Chatzy Madness Volume 422: Devote The Rest Of My Life To Mario

Gooper Blooper: https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/8165246
Jumpropeman: only 76 images?!
Jumpropeman: *sharon bankrupts herself getting ravio commissions*
Draco: Dang. I can't believe she bought two Ravio commissions.
Hooded Pitohui: link
Hooded Pitohui: I saw a big poster with Ravio on it while browsing Etsy the other day and I was so tempted to buy it
Jumpropeman: oh man, that is cool
Jumpropeman: look at Sheerow! <3
Gooper Blooper: where's sharon tho
Jumpropeman: bringing out tables so it doesn't have to be on the grass
Jumpropeman: link
Gooper Blooper: link link
Jumpropeman: nep sometimes shows up at the rental shop just to make sure sharon's not sacrificing babies or whatever
Draco: "Tapestry" is being generous.
Jumpropeman: redbubble's so called tapestries are a gold mine
Draco: Once in a while, Nep's sister shows up to try to get Gale to do something.
Gooper Blooper: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ickg9LkvgaU/hqdefault.jpg
Jumpropeman: even thinking burns calories you know
Gooper Blooper: "Game Gear never attended SeHaGaHa High, preferring to stay home watching TV all day."
Jumpropeman: she learned enough from tv
Jumpropeman: like all the best soda brands
Draco: I mean, Gale got the best girlfriend that way, so...
Hooded Pitohui: Almost forgot to actually schedule the epilogue because I got to thinking about Sharon
Jumpropeman: understandable pitohui
Gooper Blooper: kek

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Gooper Blooper: small post, I'm wiped out
Draco: *gets the push broom ready*
Hooded Pitohui: I feel ya. It's late.
Draco: It's only 9:30. Y'all are wimps.
Draco: jk
Gooper Blooper: it's 1:30 PM in Japan
Gooper Blooper: got the whole afternoon ahead of us
Gooper Blooper: I'm gonna go take a Tokyo afternoon nap
Gooper Blooper: nite

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Gooper Blooper: So here's something Chao might enjoy
Gooper Blooper: Lately I've been playing a Rampage-style game on Switch called "Terror Of Hemasaurus" where you attack cities while playing as a Godzilla knockoff, and early on your kaiju attacks start pretty close to NYC
Gooper Blooper: However, when you get to NYC, you only visit it briefly for a short level in which you target one specific building in Manhattan
Gooper Blooper: The next level has you abruptly change course to go to New Jersey and the tutorial/mission explanation guy says "you can go ahead and wipe this whole place out, no one will miss it"
RubyChao: PFFFFFFFT
RubyChao: ahahahahahaa, i love it
Harpydia: jersey devil cries
Gooper Blooper: Oddly enough despite the Switch having approximately five hundred million games on it, none of them are Rampage, not even the original via that massive "Arcade Archives" port series, so I'm glad this was here to fill the gap
Draco: Brutal.
RubyChao: well harpy
RubyChao: robot hell didn't HAVE to be in new jersey, yet it is
RubyChao: checkmate
Harpydia: jersey devil now promoted to new york devil
Draco: Trapped forever here in robot hell.

GB RP 2024 Character Breakdown

Doing something a little different this year for my post-RP blog - I'm going to go through the enormous cast of characters I brought to the table this year and give my thoughts on their performance this year. Including the plot characters and villains means my events will get discussed along the way, too.

While working on this list, I certainly noticed how many times a character either didn't get used much or only got one or maybe two plots added to their resume. This is what comes of having a cast that's too dang large, and it's increased my resolve to heavily trim down the Ensemble for Season 15 as I try to do more with less instead of dumping every cute girl I see into RP. From the hospital crew to the witches to the solos and duos to the characters that joined up with DALI, it seemed like everyone was fighting for scraps of airtime...

Stella
And then there was Hoshii freakin' Holdings, which is somehow stronger than ever. So strong that Stella gets to be above the jump break. Stella has gone from secondary character, to main character, to the point where she's outright my current flagship, the star of GB RP and probably one of the first characters you think of when you think of my writing. This isn't all just Stella herself, either, but the people who work under her, considering the company features multiple breakout characters who did more than expected this season. Stella herself is certainly a powerhouse at this point, though. More than just someone who attends a bunch of events, she's in the tier of someone like Dia or Dawn in that she actively organizes Kobber forces to align against problems. Also, due to the circumstances of Del's cancelled Tau plot and the point it reached before being cut short, she might have prevented a planetwide assimilation attempt with nothing but a sternly-worded warning, which is a completely insane trophy for her already-stuffed trophy cabinet. We are very lucky the cat boomer is a benevolent soul.

