Ask Guru Gobbo #96

Sakurai gave up on Kirby during The Crystal Shards. He had a falling out with Nintendo then, saw only the finished product of that title, and caused the first Game Boy Advance Kirby title to be a remake rather than the originally slotted original game. Sakurai has been out of the Kirby scene for nearly a decade, unknown fan number. He didn't quit Kirby, just Nintendo, who owns the rights to Kirby, and thus is technically out of the game. It's quite old news. I'm ... guess it's pretty bad to learn this way.

I've digested the whole candy chuckin' aspect of Meta Knight previously. Given his character type, the bad guy with honor and what not, it's speculated that he wants Kirby to get on through to face him. Whether this is so that the two can test mettles with metals or 'cuz Mety is his long lost brother, lulz~!, can't be said for certain, but reason dictates that we lean to the prior. After all, that is the entire point of the Meta Knightmares -- Meta Knight proving his strength. While those games have him performing all the feats Kirby does, mimicry is nothing compared to competing against the one he envies and has yet to best. So, yes, your thoughts are right in line with opinions I've put out there before, although I don't know if that was in these sessions or scattered out in the wind somewhere.

As for Revenge of Meta Knight, he actually is just trying to take over Dream Land, piece by piece. They even say this in the dialogue: first target, Grape Gardens. It's not a bee line to the heart to take out the power source. No, his intentions were conquest, realm by realm, until the map was his. His mission was to change Dream Land, whether you take the end of corruption or change of their lifestyle, it about amounts to the same thing. There was no muscle flexing involved. Whether this was a necessary evil or a seize of command, his reasons were not self proving.

Now, the real deal about Meta Knight: I have uncovered the truth, the whole truth, about this masked enigma's plight. His sole goal is thus -- unending fandom~! Think about. Break onto the scene all cool and different from any other boss, show yourself to be like Kirby, run away. Come back, try to take over Dream Land, and fly away. Spend some time in Spain, develop an accent, and woo fan girls. Return, fight a mirror and the dark version of an already dark self, and fly away. Play hero to the hero playing villain, now sans a crew, and fly away. Then, go on crazy mission to fight the light version of dark self, solidifying position as an absolute 'Tweener. Not a face, not a heel, but engineered for adoration by every fan. And that is undeniable.

1) I wouldn't think it would be odd. Wait, ... what exactly is happening with Kirby? You know what, don't tell me. I'll just leave it neutral. ... Or maybe I do want to know... ? Nah, probably not. We'll just skip it. Or will I? Yes.

2) When you think about it, the constant pentagram shape is just like our world's use of boxes. I'm looking into a box shaped screen right now. I'm typing on boxes labeled with letters. The computer is running off of a box. I and the computer are in a large, boxed building. The world is flat. ... Okay, so not that far, but it's true. Sure, you could argue that a square is an easier shape to produce, but things aren't massively manufacture things, so the pointed corners aren't a problem.

3) The darker the bean, the more the unknowable phantom churns out butter. Peanut butter~! Or programs.

4) The Mr. Duo are fake celestial bodies, yep. The real moon is much larger and much more exploded than the crescent boss. You nailed it on the head. They are just lunar and solar themed beings but aren't actually the real deal.

5) The King lacks the finacial means to build a castle, but he has plenty of servant and underlings that do his bidding. When you have that many Dees, Doos, Hatters, and Burts, a castle can be put up in no time, and had to get put up twice ever since Kirby hauled off the first one.

6) King Dedede's castle is just like Whispy Woods and, well, all of the geography of Dream Land -- no sense can be made of it. It started on a mountain, but then it was "moved" by Kirby. Whether or not it went back to the same place, it was then found on the Rainbow Islands, then in Iceberg. It was still in a mountainy area then, so I'd guess that its about always the same mountainous region. Cliffs are just like steep mountain slopes, after all.

7) If the world ran out of cookie dough, I'd have to move on to peanut butter. Let's see an entire legume go extinct~!

They never give Kirby's numeric age. This is undefinable for so many reasons. The only age that Kirby can be given is sixteen going on seventeen, his actual time on Earth since released. The games do, however, mention all the time in the game manuals that he is a young boy or a brave lad. This puts him underneath young adult and above a toddler in the games.

What? I didn't link forward for that one? About as soon as it was posted, someone brought that fact to my attention. Session #75 ran the retraction of the statement. Well, I have the mention there now, and that's what's important. ... Right? No? Okay then.

What? Are you talking about the Story Book adventure links with Wander Across Total Oblivion? Man, that's such old news, it seems funny to talk about it now. But, yeah, the link to the pseudo-secret journeys were in the now dead Project R.A.I.N.B.O.W. banner which would peel away, showing some crazy character and leading to even crazier, bitter, cynical whimsy that people found charming. Go figure.

Nope, but I never played Ultra, just classic. It did happen to me there, however, so I guess the problem is persistent. The bot just gets confused and wanders off screen, where the unseen obstacles trip him up into not really realizing where the player is. Just like your experience, he gets his bearings after a while.

1) Spunt is just full of fan mails. Jet, huh? I don't know he'd ever see the Jet ability, being an Animal Friend. That belongs to the crazy, extended power list, not the abbreviated, combined stock. However, if he were to get it, the results wouldn't be pretty. His eyes would bulge open, a rare happening, as a flare would blow from his mouth, rocketing him backwards. He'd have some control on lift, but would largely be propelled side to side. It'd, actually, be a lot more like Missile. But, really, it's not like he'd shoot Jet Crackers... He'd probably eat them.

2) You know, that's a really good question. I could guess all the time that Kirby spent getting the surrounding stars' power, Marx was working his way to Nova. There's all sorts of means he could get there. Why, he may have just jumped onto a Warp Star. Those things are just sitting in open fields, after all. That's why they (ie: no one) call them the Pop Star Taxi.

Yeesh, Spunt is taking off more crazy styles than the Ometon at his confusing debut. Spunt: It's the new Ometon. Ometon: the new brachypodium. Brachypodium: the purple false brome. ... I don't know what brome is.

Yes, you need the picture saved to your computer, or at least some URL that can be entered into the file slots. The protocol needs to be able to connect in some way with the media in order to upload it into the gallery. This is a standard upload requirement, from attachments in emails to uploading artwork to any website. Only if the picture was constructed on the website, via some Oekaki board, would the website site save the image there and post it simultaneously.