Legitimate Reasons

Masahiro Sakurai said that Super Smash Bros should remain a celebration of Nintendo's video game history, which also happens to include third-party video games that appeared on Nintendo platforms before, meaning that non-video game characters are not allowed at all. However, there is another reason non-video game characters are not allowed in Nintendo's crossover dueling tournament series, and it has something to do with universal scale destruction of all life, and possibly worse than what Galeem or Dharkon is capable of.

While Pokemon's Team Galactic was considered as the most sinister criminal syndicate in the history of the Pokemon series, due to their evil plan to destroy the universe and recreating it in their image, their level of success would, however, be nowhere near that of Sailor Moon's Sailor Galaxia, who could have brought all life in the universe to an end, and actually came way closer to accomplishing that than not only Team Galactic, but also just about any Dragon Ball Z villain you can think of. Even if Team Galactic acquired Giratina, who was supposed to be based on the fallen angels from the Bible, Team Galactic would still be nowhere near Sailor Galaxia's level. Compared to Tabuu, Galeem or Dharkon, many of Sailor Moon's enemies are incorporeal, and would be way harder to defeat than these three bosses.

For those who wonder where the stabbing incident that "killed" Princess Sakura at the end of Tsubasa Shunraiki came from, it was actually extracted from chapter 178 of the Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle manga. The manga's level of violence is so terrible it would actually make the Pokemon Adventures manga, which contains the darkest version of the Pokemon World known to exist in any official Pokemon canon, not as dark as you think. And that is excluding chapter 200 of Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, where Princess Sakura was devoured by a death seal placed on her by Fei Wong Reed. The most tragic part of it was that Princess Sakura had no idea that Fei Wong Reed placed a death seal on her, and she was nowhere near as dumb as Red or Ash Ketchum, both of whom are notoriously dumb protagonists, and yet, Red is in Smash.

When there are anime characters who have the ability to destroy entire planets, or even the entire universe, it's better that Super Smash Bros should remain a video game characters only tournament. Therefore, we should respect Masahiro Sakurai's policies, if it means not having anybody far more destructive than Galeem or Dharkon, both of whom could have possibly killed billions of characters, become a playable character. Otherwise, the game would become almost unplayable...

Philips CD-i Nintendo Games

When Nintendo dumped Sony in favour of a partnership with Philips, which eventually turned sour, resulting in the demise of a proposed CD add-on for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, what Nintendo left behind was an unpleasant legacy that they would rather forget to the point they were all but lost in the historical records of video game history.

The internet, however, had different plans for the Mario and Zelda games that were launched for the Philips CD-i. In 2006, YouTube users started uploading video footage of Philips CD-i Mario and Zelda games, creating a new genre of internet content that internet historians call "YouTube Poop." Back then, copyright law was not as strict as compared to now. Even then, Nintendo wants to forget about Hotel Mario and the Philips CD-i Legend of Zelda games, which means content creators who create YouTube Poop videos using content from the Philips CD-i Nintendo games are classified as compliant with the Fair Use Act.

Even as times change, and not for the better, the legacy of the Philips CD-i Nintendo games will continue to live on, as long as there are people who are willing to acknowledge their existence, and the memes that were created from them.

Volleyball Shorts

Female volleyball shorts are known to be skin tight and sometimes skimpy. Sometimes they even look like panties. But they have to be that way for freedom of movement. This resulted in female volleyball shorts being subjected to internet fanservice. Here are five different variations of female volleyball shorts.

1. These shorts that look like panties are common in Japanese pop culture, with various anime and the NES Volleyball game being the most notable examples.

2. A common variation of female volleyball shorts. Offers freedom of movement as they resemble hipster panties. Commonly seen in several volleyball video games originating from Japan.

3. The most common variation of female volleyball shorts, and the type worn in many real life volleyball competitions. While it offers better modesty than shorts that look like panties, there were complaints that this type of shorts was still too skimpy. That's because the shorts look like boyshorts panties.

4. A pair of female volleyball shorts that offers better modesty than most female volleyball shorts. This pair of shorts should be the type that should be worn in volleyball competitions.

5. The female volleyball shorts that offers the best modesty. This type is the very definition of modesty shorts, and could potentially be the type that should be worn in volleyball competitions.

Female Clothing Obsession

Pop culture has a bizarre way of making various clothing popular. In fact, males being obsessed with certain types of female clothing would not be possible if not for comics, TV shows and video games.

Of course, the attractiveness of female school uniforms cannot be generalised. In fact, it depends on which school happens to have an attractive female school uniform.

