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That's rough. All I had to deal with was getting snowed in for Thanksgiving. Came in on the front of the storm, left a week later just when stuff was thawing, and they got half an inch of ice from freezing rain just after I left. Stay safe.
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 Update TimeEpisode 8 - There Are Many Things Happening Right Now also, thread friend Battle Cattle drew me a really cute thing on twitter and you should all check it out 
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Dec 11, 2015 12:19
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Between the email from his wife and the descriptions for stuff like the Toxic Toadstool, I'm feeling better about Olimar now. 
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Dec 11, 2015 16:09
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Glad ya like it!
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Dec 11, 2015 16:12
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The fan art is really cute, and honestly I could watch a half hour or more of you two just dinking around in the Piklopedia and discovering things. Something about Faerie Fortune's joy when she finds something interesting is infectious.
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I wonder who did the Japanese-English translation for this game. They did a great job.
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Samovar posted:I wonder who did the Japanese-English translation for this game. They did a great job. Wikipedia and the Pikmin wiki are tight-lipped but as a first party Nintendo IP it would presumably be Treehouse. They pretty consistently do good work, yeah.
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Update Time Episode 9 - Lets Kill Flowey
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Since you reached 3000 pokos, you reached the start of the new set of end-of-day mails, and missed out on some! As promised, here's the full set Pikmin Wiki posted:President While the piklopedia and treasure list give characterization to Olimar and Louie, most all of the other characterization is in the mails. Once you've seen all the messages, it repeats the last one in the set on all later days until you reach the new threshold. Also, the Pikmin wiki lists the credits for Pikmin 2 and says 5 people worked on the North American localization, and some quick seaches turn them up as each localizing a ton of Mario games so yeah, I'm pretty sure they're all part of Treehouse.
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Dec 16, 2015 14:05
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Oh my god the emails from his kids I'm vaguely curious if his family has names in any version of the game or the inevitable supplementary material. Clearly your avatar needs to be Olimar, with Samus' helmet instead of his own yeah you're not actually playing that game but it would be funny, and with Link's hat on top of it all. 
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Oh man time dilation talk, I know this stuff. Are we going to wonder about length contraction and relativistic momentum next?  I've never heard the theory that Pikmin's Earth is post-apocalyptic. Seems a little too dark for this series. I don't have any proof to back this up, but I always imagined that the way to explain the changes between games was that humans are definitely still around and you're probably just wandering around in someone's garden that they're actively planting. This explains the sudden flower pots and stone walls that appeared in the forest all of a sudden. Remember, Olimar and the Pikmin are like, inches tall at most.
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Dec 16, 2015 17:30
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FPzero posted:Oh man time dilation talk, I know this stuff. Are we going to wonder about length contraction and relativistic momentum next? I can see you've never played Pikmin 3.
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Dec 16, 2015 18:42
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I've definitely played and beaten Pikmin 3 but I don't remember any post-apocalyptic undertones. It has been a while since I last played it though so maybe I'm forgetting something. We'll see when Fae gets to Pikmin 3 I suppose!
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Dec 16, 2015 18:58
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Nintendo has confirmed that this really is Earth, but about 250 million years in the future.
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Yeah, it isn't really a spoiler to say it at this point, because we've seen most of the in-game evidence already. Pikmin 2 has most of the evidence: All these remains are real-life human-made items that could not exist except on Earth, we find some globes, and, most tellingly, humans are very clearly gone. It isn't clear how exactly it happened, but this is definitely a future Earth, after some kind of extinction-level event. The popular theory is that the Pikmin world ended in nuclear fire, because there isn't anything in the entire series larger than a really small dog, and well over half of the enemies in the game are bugs. Bulborbs are basically mutant gerbils, and the pikmin are a completely new kind of life defying modern understandings of the categories of life (which we talked about a lot in the last game, whether pikmin are more plantoid or fungoid or animal in nature). But at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter how Earth came to be like this. What matters is that it did, and we're here now, and those bottlecaps are worth 100 pokos each, so we need to nab 'em.
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Dec 17, 2015 00:26
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They could've just packed up and left.
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Yeah, I always figured humanity just packed up and left. We hit space travel and booked it the hell out of there.
