Nepenthe

@TCB

She came back and thus there was peace on SSMB

i just realized who made this status after almost an hour

Hope you've been good the past couple months/years(?)

@Dejimon11 If it wouldn't have been, such a shame. I'm not a staffie anymore. |3

@Ferno Ayyy Ferno! I've been good! How about you?

a blast from the past came back to represent the best frog boi 

Lucio fans get a PRRRRROMOTION

@Nepenthe Been alright, even more of an art nerd now but I still visit here regularly even if just to haunt the statuses/ lurk a thread or two out of nonstop nostalgia.

The frog boi was my first gold gun on Overwatch, he is best boi.

Granted, I don't get the chance to play him anywhere near as often as I used to, since I've usually got to end up hopping on Zen or Mercy for heals, but I love playing him whenever I can, especially for those environmental kills

@Ferno I know what you mean. I should haunt every now and again, maybe when the next Sonic game is released.

@Ryannumber1gamer Oh, I one-trick Lucio to the max. I let other people pick up main healer slack. I like the movement freedom he gives, as well as being a skirmisher and harasser. You wear a lot of hats on Lucio. Current goal is to hit Diamond; got to the 2900s once.

I never die.

@Nepenthe I just logged in so I may be LTTP (got back from work), but cool to see you drop in for a visit! It's been such a long while.

@Milo Long time no see! It's actually heartwarming to see so many of the older folks.

No one's ever really gone

I somehow clicked on early 2013 status updates just a couple hours ago while I was asleep so it took me a while to piece together I was back on the main page bc of this lmao

I'm personally in uni now tryna get a degree and experience n stuff, having a bit of issues with work but hopefully itll all blow over soon. Good to see you around and doing alright, though!

2013 status updates. Has it been that long? Jesus.

And good luck on Uni; trust me I know that road's tough, but you can do it! Good seeing you too as well @The Deleter

To answer your question, surviving.
It's nice to see you back 😄

The fuck?

Thank you @Teoskaven And I'm surviving too, basically. xD

@Kuzu "Surprise, mothafucka."

@Nepenthe 3 Years. It's been 3 long years.

Three years?!! OMG. 😲

We figured you moved on to bigger (read: Less eccentric) places. Glad to see you back tho. 

Bigger? Yes. Less eccentric? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Is this the arc where old faces return for a thing with the current cast after the big eventful arc as a downtime thing in my shonen animes

Me and my friend basically have a combo that breaks total mayhem at this point, he goes Doomfist, and I go Sombra. I take down abilities, leaving characters defenceless to his attacks.

And I swear, there is no greater feeling in this world than constantly deactivating Pharah's abilities.

Sombras are getting good now and it's slightly frightening.

Don't worry, she's still pretty terrible on console. 

Well, mainly because no one can aim to actually finish off characters on console, so what typically happens is 

>deactivate ability

>no teammates around

>shoot desperately to try kill the enemy

>three enemies kill you

And that's Console!Sombra.

Well, PC!Sombra, in the right hands, is a beast. 

Note, in the right hands. I had one match where I literally kept punching her to death. It was kinda sad.

On console, her and Ana are kind of in the same area. Both can be really effective in the right hands, constantly deactivating abilities, being sneaky, EMPing at the right time etc etc, but Ana's problem is most players don't have good aim, especially in High Platinum/Diamond and in Quick Play, and Sombra doesn't have a lot of people bothering to learn her effectively. I've been using Total Mayhem to try learn her because there's more of a safety net there for screwing up, it allows me to learn good ways to flank enemies, and take down their abilities before getting out, or if they're weak, finishing them.

Nep is ready to beat everyone at MK8.

I would actually prefer to cooperate and play Overwatch. I main Lucio, because someone has to keep the DPS dumbasses alive with a friendship circle. Now come over here and let's have a party on the payload.

But I don't have Overwatch...

This saddens me greatly.

 Smash Bros?

But I want to get it. Don't know if  PS4 or PC.

PC. Faster updates, a working reporting system, and better aim assist controls. Some characters are apparently nigh unplayable on console.

@Jovahexeon Ace Joranvexeon I don't have Smesh.

I thought I felt a disturbance in the MK8 force...

