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Zuzie posted:The earliest iterations of Red and Green didn't really pin down the general sapience of Pokémon. They were more like animals that needed to be controlled through fear rather then trust (a few trainer sprites had them holding whips and even the beta Player character had one as well). Nowadays their general intelligence puts them in between "trained dog" to "adult chimpanzee" or "human child", making these earlier practices barbaric. If their purpose was to do some kind of commentary on it, then it didn't work out very well, because all those early episodes about characters being a jerk to Ash are framed as him needing to learn a lesson and not the people doing it. Ash is the one in the wrong who needs to grow up and change, not the guy who's blatantly abusing his Pokemon, not the guy who interrupted his attempt to capture Weedle by swinging a sword at him, causing the Beedrill to attack them, only for said rear end in a top hat to put all the blame on Ash for it. A lot of the first season is filled with this kind of dissonance between the morals it tries to present and is otherwise excessively cruel, even for the tone Tajiri wanted to present. For what people consider to be the heyday of the anime, it's not very good. Nodosaur fucked around with this message at 14:41 on May 13, 2019 |
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Is there a website that tells you if a particular move is poo poo or not?
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Farecoal posted:Is there a website that tells you if a particular move is poo poo or not? https://forums.somethingawful.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=151
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Farecoal posted:Is there a website that tells you if a particular move is poo poo or not? You can always ask here. And while some of it's niche, watching competitive can help give an understanding of what's good if you disregard things like stealth rocks/spikes since they're less good when your opponents don't constantly switch Pokemon. Unless you go all in with 3 spikes and stealth rocks so every new enemy starts at half hp.
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# ? May 13, 2019 15:40 |
Holy poo poo Diggersby is a nightmare. Worst Pokemon. Worst anything.
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Farecoal posted:Is there a website that tells you if a particular move is poo poo or not? Smogon tells you the good move combinations for PvP for a given Pokemon. In a single-player context you don't really need a website for that kind of thing, unless you're trying to speedrun or something.
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Nodosaur posted:A lot of the first season is filled with this kind of dissonance between the morals it tries to present and is otherwise excessively cruel, even for the tone Tajiri wanted to present. For what people consider to be the heyday of the anime, it's not very good. People remember Indigo League as the heyday of the anime because the first two thirds of Johto were so bad, I suspect. Edit: Also, might as well repost this: Silver2195 posted:Inspired by recent talk in this thread about good vs. bad anime episodes, my top 10 favorite Kanto episodes, in no particular order: Silver2195 fucked around with this message at 16:52 on May 13, 2019 |
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Gripweed posted:Holy poo poo Diggersby is a nightmare. Worst Pokemon. Worst anything. https://twitter.com/rabbit_thing/status/956449854909186048
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Gripweed posted:Holy poo poo Diggersby is a nightmare. Worst Pokemon. Worst anything. diggersby though ??
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ah dang beaten kind of
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# ? May 13, 2019 17:03 |
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Diggersby is an offensive monster and I love him
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Ignite Memories posted:Diggersby is an
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# ? May 13, 2019 17:25 |
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Yeah with her Hidden Ability she's the best of the regional rodents after Bibarel
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# ? May 13, 2019 17:27 |
See how they have to drastically change at least it's face to make it's cute
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# ? May 13, 2019 17:28 |
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does it have hand bones in its ears
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they turn into a drill
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Geostomp posted:Early Pokémon had a nasty tendency to introduce rear end in a top hat characters of the day that caused the episode’s problem, but still blame Ash for it all when he dared react reasonably. Remember that samurai kid from the Buttefree episode? Yeah. Oh they never really stopped. Remember Paul and his "alternative training?" yeaaahhhhhhhhh
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# ? May 13, 2019 17:49 |
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I've never used Diggersby (actually I think that's a lie, I think I used one once for the Cyllage City gym but I had a bunch of other anti-rock Pokémon for that so eh) but I kinda like that it's just this slobby construction worker rabbit with excavator arms for ears.
Paul.Power fucked around with this message at 18:53 on May 13, 2019 |
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And her shiny is based on Bugs Bunny so that's automatic cool points.
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YaketySass posted:does it have hand bones in its ears it's a cartoon rabbit
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Diggersby is Homer Simpson after a tragic teleporting accident. I love him.
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There is no Pokemon cooler than my diggersby Dirt McGuirk
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Pentaro posted:Diggersby is Homer Simpson after a tragic teleporting accident. I love him. Simpsons did it.
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Gripweed posted:See how they have to drastically change at least it's face to make it's cute Verdict: it's cute
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Ignite Memories posted:There is no Pokemon cooler than my diggersby Dirt McGuirk Thats a funny way to spell "my Jigglypuff Violent J"
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Iron Crowned posted:Thats a funny way to spell "my Jigglypuff Violent J" this is truly embarrassing
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indigi posted:this is truly embarrassing I've been naming Jigglypuffs Violent J since RBY
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_8Wg3vXHfg
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Gripweed posted:Holy poo poo Diggersby is a nightmare. Worst Pokemon. Worst anything. diggersby is a disgusting ossan with a belly warmer band which makes it amazing i hope the fire rabbit follows the same aesthetic, his base form is like "soccer enthusiast," his T2 form is "soccer professional," and his T3 form is "balding fatass alcoholic ex-pro burnout who goes to soccer games to start fights"
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This is great. Joey is a champ
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https://twitter.com/pokebeach_wpm/status/1128014492623880192 ARMORED MEWTWO
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That looks totally badass.
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What else was on that leak that mentioned armored mewtwo months ago
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Countblanc posted:What else was on that leak that mentioned armored mewtwo months ago Metal Snake and Wood Horse legendary Armored Mewtwo, Charizard, Flygon, Zeraora Meltan is a part of the armored evolution and legendaries The only post you can trust because the user didn't have a tripcode.
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# ? May 13, 2019 20:50 |
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Interesting to see that they haven't forgotten Ancient Mew. Didn't Shudo admit that the Ancient Mew card was a leftover plot element from an early draft of the second movie that they forgot to take out? The idea of some Pokemon having Ancient Formes that reflect what they looked like before undergoing Darwinian evolution into the forms we know today would be cool, assuming that was the idea (it probably wasn't, since alternate-form stuff didn't really start until Gen IV). Someone on another site has suggested that Voltorb and Electrode were Electric/Grass back when people used Apricorn-based Poke Balls instead of mass-produced ones. Or maybe there's an Ancient Pichu that evolves into the appropriate Pikaclone based on the region.
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I wish I knew what happened to my Ancient Mew card.
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why did it take the pokeworld so long to think of armor
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Super No Vacancy posted:why did it take the pokeworld so long to think of armor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3cSdsdDx-Y
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that's football this game is supposed to be about soccer
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100 degrees Calcium posted:That looks totally badass. now imagine how fab Armored Flygon is going to look
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