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

[Celebrate Nite]

Unpopular opinion re: music:

Route 120 > Route 104 > Route 110

Route 110 is better with lyrics and a nice sounding drum

 

[Kid Named Rocket]

Here's some REAL nigga shit

 

[Executive Petrel]

The whole line is so weird. It looks like a sloth interbred with an ape.

Slakoth: Lazy and sleeps all day

Vigoroth: Literally can't stop moving because of extreme levels of stress.

Slaking: Fat lazy fuck.

Maybe it's supposed to represent life stages. A sleepy baby, a hyperactive teen that likes to break stuff and finally, a fat and lazy adult. It can tell all the young slakoths about its glory days as a quarterback as it stuffs its face with food.

Kind of like how Sobble can be seen as a crybaby, Drizile an edgy teen with an emo haircut and Inteleon is a know it all college graduate. I can see it going "Well ackshully..." at everything if it could talk like a human. I know it's supposed to be some steath assassin 007 type. But it looks so smug. Everyone would avoid Inteleon at parties because Inteleon never shuts up and has to one up everyone's knowledge on everything.

I often forget about slakoth because slaking is so bad and the design never caught me in a way of "that's fucking cool". It's just a big fat tough King Kong/donkey kong ripoff but ugly and lazy instead.
Also i'm not a big fan of gen 3.

If you see it that way, slakoth is not only the circle of life, but a brutal black pill.
you're always gettin fucked by your genes.

Slakoth.
You are a nice little lazy fat kid. However, everything is fine. You're maybe depressed, you might get bullied and waste all of your time by slacking off. No worries, you still have all the time in the world. Time to watch another sitcom, the crisps ain't gonna eat themselves.

Vigoroth.
Outclassed by your peers in every way possible, missed opportunitys everywhere, you explode and lash out against the world.
You go outside. Amphetamine maxxing. angrily trynna cope with your missed childhood experiences.
Having three jobs, you're rushing from gym to hooker to the next rave, partying till four in the moring only to be back at the office at eight. Tweeting racial slurs and writing shizo rants in the gaming area of an online platform about lolcows inbetween.
You are feeling nothing but rage and emptiness all the time.

Slaking is the final form, after having success or maybe not, your true self catches up to you.
Whether it's in a Trailer Park or a penthouse in LA, you look at the remainings of your life, who you are and what you accomplished. It makes your memories gloomy, thinking about what your son might do right now.
You feel the desparate urge to tell him to never ever slack off and that he should go touch grass. But mommy and the cops won't let you see him. "Stupid Karen, she was such a cute HR manager when I first met her", you mumble to yourself.
You're drowning your sorrows, probably popping antidepressants, too, while Alexa decides to play your favorite childhood Sitcom for you. You fall asleep, crying.

It's over, slothbros. Stop coping, just LDAR.
Can't trick your genes.
Rather be Intelleon and write mean "well, ackshually" stuff on r/slothtears.

 

[McMitch]

Also i'm not a big fan of gen 3.

Gen 3 had the issue of designs suddenly becoming clean and corporate while still lacking the technical expertise to make the games. A lot of why Gen 3 runs so much better than Gen 2 was the jump in convenience (assembly to C, higher assumptions on hardware constraints) rather than any improvement within GF.

 

[Digital Snows]

Maybe it's supposed to represent life stages. A sleepy baby, a hyperactive teen that likes to break stuff and finally, a fat and lazy adult. It can tell all the young slakoths about its glory days as a quarterback as it stuffs its face with food.

If you see it that way, slakoth is not only the circle of life, but a brutal black pill.
you're always gettin fucked by your genes.

I heard somewhere that the slakoth line was a joke about a lazy person trying to be active but then giving up, but I don't remember where I heard that so that might be fake and gay.
Maybe someone just though the gimmick of a pokemon with huge stats that can only attack every other turn would be interesting, gen 3 did introduced a lot of gimmick pokemon. Vigoroth is really weird though, I'm not sure why they made the middle stage drop line's the bit.

 

[Registration]

Gen 3 had the issue of designs suddenly becoming clean and corporate while still lacking the technical expertise to make the games. A lot of why Gen 3 runs so much better than Gen 2 was the jump in convenience (assembly to C, higher assumptions on hardware constraints) rather than any improvement within GF.

Wrong, this was gen 2. Gen 3 is where they attempt to go back to gen 1 and create more monster designs rather than the baby designs of gen 2.

 

[McMitch]

Wrong, this was gen 2. Gen 3 is where they attempt to go back to gen 1 and create more monster designs rather than the baby designs of gen 2.

Gen 2 still had that scuffed indy feeling. If anything, it's more of the same from Gen 1, though without as much of the "filling a cube" design philosophy. It ran a good range from baby designs to cool monsters, even if the pokemon where underwhelming under the hood.

 

[Registration]

Gen 2 still had that scuffed indy feeling. If anything, it's more of the same from Gen 1, though without as much of the "filling a cube" design philosophy. It ran a good range from baby designs to cool monsters, even if the pokemon where underwhelming under the hood.

Gen 3 initially was made to be a reboot just like BW was, to made all types of pokémon, but tjey didn't meet the quota and had to bring the old ones.

But even then, what cool pokemon in gen 2? Lets see: feraligatr, typhlosion, ariados, crobat, ampharos, steelix, scizor, heracross, ursaring, kingdra, gligar, donphan, skarmory, houndoom, sneasel, tyranitar, dogs.

Most of them are third evolutions or even late game. Whenever I played gen 2 my team basically was initial + ampharos + red gyarados since most of it is just reruns or the lamest gen 2 animals.

