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RatHat posted:Nevermind, just got Poke Pelago and Rainbow beans aren't as rare as I thought they'd be. Prior to Pelago, I stopped by the pokémon center for my daily beans, since feeding your pokémon can get you several rare candies by the time you leave the first island (unless you blaze through the first island in ~3/4 hours in a single play session) It's great, even if it trivializes the game even more than it already is "Oh look, a level 20 Totem pokémon. Sure would suck if my pokémon weren't level 35."
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Star Man posted:lol if you open packs for cards does pokemon have draft or sealed?
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May 5, 2018 01:46
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mandatory lesbian posted:does pokemon have draft or sealed? Prereleases are sealed stuff, 6 packs and boy was it never fun pulling a Charizard without any copies of Charmander to use it with. Now the prerelease kits come with some preselected evolution lines to start basing a deck around, packs are still a crap shoot for lines. Drafts, some prerelease events used to hold them but I haven't seen one run in years.
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I was really into Magic: the Gathering back in middle school, and I remember looking down on the kids who played the Pokémon CCG, lol. I was too cool and mature for Pokémon until I graduated high school.
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May 5, 2018 04:06
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the card game is the one aspect of the series i never got into, yugioh kinda filled that niche for me and most kids i knew
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Rollersnake posted:I was really into Magic: the Gathering back in middle school, and I remember looking down on the kids who played the Pokémon CCG, lol. I was too cool and mature for Pokémon until I graduated high school. this is me except we didn't play magic we only played video games
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May 5, 2018 04:22
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i was so into the pokemon tcg that a friend and i would call each other on the phone in middle school and play against each other on the honor system and narrate what we did on our turns + kept notes of the other person's board state
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May 5, 2018 04:24
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Countblanc posted:i was so into the pokemon tcg that a friend and i would call each other on the phone in middle school and play against each other on the honor system and narrate what we did on our turns + kept notes of the other person's board state This is awesome
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May 5, 2018 05:18
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Raserys posted:the card game is the one aspect of the series i never got into, yugioh kinda filled that niche for me and most kids i knew If the card game wasn't even a thing then Yugioh would have never caught on in the states
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May 5, 2018 05:27
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My husband and I haven't bought many new cards in a while, but we'll sometimes go out to the pub with our decks and spend an evening playing together. Pretty much every time we do so, at least one person comes up to us and says it's awesome.
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May 5, 2018 06:24
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I read something about legendaries you haven't caught respawning everytime you beat the Elite 4? Should I just KO any story legendaries/ultra beasts and save catching them for later when I have a stronger team then?
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May 5, 2018 08:26
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theres not really any point waiting, any legendaries you face that are forced encounters usually don't have particularly low catch rates
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May 5, 2018 08:41
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Crossposting from PYF Macros & Memes https://twitter.com/NinWire/status/992478338634706944 Did not feature Loudred tho, I rate it 7/10.
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May 5, 2018 09:23
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Oh my god I love Golisopod but Emergency Exit is the worst. I guess I can pretty much never use him against wild Pokémon then.
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May 5, 2018 09:48
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Dizz posted:why would I want cards that some other nasty person touched? keep ur cooties to urself realtalk: When I was 13 and blowing all of my paper route money on Pokémon cards, I would lament over not pulling whatever rares that I wanted when I bought packs. The store owner told me that it would be better if I spent the same amount of money I do on packs pulling nothing that I wanted on singles instead because I would have to spend way more money in packs to get what I wanted. So I did and I learned how to settle without having foil editions of cards and I eventually had most of the cards that I wanted.
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May 5, 2018 10:50
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Somebody post their most successful Battle Tree teams! I would like to steal these ready-made goombas and rickroll whatever poor sap that gets in my way 
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May 5, 2018 11:01
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I can't remember the third but I had a very good time with Alolan Ninetales and Toxapex in the AI partner mode. I'd open with Aurora Veil, Nasty Plot and blast away with Moonblast/Blizzard while my usually dumb partner manages to get a Shell Smash off with Barbaracle. Toxapex was a nuclear option because it would take 40 turns but you will always win against the stupid setup-heavy AI if you have Haze.
