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IntelliHeath

IntelliHeath

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20 percent of the thread on the wall, 20 percent of the thread

Seriously, I wonder how long this one is gonna last. It went live less than two days ago, no?

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Here's something fun. Try to come up with alternative ladder things, since ladder attack seems so weird to some of us.

Zelda 1 had a ladder item, and I always thought one of Links pulling out a ladder out of hammerspace for recovery would be hilarious.

That's why I actually thought we would get more stages with the ladders like Rumble Fall.
 

Skittzo

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*adds poll to thread*

Is Niles or Frasier the stronger character?
Niles ███ 32%
Frasier ██ 14%
Eddie █████ 54%

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I approve of those results.
 

RailWays

One Winged Slayer
Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
15,674
Would there be a chance that it wasn't specifically the 50-year old guy, but one of his co-workers who took the Snapchat video?
 

NotLiquid

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Oct 25, 2017
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I can buy a 50-year old using Snapchat just fine. If you want to start bringing age into the conversation, the more bewildering part would've been a 50-year old with likely decades of working experience (who would've been in his 30s when the original Smash released) posting a leak under the pretense of "fuck Nintendo" and has friends who post on 4chan.

Having said that, I don't feel comfortable talking about a person I don't even know and who may have had their identity stolen. It feels weird.
 

louisacommie

Member
Oct 25, 2017
17,571
New Jersey
Ganondorf is basically new and young link is back though
Toon link in a diffrent artstyle

And 3 attacks cloned from ike

So he uses a sword for 3 attacks despite the fact oot ganond9rf never used a sword and uses magic

3 attacks

And young link in a diffrent artstyle

Nothing in smash 4

Nothing in smash 4 dlc
No new unique character in brawl

3 unique characters after 5 games plus dlc


Fire emblem has 4 unique characters

Plus 3 clones
 

PadWarrior

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Oct 25, 2017
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....

I mean maybe? Assuming the guy really did make the art on his own.



I don't know want to say his name for fear of doxxing, but he's the guy whose name was leaked on snapchat as the originator of this new Smash leak.

There was a name on the picture but it was horribly censored so people were able to find his Linkedin and his connection to printing companies. That's why people thought this was legit to begin with.

Ah thanks!
 

Jonneh

Good Vibes Gaming
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Oct 24, 2017
4,538
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I have to be truthful guys I might be in trouble

I know the leak is fake I saw footage of inceneroar and that mystery character


Me and jonneh were arguing in Twitter dms about what the best zelda games are, hes a massive twilight princess defender, and he wanted to show he was the coolest so he showed me a video of inceneroar, pichu and that mystery character
Fighting on fountain of dreams

He has this video from the mod leak chat

Now the mystery character i will tell you, but the Nintendo ninjas might kill me for this
And shut down resetera as a whole
But in the video jonneh showed me the 3rd character was goku

He is number 69 ( They will show him first and then inceneroar 2nd) so incenrour is70
Twilight Princess barely makes the Top 10, come on now!
 

Maple

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Oct 27, 2017
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How often is a 50 year old going toknow what Snapchat is and how to use it? My mom can barely use a computer.


The use of Snapchat isn't the issue here. Snapchat has hundreds of millions of users of all ages.

The inconsistency to me here is a guy in his 50s creating an elaborate and highly detailed Smash leak. Most of these leaks seem to come from the 4chan troll types that are under 30. You would think someone in their 50s would outgrow that type of thing, and would have a wife and maybe kids that they would rather spend time with rather than working even more on top of their normal job to create some intricate leak. Or, you believe that this guy really had nothing to do with the leak, but someone that works with him and/or a friend made the leak and then framed this guy in the process.

If it's fake, none of this makes any sense.
 

ShinobiBk

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I think if you're involved with graphic design, you should certainly be tech savvy.
The post just seemed very immature to me.
The way the name was "hidden" was done so shitty that I feel like it was done on purpose to not completely hide it. Any idiot knows how to edit an image to hide something on their phone
 

Weiss

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The use of Snapchat isn't the issue here. Snapchat has hundreds of millions of users of all ages.

The inconsistency to me here is a guy in his 50s creating an elaborate and highly detailed Smash leak. Most of these leaks seem to come from the 4chan troll types that are under 30. You would think someone in their 50s would outgrow that type of thing, and would have a wife and maybe kids that they would rather spend time with rather than working even more on top of their normal job to create some intricate leak. Or, you believe that this guy really had nothing to do with the leak, but someone that works with him and/or a friend made the leak and then framed this guy in the process.

If it's fake, none of this makes any sense.

Basically. Like I know there are no depths the Smash fandom won't plumb, but I figured impersonating a real guy and putting his job at stake was maybe still not a line to be crossed.
 

