Ask Guru Gobbo #68

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1) IP tracking really isn't that fancy. It's a basic PHP function, which is how the submitted questions are even recorded. It was incorporated to proof against imitations when Potato Soup Man had an imposter.

2) Nega Bogg was wholly done as a spur of the moment, fun twist. He won't be getting any more frames, just like the Ice Cream Island Crew.

3) Reason? Pattern? Does that sound like anything normally done around here? No, it's all just spur of the moment. Actually, the entire Nega Bogg thing was pre-planned by just some questioner weeks ago.

Since I do not own the game, all I can see of it is what can be found on-line. And, yeah, it seems to just be a big, ugly blur of pixels. I cannot say much more than that. Sorry.

... What? Oh, wait, it's not the line of mine.

I think you are jumbled. He is only shown without wings in the animated series. His cloak is the only thing present in the show. Wings were only used in the unaired pilot when Meta Knight was a bad guy.

0) Nope, he wasn't even my doing. It was entirely inspired by other people. Negative Bogg, Squeaky Bogg's Unnamed Enemy, all were from other people. I just hodge-podged it together.

1) The Warp Star in Great Cave Offensive is located below where Kirby starts off. It has to break through some layers of rock to get out wholly. Plus, Kirby was on his way to the pit for some adventure anyways. Why else would he pack the hard hat and pick? So, since he was already going there, why wouldn't he make use of the trip?

2) Pretty much, yeah. The sunset is representative of a finish, the end of a conflict. Of course, when you put so many back to back, it really brings out the cheese.

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4) Escargoon is King Dedede's right hand man, or horribly abused henchman. He has no origins from the games. He was purely made for the animated series.

5) It was a heel persona session.

There wouldn't be any particular shooter game it would have been based on. After all, they are all so similar. No, this Heart of NOVA battle, at least that was its name when I played it, is just themed after the Mint Leaf battle with Kaboola and the Star Rod battle with Nightmare. They just wanted to make it something fancy and made it a shuttle rather than a held weapon.

1) I can certainly say that I am clueless to what you are referring to and cannot find any matter related to it.

2) It wasn't really a movie. In America, they just grouped together the last episodes and packaged it as a movie to make it seem more special.

1) The most useless power, yes, is Sleep. Sure, it offered you health in Squeak Squad if you had the upgrade, but, in all the other games, the only point it served was to be cute. At least Light helped you get hidden switches. Sleep, nothin'.

2) There's plenty of those. That's a lot of the real questions I get. I don't know that stuff and have to find it out. Outside of that, though, there's nothing I wonder about. If I want to know, I find the answer.

3) I don't really think anyone in Dream Land has a job. They are far too lazy. If Kirby were to be employed, I think trash removal would definitely be an option. I'm sure the obvious option of taste tester would be argued, but, really, do you think anyone in on Pop Star actually savors what they eat? Nah.

4) I think the only limit to Kirby's flying height is when he would tire out. On a Warp Star, he can soar out of the atmosphere. No worry of air supply. By right, it would be easier to fly the higher he got up.

5) Galacta Knight is the Meta Knight to Meta Knight. He's even pink to be like who Meta Knight was the antagonist for. However, it's too early to rule whether or not Galacta Knight will even make another appearance. After all, it took Meta Knight how long to fully blossom, and Marx never got a chance to shine outside Super Stars, which were over a decade apart from one another.

6) Whoa, now. Let's not drag weapons into marriage disputes. That stuff ain't nice or right.

This is since our animation is the superior excellence. We do everything better and cooler. The American lower version could never keep up.

But, all feuds with the series as a whole have been aired. Baka! That's aimed at either the series or myself. Is not really a problem.

Folk is just another way to say "dudes" or people. Folk is just a synonym for the right priority. You got a problem with "folk"?

1) Someone wasn't paying attention to when I already covered the Japanese spelling of Ado and Adeleine. I really when an old ghost is dug back up with nothing really added, 'cuz now the new theories will come on in.

2) There going to update the sprites with a new game. They pretty much have to in order to not seem lazy. That stuff would fly with the old Game Boy graphics, but, back then, they made a new game every year. Nowadays, they have a pace that makes redesigning sprites more needed. Plus, I think Kirby is enough of a draw now that they can afford it. Back when, maybe not so much.

Wai wai! That's not true. Onegai! I'm sugoi! Your accusations are baka! So forth. Other generic otaku phrases.

Meta Knight? Hah! That inferior swordsman is a hack. I could best him with my superiorly crafted katana in a straight dual. Regardless, his first appearance was in Kirby's Adventure where he lorded over Level 6, Orange Ocean.

1) I'd be out one vacuum cleaner, that's for sure. Vacuums don't have powers, and Kirby already sucks.

2) The Ometon was a force cut from the heart of darkness and fashioned from the tears of elves. These two conflicting forces created a heart and soul in the otherwise soulless being. But, this was in an alternate dimension which was another life for both of them. Also, it was his sister. Does it sound enough like a manga plot yet? Robots and aliens are involved, too.

3) You still are champion with twenty-two at once and who knowns how many total.

3.5) There's a page of all the faces now. You can count, right? I know I can. Ichi, ni, ... um... tres?

