SG X BBTAG Update #6

Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the Skullgirls X BBTAG update series. In the last update, I shown you how my projects are becoming a masterpiece even more after I added Feng, Minette and Venus and shown you Christmas in her Yuzuriha palette as a surprise. And now, we're moving on to this next update of the series, so let's dive right in.

Before Crossplay:

After Crossplay:

We'll start with the elephant in the room, which is my Discord server's banner art. Christmas is now added to even out the number of characters facing Marie. I also fixed some of the errors on few palettes that were colored wrongly, as well as the quality of Feng, Minette and Christmas, adjusted the position and updated Marie's picture to her new one, which is better than the other one and shows that she is unleashing her EXS without the Skull Heart and that's the fun beauty of her Orie palette. You'll see them in later projects.

I told everyone on X that I am planning to make another Twitch channel that will be focused on streaming only Skullgirls during my special online casual where we are restricted to playing these characters you are seeing on my splash art, including Feng, Minette, Venus and Christmas, who are not yet playable, but they deserved to be on there because they have been added to the palette editor two weeks ago and all four of them are eligible for their BBTAG palettes to be legal. For this, here is my separate channel's offline screen that will also be updated when more characters get added to the palette editor and existing characters' images get updated in parallel with my Discord server's banner art.

I originally stated that I would go full blast also on Steam, which my online casual will take place on once Marie is released. My Discord server is buttoned up and ready to be shared, but unfortunately, there has been a change of plans. After looking at the specs on my laptop I'm using, I learned that they are not good enough for my Steam games to run smoothly. Because of this, I will no longer think that I'm gonna go full blast also on Steam once Marie is fully released and I will be postponing planning my own online casual until I get a high-end laptop with better specs and a good amount of hertz.

Remember what 1smash18 said that he needed a new high-end computer with better specs so that his Steam games can run smoothly? Well, I'm doing the same thing, by getting a new high-end laptop with better specs so that my Steam games can run smoothly.

By the way, there is a delicious surprise Beowulf, Parasoul, Annie, Umbrella, Cerebella and Feng in their Kanji, Mitsuru, Izayoi, Platinum, Mika and Chie palettes on the left side are holding on the play...

During BBTAG 2.0:

During BBTAG 3.0:

In both periods, Christmas in Yuzuriha's colors is located after Double in Merkava's colors and before Squigly in Hilda's colors and the Under Night In-Birth row is now left with one empty space now located in the middle, which will be for Aeon's Vatista palette. Now, seven characters are eligible for their UNI palettes.

During BBTAG 2.0:

During BBTAG 3.0:

If Christmas doesn't get her Yuzuriha palette, it will stay on my palette pack on both periods. Same with Minette, Feng and Venus' Minette Chie and Linne palettes.

On my fanmade character select screen, the characters' portraits on the bottom row are rearranged while the ones on the top are also rearranged as Marie is no longer on the top row and middle column after adding Christmas to it on the upper right hand corner. This placement lasts until the 20th character is on there.

As I added Minette, Feng, Venus and Christmas to my projects, I am nearing the 20th character eligible for their BBTAG palette on this one and my other projects that are becoming even more of a masterpiece. But please be aware that their portraits and the placement of them on this graphic above are not final and will change. But one interesting thing will stay, though.

If you look at the icon on Minette's apron colored red during the process of making her a Celica palette, you'll notice that it is now has colors to match the pantones of her apron, arms and skirt.

What makes it crazy is that one of the members of the Last Hope became eligible for their BBTAG palette and that is Christmas and making a Yuzuriha palette out of her is the cherry on top. I feel like that if she becomes playable, she might play like her. A blade in her hand; no mistaking it.

A little announcement, Marie's Alpha has dropped last week and came with full voice acting, her stage and all of her moves since she is developed further after she gets released on Mobile first, like with Annie. Except that Marie launched with few sketchy frames and a partial set of palettes during her Alpha. If any of you own the Season 1 Pass on Steam, you'll gain access to Marie's Alpha and she will be available separately on her Early Access Beta phase, which will begin when all of her frames are completed.

