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Calm down, Santa.

>>140178
Not vidya.
>B-B-BUT TH-
Doesn't count.

>>140181
He looks like he allegedly molests robot women

>>140181
He looks like a round 1 jobber

>>140182
But AM and Geralt aren't in the OP, anon

Poor Curly Brace. She got
>her panties stolen by Heisenberg
>molested by a fat Italian man
>to find out her husband might have cheated using discord
She has to easily be the Queen that suffered the most. Recette doesn't count because she enjoys being KEKed.

>>140188
Why must such a beautiful queen suffer?

>>140188
Don't be ridiculous. Why would Wario ever molest somebody? He's an upstanding guy. Sure, a bit rough around the edges, but the people that get to know him really like him.

>>140190
Tbf he did just say it was a fat Italian man and from the last thread, it might have been Mario.

>>140192
Peppino does look a lot like Wario and is fast enough to molest someone and get away with it.

>>140193
Nah, Peppino would just assault, not molest.

>>140194
An molestation is a kind of assault

Maruki save us from all these rapists and molesters

>>140197
How do you rape a building?

>>140199
>he doesn't know
Consider yourself lucky.

>>140199
Poor, poor anon....

>>140155
nobody wants to fuck or even rape Eggman, he's bald, fat, probably stinks, oddly shaped, insane, eats too much, probably has 0 ass, supports Jews, is a feminist, is a womaniser, doesn't know the definition of a race, and has never had sex

>>140206
Eggman has a lot of women lusting over him and he showers regularly unlike other fat bastards

>>140206
Stop slandering eggman he's the greatest guy ever

>>140206
Sonic calm the fuck down

>>140219
Falco...

>>140219
Alright, you've convinced me. Falco is going to be my main in King of /v/ this year. There will be three times as much cum as the Black Cats spawned forth!

>>140213
Sonic is right

>>140227
Tails...

>>140229
You

>>140229
Here you go
>>88756
>>140024

>>140231
So, she doesn't count then. You should be grateful your character can not only qualify, but consistently do it every time the tournament happens.

>>140233
You see this is why Battler will win one day and this post shall be a reminder of that.

>>140235
Battler still isn't one of the characters listed, retarded discord schizosister...

>>140219
That's not how you play with legos falco

If Ky kiske ever qualified for a tournament he wouldn't be able to beat the allegations against him

>>140254
He's not videogames

>>140199
With a penis

>>140266
Columbo will never make it because columboposting is too strong

>>140266
>non-vidya character
Exactly, fuck off trying to have more shit like this in the /v/ tournaments

>>140292
Nah, AM and Geralt is based. We need to have Columbo too.

AM and Geralt are terrible.

>>140303
On opposite day

>>140292
actual /v/ would willingly vote Chad Warden into the Elite 8 before your favorite vidya picks and honestly I feel that might need to happen at this point. Some of insanely dedicated people ITT really need to be taken down a peg

>>140307
Chad Warden would easily become king.

>>140307
Who needs to be taken down a peg?

>>140307
Chad Warden? Mogs the AVGN!

>>140305
but only on planet retard

>>140317
Which is our planet.

>>140308
..of off-topic shit.
>B-bu-
Battler, talk about him. RIGHT. FUCKING. NOW.

>>140324
I want Battler to be King so somebody else could take his place for King of /v/

>>140324
Battler and schizos are equally overrated as shit. Even the original 47fag gave up already. Why can't you fags give up on Battler?

>>140327
The only way for this to end is either he never qualifies again or he wins no in-between

Tony Hawkbros...
Caca and Weewiz

>>140329
It's not Tony hawk smelling like peepee and poopoo

>>140329
Vince's pick!

Tony Hawk was a better pick than the Nerd just because of that one picture that kept getting posted. It was funny.

>>140337
He will tax evade as way of celebrating

>>140337
We should have Tacos in his honor

>>140328
He already won King of the losers, and he'll be the ONLY King of the losers we'll ever have considering just how universally loathed the loser's bracket was. That might be the highest honor he gets.

