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hes fat and so are his parents. its fat behavior.
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Ness is canonically fat (or at least chubby) at the start of the game and he doesn't turn evil
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Santa Claus is fat and jolly though. And wishes good will toward everyone.
- Anonymous
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What does that make Picky?
Do you think your mind would eventually just stop functioning after having absolutely no stimulation in here? Obviously you wouldn't ever be able to die but I feel like after a long time you'd just be reduced to a husk only considered alive by pure technicality
I'm 99% sure that's happened to people in real life but I'm not too confident about the results
I know there's a guy who appeared to be comatose but was still fully conscious and eventually powered through long enough to communicate with a nurse via blinking to let people know he was still thinking.
IIRC he was fueled by his utter fricking hatred toward the hospital tv showing reruns of Barney & Friends that he had to sit through for years- Anonymous
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>IIRC he was fueled by his utter fricking hatred toward the hospital tv showing reruns of Barney & Friends that he had to sit through for years
He also could sh*tpost on Ganker apparently
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Barney is just cursed
- Anonymous
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>IIRC he was fueled by his utter fricking hatred toward the hospital tv showing reruns of Barney & Friends that he had to sit through for years
He also could sh*tpost on Ganker apparently
Good plot for Mother 4, the main villain is named Lee
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>IIRC he was fueled by his utter fricking hatred toward the hospital tv showing reruns of Barney & Friends that he had to sit through for years
He also could sh*tpost on Ganker apparently
>Climax is literally just Mother 1 but instead of singing Maria's lullaby it's
- Anonymous
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Good question, I was thinkin the same. So instead of Pokey and his little brother Picky, is it Porky and Perky? Piggy? Must be Piggy, right? That just makes me think of the Muppets.
It looks like Jeff is flipping Ness the bird.
- Anonymous
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Porky and Picky
It's a matter of how they eat foods
Porky's like a pig so he's fat
Picky's picky so he's skinny
It's a weight joke- Anonymous
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Oh, so that's how it is.
- Anonymous
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His parents were awful and his friendship with Ness was flawed
Porky genuinely DID see Ness as his only friend (as shown in Mother 3) even though he did a poor job at showing it so when Ness' silence came across as rejection of their friendship being repaired after the Happy Happyism incident (Japanese script, the localization has Porky say sike) Porky took it personally (though I'm not sure if he was genuinely influenced by the Mani-Mani Statue or not at that point)
He also stole a helicopter and didn't actually know how to properly pilot the damn thing so he crashed in the literal darkest area in the globe but miraculously didn't die - Anonymous
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In the beginning he was just a typical spoiled brat, but by the end his mind is completely corrupted by an insane alien with out-of-control psychic powers
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It's left ambiguous if in the end, Porky or Giygas is one in control because Giygas is reduced to just being an "almighty idiot"
- Anonymous
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he has a cool theme
- Anonymous
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He arrived to the bumfrick Nowhere Islands and allowed for
>Long distance travel
>Work opportunities for all
>The improvement of efficiency and variety of goods
>Free entertainment
>Free housing for the elderly
Porky did nothing wrong- Anonymous
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He was getting a soulless empty husk to pull the needles in order to turn reality into nothing.
- Anonymous
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He was a kino villain, and Milquetoast 3 ruined him.
- Anonymous
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>kino
Acting like the Black personest Black person is not kino - Anonymous
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It was Milquetoast 3 that ruined his character.
- Anonymous
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Deep down, Ness truly believes Pokey wants to be his friend. And given that he kept Ness' yo-yo like a treasured artifact, he was probably right.
Pokey was just too much of an obnoxious little brat.
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>Pokey
It's Porky, the city is NOT named New Poke City.
- Anonymous
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Bad localization poisons people forever, Anon.
Hell, if the game came out today even knowing what we know, he'd still be called Pokey because "Pork" would be too offensive.
- Anonymous
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Anon, he's outright called Porky in Smash Bros
- Anonymous
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Bad localization poisons people forever, Anon.
Hell, if the game came out today even knowing what we know, he'd still be called Pokey because "Pork" would be too offensive.
Anon, he's outright called Porky in Smash Bros
Pokey and his Porkies, because of his pig nose. I see no problem. Don't go all Aerithhom*osexual on me, have some dignity.
- Anonymous
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it works out to differenciate him between games, like with giegue and giygas
- Anonymous
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I like to think part of his vendetta was seeing Ness "replace" him with actual friends with the rest of The Chosen Four (starting with a girl no less) and became envious and spiteful.
He wasn't chosen, he's left behind like Naru from Sailor Moon except unlike Naru he chose to take action in a negative way.
Sure he didn't WANT to be chosen anyways because of the danger but it's not like he wanted to see the closest person he had to a friend just leave him and he did seek out grandeur possibly wanting to impress his dad as well given he accompanied him to Fourside.
I don't think Ness was the "unpopular" kid but his "friendship" with Porky probably did him no favors in socializing with others
Had he not been so impatient or short-sighted or petty, he could've been a supporting friend to the Chosen Four ala Tony
We know via Magicant that even if Ness' silence meant skepticism and hesitation, he truly wishes Porky was repentant and that whatever bond they did have could be salvaged
It wasn't until he ran away from everyone in the end that made it harder and harder for him to be redeemed until he let himself age into the lonely, miserable monster he became. - Anonymous
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Didn't you want those kids that you found annoying to even watch to cease to exist as a kid?
