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Movies & TV / Khushrenada's Annual Oscar Thread. 2026 Edition.

« on: Yesterday at 07:23:55 PM »

Quick list of my predictions while they're still legit.

Short Film Animated - Butterfly
Short Film Live Action - Two People Exchanging Saliva
Short Film Documentary - All The Empty Rooms
Best Casting - Sinners
Best Sound - F1
Film Editing - One Battle After Another
Visual Effects - Avatar: Fire and Ash
Makeup and Hairstyling - Frankenstein
Costume Design - Frankenstein
Production Design - Frankenstein
Cinematography - One Battle After Another
Original Score - One Battle After Another
Original Song - Golden from KPop
Animated Feature - KPop Demon Hunters
Documentary Feature - Mr. Nobody Against Putin
Foreign-Language Film - Sentimental Value
Adapted Screenplay - One Battle After Another
Original Screenplay - Sinners
Supporting Actor - Sean Penn
Supporting Actress - Amy Madigan
Best Actor - Micheal B. Jordan
Best Actress - Jessie Buckley
Best Director - Paul Thomas Anderson
Best Picture - One Battle After Another

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TalkBack / Re: Critically Acclaimed Puzzle Game Blue Prince Unlocks Switch 2 Release Today

« on: March 05, 2026, 07:34:25 PM »

Yep. I take it you've only heard about the game now?

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TalkBack / Re: Indie World Presentation To Air March 3

« on: March 04, 2026, 02:38:45 AM »

Man, what a case of false advertising. I thought this was going to be about a Raiders of the Lost Ark theme park but instead it was just about rogue-like games, decorating camper vans and putting the wooden block shapes into the correct holes. This could have been an e-mail. 

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General Chat / Re: Hockey Discussion: The Leafs Would Like To Borrow Taylor Hall's Horseshoe

« on: February 26, 2026, 02:35:48 AM »

Ugh. And now I saw the news that Crosby is out at least 4 weeks because of the injury. Bloody Olympics.

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General Chat / Re: Hockey Discussion: The Leafs Would Like To Borrow Taylor Hall's Horseshoe

« on: February 25, 2026, 03:09:32 AM »

You'll love this. I don't watch Olympic hockey. The last time I saw it was the gold-medal game in Vancouver 2010 and that was only because I was kind of forced to with a group of people watching it at my house because of my brother who was living with me then. Once he moved out on his own a year later then that was it for me and no more Olympics. (Until Paris 2024 because I was actually interested in a couple events that year but was disappointed again.)

After hearing about the US win, I was curious though about who was the coach. I thought it might have been Mike Sullivan but wondered if I was mixing it up with a different event. But it was him. What a strange year he's having. Left the Penguins after three years of missing the playoffs to the Rangers only for the Rangers to immediately bottom out and become one of the worst teams in the league this year. Meanwhile, the Penguins are sitting at second in the division and looking like they'll make the playoffs under their new coach. I felt Sullivan was still a good coach and worth keeping even as the years went on without a playoff win since 2018 but the way this year has played out made me wonder if he was as good as it seemed. Now he's the guy who who coached the US to their first Gold medal since 1980. And yet, he gets no gold medal for that which I've always felt was kind of strange since a coach is still an important role in these games but I get it. If coaches for teams sports get medals then what about coaches for gymnastics or other sports? And then there'll be other people who will say they helped in some way feeling they should get a medal too.

Anyways, furthering my views that I made the right choice was learning about Crosby getting injured during the Olympics which annoys me. With the Penguins having a great bounceback year, having Crosby be the one guy who gets injured from this stupid diversion has only made me more of a hater for this thing. Olympics suck, y'all.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: What will Nintendo release in 2026?

« on: February 17, 2026, 04:17:23 AM »

Tennis Fever is the most interested I've been in a Mario Tennis game since probably the GameCube version. It's definitely looked great. But I don't have a Switch 2 and when I do get one, it's not a title I'm going to be getting and playing right away. There's other titles I'd want to jump into first so I'm afraid I can't help you out on that front for some time if you are seeing me on your Switch friends list.

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General Gaming / Re: Community Event: Forum February 2026

« on: February 17, 2026, 04:07:30 AM »

What's bad about tumbleweeds? Free and unfettered, able to travel where the wind blows. And they seem to be able to get around everywhere. Some days I'm surprised to see a tumbleweed appear in an area and kind of impressed at its ability to find a way. And they're totally essential to upgrade your shield and bow in Skyward Sword. Tumbleweeds rock!