Originally, Marie was supposed to release on December. Development on Marie is continuing along, but apparently, due to circumstances, she is no longer being slated to release in December. All of Marie's sketchy frames take a while for them to be completed and her art won't be finalized before then, so it's most likely that Marie is slated to release in early 2024, along with Nidra, the third character in the Them's Fightin' Herds Season 1 Pass, to also be slated to release in early 2024. Unless if they get a lot more developers to join the team, of course.

But Marie is not the only thing coming because the general balance pass is also in the works to make the whole cast the best it can be.

The only thing about this is that since 2nd Encore and the Season 1 Pass are available on all three console versions, Marie and all of her bells and whistles, like her Story Mode and a finalized set of balance changes for the rest of the cast will be submitted to all three console platforms.

It has been a long road and a wild ride for Skullgirls, man. It started out with eight characters in the original roster. Then six more characters expanded the roster to 14 during the Indiegogo period, which established a launch roster for 2nd Encore. And now, here we are. Four more characters expanded the roster to 18 during the Season 1 Pass period and Marie is in development. And once she is fully released on all four platforms, the Season 1 Pass period is over and Justice Sword, Active Angel, Walpurgisnacht and Purity & Strictly will be played to the "true" max on all four platforms. After that, it's off to waiting for an update that gives the new characters' Story Mode their full voice over and hoping for a Season 2 Pass and crossplay. 

I am also waiting for the next update for Skullgirls Mobile, which makes Marie completely available to be acquirable from all Standard Relics I've been hording until then and get her Prize Fight available. It's interesting that Marie is the final boss and was freed from all influence after destroying the Skull Heart without hitting her to become a playable fighter. But we can still fight her boss version on Arcade Mode and certain challenges, but not on her Story Mode because like Xblaze and others, it will be a visual novel to entail her past life and how she gained control of the Skull Heart.

I will never forget the fact that all four Season 1 Pass characters have all been eligible for their BBTAG palettes, consisting of three BlazBlue palettes and one Under Night In-Birth palette. It is clean as crap for these characters to be eligible for my special online casual I postponed planning until I get a gaming laptop with a good amount of hertz.

In conclusion, with Minette, Feng, Venus and Christmas added to my projects as they are eligible for their BBTAG palettes of Celica, Feng, Linne and Yuzuriha above, I am nearing the 20th character eligible for their BBTAG palette. This should (hopefully) be the last update before I have the 20th BBTAG palette. I hope it is either for a male character, like Taliesin's Tohru Adachi palette, Yu Wan's Jubei palette or Hubrecht's Azrael palette or for Aeon's Vatista palette to fill out the UNI row.

Joe's Monologues - 10/17/23

We are halfway through October and Halloween is around the corner, so get ready for some bone chilling and spooky moments looming as I start the next Joe's Monologues, which the series will be named going forward. But don't worry. What do I have to monologue on will not be scary, I promise.

First off, regarding my Wrapper: Offline career. I am starting my career as a GoAnimator soon because I was able to get the VoiceForge and Ivona voices working again thanks to the video that explains how do I get them working again. I shared my roadmap of new videos on YouTube divided into three sections below.

Planned Videos in Development - Videos that are slated to be uploaded soon.

Planned Videos on Reserve - Videos that are put on pause until further notice.

Planned Videos in Concept - Videos that are on the verge of being explored, but likely won't happen until confirmation.

It was just the rough first pass and I'll be posting my updated roadmap soon.

Of course, my career might hit some roadblocks, but not frequently. I am looking forward to start my GoAnimate career fresh. Now, in case if you guys are wondering, I won't be uploading new Wrapper: Offline videos on my main channel, which is now reset to start fresh. I'll be uploading new videos on my separate new channel because I want to start fresh. A link to it will be posted soon.

