Ask Guru Gobbo #164

Same. Answer. Effectively. And my prior words were applied to this situation as well as more familiar relation. In general, these types of questions are completely baseless, much like the prior bird comparison. At least in a situation with, say, Dark Matter/Zero and Dark Zero, one can ask "Are dems kin?" due to the naming and general eye motif? Marx Soul and Drawcia Soul? (Both have purple coloring, after all) No, that's all they share.

Again, I can just bring up the birds. Both Bird Enemy #1 and Bird Enemy #2 have wings and beaks, and they fly, too. Are they related!? ... No. Those are just traits of birds in general, much like simian have the heavy brow and anger management issues. The fur coloration is, then, the only real similarity, and I've kinda pointed out the value of such with the prior Marx example.

Only a specist would deny that specism exists.

Have you ever woken from a very long slumber and been in tip-top fighting form? I sincerely doubt so, both that you awoke in top shape or have any galactic class fighting ability.

Additionally, Galactic is only the most powerful warrior on record. It's sorta like when the oldest living person dies and the new oldest person is a few years older than they were. You don't hire the most qualified candidate for a job; only the most qualified candidate who applied to the position, and so forth. How dead is this horse already?

Wait, wasn't the inhalation of the giant laser in question for the final battle against Queen Sectonia in Triple Deluxe? The final leg of that confrontation has Kirby decked out in Hyper Nova. You know, the gimmick of the title that allowed Kirby to inhale anything, particularly large things that he couldn't normally inhale -- which may have actually included some Gordos.

And here I was about to waste some time answering in an over-thought out fashion. Here's a question for you: why didn't you realize that basic fact before clickin' the button?

Clearly the Ninja Turtles would. Not only are there four of them, but Kirby barely stands up to their calves.

Is it just me, or are these questions clearly dropping in quality?

In order to answer this question, I would have to have... watched the animated series. Do you not know how this whole "rage hate" thing works?

In effect, you are asking me to pick between a sniveling snail and the absolute abomination that is Tiff.

Normally, this might be a little dicy to get the exact pronunciation, but -- luckily -- it's clearly spelled out for us in Crystal Shards with katakana. And that, unlike crummy English, is always said the same way except when it's not.

The name is officially written as [アドレーヌ for those that can display the characters] or [A do re- nu], which technically makes it none of your proposed ways. It's that weird, other E sound, or é, that no one ever really thinks of, popularized in it's butchery by Pokémon. You know how people often say poke-EE-mon? They're wrong!. Anyhoo, Ade-lEHn would be the best I can fake-pronounce-guide it.

Gordos -- I would say -- are like OCD cacti: "Gotta go over here. Gotta go back there. Gotto go over here." A cactus doesn't maliciously prick and stick animals that attempt to get at its sweet juices. They just... are pointy. That's what a Gordo does: have points.

Going through the general rogues gallery, it appears not. There is a skull enemy, similar to Skuller, but having a skull enemy is a rather basic trope in video games. Strangely, there is also one that looks very much like Blocky. It maybe be coincidence, as a packed-in, small sprite of a square, blockish thing kinda is gonna look like any other.

I believe that Dark Matter reproduces through a form of mitosis or budding, a fission process that reduces the initial size of the main body but generates a secondary body that then -- allegedly -- can grow, sometimes large enough to engulf an entire planet. In Dream Lands 2 & 3, we are told (outside of the game) that it was merely a scout that Kirby battled. In The Crystal Shards, we are shown several more of these scouts being splintered off to chase down Ribbon.

And if you want the dirty details, then just go over to some fan fiction website. I'm sure there will be some eighty million stories up to your specifications.

For a bit of self-correction in my prior answer (now taking the time to bother to pull up the right stuff), the three scouts sent from Zero to chase down Ribbon and the Crystal as she flees Ripple Star are referred to as Dark Rimura, Rimuro, and Rimuru. They do not appear to have any visible differences (that I can tell, although there might be some difference in their... pupils?) but do each possess one of Kirby's friends: King Dedede, Waddle Dee, and Adeleine.

The source, originally, I thought came from this very site, but then I couldn't find any mention of that here (Mandela effect?). While it could be buried somewhere -- just not the "games/kirby64" directory -- I went to my go-to source of verification/maybe where I first got it. Here's my secret:

1) Go to Wikipedia. 2) Look up a Kirby title. 3) Click the Japanese language page link (helps if you know what "Japanese" looks like in Japanese: 日本語). 4) Translate the page into English.

The pages, obviously, are not written in the same format with just a different translation. There is different information between the two languages, and Japan has a lot juicier of information. This has the Rimura, etc., so I know I wasn't crazy and imagining it. Well, I'm still crazy, but ya know.

When it comes to favorites, I've stated how I don't care to pick them. Music is further complicated by the fact that it isn't blatantly given with the attached name. Heck, raised in the rock'n'roll capital of the world, there are plenty of tunes that my ears were nurtured upon to which I didn't know the title to let alone the author of origin. Keep in mind, this was before car radios got all fancy and displayed that information. Of course, that's as fancy as I imagine things getting. I guess a lot of you whippersnappers would say "Radio?" before cranking the volume on your Skinner Boxes to drown out my ... typed words?

Anyhoo, salvaged what little of this mess I can, methinks that the latest title to really please my ear drums was Mass Attack. It was an overall pleasant title, I'd say, and the tunes were lickin'. Or, kickin'? ... Hickin', is that a thing? Pickin', I'd assume if it were guitar based solely. I don't know what nickin' would be, but it doesn't sound good. And don't even get me started on the few good consonants left.

Uhhh... Sure. There ya go.

Wow, you were hanging onto this since ol' Ivy J. was still relevant? That's had to be a number of years now since I got into this -- sweet dang -- six some years ago. Dag, yo, Crosswerx, how'd you live with that guilt? The weight had to sink a hole into your chest after all this time. You could store, I dunno, some small bags of snacks in there to munch on during a movie. In way, you're welcome for your deformity.