Edit: I was going to write the cool pokémon lines in gen 3 but I realized it was easier to write the lame ones instead: beautifly, ludicolo, nosepass, skitty, plusle minun, volbeat ilumise, spinda, castform, chimecho, wynaut, luvdisc.

Most of them are really cool, even somewhat cute ones turn into cool ones when evolve like snorunt into glalie or shromish into breelom.

Also more gen 3 edits by /vp/anon, I think this is a great example of how much cooler they aee in the end than in the beta

(with some exceptions)

 

[McMitch]

But even then, what cool pokemon in gen 2? Lets see: feraligatr, typhlosion, ariados, crobat, ampharos, steelix, scizor, heracross, ursaring, kingdra, gligar, donphan, skarmory, houndoom, sneasel, tyranitar, dogs.

That’s 1/5 of the total introduced Pokémon, and Lugia and Ho-oh are both cool as well I also personally like Meganium and Girafarig). Of all these, only 7 are second-stage, and only Houndoom and Tyranitar are after the Elite 4.
Contrast Gen 1, with: Venusaur, Charizard, Blastoise, Beedrill, the Nidos, Machamp, Tentacruel, maybe Golem, maybe Onix, Rhydon, Kangaskahn, Scyther, maybe Electabuzz, maybe Magmar, maybe Taurus, Aerodactyl, the birds, Dragonite, Mewtwo. Making a smaller ratio to the rest introduced in Gen 1, with more being second-stage.

But they can’t nor should they be entirely cool designs, having a range from cute to cool serves to extend the appeal to the nine-year-olds the games were intended for.

 

[Danann]

Also more gen 3 edits by /vp/anon, I think this is a great example of how much cooler they aee in the end than in the beta
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I think that Aggron looks worse than before. Looks a little plain without its horns and armor plating. All the others are better: Ludicolo, the Milotic-like, and Meditite line look way cooler.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

Gale of Darkness has the best music. Fight me.

Cipher Peon Battle Theme:

Cipher Admin Battle Theme:

Miror B. Battle Theme:

Battle SIM Challenge Theme:

Normal Battle Theme:

 

[Soi Woh Jak]

What's the best theme in a Pokémon game? The theme playing when capturing Giratina in the Distortion World is pretty memorable, or Deoxys' theme.

I like route 29 a lot, especially the DS version, very very cozy theme. I hum it during walks and stuff. Close second would be the Pokemon center theme from Heartgold/SoulSilver. I love the osts in both of those, I grew up with them, what can I say.

 

[30+GameOvers]

I often forget about slakoth because slaking is so bad and the design never caught me in a way of "that's fucking cool". It's just a big fat tough King Kong/donkey kong ripoff but ugly and lazy instead.

I used Slaking in my NeXt Gen run recently, and it's a beast in doubles, especially if you can switch abilities with it so it can attack every turn.
Singles? Yeah, it's garbage, and I assume that's where most people play. Still, don't sleep on it.

Wrong, this was gen 2. Gen 3 is where they attempt to go back to gen 1 and create more monster designs rather than the baby designs of gen 2.

There is barely any new Gen 2 Pokemon because they cut out most of them, lmao

 

[McMitch]

There is barely any new Gen 2 Pokemon because they cut out most of them, lmao

At the time Gen 2 came out, 40% of all Pokémon were Gen 2, when gen 3 came out 35% were Gen 3. The problem arises in that, with the way the GameBoy Pokémon games were architectured, the most Pokémon GF could make would only total 254 (253 once breeding was developed as a mechanic).

 

[30+GameOvers]

At the time Gen 2 came out, 40% of all Pokémon were Gen 2, when gen 3 came out 35% were Gen 3. The problem arises in that, with the way the GameBoy Pokémon games were architectured, the most Pokémon GF could make would only total 254 (253 once breeding was developed as a mechanic).

Gen 3 has a perfect amount of Pokemon. Honestly, one of the reasons I like ADV is that there is JUST the right amount of them that every tier has it's own distinctive flavor, very few Pokemon are downright useless in all tiers like you would see with the power creep of later gens. Even as of Gen 4 it became a nightmare since Garchomp and friends just walloped even top tier Pokemon, let alone some of the weaker ones. Meanwhile, Gen 3 was the only time something like Flygon or Claydol was ever relevant.

 

[chimpSculpture]

Does anyone remember the Pokémon Global Link's site had a theme? It wasn't much but it was memorable. Did anyone use that site? It ran like shit hahahahaha.

 

[I_Lurk_Here]

Does anyone remember the Pokémon Global Link's site had a theme? It wasn't much but it was memorable. Did anyone use that site? It ran like shit hahahahaha.

Reminds me of the Aero design. Has Pokémon gone through all 4 of these designs?

 

[Catgirl Tyranid]

Reminds me of the Aero design. Has Pokémon gone through all 4 of these designs?
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Flat design fucking suck and I hate it.

 

[Registration]

Flat design fucking suck and I hate it.

Memphis jackets are soulful as fuck

 

[Registration]

Finally finished the Pokemon Special XY manga. It was alright, I much prefer the B2W2 manga, but I don't know it was because I actually got to play the game since I never played XY. But I was actually quite surprised to see some returning characters like Blue, Blaine and Mewtwo, even more since I did read DECADES ago.

One detail that I loved was this page, the whole story with the fennekin that is lost and gets used by team flare to be a villain and in the end, trevor gets it back and it hates their guts, only for Whitley to come back and bring her to Unova. This really ties with the themes of BW.

And since the manga takes a lot to make, they already set the seeds to Sun and Moon (they actually did in B2W2), even when the next arc is ORAS.

I actually did read ORAS manga years ago vy skipping BW/XY, but I will reread it since the whole Megas stuff makes now makes sense for me.