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Materant posted:Rum Power is the best, just get shitfaced for every battle. Still has to make its way past NoA, unfortunately, and Soda Power doesn't have the same sort of zing to it
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I feel like Ronch has seen some things and like, he's fine now, he just has some trouble getting out of bed some mornings.
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Speaking of Pokemon stories, what's everyone's opinion on the Pokemon special manga? When I read it, I really liked how each protag had distinct personalities (my favorite is Diamond. He's a chill dude who wants to make kids laugh) but in hindsight it had some edgy things that the guys who made Uranium would eat up (evil gym leaders and elite 4, death, etc)
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SyntheticPolygon posted:I feel like people say "this time you're the rival" every new pokemon game these days. This was about a page back, but I think it's more "this time you're getting in the way of other characters' goals". When it was Gen 1 and everyone had the personality of wet cardboard, Gary was a roadblock because that was his characterization. He was your biggest obstacle to "beating the game", which at the time was the big goal since Pokemon was new and unexplored. This culminated in him being the champion for five minutes before you stomp him into the dirt. As the series goes on, and as players start wanting to do things other than "battle gyms, defeat champion, watch credits", there's also a simultaneous fleshing out of characters that aren't the protagonist, giving them motives and (admittedly flimsy) characterization. Suddenly they want to do things and you have to beat them up because there is no option in pokemon that is not monster-induced ultraviolence. It's most blatant in X/Y where honestly most players I've talked with don't even care about the whole megastone plot and would be happy to let Calem/Serena just take the drat bracelet so they could go on with the game. But nope, Victory Is The Only Option. theGrooseofLegend posted:Speaking of Pokemon stories, what's everyone's opinion on the Pokemon special manga? When I read it, I really liked how each protag had distinct personalities (my favorite is Diamond. He's a chill dude who wants to make kids laugh) but in hindsight it had some edgy things that the guys who made Uranium would eat up (evil gym leaders and elite 4, death, etc) Pokemon Special/Pokemon Adventures is incredibly tryhard and it's magical for that. Everything about that manga is just so over the top that I can't not chin-hands at it.  That said, you better believe 9 out of 10 edgelords would openly bring up the Red/Green plot at the beginning of the series as "evidence" that Pokemon should be edgy and grimdark because hey they just cut an Arbok in half and there's a creepypasta  skeleton and half the gym leaders (and all of the Elite Four) are secretly in cahoots with Team Rocket and and and
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KataraniSword posted:Pokemon Special is incredibly tryhard and it's magical for that. Everything about that manga is just so over the top that I can't not chin-hands at it. It calms down a bit after that first two arcs when they start doing things in line with the games.
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theGrooseofLegend posted:Speaking of Pokemon stories, what's everyone's opinion on the Pokemon special manga? When I read it, I really liked how each protag had distinct personalities (my favorite is Diamond. He's a chill dude who wants to make kids laugh) but in hindsight it had some edgy things that the guys who made Uranium would eat up (evil gym leaders and elite 4, death, etc) Pokemon Special gave us Mewtwo fighting with a giant spoon, and is worth it for that reason alone. 
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Mar 29, 2017 20:58
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:It calms down a bit after that first two arcs when they start doing things in line with the games. Even then you get things like Ruby/Brendan's dad (Norman) being openly abusive and the entire clusterfuck that was the FR/LG/Emerald arcs. Basically, any time they deviate from the games at all, it takes a sharp left into  , for better or worse.
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Mar 29, 2017 20:59
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Pokemon Special is super magical and perfect because it has things like this and this  Waaaay back when I first read it I couldn't find the R/S arc so I stopped after Crystal, I should go see if I can pick it back up. e: I guess I was beaten on the Mewtwo spoon while I was trying to find the picture of the Mewtwo spoon. Oops.
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KataraniSword posted:Even then you get things like Ruby/Brendan's dad (Norman) being openly abusive and the entire clusterfuck that was the FR/LG/Emerald arcs. If your kid is giving you sass, you're perfectly within your rights to have your Slaking throw a staircase at them. 
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KataraniSword posted:Even then you get things like Ruby/Brendan's dad (Norman) being openly abusive and the entire clusterfuck that was the FR/LG/Emerald arcs. It's ok. Ruby had a Celebi the whole time! (And every other arc has bullshit ways to bring characters back to life.) Fun fact, because of Hunter J, the anime has a higher permanent kill count that Pokemon Special, even not counting the movies.
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I remember liking the Diamond/Pearl dynamic because they were just two comedian fuckups, Male Protag and Barry, who were trying to make it big but Platinum, Lady Protag, thought they were her bodyguards and they were just like okay 
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hopeandjoy posted:It's ok. Ruby had a Celebi the whole time! (And every other arc has bullshit ways to bring characters back to life.) what about Black's poor old male protag?
