She said it. Pearl officially told Marina she loved her. There's no turning back. It's official

>service game ended after two years
Thanks nintendo

They said 2 years of support, and here we are. 2 years

the end of splatfests doesn't mean it's over retard, stop parroting this

but why? Don't they want Splatoon to be esports?

I just wanna dick Marie.

This but Callie and unironically.

Why would I ironically want to fuck Marie

This is the purest form of love. Anyone who is against this needs to swallow a fucking knife.

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based

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now what does the japanese version say?

I don't know. Most Mariefags don't really talk about having sex with Marie. They just like her for who she is..

Because devs move on to other shit.

youtube.com/watch?v=jUzFuE6D6nE

>omg nintendo represents gays in a way that isnt in your face and isnt pandering but is just for plot and not pride shit
You all forget jeff and tony from earthbound:(

Pray for Pearl as she had to scream at the top of her lungs for 24 hours during the splatfest

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I'm not ready yet.

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she keyboard slams when Pearl smiles

Not that I disagree with you, but the sad fact is that hardly anyone actually played Earthbound outside Japan.

And Dawn and Cynthia

Not exactly. They just want E-sports monies.

I don't remember either of them coming off as gay.
I haven't played EB in years, though.

>It's you and me againist the universe.

That's a pretty clear sign of long term commitment, even if it isn't necessarily romantic.

That's good.

Everything gets stale eventually. Developers have other stuff they want to do, I'm sure.

>mfw I just bought Splatoon 2 2 days ago.
>walk into game completely blind
>game is actually fun
>find out that its the end of all the big events and I basically missed everything
>virtually see game talked about everywhere online after finding this out
Its not my fault anons. I've had a huge gaming backlog. But it still hurts on the inside.

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It was confirmed in an interview a character was gay and it was secret who and the reasoning was “i know gay people in real life”
Its implied tony has a crush on jeff in dialogue
Thats why people think there gay

That's the thing with multiplayer games. You have to get in when it's fresh. Just alternate between maingames and multipklayer games.

>tfw a 2d girl will never ever say these exact words to you
Whether this is the strongest form of friendship, or the strongest form of love, I am sad these words will never be said towards me.

Splatfests are nice and all but at the end of the day you just missed out on fancy Turf War parties with a few exclusive stages full of gimmicks. It’s really not a big loss.

Tony had the gay. To be fair, there's only subtle implications of it.

You didn't miss too much. Ranked and Salmon Run are more interesting than Turf War anyways if you ask me, so all you really missed out on was banter.

fuck im finally home from work, why does this video and image make me tear up bros

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actually it's a sign of a psychotic over-possessive partner that will bring all the pain, paranoia and jealousy long-term.
Sorry to burst your bubble.

Because it’s the end. The end of the path we all started on

But anons, I feel like I bought the game at the end of its life span. Isn't it going to slowly die at this point?

i know the games not dead and all, like splatoon 1, but i still feel sad, knowing splatfests are gone. i don't know the future of these threads due to the fact that splatfests are over, but i hope they can continue, even if at a slower pace. the splatoon threads these past few months have been all i really go to on this board anymore since theyre actually genuine and not 5 layers of irony and shitposting

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They should be like the threads prior to Splatoon 2 and after the Callie vs Marie splatfest

This makes a good desktop background

i guess there's that possibility

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There was an interview with Itoi where the interviewer asked him point blank if Tony was gay, and he confirmed it. Still, doesn't make Jeff necessarily gay as well.

>won all but 1 splatfest

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I'm fuckibgnn crying igrht nwo, i'vee lviied htough ttwo Sppllatoon gamees now, i know we'll bee able to pplay thhe ggame for a longj tim j ustee but it wonn''tt feell thee same with no more updaate.

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Yurifag here. Gay or not, I'm just happy that Pearl and Marina grew into being great characters, I still remember everyone being skeptical of them when they were revealed and thinking they'd be inferior replacements to the Squid Sisters.

>Lost all but 1, the most impprtant one

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Thanks doctor.

geeze user that's a pretty intense interpretation
who hurt you that said that

>Psycho Pearl holding Marina hostage and eventually getting brainwashed by the antagonist of Splat 3.

how do none of you know the line is an eminem reference

Good. It's an example of a homosexual and interracial relationship done right. All the other garbage in AAA games is disgusting dykes that flip like a switch and fall for each other for zero reason just to be inclusive. When it's not forced it doesn't matter if it's straight, gay or whatever and if it's white, yellow, black, purple, blue or green. The problem is clear propaganda for the sake of making a political statement instead of story or even gameplay progression.

I would say that, but the context is far different from Kill You or Killshot, and she says more or less the same thing in JP, iirc, and I doubt Em is as big in Nipland as he is here.

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>don't take damage for 30 seconds

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Because I don't listen to m&m

>Meet Nintendo's FIRST EVER canon lesbian couple!

Between a hot ass black girl and a creepy goblina grandma?
Works for me.

love=/=romantic interest
im genuinely sad support is over

>a creepy goblina grandma?
Watch your mouth fool.

