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| Welcome to my userpage. I am a [[SmashWiki:User access levels#sysop|sysop]], so if you have questions about SmashWiki, feel free to leave me a message on my [[User talk:MaskedMarth|talk page]]! | | Welcome to my userpage. I was a sysop/admin waaayyyyy back in the day. I don't expect to be editing regularly but I might make tweaks here or there or keep tournament results up-to-date if I have the time. |
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| I frequent Smashboards and GameFAQs but I spend most of my Smash time on SmashWiki. I make a lot of little auxiliary edits and I try to organize projects and communication. I rarely overhaul an entire article, usually preferring to tweak and copyedit. I am also very ''absentminded'' - I'm prone to calling this wiki "Wikipedia" instead of "SmashWiki," and I sometimes leave nonsensical grammar when I reword an article - so please, mercilessly edit my contributions!
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| ==About me==
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| I play video games, plain and simple. I specialize in Melee and Dance Dance Revolution, and I also know more than the average person about several other games (the Pokémon series, Mario Kart 64, Super Smash Bros.). Besides these games, I am not a very good player. I play games to review them, mostly. I haven't written a full-length review in a long time - I'm always worried that my writing skills are not ready for this challenge. I guess I'll keep you guys updated if ever I feel myself up to writing a review.
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| Gaming aside, I am a high school student. I don't like to pidgeon-hole my personality, but I could be characterized as "nerdy." I like to sing, draw, do math, write, and learn languages.
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| ==See my other Wiki userpages==
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| * ''Wikipedia''
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| ** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MaskedSheik My Wikipedia userpage]
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| ** [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fauconmasqué Ma page utilisateur du Wikipédie français]
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| ** [http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anv%C3%A4ndare:MaskeradFalk Min användarsida på svenska Wikipedia]
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| * ''Other wikis''
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| ** [http://goldensun.wikia.com/wiki/User:Masked My Golden Sun Universe userpage]
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| ** [http://strategywiki.org/wiki/User:MaskedFalcon My StrategyWiki userpage]</div>
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| ==Contact information==
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| |email=maskedfalcon@gmail.com
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| |aim=maskedmarth
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| |myspace=l_amour_et_la_liberte
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| }}
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| ==Other sites I visit==
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| * [http://www.flyingomelette.com/ Flying Omelette]
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| * [http://www.smashboards.com/ Smashboards]
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| * [http://www.gamefaqs.com/ GameFAQs]
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| * [http://www.lemmykoopa.com/ Lemmy's Land]
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| * [http://www.ddrfreak.com/ DDRFreak]
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| == Random lists, factoids, and other quirky MaskedMarth things ==
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| Like [[User:Randall00|Randall00]] I am a numbers person. I love to make lists, declare fun facts, and make commentary thereof. This section serves as a repository of information mostly for myself, though if you take an interest to these tidbits, read on, my friend....
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| == Super Smash Bros. Melee ==
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| === My best characters ===
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| {| style="background-color:#eeddff; margin-left: 12px; width: 20%" align="right" border=0 cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"
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| | <small>1. [[Marth]]</small>
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| | <small>2. [[Sheik]]</small>
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| | <small>3. [[Captain Falcon (SSBM)|Captain Falcon]]</small>
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| | <small>4. [[Fox McCloud (SSBM)|Fox]]</small>
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| | <small>5. [[Princess Peach|Peach]]</small>
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| | <small>6. [[Link (SSBM)|Link]]</small>
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| | <small>7. [[Dr. Mario]]</small>
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| | <small>8. [[Mr. Game and Watch|Mr. G&W]]</small>
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| Just recently my best character has changed from Captain Falcon to Marth. Must be me watching all those [[Mew2King]] videos lately.
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| This list is a ''general'' ranking of how well I can fight with each [[character]]s. I stress its "general" nature because I am no longer an active [[smasher]], and even when I was, my abilities with each character ebbed and flowed. This is especially true when I played [[Fox McCloud (SSBM)|Fox]] - one match I would just "get" him and play very well; the next I'd be fumbling like a novice, trying to use techniques beyond my capacity. I think the best way to consider this list is, if I was at a tournament, which character would I use in the first match of a round? I've counterpicked with Fox before, but I would not feel as confident using him as my main.
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| When I sign up for message boards, my username is usually "Masked<nowiki>[character]," where "[character]"</nowiki> is my [[main character]] at the time. You can deduce, therefore, that [[Marth]] is my main. Additionally, until recently I signed up to message boards under the name "MaskedFalcon" (today I prefer to use a name without "masked" in it, because that doesn't reveal my personality at all!). This naming tradition began at GameFAQs when the name "Masked" was taken. My main character at the time was [[Sheik]], whose very physical form is a mask, so I put the two together and the name stuck.
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| === Favorite Smashers ===
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| {| style="background-color:#eeddff; margin-right: 12px; width: 20%" align="left" border=0 cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"
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| | <small>[[Mew2King]]</small> || <small>[[Fox McCloud (SSBM)|Fox]], [[Marth]]</small>
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| | <small>[[KoreanDJ]]</small> || <small>[[Sheik]]</small>
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| | <small>[[Darkrain]]</small> || <small>[[Captain Falcon (SSBM)|Falcon]]</small>
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| | <small>[[Isai Alvarado]]</small><font color="#eeddff">..</font> || <small>[[Captain Falcon (SSBM)|Falcon]]</small>
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| | <small>[[Aniki]]</small> || <small>[[Link (SSBM)|Link]]</small>
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| | <small>[[Wes]]</small> || <small>[[Samus Aran (SSBM)|Samus]]</small>
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| | <small>[[Ken Hoang]]</small> || <small>[[Marth]]</small>
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| | <small>[[Masashi]]</small> || <small>[[Fox McCloud (SSBM)|Fox]]</small>
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| Here are a few of my favorite competitive [[smasher]]s to watch. No particular order.