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what game?
- Anonymous
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Earthbound
- Anonymous
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Battletoads.
- Anonymous
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Oh yeah, the previous thread asked if Porky is ever in one of those special occasion sprite art pics
Here he is in a Ferris Wheel cart in Pollyanna 2 - Anonymous
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He's fat
It's what they do - Anonymous
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He posts on Ganker
- Anonymous
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>Underage sh*tposter represents the worst of humanity
OFC
- Anonymous
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>what the frick was his problem?
He's just Eric Cartman in videogame form. He's an antithesis of what Ness is supposed to be, someone who stand alongside evil for his own material gain and personal pleasure rather than fight against it.- Anonymous
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He really is Cartmanesque in the way he constantly seems to set himself up in positions of authority be it in Happy Happy village or Monetolli's company just to gloat like an butthole. And does everything just to frick with you, because ultimately he's just that petty. I wonder if Matt or Trey ever played Earthbound. I know they said they mostly based Cartman off of Archie Bunker or something, but still. It just feels right.
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Trey Parker played it, even referred to it as Mother (he's fluent in Japanese so there's a very slim chance he could be talking about Mother 1) in a podcast
They outright cited Earthbound as a key inspiration for Stick of Truth
>We're big gamers and I think what was inspiring the game was a lot more lofty than what we could pull off. I was a big fan of it and what I kept thinking in my mind was EarthBound.
>I haven't played it [EarthBound] again in forever, but I just remember something being about 'Oh wow, I'm a little kid in a house and there's my mom and I go outside my house and am fighting like an ant and a little mouse.' It started out feeling so real. I kept having in my head 'do I really want [South Park: The Stick of Truth] to feel like that you are a little kid and you're playing this game and bigger s**t ends up happening.' But I really loved that feeling that EarthBound had of 'I'm a cute little kid in my neighborhood and we're running around playing a game.'https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2013/07/south_park_creators_cite_earthbound_as_a_major_inspiration_for_their_own_game
- Anonymous
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Considering Trey and Matt loved the Mother series and Trey is a weeb and talked about it being a big influence of South Park, Cartman is actually Pokey in Cartoon form I guess kek
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Somewhere in that video he mentions it.
- Anonymous
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Some people are sh*t and should just die.
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- Anonymous
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Do you think your mind would eventually just stop functioning after having absolutely no stimulation in here? Obviously you wouldn't ever be able to die but I feel like after a long time you'd just be reduced to a husk only considered alive by pure technicality
- Anonymous
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>eventually, porky stopped thinking
- Anonymous
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Is Mother 1 one of those NES games where you kinda need a guide or can you just go in blind with no problem.
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Wait a second, why didn't Porky just have Dr. Andonuts just put him in a robot body?
He literally did that to the chosen four in the climax of Earthbound
Hell, why didn't Andonuts put himself in a powerful robot body to liberate himself?- Anonymous
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>Hell, why didn't Andonuts put himself in a powerful robot body to liberate himself?
He couldn't stand the thought of being only 5 feet tall.
- Anonymous
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He was defeated in ALttP, and decided to take out his frustration on Ness.
- Anonymous
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>Agahnim
The discourse over Earthbound and Beginnings sharing the same world or not reminds me of the bickering over his relation with Ganon
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>Brother disappears after trying to help destroy the world
>Dad is killing his liver across the country
>Mom is just fricking a new man in the house
Picky's not gonna grow up normal isn't he? - Anonymous
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It was Milquetoast 3 that ruined his character.
- Anonymous
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The plot to 3 makes zero sense when you realize Porky could have fricked around anywhere but it had to specifically be some fricked up post-post apocalyptic world.
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Because those were where the needles were located and he had to have Claus pull them
- Anonymous
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Reminder
2>1>3 - Anonymous
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True reminder:
1>2>3 - Anonymous
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Oh goodie schizo-kun is here. And yes repeating the same phrases is by definition a mental illness.
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At least we had a good thread yesterday
- Anonymous
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He started to insist upon himself very heavily in Mother 3.
- Anonymous
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Let's turn this into a Mother 3 hate thread. So when did you all drop Mother 3? Personally I dropped it on that scene where Flint sperges out over his wife.
- Anonymous
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The subpar writing and forced drama really took me out. It just isn't Mother; it's more like fanfiction if anything.
- Anonymous
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The anti-trans representation made me realize what a chud Itoi was.
- Anonymous
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I felt like it took itself way too seriously.
- Anonymous
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>Porky in Earthbound: An obnoxious yet memorable character
>Porky in Mother 3: A forced metaphor for how le bad capitalism is
Why did Itoi frick his character up so badly?- Anonymous
3 days ago
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It's less about capitalism and more about materialism
As bad as Porky was, the people of Tazmily would have inevitably shifted into that direction - Anonymous
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He's an allegory for sentimentality being bad. He has all of his toys in his room and earthbound memorabilia. He doesn't want to grow up or die. But at the same time Itoi is sentimental about the situation at Tazmily village and encroaching modernity.
So it's strange. But i guess i get it. It's really about capitalism specifically.
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>It's really about capitalism specifically.
*Not really about
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He saw Ness get hitched with a girl who kicked him in the balls (Japanese text)