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TalkBack / Re: Super Bomberman Collection (Switch) Review

« on: February 10, 2026, 02:23:31 AM »

This was a big surprise in the Partner Direct. Kept wondering (and hoping) that Super Bomberman 2 might show up on the SNES Online app with 4-player online multiplayer one day. Just didn't think Konami would care about an old SNES Bomberman game. To see them release all these SNES Bomberman games in a special collection like this was so unexpected.

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NWR Forums ID Verification / Re: The DM I got on discord.

« on: February 10, 2026, 02:17:52 AM »

Hey! With the new Discord change of requiring Face ID maybe you'll find out who it was that sent you that DM. I've got a feeling it was probably Mop it up all along.

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Movies & TV / Re: Rate the last TV show you've seen

« on: February 10, 2026, 01:28:14 AM »

A lot of people hate on the new Star Trek shows, though I've enjoyed most of them, particularly Lower Decks,

I just finished watching Lower Decks about two weeks ago. It's an odd show almost like a Star Trek answer to The Orville (remember when that was getting talked about?) but I do agree that I'd put it on the positive side as a better Star Trek show of this new era. Although, I feel that Star Trek: Brave New Worlds has actually been the best so far and closest to the older Trek style of stories. That said, I've only seen the first two seasons so there's still time for it to lose that goodwill. I'm surprised too because I really didn't think a show that seemed like it could be trying to wring more juice out of the Kirk/Spock era and characters seemed like a great idea but Pike had been one of the few positive elements of Discovery Season 2 which had caused me to give up on this new Trek era for awhile and I'm glad it was able to be much better than that show. Would like to get around to Prodigy and maybe I actually will give Picard a second chance having only ever watched the first episode of season 1. I don't hear much love for that series but they heavily advertised how all the old crew members would show up in Season 3 and it's always had me curious since of how that all may play out.

My biggest problem with Brave New Worlds is how it has to dance around the original series and trying to keep the canon straight. It's something I don't really care about. I've still never gotten around to watching all the episodes of the original series. I just find it hard to enjoy it with the pacing and look of it particularly with everything that came after. It was already kind of awkward trying to keep it canon in the 90s like when DS9 did an episode of a few members being around for The Trouble With Tribbles and holding onto the style of uniforms and technology and it's just gotten worse in this era of new Trek. I just can't see viewers introduced to Trek by watching Brave New Worlds deciding to follow along with what happens to Kirk and Spock in the 60s series after. It hit me while watching the show that they should just reboot the original series. Sure, there'd be some fans in an uproar about throwing out the original series canon and replacing it with a new one but reboots and revamps happen all the time nowadays. Plus, I feel it would mainly just be more of the much older fans who care that much about the older series and thus a shrinking base. I think there would be more Trek fans open to it than against it but maybe I'm wrong. With the Trek movie series reportedly dead because it would cost too much for the actors and effects based on expected box office returns, it seems like the door is open to not have two competing visions of the original era and to redo so that it could be a bit more inline with the Trek rules and regulations we think of nowadays from the TNG - present era.

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General Gaming / Re: Community Event: Forum February 2026

« on: February 09, 2026, 05:52:00 PM »

What will we do if the spambots win this contest?

Give them old usernames like DAaaMan64 and Ceric and pretend its those users still posting all over here.

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General Gaming / Re: Community Event: Forum February 2026

« on: February 04, 2026, 03:33:50 AM »

I am up. Or down? This will not count as one of today’s three posts.

Too bad. It's been quoted now so it counts!

I'd love to see the forums more active. I'm in.

If only there were some role you could take on that could give you some authority (like a manager) to try and foster more community engagement.

Don't mind me. I've just been posting walls of text no one reads for years.

Ok. I'll just move on to the next post then. 

That's really what separates the forums from something like Discord. I love our Discord, but there's no real place there for the kind of depth you can get with a long forum post. And I only don't read them when they're Khush's posts.

Yeppers. Plus, it can be hard to continue a conversation if you missed it earlier. Or if you want to return to an earlier conversation while this can allow you to revisit thoughts from days, weeks, months or years ago.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: What will Nintendo release in 2026?

« on: February 03, 2026, 09:37:00 PM »

Is this really a question? Everyone knows you can't improve on perfection so there's never been a need for a Khushrenada 2.