To the surprise of no one, Stella is coming to Argo, and a number of the ideas floating around in my head for some kind of plot or conflict in the next season directly relate to her, mostly in the form of some potential new competition.

Chatzy Madness Volume 421: Totally Zarjaz

Jumpropeman: https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/2251717
RubyChao: congrats on the girl, ginny
Mobile Draco: Cute :3
Gooper Blooper: Tiny Thief Is Obsessed With Giant Landfill That's Four Times Her Size
Jumpropeman: wish there were more pictures of zadanost
Gooper Blooper: gorgeous
Jumpropeman: time to get jisatsu on the horn
Jumpropeman: im so proud of the little thief that could, brine pushed her to the stars and she just kept trucking to a possible happy life because of it
Gooper Blooper: sometimes RP is just about making a cute girl happy
RubyChao: time for brine to do it AGAIN
Jumpropeman: i was particularly happy that ginny and zada connected on feeling like they were good as they are. I wonder if Zadanost would still be as she is if Ginny didn't tell her it's alright to be a trash heap and in fact, it's amazing
Jumpropeman has a lot of pent up happiness after last night's scene!
Gooper Blooper: I'm reminded of how every so often I'll go back and reread big pairing confirmation moments of my own just to smile at them
Gooper Blooper: Meredith/Rachel is a favorite, big surprise
Jumpropeman: i went back and reread some palette/cube lately
Gooper Blooper: The Cuddle Cube~
RubyChao: i need to do a few more of those to reread, clearly
RubyChao: my most recent one was two years ago!
Jumpropeman: i mean, chao, if you need a lady, i've got hot singles in your area
Jumpropeman: let's see...
Claire: taken. Kogasa: in progress. GBC: taken. Cube: taken. Miyoi: available, but a rare treasure. Yuuma: available. Pete: if that's your thing. Sinful: ... Prosperity: available. Ginny: <3 Vita: in progress ;) PSP: available Fiona: in progress. DALI: all available, so grab Uysnskow QUICK
Fussy Little BunBun: What about Zed
Jumpropeman: nobody's gone for the big guy yet
Gooper Blooper: he'd fall under DALI
Fussy Little BunBun: What about Dr Crygor
Jumpropeman: Crygor x Lady Science is hard canon
Mobile Draco: Miyoi is a forbidden fruit, too sweet to actually possess...
Brine: Very happy with that scene as well. Definitely feels like a culmination of all their sort of stuff... Full stop, Zadanost wouldn't have embraced her full Trash Crystal Elementalness but for Ginny, likely would've gone in the other direction slowly but surely over time. Brine RP is just a drive to make ALL the cute girls happy.

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Jumpropeman: "The robot chef drained her sausage" right in front of everyone?!
Jumpropeman: (sorry)
Gooper Blooper: XD
RubyChao: jrm pls

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The Folks On Death Helicopters: "Oh, this is nice. The bacon, especially." I read this as "The bitcoin."
Gooper Blooper: delicious kromer
RubyChao: ?

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Draco: Dorothy can't wait to try Sue's cake. B)
Gooper Blooper: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Draco: (ง ͠° ͟ل͜ ͡°)ง

Chatzy Madness Volume 420: Star Wars Ain't Real

Diadem: don't worry we'll put benedictine cucumberpatch in her place too eventually
Diadem: but she's smart not to get kobberitised this early
Brine: She didn't want anything to do with the Kobbers, they just kept... showing up! Just, sighing and washing her hands of this whole thing. For now. We're gonna get her though!
Diadem: don't send operatives to where kobbers have been recently seen you silly cucumber
Brine: That darn Lee, crawling to safety with them. Absolutely gross. Sending less people to stay under the radar backfired, definitely :V Benedictine back at home like "Well... Fiddlesticks."
MobileCurryy: Damn she owns part of tennessee but can’t say fuck smdh
Brine: Too much class! It'll make it mean that much more when she drops one midKobbering.

