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I was watching an old Dumb Game Monday stream when I was inspired by this thread:

My uncle works at Nintendo and gave me this

@Sentinel-Beach said in Easy Allies Podcast - Official Discussion Thread:

We need all the Allies on the podcast

Still patiently waiting on Don...

Not sure if everyone has seen this, but this is from the YouTube comments:

marco castellani1 day ago (edited)
CORRECTION
Everybody adores Styx, you always love lots if everyone seeks launch reveals
Read the first letter of every word Kyle and rejoice, you just got a point

@SabotageTheTruth I'm in the same boat. Legend of Zelda isn't a series I grew up with, so I don't have the same emotional attachment that many do. Breath of the Wild, though, is one that I'm pumped for. With it being what seems to be a return to the spirit of the original, maybe that will let me see in the series what people first saw in it 30 years ago.

@Olf_Himself @SabotageTheTruth Ya, I believe Yogalla showed it to the old man, who decided to keep it for himself

Can't wait for this sound being made at the end of every podcast

What was your first game?
I can't be certain, but I'm gonna go with Freddi Fish and the Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds, the the pivotal 1994 classic from Humongous Entertainment. I'm sure I played other weird CD-ROM games from HE prior to that, but this is the first game I have memories of playing. I have no clue where these games came from; I can only assume my parents bought them, but they never liked me spending time on the computer, so it's a bit of a mystery. I still think fondly of this game, despite being 4 or 5 when I played it.

What was the game/s that clicked and made you a "gamer" and why?
This one is a toss-up between Super Mario World (the GBA port) and Pokémon Blue. They were my first and second non-CD-ROM games, respectively, and I never looked back. I wish I had some log of how much time I've put into each. Hell, I still play Super Mario World when travelling, that game holds up like no other. The reason it was these games is that these games showed me that video games were even a thing, as I was 6 when I got my GBA and had never been exposed to "real" video games before. I suspect a big reason why these games hooked me is that I sucked at both of them so finishing each took a lot longer for me that it probably did for most people. Thankfully both those games are great, so that meant a lot more time enjoying them. Then I guess I just wanted more of that.

What is your favorite game and why?
This question is impossible for me to answer, so I'm going to cheat and list 4: Super Mario World, Jak and Daxter, Pokémon Emerald, and TF2.
I really think Super Mario World is pretty self explanatory.
Pokémon Emerald was my next Pokémon game after Blue, so the improvements were vast and I sunk way too many hours into it for me not to include it.
Jak and Daxter is a tight, solid game with a setting I really love (and would have loved to see explored more in sequels....). There's a lot the game does so well, like characterization and dynamic loading, which served the game very well (unlike some certain sequels....). This was another game <10 year old me sucked at. Funnily, I went back and played it a couple months ago and was surprised when I beat it in just over 11 hours. 7 year old me must have really sucked at games. Also fuck the sequels.
TF2 is like the SSB of shooters. Anyone can hop in, play, and have fun, but there are layers of complexity that, once understood, make you hate playing with those people who are hopping in, playing, and having fun for the first time. This is definitely my favorite multiplayer game ever. I've put in hundreds of hours playing with friends and getting better at it with them, and not one minute of that time has ever been stressful. Well, not the bad kind of stressful, anyway. The cartoonish quality, the importance of movement and speed, and everyone playing to have a good time also make this a fantastic game.

@TokyoSlim said in Kill Your Babies!: Toss Out Both the NES and SNES!:

Super Mario World
This is also not SMB3, and must die. You chose wrongly, all.

How could you

Not mine, I found it here

Alright. I'm out. We have collectively made some horrible choices here. Have fun with your #1 game, Pokemon Pinball or whatever. Maybe when this is all over we'll take a look at ourselves and reevaluate.

Am I really gonna be the first person here to mention that MBTI is bunk? It's not an effective tool because the questions you answer are way too obvious, so you know the affect your answers have on the outcome, i.e. if I think I'm INTJ in advance, I can easily answer the questions in a way that will give me that result, which makes the test far from objective. This is why it's used by employers, because they want to know what you think of yourself, not what you're actually like. Also, it assumes all the data point lie on a dichotomy rather than a spectrum, not taking into account that very few people are purely one or the other. The test is also very unreliable: the same person taking the test at different times can get very different results. In fact, after only five weeks, between 39% and 76% of people get different results. I should also mention that neither Myers nor Briggs was a psychologist. Myers had a degree in agriculture and she wrote a lot. Briggs was only involved because she was Myer's daughter, as far as I can tell. My favorite description of the MBTI test is that it's a horoscope for people who think they're smarter than people who listen to horoscopes.

Locked-in Lane
Highway to Hype
Buttons Boulevard
Five Star Parkway
Sophie Street
Tabletop Expressway
Dumb Game Mon-Way

And it's been mentioned already, but Brandon's Garage should definitely replace "Free Parking"

Edit: Treasure Tracker Trail
Everybody Adores Styx Street

@SabotageTheTruth I would find it cool to have some sort of structure for writing. I enjoy writing in my head, I just don't always get around to putting it on paper

129 questions

I mean, it's not as if I'm doing anything productive with my time. Guess I'll dive in.

@Musou-Tensei It's possible to make a fan-game without straight-up stealing assets, though.

@SabotageTheTruth I think I figured it out. When friends are online at the same time, they (are supposed to) appear in each others Plazas. If you can't find them out and about, you can page them. I was just able to VIP you that way

@Billy Well, you know Game Freak. If it ain't broke, break it and try to fix it.

I'll probably be playing most of the night, so I'll be hopping into the plaza periodically

Sail around and kill an old man who just wanted a nice place to live