If you wanna see Mario and litterally everyone in the Mario universe pissed off, the Mario Strikers Charged cutscenes are your tickets. Every single one of them is a chefs kiss of cinema, they are all characterised so well. And peach and Daisy are bad b's.
Ooh! Glad you brought that game up because, funnily enough, that was one of the first Mario games I ever played (my cousins had a gamecube, so I played a lot of Super Mario Strikers and Smash Bros Melee whenever I visited)
That game has the BEST interpretation of Princess Daisy imo; her sassy butt sizzle, the way she falls backwards and punches the air when she scores, the terror she strikes into her teammates whenever she glares at them...
But Peach was also yelling at her teammates! And DK! Bowser was throwing tantrums and setting his teammates on fire. Petey Piranha straight up eats one of his fellow players out of rage. Wario tries to explode himself. Everyone is way too into it.
It's fantastic.
There's also the rare appearance of Firebrand and Thunderhand
And perhaps the most BANGER Luigi theme ever written
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Always lowkey simmering a Leverage AU in the back of my head hear me out:
Ted is an ex-insurance investigator who was able to get his son life-saving medical treatment because his first, original Crime Pal Beard was like ‘Ted if your company doesn’t come through with the coverage, we’re doing things my way.’
The company did not come through. The company did let him go due to suspicion of Ted’s involvement in the incident, but Ted will happily remind folks that no charges were formally pressed. Henry is alive and healthy and living with Michelle, who divorced Ted shortly thereafter (not just because of pre-existing marital problems, but because Ted wouldn’t tell her anything about why the doctors “””suddenly decided to do the procedure for free”””). Shortly thereafter, Ted fled the country.
What Ted learned from the whole experience is that there’s a lot of people out there, good people just trying to live by the rules, but sometimes things happen that are just out of their control. And well- if we’ve got the means to help the good people out when no one else will, then shouldn’t we try?
“We’ve got means,” Beard agrees. “And motives.”
They do things Beard’s way now.
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1990s Punk Rock Playlist
Gonna be doing a bunch of hopping around over the coming weeks with these playlist posts, and this week I've got a small update to this 90s punk one with a song by Boston hardcore punk band Blood for Blood, who in 1999 delivered a great cover of pioneering Cleveland punks The Dead Boys' 1977 song, "All This and More." Usually I tend to not really go for much in the way of 90s hardcore punk, and thankfully, this is not a hardcore punk song itself. I'd also normally find the aggressive, angst-ridden, throaty, gravelly, and scratchy type of voice that Erick "Buddha" Medina has to be personally grating, but here, on this very track, his voice over these re-created, classic, and catchy riffs just seems to work really well. "All This and More" originally appeared on a covers compilation called Punk Rock Jukebox, Volume II, and the song currently has around 193.1K plays.
Blood for Blood - "All This and More"
Added this song to the YouTube version of this playlist too. Don't have anything else to add to that one this week, but if you want some harder-to-find 90s punk rock gems, like a fun and early blink-182 song called "Zulu" that's still not on Spotify for some reason, you should check it out!
And this playlist is also on YouTube Music.
So this update now brings us up to 48 songs that clock in at 126 minutes, but over on YouTube, we're now at 56 songs that clock in at 147 minutes.
And if that all sounds too long to you, consider checking out this playlist of punk rock exclusively from the year of 1996:
1996 Punk Rock: Spotify / YouTube / YouTube Music
Next week, some 60s soul!
Enjoy!
More to come, eventually. Stay tuned!
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