charge up (sorry. im the og missile spammer) except for ninja squid which they use to scare the shit outta ppl.

pigeon adores the birds u see hanging out on various stages, especially the pigeons (naturally). favourite stage is moray towers! i never said we had good taste. moray is excellent for roller users and allows for fast clean base inking >:]

like the others they love a good squid party but isnt always in the mood, HOWEVER she will never splat an innocent partier bc thats a dick move. if theyre not a threat, theres no need to splat.

outside of turf, pigeon is actually not a very violent person. very sweet to their friends and oh so very lesbian. she sees a pretty girl in the square and goes 😳 (btw this DOES work in battle, be a cute girl and they will be distracted). fucking absolutely obsessed with squid beatz like you have no idea, aims to get gold on every hard mode song. favourite songs to play are frantic aspic, shark bytes, and entropical. she and pippin love playing games like this together, i bet theyd be great dance duo.

in hero mode, pigeon is naturally a completionist and obtained every weapon. fucking loves harassing marie and annoying her as much as possible. adores callie so much <3 their best speedrun time is 40 sec on octo samurai (sadly cant reach the world record of 39)

unlike pippin they actually have a pretty good fashion sense, always coordinating their outfits and ink colour to match. a very stylish squid!

now kiwi is an interesting one. i first played splatoon 1 in beginning of 2018, so sadly i missed out on the splatfests. still got plenty of turf in and played hero mode repeatedly bc i have brainrot!

so kiwi (again. she/they) is really into amiibo challenges, especially the kraken challenge. being a kraken for that long makes em feel powerful, and its lotsa fun. they actually spend far more time on hero missions than anything else, they enjoy turf on the occasion but find it weirdly intimidating (favourite stage is flounder heights!). she feels most at home in the valley, with craig and the squid sisters. theyre far too sympathetic toward octolings (unlike pigeon who just goes fucking ham) and tries her best to just avoid fighting them entirely. because of this, shes pretty good at stealth missions, especially since she rarely makes much noise anyway. theyre definitely the most low-key out of the four agents.

SO!! why do i name them all after birds? because.... i like birds :D yes im a wannabe ornithologist and birds are my main special interest. i also mainly name them after aus/nz birds cuz im just Like That. we have cool birds in australia, and lorikeet was just far too fitting to pass up. (btw pippin is short for peregrine falcon)

despite being so skilled in hero mode missions they do actually get hurt a lot and almost always has some kind of bandaid or gauze on her body from various injuries. is it a lack of skill, or just recklessness? hmmm (its definitely just because she doesnt take enough care of their body lol).

if kiwi were to be captain in splatoon 3, theyd definitely be just constantly scruffing new 3 by the collar to stop them from doing something stupid. is very afraid of a new idiot joining the gang, as if pip n pidge werent bad enough. all 4 as a splatfest team would definitely be the most chaotic thing possible.

also theyre this way because when i draw squirds (tagged on my blog as "wings au") i think its fun to see how different they all look! kiwi would certainly be more fitting as a bird of prey but i think they look so silly with the stubby wings so im not changing my mind. this does mean shes real fast at running! pip and lori are the fastest flyers, pigeon is just kinda in between rip

final note, theyre all at LEAST 18 just so that its not weird. they all use she/they except lori, whos exclusively they/them. they all fucking hate ranked but love hero missions. also all of them have 1 braincell bouncing between them (mainly held by kiwi)

if u managed to read this far, thanks for ur time!! ill eventually draw all these silly bird kids together as squirds, i think itd be fun.

[inkedmyths]

GOD OKAY SO I've been going nuts with my Splatoon buddies for the past hour so I'm gonna like. Compile together my thoughts n theories

First part of the trailer, because it's not my focus

NEW MUSIC?? Oh god I am SO hyped for this soundtrack. Also LOOK at those new specials and stuff

It looks like we're going to see some Splatoon 2 specials return, since I believe there was an Inkjet in there! It makes sense lorewise, because the reason all the specials were replaced was because of some kind of weapons recall where they had to be overhauled. So I'm expecting a mix of brand new, Splatoon 2, and Splatoon 1 but remixed specials.

