Pokemon Uranium is not a very good game.

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TravelLog: Jul 22, 2013; He's a mean one, Mr. Roy.

Johnny Joestar posted:

given that other people involved with it came into the comments and more or less said 'this is a weird amount of cherrypicked crap and we kicked the dude because he sucked at his job' i have a feeling that there's way less strife involved than some are trying to make it out to be

Ah, just saw the comments. Definitely seems that way.

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EclecticTastes: Sep 17, 2012; "Most plans are critically flawed by their own logic. A failure at any step will ruin everything after it. That's just basic cause and effect. It's easy for a good plan to fall apart. Therefore, a plan that has no attachment to logic cannot be stopped."

Added Space posted:

I'm going to say that a creative project is not an appropriate place for a political fight.

Given that creative projects are inherently political by their nature of being created by humans (and thus influenced by their culture, background, beliefs, and opinions AKA politics), I'd be curious to know what is the appropriate place to call out a racist shithead if not your own creative team.

That sort of head-in-the-sand thinking is how poo poo like this gets into the final product:

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Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

mandatory lesbian posted:

actually its pretty encouraging to hear that a racist got kicked off the team

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Onmi: Jul 12, 2013; If someone says it one more time I'm having Florina show up as a corpse. I'm not even kidding, I was pissed off with people doing that shit back in 2010, and I'm not dealing with it now in 2016.

This btw, is why whoever the project lead is needs to be able to stamp the foot down and say "Okay everyone shut the gently caress up about the thing that's not important to what we're doing." Which has come up a few times in my own development circles. You need someone to make it 100% clear that you're there to do a job, whatever that job is, and not to get into a slap fight with the other team members.

EDIT: No, it's not loving important what a person believes when they have a job to do. What is important is them doing their job and doing it right. If they're not doing their job right, that's a problem that needs to be addressed, and if them not doing their job right comes down to their beliefs, whatever they may be, that's when they get addressed.

If you've got the time to be upset and debate one of your fellow workers about politics, then apparently you finished all of your own work, yes? Otherwise, you pack that poo poo in, act like a god damned adult, and do your loving job. THAT is the cause of fan project failings, when people don't treat their work seriously. When they joke "Oh it doesn't matter if it isn't good/doesn't come out/isn't X, it's just a fan thing. Who cares?

EDIT EDIT: Clarifying on the poo poo that happened from one Anon on /vp/, also because I always like to find things out for myself, not just read them.

Such is Life.

Onmi fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Mar 26, 2017

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Added Space: Jul 13, 2012; Free Markets
Free People

Curse you Hayard-Gunnes!

EclecticTastes posted:

Given that creative projects are inherently political by their nature of being created by humans (and thus influenced by their culture, background, beliefs, and opinions AKA politics), I'd be curious to know what is the appropriate place to call out a racist shithead if not your own creative team.

Pretty sure Pokemon Sage is not a nuanced political commentary. An appropriate place would be when you're not trying to get work done. If your top priority on a creative project is monitoring the police leanings of your workers, you've got other problems.

E: Agree with Onmi

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Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

i think theres a diff. between political leanings and a dude saying apropos of nothing that rape is a good thing so long as you feed the bitch some money afterwards, but cool hot take there

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MarquiseMindfang: Jan 6, 2013; vriska (vriska)

Onmi posted:

EDIT: No, it's not loving important what a person believes when they have a job to do. What is important is them doing their job and doing it right. If they're not doing their job right, that's a problem that needs to be addressed, and if them not doing their job right comes down to their beliefs, whatever they may be, that's when they get addressed.

If you've got the time to be upset and debate one of your fellow workers about politics, then apparently you finished all of your own work, yes? Otherwise, you pack that poo poo in, act like a god damned adult, and do your loving job. THAT is the cause of fan project failings, when people don't treat their work seriously. When they joke "Oh it doesn't matter if it isn't good/doesn't come out/isn't X, it's just a fan thing. Who cares?