I am on the source of developing my Wrapper: Offline avatar and studio and I am down to the final stage of development as I was able to get the VoiceForge and Ivona TTS voices working again. I am also still on the source of creating a handful of characters that are based on my interests in my life. When I say based on my interests in my life, I mean I make a handful of characters from video games, TV shows, movies. YouTube channels I'm following and other works.

Look, what I'm trying to say is the GoAnimate community is so vast and connected. I'm sure TTS voices will be working. Especially when making your own copyright and safety message screens. I like those things since my inception of playing 6th generation era games. Even the ones in games by THQ, the American toy company turned video game company that had to file a Chapter 11 bankruptcy after series of stock drops, financial struggles and debt.

I would like to give a shoutout to one of my favorite GoAnimators named MumaX992. He became the source of inspiring me of making characters from TV shows, movies, video games and other works and videos that are on my list of ideas. And now, he's back because Wrapper: Offline can restore the GoAnimate community. I look forward to watching his new videos. But he confirmed that he will be uploading new videos on a new separate channel because it's to start fresh.

And any of you fans enjoyed Sonic Frontiers' Final Horizon update? The update is amazing. All of Sonic's friends each not only have a BGM, but also their own skill tree and skill points. The only thing about this is that if you're playing as Sonic, the BGM for Ouranos Island plays while he has access to using keys to open portals, but not when you're playing as Amy, Knuckles and Tails because they each have their own BGM while they don't have access to using keys to open portals and this is something that also makes Sonic Frontiers truly Spyro: Year of the Dragon, and they are all catchy. I was even having trouble clearing Snake's Trial, until I thought of a way to beat it. I Cycloop around the enemy, and press square two times and circle before the shield drops. The Titan Rush trial wasn't frustrating because if I Quick Cycloop them, their defense is significantly decreased and they are on the ropes during that state.

Honestly, I feel calm when listening to Amy's theme because I can see how retiring to Los Angeles has its perks since I heard the layout of GTA V's Los Santos, Sonic Unleashed's Spagonia and Skullgirls' New Meridian drew inspiration there, considering the Boardwalk and the Wonder Wharf drew inspiration from the one in the Santa Monica Pier, knowing Active Angel became a perfect fit.

Now I'm one progress away from beating the new story, which is beating The End. However, there's a cable the fake moon bears and it quickly regenerates The End's HP. I need to figure a way to sever that cable...

I know Toys for Bob is working on Crash Team Rumble, but I would like a new story for Spyro: Year of the Dragon where I can freely switch between Spyro and his four friends that each come with their own BGM in their perspective.

Now, I want to tell you about the drama I have experienced over on YouTube. This is regarding cyberbullying. If you don't know what is cyberbullying, it is harassing users online, by recording them and posting on YouTube. I want to make videos out of pedophiles because they deserved it for traumatizing and kidnapping children, but I was told that it is considered cyberbullying as reporting them to the authorities is legit. How is making videos out of pedophiles is cyberbullying? Making parodies about them is the way to get them terminated.

I'm gonna tell you how pedophiles are extremely dangerous. They are adults who conduct sex towards childiren, like stripping them. This is the worst criminal offense and doing so will cause fans to hate you forever because once exposed as a pedophile, game over. They don't deserve forgiveness, a second chance or rehabilitation for kidnapping and traumatizing children. They deserve bad karma, consisting of getting their accounts terminated, jail time and mistreatment. Making videos out of them is considered bad karma, not cyberbullying. And I don't know if you know this, but it's intense.

But hey, you know what's intense? The way Mightykeef, my favorite YouTuber makes his skits. Even the one about how Mortal Kombat 1 plays on the Switch. I was intrigued at the graphics on the Switch version. It made it look like a PS2 game. No wonder there isn't that much players of the FGC plays Mortal Kombat 1 on the Switch. Fortunately, they pushed out a patch that improves performance on the Switch version, as well as implementing access to Season 1 of Invasions.