Anyway all that aside

STORYMODE

Fuzzy Octarians are kind of horrifying but at the same time I would 100% buy that plush

What would a mammalified Octoling look like? Are we going to see that? Obviously Octolings are now within Inkling society, but that doesn't mean all of them have reached the surface yet...

Clearly there's some genetic fuckery going on. The question is, to what end? Gonna come back to that bc first...

CALLIE, MARIE, AND AGENT 3!!

I'm so happy to see all of them back, I missed them. It's good to see them together! But also...

Agent 3 is dressed VERY SIMILARLY to Splatoon 1 Captain Cuttlefish! And considering Cap'n is shown to be dressed in a Hawaiian shirt and khakis... I think he's retired, and passed on the mantle to Agent 3!

If that really is the case, then we'll be serving under the very protagonist we played as in the first game... god what a narratively interesting decision. I'm so excited.

Of course, this brings up the question of Agents 4 and 8, as well as Pearl and Marina. Personally? I think we'll be seeing another Octo-Expansion-esque addition at some point to Splatoon 3, and our other characters will make a comeback. I don't think they'd drop them, since they didn't drop Agent 3 and everyone agreed that was a cool as hell choice!

What's the deal with Octavio?

Because, to me anyway, it really doesn't seem like he's been set up as the "Final Boss" this time around. We see him in the trailer, in that big robot! And also, he's not... fuzzified? Not sure what that means, but I don't think he's our main antagonist this time.

I kind of wonder if maybe he's no longer an antagonist, like, at all. After all, what would he gain by making Octos... mammals? Plus, we've done that song and dance twice now. Maybe this is a twist, a sort of "enemy of my enemy id my friend, let's join forces" thing? Maybe not, but there's some food for thought.

So if it isn't Octavio, who is the main antagonist? I'll tell you

It's fucking Grizz

Okay like I have gone bonkers abt this before and SO FAR I THINK I'M RIGHT. Especially this one bit like let's focus on one thing here

Ruins of Arc Polaris

Aside from being the best Salmon Run map, the Ruins are notable because they are the standing remnant of humanity's last ditch attempt at survival. A sort of space age Noah's Arc, filled with some of the last of the age of mammals, hoping to find refuge among the stars. Signs still remain that say "Beware of Bears"

Bears, you say? Grizzly bears, maybe?

I know a lot of other people don't like the idea of Grizz being an actual bear. Maybe he is, maybe he isn't. He could be a bear, preserved, even immortalized, like Judd. He could be an AI, like Tartar. What's important is the idea that he is a remnant of Humanity. Of Mammals. Something that would see benefit in bringing back mammals...

...and something that may, for unclear reasons, try and recreate the Arc.

The Arc was a massive spaceship. Now I'm sure I don't need to remind you what was centerstage in the final seconds of the trailer.

It gives a reason for Grizz to have all those eggs. It gives a reasonable connection to mammals. How it all ties together? Well, we'll just have to wait and see

Hi thanks for coming back to Ink's Squid Conspiracies see you next time

[zaptap]

ive made a few of these bingo sheets and theyre fun so i decided to make one not just for e3 but also JUST for splatoon 3 (not just for e3 but for like the whole lifetime of the game). also heres my updated list of characters id like to see in smash, ordered generally by which id like more and/or think are the most realistic

since min min got in i took out helix, and since i couldnt decide whether to add in waluigi or madeline i added another row (realistically i dont think any indies are getting in but i threw some in anyway). also i was like “oh yeah maybe theyd put in a gen viii pokemon” so i threw in hatterene since thats one of my favorites.

