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Final Fantasy
Phantasy Star
Dragon Quest/Warrior
Xenoblade
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Street Fighter
King of Fighters
Mortal Kombat
Killer Instinct
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Tetris
Solitaire
Minesweeper
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Super Mario Bros.
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Youngblood
Wild C.A.T.S.
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Gen 13
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Shi
Glory
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Gretzky
Lemieux
Crosby
McDavid
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Dragon Ball
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Bleach
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Wing Commander
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FreeSpace
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Lennox Lewis
Georges St. Pierre
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Bob Probert
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City of Heroes
Dofus
Everquest 2
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Hello Kitty
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Heathcliff
Felix the Cat
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Grandia 2
Shenmue
Skies of Arcadia
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Filbi@ami_angelwings Is Super Mario Bros. (1993) a good movie? No. Is it a GREAT movie? Yes.
@filby have you seen the restored extended cut made a few years back?
@filby I honestly never thought it was that bad, I don't think it's that great either, but I think I prefer strange takes on source material where you try to figure out how to turn this video game that doesn't really have that much depth of story into a movie with real people than the current trend of very tightly controlled "lore-accurate" fan friendly slop that doesn't take any chances
zhinxy@ami_angelwings i think you know I voted Skies
四@ami_angelwings The Red Baron :)
@yon is the red baron a dog?
@ami_angelwings WW1 fighter pilot Von Richthofen. Snoopy flies his dog house and dog fights him :)
(Crazy enough he was such a legend that people of both sides saw him as a legend. His life is one hell of a story to be honest.)
@yon I know Snoopy fights him, I just mean was he revealed to be a dog?
@ami_angelwings It’s been a while, but I don’t think so. It’s more of an imaginary thing I believe.
The comment was more of a “I chose snoopy” thing :)
@yon oh okay!
@ami_angelwings only Snoopy can challenge the Red Baron
@filby bluey's mom is a border cop, she can do all sorts of atrocities
@ami_angelwings Thankfully nobody allowed Abrams near Stargate. Wish we could get a new series. Need new actors, but I’d hope some old writers could be around etc. It was such a great show (even if all alien worlds look like Canada:)).
@yon Abrams B5 coming
@ami_angelwings Please tell
me you are joking. It would be the worst combo I can think of. Having the worst writing/directing in space sci fi history ruin possibly the best ever in space writing.
It would sadden me.
@yon afaik I'm joking
@ami_angelwings Don’t bring that evil on us Ami Angelwings!
(Bonus if you get the movie reference.)
Richard Hendricks@ami_angelwings @yon *puts nukes away*
Khleedril@ami_angelwings Nope, not doing that one.
Canageek@ami_angelwings Canada!
@ami_angelwings Churchill was a right old bastard, but he was our bastard. Sometimes we need a bastard to clear out the evils.
Highly recommend listening to his classic speeches, I don’t know how many are still around. “We shall fight on the beaches” was re-recorded after the war, but that’s the best speech I’ve ever heard myself. It’s available.
(A part of it is in the opening to Iron Maiden’s aces high as well, also worth listening to.)
@yon all 4 countries above were extremely integral imo, even China which often gets ignored or downplayed, but they were responsible for bogging down 80-90% of Japan's land forces, had they surrendered at various points, Russia's Eastern flank would be vulnerable while it was already fighting Germany, and Japan would have access to all China's resources and a pathway to India and an army free to attempt other conquests (a landing in Australia would likely never have been doable but it especially wasn't a real threat because Japan didn't have the army to do it when it was stuck in China)
Britain, as you say, never surrendered and Churchill got the expeditionary army out of Dunkirk, plus it gave a launching pad for the US in Europe
@yon America won the war in the Pacific basically on its own and its extensive resources and productive capacity was extremely important in keeping the Allies in the fight with lend lease deals, it also spent a lot of money in South America to keep the countries from joining the Axis and having the war expand even more
The Soviet Union gave the most in blood to stop the Nazis (Russia and China lost the most of all the Allies), fought every inch for their cities (all the people who deride the French as surrender monkeys can't then try to ignore that Russia did what they wanted and fought from building to building in Stalingrad), and were the ones who ultimately broke Nazi Germany's back
@ami_angelwings I’d say France were well and truly fucked when the Germans broke through. Their preparations failed, the Soviets built crazy amounts of defenses at places like Stalingrad. The German war machine scary. But they overextended and lost. I assume the goal was the oil.
But again, you made choose, and it wasn’t “who did the most”:) As I said, the Brits won on style. Plus the Scots, them I even like.
@yon I don't blame the French at all, once the Nazis circumvented their defenses it was over, I just mean people who think they shouldn't have surrendered, what did you want them to do but to fight to the very end from building to building?
And the French did hold out, that's the reason why the British were able to escape at Dunkirk (Hitler wouldn't have worried about overextending his supply lines if they weren't still facing resistance)
@yon no you can vote for whoever you want for whatever reason you want, I was just saying that all 4 did a lot to create the outcome of the war we got
@ami_angelwings Again, not disagreeing:) Just had to make one choice there :)
@ami_angelwings I’d say this is a case of us just agreeing :) The French military record is pretty stellar overall and they were the first of the big allies to get attacked.
The Germans damn near won the Battle of Britain. We can thank the very weird German strategy for that one (changing things before anything could be effective if I remember correctly). No idea if Göring was high or dear leader messed it up. Good thing they did. Britain holding was important.
@ami_angelwings You made me choose:) Patton, McCarthy, and Eisenhower were all nutcases and the last two of those created so much of the global issues we are facing today. Knobheads. So they go last.
The Soviets were absolute bastards, who did their part simply by having a massive population that does what they are told. True Zerg/Orks there.
China as you say gets no glory, and got hit damn hard by the Japanese. But they held the line.
Britain wins on style I’d say. Spitfire (the Mustang was better), Commandos, Winston, etc. They too were utter colonial bastards and caused their fair share of issues we see today. But they were kind of the heart of the operation so to speak.
The true powerhouse though was Hungary, that produced brains such as Von Neumann, Teller, etc. Without them no atomic bomb, and let’s face it if the war had been going far worse they would have kept building and dropping them.
(Not that I in any way wish that, but all those scientists driven from Europe played a massive part non the less.)
CT@ami_angelwings Whichever had the most and best Jim Lee covers, I guess.
@cthellis Wild C.A.T.S. it is, J. Scott Campbell and Al Rio did most of the art for Gen 13