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

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Level99Manchild said:
Larry was the only good one despite his hair. Poor bastard has to work with incompetent trannies (Rika and Geeta).
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Larry's partly a hit because he looks about as fed up with the state of the game as the average fan.
Down_the_what said:
Rika is also popular even in Japan she rank 1st for women's dream character twice.
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Rika is more a pretty boy imo than a woman, but it's a solid design. I see them as exceptions proving the rule.
 
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AnotherPleb said:
Rika is more a pretty boy imo than a woman, but it's a solid design. I see them as exceptions proving the rule.
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Rika is based on those bishounen but female characters like this sailor moon character.
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That why she's popular with Japanese girls.
 
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Kurohige said:
"Nudging" is a thing they try to passively (and subconsciously) insert subjects that might be considered normal if they could be considered to abnormal.

We're at a stage, however, where any character with any simultaneous pink and blue accents starts creating lines in the sand. That's how it is with games now, and I'm honestly glad that trailers still exist. They are the only way people can air their grievances at the earliest in the game's cycle whenever they see some bullshit.
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Its possible the Pokémon company is trying to preempt social media backlash by incorporating the changes seen since Sun&Moon, no longer a primarily white cast, female rival, female elite four champion, large percentage of fat characters, ganes getting easier, body type 1&2 as opposed to the traditional boy & girl.

Eventually these changes continue to snowball. Pokémon is trying to straddle the line between attracting a male and female audience for what was originally a boys brand in the 90's. Nothing is inherently wrong with that but the crowd that wants a queer trans nonbinary sex scene in every game aren't satisfied with anything until they own your company outright. No amount of pandering or throwing them crumbs will ever be enough. You just risk alienating your core audience more which is a dangerous prospect if the next palworld is actually a turn based battle game that actually has potential to take shine off your crown.

Just seems like a dumb thing to be hiring a DEI coordinator and the worst time to be doing it after witnessing the failures of so many games before it that took this route.
 
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Sneak 'n' Snore said:
Rika I think is a gem of a character among lots of overdesigned characters or designs that look worse in-game than they would in 2D.
No idea who this trend of cluttering up a character design is supposed to appeal to, the latest Fire Emblem has suffered similarly under it.
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Rika looks like a character you'd see in the older games ie good. A lot of modern designs suffer from overcomplication, from Fire Emblem to Vtubers to Genshin and other Mihoyo games. The culprit is probably Gacha games like the latter, they clutter up the character/costume design to make the unit or card look more complex and more worthy of spending money on.
 
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Xerxes IX said:
The culprit is probably Gacha games like the latter, they clutter up the character/costume design to make the unit or card look more complex and more worthy of spending money on.
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Likely. In the time SwSh and SV came out the type of stuff that is popular and watched has changed. It makes sense to to move with the times.

Like conosidering how big Hololive is a vtuber gym leader was a no brainer. Why it was an Electric one and not a Water one was confusing though

The fact that everyone’s response seems to be ‘stick with the old 90s designs’ is rather funny.
 
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Down_the_what said:
Rika is based on those bishounen but female characters like this sailor moon character. View attachment 5852807
That why she's popular with Japanese girls.
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The direct opposite would be guys with designs like Grusha. There's probably a couple artists who had to update their art when they finally knew he was a he. That scarf is doing a lot of work, look at the guy's lips!
 
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Down_the_what said:
Grusha is just those anime femboys being popular like Iono being base on vtubers popularity. Also Iono being base on Kizuna Ai rather than Gura since she's the first popular vtuber.
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Ah. I keep forgetting Ai was a thing.

Was thinking more Suisei. It’s just all of Holo’s real popular ones seem to be blue or red, not yellow
 
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Kurohige said:
The direct opposite would be guys with designs like Grusha. There's probably a couple artists who had to update their art when they finally knew he was a he. That scarf is doing a lot of work, look at the guy's lips!
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Still one of the funniest things to happen in the fandom ngl :story:
 
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zyclonPD said:
Its possible the Pokémon company is trying to preempt social media backlash by incorporating the changes seen since Sun&Moon, no longer a primarily white cast, female rival, female elite four champion, large percentage of fat characters, ganes getting easier, body type 1&2 as opposed to the traditional boy & girl.
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Nigga we have had female elite 4 champions since diamond and pearl and if you count black 2 white 2 we have had a total of four female champions.

Edit: the B2W2 champion is a brown girl, fitting for the north america region.

Higgs Bonbon said:
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Niantic has been monetizing the game far more aggressively for the past few months and people are not happy, even more if you consider the stupid limitations put to remote raid passes ,which were bringing in a lot of money since 9 to 5 wagies can't leave the office in the middle of the day to sit around 15 mins waiting for people to show up and another 5 to wait in the lobby and kill the boss. They also increased the prices of bundles in the store (said bundles had premium items like incubators or raid passes, they were often a decent deals).

All of that contributed to decreased revenue which is honestly hilarious, they were doing well and some dumbass suggested focusing on tickets and increasing their output. Said tickets can only be bought once, have mediocre rewards and nowadays they expire after the event is over, most people don't find them worth it.
 
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