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@xianc78 @graf uhhh give me a bit to think about it lol. I'd be more than happy to field submissions as well.

@xianc78 @graf it's just a concept I know, but remember content filters and maybe let them choose what platform their upload is for with a dropdown too you know? Would be cool if the site could support homebrew as well.
I know this is for game submissions but as far as mods go it would definitely need a few more options too :)
But you're doing crazy work!

Decomp is now at 91%! It's going so fast.

i'm a fan of this kind of autism whatever it is lol. it's only been 5 months.

@Goalkeeper @DW2 i'm gonna miss him

@xianc78 yeah, it could be at least as far as audio goes. although with the decomp people are starting to make some mods now, albeit it very simple ones. there's a stage select someone had made, for instance.

@xianc78 @graf holy based you're a madman

The children yearn for the mines

Keepin it real OG since 1996 bich

@xianc78 no idea tbh. I only went back in the last couple of years. It seems like it's maybe more lax than something like YouTube generally speaking, and then it has porn there too lmao. You're unlikely to get away with "hateful content" or loli, but pretty much everything else seems to fly. I have seen animations there that some freaks would be like "that's racist/sexist!" when really it's just being done for comedy, that kind of thing.

@LoliHat

@xianc78 @graf @alex I don't think it necessarily has to have a commercial element to it beyond just donating and stuff. Certainly not from the beginning.

Like I said, it might be better to just let the creators handle that sort of thing at least at first. RPGMaker.net is a good example of that, they don't have any way of commercializing a game directly but let you link to somewhere that does. Could also always go back to like, the shareware days where a demo is hosted and if you send mail with payment they'll send you the game or something xD that would legit be pretty funny. I mean, fuckin Mullvad lets you do that so why not an indie dev? xD

But yeah, I'd be down with a NG spiritual successor. NG itself is already pretty damn good and always has been tbh, there are rules and things they don't allow of course but it's still a really good place to show off your creativity in a place that's not so corporate. but it'd be dope to have a place like that which actually allows a lot more stuff. i like the community aspect of it and it's pretty much the only place that has star rankings anymore xD

@xianc78 @graf yeah, i'm thinking of something like itch.io but free from censorship, only with opt-in tags for more "objectionable content" instead of just a general "adult" rating system or whatever. and also mod hubs for games of course, both ones hosted on and off the site.

a lot of sites like these end up not garnering lots of traction because they get a lot of extremist (or "extremist") content on them, which leads people to not want to use them. if you had to opt-in to see any of that i think it would make it much more compelling to visit for most people. there are lots of boorus that already do this and they don't really have any issues. they just require an account, and require opt-in.

as far as payment goes, if we're just talking mods then the only real option is to just have donation links. games are a lot trickier and would probably have to be crypto. you could always just let the game authors handle it themselves though i suppose and just use the website as a means of pushing their game out to more people, you know what i mean?

i don't expect anyone to just randomly start working on this and hosting it though lol. it was really just a thought that i had floating around after seeing more mods being banned for stupid fucking reasons.

if i have enough money one day i hope i can just like, fund a mod/game website that is censorship resistant and the only way something gets taken down is via DMCA or if it's illegal (although in that case it would more likely just be denied verification or something).

it doesn't even seem like it's that hard to pull off something like that. just put up some content filters for people that don't want to see certain things. or, better yet, make the more spicy stuff opt-in specifically. that way everyone can still enjoy the site.

why the fuck hasn't someone like notch done this yet? the dude totally could and it's not like he could come under any more fire than he already has, as if it would even matter goddammit.

@graf but i will keep this in mind in case i stumble upon anyone :meru_catface:

@graf that's the reason why i said if i ever got rich i'd fund it lmao, i'm definitely not a person that could code something like that.

@matrix nice names

Free weekend for Nick All Star Brawl 2 is over.

Conclusion: the game still fucking sucks. It has a very good foundation, but the amount of soft locks I experienced was so high that it is baffling this is still an issue 3 months after release. Meanwhile they are developing and releasing overpriced DLC characters. Sometimes the ledges seem broken, and I've noticed several times people just clipping through the stage halfway which affects their hitboxes and hurt boxes, naturally. The graphics are also still scuffed as hell. Better than the first one I guess? The anti-aliasing may as well not exist though and there are no advanced graphics settings to speak of, just a preset toggle and I honestly can't tell what it does besides making everything look just... shittier. It's hard to explain.

Most of the characters also have some extreme jank to them. Stuff like moves that can kill ridiculously early, extremely good frame data, or long range moves that dominate the stage (some of which you can't dodge, you just have to hope they don't aim correctly). Of course, I picked Ember to play as which seems to generally be one of, if not the worst character in the game, so these problems were exacerbated tenfold. I could feel how bad she was in comparison but for just a few days you can't exactly experiment with a bunch of characters in depth.

There's little to not direction influence (DI) so you get trapped in combos very easily.

The slime mechanic is cool in theory. In theory. The hitboxes on the ultimate moves have no signs of where they actually are so you end up missing A LOT. I don't know if it's every character, but at least Ember's ultimate move has some start-up lag to it even though the animation is going... so you can realistically react to it and shield without getting hit. The only way I could reliably get it to work is if I tried to disjoint it right in front of another character's attack. It just felt super inconsistent.

The other things you can use slime for, to my knowledge at least, are cancelling endlag and cancelling knockback. The endlag one is more or less pointless, because fast moves in the game are so fast it isn't even necessary and slow moves have so much knockback that you can't cancel it to follow up with anything. The knockback cancelling is super fucked up because it doesn't seem like a cool mechanic, it just feels like cheating. If I get a super good read with my slow ass character and knock someone to the blast zone, then they can just cancel it and come back to stage again with their broken ass recovery? Yeah that's fucking lame.

In a word, that's how I would describe the game. Lame. If your character isn't broken-lame, you have to play lame to win. If you're playing lame and manage to do that for long enough, your opponent can just do something lame like knockback canceling to make your lame playing null and void. The game itself has very lame coding. The monetization especially is incredibly lame. Even the ranked mode is lame, because it features no stage banning or counterpicking like a real ranked mode ought to have. If you click rematch at the end of a set it'll literally run back the last game you played instead of going back to stage select... like who the fuck was calling all the shots for this game? Who the fuck designed these move sets that made extremely powerful ranged moves that just have a bit more endlag (in the best case scenario)? Somebody who is lame, probably.

It really goes to show that like, I'd rather play Super Smash Bros. 64 than this. I'd rather play Brawl. Have we learned nothing from decades of platformer fighters? I feel like NASB is trying to be different and stand out but they don't know how to actually balance something that is different. That, combined with extremely poor monetization and really taking advantage of customers with the fact that this game even exists in the first place means it was always doomed to fail. The only people who will keep playing this are probably children and groomers.

@MoeBritannica lol i have a helghast as my wallpaper right now

@xianc78 it's been something anime fans have been dealing with for YEARS lol we know what's up. vaush being the most recent one.

@xianc78 is that not the same thing? like these people will consistently and constantly call out people who even just like anime for being pedos and then they end up being pedos themselves.