æʃliŋ, ring racers purropawgandist @aescling@cat.family

anyway if that’s the promotional sneak peak then i am not terribly excited about the production quality of the actual short

it’s like that one cool artwork from the sonic 2 movie but it looks worse

oh no the promotional sneak peak of the animated prequel short for sonic frontiers has a fairly amateurish look to it. you really hate to see it

@Satsuma oh sick

@compufox when u reet at a black-furred focks

@netkitty oh mood -flomp-

@Lady fun

@Lady what

@gayocats kitty

@packbat meow

@Lady the game of soccer can be attributed to Zeus

i wanna be a cat and snuggle on my spouses’ lap while fæ pet me

nintendo wants control over how tournaments are run and they want to provide as little of their own capital as possible and they are actually doing a pretty good job of getting both outcomes. meanwhile they have been getting free labour (as marketing) out of players and especially tournament organizers for years.

@monorail @Lady i personally feel like the latter is ultimately not truly enforceable, though i’m sure nintendo could make tournaments much more difficult to run if they really wanted to

@Lady hbox IS old enough to remember

he was never a TO though, he may just be ignorant

idk seeing hungrybox get moved to tears over the panda global/nintendo tournament series was wild. why would you WANT nintendo’s involvement. did you just completely forget what their relationship with competitive smash has been this whole time

idk if hegemony is really the right way to describe it but the way much of the community (up to and including (former) top players) is happy to be officially recognized and (basically not even) supported is something else

nintendo’s blatant exploitation of the smash community is really something

@gayocats me when—

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