also as for waluigi (and shovel knight for that matter) i think it would be nice to see an assist trophy get in just to break that rule. also i remember being super surprised he wasnt in brawl (back then i thought he and wario were equally important) and even though that was based on a wrong impression ive still felt like he should be in there ever since

notes about the bingos under the cut

really is about time for those n64 games, especially now that mario is dead so theyre free to release sm64 on it. game boy games would be nice sometime too

would also make sense to include banjo-kazooie in that, nintendos had a good relationship with microsoft lately and the total absence of anything banjo-kazooie on the switch is odd since it’s a dlc character (every other one has a game on switch they can use for cross-marketing, even if joker’s took a while) and i think the best explanation for that would be that theyre holding off for the nso n64 app (this is easiest from a technical standpoint because all they have to do is make a deal to use the roms)

when are they putting octolings in mk8d

xenoblade chronicles x is one of the only wii u games left that they could port (aside from ones that wouldnt make much sense like splatoon and ssb4) so i guess that might as well happen sometime. also monolith soft might be doing something else besides helping with splatoon 3

im not ready for metroid prime 4 (im over halfway through mp2 and therefore the trilogy as a whole) but it’s been a while, they might show it and it could even come out this year

hal apparently recently hinted at a new kirby game or something

the upgraded switch is obviously going to be called the Nintendo Switch ͥ  since they already did the ds lite so theyre clearly naming everything in the family after the ds family, theres absolutely no flaw in this logic. idk if theyre showing it, but unlike 2019 they didnt say they werent showing new hardware (just that they were showing software, which could be taken as denying rumors, but they sometimes specify when certain things arent being shown)

metroid prime trilogy also might come this year. would make sense to release it before mp4 since not everyone is going to buy a wii u to get it (and at this point that doesnt get nintendo any money since they stopped making them)

where is detective pikachu 2. i hope it has the blue pikachu from that first tease they gave us in like 2014 (2013? that was a loooong time ago idk)

they said this was MOSTLY 2021 so i am absolutely getting my hopes up for splatoon 2

the two sinnoh games could likely be there

would be super cool if oddity came to switch. and almost as ironic as megalovania getting into smash

we havent seen the botw sequel for a couple years so we’re kind of due for an update on that

it’s ace attorney’s 20th anniversary this year so maybe theyre doing something. theyre already porting those games though so idk. maybe he’s getting in smash

whats with that watermelon mario render

i held off on watching a playthrough for ndrv3 on the off chance it came to switch and i could play a dangan ronpa game for real for once but it’s now been 4 years and we just passed the 10th anniversary of the series (albeit during a pandemic when i wouldnt expect them to have done anything) so it would be cool to see the series come to switch. i think if it still doesnt after this though i’ll just watch the playthrough, 4 years is long enough. amazed ive avoided spoilers this long, i still know next to nothing about the game

im about done with acnh but im still waiting on those splatoon items. and i ran out of storage in february so i need more of that too

nintendo did stuff for zelda’s 30th anniversary so i doubt theyre forgetting the 35th. maybe wwhd/tphd ports, idk

been a couple years since fire emblem, intelligent systems is probably up to something besides planning yet another paper mario spinoff

miyamoto forgot pikmin 4 in the oven 6 years ago and it got burnt to a crisp and thats why it hasnt come out yet because he had to start over

and splatoon

the inklings scared daft punk into quitting so now that theres no competition in the robot musician scene they should have a daft punk style group

i waited and waited and neither of my top two splatoon stages (flounder and d’alfonsino) came back in splatoon 2 so i hope just because splatoon 3 isnt in inkopolis doesnt mean they still wont return

would be sick as hell if there was a real hide and seek mode instead of just sticking to your own rules in private battles. havent played that since 2015 but it was super fun

show us the effects of the chaos world

i wanted mc craig to have a song in octo expansion and they didnt deliver. heres another chance

splatnet 3 baby

cant wait for nogami to do a funny 3 pose

abxy came back for splatoon 2.... am i gonna be that lucky again...?