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I'm also not sure why someone would think it was too dark for Nintendo given that Splatoon has the explicit extinction of nearly all land life in its backstory as well, but is much more blatant about it despite being even more goofy and cheerful. Though I agree that it's entirely possible humanity left or evolved into energy beings or something here. It doesn't matter, really: either way, they're all gone now. Geostomp fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Dec 17, 2015 |
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FPzero posted:I've never heard the theory that Pikmin's Earth is post-apocalyptic. That's weird, because almost every single conversation or thread I've seen/heard/read about Pikmin has mentioned that it's a post-apocalyptic Earth. Like, since the very first game came out.  Edit: Heck, even the wikipedia entry for the game backs that up. Look at the bottom of the page: quote:Categories: New Play Control! games; 2001 video games; Fiction with alternate endings; Interactive Achievement Award winners; Nintendo GameCube games; Pikmin; Wii games; Post-apocalyptic video games; Strategy video games Captain Bravo fucked around with this message at 00:50 on Dec 17, 2015 |
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Dec 17, 2015 00:48
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Geostomp posted:I'm also not sure why someone would think it was too dark for Nintendo given that Splatoon has the explicit extinction of nearly all land life in its backstory as well, but is much more blatant about it despite being even more goofy and cheerful. Nintendo's always had a... unique view of the post-apocalypse. 
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Dec 17, 2015 00:49
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Humanity went to the farm on vacation. There's loads of fields where they can frolic and play, and nothing sad ever happens there. It's a happiness farm. They won't be back for a long time, though.
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In Kirby 64, Shiver Star, the ice planet, is Earth. When does Kirby 64 happen in the Pikmin timeline?
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Dec 17, 2015 01:35
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Not knowing that this was a post-apocalyptic setting, I just assumed you were exploring like, a thirty foot environment whenever you touched down in a new area.
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Cheez posted:In Kirby 64, Shiver Star, the ice planet, is Earth. When does Kirby 64 happen in the Pikmin timeline? Kirby 64, Pikmin, Splatoon. Very simple.
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Pyroi posted:Kirby 64, Pikmin, Splatoon. I would've had it as Pikmin (things are largely as if we just left), Kirby (Ice age) and then Splatoon (ice age over, water everywhere).  I want this to be the new Zelda timeline fuckery.
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The only thing I'm wondering about then is where those flower pots came from. Were they always there? Who planted them?
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Where does Pikmin fit in the zelda timeline? I must know.
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Pikmin only get left behind in a cave if they're left buried in the ground. You don't need to go around and make sure they're all in a squad.
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Update Time Episode 10 - I'm Onto You wherein I am reunited with an old foe
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Sniiitchbugs! Oh man you'll have plenty of time to hit both caves. I can't wait for Fae to be re-united with another old friend if she goes to the caves.
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That was some really quick non-panicked lifeguarding! I thought it was all over! You had some really good pikmin control today in general. The only slip was that those few mandiblards (great name) you defeated at the end chomped a few of your pikmin as they were carrying things home offscreen but that was very minor.
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The good news is that all the animals on Neo-Earth are perfectly amicable vegetarians. The bad news is that all the animals on Neo-Earth are perfectly amicable vegetarians.
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Faerie Fortune posted:
 You just reminded me of Kaubocks & Panzer Skank's wonderful LP of that game. EDIT: I tried GMing once. I didn't feel I did a great job, and looking back, I totally ended up making the GMPC who was supposed to fill in the role nobody else took (rogue) and ended up making them far too prepared tor everything. Then again, I had to keep the party from dying against trolls and NOBODY BROUGHT FIRE. Like. Not even a torch to see with. Nobody even had flint & steel. These were veteran gamers. I don't underst-  Also I don't do a good job flying by the seat of my pants running things and there isn't enough prep-time in the world to deal with human players outside of a video game to account for everything (they don't like it when you make them stand in place and not kill kings for some reason). So I'm strictly a player now. And trust me, whenever I can be, I am the bringer of fire. Shei-kun fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Dec 26, 2015 |
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Dec 26, 2015 22:27
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I mostly end up in a GM role, despite wanting to be a player more often. Just how things tend to shake out.
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I am a player. I am far too much of a procrastinator to be capable of preparing a campaign, and I am also terrible at thinking on my feet so I wouldn't be able to react at all to my players. As for the LP, your Pikmin weren't trapped at all. You could have just thrown them up on the ledge and gone around to get them. You almost did that, but apparently the Wallywog threat made you forget about your plan.
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CaptianKatsura posted:I am a player. I am far too much of a procrastinator to be capable of preparing a campaign, and I am also terrible at thinking on my feet so I wouldn't be able to react at all to my players. Same, pretty much. I'm also not great at the whole "role-playing" thing.
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Strictly player. I am too bad at remembering the rules to handle anything more than my own character.
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I have a GMPC. He doesn't even have a class, he's just a guy named Cole Flint. He just follows adventurers and sells them flint and steel for exorbitant prices, because they always, always, assume someone else is bringing the flint, or just forget entirely. "I light my torch!" "How?" "..." "Heh heh, what're ya buyi-" "Flint, Cole. It's always flint, Cole, that's all you sell. Stop asking."
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Thesaya posted:Strictly player. I am too bad at remembering the rules to handle anything more than my own character. I'm the opposite, I can't stand sloppy GMs and so I always end up being the bride and never a bridesmaid.
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