Btw, the Popcast does have a discord server. Now that I have content on Twitch, YouTube, and Spotify, it is the best place to find all that crap, and to complain when I curse your team in low ink.
Is Splatoon really a “kids” game? Why? Because it has color, no cussing or blood? What makes a game adult? It has tons of mechanics and concepts that are not easy to master. The aesthetics are kid friendly, but I don’t think it was made for kids. I think it was made for gamers.
Hello Splatoon Community,
@MsPopgun
and I have made so many wonderful friends and memories through this stupid little game. We wanted to share some exciting news with all of you.
We are officially 3 months pregnant with our first child!
(Drawing by the talented
@ambirdoodles
)
Our son was born this morning. Both him and Ms.Pop are doing great. Took 25 hours at the hospital but we finally got the little dude out.
Couldn’t be prouder of my wife and our family.
Splatoon team recruitment posts:
Low Ink teams:
• Team’s artist designs amazing recruitment poster
• Has a server just for recruits
• Accepting 30 different weapons
• “We are looking for a new best fwiend :3”
Low Ink banned teams:
• “We need another v shot, dm.”
Going through S rank with other competitive players at the start of the season is like being stuck in detention with your friends because none of you did your homework.
If you honestly think people calling Nintendo to inform them about screen negativity effecting their bodies are taking it to the radical extreme of making credible threats in the span of a week then by all means, provide the evidence before condemning an entire community.
Bluefin Depot: Nintendo’s awkward but necessary first step in learning how to design maps for their own game.
Robo ROM-en: result of what Nintendo has learned about map design over 3 games.
Riptiders,
If you notice potential for hypeness, start recording on your phone. LAN matches give no replay codes nor show up on the app. Capture the moment, the pop off, the crowd. We are grassroots after all, so work together to document our community this weekend with videos!
Nintendo’s patches keep fixing how the points are disturbed for the final result of splatfest, but who honestly cares? The patches should fix the matchmaking. The problem isn’t X rankers farming casuals, but that those two groups should never be in the same lobbies to begin with.
IPL will be hosting the first ever “Low Foam” tourney when this comes out. Since y’all won’t have any previous results before the first tourney, nobody will be banned.
LUTI Divs
X- you get resulted even when you win
1- you think your era of Low Ink was harder
2/3- you've resorted to farming casuals for stats to stay relevant
4- you peaked
5- you drop from Low Ink when you make beta
6- you overuse the term "goated"
7/11- you ruin every map poll
Today we ran the first international tourney for Splatoon 3, and it was honestly as smooth, if not smoother, as any Splatoon 2 tourney we have done. 84 teams, same latency issues we always face, no bugs reported, new day 1 twitch viewer peak. Splatoon 3 works for online tourneys.
That’s 19 specials in the game now. They have to include a 3rd kit for every weapon now to evenly spread them out right? I know that would require another 2 years of weapon updates.
If you only see the competitive splatoon community as the jackassess on twitter, you are missing what the heart of this community really is. THIS is the competitive community!
I don’t want Low Ink to be the community’s most popular tourney, but we have earned it. We busted our ass to make it the monster it is, not just the TOs but our players too. Imagine if other tourneys had this hype? I’d love that! But we ain’t slowing down Low Ink. Catch up to us.
The grassroots splatoon community has been a blessing for my family with all the friends and memories we have made. It’s a place where so many folks feel celebrated in a world where that welcoming feeling is scarce.
Idk what today’s news means, but nothing will stop this train.
If you beat someone then call them washed, ain’t you just insulting yourself, saying that person had to play at a lower than normal level for you to beat them? What does that say about you?
The most dangerous teams in this community are the ones who truly don’t give a shit. Low Ink ban, plus server, who cares they just play the game without fear of or lack of respect for the opponent. Once you realize every game starts out 0-0, you realize nobody is unbeatable.
Before all the Low Ink teams demand we remove clams from the tourney because of this clip, there is no way you will ever pull this off in a tourney match, and if you do I’ll DQ your opponent.
Turf War has no checkpoints/penalty points or KOs. That is why people say it comes down to the last 30 seconds because total points scored isn’t a factor in the outcome like the other modes. The objective is fine but the design of the mode is why it’s not competitively viable.
Given the nonsense from the past month, limiting splatoon players access to twitter seems like a great idea. God awful idea for the site as a whole, but for the splatoon community? I see it as an absolute win.
For those seeing this as it leaves the target audience, no it’s not a sign that people are leaving splatoon 3 because your favorite weapon got wave breaker.
Didn’t like SOS on startgg? This Friday’s Proving Grounds will be run on Club Penguin! All matches will be announced by my penguin at the cafe and teams will play matches on the couches. You must waddle to me to report the score. This will bring a LAN feel to our online tourney.
I’m starting to change my mind on something I’ve had a pretty consistent stance on. It might be time to consider adding weapon/special bans in tourneys. That’s the topic of the day for the Popcast at 6p edt.
I’ve seen weapon gatekeeping tweets on about 6 different weapons at this point, something about your parents not loving you or you can’t use this if you used that in splatoon 2. Can someone tell us what weapons we are allowed to use while keeping our family’s love?
Splatoon 3 doesn’t need to reinvent the game, it just needed to add a ton of quality of life features that makes the experience better, and it seems like that goal is accomplished.
Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but from what I’ve found this will be the first time a team not named FTWin or Starburst will win an NA Championship since SetToDestroyX in 2018.
We are also super excited to finally announce GENESIS X!
SAN JOSE CONVENTION CENTER
FEBRUARY 16-18, 2024
Registration will be live MONDAY OCT 16TH, 3PM PDT
RETWEET FOR 👀👀👀
Starburst's Splatoon 3 tourney record against teams outside of Japan:
Per Matches: 40-0
Per Games: 110-19
In game 5s: 6-0
Source: Proving Grounds World Cup Qualifier, 20XX 3 and 4, Mode Cup 0, Nintendo Sept and Jan (turf war results not included), The Big House, Stormbreak
I’ve said it before, as soon as we ban one thing, we have to unban it and ban something else in every patch afterwards. Then we can’t go back to allowing everything. It’s a Pandora’s box we don’t want opened rn.
Ray, Armor, MPU, Missiles, Crab, now Zooka. This too shall pass.
Today is
@MsPopgun
’s birthday. She is an awesome wife and mom. Love you honey!
Here we are at ihop immediately before going to the hospital to birth a human.
Too many players get on twitter immediately after being eliminated from a tourney and tweet the most cringe takes, flinging blame everywhere but themselves for their performance.
Just to clarify, no I’m not going anywhere. Wife and I are going to be busy raising a newborn in a few months and will focus on raising a family, but please keep dming and reaching out if you want me for stuff, even if I say no. We will be watching all of you from home at Riptide
If we ban Japan from western majors, then they become skill capped tourneys. And since having prize money for skill capped tourneys is cringe, we will have to give that money to the production folks who work their ass off in this community for free. Call it Low Ink 2.