The one about Mortal Kombat 1 isn't the only thing that is intense. The Naraka: Bladepoint skit is up. He shown those guys that he is not trash. At the beginning, mentioning Naraka sounds like a villain from Inuyasha. I know it sounds far-fetched, but it's a melee weapon-centric battle royale. The skit about it is intense that I'm hearing weird voices over the game screen. It's kind of a technicality, yes.

You know what I like to see uploaded on Mightykeef's channel? About how he feels playing Honkai: Star Rail for the first time. There is a skit about buying characters on Genshin Impact with real money, so I want to see a Honkai: Star Rail skit get uploaded in response to its release on PS5, as well as its battle system reminding me of Xenosaga. Remember that game?

Thanks for listening and that's all I have to say. I hope you guys have a wonderful day. And remember, with Halloween fast approaching, you're in for a spooky blockbuster.

SG X BBTAG Update #5 + Special Surprise

Welcome to the 5th standalone update for Skullgirls X BBTAG and this one proves that I'm not done with making BBTAG palettes out of Skullgirls characters because they added more sprites to the palette editor under the custom section. And I have a special surprise that you will see later on.

Before we dive right in, on the previous update, my projects have become a masterpiece now that I have a final picture of Marie in Orie's colors and I have a new collage that has more empty slots and that's why the previous one is not the final one and there will be more of them you are about to see, along with a special surprise. Now, on to the update.

You guessed it. Minette, Feng and Venus have been recently added to the palette editor under the custom section and I made Celica, Chie and Linne palettes out of these characters above as a cherry on top. They became eligible for them because Crystal Forest, Like the Dragon and Night Walker are the themes that fit perfectly well with them.

You are wondering why Marie is no longer in the middle. After some thought, I learned about the placement that contains Marie in the middle of this collage. It didn't meet up with my standards and putting her in the middle didn't turn out well despite being the Skullgirl. It's because putting her in the middle affected the size of the top and bottom characters in the middle. As a result, I put her after Black Dahlia in Nine's colors and it is the best bet. But that's not all. This collage is starting to become a masterpiece even more after putting Minette, Feng and Venus on there.

BBTAG 2.0:

BBTAG 3.0:

The graphic during the BBTAG 3.0 period is coming along nicely as the BlazBlue and Persona 4 Arena rows have been filled out. On both periods, Minette in Celica A. Mercury's colors is located after Annie in Izayoi's colors and before Black Dahlia in Nine the Phantom's colors, Feng in Chie Satonaka's colors is located before Beowulf in Kanji Tatsumi's colors and Venus in Linne's colors is located before Marie in Orie's colors to match the order of character introduction on each universe.

BBTAG 2.0:

BBTAG 3.0:

Still the same placement for the three additional characters. If their Celica, Chie and Linne palettes don't make it to 2nd Encore, they will stay on my palette pack.

I told you that the characters on this Discord server's banner art must be smaller and positioned to fit more characters, so I made them a bit smaller and positioned them to make room for Minette, Feng and Venus. They deserve to be up there because they are assigned to BBTAG character themes that fit perfectly well with their personality to be eligible for their BBTAG palette and a ticket to my special online casual. On the left side, Feng is spotted while on the right side, Minette and Venus are spotted. Now this is starting to become even more of a masterpiece.

And finally, the portraits on my fanmade character select screen were made a bit smaller to fit Feng, Minette and Venus' portraits located on the bottom row. This matches the placement in the character select screen in 2nd Encore that will take place once Marie hits Alpha and beyond, hoping we get word about it soon now that she is released on Mobile. The random selection has a ? mark and it's because importing own fonts on Canva no longer requires Pro.

