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Rabbi Raccoon posted:Cake can be used for any celebrations. Doing laundry, for example. Or replacing the toilet paper roll. Or to mark the occasion of a difficult task overcome, such as the task of baking a cake.
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Doopliss posted:The Wall of Fallen Pikmin is still kosher, right? Yeah, The Wall should be fine, it's goofy and fun. Bad Things Happen in pikmin.
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I love The Wall, its fun to see all the fun names people come up with for the poor, dear departed Pikmans 
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MarquiseMindfang posted:Why have 100 Pikmin on a cake when you could have a cake being carried by 100 Pikmin? This is actually a pretty great idea. Put the cake on a glass platter, raised a little off the table, then ring the outside with candy pikmin so it looks like they're carrying it. You could even put a little Olimar on the top blowing his whistle!
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Aug 27, 2015 23:16
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Faerie Fortune posted:brb proposing to my girlfriend so I can have this cake Just don't schedule the ceremony until after you at least reach the later games. Because then you'll miss out on the later, also adorable pikmin that you could have also had on your cake.
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I imagined a wedding where the bride is carried to the altar by Pikmin and I'm not sure if that's adorable or terrifying.
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Aug 27, 2015 23:43
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The altar is an onion.
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 Update TimeEpisode 17 - The Cannon Beetles Battle Cry Now for some thread discussion! What's your favourite snack, friends?
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I've actually really started to get into raw carrots.
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There are more of those beetles in Pikmin 2? That seems like it could get tedious to play real fast. My favorite snack depends on my mood. There's this awesome garlic and herb spread called Rondele that I love putting on crackers. But when my sweettooth kicks in, you can't beat a nice moist, hot chocolate chip cookie with a tall cold glass of milk.
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It's a Snagret. Half Snake, Half Egret. Half your active Pikmin. I meanwhile am partial to Tim Tams for snacks Veloxyll fucked around with this message at 14:23 on Aug 28, 2015 |
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Aug 28, 2015 14:20
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It's a snagret! Half snake, half egret! ^^^ 
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Aug 28, 2015 14:20
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Samovar posted:I've actually really started to get into raw carrots. Also, it's been at least a page since the Wall has been linked, and that's unacceptable. These Pikmin have families! Or whatever the Pikmin social equivalent of families is, I guess. They have pellet/corpse-mates? Doopliss fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Aug 28, 2015 |
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Aug 28, 2015 15:37
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Rabbi Raccoon posted:There are more of those beetles in Pikmin 2? That seems like it could get tedious to play real fast. Like all boss enemies demoted to regular enemies, they have a lot less HP in pikmin 2. Doopliss posted:On a similar note, frozen grapes are just the best. Ordinary grapes are pretty decent? Freeze them and they become something else entirely. Pikmin family structure seems to be "leader + followers," but for some reason actual pikmin leaders have all died. So now they follow Olimar instead, as the replacement dad, and the pikmin themselves are an interchangeable worker caste.
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Aug 28, 2015 16:09
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Rabbi Raccoon posted:There are more of those beetles in Pikmin 2? That seems like it could get tedious to play real fast. Not to spoil anything that hasn't already been spoiled, but the beetles in Pikmin 2 aren't EXACTLY the same as the Armored Cannon Beetle, they're a variant that's much faster to fight (not to mention that combat in Pikmin 2 is faster in general). I'm not really big on snacks, usually I just have crackers with something simple like peanut butter or cheese.
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Doopliss posted:On a similar note, frozen grapes are just the best. Ordinary grapes are pretty decent? Freeze them and they become something else entirely. This goon speaks the truth. Grapes do not become solid-ice balls when frozen, like you might think. They have a texture not unlike ice-cream.
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Can you not throw red pikmin up the cliff near where the first lot of bomb rocks are? That would be easier than the bridge.
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Fae is the scariest monster of all.
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Shady Amish Terror posted:Also of note, with regards to the 'frog nuggets', in at least some versions of the game (possibly all, not sure?) there is no guaranteed threshold of pikmin which will always weigh them down. It is entirely possible to jam 100 pikmin onto the frogs and still have one jump, VASTLY complicating the process of fighting them. You are always rolling the dice when fighting a frog unless you leave pikmin behind and fight it yourself, which CAN be done, but is somewhat difficult and can take, if memory serves, one-sixth to one-quarter of a day per frog, if they're uncooperative. Certainly not in Pikmin2, because you can stunlock them right to death with the right group there. MarquiseMindfang posted:Can you not throw red pikmin up the cliff near where the first lot of bomb rocks are? That would be easier than the bridge. Yeah, blues can be tossed up from the water, reds from the cliff, if you're doing a few yellows with bomb rocks, you can just carry them over one by one. across the bridge. Samovar posted:This goon speaks the truth. Grapes do not become solid-ice balls when frozen, like you might think. They have a texture not unlike ice-cream.
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Guys, lets not talk about Pikmin 2 just yet! Lets instead talk about how absolutely adorable this Olimar amiibo looks and how, if you're in Europe you can buy one right now like my lovely girlfriend just did for me
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Haven't finished watching the video yet, but I was struck by the phrasing.Gnome-Navi posted:Cannon Beetle
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Faylone posted:That sounds awesome and now I must try them. Only take a handful at a time, tho. They brown REALLY fast when they start to defrost. Samovar fucked around with this message at 11:56 on Aug 29, 2015 |
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Shady Amish Terror posted:Has it been mentioned yet that blue pikmin can serve as lifeguards if they're deactivated in water near pikmin of other colors when they fall in? I'm not really sure it would be a spoiler this close to the end of the first game, and it's an incredibly niche application, but it means a little planning can save pikmin if you expect to have to run pikmin of other colors around water. It hasn't been mentioned yet because I actually forgot this was a mechanic! It's a really good mechanic, but it comes up so rarely. Maybe we can show it off in a video later.