salmon run doesnt make sense if youre friends with a smallfry but they could either change the story context (you just fight “evil” salmonids?) or replace it with an equally fun co-op mode

amiibo!!! i think i said this before but they should label them by weapons if these cephalopods dont have genders, would make more sense (the gendered ones had different weapons anyway)

returning characters!!!! would like to see everyone have a role of some kind

maybe #GearForAll wasnt successful in getting the emperor/spy/mecha gear, but perhaps theyll at least consider not making that stuff exclusive this time around

squid girl gear should be back. and they should call it a dress instead of a tunic because its a dress. and theres no gender now anyway

as ive said before... TRIPLIES!! you hold one in each hand and another in your mouth. and you can spin around like the tasmanian devil

remove splatfest tee annoyances: you should have a prompt at the end of a splatfest to pay to scrub your tee (to make sure you get the chunks) also it should be on a neutral brand so you dont end up with an overabundance of ink resistance up (or whatever else)

better online and cloud saves would certainly justify having a second splatoon game on the same console, as much as im loving that it exists

hopefully theres a global testfire again

sooner or later the workers will rise up and kill mr grizz

remember in splatoon 1 where if you had squid beatz (via the amiibo) you could “play” it in the lobby and change the music? then you were stuck listening to only bubble bath in splatoon 2? why did they take that option away they should bring it back

looking at those apartment buildings in the trailer i think it would be cool if you had your own room and could decorate it

an octavio redemption arc would be fun to see. in the manga he stole the zapfish because the octarians had an energy crisis, and in the end they worked out a deal to share the electricity

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Toe Poke Daily: Tottenham 2-7 Bayern isn’t the biggest Champions League defeat ever, or even the most goals

Craig Burley says Mauricio Pochettino got his tactics wrong and should shoulder the blame for Tottenham’s record-setting defeat against Bayern.

The Toe Poke Daily is here every day to bring you all the weirdest stories, quirkiest viral content and top trolling that the internet has to offer, all in one place.

Jump to: Gnabry gets 10/10 from L’Equipe | Two goals = two tattoos | Henry, Pires look away now

Bayern Munich’s ruthless 7-2 devastation of Tottenham in the Champions League group stage on Tuesday night is certainly right up there in the UEFA annals — Arsenal fans, don’t get too cocky about it as your team didn’t do much better — but it’s not the biggest single-match win in tournament history.

No, barring the preliminary rounds of the competition, the biggest margin of victory ever amassed in the Champions League is 8-0, while the most goals scored in one match is 12 — Borussia Dortmund 8-4 Legia Warsaw in 2016.

– Cristiano Ronaldo’s fitness secrets … pizza is OK – Ibrahimovic a master of everything … except bowling – Balotelli’s daughter a mascot for rival team

Real Madrid were the first to administer an octo-drubbing when they netted eight unanswered goals against Sevilla at the Bernabeu in the 1957-58 European Cup quarterfinals, but seeing as modern football has the Champions League starting in 1992-93, here are the top scoring games to date from the competition in its new format.

And here’s a list of the other seven goal margins:

7-0 – Juventus vs. Olympiakos — Dec. 10, 2003 7-0 – Arsenal vs. Slavia Prague — Oct. 23, 2007 0-7 – MSK Zilina vs. Marseille — Nov. 3, 2010 7-0 – Valencia vs. KRC Genk — Nov. 23, 2011 0-7 – BATE Borisov vs. Shakhtar Donetsk — Oct, 21, 2014 7-0 – Barcelona vs. Celtic — Sept. 13, 2016 0-7 – NK Maribor vs. Liverpool — Oct. 17, 2017  7-0 – Liverpool vs. Spartak Moscow — Dec. 6, 2017  7-0 – Manchester City vs. Schalke — March 12, 2019

Serge Gnabry gets 10/10

If you score four goals, you expect to be given a perfect 10 for your performance but it doesn’t come that easily for French paper L’Equipe.

