Thursday, December 9, 2021

Thoughts on Pedophiles

Hello, everyone. I know these thoughts might be controversial, but I just want to get this off my chest on what made it expectant.

If some of you don't know what pedophiles are, they are adults who do sexual remarks on children. It is a devious lick-type felony that is much worse than the sexual harassment scandal. They are intended to put a hamartia, an Achilles heel on our environment once alleged of pedophilia and that makes them irreversibly despicable and vile, like a dismembered cat girl who steals and attacks the Medici Mafia. Emphasis on "irreversibly" because once that line is crossed from committing pedophilia, there will be no turning back.

Every adult who committed pedophilia is forever a pedophile and they can't be forgiven or given a second chance no matter the circumstances. Sexual actions on children include (but not limited to) child pornography, indecent exposure, stripping and sexual exploitation. Any of these actions will ruin children's lives for a long time, but some can defy traumatization and kill the one who molested them as revenge.

They are more than bad. They are dangerous and they deserve disrespect, like... well, you know. What made pedophiles unforgiving is that they can cause do bad things to minors like kidnapping, traumatization, brain damage and conducting sex towards them and they deserved bad karma for that. Bad karma among pedophiles consists of jail time, account termination, getting dissed on forever, being on Santa's naughty list permanently and being fired from their job for good. Those are the five recipes for bad karma. and that's why pedophiles don't deserve a second chance no matter the circumstance. They are unlawful and it's our job to keep them off the internet and our environment. I'm talking game over. Except that their game is their life and freedom and they will be locked up forever.

As you can see, it has come to my attention that on my time on Twitter, I learned one truth... that every adult who got alleged from doing sexual remarks on minors long ago became a pedophile of their own story. Joey "Mr. Wizard" Cuellar was no exception and a perfect example.

He was a long time president of the biggest fighting game tournament called the Evolution Championship Series, or EVO for short. Over the years, EVO has grown and has players from across the world, until a setback has happened. In the light of the COVID-19 pandemic, EVO was relegated to its online format to have four games that use rollback netcode called EVO Online.

On that day before EVO Online starts, Mikey "CrackPr0n" Pham, a long time FGC competitor has released his story on Twitter. The part of the story states that in the early 2000s at the Southern Hills Golfland Arcade where Pham hung out with other people, Mr. Wiz has paid people arcade tokens to take off all of their clothes, leaving their underwear on and jump into the water hazard pools at the miniature golf course. To make matters worse, those people Mr. Wiz paid arcade tokens to are allegedly young teenage boys that took off their clothes and jumped into water hazard pools.

Additionally, Pham also described a personal incident involving Mr. Wiz. He claimed that his penis was the size of a male Asian, so Mr. Wiz paid $20 to show his penis and he did so at the arcade's restroom. It wasn't until years later that Pham realized that he was used and took advantage of. On that time, Pham was 17 years old while Mr. Wiz was at his 40s. Usually, abusing children causes traumatization, but Pham didn't get traumatized because he volunteered to show his penis at the restroom. While he was 17 years old, he frequently hangs out at the joint with other FGC members who are at a legal age.

When the sexual misconduct allegations came to Twitter, a number of developers, commentators and competitors have withdrawn themselves in solidarity with those who spoken out against sexual abuse and made a pledge not to participate at EVO and any other events where Mr. Wiz is involved and administrators have placed him on administrative leave while pending a third-party investigation. More specifically on the developers, NetherRealm Studios, Capcom, Bandai Namco and MANE6 are the four developers that withdrawn themselves from EVO Online.

Accepting the allegations, he posted his apology message as his last words on Twitter at large below. 

"I'm sorry. I never meant to hurt anyone. I was young and reckless and did things I'm not proud of. I have been growing and maturing over the past 20 years, but that doesn't excuse anything. All I have been trying to do is become a better person. Once again, I'm truly sorry. "

Nevertheless, following Mr. Wiz's apology that contains his last words, the administrators of EVO have fired Mr. Wiz, relieved him of all his responsibilities and replaced him with Tony Cannon, who will act as the new CEO going forward. Without those who stood in solidarity and spoken out against abuse, progress wouldn't happen overnight and they have a mandate that they must follow; build EVO a safer and stronger culture for everyone, so they cancelled EVO Online and issued refunds to players who purchased a badge. This is because Mr. Wiz became a pedophile from grooming young teenage boys and that is the most unlawful thing he has done.

It must be the core values they spoke of that karma came back to haunt him after he spurned Dead or Alive 6 at EVO back in 2019 since he preferred young boys over women who are at the age of consent. And with Tony Cannon being the new CEO, this paves the way for the safer and more welcoming environment EVO needs and possibly Dead or Alive 6's vindication.

Months passed since the incident and administrators have stated that pedophilia is not a tolerant. It's the worst crime of them all never to be excusable under any circumstances and that's what makes it the most unlawful action. That's where Tony Cannon comes in to become the new CEO going forward. But he won't be alone because his brother Tom Cannon is backing him up as the vice CEO of EVO. Having a vice CEO in EVO would be great, I guess.

