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TalkBack / Re: Yooka-Laylee Details Announced By Playtonic Games
« on: May 03, 2015, 11:56:40 AM »
"Spiritual successor" type games like this get made all the time without the rights to the original. It's not using anything MS owns the rights to, it's just making something that's really similar, so making a legal case against it would be pretty tough. Since they themselves seem to have had no urge to revisit it and the game's coming to Xbox One anyway I doubt they care.

Yeah, I don't see them going after it - but I think it'd be an interesting case to follow (although it'd probably get settled out of court and we'd never get any details).

The thing that sets this one apart is that so much of the Kickstarter pitch basically reads "Yeah, this is another B-K game."  Right down to the name of the characters.  I don't think Mighty No. 9 was even that direct that it was a Mega Man "rip-off".

I'm sure nothing will come from it.

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TalkBack / Re: Yooka-Laylee Details Announced By Playtonic Games
« on: May 03, 2015, 02:39:21 AM »
I do wonder if Microsoft/Rare would have a potential case if they wanted to go after this project.  It's a very blatant "rip-off" ("rip-off" in that these guys do not have the rights to the original IP) of a Microsoft-owned IP.  Even the pitch for the Kickstarter makes it obvious they're make B-K without having the rights to those characters.

Not that I care much one way or the other.  Just curious how it would end.

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NWR Feedback / Post of the Month Contest - win $10 eShop Credit
« on: May 03, 2015, 02:32:56 AM »
Okay, I thought this might liven up the forums a little.

I'm going to give away a $10 eShop card (US only - if the winner is from outside the US, I'll see what I can do, but can't make any promises).

Here's how to enter:  Post on the forums.  Post quality, worth-while, well-thought-out, original and unique posts.

In this thread, you can nominate one other post, made on the NWR Forums, for the "Post of the Month".  Few requirements though:

A.) You cannot nominate your own post.
B.) You have June 2nd to nominate a post, but you may do so at any time before then.  The post must have been made sometime in May of 2015.
C.) You can only nominate one post.  If you nominate a post early-on and find a better post later, you can go back and edit your first nomination to remove the nomination and add in the new one (or create a new post).  If you manage to nominate multiple posts during the month, only the most recent nomination will count.
D.) Posts made in the Funhouse are the only ones that qualify for this contest.  If you're making quality posts in the Funhouse, you're clearly more valuable to society than everyone else.
E.) NWR staff posts do not qualify for this contest either, unless they're by that handsome devil insanolord.  Face it, no one from staff really posts on the forums anyway, and the ones that do don't make quality posts. :D
F.) My own posts do not qualify.  If they did, I'd automatically win.

After June 2nd, I'll compile the nominated posts and allow any NWR Staff Members to vote on the post they like the most.  In the event of a tie, I will make the deciding vote amongst the tied posts.

This contest is in no way affiliated with NWR and is just something I'm throwing together for fun.
I reserve the right to tweak the rules and qualifying requirements at any time.

Nominate a post by copying the direct URL to the post into a reply to this thread.  Include the name of the original thread title, who the author of the post is, and what reply number it is (so we can find it easy and hopefully avoid any confusion).

Get to posting. :D

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You figured that out because it's so out of place? :D

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Although I agree with what Adrock said, I was about to say that maybe 15 or 20 days would be better. However, circumventing a ban is a huge no-no. I've got no defense for that.

It should be noted that when he received his most previous ban, it was for three days - and he was told then his next infarction would result in zeros being added to the end of that (i.e.: 30, then 300...)

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I'm in.  What's a Safe Words game without me making it to the final four and blowing myself up?

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Movies & TV / Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
« on: May 01, 2015, 12:53:06 PM »
I saw some crazy super-hero flick last night.  It was acceptable.

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Came in to echo the previous statements.  Not sad about Konami.  Sad about Hudson.

While I'm not one to think Nintendo should go around buying up studios and properties, I'd fully support a purchase of the Bomberman franchise.

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The Aura Ghost has been perma-banned for creating a dupe account for the purposes of bypassing a ban.

LucarioFan has received an additional 10 days to his ban for creating a dupe account for the purposes of bypassing a ban.

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Avengers: Is good.

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Ward destroyed her.  He almost killed her and Fitz.  He really screwed up Fitz (which she partially blames on herself for Fitz trying to save her).  These actions broke them both completely - something which she has never came back from.

I don't think considering everything Ward did that it was out of character.  Everyone has their limits, and Ward pushed her beyond hers.

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I support Simmons' actions.  Ward must die.

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As much as I like Shaymin getting all the **** for this, let me explain everything.

I was working a late shift tonight.  Checking the forums on my break, I saw more posts from our friend Lucariofan, which were breaking all social norms.  Mostly, it was the ALL CAPS quality of the posts.  This, alone, wasn't the issue - but combining it with the fact he was doing this on several other parts of the forums...  if it were just the Funhouse (and whatever the hell y'all got going on in mafia), I'd let it be - but it was in Console Discussion, Reader Reviews, Talkback...  I just got through moving over two dozen posts (most of which were his, some of which were replies to him) from various forums into his Megathread here on the Funhouse.  I did not do this at work because doing such a task on my phone would have been annoying (and would have taken more time than my break allows...).