All of my projects are becoming a masterpiece even more after putting Feng, Minette and Venus on them. But please be aware that their images are previews to show how fly they are in their Minette, Chie and Linne palettes and they will be replaced with final ones once they are released on Mobile. If they make it to the Season 2 Pass, I'll be hyped for that because I need at least one character eligible for their BBTAG palette in it. This goes to show that I am not done with my endeavor yet. It must go on until the end.

Alright, everyone, are you ready for a big surprise? Feast your eyes on this!

Surprise! Christmas, one of the members of the Last Hope, have also been added to the palette editor under the custom section. I made her a Yuzuriha palette as a cherry on top because if she becomes playable, I feel like that she might fight like her considering that she is spotted in the River King Casino. If anyone asks if I'm gonna put Christmas in Yuzuriha's colors on my projects and what BBTAG character theme she will be assigned to, I will do that and you'll find out soon. This is just part one of the Skullgirls X BBTAG update series.

Doing so is the fact that I love making BBTAG palettes out of Skullgirls characters to promote the launch party and I am so glad that controversial censorship update didn't stop me from doing so. So yeah, it's possible for me to actually make Celica, Chie, Linne and Yuzuriha palettes out of all four characters that have been added to the palette editor. I can see why palettes depicting characters from other universes is the best bet. I would like to see a male character get added to the palette editor.

SG X BBTAG Update #4

Alright, readers, this fourth update to Skullgirls X BBTAG is the moment of truth we've been waiting for. We'll do this in a past, present and future format.

The Past:

The six eligible characters out of eight in the original Skullgirls' starting roster is a good starting point when it comes to 3v3 battles. It starts out all female like in Them's Fightin' Herds. It has one depicting a BlazBlue character, three depicting Persona 4 Arena characters and two depicting Under Night In-Birth characters. It has Labrys, Mika, Teddie, P4A Mitsuru Kirijo, Makoto Nanaya and Merkava.

The number of eligible characters have been increased from six to eleven, with the difference of five additional eligible characters. Hilda, Iron Tager, Hakumen, Kanji Tatsumi and Aigis are the additions and all five funded DLC characters in the Indiegogo campaign are eligible. As a result, it is no longer all female because Big Band and Beowulf in Tager and Kanji's colors are on there. It now has three BlazBlue palettes, five P4A palettes and three UNI palettes.

This is a good odd number of characters and that's the number of characters Them's Fightin' Herds will expand to with its Season 1 Pass, which contains Texas, Stronghoof, Nidra and the fourth yet to be announced character. Nidra was supposed to come out this year, but they pushed her back to early next year so that she can come out clean with the best experience possible. If the fourth character in the Season 1 Pass is revealed to be a female character, it can make it perfect to match the Skullgirls X BBTAG roster of nine female characters and two male characters during the Indiegogo period.

Practically speaking, the three versions of Crossing Fate require at least four characters of the same department and thanks to the Indiegogo campaign that added two more characters eligible for P4A palettes, that's more than enough to play Crossing Fate ft. P4A with these characters in game in 2v2 and 2v3 formats. If there is a 6th character eligible for their P4A palette, it can hit the maximum amount of six characters in game. Their Personas are not included.

The Present:

And now, here we are. All four Season 1 Pass characters have been added to the Skullgirls X BBTAG roster of 15 eligible characters. Izayoi, Platinum the Trinity, Nine the Phantom and Orie are the new additions. An odd number of 15 is actually good because Marie in Orie's colors is in the middle of the collage to make it stay true to the fact that she is the current Skullgirl being faced by an even number of characters in their BBTAG palettes in the BBTAG 2.0 period. That makes it six BlazBlue palettes, five P4A palettes and four UNI palettes.

Thanks to the Season 1 Pass period that adds three more characters eligible for BlazBlue palettes, it is more than enough to play Crossing Fate with these characters in game in 2v2, 2v3 and 3v3 formats. The BlazBlue palette department is at the number of characters at the maximum amount in game. If there is a 7th character eligible for their BlazBlue palette, it can exceed the maximum number of characters in game. But hey, the more the merrier, right? Their Drive attacks will not be included.

