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

Computer God Autism said:
Troons and fujos can latch onto anything
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You know, troons are like "you can be everything you want" and eeveelutions are often used as posterboys for pride shit.

1998: you are stuck as an ugly yellow rat that can't even evolve but you still can fuck with huge rhinos if you aim for the horn.
 
As a guy around since Gen 1, Eevee was always popular and in a real way it was recognized as such since Yellow with Gary Blue/Green's starter being Eevee and changing into Jolteon/Flareon/Vaporeon depending on how many times you whooped him in the story (I like he evolved it into Jolt in an attempt to match Ash Red's Pikachu if you smacked him around enough), and cemented with the Gen 2 Eeveelutions and Red having an Espeon - IMO a roundabout way of confirming its Gen 1 starter status (though yes, I know Red's logically comes from the gift Eevee you get in story).

That said, Eevee becoming a Big Deal Pokemon in more recent gens, in the way people are talking about it, is in the same vein as Gengar suddenly getting all this extra merch and attention - Gen 1 nostalgia.
 
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Mayor Cody Travers said:
That said, Eevee becoming a Big Deal Pokemon in more recent gens as recognized is in the same vein as Gengar suddenly getting all this extra merch and attention - Gen 1 nostalgia.
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Eh, I disagree. Eevee has always been consistently a big deal throughout the five original gens; there's not a single one where it doesn't either feature as a first Pokemon (counting sidegames) or get an eeveelution, and most of the games would limit you to one without breeding/trading. There was also plenty of merch of Eevee back in the aughts too, unlike Gengar et al - it's design is very marketable to kids.

The (imo) astroturfed Gen 1 nostalgia only really started in Gen 6, and we've only had one new Eeveelution and one game where it's a first Pokemon since. None of the Eeveelutions got Megas, and while Eevee got a Z-move, none of its evolutions did nor did they get Alola forms, which were given out generously to far more forgettable Gen 1 mons.
 
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I was thinking of replaying some old shit: pokemon ash gray or naranja

I am sure I played Ash gray and I loved it, not sure about naranja... Any recs?
 
I dove for 50 pages back in the "funny pictures" thread and I couldn't find the one with the 4chan post describing Melvin the magician, nor could be 100% sure it was there.
 
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Celebrate Nite said:
The more I learn about what was cut in Gen6 and Gen7, the more angry I get, because it seems like there was actual honest-to-God effort being put into these games with all these ideas but got completely chopped off.

It has to be time constraints that were set by some dickhead in charge that kept saying "NO" to everything. It's the only explanation I can think of that makes sense. A sequel (or at least newer versions of a franchise) should never EVER be removing features (past or new) from their games. I know Pokemon has been doing that kind of crap since forever, but this is just way too fucking much.
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This was also around the time that gen 5 was getting a lot of hate so suits must have been shouting at them to play it safe.
 
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Finally beat the champion of the Islands in Golden Glazed. Man My team was so ass, I cant understand why Grapploct was so shit. He was slow as fuck and his defs were paperthin, him not being water type is insane.

I HATED the hisui Decidueye, slow fucker and also would get BTFO by lots of moves. He wasnt reliable at all, he was so slow I had to use priority moves to at least hit someone first sometimes

I loved Basculegion, such a cool pokemon and was a reliable special attacker and was the last team mate to be added.

Now the goats of the team:

Iron Valiant. Jesus no matter the game, the Ralts line are absolutely amazing and will help you anytime.

And the goat of the goats, my FUCK YOU button Tinkaton with its King's Rock that would Flinch Anyone no matter what.

This modified version of Glazed is such a weird game, I don't know about the original game, but the overworld was amazing and it had cool maps and functions. The problem is the absolute shit story. I thought it couldn't get worse but it did, jesus christ the last islands resolution was terrible.

After beating the champion of the Island, I defeated the tunod league again who was stronger and went to the johto league and they were lvl 93 in the first pokemon so This rematch may be even harder than before so not right now.

Anyone who played, what is left to do after the islands champions?


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I completely forgot that Pokémon's Sacramento Regionals occurred over the weekend. Here are the standings for the TCG.

As far which decks are in there I'm not too surprised by Regidrago VSTAR taking up 5 spots in the top 8, what does surprise me is that none of them actually at the podium. As for the decks that got 1st, 2nd and 3rd place those spots belong to two Miraidon ex decks (1st and 2nd) and a Gholdengo ex deck (3rd).
 