I was shocked Mr. Wiz had to do this. He paid young boys arcade tokens to take off their clothes and jump into water hazard pools and Crackpr0n $20 to show his penis at the restroom while he was 17; just one year away from being at a legal age? That's a big Zoinks there! No wonder he had to spurn Dead or Alive 6 so it wouldn't be at EVO that he preferred young boys over women at a legal age! That's like paying an underage girl gifts to show her panties and paying teenagers to perform jumping jacks while naked. I mean, Crackpr0n frequently hung out with adults and Mr. Wiz chose him while he was 17 years old? That crap isn't cool. That's just purely evil and disgusting. I am sorry to the accuser and the young boys that got sexually abused.

That's like in the situation at Capcom-Unity regarding one user who sometimes go off-topic, couldn't get to the valid point and making terrible remarks, like claiming that they are something that doesn't exist and wanting a mode in MvC3 to be implemented. But that is irrelevant.

For me, I would never want to sexually prey on teenage boys by paying them my money and gifts to take off their clothes and do challenges. That's pure evil and this is something I don't want to do because doing so will cause someone else to post a statement that alleges me preying on teenagers and everybody will diss on me to think I'm their enemy following the sexual abuse on minors. I wanted to bully and kill someone who conducted sexual actions towards my best friend who was underage. I could have. But that's not the way to solve problems, so I report them to the police.

You know what's also bad? Being sexually attracted to fictional children and fictional child pornography. I know that there is a vast majority of YouTubers that are sexually attracted to fictional children and think that they are okay to do so. But fictional or not, it still counts as pedophilia and that is still illegal and disgusting enough to be dissed on forever without any hope for forgivness. Like, if you draw a picture of a child character from a fighting game, that's considered pedophilia.

YouTube has channels that have sting videos of adults trying to meet up with kids for sex through messaging apps and they work in an online organization that catches online predators. Their job is to meet up with predators for a conversation about meeting up with minors for sex or cause a scene if they don't want to talk or if they gonna lie and call the police and send the evidence to them. If a cop sees any of the sexual messages sent to a child, game over. Online predators have been arrested and sent to jail. That's why I want to use the game over screen from either Glover or Donkey Kong 64 to replace "arrested."

The channels I came across have catches that are R-rated to have strong language. Even Spider-Man is in one of them and he doesn't want to be associated with child predators. Which is interesting. I know using messaging apps to lure children out of their house and meeting up with them for sex is against the law, but technically, they can meet up with children for fun activities. They weren't really that clear.

I want to start my own online organization dedicated to catching online child predators across Arizona that will have these qualities below.
  • A predator's ability to put hands in their pockets to warm their hands up on chilly weather.
  • An ability to make a scene if predators don't want to talk or lie, by using the "Hey, everybody! This guy right here is here to meet with a minor for sex over on the messaging app!" phrase.
  • 5-25 minutes long catches.
  • G-rated catches.
The funny thing about this is that I put one of the following above that involves making G-rated catches where there is zero swearing because you get it that G-rated content have no inappropriate material parents may find to be family-friendly. It's because I don't swear on social media or while voice chatting. There are also PG-rated catches that have mild bad language.

Now, an adult having sex with people that are 18 and up is safe and legal because if you're an adult and if you invite a person that is 18 years or older to have sex, it's okay as long as you don't molest a single child that is about to turn 18, but has to be low key to not imitate or reenact the sex scenes you'd see on TV-MA-rated TV shows, R-rated movies and M-rated games. But an adult conducting sex towards children is a sign of pedophilia and that will cause people to diss on you forever. They don't deserve a career period. They deserve condemnation.

Nevertheless, a man raping a woman who is 18 or older is illegal and doing so will also cause people to diss on you, fire you from your job and become enemies with you forever. It's the same story with adults molesting minors. If a man wants to have sex with a woman, he must ask her permission first. They aren't pedophiles if an adult is having sex with another adult with permission and an adult is abused by a minor. Now, sexual harassment towards anyone is not a crime, but pedophilia is.

The recap to this is how it goes.

Committing pedophilia: Bad
Using messaging apps to entice or meet up with minors for sex: Bad
Paying an underage boy to show his penis and an underage girl to show her panties: Bad
Reporting predators to the police: Good
The victim that was underage alleging the predator: Good

The reason why I'm writing thoughts about them is because I just wanted you to understand that pedophilia is NOT something to commit. When I read Mr. Wiz's apology on Twitter, I looked at their comments dissing on him including the ones that have images of a jail cell with SpongeBob and the words "get in" on it and I was uneasy, until I learned why pedophiles don't deserve a second chance and they are hated forever.

They conduct sexual actions towards minors to cause traumatization and pedophilia is the worst offense of them all as committing it will cause everyone to diss on those who do forever. I love seeing people diss on pedophiles. It's entertaining and that's the only thing I like about them. Being sent into hate city forever, which is my fancy way of saying hated forever. Also, if that person you've been following on social media is exposed as a child predator from committing pedophilia, UNFOLLOW them and DON'T send posts to them ever and immediately report them to the police.