Good grief, thank you for that. Nothing irritates more than that one team member who is Always On and has to make sure everyone knows at all times what a Good Person with the Correct Opinions they are. It's very draining and I just started tuning that guy out.

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EclecticTastes: Sep 17, 2012; "Most plans are critically flawed by their own logic. A failure at any step will ruin everything after it. That's just basic cause and effect. It's easy for a good plan to fall apart. Therefore, a plan that has no attachment to logic cannot be stopped."

Endorph posted:

i think theres a diff. between political leanings and a dude saying apropos of nothing that rape is a good thing so long as you feed the bitch some money afterwards, but cool hot take there

At least somebody gets it. You can't call someone out for their lovely opinions if they keep their drat mouths shut about them.

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Genocyber: Jun 4, 2012

EclecticTastes posted:

At least somebody gets it. You can't call someone out for their lovely opinions if they keep their drat mouths shut about them.

Pretty much this. I'm sure there's examples of the contrary but these spats almost always seemed to be initiated by bigots.

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Spatula City: Oct 21, 2010; LET ME EXPLAIN TO YOU WHY YOU ARE WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING

TravelLog posted:

OneAngryGamer just wrote an article about some inter-group problems with Sage. I wonder how slanted the article is based on who spoke to the writer, but if true its certainly discouraging to hear.

That's good news for Sage, that they've booted out an idiot butthurt conservative writer. the whole article seems to be unmitigated bullshit cobbled together from lies by a former project member plus insinuations and slanted language added by a writer with an agenda.

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Gilgamesh255: Aug 15, 2015

DeafNote posted:

Lurantis was tough, mostly because I let it get away with setting up sunny day

Mimikyu kicked my rear end from monday to sunday because I had nothing that resisted Fairy

but all of that was still more fair than whatever the hell that Heatwave pokemon is

I forget how well I did with Lurantis, but I'm pretty sure I did alright seeing as I had a Torracat with me. Mimikyu, however, was pretty much the first fight I had in the entire game that totally wiped my party out, mainly because of it being faster than any of my party, and plus I had wasted an Inferno Overdrive on it...while it still had it's disguise up. :ughh:

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Onmi: Jul 12, 2013; If someone says it one more time I'm having Florina show up as a corpse. I'm not even kidding, I was pissed off with people doing that shit back in 2010, and I'm not dealing with it now in 2016.

In other news btw, here's a dropbox filled with cut Sage designs.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/g0exdjc1rdlkg4z/AACeECGygTRaOrpumZupbF4sa/Not%20Implemented?dl=0

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EclecticTastes: Sep 17, 2012; "Most plans are critically flawed by their own logic. A failure at any step will ruin everything after it. That's just basic cause and effect. It's easy for a good plan to fall apart. Therefore, a plan that has no attachment to logic cannot be stopped."

Gilgamesh255 posted:

I forget how well I did with Lurantis, but I'm pretty sure I did alright seeing as I had a Torracat with me. Mimikyu, however, was pretty much the first fight I had in the entire game that totally wiped my party out, mainly because of it being faster than any of my party, and plus I had wasted an Inferno Overdrive on it...while it still had it's disguise up.

I also wasted my Z-Move on Totem Mimikyu's disguise, it was a very embarrassing moment for me. :negative:

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Robindaybird: Aug 21, 2007; Neat. Sweet. Petite.

A god drat Scizor showed up in the last totem fight, you don't know how much time I spent trying to knock down the totem boss without KOing the Scizor... and discover that you cannot capture pokemon during totem fights - so much effort for nothing.

