Ask Guru Gobbo #109

It's not that explaining the meaning would have been too much work; it'd just be pointless. All of the icons, whether presented in a session or on that page, have a title associated with them, which is no different than there image name. The meaning of the images pretty much is that name or what the picture is. "Gag" is Bogg gagging. "Ride" is him on Spunt. "Spike" is Squeaky with his weapon in a pose different than "Chain". "Back" is him turned around. Meaning? None, really. It's just different pictures for the part.

No, not really. It has one nagging, crucial, and obviously missing component: vampires drink blood. That's what makes a vampire. That's their crux, their whole. Everything else has been muddled and defamed from late 19th century literature to modern popular culture. All of the other stuff is just clichés tossed in from general bad and evil themes.

Membranous wings (that's bat wings, kiddos) are commonly associated with demons, devils, and overall bad things. Meanwhile, the fluffy, downy, feathered wings are often given to heavenly, angelic beings. Next, Meta Knight may be a speed demon, but he is not strong. The guy, first of all, is never shown to have any great strength. Related to strength is over all vitality, durability, endurance, etc. Consistently, Meta Knight is a player with the least life or lasting power in a game and being very frail. Vampires are undead, immortal, and nigh on indestructible. Doesn't sound like the masked guy. Oh, yeah, and Meta Knight goes in the sunlight.

No. Vampires are not the dark dressing, suave, romanticized, over-sweated fiends they are shown as today in the latest Hollywood vomit. That is a perversion of modern fiction made from a perversion of earlier fiction that stemmed from a perversion of folklore. That's so many wrongs stacked on top of one another, it might as well originated from Mermaids. They both ate people, after all, depending on where you get your lore.

A vampire is just a corpse that wasn't preserved and didn't have the blood drain. Their skin turned ruddy brown, their stomachs swelled with gases, and their mouths turned red, getting "fruit punch lips". Since it looked like they had being drinking blood, that's what everyone assumed about these deformed bodies, and obviously they had to go out at night since no one saw them drinking anything during the day. So, a stake was placed through them to keep them pinned to the ground and in their grave over night. That is a vampire.

1) Yes, agreed, and I never really thought about that before. It's a necessary evil, as seen by the marketing folks, that you have to put the "public" face of a character out in the commerical blitz. After all, if Smash Bros. really was about the games, Pikachu would have been replaced by, I dunno, Charizard or Alakazam in the first version. But, no, he was the recognizable one, he was the marketing mascot. Television programs are far more popular than games ever get, with the exception of the classic mega-giants, Mario and Link. I never really did catch on to the unballed monsters saying their names over their cry, probably because I never really played many of them. But, of course I'm not happy to see that done with Kirby, or Pokémon, with my more than known opinion on the Kirby series.

2) Meta Knight is a much more detailed character in his design. He has armor, a cape, bands of metal. He has detail all over him. Kirby, regardless of resolution or graphical prowess, is still a ball. Yes, the seams on Mario's denim is stitched, and other details are finely addressed, but Kirby is just too simple in nature and appearance to add anything to. His body is always going to be a round, cartoon ball. There's nothing else to accentuate on him, and detailing one part while leaving the rest bare would give him an unbalanced appearance. That just wouldn't set right with, well, anyone, I'd think, not to mention look goofy.

1) Quite so, yes, I'd say. Like has been pointed out, this decade has had one real game. Then, Sakurai's departure botched things up, too. I really think they've been treading water and trying to meet status quo since. As for Dark Matter, as has been said, how many times?

Uh... a million?

A million. Shinichi Shimomura was the director responsible for those games and seems to have hold over those characters.

1) Well, seeing as you say nothing about what type of game it is, I can't really say anything about what type of attacks he should have. I guess the game staple "big, strong attack" for a final boss is a way you can't go wrong. But, really? The game is finished? That seems... unlikely given the 99% failure track record of Kirby fan games.

2) Yeah... do you see that word I put focus on in the URL you gave. I knew there was that sprite; I've seen it before. However, it's not a real, official sprite. It's something someone just poorly whipped together. Now, I could go your route and have a haughty chuckle at your gross incompetence, but I don't believe it's nice to laugh at the mentally challenged.

1) Mr. Shine and Mr. Bright are, rightfully, distinctive individuals and identities, but I just like acting like there's no real difference between the two. And- wait, the sun and moon trio? Since when did the duo let a third into their

2) No, nothing was lost. There were just a lot of... non-sense submissions. In truth, the sheer wave of "What were they thinking?" entries probably tainted some others that should have been slipped by, but since it was a junk contest anyways, I didn't really lose any sleep over it. Truthfully, I didn't even look at who was sending them in. I just glibbed over them and would yea or nay them.

3) Straightjackets don't protect against pointiness, at least not the stabbing pain from imaginary, miniature, Viking lemmings that attack me in my sleep to steal my toe nail clippings.

No, I won't. People shouldn't ever have to tell me anything. Unless I slipped up and got something wrong, you ask and I give the answers. That's the format.

It's my business to know things. What do you think I've been doing for the past six months? The reference to Plas Durock was just that all of the mentioned changes between versions by the alleged enlightener were already well documented and further documented before the game even hit shelves thanks to Plas' advanced copy. The think-he-was-something was covering algebra while Plas had already given lessons on trigonometry, and I've been on calculus for months now.

It's my business to know things. Unless I specifically shrug to a question, then, for all intrinsic purposes, I do know it.

Yes, yes I did. Didn't you ever wonder why my/Squeaky Bogg's face appears over at that nick of the woods. About a year ago, about exactly, I fancy-pantsed up the submittal and bag creation procedure from the previous automated code constructor -- nothing. As thanks, they let me sit in on Mailsack #43. That's a long and drawn out process, though, working with other people. That's why I fly it solo.

1) Did I ever say I was having trouble? Did I ever hint at having any trouble thinking up ideas? No. I have have ideas, plenty of them. There's more than I know what to do with. The only problem I have is they're all ideas I think are interesting, and what I like ain't what the public wants. That's why the poll asks for what type the site goers want, and that's why part of the current is attempted to gauge people's area of focus. It isn't to give me ideas; it's to narrow down the pool.

I didn't even read any of your suggestions just cut them out. Much like a movie producer, I keep other people's ideas out of my acknowledgement because, whether or not I had already thought up the idea and had it on the shelf for months (which I drew up the original slew of Interactive Fandom Contests six months ago), I don't want the false association.

2) Would I like if they did? Yes, 'cuz those decade old battery-backs are droppin' off. Will they do it? Probably not. As has been covered numerous times, they thumb-up the lotta powers titles and thumb-down the Dark Matter trilogies, which makes up a bulk of Kirby's platformers. They already remade Adventure and recently Super Star, which I don't think would group well with any other full games of Kirby's. Next up, Amazing Mirror is probably too new and too large to bundle. So, yeah. They have Virtual Console now, anyways. They don't need remakes or compilations.

3) Rush... Duel? I've never heard of it. In fact, the only mention of it I can seem to find is in some poorly written YouTube comment on a video not even about that. That could not actually be the name, which would making info-digging a lot harder to do.

4) 'Cuz she sucks. I don't feel like finding my past reasoning for a matter so trivial.