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THX AIDAN

Thank you, Aidan, for deleting that page I didn't need. I thought it was gonna stay there until the end of time, and I even tagged it with the speedy delete template, but to no avail. So, thanks for deleting it. I was worried that it'd be there for all eternity. I'll let you know if I need to delete any more user sub-pages of mine. Thanks. Mario Maniac (talk) 22:44, February 26, 2026 (UTC)

AFD 2026 idea?

Since you loved Astro Bot, I was thinking that for AFD '26, you could make a fake Smash moveset for its protagonist, Captain Astro. Remember when you and BaconMastre made that whole joke about Goku coming to Smash 4 as DLC? I obviously hadn't heard of NIWA really in 2018, but I read it via your userspace. I'm obviously not participating in AFD this year (Dang it! I should've registered my account around Christmastime 2025), because I'm not established, but maybe AFD '27. Like AFD '18, it could go into your userspace probably as "User:Aidanzapunk/Astro Bot pages" or something like that once AFD '26 is over. I've noted that you've made fake Smash movesets for several characters, including Sora. Maybe, you could return to being the "moveset person" one more time. Also, you could go whatever direction you want for an Astro moveset, but I think that many of Astro's Awesome Abilities would be referenced in his moveset. I think he'd be absolutely broken and would transform the meta completely, kinda like with Meta Knight in Brawl. Everyone would play him, and the meta would be "No items, Astro only, Final Destination". However, whether or not you'd make him as broken as Meta Knight was in Brawl or not is up to you. Also, does SW:AFD say anything about autoconfirmed users giving inspiration to an established user for an April Fools joke? It says that you have to be established to participate, but does it forbid an autoconfirmed user from giving an established user inspiration for a joke? If so, don't do this joke this year, and do something else, for fear that I might get in trouble for "participating". If not, feel free to do the joke. I just thought that it'd be funny if someone made a moveset for Captain Astro, who, in my opinion, has a very slim chance of getting into Smash due to the Astro Bot IP being owned by Sony, which is arguably Nintendo's biggest rival in the console market. I'm sorry if this inflated the size of your user talk page, but I just wanted to tell you this. I know it's a little early for this, but I just wanted to give you time to consider what you're gonna do for AFD this year, that is, if you even do something this year. Mario Maniac (talk) 04:06, March 9, 2026 (UTC)

I'll think about it. Aidan the Gamer 07:08, March 9, 2026 (UTC)

Ok. Sorry for not responding sooner, I was just working on adding images of spirits into the Primary and Support categories. Fun fact, I have more edits in the File namespace than I do any other namespace (1st place is File, 2nd place is User, and 3rd place is the mainspace), and the number of edits in each namespace are very close to each other. If you do decide to do the joke for AFD '26, I'll probably know by at least one of the following:

1. I see an image of Captain Astro and/or origin images for his special moves being uploaded via Recent Changes
2. I see Astro Bot-themed pages being created for AFD in Recent Changes
3. I see something else that indicates that the joke has been done

Anyway, that's about it. I think that this joke would be hilarious. Mario Maniac (talk) 03:50, March 14, 2026 (UTC)

delete a page pls

This one isn’t part of my userspace. Its name is Fuel. It’s a redirect to the page about the EarthBound universe's page. It's a pointless redirect. Okay, we get it, one of Ness's alts is based on Fuel, but Fuel doesn’t have a sticker or trophy or spirit or anything in Smash other than that alt. Yeah, the redirect needs to go bye-bye. Mario Maniac (talk) 22:32, March 14, 2026 (UTC)

Time until AFD

You have about a week and a half until April Fools’ Day. Just saying. So, you have some time to think about what you're gonna do for AFD 2026. I won't be doing anything because I'm only an autoconfirmed user. I'll continue my normal wiki actions, categorizing images of spirits into Primary and Support, and making the occasional mainspace edit, in addition to making the occasional userspace edit, usually just restructuring of my main user page and adding on to my sub-pages. If I do anything for AFD 2027 (the April Fools' day of the next year), it'll probably be a fake Smash moveset for Wikipedia or something, alongside with the Wikipedia universe being added, using the unofficial symbol for Wikipedia that we use for interwiki use. For the Wikipedia fighter itself, it'd probably be the Wikipedia logo, and the joke is, all of the names of the attacks would link to the corresponding page on Wikipedia, excluding special move names, which would instead have their own pages, but the interwiki link at the bottom of the infobox would be an interwiki link to the corresponding Wikipedia page. I don't know what its Final Smash would be, probably something pertaining to how unreliable people think it is, or referencing its strict citation policy. But I have a whole year to think about that. I'll for sure be established a year from now, because I have WAAAAY more than the minimum amount of edits to become established, the majority of them being in the File namespace, and one year is definitely more than 90 days. 1 year is like, 90 days four times over! Mario Maniac (talk) 00:56, March 20, 2026 (UTC)

AFD is almost here.