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Gyra_Solune: Apr 24, 2014; Kyun kyun
Kyun kyun
Watashi no kare wa louse

at least Pokemon Clover is clearly supposed to be dumb, and at least some of the pokemon are worth a laugh, like the one that's just a cute raindrop but it's holding a gun, or Barbarkley, which is a basketball Barbacle. i hope whatever plot it has is equally dumb shitposting, instead of trying to be serious like this one

also hahahahah, Clover /also/ has construction equipment lizards, Lizascoop and Reptrill

really i don't get the pokemon in this game that /aren't/ stupid 4chan-ey jokes, like the ordinary-rear end fossil pokemon. i kinda wish they'd gone with something like 'dinosaur with ridiculously long neck to the point where the head is off-screen' or 'a neanderthal'

# ? Mar 26, 2017 02:47

TravelLog: Jul 22, 2013; He's a mean one, Mr. Roy.

Onmi posted:

In other news btw, here's a dropbox filled with cut Sage designs.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/g0exdjc1rdlkg4z/AACeECGygTRaOrpumZupbF4sa/Not%20Implemented?dl=0

Aww, it's ball-in-a-cup! :kimchi:

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Alopex: May 31, 2012; This is the sleeve I have chosen.

Onmi posted:

In other news btw, here's a dropbox filled with cut Sage designs.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/g0exdjc1rdlkg4z/AACeECGygTRaOrpumZupbF4sa/Not%20Implemented?dl=0

I'm not ok with that spider. Save it for Pokeustralia jesus christ

The butler squid is the best kind of dumb, though. I can see why they cut it but I still love it.

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U.T. Raptor: May 11, 2010; Are you a pack of imbeciles!?

EclecticTastes posted:

I also wasted my Z-Move on Totem Mimikyu's disguise, it was a very embarrassing moment for me.

I did that in Moon too because I didn't know Disguise was a thing.

Gologle posted:

I had to look the name Celesteela up as someone who quit playing Pokemon a long long long time ago, and wow, when did Pokemon become Digimon?

Celesteela is a bamboo rocketship that is also a space princess. She is the best and coolest Ultra Beast :colbert:

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Jack-Off Lantern: Mar 2, 2012

Oh, is that a Princess Kaguya Reference?
*checks * Sure is!

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The Golux: Feb 18, 2017; Internet Cephalopod

Her japanese name is Tekkaguya, even. Which, I believe, also references that one of Japan's space rockets or satellites was named Kaguya.

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EclecticTastes: Sep 17, 2012; "Most plans are critically flawed by their own logic. A failure at any step will ruin everything after it. That's just basic cause and effect. It's easy for a good plan to fall apart. Therefore, a plan that has no attachment to logic cannot be stopped."

Gyra_Solune posted:

or 'a neanderthal'

I'd play the gently caress out of "Ancino Man, but also Pokemon".

EDIT: I love how many attempts were made at "Teacup Eel".

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Johnny Joestar: Oct 21, 2010; Don't shoot him?

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EclecticTastes posted:

I'd play the gently caress out of "Ancino Man, but also Pokemon".

EDIT: I love how many attempts were made at "Teacup Eel".

i'd say we got a better alternative to it, at least

cuppy, water

fettlekish, water/fire

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SyntheticPolygon: Dec 20, 2013

I like those names a lot. :3:

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SilverGryphon: Oct 14, 2012; This might just be fun after all.

Johnny Joestar posted:

i'd say we got a better alternative to it, at least

cuppy, water

fettlekish, water/fire

You could say it's a different kettle of fish entirely...

*runs*

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FluxFaun: Apr 7, 2010

Johnny Joestar posted:

i'd say we got a better alternative to it, at least

cuppy, water

fettlekish, water/fire

oh my god

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Tunicate: May 15, 2012

Shiny version should have jazz pattern.

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girl dick energy: Sep 30, 2009; You think you have the wherewithal to figure out my puzzle vagina?

Johnny Joestar posted:

i'd say we got a better alternative to it, at least

cuppy, water

fettlekish, water/fire

I love them

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Aesclepia: Dec 5, 2013; Next verse same as the first.

Tunicate posted:

Shiny version should have jazz pattern.