It just so happens that the tight-fitting leotard looks like a female one-piece swimsuit. But leotards are not meant to be worn for swimming, let alone getting wet. Yet, for looking like a one-piece swimsuit, leotards get the same fanservice treatment as female swimwear, and in recent years, swimwear designers created female swimsuits with long sleeves that made people wonder if they are really wearing an actual swimming costume.

Female Japanese School Uniform Cliches

There are many overrated costumes in Japanese pop culture, with female school uniforms being one of the most notable examples.

The female school uniform we are all familiar with is called the "sailor fuku." It is a school uniform worn mostly by female middle school students, and attracts a lot of attention in anime. In high school, however, it is mostly replaced by the blazer uniform, which also attracts similar attention in some anime shows and video games.

Female sports attire used to have skimpy shorts called buruma, which is Japanese for bloomers. For looking like panties, the buruma became popular with various anime fanbases. However, at the end of the 1990s, they were eventually phased out in favour of sports shorts that provided more modesty in many schools throughout Japan. Therefore, the bloomers that looked like panties are considered "old-fashioned." Yet, female athletes taking part in athletics competitions are still wearing them.

The school swimsuit seen in various anime is called the "sukumizu." Both the "old type" and the "new type" have gained a lot of attention from anime fanbases, and the "new type" would actually be more suitable for swimming competitions, including swimming competitions featured in video games. If one is seen wearing a sukumizu to the beach when it does not involve a school field trip to the beach, either the person is modest or immature, depending on how you look at her.

Nobody Loves Waluigi

Masahiro Sakurai and Nintendo have good reasons to be mean to Waluigi. In Japan, Waluigi's name is an anagram for ijiwaru, which translates to mean-spirited or ill-tempered. With traits like these, even the villains despise Waluigi. At one point in the internet's history, a website that focuses on fictional villains considers Waluigi as the most evil character owned by Nintendo, and that he must have his own game to show what he is capable of. But Nintendo will never let him have his own game no matter what. Things got worse for Waluigi when Twitter decided to demonstrate bad users being penalized, and they used Waluigi as an example. The disrespect towards Waluigi continued in Super Smash Bros Ultimate when Nintendo demonstrated assist trophies being KO'd by having Marth slash Waluigi.

In other words, twenty years of trying hard, memes and demands for justice will mean nothing for an ill-tempered outsider who was created by outsiders.

Rejected Pikmin Treasures

While there are many treasures in the Pikmin games that are based on real life objects, not all treasures based on real life objects made the cut for the final versions of any Pikmin game. Here are five objects that were left out of both Pikmin 2 and Hey! Pikmin.

Striped bikini: Japan's obsession with striped lingerie, in particular, striped panties, may have made striped bikinis popular as well. But Nintendo does not want anything that could give any of their games a "Mature" rating.

Bloomers: In Japan, bloomers looked like panties, which could explain why they're so popular in Japanese pop culture. Similarly to the striped bikini, the bloomers could potentially cause a game to get a "Mature" rating.

Floppy disk: If Olimar and his Pikmin friends could come across Famicom Disk System disks, NES cartridges, Game Boy cartridges, an SD card, a computer mouse, and many other electronics components, why a floppy disk was not included in either Pikmin 2 or Hey! Pikmin, we do not know.

Vitamin jar: Dr Mario is a game where you use coloured megavitamins to eliminate viruses of the same colour. Nintendo could have included an empty jar with the coloured pills label still on it in either Pikmin 2 or Hey! Pikmin, to add a reference to Dr Mario, but they chose not to, probably for reasons why the "Arboreal Frippery" had its colour changed from green to red for the European/Australian version of Pikmin 2.

Axe head: We all know the story of how Elisha caused an axe head to float. Therefore, an axe head should have been one of the treasures in Pikmin 2. But there are many problems with having a treasure based on an axe head. Axe heads are heavy, and would probably need to be carried by Purple Pikmin. If the axe head is in water, only Blue Pikmin can retreive the axe head as they do not drown unlike other coloured Pikmin. Also, axes are sharp, and the blade area would hurt anyone who touches it. With all these problems, the axe head had to be omitted from the final version of Pikmin 2.

Cancelympics

The current pandemic could lead to an Olympic Games getting cancelled for the first time since World War 2. But this is only if the pandemic gets worse. However, there are people who feel that the Olympics should have been cancelled altogether, especially when the Olympics failed in bringing peace and understanding through sports meetings. The failure of the Olympics to bring peace and understanding between peoples proved the Bible correct about "the way of peace they do not know." This is because there have been wars, genocides, pogroms, and cases of disrespect on a large scale in the years after the 1896 Olympics. In the case of the Rio 2016 Olympics, slum dwellers being made homeless for the sake of Rio de Janerio being an Olympic Games host city drew controversy. Recently, in the case of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the people who come from the parts of Japan that were devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami felt that the Olympics does not symbolise reconstruction in any way, and demanded that the Olympics should be cancelled amid the pandemic. Then we have the doping cases that result in athletes getting disqualified, resulting in hopes and dreams doomed to be dashed. So perhaps it would be better to not only cancel the Olympics, but abolish it so that other sports tournaments can get more attention.