30 days - this is his third strike.  He's already been banned once for "SPAM" (whomever did that only left that as the note) and again for excessive use of a particular slur that I have zero tolerance for (well, there's a few on that list, but only one which we've had issues with here).  As a third strike, I'd say that's more than fair.  If one of the other mods wants to have mercy on him and lower it from 30 days, I won't argue - but I'm not doing it.  I already spent all my time I care to spend on it splitting/moving all of his posts and typing this explanation up.

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Hm.  kinda sucks for folks OS who got the movie before AoS.  right?

Personally I am more than happy seeing the story a little bit out of whack if we can get the early showings :)

Nope.  It's sad for you.  How will you ever survive?

...three more days... :~(

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They really need to bring back the Custom Cup option.  Call it the Mii Cup.  Trophy is a gold version of your Mii and, after creating one and getting 1st in it, you unlock the Metal Mii Racer.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: What COULD (have) save(d) the Wii U?
« on: April 27, 2015, 07:11:28 PM »
I'm not going to get into the debate over the quality of NSMBWiiU vs. SM64, but I will say this - for all the top-tier, high quality, groundbreaking frst-party titles the N64 had, it was still crushed by the competition in sales.

Meanwhile, for all the nay-saying against the Wii U, it's not too far behind the XBox One and only about half of the PS4 (yes, half isn't good, but compare N64 to PS1).  And I'd say there hasn't really been an amazing, revolutionary, ground-breakng Wii U release yet.

I think folks overestimate the impact of a "System Seller".  If I'm buying a $99 Game Boy, sure, Pokemon might do it.  But when we're talking about dropping a couple of Franklins... I just don't see a sizable amount of people doing that.

People buy systems based on one of three things:

A.) A fan of the manufacturer/their promises of future supprort
 -Nintendo has pretty much tapped this group out.
B) My friends have it and I want to be cool/play against them online.
 -Never going to get the first group and they really don't appear interested in the second.
C) Man, this system has a bunch of games I want that I can't play on the system(s) I already have and it's a good price.
 -This is the group they need to cater to now.  As was pointed out above, they've done a lot of damage putting out comparable titles on the 3DS (although Smash 3DS isn't in the same league as Smash U.  Mario Kart 7 plays better, imho, but 8 is getting amazing DLC)... but this is how they fix it.  One or two completely mind-blowing AAA titles isn't going to reverse their fortunes (aside from Pokemon MMO, but we already discussed that Nintendo isn't catering to an online demo).  They just need as many good-to-great AA-A titles as they can get.

With that said, they need to crank out more games like Hyrule Warriors, Captain Toad, etc.  They need to figure out WTF is going on with the virtual console (get every first-party NES, SNES, N64, GameCube, GB, GBC, GBA, and DS title on there tomorrow.  What, we can download Wii games?  Whoopte-f***in-doo.  I can pop the disc in and play it.  Hell, I can go buy a used Wii for $30, the game for $20, it's cheaper than buying a Wii U and I have more choices in VC titles...).  They need to get with third parties and get as many of their classic titles on the system as they can.  Not that I see SE getting on board, but could you imagine if they announced tomorrow that all of SE's SNES titles were coming to the Wii U?  There are folks that would buy a Wii U within hours of that announcement.

Face it, Wii U isn't going to get new third party support.  So, throw all the old stuff at it (F-Zero GX, AX, F-Zero X, and F-Zero X-DD coming to Wii U tomorrow!), throw some cool, new smaller titles at it (Mario Maker, Yoshi's Wooly World, Splatoon), and the occasional mega title (Zelda 201516) and it'll do just fine.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: What COULD (have) save(d) the Wii U?
« on: April 27, 2015, 11:19:57 AM »
Wii U Super amiibo bundle.

Wii U System + 5 amiibo - Villager, Mewtwo, Lucas, Little Mac and Peach.  Villager is a female deco, Little Mac is wire frame deco, Peach is Daisy deco, Lucas and Mewtwo are exclusive to this bundle.

Face it - people are already paying $100+ for figures.  Nintendo might as well get in on that action too.

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Hm.  kinda sucks for folks OS who got the movie before AoS.  right?

:~(

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Movies & TV / Re: Rate the last TV show you've seen
« on: April 26, 2015, 09:25:24 PM »
Oh, geeze.  I just watched the "GamerGate" episode of Law & Order: SVU from earlier this year.

Suddenly, I'm looking forward to the new Fantastic Four movie.

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: Facebook has locked me out of my account.
« on: April 24, 2015, 02:46:05 PM »
My account is back. :D  Yay.

I was able to convince Facebook that my name is Uncle Bob. :D

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: Safe Words 3! Arkham Asylum. Game Over.
« on: April 23, 2015, 08:59:00 PM »
You also forgot to mention the 2,000 bonus points for creating the superior "Do Say the Magic Word" game.  And the 700 bonus points for coming up with the awesome rule that the last person in the chain gets to pick the next word.  So I'm up to 2,967.  Suck it.

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No, I meant I tried the thing that worked before somewhat recently by banning everyone from the forums.

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The last time that happened it was under, shall we say, "unique" conditions. Now, I'm not suggesting you take matters into your own hands to bring about similar circumstances, I'm just saying that has been effective in the past.

I did that, remember?

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Can we get better forum software?

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Can we get that here?

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