Did you fall for it? Be honest

Did you fall for it? Be honest.

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Yep. I'm always skeptical of leaks but the circumstantial evidence was insane. I'm disappointed the fake leaker never came out and said how he did it

Pretty much this. I'm disappointed we never got a full high res image of the fake banner too.

No. There wasn’t any way Sakurai would have decided to reveal less than half of the newcomers (at that point). Even then, the “poster” didn’t look too believable either.

Why did the leaker never came out? who was it

This.

I don't tend to believe leaks, but there's a point where there are too many coincidences to not believe something is legit.

Yes
Never again

cringe

No, I'm not as gullible as 90% of Zig Forums, which says less about me and more about the state of this board.

Finally, a user with some sensibility.

I will murder for Mach Rider

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This guy's sentiment exactly

After Ridley and K. Rool everything else has just been a pleasant surprise, especially B&K. I've never taken leaks seriously. People should really learn to be satisfied.

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No
and you have to have severe mental issues to have believed it
If you're doing your job properly, the art shouldn't have been that blurry even if it's going on a bracelet

Grinch faggots were worse than the fucking Corona virus.

fpbp unfortunately

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To grinch leak fags

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Being honest, ultimately yes.

I was against it for a long time, it was obviously fake and stupid and thinking just a blurry bunch of pixels was real was beyond retarded.

Then the random healing item got leaked and people tied it to psyenergy and made a case for it and I started to waver. I gave in and said you know what it's probably real in that case

They revealed that the direct was like 35-40 minutes or something and I went back to thinking it was fake as "they have no way of showing off that many characters in just that amount of time." but still, I believed it for a brief while so I'll count myself even if I fell off it.

>we will never have zero suit Mach Rider
Feels bad

I fell for it but Banjo & Kazooie were actually in anyway and that was the only one I really cared about so I can’t be mad

Sucks about Isaac though. Why does Nintendo not give even a single fuck about Golden Sun? Guess there weren’t enough waifus

Not enough Sales.
It was pirated more than 100x more than it was sold.

Kind of funny how the only fake one from the Grinch Leak that ended up happening for real was the one everyone thought would be impossible, while everyone else got explicitly fucked by a Spirit and/or Assist Trophy. also it's still fucking weird to me just how actively they hid the Shadow AT until that final Direct.

Mach rider was the most hype out of everyone for me on that list, even if the retro character in each installment was a predictable pattern.

Maybe? Im not into smash so never gave it too much thought, actually Zig Forums became so fucking cancerous that I had to eventually filter it, but from what I could gather pre-filter it was a pretty plausible leak. The grinch bit was straight bullshit though and you had to be mentally retarded to even consider its veracity.

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didn't this person go to insanely elaborate lengths to have incidental details that would line up with this being legit? there was some post made that listed them all.

I just wanted (and still want) a golden sun playable character, okay?

>still better than the plant
sakurai must be insane

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yeah and I shilled hard as fuck for it

I did. I still don't get how he did it.

No.
>Wow how could someone photoshop a bunch of characters into a artwork, print it out, and screenshot a blurry video of it?
>Woah we are getting reveals for 5 characters and 2 echoes in 1 direct!
Honestly, people who fell for this need to be executed for wasting oxygen.

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the more I think about it the more I believe mariotehplumber's claim that he did it. He really is autistic and spiteful enough to do something like this.

yea -_-

Yup pretty much this. The fake leak had the advantage of having an insane amount of coincidences working alongside the leaker's intuition of thinking 5 steps ahead. We'll probably never have something like this ever again.

I wouldn't be certain they hid Shadow's AT away on purpose, the AT got updated in Ultimate with a new animation and a time freeze effect at the end

I never got any of my most wanted except for Pitoo and Junior in 4 and by then I wasn't even rosterfagging because I barely knew what Zig Forums was, I think I can ask for Bomberman and Metal Sonic as much as I want now. Doesn't mean I won't get them but also does not mean I'll stop.

no because i'm not a retard

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It's only the name of the leak because there was a Grinch sticker next to it.

i did, but i ended up winning anyway.

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No because I'm old enough to remember and experience shit exactly like this.

Does anyone remember the Fallout 4 ARG? I mean the one way before the actual announcement of Fallout 4 back in like 2013 I think? It was super high quality and everyone in Zig Forums feel for it, including me. And not just Zig Forums, it was being reported everywhere, news sites were covering it. The ARG went for about half a month until it became so big that Bethesda finally came out saying it was bullshit and it was revealed to be the work of one really dedicated autist. Maybe you guys don't remember that and that's why you fell for this, but I did and ever since then I never took leaks seriously.

People always say that "It's too high quality" to be real but people seem to always underestimate the sheer talent and autism of humanity.

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It seemed legit, but at the same time, I had my doubts, because it seemed way too many characters to add within such a short time. Banjo was added anyway, he's the only one I cared about.

I wanted to, but I knew inside that it wasn't going to happen. I was so excited for Banjo, Mach Rider and Chorus Kids. Honestly I wanted some new 1st party retro rep like we usually always get but I didn't get that, but 1 out of 3 is more than I ever expected.

>No because I'm old enough to remember and experience shit exactly like this.
Not old enough to remember and experience the Smash 4 leaks apparently

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>ITT retards making excuses for why they fell for it