Update: The delayed Olympic Games in Tokyo has gone ahead as planned and concluded as scheduled. The campaign to cancel it was not successful.

Jump Rope Challenge Costumes

For those who wonder what Jump Rope Challenge is, Jump Rope Challenge is a free Nintendo Switch game created to help gamers cope with the quarantine orders amid the current pandemic. Recently, it had a free update that added Nintendo costumes into the game. However, despite the Mario, Wario and Link costumes being added into the game, costumes based on Donkey Kong, Waluigi, Zelda and Ganondorf were not added into the game. In Zelda's case, she is hardly active in physical sports because of her duty as Hylia in mortal form. For Ganondorf's case, he cannot get along with anybody, not even other villains such as Bowser, which can explain why not only does he get shut out of Mario Kart, but he also gets disallowed from attending Bad-Anon sessions. Waluigi being omitted is simply accurate to his personality of self-pity, a feeling that everything goes right for everybody else but him. As for Donkey Kong, we do not know why a costume based on him was not included.

Nintendo characters and games © Nintendo.

Ownerless Momopie

Fun Fact: Keyholder Inc began as Sigma Enterprises Inc. Sigma Enterprises Inc entered video games in 1980, created the Game Boy game Painter Momopie in 1990, exited the industry in 1992, and later renamed themselves to Adores Inc in 2000. In 2017, the original Adores Inc changed their name to Keyholder Inc, and the current Adores Inc exists as a separate entity. In 2018, Keyholder relinquished ownership of Adores Inc to Wide Leisure.

If you can understand why Momopie has a sad face, it's because nobody knows who now owns the rights to Painter Momopie as a result of Sigma Enterprises Inc exiting video games, changing their name two times, and relinquishing ownership of a separate company that carries one of its owner's old names.

Things we will not have before WW3

With World War 3 looming on the horizon, there are some things that we will not have in our lifetime before this catastrophic war comes to cause chaos and destruction.

1. A World Cup Final where Mexico and Portugal are the finalists: France won the World Cup in 2018. But some people speculated that the 2018 Edition of the World Cup will be the last World Cup before the next World War, given that Qatar is located in the Middle East, which is far less stable now than in 2010. Also, Mexico have not been in a World Cup quarter-final since 1986, while Portugal still has yet to win a World Cup semi-final, meaning this prediction by The Simpsons TV show will not happen before the next World War.

2. Waluigi's very own game: For twenty years, Waluigi still does not have his own game. In fact, he does not get to be the "Player Two" in any Wario Land game, or have his own set of minigames in the WarioWare series. It gets worse for Waluigi when you realise that his designer works for a second-party company like Camelot Software Planning. This makes him even more of an outsider than the WarioWare crew, who could possibly have a closer relation to the Mario series than Waluigi.

3. Half-Life 3: Perhaps the one thing we will never have before World War 3 that will leave us utterly disappointed is Half-Life 3. It was the most hyped game since the mid-2000s. Unfortunately, Valve has been leaving us in the dark over the fate of Half-Life 3 or Half-Life 2: Episode 3. However, many factors, such as the main character dying (Gordon Freeman was not the main character at all), have caused work progress to hit a dead end. in other words, Valve should apologise to their customers by announcing the cancellation of both Half-Life 2: Episode 3 and Half-Life 3, so that everybody can get on with their lives.

The Simpsons © FOX. Super Mario Bros © Nintendo. Half-Life © Valve.

Election Day

Election season has arrived. Singapore goes to the polls today, while the United States struggles to maintain a stable democracy to ensure that its people can vote for who will be president.

Speaking of democracy, there are actually episodes of Adventures of Super Mario Bros 3 and Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog focusing on elections, where the respective antagonists of these two shows tried to win an election, but utterly failed hard. Whereas these two TV shows demonstrate the existence of democracy in both the worlds of Mario and Sonic, the Pokemon World does not have democracy at all. The closest the Pokemon World can get to a democracy is the fact that Gary's father was the mayor of Pallet Town, and he participated in an actual election. This fact originated from the official Pokemon books written by the late Takeshi Shudo. For all we know, Game Freak is trying to hide the truth from the Pokemon fanbase about the Pokemon War that Lt Surge spoke about. Municipalities exist in the Pokemon World, but democracy doesn't, which could mean the Pokemon War backstory did not end with good prevailing, unlike Skyward Sword's Ancient Battle or Kirby Right Back at Ya's backstory about how Nightmare was originally defeated, which left Meta Knight and Kirby as the only Star Warriors left alive. No wonder Takeshi Shudo proposed a sad, depressing series finale for the Pokemon TV series, aside from the fact that Pokemon Gold and Silver were originally going to be the last games in the Pokemon series. Just the mentioning of a war in the Pokemon games alone makes the Pokemon series a very dangerous series. For all we know, Pokemon takes place in a world ruled by the leftists. From free healthcare for Pokemon, to the absence of competition in the Pokeconomy, the evidence that the leftists won the war are all but obvious. Yet Game Freak refuses to tell the Pokemon fanbase the truth about the Pokemon War...