The publication is notoriously stingy for giving 10/10 in its player ratings and has only done so 11 times previously in history — twice to Lionel Messi.

In fact, here is the full list:

Lucas Moura – Spurs vs Ajax, 2019 Dusan Tadic – Ajax vs Real Madrid, 2019 Neymar – PSG vs Dijon, 2018 Carlos Eduardo – Nice vs Guingamp, 2014 Robert Lewandowski – Borussia Dortmund vs Real Madrid, 2013 Lionel Messi – Barcelona vs Bayer Leverkusen, 2012 Lionel Messi – Barcelona vs Arsenal, 2010 Lars Windfeld – Aarhus vs Nantes, 1997 Oleg Salenko – Russia vs Cameroon, 1994 Franck Sauzee – France U21s vs Greece U21s, 1988 Bruno Martini – France U21s vs Greece U21s, 1988

However, after Serge Gnabry’s four goals for Bayern in the 7-2 win over Tottenham, you can make that 12.

Serge Gnabry becomes only the 11th player to receive 10 rating from L’Equipe for his performance against Spurs. pic.twitter.com/imH3vE2RaP

— Demetrius (@DemetriusXVII) October 2, 2019

Gnabry, a former Arsenal player, was delighted with the win over his former club’s rivals and used an old favourite to refer to the “red” of Bayern taking over London.

North London is RED!!! pic.twitter.com/1Te5YjqpWo

— Serge Gnabry (@SergeGnabry) October 1, 2019

Arsenal were looking for a winger in the summer … just saying.

Two goals, two tattoos

Club Brugge striker Emmanuel Dennis was so certain that he wouldn’t be able to breach Real Madrid’s defence that he went all out and promised to get a tattoo if he scored at the Bernabeu on Tuesday night.

“This is a dream. A lot of people didn’t even think they would come here to play. If I score then I will get a tattoo on my skin,” he said during a video posted on Brugge’s Youtube channel before kick-off.

It took the Nigerian forward precisely nine minutes to break the deadlock, bumbling a shot past Thibaut Courtois to propel Brugge into a shock early lead.

Dennis then added a second goal shortly before the break, which he marked by mimicking Cristiano Ronaldo‘s trademark “Si!” celebration.

All Glory To GOD +one point What a dream in Bernabéu

pic.twitter.com/vBE81VfCPh

— Emmanuel B Dennis (@dennisblessed42) October 1, 2019

Real eventually restored parity to salvage a 2-2 draw, but that won’t prevent Dennis from sticking to his word and keeping up his end of the bargain.

“I guess I will now have to get two tattoos,” he told Belgian broadcasters RTL after the game.

That’s the rule. Two goals = two tattoos. It’s only fair.

Henry, Pires, look away now

It’s taken the best part of 15 years, but somebody has finally succeeded where Thierry Henry and Robert Pires failed all those years ago.

Indeed, Shakhtar Donetsk’s Under-19 side avoided the embarrassment suffered by the two aforementioned Arsenal legends by successfully dispatching a two-man penalty routine.

Мудрик

Судаков

Футболисты «Шахтера» U19 разыграли пенальти в матче Юношеской лиги УЕФА с «Аталантой» U19. pic.twitter.com/2DwAmlH9R0

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FC SHAKHTAR DONETSK (@FCShakhtar) October 1, 2019

Henry and Pires made a horrible mess of the same Cruyff-inspired manoeuvre during a game against Manchester City back in 2005.

Nice to see that it’s still exactly as awful as we remember it being.

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So what are my favorite games Part 1

So just to make things clear i haven been writing 1.because this is actually my second attempt at writing this i accidentally closed the tab the first time, uh and i only lost a few hours of work. and 2.because I’ve been working at my job a lot more frequently as of late. anyway, i could probably write an entire full length essay on all of these games but I’ll try to shorten things up, oh yeah uh some games on the list might not be that good, as I may include a game from my childhood that i have fond memories of, but maybe wasn’t as good as i remembered it, anyway its a top 10 so lets begin.