That's why we must create a safe and welcoming environment at all costs. To do so, it must have people who are good, noble and respectable from not committing pedophilia and other egregious actions that can create an unsafe environment, including the ones that accuse the offender. The accuser deserves good karma for accusing the offender.

Several adults I know about on social media got accused when they abused minors long ago and pedophilia is not a prank or a joke or a mistake. It is a felony-type crime that is very serious. I fear committing it will get you in maximum trouble. Emphasis on "maximum" because after you, as an adult, pulled that unacceptable stunt by committing sexual remarks towards children once alleged, you're done.

You are irreversibly a pedophile from traumatizing children. All of your friends will forever be your enemies to diss on you, you are permanently on Santa's naughty list, you don't deserve to live and you don't go anywhere but jail. It's permanent and there's no turning back. You can apologize or try to be a better person, but nobody will accept your apology or forgive you following the sexual abuse on children because as mentioned before, pedophiles won't be forgiven or be given a second chance. They don't deserve to live and they don't deserve a career or a future no matter the circumstance and how long ago for traumatizing minors. No continues, no restarts--game over.

The moral of the story to all of you adults; always avoid sexually abusing or enticing minors off the internet for sex and treat them with the respect they deserve, lest you end up on Santa's naughty list for the rest of your life, people diss on you, get sent into hate city forever, get terminated your job and so on. Always be respectful and excellent to minors.

Here's my warning disclaimer to make you understand.

"Pedophilia is an unlawful offense never to be tolerated or excusable. Doing so will cause brain damage and traumatization on minors when an adult does sexual actions on them. Please do not perform this as committing it will cause severe consequences and lifetime in prison."

Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Thoughts on Sony's New Subscription Service

I have a real problem with Sony's current service, PSNow. It was launched when the PS4 first released. It is a service that streams games across the PlayStation family. It has a limited selection of classic games and lacks a catalogue of PS1 games. It is not good for the PlayStation legacy. It needs to have a serious upgrade. We need to improve it. Fortunately, there is some good news.

I heard Sony is creating a new subscription service codenamed "Spartacus" and it's gonna launch Spring 2022 on PS4 and PS5. What we heard about it is that it'll compete with Microsoft's subscription service, Xbox Game Pass by having three tiers and be a combination of PS Plus and PS Now. Tier 1 offers a basic PS Plus membership while Tier 2 offers access to PS4 and PS5 games while Tier 3 gives players access to extended demos, streaming and the third feature that caught mine and millions of other PlayStation players' eye; a vast library of PS1, PS2, PS3 and even PSP games.

Remember the patent regarding cloud-based backwards compatibility across PS1/2/3 games Sony has filed? The new and better service the Japanese titan is working on applies to it. Sony has planned this because they have finally learned how crappy PSNow is and stated that their current subscription service can't compete with Game Pass, so they are finally catching up, by planning a new and better subscription service involving three tiers with the highest giving players access to playing vast selection of classic games, streaming and extended demos. For the classics department, I'll mention on what does this mean.

When the PS2 came out, PlayStation backwards compatibility became outright to play all PS1 games, but it sucked hard because since the PS3 came out, some can play PS1 games while some can play PS2 games. Since the PS4 came out, it can't even play PS1, PS2 and PS3 games. Same goes for the PS5, which can only play PS4 games as Jim Ryan confirmed and that's why playing remasters of games from back in the day that were originally released on past PlayStation consoles is the best bet. That includes the ones for the PS1 releases of Crash and Spyro games, which received a full remaster and improved visuals and better lighting, but their story and gameplay remain the same as the original, which is the definition of faithful. They literally kill the charm original releases have.

I want to tell you this. The PS3's architecture is hard unlike the Xbox 360, which has a straightforward architecture to get to the original Xbox and that's how Microsoft was able to achieve full Xbox backwards compatibility support for the Xbox Series X/S. I was expecting that piece of news from them that their latest system would be able to have full Xbox backwards compatibility.

Fortunately, with Spartacus giving us access to playing a vast selection of classics in the highest tier, I do not doubt that we get to revisit them. The craziest thing about this is that we can play PSP games on the big screen for the first time. That's the biggest W right there. The golden age is coming as Sony is creating a new three-tiered Game Pass-style service that can totally give that piece of crap PSNow a huge upgrade it really needs to have a vast selection of PS1, PS2, PS3 and PSP games and new features. While the PS5 can only play PS4 games natively, the classics can be played through Spartacus on both modern Sony consoles.

Let's talk about what's so special about the classic games and why do we want to play them on Sony's new service.

Charming Environment:

We'll start with the elephant in the room: classics with a charming environment. PS2 games bear a lot more charm in their games' environment. For example, Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex and Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly. These are two games as examples that contain a charming environment, but turned out to be an absolute fail after they went third party despite the fact that both of them are so charming. But I do enjoy them, as well as others. Especially the JRPGs, but mostly the ones published by NIS America.