So the elections are our chances to celebrate democracy. We must make our votes while we still can, before it is totally gone...

Microcassette

If you want to know what the Parting Tape from Hey! Pikmin is, it is actually a microcassette. Not to be confused with a compact cassette, which appears in the game as the Sonic Relaxant.

Microcassettes are audio storage devices that are smaller than compact cassettes. They were created in 1969 as a smaller alternative to the compact cassette for audio recording. However, many factors, including new technology made the microcassette obsolete by the late 1990s, and by the time Hey! Pikmin was launched for the Nintendo 3DS, it would make sense for audio cassette tapes, including microcassettes, to be categorised as forgotten "treasures" that Olimar and his Pikmin encounter, because audio cassette tapes have become obsolete due to new technology.

The Last Charge of the M113 APCs

While 2020 has been turning out to be a bad year, one American icon turns sixty this year. The M113 armoured personnel carrier not only served the Americans that built it, but it has served many other factions, including the Singapore Armed Forces. However, the M113 was only relevant during the Cold War and the 1990s. Asymmetrical warfare and new advancements in technology have rendered the M113 all but obsolete. Yet, there are thousands of M113s still in service, with thousands more in storage.

Even when they are obsolete and being phased out in some countries, the M113 is still currently in use with NATO members and their allies, and surprisingly, it's still in service with the US Army after sixty years. An incredible feat for an armoured fighting vehicle that entered service in the US Army in 1960.

Dwindling Freedom

Since 2010, internet freedom had been eroded by web censorship. People who think that new laws to combat digital piracy will do more harm than good say that the implementation of new laws governing copyright will not succeed in reining in digital piracy, and will harm online creativity instead. But the years 2015 to 2020 were the years where digital freedom started to get phased out, mainly because of some countries disapproving of certain content, such as the EU being a corrupt bureaucracy, and recommendations that China should only assimilate Hong Kong after the city's autonomy expires in 2047. Recently, the EU approved of new privacy and copyright laws that are actually doing more harm than good. Soon, true biblical Christianity will eventually be outlawed across the globe in many places, including the internet.

Future Smash Bros Alternate Costumes

When it comes to wacky costumes that could be added into the Super Smash Bros series as alternate costumes, Nintendo is sitting on a gold mine filled with them. The biggest problem is that the costumes needed to be analyzed for suitability before they get approved.

Mario Kart Tour has already gotten some great alternate costumes that could be added into Smash. Nintendo can always look into them, as well as obscure sources such as the Captain N comics, or they can give another look at the rejected alternate costumes to give them another chance to be added into Smash in the future.

Nintendo characters and games © Nintendo.

America The Game Boy Color Nation

Today's America is a far cry from the America of 1999, when Nintendo of America produced a Game Boy Color commercial for the US market featuring the United States of America's fifty states as Game Boy Color handhelds. The commercial's name was "America the Beautiful." But today's America is ironically a hazardous place that's no longer beautiful, because of the riots and disharmony.

Game Boy Color © Nintendo.

History Under Attack

The recent attacks against statues in America and Britain are a sign of history under attack. Statues of historical figures had been vandalized or toppled down in protest against cruelty towards other ethnic groups, just because they were known to exploit other ethnic groups. Modern education in Western countries have been trying in recent years to overwrite the truth about historical events, to the point they do not want to mention true biblical Christianity being behind certain events in history. To make matters worse, any knowledge of real history will be denied if censorship takes over the web. Soon, the day will come when even the History Channel will have to cease transmission due to rebellions that seek to destroy history.

Please, save history, including video game history, advertising history, and internet history. Do not let web censorship or acts of violence erase them.

Canada The Stable

In my honest opinion, Canada was going to be more stable in the long run than the United States of America, Great Britain or France. Even though Canada has some of the problems that plagued America, if recent violent crimes committed by rogue police officers, as well as the current pandemic was anything, Canada would still be considered a better country than America because such cases are fewer.

To all my Canadian readers, Happy Canada Day.