Playing Crossing Fate ft. UNI is something I wanted to do and since Marie is the fourth character eligible for her UNI palette because of her maid's outfit and her ability to summon her Stand despite being a Skullgirl, it is likely to happen more than ever. I'll be playing it either after Marie hits Alpha or after she is fully released in 2nd Encore. But it must be 2v2 as BBTAG tradition in order for it to work until a 5th character eligible for their UNI palette is confirmed. While the Canopy Kingdom is mostly nighttime, it is not considered a Hollow Night and their EXS will not be included.

As a bonus, Under Night In-Birth II: Sys:Celes was announced at EVO and this will be in response to that.

BBTAG 2.0

BBTAG 3.0:

The BBTAG 2.0 period has six empty spaces left while the BBTAG 3.0 period has five empty spaces. The Under Night In-Birth row is likely to be left with one empty space in both periods because it has six eligible characters on the department. During the BBTAG 3.0 period, it has six P4A palettes. I'm keeping Cerebella in Mika's colors because of her forte of punching and grabbing things along with Marie in Orie's colors.

BBTAG 2.0:

BBTAG 3.0:

During the course of Marie's development in Mobile, she didn't get her Orie palette. But there is still a chance, which is during her Alpha phase. If it didn't make it, it will stay on this palette pack.

Introducing the Skullgirls X BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle Season 1 Pass; featuring Annie, Umbrella, Black Dahlia and Marie in Izayoi, Platinum, Nine and Orie colors.

Best friends, rivals, ASG warriors, TV stars, Renoir sisters of the Canopy Kingdom, Parasite users, Fortunes and grapplers! The Skullgirls X BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle cast of 15 characters is coming along nicely!

In case if you're wondering if there will be more characters beyond Marie, yes, there will be more of them. But the characters on my Discord server's splash art must be smaller in order to fit more characters on there.

Now, that being said, it's time for the full story for this.

Skullgirls X BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle pits warriors in their BBTAG palettes in a "Dark Deco" world. Their mission is to fight the current Skullgirl that is Marie in Orie's colors. Marie is unlockable when you beat the General Story Mode, like in all games developed by NetherRealm Studios. Marie's Story Mode is half visual novel and entails her connection with the Skull Heart. On the hardest difficulty, Marie's skin turns red and she turns into Marie 300% in Orie's colors, but with a red skin.

In a fortunate turn of events, the Skull Heart has been destroyed, but Marie herself is spared and freed from all influence from the power of the Skull Heart, thus making her both an unchained Skullgirl and a playable fighter.

And finally, my fanmade character select screen now has a portrit of Marie in Orie's colors. The blank green square is the random selection. Also reverted the podiums to the original one. I didn't add the ? mark on the green square because importing my own fonts requires Canva Pro.

It's now time to post more BBTAG Trinities.

Team Best Friends - Big Band, Peacock and Marie in Tager, Teddie and Orie colors. Peacock isn't alone because Marie is her best friend at the castle orphanage and Big Band is a close friend at the ASG labs. Those who have the balls to run this BBTAG Trinity will make them a legend.

Skullgirls X BBTAG 1.0 Wave 1 - Umbrella, Beowulf and Marie in Platinum, Kanji and Orie's colors. Because you just want to embrace the goodness of this BBTAG Trinity without being obvious that others are being embraced right now.

The Future:

Without Marie:

With Marie:

You think that I'm done with my endeavor of making BBTAG palettes out of Skullgirls characters? Well, guess again, becuase we are down to the future of my projects that this update will not be the final one. My collages above have four more empty slots. Without Marie in Orie's colors, it can hold up to 18 characters in their BBTAG palettes while with Marie in Orie's colors, it can hold up to 19 characters in their BBTAG palettes. The empty slots are for the eligible non-playable characters below.