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Jumpropeman: in the same way Randy was likely hired when the ZFPD became more "official", Chiyari probably joined the hospital around the time they became an organization
Jumpropeman: she has a low social battery so even if a Kobber tried to get chummy with her before, she probably just did the bare minimum in the conversation
Jumpropeman: aren't you excited to meet her?!?!
Mobile Draco: Does she like potatoes?
Jumpropeman: i did consider having her have a snack for this scene. so I'll go with... yes

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Mbwah Sheep joined the chat
Turalli Traveler tosses a net over Sheep
Turalli Traveler: Stay!
Mbwah Sheep releases his spores in self defense
Mbwah Sheep: Hello
Turalli Traveler: You know spores aren’t going to do much against a net
Mbwah Sheep chews on net
Turalli Traveler: Slightly more effective.
Jumpropeman: hi sheep
Mbwah Sheep: yo
Turalli Traveler: So how is brawl victory tasting
Mbwah Sheep: I'm coping :L
Jumpropeman: just think about how happy it made chao!
RubyChao: it's true
RubyChao: legit how goops felt when harpy finally won
Mbwah Sheep: :I
Mbwah Sheep: this is my smiling face...
Draco: Sheep is smiling? Nature is healing! ;o;
Turalli Traveler: I wanna try and win next year.
RubyChao: good luck!
Draco: I'll vote for you.
Draco: I'm not voting for Sheep anymore though. He's had too much excitement for one year.
Mbwah Sheep: It's true. We had to hire a guy to run on a little wheel where my heart used to be.
Jumpropeman: so that's where spat went
Mbwah Sheep: Listen, he's a busy guy
Turalli Traveler: Sorry CW.
Turalli Traveler: I am not holding back
Turalli Traveler: Next year I will bring in
Turalli Traveler: The cute girls
Draco: Oh no
Draco: Cornwind doesn't have many of those. D:
Jumpropeman: 😱
Jumpropeman: im gonna enter a cute goat, i heard those win
Jumpropeman: wait, I entered yuuma last year
Draco: Not cute enough, apparently.
Draco: Cornwind should enter the god-making villain so she can win and we can make "First time" jokes forever.
Turalli Traveler: He does!
Turalli Traveler: It’s just that his cute girls can and will break a person’s spine over their knee
RubyChao: in fairness, i think a lot of cute girls in rp can
Draco: Mine can't. All my cute girls skipped knee day.
Turalli Traveler: Well mine couldn’t with their knees specifically

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Jumpropeman: considering JRM's amoral approach to brawl entry management, if Old Bun Eye had won the brawl, I guess he'd just kinda turn the monster loose afterwards :V Post-Brawl plot: stop the Tyranibble attack on Glasetera
RubyChao: spy did say that he would have cobbled together a plot for us
Draco: Old Bun Eye gets turned into a cute anime girl by Brine too.

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Mbwah Sheep: Birds fly. Fish swim. And Playmate loses at cards.

Chatzy Madness Volume 419: Big Bar Brawl 14 Edition

Jocular ExplosionFromTheMouth: Sheep what have you done
Marked Sheep: Probably something unspeakable.

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Mobile Draco: Calling, Sheep. Send help to the Spathi.
Marked Sheep shoots Spathi
Marked Sheep: Gomenasorry

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Gooper Blooper: checked a Vermont news website today and got an article that began as follows
Gooper Blooper: "For most of the 30 years Jovana Guarino has lived in South Burlington, she has considered the city a peaceful and enjoyable place to live."
Gooper Blooper: "That is until pickleball arrived."
Diadem: king pickle rickle really fucking conquering vermont

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Jumpropeman: I feel like I had something to say... *brain sparks*
Mobile Pitohui: I keep having that experience lately.
Mobile Pitohui: I blame the heat making for restless nights.
Jumpropeman mind is just a miasma of brawl spoilers
Gooper Blooper: On that note
Gooper Blooper: Bravo to JRM for never once accidentally letting slip any Brawl spoilers in regular conversation during the Brawl Cave period
Draco: It's why he usually avoids us: because he's so HYPE.
Jumpropeman: its one reason I don't like, share links of danbooru or much during brawl too, don't want you think I'm thinking about a character too much :V
Draco: Is that why you shared a hundred Sucy pictures? ;p
Gooper Blooper: JRM's Pinterest is currently filled with pictures of Pukey
Jumpropeman: link
Draco: AH HA! Lil Cirno's winning the Brawl this year! >:D
Jumpropeman: D: I thought I threw you off the scent...