Looking solely at their environment, they are nighttime-evident. Remember that term? It means they are well-played at night. The PS3 also has them and they are seemingly nighttime-evident as with the ones on the PS2. I don't care about the graphics. I just care about how charming their games' environment is and that's what the PS2 games use. The GameCube and the original Xbox classics also bear a charming environment. Especially the old Sonic games that I missed playing. It's because the music composed in them is amazing. Even Disney had nothing to do with it.

The Nostalgia:

Experiencing the nostalgia of gaming is something I can do and with the third tier of Spartacus offering classic games, it is likely to happen more than ever. A link to my wish list of classics will be posted later on.

The K-A ESRB Rating:

The ESRB was first created when the first Mortal Kombat came out on the SNES back in 1994. It introduced the former rating of K-A on that time when the ESRB starts posting ratings. You are familiar with the K-A rating, right? It was a rating that assigns certain games to, until back in 1998 when the K-A rating was renamed to an E rating.

But since the third tier is offering PS1 games, you will not see the K-A rating on the hub. Instead, you'll see the E rating on PS1 games that formerly carry the K-A rating.

Dead Video Game Franchises:

Some video game franchises are dead and the developers can't do crap about reviving them. The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter franchises, for example, haven't got a new single game in the works, until Hogwarts Mystery and Gollum have been announced, so both franchises may be revived. There may not be any more beyond them. The 007 franchise went under since Quantum of Solace and that's why there isn't a new 007 game or remake in the works to come to modern day consoles. That is until I heard IO Interactive is working on a new 007 game of the franchise fortunately. I played a couple of his overrated games before.

The only 007 game I liked the most is Quantum of Solace because of the effect that makes the screen briefly go white after dying. It's kind of hilarious seeing that since the antics we would experience on the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. But this paves the way for new adventures and moments of revisiting classics.

It's not the only video game franchise that is dead because they are others that are dead as well, like Ty the Tasmanian Tiger. Well, it's not dead because it has an HD remaster in modern day consoles. I played it on the GameCube back in the day and I plan to get the HD remaster, but digitally thanks to my 4TB external storage device that holds over 200+ PS4 and PS5 games so that I don't have to worry that I'll soon be out of space anytime soon. And Duke Nukem. There has not been a new game in the works for years, so it's probably dead. The dead game franchises also use a charming environment that classics use.

Copyright Screens:

This is my most favorite part in video games. The copyright screens have disclaimers. I like the ones with the black background better. What I like about them is that they take place outside of the game and are silent. This goes for all platforms, but this is mostly for the PS2 games since they have copyright screens that are more charming than their predecessors. Especially the ones in first-party PS2 games that use the "Sony Computer Entertainment America/Europe presents" phrase. It's now called "Sony Interactive Entertainment."

Let me tell you this. When I was a kid, I was picked on at elementary school, so I was able to stand up to a bully. It's all in good fun to experience that. I know it is irrelevant to the copyright screen topic, but I just want to relay something for a bit that putting the disclaimer before it is better. In this case, some videos on YouTube have disclaimers at the beginning. It's the old days of the 6th generation era games. Also the 7th generation era games like Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, which has a copyright screen after the logos. Except that it's exclusively on the Wii.

And with the third tier offering classics, I will have the power to revisit them. I'll be recording and capturring flows of copyright screens and logos like I did with the ones in modern games.

Defunct Video Game Companies:

Those companies that released classic games faced tough challenges that caused them to go defunct and some of them were brought out by the existing companies. If you look them up on Wikipedia, you'll find out exactly how and when they have gone defunct.

If you remember, Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe was the pinnacle of the Midway era before their liquidation. They had to be bought out by WB Games and rebrand themselves into NetherRealm Studios back in 2011 to release Mortal Kombat 9 and beyond. That's a decade ago. This brutal and gory franchise was first released under the Midway umbrella until back in 2011 when games on that time were released under the WB Games and NetherRealm umbrellas.

That said, defunct video game companies are one of things that made classic games so special, tied with the charming environment and copyright screens topics. Certain companies like Bandai and Namco were merged into one company to make Bandai Namco. But the Bandai name still exists, but for toys and other stuff.

PlayStation backwards compatibility has been stuck in limbo since the PS3 came out and that's why later systems couldn't play older titles. But thanks to the third tier to offer classics, I have the power to revisit the ones that are released by defunct video game companies. The moment is finally drawing ever closer.

Problem with Buying Games Physically:

Some consoles have problems reading discs and they had to be taken in for repairs and a version of the game is out of stock. GameStop didn't have the PS3 version of Sonic and SEGA All-Stars Racing, so I went ahead and bought the Wii version, even though it doesn't have voice chat. I heard it reminds me of Whacked! because they have character-specific jingles that play during their All-Star Moves.

Price Problems:

The used game market has some problems. You buy the game for $60 and you sell it back for $4-$12. It is among classics and they do have values. Best Buy given me a lot more money than GameStop would've given me. GameStop offered me $9 for Aggressive Inline. I went to Best Buy and they give me 20. It is not based on their environment. It's based on how well the classics are sold.