>>140307
I would vote for Chad Warden without hesitation even if /tnt/ ended up throwing a bitchfit about it.

>>140339
Tacos are sorta gross, so gimme a sandwich instead.

>>140343
Sony is an even bigger joke now then it was during the PS3 era, Chad Warden being explicitly pro-playstation would absolutely fuck him over

>>140350
>Gabe Newell would probably outright win, top 4 material at worst
Maybe in Valve's prime in like 2008-2012, modern Gaben doesn't do anything other than make Dota spin-offs nobody (not even Dotards) asked for, try to ride the e-sports slop bandwagon, refuse to acknowledge any of Valve's pre-2010s IPs besides Counter-Strike, and generally just sits on his ass collecting the endless supply of money from Steam revenue instead of making Valve the leading games innovator like he used to

>>140350
Hideo Kojima sweep

>>140351
I still think Gabe himself is really liked, but I do think Valve's own reception nowadays would keep him from outright winning. Prime Gaben would have easily had the best chance of winning out of any developer.

Gabe Newell entrance WWE HD

>>140361
That's not a game developer, anon

>>140350
What about Scott Cawthon?

>>140368
He's too based and would cause too much seethe

>>140369
His supporters would also be like the actual FNAF character supporters. Chill fans who'll take their loss well. The question here is, which developer will have the worst fanbase?

>>140374
Absolutely Toby Fox, it'd just be a general mix of Undertale/Deltatroon worship, seething, coping, autism etc. I can imagine Itoi, the earthbound developer might have a lot of autism attached too. Todd Howard would just be Battler, whether you love or hate that is up to taste. Kojima, Kamiya and Suda51 no doubt would have some annoying elitism attached to them.

>>140362
a pencil is used at the start of development to sketch up what you wish to make, The Pencil is a developer

>>140379
>Andrew still hasn't recovered from this

>>140379
KEK

>>140309
I could perfectly understand whom he meant.

>>140386
Who is it anon I don't get it

>>140388
Obviously it's ___(you)___

>>140361
>Fight Gabe won

>>140374
>which developer will have the worst fanbase?
Itagaki and maybe Yoshi-P

>>140389
How could he say this about (me), that asshole

The coin shop I went to today had 1 ounce silver coins for both Yugioh and for Sonic the Hedgehog, it was hard not to laugh my head off at that coincedence

>>140423
Literally who

>>140426
Why do you have a link to a gay furry sex comic

This is getting gayer

>>140443
I heard there's this new arwing pilot called Kevin Nash who is open to the task

>>140442
It's king /v/, you think all of the rape was just joking? Nah, anons want the fantasy of fucking a dude without being called faggots for it, because it can be "Ironic".

>>140451
We need more female rape.

>>140453
So Mari needs to rape more men?

>>140441
MY HERO

>>140455
Not just Mari, the other women too.

You know that all this posting about star fox is gonna amount to nothing since nobody cares about that series anymore.

>>140460
Didn't minty rape someone recently?

>>140465
the G3 pony?

>>140468
No from paraphore

>>140470
King of /tnt/ly....

>>140470
post the gay porn

>>140473
Fagly

Anyone else feel that Luigi is a little lame? He's always either dumb, a slob, a wimp, or a combination of the three.

>>140478
Just realized I don't remember if we added this asshole to the merchants back in the day

>>140479
Don't talk shit about Luigi's Mansion 1, that game is kino
The other stuff yeah he's just Mario if his balls didn't drop

>>140488
Da roach?

>>140494
He let himself go

>>140465
No, she's in a loving and faithful relationship with Dr. Doom.

>>140499
I remember she raped Alex during one of the tournaments and everyone was extremely disgusted.

>>140504
Yeah it's pretty bad if you do something that gets even Alex some Sympathy

>>140219
I haven't been here for a few days and was just skimming the threads, so my eyes got blessed with this with little context.

>>140798
>Xbox
There's no videogames in that image, get that netflix box outta here

>>140818
>Playstation
Still no videogames

>>140814
Welp with an OP like that there's no room to complain.