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Bogart posted:I remember liking the Diamond/Pearl dynamic because they were just two comedian fuckups, Male Protag and Barry, who were trying to make it big but Platinum, Lady Protag, thought they were her bodyguards and they were just like okay It also had probably the least deviation from the plot of any of the series before or after. Just a nice focus on the group and villains, more or less. Special is so bizarre because it both wants to follow the games to the absolute letter but then also do its own way that doesnt really work the HGSS arc is probably the most extreme in how over the course of like 40 chapters it includes most everything HGSS included but does so in a way that felt like it read likea check list of items. The e4 & leaders show up as basically cameos. The pokeathalon is there but doesn't really matter. The villain has a 2 page spread of them just listing off and showing all of arceus' forms. All the pokemon who can evolve now do so almost instantly. It's stuff included because its there in the game and we can't NOT show it in as 1:1 with the game as possible. And then Celebi brings forth Pryce from his time dimension prison to fight Dialga because he was immune to time distortion,. It never feels natural and just makes the weirdness of the original stuff stand out more. All the series do this to varying degrees.
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Bogart posted:I remember liking the Diamond/Pearl dynamic because they were just two comedian fuckups, Male Protag and Barry, who were trying to make it big but Platinum, Lady Protag, thought they were her bodyguards and they were just like okay It's the best arc.
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loquacius posted:Still has to make its way past NoA, unfortunately, and Soda Power doesn't have the same sort of zing to it Somebody hasn't been watching One Piece.
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rannum posted:Special is so bizarre because it both wants to follow the games to the absolute letter but then also do its own way that doesnt really work on that front, since it had to accomidate the in-game Archie & Maxie having opposite personalities from what the manga had already had. End result: They were floating around the Distortion World for a while, then their spirits merged and unmerged and they got spat back out into the real world with their game personalities. Haifisch fucked around with this message at 00:02 on Mar 30, 2017 |
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Don't forget Blaine's magical legendary power armor. Uranium has just enough self-restraint to be terrible, but Special doesn't have any at all and it's just loving magical.
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Hemingway To Go! posted:I have a lot of trouble following the discussion here. Are these pokemon better or worse than Uranium's? 
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I'm not sure what the best part of this is, Stropter or Ronch
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I'd say better than Uranium.
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i think gamefreak should consider 'agumon with a gun' for their next set of pokemon games
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Johnny Joestar posted:i think gamefreak should consider 'agumon with a gun' for their next set of pokemon games Ronch should be included
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Mar 30, 2017 01:37
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Jack-Off Lantern posted:Ronch should be included It's the next buddy-cop movie. Mawuh and Ronch!
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Mar 30, 2017 01:38
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Congratulations, you somehow surpassed "car that reads out the hexadecimal code of any image you get texted while it's paired with your phone and won't stop until it finishes the image or you fully turn the car off" as the funniest thing I saw today
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:It's the next buddy-cop movie. Mawuh and Ronch! Ronch is too old for this poo poo and Mawuh is a loose canon.
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Mar 30, 2017 01:40
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goddamn I lost my poo poo at Mawuh
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Mar 30, 2017 01:44
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I would legit use a Minma in a game. That ant-thing looks rad as gently caress.
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ronch has no abilities but their secret is that maxed out special attack stat that catches you by surprise
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RONCH: Now with Vitamin R
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Mar 30, 2017 02:06
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It's gold, Jerry! Gold! I also can't tell if the fish thing is kissing a haunted carrot or playing an orange ocarina. It's magical.
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Mar 30, 2017 02:09
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Ronch settles it: object pokemon are Good
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I laughed my guts out, thanks. I had to choose between Ronch or Mawuh, but finally, as I'm a Digimon fan, I can't beat "Agumon, but with a gun."
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Gologle posted:I laughed my guts out, thanks. I had to choose between Ronch or Mawuh, but finally, as I'm a Digimon fan, I can't beat "Agumon, but with a gun." Considering his ability is "Rum power", I'm forced to assume that's "Drunk Agumon, but with a gun." The one thing that can beat "Agumon, but with a gun."
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Oh sure, it may LOOK like a harmless delicious bottle of dressing, but the screaming and crossbones on the label are trying to warn you away! Inside is a hell blacker than the deepest abyss. Hence why they hired Agumon to put it out of its misery.
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This is The Best Thing.
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I lost it at Ronch and then again at Mawuh, holy poo poo
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Shugojin posted:Congratulations, you somehow surpassed "car that reads out the hexadecimal code of any image you get texted while it's paired with your phone and won't stop until it finishes the image or you fully turn the car off" as the funniest thing I saw today More information, please.
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Nebrilos posted:More information, please. It's from the "RE: A ticket came in..." thread in SH/SC: Malek posted:I had a coworker that had this for text messages for his phone. Sent him a 5 page text message but it didn't arrive while I was there. pixaal posted:My brother's car does the text read thing. It's hilarious because it's really poor quality and clearly wasn't tested that well. If someone sends him a picture it starts to read the Hex. E3F2A921D... and it will not shut up until you take the key out of the car, and since it's a fob this means parking the car on the side of the road and walking away. This also turns off the built in GPS navigation voice making is extra funny.
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