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>Be Anon watching the superbowl in your room
>It's nearing the end
>Twilight sits next you and asks, "How's the game going?"
>"It's almost done," you said, "looks like the Seahawks are gonna win."
>"Can we play Smash Bros soon? I'm itching for a rematch!" she said, wiggling her butt in the air like she's ready to pounce
>You scratch her behind the ears and chuckle. "Hehe, okay. I'm getting a little tired of watching anyways."
>Goes to commercial
>The TV-spot with MLP plays
>"Oh wow," Twilight says, "was that Ponyville?! And me? And my friends?! OHMYGOSH that was so cool!"
>"Yeah!" you responded, "Wow, I didn't expect that."
>"Looks like I'm still a princess in the show, huh?" she asked, smiling
>"Yeah, that hasn't changed. What do you think about it?"
>"Oh, whatever. I'm fine being a unicorn," she responds. "And I'm definitely not ready to be a princess. Too much studying and videogames to do first."
>You set the TV to Video-2. "Way too much," you said, as you turned on the GameCube.
>"It's been a while since I've played," you said, "who are you going to main?"
>"I think I'll go with young Link," said Twilight, sitting in front of her GameCube arcade stick, "I'm in an adventurous mood."
>"I'm in an Aliens kinda mood, so I'll go with Samus," you said.
>Both of you have your controllers at the ready as the screen yells MMMMMMMAY-LAAAAAAY
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>You start by fumbling with the controls for a bit as both of you try to select the play mode and map>Both of you have made a little mini-game of it>"Ahahaa, " she says, "stop it! Come on!">"No, U">She blows a raspberry at you and selects Final Destination while you glanced at her>"No fooling around, huh?">"Oh, I mean business," she said with a grin, selecting her young warrior>You pick your bounty hunter and in no time are teleported into the floating arena>Twilight's beginning strategy consisted of making a beeline for you, as you ran away, so she could catch you in Young Link's up-smash before chucking a bomb at you>If you moved against her, she started jumping back and shooting arrows, giving you the opportunity to catch her with a charged shot or, more your speed, a well-timed missile>For someone who hasn't played much Smash compared to you, she caught on to the air-dodge mechanic fairly quickly, leaving your missiles fly off into space>She also learned quickly not to try and air-juggle you too many times lest you drop a morph ball bomb and catch her prone with a down-b cannon spray>You decided not to ban items completely from the match, as that would've meant less fun. She enjoyed nothing more than to grab the hammer and try to hit you with it>She enjoyed that more than you enjoyed punting her with the baseball bat>Which you were about to do"No no no NO NOOO!"
>The baseball bat screeched as it hit it's target. Twilight "no'd" in unison with young Link's wailing as he blinked out into the backgroundGAME!
>"Aww maaaa~n," she said, defeated.>"Wanna go again? " you asked.>"Yes!" she said, pepping up with determination. "I'm gonna make it count this time!" she said, crouching low in front of her gamepad, both hooves on the stick and buttons. No magic, just brute muscle memory>Same characters, same place, different strategy>You both run into each other. You're expecting her to go right into the up-smash while you roll under her>Instead, you roll past each other>Twilight immediately starts pounding the down-A sword swipes. You were caught prone>Righting yourself, you counter with a missile and jump back>She dodges and rolls towards you>You decide to be bold and dare her to hit you as you start charging your shot>She calls your bluff and hookshots you to closer range>She throws you up and rolls out of the way as you try a down-b spray>She chucks a bomb at you in air. You managed to dodge; she follows with a couple of arrow shots>Annoyed, you try to catch her off guard with a shoulder-slam>The hit connects, and you go in with combo hits>She counters with an up-smash before you can grab her>Items drop behind her>While she runs for the box you send a charged shot after her>She manages to throw the box at the shot just in time>Out comes a hammer and an invincible star>"Shit!">"Shit.">She goes for the hammer, you go for the star>You get the star first! But the hammer was sent farther behind her. There was a 2 second distance between her and where you got the star>She waits until you get to her before getting the hammer. >Stalemate as she tries to avoid you>You catch up to her, hitting her with your invincibility>She drops the hammer, sailing up a couple feet>You grab it, becoming invincible for 3, 2, 1>Gone>She drops a bomb on you while in air>You drop the hammer>Upon landing she throws her boomerang, keeping you away from the hammer just long enough for her to roll to it and pick it up>You're fucked>You try to run away, hoping to fake her out at the edge>If she comes after you, there's a chance you can hit her from the bottom>She dives, knowing her time is running out>You've got her>You do your up-smash, expecting to catch her as she tries to turn right and hit you with the end of the hammer>She doesn't! She goes left and dodges you!>The tip of the hammer hits you as she turns right again and gets under you>You fly into the screenGAME!
