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Man how long has Polygon's 'animated' clips game been on point like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTv0N_9M2vY
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Tatum Girlparts posted:Man how long has Polygon's 'animated' clips game been on point like this? Very recently. I think they're learning that personality based stuff is where they're finding video success, hence putting peoples names in video titles more than they used to and things like that.
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Aug 24, 2016 17:02
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Wake_N_Bake posted:So Travis is giving up on LA, huh?
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Aug 24, 2016 17:07
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Based on Griffin's tweets yesterday, I almost don't want to watch it. https://twitter.com/griffinmcelroy/status/768124015462322176
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Aug 24, 2016 17:25
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A somber Nuzlocke episode. Who could have seen this coming?
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Aug 24, 2016 17:30
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I'm glad Zapped! and Filburt are dead.
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Aug 24, 2016 17:37
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Toxxupation posted:I'm glad Zapped! and Filburt are dead. How dare you. Filburt was a treasure. Also, I actually yelled at my phone when Ms. Beakman almost went down. That would've been a tragedy.
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Aug 24, 2016 17:40
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Toxxupation posted:I'm glad Zapped! and Filburt are dead. Filburt was a genuine shock. Like, for some reason, as a gen 1 starter, it felt like it had to survive narratively (which I realize is stupid)
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Aug 24, 2016 17:48
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They're dead, and they deserve it, punk-rear end bitch-rear end triflin' rear end motherfuckers
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Aug 24, 2016 17:51
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Real upsetting ep
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Aug 24, 2016 17:53
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I didn't realize the episodes were curse free until Griffin had to bleep his surprise expletives.
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Aug 24, 2016 17:56
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SpacePig posted:That would've been a tragedy. every toxx post is a tragedy
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Aug 24, 2016 18:06
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RIP Zapped!. We hardly knew ye. I let out an audible gasp when Filburt died.
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Aug 24, 2016 18:19
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I just watched the last Monster Factory and I kind of want to download Spore now.
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Aug 24, 2016 18:46
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I remember Spore as being the very last PC game I bought in a real store, and even then I thought it was unusual to do so. Then I never really made it that far. I only would ever make it to the tribal stage then get bored.
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Aug 24, 2016 18:48
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any professor oaks out there wanna explain how roll out is so deadly?
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Aug 24, 2016 19:06
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well why not posted:any professor oaks out there wanna explain how roll out is so deadly? He said near the end that it gets stronger the more you do it.
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Aug 24, 2016 19:13
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Rollout doubles (!!) in power each turn, bringing it to do 480 base damage at the 5th turn (60% chance for it to go 5 turns). Azumarill also can have the Huge Power ability, which doubles its attack passively. So, Filburt took the equivalent of at least 3 Hyper Beams (150 base dmg) at once from that shithead pikablu 
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Aug 24, 2016 19:56
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well why not posted:any professor oaks out there wanna explain how roll out is so deadly? Rollout is a Normal-type move that doubles in power every turn as long as it hits. It starts at 30 power (which is very, very low - Scratch, for instance, is 40 power and is a default move most starters know) and doubles up to five times or if it is interrupted in some way, whichever comes first. So it starts at 30, then is 60, then is 120, then is 240, and the final hit is 480 power. In comparison, Hyper Beam - a move you might've heard of and is one of the strongest base Normal type moves in the game - is a 150 power attack. So that's how insanely powerful Rollout can get if left unchecked like Griffin did. It's really easy to prevent and, ironically, Griffin had the easiest possible way to reset Rollout on his team that he just didn't use, but yeah. Rollout can be monstrous if not managed correctly.
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Toxxupation posted:Rollout is a Normal-type move that doubles in power every turn as long as it hits. It starts at 30 power (which is very, very low - Scratch, for instance, is 40 power and is a default move most starters know) and doubles up to five times or if it is interrupted in some way, whichever comes first. So it starts at 30, then is 60, then is 120, then is 240, and the final hit is 480 power. Ahem I think you'll find that rollout is rock type
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Aug 24, 2016 21:39
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well why not posted:any professor oaks out there wanna explain how roll out is so deadly? People have compared it to hyper beam, which is okay since that's a move that most people have heard of, but I think a more fun thing to compare rollout to is Explosion. Explosion is a move that does exactly what it says, it makes your pokemon explode, killing it in exchange for dealing massive damage to your pokemon. Explosion's base power is 250. This is a slightly inaccurate number, because it used to also treat the defense of the opposing pokemon as if it were halved, giving it an effective power of 500. This was changed in Black and White (the games before X and Y), but the move was never buffed higher to contemplate. Regardless, when rollout was first introduced it "topped off" as a move that is slightly less powerful than exploding and killing yourself. Nowadays, it's twice as strong as that move. Rollout is also a rock type move, which means that it's basically infinitely better offensively than a normal type move, being resisted by more types but having no type be immune to it and having 4 types that it's strong against. Not relevant to the video, but fun to know, is that if you use the move defense curl before using rollout, it doubles the power of the move, making it start at 60 power and top out at 960, higher than any other move in the game. And, as someone said, Azumarill is a fully evolved pokemon that will (50% of the time, or 100% when fighting against real people) have its attack doubled by its ability, which actually means that on average its base attack stat is somewhere around 110 because of weird poo poo that makes stats bigger. That's a big attack! Azumarill is also Water/Fairy, which is a really good defensive type which means it's only weak against grass, poison and electric type attacks, and it has a huge amount of HP and decent defenses. Basically, Azumarill is an already good, fully-evolved pokemon against griffin's team of babies and middle evos and griffin had no way to hit it super-effectively, and he has a tendency to ignore status and stat-changing moves that could have made that fight much more bearable.
