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Flopsy posted:Lets be honest here: pokemon is gay as all hell but they're never going to outright say it. Trying to portray Wallace as a "ladies man" made me loving howl laughing even back in the day though. Him and Steven just guys being dudes. Selene and Lillie's whole thing made SuMo just absolutely adorable to me.
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Flopsy posted:Lets be honest here: pokemon is gay as all hell but they're never going to outright say it. Trying to portray Wallace as a "ladies man" made me loving howl laughing even back in the day though. Him and Steven just guys being dudes. Calling her 'yuri' but everyone is just gals being pals with the character writer saying wink out loud.
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Mar 29, 2022 01:03
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Shiroc posted:Calling her 'yuri' but everyone is just gals being pals with the character writer saying wink out loud. Man they all do that. It's the most Japanese thing ever to drop the biggest wink wink nudge nudges but never say it out loud. Like imagine watching Promare and thinking the main ship was Galo x Aina
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Mar 29, 2022 04:03
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Shiroc posted:I know that I've brought up the general idea before but the Pokemon Card Game also supports that the real plot of Sword/Shield was the budding romance between Yuri and Marnie I just found out what failing a knowledge check in real life looks like. It's googling "Yuri and Marnie," To find out who these two characters are.
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Been catching up to the pokemon anime lately, about to get to the new OP. Journeys is just weaker than SM for me, but it's like one in 4 episodes is super my jam. Gengar's whole little arc was delightful, the recent circus episode was super good, a Team Rocket episode where they find out Butch and Cassidy retired (extra good because it doesn't do the "TR are terrible bad guys, but they'd be good nice guys" and instead shows they're still fuckups in their early 20s) In my catchup, I've gone through both sets of specials for BDSP and then Arceus. BDSP Special: interesting story of timespace getting hosed and pokemon being unbirthed in a mirror dimension... but it's a story about timespace getting hosed and pokemon being unbirthed in a mirror dimension happening over 2 episodes, like 40 minutes total. Most of it is just kinda explaining the concepts and actors in it. Arceus: this one's just kinda nothing. 4 "short" episodes, 20 minutes for the first one and then 17 for the other 3. It's a cheaper set of episodes than the regular show because it's like specifically for amazon prime japan. Episode 1 is Goh and Ash go on a date at a festival about Hisui.. Then the Team Galactic members want to get Cyrus back because he fell in a timespace hole in the anime like twenty years ago. So they catch a Heatran and have it pump lava to the fire plate. The whole rest of the special is that Heatran gets hosed up from doing this and is going up spear pillar, and the gang's gotta try and stop it. It gets to the point where Heatran has so much power it'll set off basically a nuclear explosion, so to stop that our heroes... watch god come down from heaven and just put a giant orb of water that defuses the nuclearness. Ash and everyone kinda save the day, but i'm really checked out when part of it is god deciding to actively help but not actively help Too much? The only neurons that fired were when Brock showed up and ripped his shirt off to reveal he's still loving sculpted as per SM and also he owns his own private jet. 
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Mar 29, 2022 05:07
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MorningMoon posted:Been catching up to the pokemon anime lately, about to get to the new OP. Journeys is just weaker than SM for me, but it's like one in 4 episodes is super my jam. Gengar's whole little arc was delightful, the recent circus episode was super good, a Team Rocket episode where they find out Butch and Cassidy retired (extra good because it doesn't do the "TR are terrible bad guys, but they'd be good nice guys" and instead shows they're still fuckups in their early 20s) drat Brock 
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Mar 29, 2022 05:16
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That looks like some poo poo you would see out of an 80's cartoon.
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Mar 29, 2022 05:26
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MorningMoon posted:Been catching up to the pokemon anime lately, about to get to the new OP. Journeys is just weaker than SM for me, but it's like one in 4 episodes is super my jam. Gengar's whole little arc was delightful, the recent circus episode was super good, a Team Rocket episode where they find out Butch and Cassidy retired (extra good because it doesn't do the "TR are terrible bad guys, but they'd be good nice guys" and instead shows they're still fuckups in their early 20s) Eh, I find the best way to enjoy Pokemon anime is the smaller offshoot series like Twilight wings and the like. The main series is too tied to merchandise and marketing for me and they've long since given up having a rational plot. Sometimes the whole the characters never age and everything stays the same thing doesn't bother me but with Pokemon and the plethora of storylines and characters they have now it just feels like such a gigantic waste to cling to Ash's coattails endlessly. I know why they do it but it just bums me out. We could be getting a series like Detective Pikachu and actually have some fun poo poo like Pokemon being interviewed as witnesses to a kidnapping or even exploring the mafioso themes of team rocket. Instead it's all gotta catch em' all but more aimless. Flopsy fucked around with this message at 07:29 on Mar 29, 2022 |
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Mar 29, 2022 05:41
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MorningMoon posted:The only neurons that fired were when Brock showed up and ripped his shirt off to reveal he's still loving sculpted as per SM and also he owns his own private jet. I want the toy of this as soon as it's released.