Kevin Nash? Will always be /v/ideo games

>>140849
Harlan Ellison hated video games and only licensed no mouth to make gamers upset so of course AM is going to be forced onto /v/

>>140989
No. Fricking. Way. This is epic!

>>140989
Wow he's just like me I never played earthbound either

>>143038
Kek

>>143038
I don't recall a real celeb ever being haunted so much by one meme, it never ends. Just like how that summer seemed to....

>recall
Uh videogames?

>>145492
Wouldn't it be funny if Queen was the chaotic goofy hellstorm and King was very comfy

>>145492
video games get recalled

>>145507
That's the good ending

>>145507
The only way I can see Queen turning into a chaotic goofstorm is if a 2hu did well enough to get to the finals again, but at the same time you'd also need the thread to somehow meld with the /v/hu thread to reach max potential. I think it's unlikely.
There's a larger chance of Queen turning into Ms. /co/ than it becoming like King.

>>145516
>There's a larger chance of Queen turning into Ms. /co/ than it becoming like King
I have a hard time seeing that. Samus, Midna, and Curly are all really well received. Reimu is somewhat controversial for being part of Touhou, but a lot of people consider her a compromise, sometihng as big as 2hu on 4chan will win sooner rather than later. Even Recette, the oddball pick might turn around seeing as how little people care about the one pedofag now.

>>145520
I think that anon is talking about Queen potentially becoming drowned in controversy over waifu wars, not how the existing champion line-up is perceived as of now and in the foreseeable future.

>>145520
The pedofag was never the real problem with Recette.

Recette is explicitly overhated for no reason

>>145524
Except being the ultimate giga meta campooner pick inadvertently responsible for King /v/'s schizo alliance arguments.

>>145524
Recette only started getting shat on sometime mid-2023 when /tnt/ suddenly decided all winnes have to be "iconic" and not just fun.
>>145523
Without aerd people probably wouldn't be as eager to speak out against Recette in the first place.

>>145526
aerd just helped highlight the issue of letting one or a few campaigners dictate the vote instead of mainly the character themselves.

>>145525
Recette can, at best, be blamed for inadvertently leading to Batter winning that same year. A lot of people fail to grasp the other two subsequent King champions didn't even win because of the schizo alliance (one was FOTM, the other was rigged by a Discord server of fanatics).

>>145527
People wouldn't vote for Recette if they didn't like her at all

>>145528
Batter winning is why the alliance is even mentioned at all still.
>rigged by a Discord server of fanatics
Still don't buy that this was enough to give Grimm the win or had any real effect. Besides those people were already posting on /v/.

>>145527
Desu, at least aerd wasn’t namefagging by that point yet. A lot, if not most people, simply voted for Recette out of enjoyment of what her presence in the tournament consisted of, and not for the sake of fulfilling some symbolic quota about thread presence or making her campaigner happy. A majority probably did it because they were already familiar with her game and name (or at least that was my case).

>>145529
She wouldn't have come close to winning if it weren't for the drawfagging though, and likely would've lost to Jill R1. She's definitive lowcard rep.

>>145530
>Still don't buy that this was enough to give Grimm the win or had any real effect.
Just take a look at the sudden jump in votes vs. Eggman and his winning percentage. Same analysis people applied to Spinel at the time.
>Besides those people were already posting on /v/.
Nope, there were non-4chan posters in that server being directed to vote too.

>>145531
>enjoyment of what her presence in the tournament consisted of
Would basically be the same thing. A character's presence valued over silent or less tourney involved picks despite a major difference in inherent popularity.

Remember that guy that was obsessed with AM earlier this year and constantly argued about AM being a shoo-in winner and anyone else being hopeless? Wonder what happened to that.

>>145532
Extremely controversial opinion coming through: there's nothing wrong with drawing lesser known characters to get more attention on them.

>>145536
One of the anons upset with AM is the Luigi and Mr. Incredible fag. That said he probably wasn't the one talking about AM being guaranteed to win. There's more than one guy that has issues with AM.

>>145536
That was just some guy boogeymanning.

>>145533
King 2019 had a suspicious vote spike in the end too but people very rarely remember that and even rarer try to speculate on the implications.

