{"id":128043,"date":"2022-09-12T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-137497"},"modified":"2022-09-12T16:05:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T16:05:00","slug":"random-bored-splatoon-3-players-are-recreating-pong-and-screensavers-in-the-lobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/09\/12\/random-bored-splatoon-3-players-are-recreating-pong-and-screensavers-in-the-lobby\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Bored Splatoon 3 Players Are Recreating Pong And Screensavers In The Lobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/542a8e4838acc\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/542a8e4838acc\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"S3 Lobby\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/542a8e4838acc\/s3-lobby.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/542a8e4838acc\/s3-lobby.900x.jpg\" alt=\"S3 Lobby\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Nintendo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here at Nintendo Life, we&#8217;re big fans of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/splatoon_3\">Splatoon 3<\/a> \u2014 as if you couldn&#8217;t already tell from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch\/splatoon-3\">our glowing review<\/a> \u2014 and while the lobby wait times can go on a little, being able to ink your surroundings and zip around is better than staring at a board while you twiddle your thumbs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/09\/splatoon-3-connection-issues-looks-like-an-update-is-on-its-way\">An update<\/a> is on the way which should address any lingering connectivity teething problems players have been experiencing, but however zippy they may be, you&#8217;re still going to find yourself waiting in the Splatsville Lobby at some point. Seeing your fellow players in force-ghost hologram form is all well and good for the first few seconds, but what do you do when you are 100 seconds in? What about 200? What abou\u2014 well, you get the picture.<\/p>\n<p>Predictably, the internet has been making the most of its wait times in the match-making lobby. These have ranged from the creative to the funny and the outright sanity-questioning, including reenacting a match of <strong>Pong<\/strong> and recreating screensavers.<\/p>\n<p>240 seconds in and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MotovationYT\">@MotovationYT<\/a> took it upon themselves to entertain those waiting by becoming something of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5mGuCdlCcNM\">a bouncing screensaver<\/a> on a nearby inked wall:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Been waiting in the lobby for so long, he became a SCREENSAVER LMAOOOOO <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Splatoon3?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Splatoon3<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NintendoSwitch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NintendoSwitch<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/B4OQXlaBNE\">pic.twitter.com\/B4OQXlaBNE<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Motovation (@MotovationYT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MotovationYT\/status\/1568798138026311680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>This level of boredom was turned up a notch in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Failboat103\">@Failboat103<\/a>&#8216;s Lobby, where \u2014 along with two cooperative squids \u2014 they transformed a splat-zone into a classic game of Pong. With two players as the paddles and one bouncing between them as the &#8216;ball&#8217;, who said that watching ink dry needed to be boring?<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">People starting to get real bored in these waiting room lobbies \ud83d\udc80 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gwzrkxHNke\">pic.twitter.com\/gwzrkxHNke<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Failboat (@Failboat103) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Failboat103\/status\/1568994914553446401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It wouldn&#8217;t really be a Splatoon Lobby if there were no attempts to paint the town red, so to speak. Perhaps the most common way to pass the time in Splatsville&#8217;s Lobby is to see how much of the area you can ink before being added to a game. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CherriBlitz\">@CherriBlitz<\/a> took this mission to a whole new level and inked the <em>entire<\/em> area. <em>Clean up in lobby one<\/em>.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Her: I bet she&#8217;s thinking about other girls<br \/>Me: I should paint the the entire splatoon 3 practice lobby at 4AM ^-^ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R19TioYLrG\">pic.twitter.com\/R19TioYLrG<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Cherri bb (@CherriBlitz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CherriBlitz\/status\/1568953545973727238?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Finally, we thought it best to demonstrate that not all of these wait times need be ink-focused. More of a pacifist in the Lobby (before unleashing splatty hell on your opponents on the battlefield)? Then perhaps you could benefit from transforming the waiting area into a wholesome game of Leapfrog (or should it be <em>Leapsquid<\/em>?), as is demonstrated by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkyeRoxy_\">@SkyeRoxy_<\/a> below.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">PRO SPLATOON 3 STRAT: you can play leapfrog with other players in the lobby <i title=\":smiley:\" class=\"twa twa-lg twa-smiley\"><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SuWt9dv7WL\">pic.twitter.com\/SuWt9dv7WL<\/a><\/span>\u2014 \ud83c\udf38 Skye \ud83c\udf38 (Commissions Full!!) (@SkyeRoxy_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkyeRoxy_\/status\/1569302345854623746?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>To be clear, wait times suck and we would much rather not be stuck in the Lobby in the first place. However, if these tweets have taught us anything, it is that a little bit of pre-match creativity doesn&#8217;t hurt every once in a while.<\/p>\n<p><em>How have you found the Splatoon 3 lobbies thus far? What do you do to pass the time while waiting for a match to start? Drop your tips for match-making time management below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo Here at Nintendo Life, we&#8217;re big fans of Splatoon 3 \u2014 as if you couldn&#8217;t already tell from our glowing review \u2014 and while the lobby wait times can go on a little, being able to ink your surroundings and zip around is better than staring at a board while you twiddle your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}