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Mar 29, 2022 05:46
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Plot is for losers.
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Mar 29, 2022 05:49
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Took a whole bunch of tries but I finally beat the "wielder". Lost several attempts to Shadow Force alone. While I was frustrated at first, having to plan which Pokemon to use when was kinda satisfying! It was more of a puzzle than a battle, nice change of pace.
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Baller Ina posted:Took a whole bunch of tries but I finally beat the "wielder". Lost several attempts to Shadow Force alone. While I was frustrated at first, having to plan which Pokemon to use when was kinda satisfying! It was more of a puzzle than a battle, nice change of pace. Trick to it is using moves that never miss for example the pulse moves. SyntheticPolygon posted:Plot is for losers. Tell me again how thrilling the build up to Chairman Rose was again?
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Mar 29, 2022 07:31
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Flopsy posted:Tell me again how thrilling the build up to Chairman Rose was again? "Leon's late for dinner, let's storm onto private property and beat up its employees!" "The chairman is in the middle of an important meeting, so let's have a loud battle complete with kaiju smackdowns six feet away from him." "Yo I know this champion match means a lot to literally millions of people but I'm gonna start the apocalypse - oh gently caress oh poo poo it's too strong why did we torture a radioactive alien and turn its body into the regional gimmick no wonder it's mad heeeeeeelp!" 
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Mar 29, 2022 10:14
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Yes the plot for SwSh was bad and if everything with Rose was dropped and it just went straight to champion fight and then postgame story it would have been better.
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Mar 29, 2022 11:53
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Every time Leon brought up "but that isn't for 1,000 years" I kept waiting for Rose to respond with "That is what we have been telling people to prevent a panic. Our reserves will actually only last another 6 months" or something. It wouldn't have solved all the problems. Or even most of them. But at least some of the character motivations would make sense.
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Mar 29, 2022 12:37
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The manga is getting to the end of SwSh and the plot reads a whole lot better just by taking out the 1000 years part and having Rose keeps the plan a secret from everyone so it's not like Leon agrees to help but just to wait a couple of days.
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Mar 29, 2022 13:01
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Boba Pearl posted:I just found out what failing a knowledge check in real life looks like. Marnie is the cute punk chick with the slappin battle theme. If you remember a single Swish character it should be her. I don’t know who Yuri is but it had better be the canon name for the aggressively Scottish female player trainer and I will be angry if corrected on this.
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Mar 29, 2022 13:39
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:Marnie is the cute punk chick with the slappin battle theme. If you remember a single Swish character it should be her. Unfortunately her name is Gloria apparently (assuming you’re talking about the female MC that is)
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Mar 29, 2022 13:55
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Gloria's Japanese name is Yuri, yes
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Mar 29, 2022 13:58
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Vinylshadow posted:Gloria's Japanese name is Yuri, yes Ah, nevermind in that case
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Mar 29, 2022 14:21
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Marnie is Mary in Japan which feels better as a 'legal name but her punk name is Marnie' than being what everyone calls her.
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Mar 29, 2022 17:00
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The fake leak about Sw/Sh's plot being about Rose illegally doping Leon's Charizard would have been really stupid and also much better than what we got
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Mar 29, 2022 17:13
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JRPGs are at their best when they’re extremely stupid, they are at their worst when they take themselves seriously
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Zore posted:The fake leak about Sw/Sh's plot being about Rose illegally doping Leon's Charizard would have been really stupid and also much better than what we got Yeah that would have been really stupid but still fun somehow. you could even do what I said and have an unwinnable fight against Leon and the big plot event is finding evidence that Charizard pissed hot
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I like my games to emphasize how all CEOs are unstable villains who would destroy the world out of at best ignorance even if they seem nice.