@Nepenthe That saddens me immensely. 

I'll see. I want to get the game but I'm not that great...

currently procastina--

HOLY SHIT YOUR HERE!!

Hooray you play a healer.

I mainly play Mercy.

(Although I am wearing a Rein t-shirt)

xD I got tired of teams never putting a healer on so I started instalocking him. Plus Lucio is super fun to play, and I'm guaranteed a gold medal in something without having to be the best killer. So why not?

I just like people owing me

And I mean normally I choose between being tank or healer, way too many people just play DPS...

I only like tanking if I've got a got healer who's gonna pocket me. Just stand next to me and I can do a little work as Orisa.

What would be a good starting character?

I was bout to take a break myself but I'll say hi to you before I do. Been a minute

@Diamond Dragon X Soldier is recommended as the starter because he's a jack-of-all-trades gateway character from traditional FPS games. If you've touched CoD, you'll know how he plays. Plus, he's got some nice abilities like sprint and area healing to give you staying power. However, feel free to try everyone in Quick Play games until you find your niche(s). You should ideally be able to play one single character in each of the four classes.

@Josh Long time no see!

So I have to main 4 characters?

I played OW once  when it was a free weekend.

I think I played with Soldier 76.

Well, I main Lucio. However, I can be effective with Soldier, Pharah, Reaper, Junkrat, Winston, and Orisa. Sometimes, Lucio isn't needed or isn't working as well as I'd like him too, or I'm just dying too often. Team comps and skill levels can alter the flow of a match on the fly, so to be as effective as possible you need to be flexible. But that's the fun of Overwatch.

If you want to main only one character however, no one's going to fuss if you main a healer or a traditional tank. xD

Working.

Overwatch and a Lucio main, two good decisions at once. 

I love playing Lucio myself as a main healer, he was even my first gold gun and the character I trained to comp with in terms of healing, at least at first.

But then I realised I'm on console and unless playing with friends, typically end up getting stuck with a team who don't wanna group up because as we all know, flanking on defence is the best way to handle things.

and that's the story of why I have to play Mercy on Season 6 as opposed to the funnest healer around.

But yeah, good to see you around again.

@Diamond Dragon X It's not a case of having to pick mains, but Overwatch is built on team composition and in general, trying to be flexible. Every hero is simple to pick up and have skills that transfer over to other characters, but again, it's all about hero composition. If you want to win, sometimes you have to bite the bullet and pick a character you might dislike or not play who you want to play as in order to help your team. In most cases, if your team runs 5 DPS characters, running Hanzo or Genji, or someone like that typically means your team will likely lose.

Of course you show up when I'm napping as I am absolutely exhausted from working so much...

The working world is something else ain't it? Nice to see you around here again Nep! ?

Hi Kiah! Long time no see!

And it certainly is. I close again tomorrow. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun.

Closing...that's the story of my life girl. I'm scheduled to close 5 nights this week...

Aw, he's a Yorkshire lad!

Can't steal the OC if you can't draw it.

Even a dinosaur like me barely could. xD

But with some simplification I managed it.

One of the things about the series was making it easy for kids to draw like take robotnik's design for example 

before people pointed out that it was a mask, i just thought it was his head

Mask?

I thought he was just ugly.

that's why he wears the mask @Indigo Rush

His mask is made of the toughest donut steel.

@Rusty Spy

i tried so hard not to laugh, fak

None of y'all have any chill. xD

Maybe you should apply to IDW for a job as an artist? Also nice character 

He looks like ashura lol

Wow, Scrouge's redesign for the comics looks great!

(Nice work.)

Is that Manic as a stoner or something?

@Josh Looool, he actually was based off Ashura! I just made the black parts a darker green.

@Dejimon11 If they're doing an open hiring process, I might. Although I need to do some comic stuff. Haven't in a really long time.

@SenEDDtor Missile My hedgie is a powerless 20-year old drunkard who likes black fashion. He is absolutely perfect.

Asura is usually rethought as a saiyanhog type char so this is refreshing

My hedgie has always been without powers as a basic starting point in any work or RP, aside from basic rolls and things. Makes him more fun to write about or put on an adventure since he can't Saiyan his way out of an issue.