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>ywn sweep Marina off her feet and make love to hear each night
life is suffering.

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Good, can we get confirmation on this one next? It's not like the game or the developers pretend otherwise with comments like "their bond is deeper than friendship, but they're not family".

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Doesn't seem like it's worth getting or playing Splatoon 2 now, or?
No new updates or content usually means quickly dead online game.

Balance updates are continuing.

on paper yes. But this series still has an active playerbase on the Wii U with the first game. It's looking like it will be the same with 2. I don't think you'll ever have a hard time finding a match with Splat2 even when 3 releases in 2022

Splatoon is too unique to die from that. People still play the first one.

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They had a biggie and tupac reference with pearl and marina in Octo. The devs have specifically said they thought about American music and it’s importance in music history

This was an white rapper reference.

Yes, I'm aware of the biggie and pac designs
Dialogue however, is a bit more prone to language barrier hiccups, and I'm not sure the average Jap would get that kind of reference. Sure, they'll see Pearl and Marina's octo expansion gear and say "oh, is those gaijin who supa popurar in the 90's," but I doubt many of them actually know the lyrics to Juicy or Dear Mama.

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>comparing biggie & tupac to eminem
come on now son

>can we get confirmation
I honestly think it's best if Nintendo says absolutely nothing on the subject. I personally feel as any comments would deligitimize the concept, and even then, Nintendo wants them to be Idols for their music at the end of the day. Relationships and sexuality rightly take a backseat to that kind of stuff.

I love my dog doesn't mean I'm fucking her like most of you degenerates

>Don't they want Splatoon to be esports?
nobody wants anything to be E-sports, you fucking jew

>Sure, they'll see Pearl and Marina's octo expansion gear and say "oh, is those gaijin who supa popurar in the 90's," but I doubt many of them actually know the lyrics to Juicy or Dear Mama.
It’s pretty ignorant to assume the Japanese wouldn’t know any American music. Like take Araki and his work.

Or just take the splatoon devs at their word:
>You may have seen on the internet that Pearl and Marina's appearance in the Octo Expansion announcement trailer, people are drawing comparisons to the styles of rappers Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur. Were those intentional references to them?

>Giving you a straightforward answer about that might steal some of the fun out of it, so I'll keep that a bit of a mystery. [Laughs] But I will say that as I've [spoken about] the importance of music to us, we're definitely aware of that history of music videos in America, and music video culture is something we kept in mind while making this expansion.

>We have members on our development team who are fans of hip-hop music and hip-hop culture, and it's people like that who feel that, just like our real world we're living in, we can bring a variety of elements into the world of Splatoon and show people that it's not just a one note type of world and that they'll be able to believe more in the reality of the Splatoon world and give it more depth.
gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2018/03/26/splatoon-producer-talks-octo-expansion-biggie-tupac-inklings-super-smash-bros.aspx

>Blizzard
>valve

>Big named businesses wants E-Sports

Wow

?

>It’s pretty ignorant to assume the Japanese wouldn’t know any American music
I didn't say they wouldn't be familiar with it. Just that lyricism might be lost on most of them because of language barrier.
If Pearl dressed like Em (Maybe his 8 mile getup? I dunno He doesn't exactly have the same kind of trademarks that biggie and pac had), then I'm sure many Japanese would probably recognize it, but I doubt that many know the words to White America or Killshot, or at least well enough to know the little ending "you know I love you" blurb at the end of either song.

I mean, I listen to future funk and old j-pop all the time, but I'd be hard pressed to recite any of the Japanese lyrics to Kaoru Akomoto's Dress Down or Tatsuro Yamashita's Sparkle.

so which one has a penis

Neither
futa is overplayed and retarded

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Nintendo might know that esports are valued waaay more then they are worth.

>overplayed

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This is why I said look at araki’s work. He would specifically pic bands or songs with lyrics that can be fit with the plot in Jojo. There are otaku who have a hard on for western shit like music, and splatoon was confirmed to have a few.

And come on, the fucking white rapper in the game says an Eminem line. Also “I’m just playin ______, you know I love you”, which is what she said, is said in more than those two Eminem songs. The fact that the entire bit is said is clearly a reference unless you are just plain retarded.

As in it's fucking everywhere and it gets tiring. For literally any girl from any franchise I search, a little over half is futa shit.
The fans know this and are obnoxious about it too. Now let's drop the subject

woomy

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you said nobody wants them

Pearl

Don't know what you're reading but futa isn't as prevalent as it was in '07. It's pretty much died down.

>isn't as prevalent as it was in '07
Well that's just it, I was here for that
But like, I said, let's drop it.

What about a year? At least it was delayed until summer because the fanbase didn't want Sony to shut down the game's servers.

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I still hesitate to call it one hundred percent canon, but I will say that the circumstantial evidence is pretty overwhelming.

Faggots like you is why I'm homophobic, also rmember to report gays for sexual content

I feel the same way.
Has Nintendo flat out said they're smashing clams? No.

... but that octo expansion ending has got my noggin joggin

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