Author's note: This comic was supposed to be uploaded before the launch of Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy for the Playstation 4 as it was created before the game's launch.
Blame Bobby Kotick for bringing Activision's intellectual properties to near total ruin, with Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon, the Call of Duty series and Blizzard Entertainment being the ones worst affected by Kotick's bad management. Especially when Activision's focus on the Call of Duty series was the real reason for the decline of Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon. This was the reason this comic has gun barrels pointed at Crash Bandicoot and Dr Neo Cortex, as both are facing execution, hence the comic's title name.
Author's Note: This comic was made before China lifted its ban on video game consoles.
Don't get me wrong, mobile gaming is just part of the future. But only because of most of the factors mentioned in the comic. Also, most smartphone apps are available free of charge, although some of them will have micro-transactions, which can be very costly.
Although the Link from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of The Wild is now the Link for Super Smash Bros Ultimate, none of his amiibo costumes were present in the game (even if the alternate costume limit is not the reason), mainly to avoid colour confusion with Link's Hero of the Wild costume, which was his green outfit in Breath of The Wild, which is already in Super Smash Bros Ultimate as one of Link's alternate costumes. Also, the Wind Hero set will make Link resemble Toon Link from Wind Waker, who is already in every Smash Bros game since Brawl, so adding more alternate costumes for Link will create more confusion.
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While Zero Suit Samus' red and black costumes in the Super Smash Bros series are supposed to be references to her ending outfits from the NES Metroid and SNES Super Metroid, I think they should be replaced with the aforementioned ending outfits from their respective games. Also, the Mario Strikers series female soccer outfits should have been in Super Smash Bros Ultimate, but they would be impractical for Peach and Daisy as they would look like Zero Suit Samus' last two alternate costumes, and they would not comply with their moveset. The same can be said for the Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games female swimwear. However, I would like the Mario Strikers Charged armour to be a Mii Brawler costume instead. And the Squid Girl Inkling costume from Splatoon did not even show up in Super Smash Bros Ultimate because of either Masahiro Sakurai's no manga characters allowed policy or the manga and anime studios do not want to issue a license to have the costume in the game. But I really wish the next Super Smash Bros game will include alternate costumes that did not make the cut, and also licensing issues regarding anything that did not originate in a video game to not be a problem.
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Not all costumes can make the cut into the Super Smash Bros series. Despite Animal Crossing: New Leaf's Isabelle becoming playable, as well as the last two Villager alternate costumes having a skin colour change to be a reference to Animal Crossing: New Leaf's tanning mechanism, the Mario Kart 8 Villagers, who also appeared in Animal Crossing: New Leaf did not get to be in Super Smash Bros Ultimate. The Villagers' sad, crying faces reflect more than just a defeat in Mario Kart 8 by finishing 7th to 12th place, it can also mean failing to qualify for the Super Smash Bros Ultimate alternate costumes lineup in the final product. And not to mention the US GameCube Animal Crossing Live Action Commercials' Villagers' costumes did not even make the cut at all. Then again, colour confusion is to blame for Super Smash Bros Ultimate having alternate costumes for every character limited to eight.
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Imagine combining 8-ball, blackball and snooker into a brand new billiards variation.
For those who do not know what blackball is, it is the British version of 8-ball, where instead of solid and stripe coloured balls, the balls are either yellow or red.
This brand new billiards variation has a scoring system based on the rotation rule.
The scoring system for this new billiards variation is as follows:
US 8-ball balls: points scored are based on number written on ball
Red ball (Snooker, UK 8-ball): 1 point
Yellow ball (Snooker, UK 8-ball): 2 points
Green ball: 3 points
Brown ball: 4 points
Blue ball: 5 points
Pink ball: 6 points
Black ball (Snooker, UK 8-ball): 8 points
If this new billiards variation gets any official approval, who knows what levels of havoc will be unleashed on the pool table... Perhaps it will revitalise billiards tournaments of all kinds.
Now if only Marvelous, the owner of G-Mode (including G-Mode's Data East catalogue) can revive the Side Pocket series, and possibly add this billiards variant in a potential reboot of Side Pocket in addition to possibly adding some Data East characters as playable characters in the game. In fact, I would give this billiards variant a try in real life as well as play a reboot version of Side Pocket, given that I had played the Game Boy version.
On the 2nd of January, 2019, analogue television in Singapore will come to an end after nearly 56 years.
With the end of analogue television, one chapter in Singapore's history will come to a close, because television was introduced in Singapore before 1965.
To show empathy to anyone who did not switch to digital TV, the author would admit to not making the switch to digital TV for TV sets that still have analogue signals because of having a pay TV subscription that is digital, which will be making a transition to fiber TV.
However, with a hectic schedule, I rarely watch TV nowadays, and only use them for my video games.
