Pokémon (Not-So) Griefing Thread - Scarlet and Violet Released with 10 Million Copies in First 3 Days in Buggy States

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fuck you i'm bumping this again because i just learned something that blew my fucking mind after watching this gay pokeymans video

so you know how in scarlet/violet you have the three new dog lines: maschiff, fidough, and greavard? what if i told you they're actually related? there's a nursery rhyme called "Rub-a-dub-dub" that goes:
Rub-a-dub-dub,
Three men in a tub,
And who do you think they be?
The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker,
And all of them out to sea.
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butcher - maschiff
baker - fidough
candlestick maker - greavard

it's probably just a coincidence, but it'd be pretty clever if were intentional.
 
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Lurker said:
fuck you i'm bumping this again because i just learned something that blew my fucking mind after watching this gay pokeymans video

so you know how in scarlet/violet you have the three new dog lines: maschiff, fidough, and greavard? what if i told you they're actually related? there's a nursery rhyme called "Rub-a-dub-dub" that goes:

butcher - maschiff
baker - fidough
candlestick maker - greavard

it's probably just a coincidence, but it'd be pretty clever if were intentional.
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I think it's probably a coincidence
Maschiff and Greavard are stretching it, especially since the former is based around a bait-and-switch intimidation tactic (as opposed to the extremely straightforward menace a butcher gives off) and the latter evolves to lose the candlestick (and was hardly related to them in the first place beyond a shitty accessory slapped on its head).
Fun theory, though
 
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New bug discovered
 
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Anonitolia said:
. Some of my favorite cases at the time were the Scarlet/Violet Book borders and the BDSP-exclusive Poketch skin.
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How do you get those cases? I haven't visited many stores beyond the ones that sold battle items and sandwich ingredients, in fact I Managed to beat the base game and teal mask and completed their respective pokedex without figuring out where to buy picnic decorarions. I chalk it up to stores being hard to tell apart from normal buildings.
 
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How do you get those cases? I haven't visited many stores beyond the ones that sold battle items and sandwich ingredients, in fact I Managed to beat the base game and teal mask and completed their respective pokedex without figuring out where to buy picnic decorarions. I chalk it up to stores being hard to tell apart from normal buildings.
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the first two are apparently unknown atm (might’ve just been found in the game’s files?), at least according to serebii, whereas the latter only unlocks if you have BDSP save data on your Switch
 
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eternal consoomer arlo weighs in with his opinions
i'm just linking this because I find it really really funny how obviously in-denial he is of SV being bad games
dude talks about how "oh, I don't like this DLC as much because I'm playing it after Scarlet and Violet, which I loved, whereas when playing Sword and Shield's DLC (a game which he hated), I actually liked them way more because it was coming off a game I really didn't like!" when both DLCs barely changed jack shit from their base games save for adding in a new fetch quest and jangling some keys over barren, god-awful landscapes
the way he sounds when he's praising the landscapes 5 mins in too :story:

"it all gives the impression of prettiness"
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So how do you guys think the new anime would do in the western market? I'm not even sure how well its doing in Japan, but from what I remember, in Japan, the human characters are more favored, which explains a lot, while in the west, its the mons that are more well liked. I think its gonna run into problems here.

I don't care either way if it flops or not, I enjoyed what little I saw, but I am curious on what those with more experience with me in these matters think.
 
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GigantorUnitron said:
So how do you guys think the new anime would do in the western market? I'm not even sure how well its doing in Japan, but from what I remember, in Japan, the human characters are more favored, which explains a lot, while in the west, its the mons that are more well liked. I think its gonna run into problems here.