Awesome work as always Nep!  

No it still is for something. They're pretty much starting over from scratch also people lost their jobs....sooooo

They may also not use the freedom Fighters and egg bosses so...

Worse the fact that Disney didn't bother uploading it on youtube immediately after.

But TOY STORY IN KH3

you know disney kills people if they see them recording shit right

@Josh didn't stop people from doing it with star vs the forces of evil

Sorry, busy with KH3

i wonder who would win in a war, disney ninjas or nintendo ninjas

Yeah, I noticed that too when no one has uploaded that Wreck it Ralph 2 princess scene yet. Like, how the fuck are they keeping all that shit contained?

if they're gonna do an e3-styled event every year they may as well stream it like one

Nintendo let Mario Sunshine's first trailer leak so Disney i guess

Huh...what happened now?

And even if it's a joke, it can still be a bother sometimes, so be careful. D:

I must had missed a show. :v

Tact and consideration of others even when expressing a negative opinion can go a long way in a positive sense. I cannot stress this enough. Especially on these boards. 

Oh my word what DID I MISS

It's honestly nothing serious. We got several reports about a small little incident, and I wanted to post this just to remind people that the ability to be cynical about a Sonic game doesn't extend to actually being a jerk about it.

this past year has made me heavily reconsider what my career path should be

someone get this man some milk

What's even more concerning is that this still probably won't do anything.

There isn't going to be some immediate arrest or anything unless, like, Trump eats a child in the street.

Which I wouldn't put past him to do, but he's got security and whatnot for that.

Erm...what happened?

Donald Trump Jr. tweeted out an e-mail chain between him and Russian officials confirming collusion into the election.

...wow. I have no words for the sheer stupidity of that decision.

And, like, the tweets are still there.

Fucking moron.

I think they're setting him up to take a fall myself

We really do live in the stupidest timeline

They had better hope the FBI ain't faster than they are, because basically if anyone so much as read those e-mails and did nothing prior to the election, lol.

Oh my gosh

why

are

they

STILL

FUCKING

THERE?!?!?!

Eating souls gives you a lot of health as it turns out. The healing medal just doesn't care whether you healed yourself or others.

But, I only got 1000-something health from that. When I play Lucio, I'm regularly averaging around 4000-6000 in Quickplay, depending upon the length of the rounds. 

Basically, Lucio would've had to have been on speed boost at all times. xDD

Fucking trash Lucio is what it is

Lucio could have died a lot, or spent a lot of time speed boosting. Alternatively your team's health was up so much that he couldn't heal because you guys steamrolled them. Or they weren't Lucio the whole round. 

all lucios gotta do is stand there and they still be fucking up smh

Enemies don't drop souls anymore actually, now Reaper heals himself just by damaging others.

Huh, did not know you played on PC.

Also Lucio <3

Started playing after the last free weekend. x3

Good choice!

My Battle.net/Blizzard ID is PoetAnderson#2561 if you're up for playing sometime.

Cool! I'll add you!

Note: I am not nearly as good an OW player as I am a MK8 player. xDD

yeah, that's usually how McCree's ult goes

I mainly play Mercy so...

...I think Up has finally met its match.

Just release a short of this Pixar

Don't make a whole new movie

Just

Do this

Please

Holy shit.

 Me trying not to cry reading this.

Wow...that gave me the feels...

Incidentally, I had no idea Mike Mozart had any relation to Pixar and thought he was just a funny kind of old guy on YouTube.

Holy crap. That shit be sad. I agree with The Deleter on how they should make a short for this tho.

Liquir showing all the scrub gods like Beerus and Champa how things are really done!

Excellent work. <3

I don't know who that is but what I do know that this is really good stuff per usual! 

Yeah shadow has a good soundtrack. I think it's really overlooked because most folks who talk about the soundtrack are mostly talking about the vocal themes and westopolis 

Seriously this song is good

Why wouldn't it be? The sound team gives it their 100% in all their dreamcast era stuff

I live in a head space now where I'm supposed to assume the entirety of everything surrounding Shadow outside of maybe SA2 is garbage.

Is it too late to participate even if it's just some modern games?

I honestly didn't see this until I got a notification.  