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Jumpropeman: Draco, DALI would support the robot rights thing in some capacity so you can say they're there somehow
Jumpropeman: I don't want you to feel obligated to have like, Zed or Ember who could be very strong, but you can have like, Jawbreaker and Phanty or something
Jumpropeman: Kogasa can be there and tell them they can't participate since their user isn't around
Gooper Blooper: I can see Kogasa attending and then eliminating herself from the fight that way
Gooper Blooper: "Oh, I should be in the Brawl Cave!"
Jumpropeman: pictured: kogasa exiting plot
Draco: Alright. I'll say Kogasa is there trying to become a robot. ;V

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RubyChao: man i think the brawl wait really is where you feel how long two weeks is
Jumpropeman: what do you mean, two weeks feels so short to me-
Gooper Blooper: It's like waiting for Christmas
Gooper Blooper: You wait and wait and wait, and then IT'S HERE... and then it's gone and you gotta wait another year
Draco: I have a video game to keep me busy for two weeks. There's no plot on Saturday after all. ;p
Turalli Traveler: Well you also get the behind the fites
Turalli Traveler: I always like that
Gooper Blooper: That's always an enjoyable chaser, yes

Chatzy Madness Volume 418: Stop Voting For Me

Draco: We did it. We beat Sony and saved KNACK 4: A REALM REVENGE OF THE JAWS VS PREDATOR
Marker Sheep: This plot brought to you by Shadow Legends.
Draco: The 100% Totally Real We Swear This Fake Youtuber Isn't Faking Reactions Game.
Jumpropeman: they can't wait to see you in game ;D ;D ;D join their real clan that isn't just default level
Draco: THEY LOVE RAID. THEY CAN'T PLAY ENOUGH.
Cornwind Evil: The funny thing is, even if they legit liked the game
Cornwind Evil: They have too much work in real life to play it, most likely
Draco: Probably. The Pokemon Youtubers I started watching hawk it once in a while.
Draco: There's probably some kind of advertising deal where they actually had to play it for a bit.

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Marker Sheep looks at characters
Marker Sheep: Green man or goat...truly the most nuclear of options...
Jumpropeman: clearly you send tiny dock man
Marker Sheep: Tiiiiny dock man!
Marker Sheep: Doing tiny dock man things!
Gooper Blooper: The Lady In Chains vs Crying Goat is the new Hydrogen Bomb vs Coughing Baby
Keep It Del: lmao
Hooded Pitohui: Bookie, all my cash on the Crying Goat, now! Now, I tell you! The payout'll be huge.

(The crying goat was defeated easily.)

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Gooper Blooper: https://i.redd.it/mwcaptno64qa1.png
Jumpropeman: they already got her...
Mobile Draco: link
Jumpropeman: don't talk to me or my android again
Everybody Milk Your Dinosaur: You can take my life, my dignity
Everybody Milk Your Dinosaur: But please don't take my Fumo girl

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Jumpropeman: did I ever mention the game I played with my brother Search for New Oceana?
Jumpropeman: I don't think I have
Gooper Blooper: Not ringing a bell, JRM
Gooper Blooper: Was this recent?
Jumpropeman: nah, it was a game we played with our toys when we were kids!
Jumpropeman: we made it up
Gooper Blooper: Oh! You told us about a ton of those back in the day when Pteron was relevant
Gooper Blooper: this one I don't recall by name though
Jumpropeman: we had a bunch of realistic animal toys, so we came up with the idea they all lived on Oceana but they had to flee it and look for a new one. There were lizards and bugs and a bat and all those kind of realistically sized animal figurines. For some reason, in canon, they all slept in a backpack at night even though so many of them would eat each other realistically, but more importantly, we realized that issue and tried to figure out what they could possibly be eating
Jumpropeman: well there was a snail toy, an old lady named Snelly who I played as, and the solution we determined was she would move all around the place and all the other animals would just lap up her slime as food.
Gooper Blooper: XD
Gooper Blooper: INFINITE FOOD GENERATOR
Gooper Blooper: GROCERY STORES WILL GO BANKRUPT
Jumpropeman: notably, this game is one of the few we actually came up with an ending for. Mainly, one day they realize living in a backpack and eating snail slime IS their New Oceana
Gooper Blooper: The real New Oceana was the slime we licked off the ground on the way
Jumpropeman: time to find a way to work Snelly into RP...
Jumpropeman: she'll be the chef in Argo
Mobile Draco: Sue Chef confirmed not allowed in Argo.
Gooper Blooper: Dorothy will smuggle her in.
Mobile Draco: Whalestrand's pizza market is so oversaturated she has to go to another continent.

