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Jolteon being Thunders and Zapdos being Thunder is really really bad.
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Ultima66 posted:Jolteon being Thunders and Zapdos being Thunder is really really bad. Yeah, the Eeveelutions and Legendary Birds have especially bad Japanese names. The continues into Gen II, at least for the Eeveelutions; Umbreon's Japanese name is Blacky.
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Mar 21, 2019 03:59
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Boober
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BattleCattle posted:Fushigidane, when rendered in kanji (不思議種) it means “mysterious seed/species”, but when it’s rendered in hiragana, (ふしぎだね) it means “mysterious, innit?” The French version was inspired/lucky to translate it to Bulbizarre, sounding both like lézard (silent d) and bizarre. YaketySass fucked around with this message at 13:37 on Mar 21, 2019 |
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Mar 21, 2019 13:30
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romanizing lapras’ “rapurasu” into laplace. now that’s paper
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Mar 21, 2019 13:48
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So at what level does Lapras learn "Reveal the secret version of the Constitution that gives equal rights to magic space children?" Or is it a heart scale only move.
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Mar 21, 2019 14:04
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YaketySass posted:The French version was inspired/lucky to translate it to Bulbizarre, sounding both like lézard (silent d) and bizarre. The best French Pokemon names are for Grimer and Muk: Tadmorv ("Snotpile") and Grotadmorv ("Bigsnotpile"), respectively. Because that's what they looked like to him 
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Mar 21, 2019 14:06
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Silver2195 posted:Yeah, the Eeveelutions and Legendary Birds have especially bad Japanese names. The continues into Gen II, at least for the Eeveelutions; Umbreon's Japanese name is Blacky. If its good enough for like 3 of my grandpa's cats, its good enough for Pokemon. 
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Mar 21, 2019 14:28
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it fits with the two other gen 1 eevelutions, Acky and Packy. and who could forget the cut eeveelution from the green beta, Clide
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Mar 21, 2019 14:57
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Kurieg posted:So at what level does Lapras learn "Reveal the secret version of the Constitution that gives equal rights to magic space children?" This sounds like the plot of a Pokemon movie.
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Mar 21, 2019 15:23
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Ghost Leviathan posted:This sounds like the plot of a Pokemon movie. I mean, it's a reference to the plot of a Gundam movie, but sure.
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Mar 21, 2019 16:03
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Kurieg posted:I mean, it's a reference to the plot of a Gundam movie, but sure. I was gonna say an anime movie and I'm disturbed I was right, but I actually thought was the ramblings of some crazed indigo child conspiracy theorist type. Well, same thing really.
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Mar 21, 2019 17:18
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It's the Plot to Gundam Unicorn.
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Mar 21, 2019 17:21
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Specifically the plot of gundam unicorn revolves around Laplace's Box which is some super secret thing that everyone is willing to fight and die over because it's super important. Then at the end it turns out it contains the Actual For Real Version of the space constitution that includes a clause to the effect of "Should psychic space children be born then the colonies should be granted full rights and autonomy." Which is some amazing forward thinking on the behalf of whoever wrote that constitution.
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Mar 21, 2019 17:32
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The National Treasure sequels got loving wild.
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Mar 21, 2019 17:42
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Funky Valentine posted:James is secretly the greatest trainer in the anime. Nothin' secret about it He's far kinder to his pokemon than Ash ever was
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Mar 21, 2019 18:00
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Kurieg posted:Specifically the plot of gundam unicorn revolves around Laplace's Box which is some super secret thing that everyone is willing to fight and die over because it's super important. Then at the end it turns out it contains the Actual For Real Version of the space constitution that includes a clause to the effect of "Should psychic space children be born then the colonies should be granted full rights and autonomy." Which is some amazing forward thinking on the behalf of whoever wrote that constitution. That..uh...sure is a plot twist alright. Also Gundam Unicorn? I know I'm out of the loop but when did that happen?
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Mar 21, 2019 18:29
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Flopsy posted:That..uh...sure is a plot twist alright. Also Gundam Unicorn? I know I'm out of the loop but when did that happen? Uhh...nine years ago.