Throwback Streaming:

I will be streaming a handful of PlayStation classics that I am willing to revisit. This is gonna help me grow my channel, no doubt. I am looking to evaluate my experiences as a PlayStation player.

Because Sony has planned to create a better service than PSNow to have three tiers with the highest tier giving players access to PS1/2/3/PSP games, I plan to create a random wheel to help me decide which classic game to play. But I won't put them all together in one wheel. Instead, I'll put the classics into separate wheels with their Advanced editor. I have a link to my wish list of classics I want for Sony's new service.

Why I'm telling you about this is because I look forward to revisiting my favorite classics and the PS4 and PS5 can't play the PS1, PS2 and PS3 games natively. But thanks to Spartacus' highest tier, I can revisit them and probably play the ones I never played. I know you're eager or anxious to experience a charming environment and play the classics that are released under the defunct game companies' umbrella as much as I do and you can once the new service launches.

But you see, I am a 100% independent gamer from caring about graphics. My formal caring is about the nostalgia. Most people have the right to play classics no matter the graphics. One of the things that made classics is the charming assets that made the games retain their nostalgia. Once Spartacus launches, you're in for a nostalgic ride.

Monday, December 6, 2021

BBTAG Music to SG Chart Update 3.1

Before we get to today's BBTAG Music to Skullgirls chart update, I have a long segue I want to relay in case if some of you are out of the loop.

Playing BBTAG music while playing and spectating Skullgirls is intended to be for fun and creative purposes, not to commit copyright infringement. I gave it a go on the fourth week of March when watching Skullgirls Slapfest as a test and assigned the characters, stages and canon solo matches to them as a cherry on top after it turned out well enough for me to confirm it. MvC1 mode is the character section while MvC2 is the stage section, which I haven't done yet.

That was since Mike Z has created a fiasco at Lab Zero, by sexually harassing his employees and refused to leave following the callous and dark "I can't breathe" joke, so the others quitted their jobs in the middle of the turmoil and created their own development studio where Skullgirls' development has continued under, but not Indivisible since it bombed very hard in sales. Then despite the allegations, ArcSys has hired Mike Z to implement rollback netcode to Guilty Gear XX: Accent Core Plus R and fired him. He was trying to become a better person, by doing that, right? Wrong. That didn't fly and absolve him of being a bad person from treating his friends like garbage.

You see, experiencing the fact that Skullgirls is continuing development despite the setback because of Autumn Games owning the IP and us making it thrive for many years has driven me to play BBTAG music while playing and spectating Skullgirls after assigning the theme to characters, stages and canon solo matches as a cherry on top. Assigning Annie to a BlazBlue theme like Justice Sword and playing it upon her entrance was a great starting point, followed by assigning Umbrella to Active Angel to fit well with her bright and upbeat personality and also her stage's bright setting.

Spoiler alert: the third Season 1 Pass character revealed at CEO is now assigned to a BlazBlue theme along with Annie and Umbrella.

The launch party will never end and it is bigger than any individual. It's gonna take more than the unacceptable behavior of one individual to bring it down. BBTAG music is the best option to spice it up even more and nothing will ever beat it. And then, I noticed that I was told that Autumn Games is a publisher that only has one game on their inventory. One called Skullgirls so that they would do everything in their power to keep Skullgirls alive, thus making them money while 505 Games is a massive publisher with a ton of games on their inventory and they probably don't seem to care about one of their IPs being brought down.

Plus, a Webtoon adaptation is in the works and that's when I can understand the story once I know the moves. But you know what would be amazing? A Skullgirls anime adaptation.

With all of the awesomeness that would be BlazBlue: Alter Memory, Johnny Test, Looney Tunes, Bob's Burgers, Futurama, League of Super Evil, Sonic the Hedgehog SatAM, Kim Possible, Gormiti: The Lords of Nature Return!, Redakai: Conquer the Kairu and Super Mario Bros. Z, it's time for them to make a Skullgirls anime adaptation.

I originally wanted an anime movie adaptation, but I learned that it is too much filler, so an anime TV show adaptation would be ideal. Skullgirls has infrequent use of mild language and violence with severe bleeding and it's deemed a horror game, so it's gonna be most likely rated TV-14-LV because no horror shows would be rated TV-PG-LV.

There was a Peacock-exclusive anime TV show adaptation for Individible and it was in the works to be most likely rated TV-PG-V rather than TV-Y7-FV due to blood, until it was cancelled due to Lab Zero Games' dissolution caused by one man that had to darn near end production on the game and anime. I just wish Disney can fix this, but not gonna happen. This is just ridiculous. I hope Mike Z never shows his face in the game industry, period. Not after for what he did to darn near destroy all of their hard work on the extra content and let the anime adaptation go to waste.

The short story is how it goes; Autumn Games is the official IP holder so Skullgirls can stay alive and continue development despite the fiasco at Lab Zero Games and experiencing that has given me the opportunity to shift to BBTAG music as a cherry on top. For that, I am working on a project to celebrate the never ending launch party. More news about that is coming soon.