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Jumpropeman: this but with whoever PS4 attaches to next

Chatzy Madness Volume 417: Kick Squirrel, Try Not To Kick Chainsaw

(Re: the previous Chatzy Madness)

Presentgate: I am very glad goops provided a link to the harkness test
Gooper Blooper: It seemed like important context, I'd never heard of it myself
Presentgate: That actually makes you really vanilla compared to some discords I'm in
Gooper Blooper: You have NO IDEA how absolutely TWISTED I can get!!!
Gooper Blooper has two cute girls hold hands
Jumpropeman: BANNED
Presentgate: 🤔

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (Cornwind Evil) joined the chat
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA: So
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA: In Serious Sam
Presentgate: Hello CW
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA: There's an enemy called the Beheaded Kamikaze
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA: All it can do is run at you carrying bombs
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA: While screaming
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA: Fragile, but they always come in numbers, and the game's selling point is often fighting in very large open areas where they can appear all around you
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA: So when you start hearing AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA you know you're not in for a fun time
Draco: Hi Cornwind.
Presentgate: unlike all funtimes you normally have hearing someone scream in all caps
Gooper Blooper: I remember seeing a video of this guy many years ago
Gooper Blooper: it's basically all I know about Serious Sam, that there's an enemy who runs at you going AAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA: Yes, and that guy was in a semi good spot in that they all came from the semi same direction and he had lots of room to back up
Jumpropeman: oh wow, its been a while since I've seen a serious sam game. Did not expect the generic fps small city
Draco: Dang. That IS kinda disconcerting. Even worse than a Super Mutant Suicider.

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA: Barpost to make Ginny's life harder

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Gooper Blooper: so today, goopsbro was browsing the nintendo eshop and saw Garfield Kart on sale for two dollars, and he had exactly two dollars in Gold Points
Gooper Blooper: so we played Garfield Kart today.
Jumpropeman: family fun time!
Gooper Blooper: The way Goopsbro put it was pretty logical
Gooper Blooper: "if we have fun with this together for one afternoon that's worth two dollars"
Gooper Blooper: he found it actually enjoyable because he just likes kart racers and Garfield Kart is not a broken game, just aggressively by-the-numbers
Jumpropeman: but did he feel shame for using no boosts
Gooper Blooper: The one on Switch is the Furious Racing version, which removes the coin and boost system
Gooper Blooper: so we were spared that!
RubyChao: No Boost System? Shame!
Gooper Blooper: My Garfield calendar gave me this strip today, so if we don't see him again for the rest of the season, this is why

(later)

Gooper Blooper: Best quote from Goopsbro after we went back to Garfield Kart to play the second half of it: "We've done three races and it feels like we've been playing for an hour."

Chatzy Madness Volume 416: Thirty Illiterate Colonists (AKA The One With Gollum)

Draco: Coming in, like, a month:
Jumpropeman: =o
Jumpropeman: she's hit the big times
Gooper Blooper: >single fang
Gooper Blooper: a pained kek
Jumpropeman: like in Islamic art, there must be an imperfection in the art, for only Allah is perfect
Draco: lol
Draco: I will find a way to remove the fang when I get it. XD
Gooper Blooper: Give her a ninja mask
Draco: I'll give her Miyoi a spork.
Jumpropeman: she'll always hold her spork at a diagonal angle
Gooper Blooper: Wilson from Home Improvement but it's a fumo