Not so fast.

I like that you didn't even use one of your existing dupes, you actually went to the trouble of making a new one just for this joke.

Hmmm. Should I accept the unwarranted praise or not? Well, it is Insanolord so I guess not. I have nothing to do with Khushrenada 2. Once again, people assume I have all these dupe accounts when I'm totally blameless in the matter. I haven't turned the Duplicator on in years.



I am curious to see how Khushrenada 2 will justify its existence beyond this one comment though.

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TalkBack / Re: Game Boy Nintendo Classics Library Adds Balloon Fight Sequel, Game Freak Developed Puzzle Game

« on: February 03, 2026, 09:29:31 PM »

I only played through Balloon Kid once and that was through the 3DS Virtual Console edition. It was around 7 years ago. I ended up liking it quite a bit. One of the better Game Boy games I had played and found it to be a challenging kind of platformer. May have to give this another spin now that's the rewind feature to help speed things along.

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General Gaming / Re: Community Event: Forum February 2026

« on: February 03, 2026, 09:22:56 PM »

I've meant to try this event again the past couple years but would remember much later in February from being busy or just wondering if it would have any impact like last time at this point. But this year, I remembered early enough and decided to take the plunge and see what happens.

What I didn't realize until just now is that the first (and up to this point, only) time this event happened, it was also as the Winter Olympics were happening. And by doing this four years later, those darn Olympics are happening again. I tied into that event a little bit at the time so it can easily tie into this event again now.

I thought by doing this as a Community Event with other users taking the plunge to commit to make 3 posts a day that we can cheer each other on and support the other users doing this. (Which would mean making a post. This event is just so easy!) Last time this event happened, it was with three weeks left in February so I created a way to achieve a certain medal level for posting based on that amount of time. Which means in three weeks, if a user were to make 1 post per day then that means a participant in this event can be a Bronze Medal Forum User at 21 posts for the month, likewise a Silver Medal Forum User would have to hit 42 posts for the month for an average of 2 posts per day and a Gold Medal Forum User would achieve 63 posts for the month and meet the 3 posts per day goal.

With this event starting early than three weeks left in the month, will the posts needed to achieve a medal level change? No. It was hard enough for users to reach medal levels back then so I won't make it tougher now even if it means the average might be a bit below the rate needed per day to still acquire these medals.

What if a user posts more than 3 posts in a day? Great! You’re getting ahead of the game and those can all count to your grand total. What if a user doesn’t post anything for a couple days? No problem. There’s no disqualifications and maybe they can make up those days later on and still reach the 63 post goal. Can a user post more than 3 a day or a total of 63 posts? Of course. Don’t hold back from posting if you’ve got more you want to discuss. This isn’t a limit but just a simple minimum. Heck, if you think you can suddenly post 400 messages during the month then go for first place in this event. Just don’t be spamming. What if I just post 10 messages this month? You’re still a winner. Because no matter how much is posted, all users win by seeing an uptick in posting for the month of February.

Who’s in?

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General Gaming / Community Event: Forum February 2026

« on: February 03, 2026, 09:09:11 PM »

Let's see now. Where did I leave that thread? Oh, there it is...



It's been 4 years already?! My how time goes by when one isn't paying attention.

Not sure how much of an event it could be but let's see what might happen. It feels like there's a sentiment of people wishing the forums could be a bit more active or wanting to post here a bit more but wondering if it would be worth it without much response. So, perhaps, for just one short month, we can have a brief spark of activity for awhile.

If you have forgotten about Forum February, here's all that it is about. For the month of February, the goal for participants is to make 3 posts on the forum per day. (Mafia Game and Safe Words Game related posts don't count. ) Posts can be as big or small as you want. Even if the post is just a response that "I enjoyed playing (insert game title)" to someone else's comment. That counts. That's a valid post. It doesn't have to be a Khushrenada Special (aka ten paragraph wall of text). Because even a simple post like that may be the spark for someone else to decide to post something and carry on a discussion or trigger some point they'd like to share.

Chances are that new posting will trigger some other comments from users not involved in the event. Who knows how much activity we could spark for a few weeks? Was there a topic you've had on your mind for awhile but just never got around to creating? Here's your chance. Was there a topic you've always meant to respond to but never got around to it? It's time has arrived! Got a lame joke for the Funhouse you thought was too stupid? Post it now under the cover of helping participate in this event. 