This is a good post and you should feel good.

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Orange Fluffy Sheep: Jul 26, 2008; Bad EXP received

Gologle posted:

I had to look the name Celesteela up as someone who quit playing Pokemon a long long long time ago, and wow, when did Pokemon become Digimon?

If you see the UBs and think Digimon before Jojo stands, in a game that has Jojo-pose super moves as a central mechanic, I think the problem is on your end.

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theGrooseofLegend: Dec 29, 2013

I was looking through the sage wiki to look at all the other amazing pokemon designs and found something pretty funny. Now granted, the devs said they are reworking this ability.

Meet this guy:

This is his original ability:

quote:

Full Force:
Any move that the bearer uses which has a variable base power will always use the highest possible base power.

He learns Reversal

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Zore: Sep 21, 2010; willfully illiterate, aggressively miserable sourpuss whose sole raison d�etre is to put other people down for liking the wrong things

theGrooseofLegend posted:

I was looking through the sage wiki to look at all the other amazing pokemon designs and found something pretty funny. Now granted, the devs said they are reworking this ability.

Meet this guy:

This is his original ability:

He learns Reversal

Yeah, a number of Sage Pokemon have that.

Including a ground type who learns Magnitude. 30 PP, 150 base power ground STAB is lol.

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girl dick energy: Sep 30, 2009; You think you have the wherewithal to figure out my puzzle vagina?

Zore posted:

Yeah, a number of Sage Pokemon have that.

Including a ground type who learns Magnitude. 30 PP, 150 base power ground STAB is lol.

It's EQ with extra PP. If you burn through 16 EQs in one match, you are either doing something very right or very wrong. Either way, not worth much by itself.

Now, Fling on the other hand... :getin:

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mandatory lesbian: Dec 18, 2012

it has 50 more BP the EQ, that's pretty significantly different

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Zore: Sep 21, 2010; willfully illiterate, aggressively miserable sourpuss whose sole raison d�etre is to put other people down for liking the wrong things

PMush Perfect posted:

It's EQ with extra PP. If you burn through 16 EQs in one match, you are either doing something very right or very wrong. Either way, not worth much by itself.

Now, Fling on the other hand...

... Its Earthquake with 50% more power. Its 225 power after STAB.

Its the same power as Hyper Beam and its variants just with perfect accuracy and no recharge turn.

Zore fucked around with this message at 18:29 on Mar 26, 2017

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girl dick energy: Sep 30, 2009; You think you have the wherewithal to figure out my puzzle vagina?

Zore posted:

... Its Earthquake with 50% more power. Its 225 power after STAB.

Its the same power as Hyper Beam and its variants just with perfect accuracy and no recharge turn.

Oh Jesus Christ, never mind. That's significantly better than I thought.

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i81icu812: Dec 5, 2006

PMush Perfect posted:

It's EQ with extra PP. If you burn through 16 EQs in one match, you are either doing something very right or very wrong. Either way, not worth much by itself.

Now, Fling on the other hand...

fling: 130
magnitude: 150
reversal: 200

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Araxxor: Oct 20, 2012; My disdain for you all knows no bounds.

Fling can only be used once since the item gets used up in the process.

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Raitzeno: Nov 24, 2007; What? It seemed like
a good idea at the time.

EclecticTastes posted:

I also wasted my Z-Move on Totem Mimikyu's disguise, it was a very embarrassing moment for me.

Me too.

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Johnny Joestar: Oct 21, 2010; Don't shoot him?

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theGrooseofLegend posted:

I was looking through the sage wiki to look at all the other amazing pokemon designs and found something pretty funny. Now granted, the devs said they are reworking this ability.

Meet this guy:

This is his original ability:

He learns Reversal

the most important things about this pokemon are that it's poison/fighting and this little buddy is the form before it

they are platypow and platikhao, respectively

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Tunicate: May 15, 2012

What does flail max out at?

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