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Jumpropeman: playing some game and watch games
Jumpropeman: some are fun, others are "you learn quickly one way to survive infinitely and the challenge is to not space out" V:
Gooper Blooper: How'd you get access to Game and Watch?
Jumpropeman: nintendo's rereleased them! Game and Watch Gallery, the DSiware downloads
Gooper Blooper: Ah! Game and Watch Gallery did immediately come to mind but I wondered if you'd found some other way
Jumpropeman: I know there's even some website out there that you can play them in your browser
Jumpropeman: not legally of course but it exists
Gooper Blooper: I remembered Archive.org has tiger handhelds on it
Jumpropeman: oh, i wonder if they might have some
Jumpropeman: there you are
Jumpropeman: although that seems to be more a reproduction
Jumpropeman: don't see to be any over in the Console Living Room, which uses genuine ROMs
Jumpropeman: which is the name for the section of archive.org with legit old games I should clarify
Jumpropeman: i think some games like Donkey Kong Hockey have sadly never been part of Nintendo's official rereleases sadly
Jumpropeman: which is one I really want to play
Jumpropeman: just for the name mostly :V
Gooper Blooper: https://www.mariowiki.com/Donkey_Kong_Hockey
Gooper Blooper: imagine you and CKR huddling around this thing to play some god-awful hockey
Jumpropeman: the family that Donkey Kong Hockeys together, stays together

GB's Game Reviews, 2023-2024 Edition

What a year for gaming it's been for me! I'm used to playing games only in limited fits and starts during the warmer months of the year, as ZFRP ends up consuming a lot of the time I'd otherwise be using to play. However, things were different this time. For the first time in a long time, I found the energy and motivation to keep playing new games continuously throughout Season 13 of RP, and as a result of that (plus other factors like continued trips to Funspot and playing several compilations full of quick new additions to the blog) I played dozens of games this year. In fact, this might be an all-time record for me!

It felt good to get my bad experience with Mechstermination Force out of my system in last year's post, so I will be including a few more reviews in this post of games I played but didn't finish if I have something to say about the experience, positive or otherwise. (Xenoblade fans, I am sorry.) This time the reviews are in roughly the order I played the games, so things kind of hop around at times, but at other times you'll see a bunch of Mario, Sonic, or TMNT games clustered together as I stuck with a franchise for a bit.

With that out of the way, I hope you enjoy the largest GB game review blogpost ever!

No Confidence

Why was the afterlife different from one person to the next? Why did people have so many different possible fates? There were many reasons why, but one of the most basic was that there were many afterlives, many hells and heavens. Which one you were sent to depending on numerous things, chief among them being your personal religion and culture. But you didn't always get to 'choose' your fate this way. The afterlives sometimes mingled with each other, the different godly and demonic beings in charge not always isolated. And especially sinful people could get in real trouble down here.

So it was that Hell, Incorporated came to be. Once just another offshoot of your standard fire-and-brimstone underworld, Lucifer had come up with grandiose plans long ago to make it all run just the way she liked it. A less chaotic hell. A less rambunctious hell. An organized realm with everything in its' proper place... and herself at the top, naturally. And as no one really subscribed to a land like this as part of their belief system, over time Hell, Inc became a sort of dumping ground for souls that other realms couldn't deal with or had no room for. Lucifer took pride in dealing with these especially troublesome beings, but not all the demons under her felt the same way.

Verosika Mayday was the perfect demon for Hell, Inc, because she was ambitious. Always a desirable quality for a high-ranking demon to have, it meant she worked hard and got results. The paradox was, though, that it was also an undesirable quality. Get too ambitious and you might start thinking you ought to be the one in charge. Lucifer had known to keep a close watch on Verosika. The woman was a little too ambitious for her own good. Over time, she had used her charms to win over other demons throughout Hell, Inc. Lucifer wasn't intimidated. Hell, Inc had a seven-member Board of Directors, herself and six others, and while Verosika was among their number and had been actively wooing the other five, Lucifer had plenty of pull herself and was working to keep her own subordinates pleased.