L Thammy

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I can buy a 50-year old using Snapchat just fine. If you want to start bringing age into the conversation, the more bewildering part would've been a 50-year old with likely decades of working experience (who would've been in his 30s when the original Smash released) posting a leak under the pretense of "fuck Nintendo" and has friends who post on 4chan.

Having said that, I don't feel comfortable talking about a person I don't even know and who may have had their identity stolen. It feels weird.

I can think of a guy who is 72 years old and probably knows people that post on /pol/.
 

Metto

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The question of if there was a group of people who made the Snapchat still doesn't add to the conclusion of real or fake.

Cause then the question becomes "did a group of idiots try to do an elaborate plan to try to leak Smash related merchandise and have many involved to cover the trail" or did a group of idiots make an elaborate plan to put out a fake leak on top of all the additional work and research and using company printers and software to make seemingly to fool the internet and after all of that still not have someone censor the name properly"
 

Gilbals

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Oct 25, 2017
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I'm still teamreal, but a part of me hopes it's all fake, we get the fire cat and Steve so I don't have to find a way to come up with 400 big ones for a switch.
 

ShinobiBk

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Would there be a chance that it wasn't specifically the 50-year old guy, but one of his co-workers who took the Snapchat video?

That is my theory. A little tinfoil hatty I guess but something about the name being hidden shittily seems very off

It's possible, but the snapchat story had to be sent from the 50-year old guy's account.

False, you can change your display name on Snapchat at any time (your display name is not the same as your username) and you can also view your own stories and screenshot them too
 

BassForever

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Trump is older then this guy and posts like a 16 year old on twitter, why can't a 50 year old act like a 4chan memer?
 

Ex-Psych

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Oct 25, 2017
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So what's the overall consensus about the leak right now?

Leaning towards real, fake or stalemate?
 

Apopheniac

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Oct 25, 2017
11,660
broke: Mach Rider as Echo of Captain Falcon
woke: Mach Rider as Echo of Ganondorf
bespoke: Mach Rider as Echo of Foreman Spike
 

Weiss

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Oct 25, 2017
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That is my theory. A little tinfoil hatty I guess but something about the name being hidden shittily seems very off



False, you can change your display name on Snapchat at any time (your display name is not the same as your username) and you can also view your own stories and screenshot them too

Ah, my bad.

So it was either sent to a friend (I think that was the original thing said) or someone who works at the company is impersonating this guy.

Oh, so people did trace it back to his Snapchat account?

They also found two LinkedIn profiles for him that matched up to the story.
 

louisacommie

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Oct 25, 2017
17,571
New Jersey
Twilight Princess barely makes the Top 10, come on now!
Hmmm

Majoras mask
Botw
Oot
Link to the past
Link between worlds
Wind waker
Minish cap
Links awakening
Oracle games
Skyward sword
Spirit tracks
Twilight princess




I don't know how it makes it into your top 10?


Well probably ranking it over skyward sword Spirit tracks and the gameboy games
 

Skittzo

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Oct 25, 2017
41,037
It's possible, but the snapchat story had to be sent from the 50-year old guy's account.

Not necessarily. The only thing we know is that the Snapchat account used to take this video had this guy's name as the user name. I can make a Snapchat account right now called "Masahiro Sakurai" and take a video of my dog pooping but that doesn't mean Sakurai's real account was used.

And now that I'm thinking about it, it's entirely possible that the whole Snapchat thing was also faked, and they just took a normal photo and slapped on a few Snapchat-style emojis and text along with a name on the top left. I personally doubt this is the case but it's possible.

Either way we don't know for sure if the guy whose name appears took the Snapchat. Or if it was even his phone. All we know is his name was used as the user name for the Snapchat account.
 

Jahranimo

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Oct 25, 2017
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I still think Banjo is in. Something in the air man.
It would fit the WTF Cloud type choice haha.

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I do think it's still fake though. Even though I've posted about both sides back and forth I do truly think it's an elaborate ruse. While all these characters DO make sense, the way the insiders have been going about this is a big red flag. Incineroar being one of the more prominent rumored fighters but not being in the mural is something else to think about.

The sprout is probably a coincidence and the other poster's idea of it being a beanstalk ladder to perform those ladder attacks is a good point of speculation so Isaac is still up in the air.

And frankly believing it as fake isn't really a losing situation because if it does turn out real then most people will be hype.
 

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Dec 21, 2017
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So what's the overall consensus about the leak right now?

Leaning towards real, fake or stalemate?
I think it's definitely a real leak. The source of it is too convincing for me to think otherwise. If someone went this far too fake it, then props to them.
 
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