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Mar 21, 2019 18:33
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Blaze Dragon posted:Uhh...nine years ago. Welp I'm officially old. Also that name's dumb as hell.
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Mar 21, 2019 23:00
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Flopsy posted:Welp I'm officially old. Also that name's dumb as hell. 
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Mar 21, 2019 23:10
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Flopsy posted:Welp I'm officially old. Also that name's dumb as hell. would you tell it that to its face 
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Mar 21, 2019 23:10
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I was just looking through all the Grass-type moves, and wow, Grass attacks were really bad in Gen I. OK, Razor Leaf was legitimately good (since it basically always critted back then), but the only other Grass moves that dealt even moderate damage back then were Petal Dance (70 power, with a drawback) and Solarbeam (120 power, but wastes a turn). Meanwhile other types got moves like Dig, Earthquake, Body Slam, Hyper Beam (which didn't even skip a turn if it KOed), Psychic, Flamethrower, Surf, Fire Blast, and Hydro Pump. Later gens made Grass moves much better (increased power for Petal Dance, sunlight providing a way to circumvent Solarbeam's drawback, Giga Drain, Energy Ball, Power Whip, increased power for some of the Gen I moves in Let's Go).
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Mar 21, 2019 23:22
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pity the dragon type
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Mar 21, 2019 23:41
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Grass didn't have it as bad as Dragon or Bug or Ghost, at least.
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Silver2195 posted:I was just looking through all the Grass-type moves, and wow, Grass attacks were really bad in Gen I. OK, Razor Leaf was legitimately good (since it basically always critted back then), but the only other Grass moves that dealt even moderate damage back then were Petal Dance (70 power, with a drawback) and Solarbeam (120 power, but wastes a turn). Meanwhile other types got moves like Dig, Earthquake, Body Slam, Hyper Beam (which didn't even skip a turn if it KOed), Psychic, Flamethrower, Surf, Fire Blast, and Hydro Pump. Later gens made Grass moves much better (increased power for Petal Dance, sunlight providing a way to circumvent Solarbeam's drawback, Giga Drain, Energy Ball, Power Whip, increased power for some of the Gen I moves in Let's Go). It took until Gen 7 to get a low-power physical grass move. I'm glad we finally have Energy Ball at least.
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Mar 21, 2019 23:45
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What about Vine Whip?
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Solumin posted:It took until Gen 7 to get a low-power physical grass move. Vine Whip has always been around.
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Mar 21, 2019 23:49
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It took me until right now to remember Vine Whip. In my defense I was thinking "low powered special attack that isn't complete garbage like Absorb" since fire and water have Ember and Bubble, but I checked leafage before posting and forgot what I was looking for. My point is there seems to be a standard set of attacks and some types didn't have them for a while. Things like Ember/Bubble equivalents, elemental hyper beams, 90 damage/low pp attacks, 60 damage high pp attacks, etc.
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Mar 21, 2019 23:55
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Solumin posted:My point is there seems to be a standard set of attacks and some types didn't have them for a while. Things like Ember/Bubble equivalents, elemental hyper beams, 90 damage/low pp attacks, 60 damage high pp attacks, etc. Most of the equivalent moves seem to be the trio of Fire/Water/Electric or Fire/Ice/Electric rather then Fire/Water/Grass.