Too late, Lucifer realized her mistake. By the time Verosika's little movement had begun to pick up speed, the chance to be rid of her had passed. In the Hell, Inc rulebook, it was deemed possible for the Board to vote out any of its' own members, but this required a two-thirds or more supermajority - with the current roster of seven, that meant five demons voting in agreement. The rule was designed to cast out bad actors without making it too easy, but Lucifer hadn't wanted to pull the trigger the moment Verosika started showing signs of discontent, because she was a popular demon and voting her out at the first sign of ambition might have just made things worse. But now, things were a little more serious. Verosika had picked up two allies on the Board: Black Doom and the Vanterviper. With their help, she had a bulwark against being kicked off. Now it couldn't happen, and Lucifer was stuck with her, forced into a battle of personalities as her Board began to devolve into a standoff between two opposing parties.

It was a pain, but what Lucifer didn't know was that things were about to get far worse.

Chatzy Madness Volume 415: Powerful Daddy Energy

Gooper Blooper: link
Draco: Cute bugs
Draco: I bet one of them would smooch a Sega Dreamcast.
Gooper Blooper: Even if it smells like Taco Bell?
Draco: What kind of Taco Bell? Baja Blast or a Mexican Pizza?
Gooper Blooper: I forget exactly how JRM reported his new old system smelled
Draco: Fair.
Draco asked Chatzy to choose between Yes, No and BAJA BLAST. Chatzy chose: Yes
Draco: Yes, it would.
Jumpropeman: Jumpropeman: my dreamcast smells like taco bell
Jumpropeman: found it, goop was right

(later)

Mitochondria Powers the Del: "my Dreamcast smells like taco bell" might be the most 90s sentence I've ever read

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Jumpropeman: "Aaha!"
―Scrat when he sees an acorn
Jumpropeman: thank you ice age wiki

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Jumpropeman: https://i.redd.it/knm9r3ozs2091.jpg
Gooper Blooper: Shadow is pretty much the ultimate embodiment of early 2000s edge and it's great
Jumpropeman: im glad that we're mostly past the age of condemning edge, or at least like, normal edge
RubyChao: his theme remains ridiculously cheesy edge nonsense and it's still great
Jumpropeman: there's still definitely like "shock" edge that I doubt people will ever come around on
RubyChao: i unironically enjoy this song
RubyChao: oh yeah shock edge is way different than "shadow is so EDGY he uses GUNS and says DAMN"
Gooper Blooper: where's that
Gooper Blooper: D A M N
Gooper Blooper: fourth chaos emerald
Jumpropeman: =o
Jumpropeman: too far! too far!
Jumpropeman: im going back to my safe palworld server-
Draco: Diadem, Goops said a swear word. Punish him. ;-;
Jumpropeman: i imagine one reason we've cooled, beyond people just embracing cringe now more, is that we're past all those edgy early 2000s ads
Jumpropeman: game rated E for Everyone
Gooper Blooper: Also, the 2000s were long enough ago to fall into the Nostalgia Range
RubyChao: you know
RubyChao: you don't need full stalls for urinals but i have never understood the lack of like. those boards in a lot of bathrooms
RubyChao: it just feels weird
Jumpropeman: it probably costs 50 whole dollars to put up those boards!
Draco: The 2000s were almost 20 years ago.
Jumpropeman: it's also probably how like, I was amused by Bomberman Act Zero but back then, it seemed like the future was all edge and grit

A Helping Hand

Of all the times for something like this to happen...

Helios moved through the snow with urgency despite the bags under his eyes. He had been caught flatfooted at the worst possible moment. The hospital had been in a period of quiet, as was common during the winter months, and almost all of his fellow doctors were unavailable. Dr. Nerique was in the middle of a well-earned vacation abroad, and Dr. Blooper had taken the day off to go deep-sea diving and couldn't be contacted. With only a skeleton crew at the hospital, disaster had struck - an avalanche had rumbled its' way down one of Glasetera's most popular mountains for skiing, and over a dozen people had gotten caught in its' path. Fortunately, it seemed no one had died, but injuries were widespread and Helios was being run ragged trying to deal with it all despite being the only doctor on call. He had requested emergency aid from the ZFPD and they had been able to send Burnin, Justice, and Patty Wagon to at least help with finding the injured and getting them into ambulances, but things were still frantic and the lack of other healers was proving a dire issue.

"H-help... help me..." 

Helios stopped in his tracks as he heard the muffled voice, looking with alarm at a fallen tree. He could just barely see a glove shakily reaching out, the arm connected to it vanishing into the snow and under the tree. "I need some assistance over here!" Helios shouted, and Burnin and Justice hurried over to examine the situation.