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SpacePig posted:Also, I actually yelled at my phone when Ms. Beakman almost went down. That would've been a tragedy. I am bizarrely attached to Ms. Beakman now.
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Beef Jerky Robot posted:Ahem I think you'll find that rollout is rock type I feel like they changed that in gen 4 or so, and it used to be normal? I might be nuts. Also thunder wave or whirlwind would have helped, but that was a pretty crazy fight for an in-game battle anyway. Beekeeping and You fucked around with this message at 22:04 on Aug 24, 2016 |
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Beef Jerky Robot posted:Ahem I think you'll find that rollout is rock type poo poo, yeah, my bad. But, yeah, Rollout's annoying as poo poo but very manageable in addition to having a fairly significant chance to whiff anyways.
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Doin my own X Locke right now and it's loving heartbreaking I keep losing them to such stupid poo poo on my end. I'm currently resisting the urge to use exp all but now that I'm on my third stringers I'm strongly considering using it to not have to endlessly grind to get them up to speed. Raar_Im_A_Dinosaur fucked around with this message at 22:19 on Aug 24, 2016 |
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Aug 24, 2016 22:16
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Lmao. God drat this was great.
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Aug 24, 2016 23:20
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Beekeeping and You posted:I feel like they changed that in gen 4 or so, and it used to be normal? I might be nuts. Also thunder wave or whirlwind would have helped, but that was a pretty crazy fight for an in-game battle anyway. He had at least Thunder Wave, Whirlwhind, and Protect at his disposal. I finally understand sports fans now because I was screaming at my TV that whole time. There were so many things he could have done to nip that Rollout in the bud before it powered up to a fifth turn. At that point with his team and the restriction of not using items in battle he was 100% sending someone to their death. He's got so many rules and restrictions to add challenge and his only real defense against that is being over-leveled but he won't stop to grind his new recruits up either.
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Travis343 posted:He had at least Thunder Wave, Whirlwhind, and Protect at his disposal. I finally understand sports fans now because I was screaming at my TV that whole time. There were so many things he could have done to nip that Rollout in the bud before it powered up to a fifth turn. At that point with his team and the restriction of not using items in battle he was 100% sending someone to their death. If he did all that, though, he'd never lose any of his guys and it wouldn't be all that much fun to watch. Possibly it bothers me less because I've never played a Pokemon game, though.
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If he's not going to over level his pokes, he should maybe do a bit more research into the rabbit hole of Pokemon battling and type advantages and advantageous moves and all the things I never learned because I overleveled 1-3 dudes to an absurd degree every generation.
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Aug 25, 2016 05:29
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For the amount of poo poo he gets from Justin and Travis about it you'd think my main man Griffin would be better at pokes
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Aug 25, 2016 06:12
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I think watching someone good at 'Mons would rob the experience of its narrative tension.
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Aug 25, 2016 06:16
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Can he split the difference and do a normal permadeath gimmick run plus one impossibly beefy level 99 pidgeot?
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Aug 25, 2016 06:21
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TBH I do think that X and Y should give you the old EXP share in addition to the new one to give you more control over the difficulty of the game and the way you want to play. The old one where it's a held item that affects one pokemon at a time would be much better for griffin since he's only rotating in one or two new guys at a time whereas the new one was designed mostly to either make the game easier or make it possible to play like I did, with a rotating roster of literally 20 pokemon who were all 2-3 levels lower than the trainers in a given area/gym (which is the most fun way to play, imo, but people have their preferences)
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Aug 25, 2016 06:38
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I am a bad person because I was hoping that Ms. Beakman and Yiffin died. Let's make this a real challenge run for Griffin.
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Tempura Wizard posted:I am a bad person because I was hoping that Ms. Beakman and Yiffin died. Let's make this a real challenge run for Griffin.  Miss Beakman forever
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Aug 25, 2016 15:17
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Read this post, had no idea wtf it was talking about, listened to the episode and when they brought up that question I had a giggling fit on the bus remembering this tweet. This is going to become a bizarre podcast/pokemon crosschat thread.
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Aug 25, 2016 15:22
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Tempura Wizard posted:I am a bad person because I was hoping that Ms. Beakman and Yiffin died. Let's make this a real challenge run for Griffin. Me too, it's more fun when things go wrong
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Aug 25, 2016 15:40
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New TAZ is up. What are you waiting for, nerds? 
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El Padrino posted:New TAZ is up. What are you waiting for, nerds? Daisy Ridley was on My Dad Wrote a Porno, but Taz is next in the queue.
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