>>145537
Yeah but when they basically win the whole thing on it it's another matter.

>>145538
why hasn't that faggot been banned yet? it's not just a problem here, he's been shitting up the /co/ hype threads too

>>145542
If I'd have anyone banned I think it'd be the fag that goes on about campooners and about Judyfag. I'm not usually in favor of banning but I think that guy is responsible for a good chunk of low-effort funposts on /tnt/ lately and seems to mostly come here to stir shit up.

>>145545
Although few, there some posters here collectively responsible for a lot of nuisance and shit stirring. You could probably get rid of them and I bet 90% of low quality posting would disappear.

>>145541
It's a fair tactic. Natural popularity isn't everything. Some characters people can recognize immediately because of brand recognition like Jill, but it doesn't mean people actually love that character enough to win. And some deserving characters people might forget about because they're not pushed as much so they need the attention shined on them like Recette.

>>145547
Recette was not "deserving." Her fame stems from being a brief 2000's meme and her game is only really known well to a cult following.

>>145549
Like batter who was explicitly carried by drawfags?

>>145549
She was deserving because her game is cute and she had a memorable underdog story.

>>145551
Don't say underdog anon you'll get people angry with that word.

>cult
Holy shit stop referring to every single fanbase you personally can't be bear to acknowledge by that word.

>>145553
Anon they were using cult following in the correct way.

>>145550
Yes.
>>145551
Flimsy and meta.
>>145553
It's a good word to describe small but dedicated followings.

>>145554
Yes just read that again, my bad.

>>145555
>Flimsy and meta
I think it's as good a reason as any.

>>145532
It's really hard to go into the hypothetical specifics of what a *pure* popularity variation of our tournaments would have been like, that is, one without taking any campaigning or thread activity into account. I don't disagree with Recette being a low card, but in a similar vein to what you are saying, a lot of anons last year commented Eggman wouldn't have reached E8 had it not been for Hexanon's campaigning since the beginning. Now, does that make him less of high card?
Do you think Amaterasu could have made finals without her main drawfag? What about the winner of Qo/v/ Curly herself, or the rest of the E8? Bayonetta certainly wouldn’t have gotten so far without NSA supporting her. Malon barely got any attention before last year, but the mere effort of a single anon posting about her managed to make her rank 5th place. The list goes on.
There are actually a lot of characters, arguably very iconic ones, which at some point reached high positions because they had people backing them up, but no longer do so simply due to lack of momentum and fiery support *cough cough* TIFA *cough cough*.
I think the inherent format of the tournaments makes it so the manifestation of this dynamic inevitable, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

>>145558
I think drawfags and writefags are the lifeblood of most tournaments and you can't really have these tournaments without campooning.

>>145558
This could be countered by just looking at seeding, or other factors like just plain board presence and mention count. It's true some definitively high card picks could lose out in later years due to lack of support but that speaks more to the meta evaluations about "silent" and "powerhouse" picks and such. Recette was the first great exception and came in qualifying for the first time and at still the lowest seed a winner has had ever.

>>145559
Importance of OC for engagement is never really argued, just how much that should actually effect the vote or if that's really the main point of the tourney.

>>145562
I think it should matter somewhat when it comes to voting

>>145560
>but that speaks meta evaluations about "silent" and "powerhouse" picks and such
It's not about evaluation. Anons don't pull up a list of qualities and meta factors they have to checkmark everytime they want to vote for someone. When a character has nobody backing them up, or alternatively, simply isn't recipient to OC people find fun, they go unnoticed. People don't look at campaigning and OC simply for the sake of it, but because it's an engaging experience.

>>145560
Amaterasu was a very low seed last year too and made finals.

>>145565
In fairness, that felt like a fluke. She's seeded higher in the past and had proven results behind her as well. Recette was truly an one-hit wonder and managed to nab the win during her golden run.