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Star Man posted:realtalk: When I was 13 and blowing all of my paper route money on Pokémon cards, I would lament over not pulling whatever rares that I wanted when I bought packs. The store owner told me that it would be better if I spent the same amount of money I do on packs pulling nothing that I wanted on singles instead because I would have to spend way more money in packs to get what I wanted. So I did and I learned how to settle without having foil editions of cards and I eventually had most of the cards that I wanted. I have to appreciate that a store owner would actually give this advice to a kid.
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May 5, 2018 15:06
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DizzyBum posted:I have to appreciate that a store owner would actually give this advice to a kid. Hobby shops make their money off of singles and stuff like tournament entrance fees and snacks
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May 5, 2018 16:57
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Star Man posted:realtalk: When I was 13 and blowing all of my paper route money on Pokémon cards, I would lament over not pulling whatever rares that I wanted when I bought packs. The store owner told me that it would be better if I spent the same amount of money I do on packs pulling nothing that I wanted on singles instead because I would have to spend way more money in packs to get what I wanted. So I did and I learned how to settle without having foil editions of cards and I eventually had most of the cards that I wanted. Yeah, but I also want to complete this set, so getting a booster box helped with getting a good majority of commons, uncommons, and rares/foils. Later i will check what I'm missing and see how much it would cost. I'm gonna guess that everything after the initial set will cost me a lot since it's all extremely rare.
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May 5, 2018 21:46
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I looked up a card in the new set and made the most obvious joke ever.
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May 5, 2018 22:55
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Star Man posted:I looked up a card in the new set and made the most obvious joke ever. Hah, yeah, maxmoefoe beat you to it. What a timeless scene.
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that ivy guy posted:Hah, yeah, maxmoefoe beat you to it. What a timeless scene. I don't even know who that is, but that's just how easy that reference is to make.
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May 6, 2018 01:31
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its an easy reference to make since, ya know, the original card is a reference to it
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May 6, 2018 02:57
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Well it took them twenty years to make that reference 
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Star Man posted:I looked up a card in the new set and made the most obvious joke ever. 0/10 not the Metal Drying Pan
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Have you guys heard of this "Gorochu"? http://www.siliconera.com/2018/05/03/pikachu-originally-second-evolution-called-gorochu-large-fangs-two-horns/
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Tough looking monsters like Lapras and Snorlax?
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Raserys posted:Tough looking monsters like Lapras and Snorlax? Lapras looked pretty tough in its gen I art. 
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less laughter posted:Lapras looked pretty tough in its gen I art. A lot of the original 150 looked like mean fuckers in their original art
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Lotta narrow black eyes, which eventually turned into big doofy eyes around Gen IV
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TheKingofSprings posted:A lot of the original 150 looked like mean fuckers in their original art     
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I don't appreciate all the Diglett bullying in those pictures
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When deciding on what moves to give my pokemon I've been sticking with ones that do damage and discarding any that boost/reduce stats or give status effects (though I do have one pokemon that I'm keeping sleep on.) Is this a good idea or am I missing out not giving my pokemon a move that reduces defence or something?
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May 6, 2018 19:47
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they're called Carddass i guess and some of them are buck wild  
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Dang I found my new avatar.
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A lot of the early Pokemon were just created as their sprites first, so it meant they couldn't have a huge amount of detail like they do now, especially with their eyes, since circles were a nightmare when you only had, like, eight pixels to work with for that section. And of course these were the Red and Green sprites, not the Blue ones, so they were definitely "intimidating".
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TheKingofSprings posted:A lot of the original 150 looked like mean fuckers in their original art The Mewtwo one took the cake, he never looked better than how they portrayed that tumor cat sin-against-god White Light fucked around with this message at 20:51 on May 6, 2018 |
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