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You know how some people don't shut up about Gen 5 being the best and poo poo? They're right. I'm playing White again after several years (played BW 3 times through after initial release), just got to the 5th gym's city and oof. It's good. -Route design is really, really good. It's linear as hell, but what's nice is how wide it is. You can go straight and just get to the next area no problem, but there's a chunky amount of optional stuff literally off the beaten path. A whole desert and ruins, old railroad area overrun with grass, etc, just enough content to explore around that is optional. And exploration is handsomely rewarded in the early game. The first 3 gym leaders have hard counters in the areas around their cities. The elemental monkey, timburr/throh, and darumaku are all easy to get if you explore around before going to the gym. -Cutscenes are brisk and feel 'natural'. You get a fight with N when you decide to go into the second gym, your friend challenge you often, there's two sequences in Nimbasa city you can tackle in any order. It feels less like the game is waiting for you to step into somewhere to start the next thing and more like when you decide to do something, the game will have some story to go along first. -Level curve kinda owns. Not having the new EXP Share (in fact, Exp Share is optional and i didn't bother grabbing it) means you don't level everything as fast, means that levels going down after a gym is okay because whatever destroyed the last gym won't be as useful and you'll need to use the other pokemon that didn't jump levels during a gym. -Nimbasa is a fun challenge because the first three gyms have hard counters nearby, Nimbasa doesn't. You can get the ground alligator before arriving in town, but it'll at best destroy Half the gym with lovely-ish moves (Dig is the best thing you can get at that point), and the other half is Emolga. The best counter to it is instead all the way back at the first cave you went to, like three towns back, either Drilbur with similar issues and having to wait on the dust cloud stuff, or a Roggenrola... IF you explored Castelia enough to get Eviolite, otherwise it doesn't survive Volt Switch enough. It's a strong wakeup call because the counters you can get can be dealt with by the gym, so you just gotta be good. -The story is great. Plasma is spouting interesting stuff, and stealing pokemon. The community at large takes actual stances about this, and Gym Leaders who are respected members of the community, fight to stop Plasma's crimes... while giving thought to their BS and coming to their own conclusions to challenge Plasma. They don't just roll with it like a certain French Professor with a thing for redheads, and they don't just ignore the problem. They challenge Plasma back on all regards, but specially fight them whenever they commit violence. Meanwhile your friends are taking their opinions on that, and Bianca's is to grow and see the world and take in all these new views and opinions, while Cheren is fighting because that's what he knows, so far he is actively trying not to give thought about what's going on and what he himself is doing. I love the detail that the town's mothers asked Juniper to give the main characters the pokedex quest simply as an excuse to get them all to explore the world and find who they want to be. The journey of pokemon is meaningless, it's just a convenient way to have kids come to age and figure out life. Cheren can't figure that out fully so he's super into catching pokemon. I love these games, they're fun. My pokemon are super nice and i'm gonna get an icecream guy.
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Mar 22, 2019 00:24
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Vinylshadow posted:Nothin' secret about it His Magikarp would like a word.
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ArmyOfMidgets posted:You know how some people don't shut up about Gen 5 being the best and poo poo?  A good post.
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ArmyOfMidgets posted:You know how some people don't shut up about Gen 5 being the best and poo poo? Iirc the best counter to Elesa's Emolga is Blitzle. It gets Lightning Rod and Motor Drive- both of which make it immune to Volt Switch, and Shockwave- so it gets around Double Team Spam. Definitely agree on the rest of your points. Black and White own.
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Mar 22, 2019 02:35
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Funky Valentine posted:James is secretly the greatest trainer in the anime. He's secretly and genuinely the best helicopter pilot in the show, but it never really comes up or is commented on until they need somebody to fly one and he just jumps into the seat.
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Mar 22, 2019 02:51
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Kurieg posted:Well.. I mean... PFFFFTTTT Oh sweet jesus I'm crying AHAHA Takoluka posted:would you tell it that to its face Not only would I tell that to it's face I'd rent billboard space so it wouldn't miss it. Does it count by stomping it's foot and can only be piloted by virgin maidens? Does it use that horn to gore other robots to death? I'm dying to know. edit: I'm guessing Gundam Mermaid was too rough on the landing to properly utilize. Flopsy fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Mar 22, 2019 |
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Mar 22, 2019 03:01
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At least one of those has probably been a mecha anime plot. Does it fight Lion Gundam?
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Mar 22, 2019 03:21
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Ghost Leviathan posted:
No, Banshee and Phenex.
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Mar 22, 2019 03:27
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Flopsy posted:PFFFFTTTT Oh sweet jesus I'm crying AHAHA Unicorn is legit one of the only good UC protag gundam designs and if you don't like it your brain has been made smooth as original animation RX78
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Mar 22, 2019 04:07
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To be fair it does look better in NT-D mode.
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Silver Falcon posted:Iirc the best counter to Elesa's Emolga is Blitzle. It gets Lightning Rod and Motor Drive- both of which make it immune to Volt Switch, and Shockwave- so it gets around Double Team Spam. True. My Blitzle was the MVP in the fight against Elesa.
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