If it isn't possible I understand 

You have until midnight EST to get any last votes in, so 47 minutes.

All the worthwhile tracks imo:

Lost impact

Leathal highway

Digital circuit

Heavy Dog

Black Bull

Mad Matrix

Lava Shelter

Prison island

Death Ruins

Sky Troops

Cosmic Fall

Central City

The ARK

Blue Falcon

Black Comet

Gun Fortress

Final Haunt

Black Doom

System Select

Battle Menu

2p vs battle

+ whatever vocal themes you prefer

Get all those down, and you have yourself a pretty varied, enjoyable soundtrack to listen to, imo. Even for some of the grittier songs; if they're on their own like this, they don't sound half as bad as they do otherwise.

It's because there's a ton of sameness. Nearly every song uses the electric guitar to death, and while that was a problem in SA2, it wasn't nearly as bad as here. Individually there are plenty of great tracks (and even some of the vocals are good on cheese factor) but overall they tend to blend. 

A criminally underrated OST for my money. Among other things, there are so many call backs to SA2's soundtrack here that put a smile on my face, like the Final Rush riff in The Ark.

Jup 

And Heavy Dog/Blue Falcon are remixes of their own boss music from SA2 respectively, and 2 player battle is flat out a more techno radical highway remix

Planet Wisp makes me emotional

Girl Colors be my Sonic soundtrack right there!

The Special Stage theme from DS makes me warm inside

Also, Shadow got the better end of the deal as far as BGMs are concerned in SA2.

white jungle white jungle white jungle white jungle

Yeah, a lot of SA2 sounded a bit generic compared to SA1. The character-centric instrumentation was a cool idea, but the tunes weren't often memorable, especially since they spam rock guitar into a lot of them anyway (I liked a lot of Eggman's as well though).

SA1 has a lot of my favourites due to the more retro style. Blue Azure World and Theme of E-102 are works of art.

Man sonic soundtracks are just amazing

I don't mind the whole rock music thing they had going, as it worked pretty well at times, but it got pretty samey after a bit, and most of the tracks were forgettable. Also, I think Sonic could work pretty well with the occasional techno/dance track:

<3

Ugh, I miss that too. Adventure ost is nearly 20 years old and I still prefer it over the newer tracks the series gave us. 

If we could at the minimum get more tracks like this then I will be happy.

You'll get your goddamn Sonic Boom main theme and like it

You mean Tornado Defence right :U

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha- no.

:<

Hell, all the Tornado themes.

Including 'Tornado' in Windy Valley.

That song's context within the game is enough to blacklist it.

Am I the only one who liked the Sky Chase mini games?

but

i 

i legitimately like it :<

I mean yeah, the levels themselves aren't really good, but I think personally the themes are pretty good, especially 1st Battle's which is a nice little peaceful tune which speeds up a bit. It's like peace but with a bit of energy to spice things up too.

That's why stuff like White Jungle and Eternal engine are topping my lists lol

I want Mei permabanned

Will never understand the fiending for sneakers

@Josh It's mostly for status and appearances, status is everything in the hood.

Why is this guys content so good? 

@Dejimon11 Cause he's genuine and he's Dashie.

I had no idea who this guy was before now but I want to thank you for bringing him to my attention.

Sometimes you gotta quit while you're behind- Especially if you're in sixthf.

NEXT

I'm so tempted to click on this now but seeing how I'm guaranteed to get a headache watching this from laughing so hard I just can't right now. When I get home from work sure  

Okay I just watched it and I'm in tears from laughing so hard! And my head hurts per usual when watching Dashie's videos!

I just thought of something: you have a Dashie topic, right? Update that sucker!  

At this point the mods will probably have to bring Shark Week back to SSMB if this keeps up :v

Shark week should always be a thing it seems...especially if we have obnoxious behavior going on in a cartoon thread of all places. 

I think we're doing good in isolating very specific behaviors that we've noticed contribute to people's dissatisfaction on here, giving everyone fair warning about it, and not hemming and hawing about punishments. Hopefully this results in long term change for the better.

Yeah, hopefully. This community isn't perfect, but you guys always strive to make it a little less hostile.

... Shark week?