This game's winner goes to–
>"ME!" Twilight screamed. "ME ME ME ME MEEEEEEE~" she starts chirping as he hops around the room and stops in front of your face, a big happy smile painted on it>"Good game, " you said, just happy to see her beaming like that. You give her mane a ruffling. "Again?" No.3
>>2>"Nah," she said, "I'm satisfied. Any other games you feel like playing?">You gave it some thought.>"I'm been meaning to get back to Rise of the Triad actually.">"Oooooh~" she cooed, "what's that?">"It's a first-person shooter game. Kinda violent, but in a really silly way.">"Oh, okay! I like silly," she said, reminding herself of Pinkie Pie and wondering if she'd play a game like that.>You get up and move towards your rig, pulling up a seat for your favorite purple horse as you turn the machine on>It whirrs to life as the AsRock logo appears on the screen, taking less than half a minute to boot up>You navigate over to your GOG games folder and double-click the Rise of the Triad icon>The game boots up, showing you the title screen set against several panning shots of what looks like the outside of Castle Wolfenstein, appropriately>The background pans over the double rocket launcher>"What's that?" she said, "It looks big.">"That's a split missile launcher," you explained. "It can home in on targets once you fire, using heat-seeking tech.">"Heat-seeking?" She asks. "Hey, that's a pretty nifty idea. Although I dunno what I'd use it for. Y'know, since I don't wanna blow ponies up, " she added with a laugh.>"Heh, me neither!" you said, "but in videogames everything is fun.">"Ya don't gotta tell me twice!" said Twilight with some cheek. "So, how to I play? Where's the controller?">"Right here">You hold up the keyboard and mouse to her.>"Oh …" she said, looking a little bewildered. "That's gonna be tricky.">You shrug and give her a playful smirk. "Well, the night is young …">You get out of your chair and set the keyboard and mouse down on the desk so Twilight can start getting her hooves around it>You excuse yourself for a moment to cook up some popcorn>This is gonna be good No.4
>>3>You come back in with two bowls of popcorn to find Twilight diligently–but gingerly–moving the mouse and clicking the enter key with the edges of her hooves>She's sticking her tongue out the corner of her mouth and furrowing her brows in deep focus as she is setting the key bindings>Pretty bold and meticulous for a PC newbie, but simply methodical for Twilight>You set the bowl down next to her as you start munching on yours and slouch into your chair>"Thanks!" she said, looking away at you briefly before returning to setting up her game>She levitates a single popped kernel and begins munching on it slowly as she sets the last key binding>"Done!" she said. You look over her work>Several of the commands–moving left and right, ducking, jumping–having been bound to two-to-three keys instead of just one. A for moving left becomes Q-A-Z and D for moving right becomes E-D-C. >Looking at her rather big hooves, you understand why: She intends to widen her margin of error drastically to account for her lack of digits, thus giving her a better chance at getting good at the game. >"Damn," you say, "I walked away for about 2 minutes and you've already got a battle plan for this game. I'm impressed. You'll be deathmatching online with the best of them yet.">Twilight turns to you and gives you one of those cute grins where her eyes become upside down U's when shut. "Yeah! I'll have to get used to it, though, but I think I can get the hang of it better than just tapping them one by one.">You ask her, "How come you're not just using your magic to press the keys?">"Well, " she began, "I could do that, but it feels better to touch the buttons with my hooves. I don't know why, but it's more challenging and just feels more rewarding." She lifts another kernel to her snout and bites down on it.>"Besides," she said, "I can make less of a mess eating stuff with my magic while I play.">"Yeah, it's like a third arm you don't have to wash, " you respond, sticking a small wad into your mouth.>Satisfied with her key bindings, she moves on to picking her character>"Who do you usually pick?" asked Twilight>"Taradino Cassatt," you said, "the blonde guy. He's fun to listen to." >"He talks?" Twilight asked.>"Yeah, " you tell her, "he makes a snarky comment whenever you pick up a weapon. If you die, though, your operator heckles you or makes a joke at your expense.">"Wa-how," she said, "what a jerk! This should be pretty fun then.">She picks Taradino and watches the short intro movie before being dropped into the first level>"Here I go!">Her hoof pressed down on the W key and she begins to move forward, and sideways. Then the other way.>She weeble-wobbles around for a bit as she tries to angle her hoof to only press the W key>She starts firing the Walther PPK randomly by accident, shooting some mooks in the chest>"Whoa~ whoooaa-haha. Yup, just gotta get. the. hang. of. it" she says, undeterred. No.5
>>4>Twilight meets her first death screen about 5 minutes into the game>"You're not doing so hot," said the operator, "maybe it's time for God mode.">Twilight growls a quiet hmmmmrph with pursed lips>You look a little anxiously at the mouse covered by her left hoof. They fit nicely together, but hooves are hooves, and in the heat of the moment anything could happen>Before long she gets her second wind when she finds the rocket launcher>"All right!" she says at the same time Taradino chimes in, "This'll put a smile on anyone's face.">Watching her try to move around and shoot not-Nazis while trying not to get herself killed is kind of painful, but it makes her small victories that much more satisfying>And she looks really satisfied blowing Nazis apart No.88
>No wings Twilight.
>Comfy story about Anon and Twilight gaming it out.
>Smash Bros. Melee.
I'll make sure this thread stays sticky'd. I'm glad this was the first thread/post on this board.
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