This game makes me want to do drugs, but only the fun ones.

https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/142609/new-super-mario-bros-2-is-not-what-i-want/

If I had called you an idiot in that thread, then your responses to my posts would have been a lot different. Unfortunately, a VGC security issue led to a lot of my posts getting wiped, so all that's left of me in that thread are in the instances where I got quoted directly. I sure did call you an idiot on a few occasions - for example my triple combo of calling you and idiot when you believed as late as June 2014 that the Wii U could still clear the 50m mark in lifetime sales - but it doesn't look like that thread was one of them.

For observers: happydolphin was padib's alt account at the time.

Since we've already traveled back in time, I decided to link @TruckOSaurus memory too:
https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/154237/nintendos-unrealistic-pricing-for-old-school-platformers-et-al/

The above thread ties into my conclusion from the first thread linked that you never wanted to like NSMB2 - whatever it was going to be - in the first place anyway. Unsurprisingly, the general tone had soured even more, but that's what many months of bad threads do eventually.

For observers: Here's the link to happydolphin's profile. If you merely read the headlines of the threads he created, you can already get a good idea of what was up.

https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/profile/94180/happydolphin/posts/#content

As for the problem of being smart that you mention, the real problem is that you believe that you belong to the smart people and therefore must take a position that makes you alone in order to validate your belief that you are smart. This includes examples such as your padib thread where you predicted that Microsoft will pull off a Nintendo-like turnaround, resulting in the Xbox Series X|S outselling the PS5 globally, something that not even a single actual Xbox fan on this site believed. It wouldn't be so bad if you'd only be this lost in gaming discussions, but sadly it has expanded to political topics where you did things such as linking Q-Anon videos, or have very warped views of World War II and the current war between Ukraine and Russia. Smart people do NOT subscribe to so many conspiracy theories.

The second paragraph of your post is crazy. I hope it's just a joke, because otherwise it would show how full of yourself you are by relegating everyone who agreed with me at one point or another to mere sheep.

Regarding you final paragraph, time is not on your side. Already during the Wii and DS days you tried to prove that 2D Mario and 3D Mario are equally in demand, if 3D Mario not even moreso. Back then you had no sales data to back you up. The Wii U and 3DS era generated parity in sales between 2D Mario and 3D Mario, but it's a parity that was only achieved by Nintendo giving 3D Mario all they got while 2D Mario got a couple of lackluster entries, because the NSMB style including its same old world themes had grown stale. Does SMB Wonder look like Nintendo is doing their best? At the moment, no. But it's at least a step up from NSMB's style already.

For sales potential it's simple: If SMB Wonder comfortably outsells Super Mario Odyssey, then you've been proven wrong. This is the kind of thread idea you should be jumping on. Which game will sell more and how big will the gap between the two be.

Now this is the sort of drama I've been missing seeing.

Stop the drama or I release the wild elephants!!

Rol did exactly the type of investigation, he's known for. The poor Padib had no chance ...

Idiot complained that Mario games weren't sold for $10 and everyone is getting robbed when buying Mario for $40-$60 because the 3h indie game Limbo is $10.

Can we PLEASE get back to actually talking about the game instead of making drama? -_-

So elephant Mario huh? Running out of animals there Nintendo? Just seems to me like they still have alot of...well.....cooler animals to choose from. I dont know. Could be fun.