4) Dedede Daiou took all the food in Spring Breeze for the same reason he took it in Dream Land, which, technically, are both the same event. He's a greedy jerk.

5) The world would be less one Pac-Man. That's okay. We still have, um... Pacé-mon! Go, terrible barely-a-pun!

6) Well, I believe we would all be dead then.

7) Then just he would be dead.

1) I've actually made note of teeth on other blades, but the energy replications of the saw sided sword is news to me. Really, I just don't think they know what they are doing. They have one image one place, the other at another place, and inter-splice the two constantly. They could have easily, by now, picked on way and stuck with it, but no. They keep seesawing back and forth between the two like they are kicking around what color to paint their bathrooms. They come to some conclusion to see what either would look like in actual application, but still wind up indecisive, so now they have a bathroom with two colors of wall. Raarg! Of course, it's Meta Knight, so I really don't care much about what, why, or how come. That clipper of concern sailed off years ago and was gunned down by Mongolian pirates. That's right, land locked nations can have pirates. Who are you to deny them of an occupation?

2) I don't actually know why King Dedede was put into a metallic masquerade, but I have a unsettling gut opinion of it. When I first heard it, I had my initial reaction, and as more information came, it only seemed to be more plausible of a case. Let us count the ways: The Revenge, a darker, less friendly and happy way of Kirby; a metal mask worn over the face; offering up Kirby a hammer, the same weapon used by the king; dialogue taking place between villainous characters, a la -- yep, you guessed it by now, probably -- Revenge of Meta Knight. The name, the style, the motifs. Revenge of the King, I believe, outside of being good ol' Extra Mode was a sponge off of the masked sword man's game, if not him alone. It's like a parasite, leeching off what factors made it unique and original. Ripping off your own game? Man, that's a new one. Revenge, darker themes, masks, offering weapons. These aren't just mild coincidences. Those are straight up similarities.

3) Tiki/Islander/Pacific nationer faceness, yeah, I can see that. With the get-up and attire, of what is visible, Wham Bam definitely is suppose to be modeled after some type of tribal deity thing. Of course, can one point a finger at visual racial insensitivity when there's T.A.C. standing right there? Truthfully, tho', I just think such implications for big Rocko are coincidence. It's a shadowy figure, so this masks most of it in black. They wanted some key facial features, the emotion points, to be visible to, of course, show emotion. Animation 101 as well as the aspects exploited by animé, exaggerate the eyes and mouth. Well, Bammy's mouth is shut most of the time, so pronounce the lips more. I truly believe there was no slander or insensitivity meant in the design. It's just a big ball of "How else are we suppose to?"

4) I guess you could say what better way to test your strength, and that of your crew, by taking it on yourself? Yeah, I know, it's really bogus. Really, I think it is explained as simple as they wanted Meta Knight to be able to play through the entire game. I know they cut out the battle against himself, but that is one minor edit. Cutting out the entire sub-game of Revenge of Meta Knight would probably incite more fans than the less than logical demolishing of his own warcraft. As for the commander of the ship, I would think Captain Vul would handle that.

5) "Everyone's favorite"? I know it's my favorite, but I believe there'd be more than a few people to disagree with that statement, or who would possibly ask if such a game even existed. Anyhoo, the swirly glasses Whispy wears are puzzling to me, even now, but the surgical mask is really more of a muzzle to keep the crazy tree under control. At least, that's what I got from it. And the only foreign explanation I get is "mask and glasses", so it doesn't seem to be lightly culturally concealed in any way. If its a reference to something deeply buried, I can't find it.

Anyhoo, it is taken that the bosses, as well as all the enemies, were under the control of Dark Matter. And, even if not, they would have been under orders of the King who was under control of Dark Matter, so they would be forced to act evil or in an impeding way to Kirby regardless.

Blade, Butch, and Masher are not actually mini-bosses. They are just regular enemies, but, much like Mumbies, they cannot be defeated by simply inhaling them. They still take one hit, be it from an air pellet or a star bullet, to take out. Anyhoo, only Butch has any real connection to The Meta Knights as he is exactly like Ax Knight, particularly the design seen in Adventure. Masher actually looks nothing like Mace Knight, and Blade, even if he could be compared to Sword Knight as he certainly wouldn't be paired with Blade Knight (ironically!), has no connection to the crew as the crew, in its truest definition, lacks a swordsman in its ranks except for the one wielded by the guy at the helm, Meta Knight himself.

There origins, however, I do not pin on Dark Matter or anything that spectacular. No, it is probably more like how things with Dark Mind went: the game makers wanted to use something like the Meta Knights but didn't want to actually use them. After all, they weren't being summoned by Meta Knight and didn't have the pack orientation that they did prior. Plus, they could be inhaled, had a different member count, and a type of armament that wasn't even included in the original batch. There's a lot more reason for making a similar but different enemy as in this case than there ever is for making an identical but different enemy, like goes for Gip and Phan Phan.

6) There actually is another If You Could... already written up and on the books, as well as the outcome to the If You Could Make An Animal Friend, which have actually been lying around for a few days. I've just been, well, occupied for the most part and haven't been able to push those through. I have a feeling my schedule will free up soon, however.