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nintendo·NintendobyTag365

I don't like the new changes to getting icon elements.

Events gradually pop up on Nintendo Switch Online service that offer redeemable icon elements, such as Cohozuna and Big Man from Splatoon 3, and Kicks from Animal Crossing. Events are available for a limited time but may pop up again showing past elements. Normally you need a Nintendo Switch Online subscription to redeem them, but a few events required Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack instead - so I couldn't redeem the Super Mario 64 penguin icon since it required that.

Now all of a sudden, you need to play games one to three times depending on the event, in order to redeem the icon elements with points, but you still need an active Nintendo Switch Online membership to redeem the elements. The ones that require you to play three times to redeem icon elements require you to play the game three times, 24 hours in between each session, and the sessions must be undertaken while online and still having an active Nintendo Switch Online membership. You can't just launch the game once or even three times in a row in these instances. So now all of a sudden you need to basically own the game for at least two to three days. You could redeem event icon elements without owning the games before this change happened, as there was no such requirement.

This is despite the icon elements still being on a rotation - the current Super Mario World icon elements are only available to redeem until April 1, and the Animal Crossing ones are claimed to switch on Mondays.

I hope they do one of three things. One, they revert this change entirely, and remove the gameplay requirement. Two, they keep the game play requirement, but make it so you don't actually need Nintendo Switch Online to redeem them or count towards the game play requirement. Or three, they now have the entire element list available at all times - but in order to get the older icon elements outside of special events, you need to meet the game play requirements like right now, while special events will let you redeem the elements without having to meet game play requirements.

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gaming·GamingbyTag365

Where are all the games featuring skunks as playable characters?

There's like a thousand games where there's a playable cat, fox, dog, and/or bird, or an anthropomorphic version of such - either as the main character, or a playable one in a funny animal roster. But for skunks I don't see any major new titles coming out as such.

I know of Punky Skunk from 1990s, and Pine Seekers from 2010s which has skunks as the main playable characters, but not much else. Tooth and Tail also had a skunk class of unit, while Impossible Creatures had a skunk as a choice and thus let you fuse one with another animal as animal fusions is the main selling point of the game.

Armello had a large roster, but it cut off before it added a skunk as a playable character and they're so far relegated to a background character species - and it seems there's only like one card that features one and that's it. And they seem to be relegated to background characters at most in such games. Why is that?

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steam·SteambyTag365

How do I permanently delete Steam Cloud saves for Baldur's Gate 3?

There's a problem with Steam Cloud, when I try to manually delete the saves that don't even appear in the save list in the Early Access for Baldur's Gate 3, they keep on being restored from Steam Cloud even though I deleted them. But, they don't appear in the game's save menu so I can't delete them at all! What do I do to delete those saves for eternity and not just until I launch the game again?

Larian Studios say I am to delete all Early Access saves from the game in order to prevent problems when the game is fully released, but I can't do it because the saves can't be deleted in game - they no longer appear in the game menu.

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kingdomhearts·Kingdom HeartsbyTag365

What kind of Heartless is Ansem? Pureblood? Emblem? Or another kind?

After seeing a video pointing out that Pureblood Heartless don't have shadows, I went back to see footage of Sora as a Heartless and Ansem. The former has Sora have no shadow when he's a Shadow. During the fight with Riku with the Keyblade of heart, Riku's body still projects shadows. However, in the End of the World where Sora encounters Ansem posing as Riku, "Riku's" body doesn't appear to produce a shadow, and nether does Ansem himself, despite having the Heartless emblem on his chest.

The fact Ansem doesn't produce shadows normally yet still has the Heartless emblem on him is likely the reason why the Kingdom Hearts wiki doesn't make a statement as to whether he is an Emblem Heartless or a Pureblood Heartless. The infobox only says Heartless, where generally other Heartless characters have their infobox say if they're either an Emblem Heartless or a Pureblood Heartless.

So, do you think Ansem is a Pureblood Heartless, an Emblem Heartless, or some other kind of Heartless that doesn't fit into those groups?

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