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| This list shows a preference for players with great "[[mindgames]]." I put the term in quotes because I think it is mistaken, in this context. For instance, one might say, "Ken is the best because he has the best mindgames." While mindgames certainly ''are'' a part of why Ken wins, the person is referring instead to the magic that sprouts from his simple, effortless-seeming style. To the casual viewer, Ken does not seem to even use advanced techniques - how many times have you heard "Ken doesn't wavedash?" Of course, he does; but he wavedashes only if it helps him in battle, and this lean, utilitarian playstyle is what separates him from the hundreds of wannabes.
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| Of course, this is not an exhaustive list of players I enjoy to watch. Azen (Mewtwo) vs. Chu (Samus) is one of my favorite videos, even though it's as old as time itself. Tapion's Captain Falcon is very refined. And most of the better players - PC Chris, Captain Jack, King, et cetera - are a pleasure to watch just because they're better. What makes them better? It is always fascinating to find out.
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| === SSBM tier list ===
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| | <small>'''Tier 1''': ''Sheik, Marth, Fox''</small>
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| | <small>'''Tier 2''': ''Falco, Falcon, Peach, Climbers, Samus''</small>
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| | <small>'''Tier 3''': ''Link, Donkey Kong, Dr. Mario, Ganondorf''</small>
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| | <small>'''Tier 4''': ''Mario, Pikachu, Jiggly''</small>
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| | <small>'''Tier 5''': ''Luigi, Y. Link, Zelda, Ness''</small>
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| | <small>'''Tier 6''': ''Roy, Yoshi, G&W, Mewtwo, Bowser''</small>
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| | <small>'''Tier 7''': ''Kirby, Pichu''</small>
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| This is, in my opinion, what the SSBM [[tier list]] could - should? - look like. I can't say I have a well-informed opinion - I've been out of the competitive scene for a while - but there ''is'' a method to my madness. I do not believe my opinions on matchups differ greatly from common opinion, but my way of conflating them into a tier list may raise a few eyebrows.
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| I like making tier lists just because I think it's interesting to see how they pan out, given certain assumptions about matchups. Every so often I'll pull off a totally crazy tier list (and by that, I mean stuff like putting Link above Sheik or Jigglypuff in bottom tier) to see how my ideas pan out if I pull them to extremes. Just for fun. I never take my tier lists very seriously, for several reasons - one, I just don't know enough about Smash for my tier lists to hold any ethos, and two, the tier list itself is less interesting than the reasoning that led to it.
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| == Video games ==
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| === Favorite games ===
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| This list is not necessarily in order, nor is it definitive. I have not played many games, especially recent games, so there are many great games (notably, Goldeneye007) that are not on this list. The games that ''are'' on this list, however, impress me with an unusual depth, brilliance or creativity.
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| I'm judging each of these games by their ''1-player'' merits. This explains the absence of Super Smash Bros. or Melee.
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| * Super Mario Kart: my all-time favorite game, the controls and levels never cease to thrill me. Nintendo designed each level with both sense and flair - the course twists and sets up obstacles creatively, masterfully, and ''rightly'', flooding the player neck-deep in difficulty. And nothing matches the bombastic finale of Rainbow Road.
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| * Lost Levels: famous not just for being hard, but for relishing in the player's frustration. The Warp Pipes take you backwards. The Hammer Bros. and Piranha Plants won't follow rules. The wind shoves you off ledge. And from that very unfairness roots the genius of the level design.
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| * Final Fantasy VI: this is the first and only RPG that really wows me. A heartfelt score and story are only appendages to meat of FFVI's success: its battles, which jerk you about in skin-on-teeth random fights and whose boss battles require foresight, improvisation, and a head for strategy that exceeds the "hit the right enemy with the right attack" formula that services most other RPG's.
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| * Super Mario Bros. 3: much has been said about this masterpiece of a platformer, so I'll keep this short. Each world has a theme, and each level reflects its world's theme, never too literal, never too gimmicky, and always with intelligence and insight.
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| * Super Mario Bros.: I haven't heard much talk about Super Mario Bros.'s enemies, but they are excellent, perfectly suited for a platformer. Didn't every subsequent game fashion its foes after the archetypes of the Goomba, the Hammer Bros., the Lakitu? Beyond their influence on other games, though, these unforgettable enemies provide more evidence that Super Mario Bros. succeeds as a game in itself.
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| * Yoshi's Island: its crayon-inspired art is the best in any game I've played. A palette of great bosses solidifies the gameplay.
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| * Donkey Kong Country 2: this game is one of the best pieces in transition from the goal-focused design of Super Mario Bros.'s levels to the non-linearity we see in Super Mario 64. The midpoint is [http://www.sirlin.net/archive/hiding-secrets-in-platform-games/ secrets], whose days of glory are with DKC2.
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| * Panel de Pon / Tetris Attack / Pokémon Puzzle League: a league above Tetris, for my money. Intense. I prefer Pokémon Puzzle League, though the base gameplay is identical for all three games.
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