And that covers everything in this moment of truth update. Phew, it was a lot that I had to go through. All of my projects are now updated to have a final picture of Marie in Orie's colors and they are coming along nicely even more to become a masterpiece. It's finally over. This is the moment of truth, but that doesn't mean this will be the final standalone update because if they greenlight a Season 2 Pass, I'll be ready for that as long as it contains at least one character eligible for Skullgirls X BBTAG. I am gonna share this on X, but it will not happen until I finish posting the rest of the quips. I am coming down the wire on it.

Let me tell you this. When I was watching SPL, right? When I was watching SPL, it was the tip of the iceberg that the Oni Warriors would break the 2-0 run of the remaining European SCC team, Hex Mambo during Summer Masters. It was the icing on the cake. They would've completed their undefeated journey in Phase 1, but the Styx Ferrymen managed to do so.

Now that all of my projects have a final picture of Marie and since she is the final Season 1 Pass character, I can now wait for her Alpha to full release and post the rest of the quips on X with a clear mind, as well as waiting for Sonic Frontiers' The Final Horizon update coming out tomorrow. Signing out.

Joe's Monologues - 9/17/23

Hello, guys, gals and non-binary pals. Back with today's episode of Joe's Segues, now called Joe's Monologues and that's what the series is gonna be going forward because you know, monologues are speeches made by one person while dialogues are conversations between multiple people. In fact, monologue makes more sense than segue. This one is gonna have interesting things to monologue, so get ready to embrace as I talk a bit.

First off, my family and I have a new router days ago and it is so much better and much stronger than the old crappy one that I had. I have a new password for my electronics and I'm not gonna tell you. I give doing something online a go to see how smooth it is. What does this mean after I invested a new router? It means my online experience is smoother than before. Practically speaking, it takes a smooth internet connection. Thanks to my new router, I'll be able to have a smoother online experience.

Live Streaming:

Having a smooth live streaming experience is something I want to do and with my new router that is stronger, it is likely to happen.

Watching livestreams:

My old router was the reason why livestreaming hit networking skips and lag no matter what device I'm on. Now that I have a new router, that will no longer be the case. I will finally be able to enjoy watching livestreams smoother than before.

Online Multiplayer:

Barring and mitigating most of the network skips and lag, my new router is gonna encourage the smoothness of playing online multiplayer.

As a test, I played some Crash Team Rumble. I played a couple of games on the new 4-player co-op Party Mode. It is introduced in Season 2. The first time I played it, my experience isn't smooth because of the old one I had. But thanks to the new router, I was able to play my games smoother than before without experiencing network skips and lag often.

When playing this game online, my experience turns out to be smoother than ever. I didn't even experience network skips often. I also watched one of the movies on my Fire Stick and it plays smoothly thanks to my new router. My old one was the reason why I was having trouble watching my movies. And with the SMITE Pro League coming back for the Road to the SWC soon, I'll be able to watch it without experiencing a single network skip thanks to my new router. I was even able to watch Mortal Kombat Legends smoothly too.

Speaking of Mortal Kombat, I pre loaded Mortal Kombat 1 yesterday and it is fast approaching. If you pre-ordered the Premium Edition, you'll get early access and everything else. The starting roster is 23 fighters and 15 Kameos. That's 38 in total. More fighters and Kameos are on the way through its first Kombat Pass that contains Omni-Man from Invincible, Homelander from The Boys, DC's Peacemaker, Quan Chi, Takeda and Ermac. Those who got the Premium Edition will get early access to the DLC characters in the Kombat Pass. It's hard to believe that MK1's roster has a handful of 3D-era characters; the ones who haven't been playable for long since back then.

There are two days away from release, so the end of the early access phase is approaching. So is getting ready for some brutal butt kicking action. The new era when peace is encouraged is approaching.