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Mar 29, 2022 17:41
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It would have to make sense in-universe to somehow raise Charizard's stats beyond its limits. Therefore Rose would have had to create radioactive bottle caps.
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Shiroc posted:I like my games to emphasize how all CEOs are unstable villains who would destroy the world out of at best ignorance even if they seem nice. Pokemon out here with the realest loving takes. And no this isn't sarcasm fascinatingly Pokemon has a history of touching on really hard topics a lot of other games don't even want to acknowledge. The plot line about workers burning themselves out physically and mentally and losing their families while having positive corporate slogans shoved down their throats in ORAS was rough. Worse was encountering a one of the remaining ones and finding out they're suicidally depressed about the whole ordeal.
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Mar 29, 2022 19:05
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MorningMoon posted:It would have to make sense in-universe to somehow raise Charizard's stats beyond its limits. Therefore Rose would have had to create radioactive bottle caps. Tournament official: So you're telling me that this man's Charizard is exactly level 255?
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Hrist posted:Tournament official: So you're telling me that this man's Charizard is exactly level 255? The twist was that Leon's Charizard was in fact not a Charizard, but was a Charizard 'M, as Missingno is finally made canon
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Hrist posted:Tournament official: So you're telling me that this man's Charizard is exactly level 255? I really feel bad for all the pokemon forced into early retirement when Hoenn was let into the league and suddenly all their maxed EVs were illegal
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Flopsy posted:Pokemon out here with the realest loving takes. And no this isn't sarcasm fascinatingly Pokemon has a history of touching on really hard topics a lot of other games don't even want to acknowledge. The plot line about workers burning themselves out physically and mentally and losing their families while having positive corporate slogans shoved down their throats in ORAS was rough. Worse was encountering a one of the remaining ones and finding out they're suicidally depressed about the whole ordeal. For as terrible as Swoshi's endgame got I don't think I'll ever forget the guy who's lifesavings you took storming Rose's tower.
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Flopsy posted:Pokemon out here with the realest loving takes. And no this isn't sarcasm fascinatingly Pokemon has a history of touching on really hard topics a lot of other games don't even want to acknowledge. The plot line about workers burning themselves out physically and mentally and losing their families while having positive corporate slogans shoved down their throats in ORAS was rough. Worse was encountering a one of the remaining ones and finding out they're suicidally depressed about the whole ordeal. That was even in Gen 6, where you also had Kalosians making idle conversation about how great it is to have unionized labor and government-mandated maximum work hours and minimum vacation time that even a humble office worker got to enjoy. It made for a pretty stark contrast.
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:That was even in Gen 6, where you also had Kalosians making idle conversation about how great it is to have unionized labor and government-mandated maximum work hours and minimum vacation time that even a humble office worker got to enjoy. It made for a pretty stark contrast. GameFreak workers throwing in a “HINT HINT WINK” at their employers.
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I have reached lysandre labs or whatever the secret team flare base is. Going into gym seven I had Fan Rotom and Mega Abomasnow as new teammates but abomasnow kind of sucks wrt move pool and typing and defensive stats so I dumped it back in the box for nidoqueen. Maybe I’ll swap it back in when it’s e4 time. Hoping I luck out and get either heatmor or Durant on the next route. Would be nice to have a fire option
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Got a free code here for Pokemon Legends: Arceus, it's from the Uk so it may or may not work elsewhere. E2010SUFE735P948 If you take it and get it to work make a reply so people know not to bother trying once claimed.
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I ran into a level 78 alpha Gengar in a distortion and stupidly fainted it by overestimating how much of a hit it could take. Level advantage isn't a big thing in PLA! But then I ran into another level 78 alpha Gengar in another distortion later on in the same expedition, and managed to catch it. The game took pity on me.
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Hot take: Bede was a better and more interesting character than Marnie. 
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Marnie is what I, personally, would want out of a rival in the series at this point, but she had 3 total scenes so she's not exactly good. I like the idea of 'professional rival aiming for the same championship, who holds no personal grudge but aims to win it'. I don't really care for Bede/Silver style 'I hate your guts and am a huge rear end in a top hat' and the whole 'rival is your friend' thing is just overplayed at this point.
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Vandar posted:Hot take: Bede is good imo. Shame he drops out of the story after gym 5 but he's got a solid arc.
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Vandar posted:Hot take: This isn't a surprise since they've had far more experience writing male rivals with interesting personalities and character arcs then female characters in similar roles.
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