Sunday, March 27, 2016

Amiibo March Madness!

Happy Easter! I lit my dishwasher on fire (really) and I'm kind of pissed off about it BUT HELL HERE'S AMIIBO MARCH MADNESS!

First, we have the Cutie Patoots versus 16 Bit Supremacy!

Then, in this corner, Nintendo Hates Us versus Pretty Anime Swordsmen!

I honestly didn't see either of those coming. Tune in next week for the (gasp) FINAL FOUR!

Saturday, March 26, 2016

SATURDAY POST: Let's Be Friends!

TWO orders of business to tend to! I have two orders of business for you all!

One: I tweeted something the other day about doing MSPixel postcards and magnets, and many of you liked the idea of MSPixel merchandise. I'm pretty floored that you'd actually buy stuff with triangle people on it, but hell, okay!

If that happened, what would you want? Post cards, stickers, magnets, notebooks, big foam reaper hat? I make no promises on the big foam reaper hat. My dream MSPixel merchandise has always been those little acrylic key chains, and I think I know how to get those done, but I'm open to suggestions.

A better question: who would you want on the merchandise? If I had to guess, Shepard and Garrus would be the two most popular characters, but seriously, you tell me who I should do. I'd also be open to doing some of the non-Mass Effect folks later down the line, if you really wanted Crono or the Nintendo princesses or something.

Two: we should be friends on places. Let's be friends on places! Here's all the neat ways to follow MSPixel.

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Facebook! I just made a facebook page. You should hella like it and then share all the posts. I'm less annoying than the hundred buzzfeed articles your cousin shares!

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Twitter! I like my twitter because if I have a dumbass thought about video games I can just spill on Twitter. It's almost like talking!

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Tumblr! This is the tumblr, have this link. I've started posting individual MSPixel comics for your reblogging pleasure, just incase your blog needs any of dat aesthetic.

Friday, March 25, 2016

London: Four Hundred Balls

So anyway, now we come to Liara, who is, um.

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This scene is nice because it's delicate. I doubt Bioware would ever say so, but I think Liara is their favorite, and you can tell by the way this scene is written. Among other things. Like the fact that Liara got her own entire DLC. But anyway.

Liara's not my favorite, but I do love that she's Blue Lucca.

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Aww, shit, Liara, you haven't done The Thing since Mass Effect 1. You go right ahead.

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So what does Liara show you?

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I'm ... not sure. It's just this. Is it supposed to be the beginning of the universe? The end? I don't actually know.

I seriously would have preferred a cheesy clip show. They could have done a Final Fantasy vocal track over it and everything, it would have ruled.

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Actual screen shot from Mass Effect:

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seems legit

Anyway,

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As we go along, we find Wrex on the mount talking to the krogan troops.

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Oh my GOD let's go running toward Javik.

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Wednesday, March 23, 2016

London: Men!

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That's actually in the game. I have no idea what it means!

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This next bit is an incredibly famous line, I'd be doing a disservice if I left it out:

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quality art

I will say, however, that

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... you know? I have a question.

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As we go through war torn London, we come across a turret.

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So we do what I always do with guns.

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This part doesn't divide as evenly as I'd like, so I'll throw you more next time.

Sunday, March 20, 2016

Amiibo March Madness Week 1!

Happy Sunday! Guess what you're getting!

Last year, I tried Amiibo Madness, but it was a giant pain in the ass because I had to do it all in screen shots. No mas, I said to myself, but then Nintendo added a feature to Smash that lets you upload video. It is so lazy, it's beautiful. I'm sitting here typing up this post while my WiiU does all the hard shit. Fuck, maybe I should be playing Mass Effect 3 on WiiU.

... Mass Effect with amiibos. Tap to spam a power.

Whatever. This year I've got teams. And a bracket. Let's view our teams!

Also, you're getting toad cheerleaders! So enjoy that in each picture.

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Team Mario! The classic.

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Team Zelda! Because there's only like seven thousand Zelda amiibos.

"Hey Bean, why is Toon Link there?" Because I put regular Link in with:

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Pretty Anime Swordsmen! Husbando's a little pissed off that I put Link in the 'pretty' category, but look at that fucker. He's got the best guyliner on the pretty team.

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16 Bit Supremacy! SNES Best NES. Don't tell Sonic.

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Nintendo Hates Us! These fighters are ready to kick ass and take name and also get a new game on a current gen console what the hell.

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Nintendo Princesses! Because that's a brand that's totally worked out for MSPixel in the past.

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Cutie Patoots! Because wookit, so cutie. So patoot.

You know, I should have probably flipflopped Ness and Lucas, but Lucas is a little more of a cutie patoot so he stays.

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Team Girl! Because Nintendo is all about girls, even non-princess ones.

Did you need Samus and Toadette together in that picture? Yes you did.

Here's your bracket so you can keep up with the tournament.

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Go ahead, fill it out, and then watch the first two games in the tournament below!

Friday, March 11, 2016

London: In The French, It's Gabree

HEY! It's Husbando~'s birthday! Blow up his phone if you want, his public twitter is @UKSalsaKat.

Speaking of phones,

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You can space skype with all the still-living honorable mentions if you want. They all basically say the same thing, so enjoy this montage.

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Let's make our way up the shambles of war-torn London and see what we can see.

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Wait a minute --

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Probably I'll elaborate on this later, but it bothers me how many people watched the credits roll to Mass Effect 3 and instantly thought, "And then they all had a ton of babies!" Like, holy hell, slow down there.

It also bothers me that Garrus just wants to go grab a few baby krogans. Like, ey, maybe the krogans want to raise those kids?

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There's a lot of the Garrus conversation that's iconic, and I don't want to mess with it too much.

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Except for the fact that I'm an ornery piece of shit and I'm going to mess with it some.

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