And you know what else is approaching? My time to update my projects because Marie is releasing on Skullgirls Mobile this month. On the second Skullgirls State of the Game, they announced that similar to what they did to Annie, which didn't have an Alpha, they are gonna prioritize new character releases on Mobile first so that they can fully switch over to 2nd Encore to give their Alpha their full attention it deserves moving forward. It's because the characters in Mobile have significantly less development time than on 2nd Encore.

I agree with this because I want that character to release on Mobile first so that I can update my projects to have their final pose sooner if it's an eligible character for Skullgirls X BBTAG during both periods or during the BBTAG 3.0 period. And since Marie is fast approaching her Mobile release on the 6.0 update, I am a stepping stone away from updating my projects to have her final pose and they will be coming along nicely even more. After that, I can look at how my projects are coming along nicely after updating them to have a final picture of Marie in Orie's colors. The moment of truth is looming.

Then it's off to her Steam-exclusive 2nd Encore Alpha release to drop shortly after her Mobile release and that's where I come in to get Purity & Strictly ready for her entrance. Since Skullgirls 2nd Encore is now available on all four digital storefronts on Steam, PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo Switch, she is gonna be fully released on all platforms. That's when Purity & Strictly gets play to the true max. And I said true because 2nd Encore is available on all four digital storefronts. That's another moment of truth that Marie will be fully released on all platforms.

The developers are doing Marie fighter reveal trailers. They shown her Mobile-exclusive character ability and four of her cards out of eleven, which is the number of cards Marie will launch with. But no sign of her Orie palette, which will be a Dark elemental because it depicts an Under Night In-Birth character. I'll be on the lookout for that. Four down, seven to go. If it makes it into the game, I'll remove it from my palette pack idea. If she doesn't get it over the course of her Mobile release, her last chance to get it will take place during the course of her Alpha phase in 2nd Encore. If she doesn't get it during her Alpha, it stays in my palette pack. I am hoarding my standard relics until 6.1 and that's the update where she will be fully available across all standard relics because she will not be available in all standard relics in 6.0.

As a treat, I am posting BBTAG palette-specific quotes on X, formerly Twitter. So far, I posted five quotes. More of them are coming, so stay tuned. Of course, the quotes are just for fun purposes and they can also include the ones that are already in the game. This is gonna be in preparation for my special online casual. Apparently, the Skullgirls fanbase has declined because of that controversial censorship update that angered the community and they still haven't forgotten about it. I might have to postpone sending the link to an invite to my Discord server until this blows over.

Back in 2014, I signed up for GoAnimate and bought the GoPlus plan, which was cheaper. The plan was no longer available on that day it expired and years later, Comedy World and the older themes have been sunset for its shift to the HTML5 platform. The older themes use Flash and they are not compatible with the latest release and was renamed to Vyond. I went to the school platform that doesn't use assets that commit violence, which also gone into business. Because of it, I searched for alternatives that are similar to GoAnimate, but none of them are nowhere near as similar to it.

I was so sad that I will never make animated videos again as Vyond killed the GoAnimate community, until I heard something really good. They have developed something called Wrapper: Offline, which is a emulation of GoAnimate's legacy video maker that contains the older themes and can't be shut down since it's offline. Thanks to Wrapper: Offline, I have the power to continue my creativity and the GoAnimate community has revived.

I plan to post new content on my channel over on YouTube. However, it won't be on the current state that I am not happy with. I intend to reset my channel and start fresh. To do that, the only way to reset my channel is to delete all of my videos. I am even working on a second channel dedicated to gaming purposes. Also, I won't be posting new GoAnimate/Wrapper videos on the main channel. Going forward, I will be posting them on the new channel.

Now, for the upcoming video, I need to make a handful of characters that are based on my life interests. I will screencap and post pictures of characters on YouTube. Unfortunately, due to the issue that keeps my projects from saving on my Wrapper: Offline, I'll have to postpone it until the issue is fixed. In the meantime, I'll screencap the characters on the current version.

These are today's interesting monologues. Going forward, this series will henceforth be called "Joe's Monologues." I will see you in the next one.