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Finally beat the champion of the Islands in Golden Glazed. Man My team was so ass, I cant understand why Grapploct was so shit. He was slow as fuck and his defs were paperthin, him not being water type is insane.

I HATED the hisui Decidueye, slow fucker and also would get BTFO by lots of moves. He wasnt reliable at all, he was so slow I had to use priority moves to at least hit someone first sometimes

I loved Basculegion, such a cool pokemon and was a reliable special attacker and was the last team mate to be added.

Now the goats of the team:

Iron Valiant. Jesus no matter the game, the Ralts line are absolutely amazing and will help you anytime.

And the goat of the goats, my FUCK YOU button Tinkaton with its King's Rock that would Flinch Anyone no matter what.

This modified version of Glazed is such a weird game, I don't know about the original game, but the overworld was amazing and it had cool maps and functions. The problem is the absolute shit story. I thought it couldn't get worse but it did, jesus christ the last islands resolution was terrible.

After beating the champion of the Island, I defeated the tunod league again who was stronger and went to the johto league and they were lvl 93 in the first pokemon so This rematch may be even harder than before so not right now.

Anyone who played, what is left to do after the islands champions?


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GIGATON HAMMER 🔨
 
Kari Kamiya said:
In regards to the Eevee popularity, I didn't notice it as a kid. I actually thought Meowth would've been more of a big deal because of the anime and the Pokémon Master Trainer board game where it was one of the starter options. Even Clefairy was an option.
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Celebrate Nite said:
I remember when Poliwhirl was popular. Those were good times.
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There were only so many Pokemon at the time, so they had to make do (NOTE: I think Meowth and Poliwhirl are fucking awesome though).

Clefairy was famously the intended shill-mon before everyone noticed Pikachu was getting a ton of the attention and shifted that to be the series shill-mon, though I truly think it a clever meta joke that Clefairy is Leaf Green/Blue's "ace" pokemon in the vein Pikachu is to Ash Red's - they even have a baby form and stone evolution a la Pikachu and let's face it, Clefairy's line is appropriately cutesy enough for a girl trainer if you're going by obvious stereotypes.

Speaking of Leaf/Green/Blue, I AM surprised they haven't figured out a canon role for her in the mainline games' lore yet. People really like her even if they'll have to get used to her nutso competionist personality in Let's Go instead of the longtime femme fatale parody in Special.
 
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Mayor Cody Travers said:
There were only so many Pokemon at the time, so they had to make do (NOTE: I think Meowth and Poliwhirl are fucking awesome though).

Clefairy was famously the intended shill-mon before everyone noticed Pikachu was getting a ton of the attention and shifted that to be the series shill-mon, though I truly think it a clever meta joke that Clefairy is Leaf Green/Blue's "ace" pokemon in the vein Pikachu is to Ash Red's - they even have a baby form and stone evolution a la Pikachu and let's face it, Clefairy's line is appropriately cutesy enough for a girl trainer if you're going by obvious stereotypes.

Speaking of Leaf/Green/Blue, I AM surprised they haven't figured out a canon role for her in the mainline games' lore yet. People really like her even if they'll have to get used to her nutso competionist personality in Let's Go instead of the longtime femme fatale parody in Special.
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Poliwhirl's popularity is largely due to Satoshi Tajiri liking it and it being subsequently pushed in marketing; it faded because it was never as popular with the fans as it was with its creators. Granted each Gen has had Pokemon like that - Marill was famously Gen II's attempt to replace Pikachu - but Poliwhirl is remarkable given how hard it was pushed compared to how quickly it was forgotten.

Leaf's resurgence in popularity is imo pretty similar. Green was a popular manga character but most of the old Pokemon fans nowadays began with Gen III/IV, not with the original 90s Pokemon craze (afaik most of those people checked out for YGO or something more 'mature' when Gen III rolled around), so for most, unless if you grew up reading old issues of Adventures, Leaf didn't exist as a character since she wouldn't even show up in FR/LG if you picked Red and she played no part in the anime. Whatever canon role she has as distinct from Green is more or less entirely the creation of Gen 8 with Let's Go and Masters in an attempt to appeal to people who hadn't cared about Pokemon in two decades.
 
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