Splatoon |OT| Squidstyler

The OT looks great. Is it possible to share the ability icons as separate images? Thanks.

A few things:

You can get a Super Sea Snail by paying 30,000 to Spyke:
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Any gear you order will come next day and only be available for the day. He will throw out any ordered gear not bought from him on the day of their arrival.
 
Should arrive tomorrow. Wanted to cancel my preorder and go to a nearby store because of the special edition. Might sent it back if they have it even if that means I can play not before friday.
 
I don't hate amiibos, I only dislike content locked exclusively behind them. So I personally take issue with the use of amiibo in Splatoon, especially because it is really hard to find amiibos if you don't live in NA/Europe/Japan.

This is the same problem as streetpass, if you don't live in a city with an active amiibo or streetpass community you miss out on a lot of content for 3DS and Wii U.

If you do live in a city with an active community you can have a lot of fun though and I feel like the content that has been streetpass or amiibo-gated has always been secondary and more like cool extras or bonuses rather than locked essentials.

The game being $70 in Canada sucks though, I was hoping this was going to be another $40 game like Kirby.
 
This is the same problem as streetpass, if you don't live in a city with an active amiibo or streetpass community you miss out on a lot of content for 3DS and Wii U.

If you do live in a city with an active community you can have a lot of fun though and I feel like the content that has been streetpass or amiibo-gated has always been secondary and more like cool extras or bonuses rather than locked essentials.

The game being $70 in Canada sucks though, I was hoping this was going to be another $40 game like Kirby.
When I heard about the streetpass feature, I thought I would be screwed since I live in a not very Nintendo-friendly country, but I was wrong. I used to get a lot of street pass activity in the first two or so years of the 3DS lifetime.

Amiibos is a different story. I imported the Squid Girl amiibo, but it is just too expensive for me to buy amiibos regularly, so I can't really access most of the amiibo locked content in the games. I am also quite minimalist when it comes to stuff in my room, but that is a totally different 'problem' and not Nintendo's "fault".
 
DPD tells me my Squid Amiibo Boxset will arrive from Shopto in about 5 minutes. Comes with dogtags/keychain too which is pretty cool (I preferred that over yet another t-shirt haha)

NNID is Captain_Spanky and will be on from around 10pm tonight, so hit me up GAF!

Mine is due in the next 5 minutes too. Are you in the Cheshire region bar chance ;-)
 
Is there a way to quit out of the lobby, where I've been waiting for opponents for, like, 10 minutes?!

Edit: Why does the clock keep resetting?!
 
That's awesome that some of you European guys are getting the game early. Anyone going to check if the servers are up? Start unlocking rank mode 😉

The wait till Friday is a slow one 😓
 
Does this mean that the online has now been activated? I was told that this was completely inaccessible a few days ago.
Yeah. I've just played my first three games. But on the fourth, I'm stuck on this bloody screen. None of the buttons do anything, except +, which activates the minigame you can play whilst waiting for opponents.
 
Does this mean that the online has now been activated? I was told that this was completely inaccessible a few days ago.

The servers are up. Don't know if there will be that many people online though.

That said it's pretty dumb that Nintendo didn't put in a better timeout check or the ability to x out of matchmaking. Seemed like it'd only become an issue at first if there was just no one playing but now I'm not so sure.
 
When I heard about the streetpass feature, I thought I would be screwed since I live in a not very Nintendo-friendly country, but I was wrong. I used to get a lot of street pass activity in the first two or so years of the 3DS lifetime.

Amiibos is a different story. I imported the Squid Girl amiibo, but it is just too expensive for me to buy amiibos regularly, so I can't really access most of the amiibo locked content in the games. I am also quite minimalist when it comes to stuff in my room, but that is a totally different 'problem' and not Nintendo's "fault".

My point is that amiibos are not that expensive when you live in the right community. I have spent a total of $45 Canadian on amiibos and have owned 9 different ones and currently own 6. Through smart initial purchases and trades I may never have to actually spend money on amiibos again.

This evening I am selling 2 of my 6 for $25 and saturday another 2 for $30 which will cover the Splatoon amiibo 3-pack.

I will still own 5 amiibos which is the max that can be used each day in Hyrule Warriors, in Mario Kart everything stays unlocked, I will still have 2 for use in Smash, all 5 will work with amiibo Tap, and I will be able to unlock everything in Splatoon.

I will hold onto the Splatoon amiibos for a while after I beat their challenges because I have the feeling Nintendo will add support for them in Mario Kart 8 at some point. The Inklings are a perfect fit for Mario Kart 8 as characters or racing suits.
 
Fantastic OT. See you guys Friday night!

(Still undecided if I'm starting with Hero Mode or going straight into online)
 
1.8 GB? How do they do this? Thats the size of a large iPhone app

The game just generally doesn't have much stuff that drives up the file size. No pre-rendered videos, minimal voice acting, and most of the maps are small contained areas. The soundtrack is probably also compressed.
 
SquidStyler huh?

Okay I guess.

My Amazon preorder is probably going to get here late on Friday due to UPS being overall shitty. If they pull this crap where they say they delivered it by 8pm, then don't actually deliver it until the next morning, I'm going to be upset.
 
This is annoying. The game seems to ink I'm offline, even though I'm clearly not. And even though I set my default hair to blue, it appears pink in the Plaza. Fuck it. I'll come back later.
 
This is annoying. The game seems to ink I'm offline, even though I'm clearly not. And even though I set my default hair to blue, it appears pink in the Plaza. Fuck it. I'll come back later.

I don't think you can set default hair. It's just whatever color it was in the last mode you played.
 
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