Maybe there's a game you finally got around to playing and then checked the review for it on NWR and would like to respond but it's been months or years since it was put up. Go ahead and make a post for it. I know there's been an "unwritten rule" about bumping Talkback threads. For the month of February, the restriction will be lifted. Truthfully, I'm pretty sure that commenting on a review or some other feature that could be years old would still make that writer of the piece glad to see someone cared about their effort and they got some more feedback on it. And I think that is worth allowing some bumping in Talkback.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: What will Nintendo release in 2026?

« on: February 02, 2026, 04:42:54 PM »

If Khushrenada is so great, then why is there no Khushrenada 2?

Is this really a question? Everyone knows you can't improve on perfection so there's never been a need for a Khushrenada 2.

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NWR Feedback / Re: Connection Problems

« on: January 20, 2026, 01:34:43 AM »

Ugh. This connection error is popping up a bunch of times for me tonight.

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General Gaming / Re: What are you playing?

« on: January 20, 2026, 01:33:52 AM »

Huh. I don't even know what that game is.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch 2025 Year in Review (now with December!)

« on: January 20, 2026, 01:30:56 AM »

As for the trip down memory lane, it seems when I finally jumped into the Nintendo Switch ecosystem was Nov. 13, 2018. Even though the Switch is about to hit its 9 year(!!!) anniversary in about a month and a half, it's just a bit over 7 years for me with the system.

I'm also seeing a bit more genres listed in those past years that weren't mentioned in gaming style this year which are: Adventure, Fighting, Racing, and Character driven. It's a shame. There's almost a top 25 list of most played games near the end of the review. But the grid only allows for 24 spots and they took up 4 for the game with the most playtime. But now I'm glad for the reference since I swapped out my original Switch for another one and that ruined the internal list of games with the most playtime because of it.

Anyways my current list of the top 21 games I've played the longest of on Switch.

XCX:DE - 285 hours (we'll crack that 300 mark this year. Just you wait and see!)
XC:DE - 213 hours
SNES Online App - 198 hours
Tetris 99 - 135 hours
Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics - 127 hours
Lumines Remastered - 114 hours
Hollow Knight - 102 hours
The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles - 97 hours
Super Mario Odyssey - 87 hours
Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - 87 hours (This is false. Early when I first got the Switch, I lent it to a family member so that they could play this game since I was mainly playing it on Wii U and so this is their time spent on the game.)
Nintendo 64 Online - 82 hours
Wheel of Fortune - 77 hours
Metroid Dread - 54 hours
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - 47 hours (This is also going to go up as I'm just starting to play the DLC courses after finally getting another copy of this game. I gave my first copy to my brother just a couple months before they announced all the DLC to come.)
Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening - 47 hours
Kirby and the Forgotten Land - 36 hours
Super Mario Party - 35 hours
Yooka-Laylee - 30 hours
Murder by Numbers - 23 hours (Surprised this made the list)
Jeopardy! - 23 hours
BoxBoy! + BoxGirl! - 22 hours

A little surprised that the GBA Online app didn't make this list yet but maybe if it was expanded to a full 25. Earlier this year, I had been playing the SNES Online app and A Link to the Past in it just before XCX:DE launched but I guess it wasn't enough to show up on any of my stats for top games or month by month breakdowns. That is actually the first time I've played the SNES version. I'd only played the GBA version of it before and only once making it the second time I've played that game. When bringing up games I played this year, it just felt like that deserved a mention as it one that stuck in my mind when thinking about games. There's also Pokemon TCG Pocket but that's just become a part of daily life for me at this point.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch 2025 Year in Review (now with December!)

« on: January 20, 2026, 12:42:57 AM »

Welp, the review was mostly what I expected. I thought I had more hours in Mario Wonder and less hours in XCX but they were the main two games I knew I had spent time playing this year on the Switch.

The 30 total games is a lie as always. Some of those games were Game Trials that I launched to just get the platinum points. A few were games I'd bought off the eShop but I don't remember actually launching them yet so I'm surprised they showed up on the list.

My top genre was “Action,” which is incredibly vague as a descriptor, but okay.

Based on your games, your top genre should be RPG right? I am curious what the possible game types are.

Based on this part of the breakdown, I feel like these may be all the game types they are using unless someone else has more in their circle chart.



