![]() But being entirely ignorant about your ability, as I was as a kid, could only have happened during a time when the internet was just background noise. Video games have always fostered competitive comparisons: they are, after all, games. It was a short time later-as my Jigglypuff was soaring through the air like a pink frisbee and I was pretending that I knew what “ wave dashing” meant-that I realized there would be no legends written about me, that on the bell curve of player skills I was stranded at the summit. ![]() I was obnoxiously confident until about one second into the first match, when my opponent's Marth began to whip back and forth, spitting white smoke up from her feet. Then I entered a modestly sized Smash Bros tournament, hosted by a boy from school. When a couple of older kids later thrashed me at an installation in GAME, a British GameStop equivalent, I was chastened, but not demoralized-shut-in prodigies, I told myself. This is it, the peak of my talents." That was happiness then. And as these opponents-two console-less pals and my 7-year-old brother-wept and swore and were told it was time for bed, I thought, "I'm not good at much, but I'm the best at this. On weekends and weeknights, from the smug perch of my parent's sofa, I snapped the GameCube’s little yellow C stick back and forth, and I crushed my opponents. It’s a shame that we didn’t have an extra fifty Goblin rings to award, but we’ll definitely find ways to bring back the memes regularly, perhaps with more giveaway tie-ins.At the beginning of the millennium I succumbed to a wild delusion about Super Smash Bros Melee: I thought that I was good. We had a blast wading through the constant stream of entries that you posted on your fan walls, and had a pretty tough time narrowing down the selection to 5 winners - and you’ll see why, when you take a look at all the great memes beyond the winning 5 that brought a smile to our faces. Well, we asked for Goblin-related memes, and you guys sure delivered! ![]() ![]() ![]() 142 ApAp Goblin Ring Giveaway: 5 memes to rule them all by javabeans ![]()
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