I'm still alright with Recette was a winner, but I will say that she's remained controversial with four other winners in her tournament that are all generally agreed upon to be worthwhile queens. Compare that to the Batter, who had his reception drop in relation to the next two kings. He still ranks better overall too from what I've seen lately. Recette's scenario is akin to what it would be like if one of the Mr. /co/ winners had serious criticism behind them. The worst criticism I've generally seen there is Tom being too unremarkable or quiet.

>>145564
>It's not about evaluation.
It certainly is to a degree, as you see vocal attitudes change from early to later years about this stuff. The character being an "engaging experience" is a thing that becomes more important the more years past and there are recurring voters and "powerhouses."
This debate wouldn't change the issue with meta values anyways, since valuing and voting on an "engaging experience" out of the character is still an inner-tourney meta thing.

>>145567
Batter has basically the same problem and does warrant criticism from it. But at least Batter seemed like a large effort accompanied by all his alliance autism, whereas Recette seemed like a smaller and "underdog" in nature push, aerd being the crucial figure.

>>145569
>whereas Recette seemed like a smaller and "underdog" in nature push, aerd being the crucial figure.
And yet at the time people didn't see her as an underdog.

>>145570
Do not latch on the exact words. I'm just describing a sense of things and retroactive perception.

>>145572
But that's my point, that wasn't even the perception around her when she won.

>>145573
Neither was she or Batter getting shit for anything really. We're not talking in the moment.

>>145573
The past perception doesn't matter only the current

>>145569
Oh yeah, I think there's been a collective regret between the two. Just saying that Recette has an easy out to be given the pass and still gets criticism, while there's actual lingering effects that can be criticized towards the Batter.

While we're on the subject, I also want to point out that the Batter felt like he had almost every card fall right on his bracket. While Recette also got real lucky, she at least took out a few big hitters on her way to the finals. Her close win against Jill is what really propelled her after all. I would argue every Batter opponent prior to Eggman had at least one serious flaw to exploit aside from maybe Isaac, but pretty sure his campaigning didn't really start until the following tournament. Eggman had a truly challenging bracket on the other hand, which really shows just how much the Batter was carried by the alliance arc and his high attention match against Spamton. Still an impressive effort to become the tournament's effective protagonist, but he's easily one of the luckiest winners in a major tournament to date.

>>145575
It does at least when we are discussing the primary motivation behind a character's performance.

>>145576
>actual lingering effects that can be criticized towards the Batter.
I mean, like was said it's arguable Recette winning was responsibly for that. She at least set a standard that year for king /v/. Or to go back farther and more subtly that it's Tom's or Grievous's fault. But really it's probably mostly just how tourneys develop.

>>145577
No it doesn't

>>145567
Nah Grievous is criticized more now with him being both a campooner pick and a /tv/ pick.

>>145578
Tom was never an underdog and doesn't belong in this discussion.

>>145583
The motivation of the people that actually voted for Recette matters more than /tnt/ revising history after Midna won and then just decided that Queen should only have the most iconic GameFAQs winners.

>>145588
He was to Daffy. It wasn't a big underdog story but there was little about it there.

>>145586
I thought most of the shit that Grievous gets nowadays as a winner is due to being campaigned for by NSA
That's not me dogging on Grievous by the way, still think he's real cool even if I was personally Team Hank

>>145586
tbh I think the main reason he hasn't gotten much more shit over the years is the Mr. /co/ crowd is just the chillest and least autistically attached to characters and results.

>>145592
It's kind of weird to think Tom from Tom and Jerry is an underdog in a comics and cartoons tournament.

>>145595
I mean, Donkey Kong has never made it past Round 3, in spite of being both a timeless classic and having huge meme power, so it's not like being a classic has any more power on /v/

>>145597
/v/ is more interested in new games than old ones, whereas /co/ is heavily nostalgic for older cartoons.

>>145601
Anon 4 of the 5 kings are from old games

>>145602
Armstrong is only a decade old, Jack was so obviously voted for because of his FoTM status thanks to Stranger of Paradise that counting him as an old character because of FF is cheating, Batter is also only a decade old and Grimm isn’t even a decade old, the only old character that won so far is Dante.

Well this thread really lit on fire out of nowhere, what got /tnt/ so excited about video games?