With XCX:DE having 285 out of my 343 hours on Switch and Action coming up as my top gaming style over RPG, I think it's pretty clear Nintendo is counting XCX:DE as an Action RPG and giving both of those tags equal measure.

As for the month-to-month most-played listings:

January - Tetris 99 (2 hours)
February - Tetris 99 (2 hours)
March - XCX:DE (31 hours)
April - XCX:DE (65 hours)
May - XCX:DE (88 hours)
June - XCX:DE (49 hours)
July - XCX:DE (39 hours)
August - XCX:DE (17 hours)
September - Super Mario Bros. Wonder (6 hours)
October - Super Mario Bros. Wonder (9 hours)
November Super Mario Bros. Wonder (2 hours)
December - Tetris 99 (1 hour)

Not that exciting or varied. The sad thing is, I'm still not done XCX:DE. I was at part 2 of Chapter 13 and have meant to finish it as that was part of the reason I was willing to buy it at launch and jump back into that game. I had thought of doing it during Backlaugust and announced it as my intention only to get frustrated at my inability to defeat either Telethia or Pharsis despite having to Ares 90s, an Ares 70 and level 60 Skell with some Ultrafauna weapons and gems attached. Having spent all those tickets and still getting defeated sapped my momentum just near the end like that. Although if I could develop some skill at Overdrive better than maybe that could help but Pharsis has a pool under it so it seems like it has to be taken out via skells.

But now that I'm done Wonder and a couple other games and have had this break from the game, I'm getting a bit more inclined to jumping back into and seeing if I can finally wrap it all up and defeat those last 11 Tyrants I had left on my list and finishing that Final Chapter along with a handful of missions to finally put that game to bed.

Puzzle would also have been a bigger contender if the 3DS was included in this. Last third of the year was spent playing Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy and I put in over 100 hours in that game solving all the content and DLC it had to offer. The in-game hour count in the Professor's Trunk maxed at 99 hours and doesn't seem to be able to go up to or past 100. First time I touched my 3DS in over a year at least. Sadly, I think that had an effect on the thumb nub as it felt odd at first and like it was dried out from not getting regular skin oils on it after years of steady play. In fact, it ended up crumbling and breaking a bit all along the outer circle of it with now just the inner circle left that still covers the moving metal or plastic piece under it. Kind of sad that has happened to it. Could use a new one. Didn't expect the used 3DS market to get more expensive than when the systems were being sold brand new. DS systems are still pretty cheap but the pandemic seems to have had an effect on 3DS availability. Even though Switch pretty much ended that system when it launched, it feels like Nintendo could release a batch of 3DS systems and sell out of them just for people that might want to replace their aging systems.

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General Gaming / Re: What are you playing?

« on: January 15, 2026, 03:38:10 AM »

As for what I'm playing, January is becoming what should have been my Backlaugust. Wrapping up some games this month already. Just completed Super Mario Bros. Wonder by beating the Final Final test and getting the last badge. Once again, I have completed every game in the Mario platformer series both 2D and 3D. Now the Mario sports series.... that's a different story. However, doing that kind of got me amped up last night and probably stayed up a couple hours later than I should have. Also now feel less enthused about jumping into a couple of the other games I was thinking of going back to wrap up like XCX:DE. So, it's high and low feelings combined! Woo.

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General Gaming / Re: What are you playing?

« on: January 15, 2026, 03:24:31 AM »

What games do you recommend for a beginer who has never played anything? 

I recommend playing all the NES games you can then. With the NES, the videogame industry was still in its infancy so a lot of games are quite simple and controllers didn't have the amount of buttons that they do now. Since the games are simple they are quite easy so you should have a great time playing them, Mr. Spambot. A few good choices to start would be Metroid, Zelda II, and Ninja Gaiden. Happy gaming.

Just perusing this thread and had a nice chuckle. Profound perspective here.

Appreciate the comment.

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TalkBack / Re: Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance Added To GameCube Nintendo Classics Library

« on: January 09, 2026, 12:56:56 AM »

That explains why the OST was suddenly added to Nintendo Music today. I wondered if it was a sign that the game was going to be added to the Switch 2 library but I guess it was first and the soundtrack second.

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NWR Forums ID Verification / Re: Khushrenada's Fantasy Critic - Now with less blackjack and hookers!

« on: January 08, 2026, 12:26:51 AM »

I am. But that only brings the number to 4. I guess I'll wait until this Sunday and if we are under the 6 player threshold then I don't think it will move forward.