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GWIZ 🌙✨ @gwizofthestars.com · 3h

Got my launch night win!! 🏁
It's def not iRacing, but NASCAR 25 is a very fun arcade racing game. Imo its probably the best console stock car racing game since the EA days.

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GWIZ 🌙✨ @gwizofthestars.com · 5h

It is -launch night- of NASCAR 25 and we already got generational beef

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 7h

As someone who does not get stoned, I am grateful to this poster and the F1 feed for bringing this video to my attention.

GWIZ 🌙✨ @gwizofthestars.com · 7h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR6S...

V10 F1 Guitar Monza 2004. Barrichello Pole Lap Record

YouTube video by Mario Torrado

www.youtube.com

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GWIZ 🌙✨ @gwizofthestars.com · 7h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR6S...

V10 F1 Guitar Monza 2004. Barrichello Pole Lap Record

YouTube video by Mario Torrado

www.youtube.com

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GWIZ 🌙✨ @gwizofthestars.com · 8h

goth gf is in effect 🖤

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GWIZ 🌙✨ @gwizofthestars.com · 11h

but is also kind of just an extension of my LA glam rock phase

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GWIZ 🌙✨ @gwizofthestars.com · 11h

been slowly entering my heel turn/goth era for the last year or so 🖤

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GWIZ 🌙✨ @gwizofthestars.com · 13h

i don’t know who blondie over here thinks she is but GIVE HIM BACK 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

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GWIZ 🌙✨ @gwizofthestars.com · 14h

in the LA fashion district and found a crusty used duck hunt shirt likely bought at a gamestop for $88 no big deal

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GWIZ 🌙✨ @gwizofthestars.com · 17h

When I explain to people that the culture of Community Management/fan interactions with staff in video games has changed drastically in the last 10 years (particularly around the beginning of the pandemic), its this kind of bs im talking about

Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 22h

As well as this, I feel quite strongly that the increased prominence in recent years of social media influencers who engage in nothing but ragebait content and harassment has proverbially sucked all the air out of the room, content mills producing bullshit at speed who dominate gaming conversations.

Jennifer/Aster Unkle 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔪 @spookycutewitch.bsky.social · 23h

“Why isn’t anyone covering our indie games?”

1. The gaming press has been decimated by business suits, and the whims of an uncaring search engine behemoth
2. Doing the job means you get death threats and harassment
3. There are more games released in 1 week than there were in entire months in 2015

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 22h

As well as this, I feel quite strongly that the increased prominence in recent years of social media influencers who engage in nothing but ragebait content and harassment has proverbially sucked all the air out of the room, content mills producing bullshit at speed who dominate gaming conversations.

Jennifer/Aster Unkle 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔪 @spookycutewitch.bsky.social · 23h

“Why isn’t anyone covering our indie games?”

1. The gaming press has been decimated by business suits, and the whims of an uncaring search engine behemoth
2. Doing the job means you get death threats and harassment
3. There are more games released in 1 week than there were in entire months in 2015

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ice.cream.assassin @icassassin.bsky.social · 1d

Felt compelled

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GWIZ 🌙✨ @gwizofthestars.com · 1d

I dont think its really an either/or thing- i think they can have Pikmin for babies and still make the main series on console if that makes sense. The kids who'd grow up with Pikmin as an eraly childhood brand would probably grow up to love the main games even more.

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Giant Bomb @giantbomb.bsky.social · 1d

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GWIZ 🌙✨ @gwizofthestars.com · 1d

There's def a strong argument to be made that the Switch 2 is far from accessible for low income families and kids old enough to save money and buy their own, but for what I'm describing, preschool age kids dont buy media/games its their parents that do so.

GWIZ 🌙✨ @gwizofthestars.com · 1d

I feel you on all accounts here, but in practicality people who say they were "raised on nintendo" or "raised on nickelodeon" or "raised on disney" even usually say it fondly.

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GWIZ 🌙✨ @gwizofthestars.com · 1d

So with all that said - here's my pitch.
Following up the Mario Face game, "Pikmin Peek-a-boo!" for babies.
Nature / child-friendly scenes where babies can both touch objects to hear sounds and touch the pikmin they see for fun animations and reactions.

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Videogame Beaches 🏳️‍⚧️ @videogamebeach.bsky.social · Jul 13

Antarctica Shipwreck Beach (Fun! Fun! Pingu - Youkoso! Nankyoku e, PS1, C-Lab, 1999)

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GWIZ 🌙✨ @gwizofthestars.com · 1d

it works really well for little little kids, also those shorts are just very fun to watch. timeless even! people will likely still watch them decades from now like the nostalgic cartoons of our childhood.

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GWIZ 🌙✨ @gwizofthestars.com · 1d

pikmin removed from the pikmin games are just silly little plant guys though.
to be clear, I dont think the animation they posted is a game teaser.

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GWIZ 🌙✨ @gwizofthestars.com · 1d

People don't talk about this, but the animated shorts they made for Sonic Mania collectively have like, 100s of millions of views. IMO, one of recent SEGA's biggest accomplishments.

No spoken word - something small children can engage in. And look at that, Sonic is now more popular than ever.

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GWIZ 🌙✨ @gwizofthestars.com · 1d

The grim reality is this - there's nothing preventing a character like Skibidi Toilet or some other popular character on social media from dethroning characters like Mario from being the defacto kids characters.

Nintendo recognizes this and would be foolish not to invest in the kids.

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GWIZ 🌙✨ @gwizofthestars.com · 1d

It's easy for gamers / Gen-Z and Millennials / people who've been longtime fans of Nintendo to not understand, but when you take away the intrinsic nostalgia that's built in with Nintendo IP, you lose a lot of footing with little kids.

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GWIZ 🌙✨ @gwizofthestars.com · 1d

Between this, Princess Peach Showtime, and the way MK World's free roam was made (nothing that could make a baby frown or cry, accessible from the title screen with one parent button press) it makes me feel Nintendo is making a big investment in being accessible to a younger demographic than ever.

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GWIZ 🌙✨ @gwizofthestars.com · 1d

Pikmin being Nintendo's entry point into the early childhood market makes sense. The appeal of Pikmin (the IP, not the gameplay) is universal and can be understood by babies. They're funny little guys who run around.

This + the Mario Face game isn't a coincidence. They see Cocomelon as a threat.

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