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you guys still seem to be having some sound issues, are you using the Audio dsp binary file dumps that you can get from a wii or gamecube? or by what ever means might be available. I just played trough pikmin in dolphin and my audio was near perfect. but I also have a highend cpu so that helps too
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Yeah, I'm using the binary file dumps but I also discovered that I was using a two year old build of Dolphin which might have had a lot to do with why I was having problems  I'm using an updated version now so hopefully the sound issues should be a little better, but it seems that Pikmin just really hates dolphin, because Wind Waker runs fine with no issues so who even knows at this point
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Faerie Fortune posted:Yeah, I'm using the binary file dumps but I also discovered that I was using a two year old build of Dolphin which might have had a lot to do with why I was having problems Dolphin just seems to randomly hate games. I had to do two hours of tinkering to make Crystal Chronicles even work without crashing every five minutes. Some games refuse to work outright. But I have to say I've not noticed Pikmin screaming at me, so either my settings are different, or it has something to do with recording, or maybe it just has completely arbitrary issues for each person.
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MarquiseMindfang posted:Can you not throw red pikmin up the cliff near where the first lot of bomb rocks are? That would be easier than the bridge. Yes you can and that's what you're supposed to do if you want these fights to go fast at all. Most fights go significantly faster when you use an army of reds instead of anything else in this game. VVV You can just throw reds up the cliff that was mentioned in the post I quoted and bypass the bridge entirely. They won't be in range of any of the snagrets there so you just walk around and fetch them. Internet Kraken fucked around with this message at 16:59 on Aug 29, 2015 |
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Internet Kraken posted:Yes you can and that's what you're supposed to do if you want these fights to go fast at all. Most fights go significantly faster when you use an army of reds instead of anything else in this game. The exception being the Beady Long Legs where yellows had their only useful moment. Unfortunately, for the Snagret, the casualties from the deathwater would exceed the benefits from more damage significantly.
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Hey Fae, I got a question for ya. If you could get one kind of Pikmin to keep as a pet, which one would it be? Red, yellow, or blue?
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Faerie Fortune posted:Guys, lets not talk about Pikmin 2 just yet! Sorry, maybe I just phrased it poorly? It would be a spoiler for this game, if at all. Pikmin 1 has the [redacted] blues mechanic. I actually thought that maybe gnome was withholding it for tactical reasons or something. E: Didn't even see that. I'm not just bad at posting, but reading comprehension as well, apparently.  VVVVVV Shady Amish Terror fucked around with this message at 21:42 on Aug 29, 2015 |
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Shady Amish Terror posted:Sorry, maybe I just phrased it poorly? It would be a spoiler for this game, if at all. Pikmin 1 has the [redacted] blues mechanic. I actually thought that maybe gnome was withholding it for tactical reasons or something. pssst That comment was about the people blabbering about pikmin 2 enemies and combat, not that particular ability of blue pikmin.
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The reason Pikmin's audio sucked in Dolphin was was because it uses a very old version of the so-dubbed Zelda ucode. Read about it here. It should be near-perfect as of two weeks ago. The reason Pikmin crashes a lot is because the way Dolphin emulates the communication between the Gamecube's CPU and GPU, by running them in two threads nearly-independently of each other without a lot of actual timing synchronization. Some games expect events to happen in very specific time frames, since that's what happens on real hardware, which can obviously break in emulation. You can make this fully stable by disabling Dual Core, which obviously requires a faster host CPU, or you can enable GPU syncing, which I believe Fae already did after a suggestion earlier in the thread.
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Guys, I have the best girlfriend, but most importantly I also have the best amiibo  
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I just realised that his amiibo is actually larger than the actual Olimar and Pikmin are in game.
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I think I remember only doing so well at this game my first try because I also got a tiny little instruction booklet and had a Nintendo Power subscription so I had guides to follow. That said, I also tended to just solve things by dragging things over to where reds could get at it and then spammed reds until it died. That said, this is kind of an adorable playthrough because it reminds me of the days when I'd play a game at a friend's house and they knew everything and kinda guided you through it as best they could but weren't really sure of everything themselves, and thus every once in a while their advice would result in something terrible happening and you'd just glare at them before sharing a laugh. What I'm saying is Fae keep doing your thing and Gnome keep doing your thing because this is just so natural and chill and a neat change of pace.
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Faerie Fortune posted:Guys, I have the best girlfriend, but most importantly I also have the best amiibo You're wrong because the best Amiibo is Yarn Yoshi.  But Olimar is adorable and your girlfriend seems pretty great.
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Aithon posted:I just realised that his amiibo is actually larger than the actual Olimar and Pikmin are in game. How long until we get a Pikmin game where you collect amiibo? You scan them in, the amiibo is put somewhere in the world, and then you get a bonus for collecting it.
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Pyroi posted:you get a bonus for collecting it. The bonus should be a few special pikmin that are just the amiibo character with a leaf sticking out of their head, that have boosted stats. Scan in enough Amiibo, and you can roll around with the entire cast of Brawl beating up wollywogs!
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