But you know what would make the never ending Skullgirls launch party even bigger? If more platforms joined the launch party.

Xbox:

They are interested in developing not just the Xbox One version, but also the Xbox Series X/S version in the future, but they still weren't able to provide info about the Xbox release. When Skullgirls originally came out on the Xbox 360, it came with slow load times created by Microsoft's complication. Xbox players are so frustrated that the outdated Xbox 360 version worked on the later Xbox consoles through backwards compatibility and not the 2nd Encore release. That may change at some point.

Nintendo Switch:

They are still interested in bringing the Season 1 Pass to the Switch version and it's on the top of the priority list. But unfortunately, it's still not that simple. What makes it so is the unique technical complications of the platform and that's why they are still unable to provide info about the Season 1 Pass on the Switch version at the current rate of their development. Switch players are still hoarding their eShop points for so long since the announcement of the Season 1 Pass too. The port came out, but with a lot of inflexibility the Vita version carries.

For now, until they provide info about the Season 1 Pass for the Switch and the Xbox release, the Season 1 Pass are gonna stay available mostly on Steam and PlayStation.

And now, without further ado, it is time to post the next update that entails announcing a new non-RWBY theme for Valentine, final changes to the chart, fun stuff on assigning the Skullgirls characters to BBTAG music and the next Skullgirls Lore now that the third character in the Season 1 Pass is revealed.

This update will be divided in two parts. We'll highlight the character section for part one and the canon solo match and stage sections for part two.

The legend mapping has two new keys. The green dot for EX themes a star for wishlisted characters. This no longer has a red dot for RWBY themes because I will no longer play a RWBY theme accordingly. 


Now, instead of going into detail, I'll use the "-character- - -old theme- -> -new theme-" format. that has the color coded themes based on universes.

Valentine - Blake Mix -> VARIABLE HEART
Black Dahlia (Announced as the third Season 1 Pass character) - Monochrome Memory -> Walpurgisnacht
Feng - Heartful! -> Like the Dragon
Beatrix - Fascinating Gessen Girls Academy -> Princess Amagi-ya
Scythana - Walpurgisnacht -> Monochrome Memory

That said, because these above changes to the character section are gonna be final, the character section is now cemented, settled, done and dusted with the final amount of 15 characters assigned to BlazBlue themes, 12 characters assigned to Persona 4 Arena themes, 12 characters assigned to Under Night In-Birth themes, four characters assigned to EX themes and zero characters assigned to RWBY themes. But this is gonna be for the BBTAG 2.0 period.

Arc System Works better confirm the 3.0 Character Pack since rollback netcode is coming to BBTAG and Persona 4 Arena Ultimax is being ported to Steam, PS4 and Switch so I can make final changes.

I'm gonna go over a couple of changes. First off, for Valentine's new theme. Since the shift to BBTAG music, Valentine was assigned to Blake Mix. It's a perfect fit, but I learned that RWBY themes aren't substantial enough, so she is now assigned to VARIABLE HEART, a BlazBlue theme. Now let's move on the next change. It's for Black Dahlia's new theme with her playable debut as a cherry on top. After doing some researching behind the scenes, Walpurgisnacht is actually a perfect theme for her and it's benefitted by her wicked personality.

Here's a couple of fun stuff entailing how BBTAG music is much better and much more unprecedented with the mainline BlazBlue games.


Assigning the Cirque des Cartes members to their themes from BBTAG is what makes it beneficial and much more unprecedented as you all know. This section has changed as Like the Dragon and Princess Amagi-ya are now new themes for Feng and Beatrix and the characters are sorted by solitaire order.

Honestly, assigning the Cirque des Cartes members to BBTAG themes given me not just Namco Museum vibes, but some Team Sonic Racing vibes also. In fact, assigning the characters in general also given me some Team Sonic Racing vibes. If all of them get their playable debut, things might go crazy. You know what would be awesome? If they make the Cirque des Cartes a playable stage.

I heard giant arms are made for punching and grappling. This is how Forceful Step fits perfectly with Cerebella and she is still the only Cirque des Cartes member assigned to an Under Night In-Birth theme.


Here are the members of Skullgirls' elite military group, the Black Egrets, assigned to their BBTAG themes. The fun thing about it is that I find assigning the Black Egrets to their BBTAG themes much more unprecedented, like with the Cirque des Cartes. Military groups are strong. They have guns and tanks and they can put bad guys to justice like any cop.

The Black Egrets have been the Canopy Kingdom's sword and shield, just like Mortal Kombat's Special Forces being Earthrealm's sword and shield for 25 years, Paladins' Sentinels, a military group of the Magistrate that have been the Realm's sword and shield and so on.


This contains the characters in the PS4 theme art. Since 2nd Encore was announced for the PS4, a theme art was given to those who have pre-ordered and it has ten characters featured in the art. Annie and Umbrella are the ones who are featured and aren't playable until that time when they are announced to be playable in the Season 1 Pass. Currently, where it stands, Umbrella is on the verge of getting into Beta. I'll tell you more about that later.