Have you decided yet? I was just wondering. It's almost April, and when it's almost April, that means April Fools is on the horizon. Mario Maniac (talk) 21:20, March 29, 2026 (UTC)

I did think about it, and I decided against it.

In truth, the only reason I said that I would think about it is because I, in fact, have already made a take on Astro in Smash that's off of this wiki (I only put what I consider to be my best ideas onto this wiki, mostly because if I put every single idea on here, that would make for a large page with a lot of images, and, well, it wouldn't look great for a high-ranking admin to be putting so much time and effort into such a side project)—that said, what I have isn't in the exact formatting traditional to SmashWiki, and the amount of effort needed to make such a change was not something I was entirely fond of putting in.

But, since I don't feel like being a jerk and completely blowing you off, I'll tell you that my moveset used the mouse from Downsize Surprise as his neutral special, the suit of armor from Hieroglitch Pyramid as his side special, the chicken from Trapped In Time as his up special, the elephant from Trunk of Funk as his down special, and the PlaySquadron (based on the final level) as his Final Smash, and that my pick for a stage would be Luna Sola. Aidan the Gamer 22:15, March 29, 2026 (UTC)

Wow, that's good. I have a good moveset for him too (without any prior experience with the franchise, by the way). For his neutral special, I think I did either his spin attack (functioning similar to Pyra's Flame Nova but you can hold the charge) or the shuriken gadget from Astro Bot Rescue Mission, functioning similarly to the Mii Swordfighter's Shuriken of Light. For his side special, I did Muteki, which functions as a stall-then-fall in midair but rolls around when grounded. For his up special, I did the Beam Glide, which functions a lot like R.O.B.'s Robo Burner, but he can damage opponents below him with the lasers. For his down special, I did the Time-Stopper, which functions as a counterattack that slows down time for anyone that hits him when it's active (it also does damage, too!) For his Final Smash, I also did PlaySquadron Go, functioning as a cinematic Final Smash, that's kinda like Team Star Fox and Team Star Wolf.

Some normals that I'd like to point out as well:

Grab is the Twin-Frog Gloves, which functions as a tether recovery. Forward throw is Handy-D, where Handy-D heaves the opponent forward. Back throw is just this in reverse. Up throw is the chicken, where Astro jumps into the air with the opponent, then crashes back down. Down throw is also Muteki, where Astro crushes the opponent in steel ball form. Forward and back aerials are both Handy-D, the former of which functioning like Mario's fair. Dash attack is Barkster the Bulldog Booster, where Astro charges forward and damages anyone he runs into.

In addition, Astro has four midair jumps (thanks to the Octo-Balloon). His home stage is the PS5, taking place inside of the console like in Astro's Playroom. That's all, I didn't know that you'd made a moveset for him. That's amazing! I'd assume you did just special moves, because you only gave me his special moves. Also, one last thing before you can return to your bureaucrat duties, what website did you use to make his moveset, and can I have the link to where his moveset is? Mario Maniac (talk) 02:15, March 30, 2026 (UTC)

Interesting ideas. I personally relegated the spin attack to his jab and made the beam glide a unique "hold jump" attack (effectively mimicking the controls of the game itself), and I try to avoid giving my movesets counterattacks, seeing as how there's an overabundance of them already. I think we had the same idea for side special, though.

I don't solely come up with special moves for my movesets (you'll notice this is true of those on my concepts page), I just didn't feel like revealing everything, because otherwise we'd be here all day. I mentioned that I had the moveset done already, because I did, months before you even came to me with the question—if I hadn't, I honestly wouldn't have said "I'll think about it", because less than a month's worth of time to make a moveset and other stuff for an entire April Fools Day joke wouldn't have been enough time.