"Hang on, we got this!" the two cops said, Burnin and Justice grasping the tree... and failing to lift it. Helios watched them struggle, then followed the length of the tree to its' base and saw the problem - while it had toppled, it was still rooted to the uneven and frozen ground, presenting a nearly immovable obstacle. Even the strength of BURNIN' JUSTICE was proving inadequate, as Justice's hands slipped and sent her tumbling back into the snow while a sweat broke out on the brow of Burnin as she stepped back and shook her own hands to recover from the strain.

"The hell's with this tree?!"

"It's stuck. We can't just roll it off." Helios pointed out.

"I know one thing we can do!" Burnin said, her hair flaring up as she shoved a hand inside the flames to ready a weapon-

"NO! What about the person trapped underneath?!"

"...Oh. Right." Burnin sheepishly lowered her hand.

"What to do, what to do..." Helios grimaced, trying to consider his options. His "Exit" white magic spell carried risks when trying to transport the injured. The safest route would be to chop the tree, but no one here had any means of doing that, and the time spent finding a good enough axe could-

Helios was snapped out of his thinking by the sound of wood being split. Steady, rhythmic chops filled the air as a large axe was repeatedly slammed into the tree, carefully chopping directly through it and finally separating the body from the roots, allowing Burnin and Justice to at last haul off the fallen tree and get it away from the victim underneath. As they moved the tree, Helios looked in surprise at the woman standing there, axe in hand, who had shown up at the perfect time.

Chatzy Madness Volume 414: King K Rool Country Returns

Gooper Blooper: So I've had my yearly game review blog in progress since summer, so I could write reviews when the vidya I beat were still fresh in my mind, and this has also helped to make the workload of reviewing dozens of games in one post a lot more manageable
RubyChao: nice nice, goops!
Gooper Blooper: but despite the fact that I didn't need this padding, unless JRM posts a review of it before April, I will beat him to the punch and put up a review of the vidya JRM has said is his "I need a review up and I have ten minutes" ace in the hole
RubyChao: G A S P
Gooper Blooper: Slot Machine for Atari 2600
Diadem: oh shit
Gooper Blooper: it's happening
Jumpropeman: hahaha
Jumpropeman: i expect an in depth explanation of every symbol on the machine
Gooper Blooper: JRM reaching as far as he can for a Disaster Report

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Jumpropeman: if you were trapped on a dessert island, how long until you eat the whole island and drown
LadySeychelles: depends on what the island is made of I guess
Jumpropeman: i watched that pizza video I mentioned the other day
Jumpropeman: the best part was the guy figuring out if the fire emblem characters have eaten it
LadySeychelles: I expect a lot of digging into medivel history
Jumpropeman: because all Smash Bros. Fire Emblem character appears in Engage, but they're spirits so they can't eat the game's pizza. You can however eat the pizza independently, then save it as leftovers, then during a battle you can merge with that character's spirit and eat the leftovers
LadySeychelles: ...
LadySeychelles: Honestly wasn't expecting that
Red Birb Del: this is a lot of work to get marth to experience pizza
LadySeychelles: Does marth LIKE pizza?
Jumpropeman: i don't feel like he would.
Jumpropeman: he likes hard bread and a glass of room temperature water
LadySeychelles: ouch
LadySeychelles: low opinon of Marth I c
Jumpropeman: he seems pretty basic hero type
MobileDraco: Marth is Basic
Jumpropeman: smash bros is adding more spirits in an update next year, which means its gonna be time for me to 100% it again soon

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Gooper Blooper: I reread some RP from early this season today and Lanterby's angry rant against Wanze hits different now that Chao's avatar makes me imagine Padoru Lanterby doing it
RubyChao: BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
RubyChao: utterly undermined.
Gooper Blooper: instead of punching him, she did the padoru spin and smacked him with the sack
Diadem: he got
Diadem: sacked
LadySeychelles makes a sad wa-wa noise

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RubyChao: reminder
RubyChao: Purple Francis is dead...
Josey Joestar: Don’t remind me
Josey Joestar: My life is so much less purple without him
Josey Joestar: Although I have to ask
Josey Joestar: Is there a Non-Purple Francis
Jumpropeman: once you've gone purple, you never go back