I don't care either way if it flops or not, I enjoyed what little I saw, but I am curious on what those with more experience with me in these matters think.
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I think it's going to do well at first and then fail the moment it gets a gap in its release schedule.
  • Putting it on Netflix forces it to compete with a multitude of other, much much better story-focused anime that have better art styles, more recognizable characters, more fleshed-out stories. Horizons seems to be going for a Western-style SoL/plot-driven hybrid from what little i've gleamed of the story, which is not going to work for a Western Pokémon audience (that, as you said, prefers the Pokémon and will probably recognize the anime more for its episodic aspects than anything else) nearly as well as Ash's creature-of-the-week adventures will.
  • Ash is gone. Seeing as Japan's Pokémon craze centered around the games more than it did the anime, it probably wasn't nearly as big a deal to them (hell, might've even been a benefit), but I highly doubt anybody outside of the hardcore audience who's been watching this show for 25+ years actually wanted to see Ash go for real. He's like the face of Pokémon to every single normie parent who might recognize this show, and without him and Pikachu on the face of things said parent might be less immediately willing to just throw on a few Pokémon episodes for their kid. The difference will probably be negligible- I'm guessing maybe a half-second or two of doubt before the parent plays it anyways- but it'll still impact the series.
  • Liko (fucking hate that name) and Roy are competing against a quarter-century of established branding that has just been thrown in the trash. This kind of ties into what I said above, but seriously, in the west- without Ash, the anime will be unrecognizable to the vast majority of normies, especially since they're putting so much emphasis on Galar and Paldea right now. No parent would buy a Liko (it should've been Riko or Lyko or literally anything else) toy over an Ash toy, no parent would go for a Sprigatito over a Pikachu unless the kid really really wanted it, and even if I doubt this'll be a disaster for sales or anything I think it'll definitely impact viewer and sales numbers for the general population.
  • The hardcore fans/"kid cartoon reviewer" crowd will wet themselves over it. The former will stick around and watch it because it's Pokémon, the latter will watch it because "it's so cool and awesome that more kids animation is tackling deep stories with plot-based episodes you guyz" (despite this having been a thing for nearly 10 years now) and also because it's Pokémon. Both might drop off in later seasons if the two leads don't get better personalities.
TL;DR: It's on a platform flooded with anime in its genre that does everything it does but better- it went from being a unique monster-of-the-week show to being an infinitely more generic adventure series and is now facing very harsh competition where it previously had none. It's lost its flagship mascot (which was the most important part of the entire media franchise to most parents), it lost its recognizability, and I'm expecting its main fanbase to consist mostly of manchildren as opposed to real kids.
 
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SHINY POLTCHAGEIST LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOO

i had an outbreak of poltchageist and i was at the part of the DLC where it only just turned night and will stay night until i continue the storyline, which made it really convenient when looking for a pokemon that comes out at night. imagine how much of a pain it is to look for this fucking thing at night when the only difference between a normal poltchageist and a shiny one is that the black is instead like a darkish green? it was by sheer luck i found mine because i saw what i thought looked to be a different-colored one and on a whim i decided to battle it, and thank fuck it was a shiny, and this time i was prepared because wild poltchageist, starting around level 64 or something(?) has the move memento, which severely lowers your attack stats and in return the pokemon using memento faints, so i had my toxtricity use taunt immediately so it wouldn't fucking kill itself.

it was a counterfeit, by the way, with absolutely garbage stats. but i don't even care, i'm gonna flex SO FUCKING HARD.
 
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Coelacanth said:
What's that? No HGSS? Get that normie shit out of here this is a soundtrack for men, not remakechuds!
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Keep your beeps and boops, I'll listen to actual music (JK, I like crystal, but HeartGold is just the best)


Aside from that, lately I've been having nostalgia trips over Battle Revolution of all games. Yeah, it's lacking a bunch of features of the Stadium games and it's practically unplayable if you don't connect it to a DS game, but it looks and sounds quite nice. Anyone else feel the same?
Obviously the game is almost two decades old so the visuals are quite dated, but back then the Waterfall, Sunset and Sunny Park collosseums were gorgeous, and while the Pokemon's models and animations can be a bit wonky sometimes, they're miles better than the current crap on the Switch. Ho-Oh looks majestic:


And the OST is awesome, have a listen:


Also, PBR and BW2's PWT are the only two games where both you and NPC trainers can use major legendaries. I love most of their designs yet they're not allowed in the battle facilities and using them in during the story destroys what little challenge it has. They're more trophies than Pokemon in the core series and I'm glad this game lets me use them against other legendaries.
 
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Squawking Macaw said:
I've been having nostalgia trips over Battle Revolution of all games. Yeah, it's lacking a bunch of features of the Stadium games and it's practically unplayable if you don't connect it to a DS game, but it looks and sounds quite nice. Anyone else feel the same?
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lmao I wrote up a whole post partially about its water grafix

LOOK at this shit and tell me it ain't gorgeous, I dare you
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ToroidalBoat said:
this guy really doesn't like S&V:

"Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Super Sucks" - Stel Key

(Personally I'm glad I stopped keeping up with the games after Gen 6, and looking back I think the games were best from Gen 3 to 6.)
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>only half an hour long
pussy, should've made it thrice the length to really show his hatred
thank god it's that short I'm getting so sick of several-hour essays that barely say anything
 
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