Ask Guru Gobbo #104

0) That's nothing, Hero. Ivy J. use to rock that thing as her forum avatar. And not just a still, either. The full, looping, animated process.

1) Gooey is, rightfully, Kirby's true partner and buddy. He was the closest thing to a static second player type. However, since they got really lazy and unimaginative in the games, he seems more likely to just pair with differently colored versions of himself. It's hard to really blame them for it. Not only does it allow exact duplicates for players and the graphics team but also eliminates player distinction. If Kirby hits it Wi-Fi, that'll be handy.

2) I do not think the two will completely merge. If that was to happen, it would have been done already. You strike while the iron is hot, not five years later. The two factions, thankfully, seemed to want to keep each as its own entity. What's the most the games have gotten from the show? A little hint of a monster machine, questionably the idea for some abilities, re-sinisteration of King Dedede, and packaging the Adventure remake in a more "It has a show" fashion. If that's all that happened, then its pretty good. Companies are not afraid of cross promotion. In fact, they breath it. That's why television this Friday is brought to you by a debuting movie brought to you by a cola!

3) It's easiest just to copy and paste it. People know how to do that still, right?

It's a spiked ball and chain, not a flail. Typical war flails are multi-headed with tiny spinies on the end. When you lack a shaft or handle of any means, then it's just a chain. Like Gogo Yubari had!

But it comes from a perfectly logical space, even described before -- his mouth. I know I've mentioned his internal arsenal before. Didn't you ever read Siege on Rainbow Resort - Plunder of Thunder? There's actually a full spit up sequence in that.

1) No, they're just me. Really, there's only been two others, and the ICIC started out with more members than that. They're just an excuse to try and answer questions with a certain edge to them, whether it be a haughty blade master or a ditsy dame.

2) In question total, the trophy certain goes to Chimera. That guy topped out any one else in one session with twenty-two. However, for individually submitted batches of questions, I wouldn't know. I'm certainly not counting up every applicant individually, that's for sure. One of the problems with producing a guessed, probably answer to this statistic is that people go through sort of "waves" where they ask a lot of questions for a period and then fade away. No one stretches out for that long length of time that makes me recognize them as old school! I'm still pretty sure it would go to Chimera, though. He asked a lot of questions in his time.

1) Yes, the Castle Lololo theme appeared in later games In fact, I'm almost certain that all of the tunes popped up later. If nothing else, Canvas Curse had about all remixes possible.

2) No one will miss Oshii ever. He's gone forever and certainly won't be coming back in Session #149. Yep. Bet on it.

0) Get out! Really? This site loads on a non-standard browser system. That's news and quite a shock for me!

1) Cook Kawasaki is voiced by one Adam Blaustein. You may have heard this voice on such characters as Meowth in Pokémon and Solomon Muto in Yu-Gi-Oh.

2) No. The animated series' Meta Knight is never seen without his cape, which either has to be cast off or transforms into the wings, or without his mask. He keeps himself as covered as possible to fight the rabid tide of fan girls.

3) The N.M.E. salesperson is actually just named such, NME Salesguy. His Japanese name of Customer Service at least has a ring to it. How uninteresting.

4) I'd hate to burst your bubble, but I don't think that Sirica would ever be in a Super Smash Bros. title. The series focuses pretty exclusively to things from the games of the included characters. To day, and probably forever, Sirica is only in the show. Blade Knight, while he would be a pretty interesting choice, would be too similar to Meta Knight, both being Pop Starians with swords. The best character to toss into the mix, I'd say, would Waddle Dee, of course with heavy Parasol focus. That's the third most iconic character from the series, and the first two have already been made playable. Meta Knight is fourth!

1) The icons are made from simple ink drawings. I scan a decent batch at a time and reduce them to black and white. I don't just mean gray scale, I mean only two, flat colors: solid black pixels or white ones. I then fill in the respective colors of the parts and characters and touch up any gaps or botches. Then, I reduce the image to about a hundred pixels square, clean up the edges, and save.

2) Foresight? Surely, you don't know me. Lately, I've been trying to only plan ahead as much as to not double use any icons in the same session. It is, for the most part, just my gut feeling developed after reading a question. Other times, I just throw one up to confuse people.

1) The cartoon and marketablity were the driving factors. It's a lot harder to merchandise a palette swap than it is a cool new piece of head gear. That's how you make five of the same figure with the same base and different accessories and are able to charge fans a lot for them all.

2) They won't, in my opinion, ever concede from the hats. Unless the game is something like Canvas Curse or Tilt 'n' Tumble in which Kirby rolls up and requires a wholly spherical form, he'll don a hat. They are standard issue now. There's been the same use, to date, of viable platformers with and without, but then you have to factor in the animated series, the Smash series, and up coming titles. That catapults the fors far over the againsts.

I... have never noticed any such thing, and I'm quite familiar with the Dream Land 3 graphics. Are you certain this isn't just a shine mark across their heads? Let's find out. To the Dream Land 3 Enemies Page! If you look, that's just a shine mark. Waddle Dee is, apparently, very glossy. That's not a bandage, though. Only, I believe, 02 has such a thing on his crown.

... Hue?