Another fun thing is the hero and sidekick duos with a little bit of Injustice 2 feel. This has a hero and sidekick pattern with spaces between them to better make things easy to tell. This seems to be an interesting placement for the top four duos there. It has heroes assigned to Persona 4 Arena themes and their sidekicks assigned to BlazBlue themes while the bottom two has different placements.

My instincts told me that Umbrella's story could entail becoming Parasoul's salty sidekick of a sister. This is because Umbrella does not appreciate being locked up in their castle just because it's not safe for her at her age, so as a solution to make things less dangerous, Umbrella's goal is simple: become a sidekick and the Robin she deserved to be to prove that it is not dangerous for her to fight alongside her big sister to save the Canopy Kingdom and that's the name of her story dubbed "Salty Sidekick" and making and delivering burgers wouldn't be a problem.

I just noticed that Cerebella and Feng are not only the Blue Beetle and Firestorm, which as you remember, but they are best friends to each other similar to Ms. Fortune and Minette. Oh and also Jocelyn and Tammy, so tell me. This is why I'm supporting them to get their playable debut, and Umbrella has made her debut to complete the Batman and Robin link.

We will not give up. We must support Feng and Minette so that Cerebella and Ms. Fortune will have their best friends playable and these crossing of fates will be completed for that Jocelyn and Tammy link and that's what Cerebella and Feng will have.


What makes it another fun thing about this is that some movie theaters across the country including the one near me make me think of Skullgirls at night because you know, they have an art deco theme that Los Angeles uses and an imaginative feel based on characters, with Annie associating stars on the theater walls outside and Black Dahlia associating a bar in my local movie theater. Even Umbrella is one of them to associate slushies and candies.


And lastly in the fun section of BBTAG music. Here are the top 5 unique Skullgirls trios assigned to three BBTAG themes. One on each universe. What trio I like the most is Team Superstars of Smash, consisting of Beowulf, Annie and Cerebella, and that is because of A-Pure Hearted Beast, Justice Sword and Forceful Step, the three awesome themes that I will use for the next quip of the day, consisting of three themes. One on each universe. Stay tuned for that. It is kind of amazing that a TV wrestler, a TV hero and a clown came together since Annie has made her playable debut. I will be selecting this trio as my dummy for Training both on PS4 and Steam.

Honestly, I was hoping it's one of the characters assigned to an Under Night In-Birth theme, not a BlazBlue theme, but it was worth seeing that Black Dahlia is making her playable debut. She is in my wish list anyway, even though she is assigned to a BlazBlue theme. In fact, since Dahlia is a sinister gun granny, MvC1 mode is getting more fun as Walpurgisnacht might be a perfect fit for her regardless of that fact that it's another character assigned to a BlazBlue theme, not an Under Night In-Birth theme. This has nine characters assigned to BlazBlue themes.

I'm hearing that the characters after Annie in the Season 1 Pass use a hint, which is the characters that are intended to make the first part of the canon story. A while back, Alex Ahad said that he needs Umbrella, Black Dahlia and Marie to to be playable. These are the three characters that are required to make the first part of the canon story mode, like other fighting games. Umbrella and Black Dahlia are confirmed to be in the Season 1 Pass, so DLC4 is most likely to be Marie and she is not only assigned to an Under Night In-Birth theme, Purity & Strictly, but along with Umbrella and Black Dahlia, she is one of the required characters to make the first part of the canon story mode. So I'm gonna update the chart and leave this here as a prediction.


Again, as of right now, they are getting Umbrella into her Beta phase of the Active Angel update, which contains her voice acting, a very early version of her stage that needs NPCs and adjustments, additional palettes and even more of them will be added overtime and the first set of general gameplay, balance and quality of life changes if they have the time. That said, Umbrella is set to bring the salty thunder early 2022. Originally, Umbrella was supposed to come out this year, but their pace has slowed down because of development streams and updates every week. Then it's off to the wait for Black Dahlia. Here are the Umbrella palettes I want.


Umbrella: Maggie, Robin, Louise Belcher and Annie of the Stars
Hungern: Ferocious Beast, Robin's staff, Louise's grabber thing and Sagan

And this concludes part 1 of this update. Again, the character section is now cemented and locked in until the 3.0 Character Pack is announced. As soon as we finally get information about Black Dahlia, I will post part 2 of this update where I announce changes made on the canon solo match and the stage sections and go into detail about which theme Dahlia's stage is assigned to.