First of all id love to start with some outside looking in, all these games are incredible to me and i would love to put them in the top 10 but i couldn’t, if you want to hear my opinions on them (wow thanks, you actually care) you can ask me on twitter and ill do my best!

15.Sonic Generations                                                                                              14.Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege                                                                      13.Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Platinum (Waterpark&Zoo DLC is amazing)                12.Splatoon 2 (specifically the Octo Expansion, that was really good)                    11.Hyrule Warriors Definitive Edition (Def. edition because its portable with good FPS and the extra 3DS content)

OK then Ill get started now :3 Thanks a TON (and I mean it I appreciate amy support i get or constructive criticism) for reading it!

Number 10: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess                                              Developer and Release year: Nintendo, 2006/2016 remaster                                What it can be played on: Gamecube/Wii/Wii U                                                                                                                                                                                              The Legend of Zelda is my favorite game series of all time, thats obvious if you know anything about me, and twilight princess is one I’ve played more recently, and from the start you notice Twilight Princess is definitely going for that early 2000′s edgy tone (is that a coincidence or an actual trend, i dunno i was really young in 06 so...) which works fine, and its a really long game, I mean I spent a week or two beating it, that being said i had work and other things going on at the time, but any way it has been said by many more before me, that it is basically an edgy, long,Ocarina of Time remake with motion controls....and they aren’t wrong, though i have called it edgy but i think its more...dark i guess? any way i actually like this better than Ocarina of Time, before you assault me i loved Ocarina of Time, i just tried to put as few Zelda games on the list as i could, and i just enjoyed the Twilight Princess story, characters, and length a bit more, but back to the remake opinion, i sort of agree yeah, but i thought the mystery around Midna and Zant and the Twilight realm, and the mirror, were all something that sets it apart, so in the end i enjoyed it a lot.                                                                                                                                                                    Favorite Part(s)? Arbiters Grounds. AW MAN, I love the Arbiters grounds, the sneaking, the spinner, the boss, the setting, all of it is on point, even the wolf part is unique with the poe chasing, and also the Final Ganon boss I liked all of it, though his appearance is a bit late i thought it was a fun, long, and intense fight

Number 9: Lego Universe                                                                                      Developer and Release Year: NetDevil and Lego, 2010-2012                                What it COULD ( :( ) be played on: PC                                                                                                                                                                                                              IM GONNA GO AHEAD AND SAY IT THIS IS A PICK COMPLETELY ON NOSTALGIA. Yes, this is one of my favorite games of my childhood and since i cant go back and re-evaluate the game because it’s closed unfortunately (except for some server projects that are happening) I’m talking about it completely based on my memories. One reason I love it is, the game’s story and lore at the time captivated me so much that i decided to write stories about stuff my character(s) did, which basically kick-started my interest in writing, as bad as those stories were, I loved the game, I had it’s official LEGO set (Still do it’s a nice little orange rocket ship that could be used in-game) and convinced my cousins to play it too, and we all enjoyed it, now of course i was an MLGPROBOI at the game so I had rare pets and the best weapons and a RED PARROT GUYS (I believe it was super rare and a big deal) so I loved being really cool n’ stuff, people would ask me to help them take out Butterscorch (that was the hardest boss in the game, a purple dragon, BUT SINCE I WAS AN MLGPROBOI I COULD DO IT MYSELF BUT I WAS NICE SO I HELPED) and even sell them secrets on how to do stuff, yeah i was a cool guy, cant relate now, I’ll never be as cool as my alter-alias Square Von Pancake :(                                                                                                                                                                Favorite Part(s): Me and my brother played i t together all the time and we loved the combat at crux prime the most, Crux Prime was the place with the hardest enemies and bosses and it was really fun to be challenged for a while. plus though it was out for only a year we still have countless memories of it, and they added Ninjago in it which I was SUPER into at the time and enjoyed having my character do Ninjago stuff...  