Regrettably, however, I can't share the full thing with you, as it's on a private site. If I ever decide to make more of my stuff public on something that isn't SmashWiki, however, I'll put something up on my main userpage promoting it. Aidan the Gamer 02:39, March 30, 2026 (UTC)

(Reset indent) Yes, I do notice you have your fake fighters' full movesets on your page. However, I do want to say this; I had no prior experience with Astro Bot when I made this moveset. If you're wondering about what I did for his jab, I'll tell you; he punches twice, and then it becomes a choosable jab where he either punches rapidly or punches a third time. Did you notice how I made his up throw similar to Kirby's? I know that you avoid counterattacks because we already have like 20 of them, but I'm like "one more counterattack never hurt anyone." Also, one of my neutral special concepts wasn’t just the shuriken, it also had the water gun and the tightrope, the former of which acting similarly to F.L.U.D.D., and the latter of which acting like Chain. I also originally had his down special change the gadget he’s using, but I changed it to Time-Stopper and retained the neutral special, while having it on a rotation like Magic does. I actually couldn’t decide between the gadgets and the spin attack, so I’m going to go the Street Fighter route where when you do his jab, holding the attack button instead of tapping it does the spin attack instead of doing his punch combo. That's actually a good concept, having the spin attack be part of his jab instead of a special move. Mario Maniac (talk) 03:07, March 30, 2026 (UTC)

My quotes page…

This may be a waste of time for such a high-ranking admin like you, but could you fix my quotes page? On April Fools' Day of this year, the quote that's supposed to show up on that day didn't show up. Yeah, I think it needs fixed. Mario Maniac (talk) 14:39, April 4, 2026 (UTC)

Firstly, you don't have to think of me as all high and mighty. I'm just here to do my job when the time calls for it, and I'm otherwise a regular user like you.

Secondly, I appear to be having the same issue—I just didn't notice until now. I'm not the right person to ask to fix it, but I can theoretically get it taken care of for both of us. Aidan the Springing Gamer 19:42, April 4, 2026 (UTC)

It looks like {{LOCALDAY2}} returns a 0-padded number, i.e. today would appear as "04" instead of "4". Something like "April 1" would not equal "April 01". Two solutions, either change the switch to include the leading zero for single digit dates, or swap {{LOCALDAY2}} with {{LOCALDAY}} which doesn't have a leading zero. --CanvasK (talk) 19:54, April 4, 2026 (UTC)

Yes, Aidan, I don't have to think of you as high and mighty, and you're just a regular user like me. Also, both CanvasK and I helped categorize images of spirits as either primary or support spirits-that's how I got the majority of my 1,200 some edits. Mario Maniac (talk) 00:41, April 6, 2026 (UTC)

Rework to my take on Astro's moveset

I decided to make Muteki his down aerial and down throw instead of side special and down throw. Muteki, as his dair, is still a stall-then-fall. Barkster the Bulldog Booster has been changed from his dash attack to his side special, and his altered dash attack is a punch out of his run. Astro's main attack when on the ground (and without any of his abilities equipped) is his punch (and his spin attack), so I decided to emphasize this by giving him a very punch-based moveset; basically a better Little Mac, but not exactly a carbon copy of Little Mac. I'd make sure he has enough unique moves that he wouldn't even be considered a pseudo-clone of him, like Jigglypuff having so many unique moves that it's not even considered a pseudo-clone of Kirby from Melee onward.

I don't know what I'll use this moveset for; but I'll let you know if I use it for anything. Mario Maniac (talk) 00:36, April 6, 2026 (UTC)

some pages I need deleted

Now, whenever I add {{d}} to one of my user pages, there's a recurring theme where the reason for the deletion of the page is "get this (user page, draft, redirect) outta here pronto". The pages I need deleted are all redirects, and they can be found [[User:Mario Maniac/Fake Smash Characters|here]], [[User:Mario Maniac/Fake Smash Characters/Universes|here]], [[User:Mario Maniac/Fake Smash Characters/Stages|here]], [[User:Mario Maniac/Fake Smash Characters/Specials|here]], and [[User:Mario Maniac/Franchise Familiarity|here]]. I broke each redirect by putting the speedy delete tag in front of the redirect so that you don't accidentally delete the pages they redirect to by mistake.

Also I got a new signature. This is the "April" skin. If you want to see the other skins, see my signature page. Mario Maniac 01:28, April 7, 2026 (UTC)

For future reference:

1. It would actually be easier for me if you didn't link to the pages you need deleting on my talk page, since doing so creates a redlink that doesn't need to be kept around.
2. Pages in the speedy delete category will eventually get taken care of, and don't really necessitate saying to an admin "hey, can you delete this?", unless it's absolutely urgent.

Aidan the Springing Gamer 01:47, April 7, 2026 (UTC)