Before I close this out, it is time for another Skullgirls Lore. This one is gonna entail on how A Pure-Hearted Beast fits well with Beowulf as a commemoration of Persona 4 Arena Ultimax being ported to Steam, PS4 and Switch to be in line with BlazBlue: Central Fiction and Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late(cl-r). Listen up. *ahem*

Alright, so... you know how Persona 4 Arena is coming to Steam, PS4 and Switch to be in line with BlazBlue and Under Night In-Birth? Well, that's where Beowulf comes in. Assigned to A Pure-Hearted Beast. You see, when it comes to watching WWE Monday Night Raw and Friday Night Smackdown, wrestling on TV is never real because fake wrestling is more violent than real wrestling. Professional wrestlers can execute finishers and win championship belts. But no pro TV wrestler is more special than Beowulf. Assigned to an Persona 4 Arena theme, he wields his chair he called it the Hurting. You know, like Kanji Tatsumi, but without a Persona, courtesy of what ruby_chan said. He comes with a Hype system that replinishes and consumes when doing certain actions and triggers cheering in certain stages and booing when he goes down.

If you remember the previous fun fact about how Forceful Step makes a perfect fit for Cerebella to garnish her spectacular personality and her strength of punching and grabbing things with her hat with living arms, thanks to its techno flow, A Pure-Hearted Beast makes a perfect fit for Beowulf to garnish his manly spectacular personality and his strength of wielding his chair with its manly flow. He is a pro wrestler known for grappling and body slamming his opponents. He even got a fatal counter-inducing Distortion Drive similar to Spencer in Marvel vs. Capcom 3.


Well, because these two awesome titans look spectacular and flamboyant as heck in their palettes that depict Kanji Tatsumi and Mika, A Pure-Hearted Beast and Forceful Step make a perfect garnishment for them in the BBTAG music period. She is a clown in her Mika palette and he is a wrestler in his Kanji Tatsumi palette. Nice. Perhaps I should think about labbing Kanji and Mika in BBTAG.

Anyway, Grendel, the Gigan warrior is a Titan. He can defeat any wrestler he faces. Because he's unstoppable, like Shao Kahn. But one man has managed to beat him and Beowulf did the impossible. He torn Grendel's arm off of him, wowed the crowd and became John Cena. Yeah, get freaking wrecked! Grendel's arm became a trophy, until it is controlled by the Skullgirl the moment she appeared.

Beowulf plays the big bad Wulfman in the popular kids show, Annie of the Stars and I'm sure you remembered that. So he sets out on a journey to the hero role in defeating the Skullgirl and gets briefed on his career to earn himself as a hero by Zane McDougal, who is actually Double, sucking him into the depths of Gehenna. On his way, he came across victims that are bound he fought so far. Cerebella, Painwheel and Big Band are one of them.

Also, remember Annie? Remember the fun fact about how Justice Sword fits perfectly with her? Well, when Beowulf fought Double, Annie senpai noticed him, saved him from the depths of Gehenna and scolded him. Then she was like "You're not gonna listen, are you?" But he disobeyed her like a pure-hearted rebel he is and went to put the smack down on the Skullgirl despite Annie's caution. Heh, smack down.

Ahh... anyway, Beowulf is in a pickle with Grendel's arm being controlled to crush him and Double shows up to eat him alive, until as Justice Sword plays, Annie comes in with her Galaxy Cutter to engage Double, freeing Beowulf from her clutches. A turnaround has established as in his mind, Grendel told Beowulf to settle everything, so he controlled his arm to come to him and Beowulf was able to pull Grendel's arm out of the Skullgirl's power and smashed the Skull Heart and Annie cut Double in half.

After the fight, Annie gave Beowulf a reward, which is playing the hero role in her show. Before you go on an adventure, you need a companion. Every hero needs a sidekick after all. And since Beowulf has made his way into the hero role, he comes in to play his part as Annie's sidekick, thus creating a Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable-type duo. #SoTheDrama. But wait, the friendship of Beowulf and Annie also comes with a Sonic and Sally type of friendship? Uhh... #WayPastCool, I guess...

Now, since Missions for the Brilliant Executor and Active Angel are unbelievable for Parasoul and Umbrella, the "Batman and Robin", then A Pure Hearted Beast and Justice Sword shall be unbelievable for Beowulf and Annie, the "Kim and Ron", thanks to BBTAG music, DC Comics and Walt Disney. Now that is something that Shao Kahn couldn't compete with. And DiC Entertainment, even though it no longer exists and folded into Cookie Jar. Know what I mean? If there is a duo or a trio that inolves Beowulf and Annie, the real fun starts as wanting Athena Asamiya to be in KOFXV. Otherwise, there won't be a pulling of a Nevercake.

You can create Beowulf on the latest WWE video game. Heck, he'll defeat any pro wrestler with his Ultimate Three-Wulf Moonsault, his signature and cinematic lv. 5 super. The Rock, Triple H, Asuka, and even Zelina Vega, although she got permanently banned from WWE for social treason or some crap she did, which is kind of sad and everything. But I think there is a rule that he and a female wrestler can't go toe-to-toe in a wrestling match. Oh and give him an autograph or he'll unleash his DDT on you.

Today's BBTAG Music to Skullgirls Quip:

"If you're wielding the Justice Sword against the ghosts of your past, take a ghostly Forceful Step towards A Pure-Hearted Beast that is friendly and voiced by your friendly neighborhood Nevercake."