Number 8: Mount and Blade: Warband                                                                    Developer and Release Year: Taleworlds, 2010                                                      What it can be played on: PC, PS4, XB1                                                                                                                                                                                                      Mount and Blade Warband and its expansion Mount and Blade Napoleonic Wars, is one of my favorite multiplayer, and story games, the story mode is fun because you can do what you want, YOU choose the faction you fight with or not to at all, your class, your stats, and you can make some uh *beautiful* characters, the main story, i believe the objective is to become the emperor of Calradia, and rule the dang place and be rich and cool and have people like you, but I dont usually do that i just fight for factions, make money in the arena and at tournaments, and hire mercenaries and win against armies of 200 with like 30 people, its fun, now second talking point for me is the multiplayer, this is where Napoleonic Wars comes in, it is a fun shooter with muskets , or swords....or screw it you can play the bagpipes, that last one is totally not something me and my friends would do late at night. The Maps are super well designed as well and each look nice, and are usually not unbalanced. The third thing is the modding community, if you have this game, and don’t have the Anglo-Zulu war mod, that is just wrong, I mean it is so fun to get your friends and survive against large waves of zulu, or have some friends with the Zulu, it is just a unique experience for me, and other mods are cool to like the Civil War mod.                                                                                                                                                                    Favorite part(s): The Story mode is awesome in the way that it was a time in m life where i was without internet for a good month or two, but i had my laptop and the story mode kept me entertained for basically the whole time, also there are so many fun memories of the AZW mod and late night spent surviving waves.  

Number 7: Lego Battles                                                                                          Developer and Release Year: Warner Bros., Hellbent and Lego, 2009                  What it can be played on: DS                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Lego Battles is also a nostalgia pick, and also happens to be a Lego game, but the difference is it still holds up to me today, and i can still play it today...any way I love the gameplay, it’s a basic RTS but with fun themes like Wizards and Knights and Pirates and Aliens vs Humans, and each has a different play style, but not too different that it didn’t confuse me as a kid, I always liked the pirates and the aliens, I dont know why, but uh a drawback is that it can be too easy, at the time I wasnt fast or good enough to beat the AI with my first base, but i quickly learned if i just escaped after the destruction of the first one and just built a stronger second one, i would have more time because the AI couldnt find me and i would win pretty much every time, but despite that I enjoyed all the campaigns and loved the cutscenes and the extra characters like Santa and the Skeleton Guy (tm) and the Conquistador and the Alien Queen etc. and the way to unlock them was to find red bricks in the campaign levels, and/or collect studs which i thought was a fun challenge at the time, and today i sometimes like to go back to it for some casual RTS action                                                                                                                                                                                                     Favorite Part: The Gameplay, it’s simple, fun, and  doesn’t take too long, so if i just want to pick up a short game of the RTS genre I usually spring for this

Number 6: Star Wars Battlefront 2 Classic                                                              Developer and Release Year: Pandemic Studios, LucasArts , 2005                      What it can be played on: PC/PS2/XBOX                                                                                                                                                                                                      The fact that this comes in at number 6 on my list really doesn’t tell how much I love and appreciate this game, this is probably THE game I played the most in my childhood, and even still I play it online with the new servers (I disagree with you sometimes Disney, but thanks for those) This game is so replayable and I haven’t even played through the campaign yet, yeah, what I have done though is beaten all the Galactic Conquest stories, probably more than once. So for those of you that don’t know Galactic Conquest is a mode where each team starts with one ship and one type of troop and you fly around a map of the galaxy and take over enemy planets and defend yours and buy troops with the money you earn from the battles, and if the two ships run in to each others then they do a space battle, and Im gonna say it now i grew up playing the PS2 version with my cousins, but now I play the PC version and when we play with our cousins they play the XBOX version on Xbox One, any way the PC version is the best in terms of FPS and general gameplay smoothness, but the console versions have Galactic Conquest multiplayer which is something that we have spent countless hours playing, and in the end Battlefront 2 will be one of the best shooters of all time, and better than the new Battlefront 2 because that one is no where near good enough to share a name with the classic one, any way, i will always love Battlefront 2                                                                                                                                                                  Favorite part(s): Galactic Conquest and shout out to the maps Kashyyyk and Tantine IV, they’re the best

Hey thanks for reading through this whole thing, uh as you can tell this was super long, i planned to do all ten in this one but i figure it’s gettimg pretty long and I’ll just stop here and I’ll have 5 through 1 tomorrow, Thank you so much!                                                                                                                -Ben :3                                                                                                                       

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In case you missed it the link to the Nintendo Direct is directly below!

So there was a ton that Nintendo revealed and everyone is pretty much super hyped!

Nintendo revealed so much I’m not sure I can fit it all in this one article but I’ll just skip over the small stuff and give you the highlights.

First off the 3DS is still a thing and it looks like it’ll still be around this year. Nintendo gave us some interesting 3DS titles but probably not as interesting as Detective Pikachu. Who wouldn’t want to solve crimes in the Pokemon world with a talking Pikachu no less? Detective Pikachu will be available for the Nintendo 3DS on March 23rd.

Detective Pikachu

Okami HD will be coming to Nintendo Switch! This one is a personal favorite of mine and if you haven’t yet played any of the previous remakes or ports of Okami I beg you to get this if you can especially if you love Japanese storytelling or myths. Okami HD will be available for the Nintendo Switch this Summer.

Okami HD

A while ago we were teased with a No More Heroes teaser trailer and during the Direct we finally got to see some gameplay. No More Heroes fans have been patiently waiting and I’m sure your wait was worth it.

No More Hero Travis Strikes Again

The main focus of the event was definitely the new Mario Tennis Aces game coming for Nintendo Switch. Nintendo went in depth with some gameplay mechanics and changes. It seems much improved from the last Mario Tennis game. They also announced that there would be a pre-launch tournament to be held at a later date (TBA). Mario Tennis Aces will be available for the Nintendo Switch on 6/28/18.

Mario Tennis Aces

Undertale, Captain Toad Treasure Tracker, and Crash Nsane Trilogy are all coming to Nintendo Switch. I found the Crash games coming to the Switch very interesting as Crash has always been a Sony exclusive thing so maybe we might be able to more things like this in the future. Crash will be coming to the Switch July 10th with Captain Toad not too far behind with a release date of July 13th. Undertale is well… it’ll come out when it’s good and ready.

Splatoon 2 is getting two huge updates coming relatively soon. Version 3.0 of the game will come with 3 new stages such as Camp Triggerfish and two brand new maps. When Summer roles around Spaltoon 2 will also drop it first paid expansion in the form of a new single-player campaign. In this campaign, you take the form of an Octoling as you travel through the underground of Inkopolis. Players will be able to unlock their very own Octoling players in versus mode once the campaign is beaten. Splatoon 2 Octo Expansion will be $20 and available for download this summer. Pre-ordering will grant you Octo headphones and an Octo shirt.

Last but certainly not least, my favorite series is returning once again!

Super Smash Brothers for the Nintendo Switch was the very last announcement and apparently its been in development for a while now because it’s coming out this year! BOTW Link made an apprentice which may suggest it’s not a port but a new Smash title. The Inklings also seem to be joining the fight and I am interested to see how they will play. No further details were given much like Metroid Prime 4 which was sadly missing from this Direct but maybe it will show up next time.

Super Smash Bros. for Switch

And here are some of the announcements I skipped due to length.

So what did you think of the Nintendo Direct? Let me know in the comments below!

Here's a recap of the most recent Nintendo Direct! It was a pretty long one with some really surprising announcements! In case you missed it the link to the Nintendo Direct is directly below! So there was a ton that Nintendo revealed and everyone is pretty much super hyped!