The Poképark 🌈🌷

[cold sky]

everyone kinda likes them all

also it's not a spray tan i think they're just tan

[mellow lagoon]

naah its spray tan trust i am game freK

[sacred warren]

The pory plush arrived before I could grind enough money to buy porygon for my team lol

[sacred warren]

They were Worth the grind

Worlds 1st person to use porygon in a casual kanto playthrough

[foggy plank]

Nah bro porygon is cool

Id use it, im a sucker for its line

Does anyone know if theres like an easy way to look for card shows??? Like maybe a site showing locations and upcoming events or something? I really wanna go to one and just get a bunch of cheap but pretty IRs

[sacred warren]

Its not because it isn't cool
Its because it takes like 4-6 hours of grinding money with a very specific set up to get 1 glitchless

Its faster in leaf green and that took me like 4 hours

Fire red its probably closer to 6

[foggy plank]

Ima be so real

I spent 2 entire months hunting for a magneton with a modest nature in PLA

Wasn't even shiny or nothin

I would absolutely get like an entire team of porygon

[sacred warren]

Are the mints not in pla lol

[foggy plank]

No they are im just stubborn

Porygon is so so cute

My only thing is id wanna be able to evolve it

And idk if I am even able to recieve its evo item

By trade I mean

[sacred warren]

You couldn't do it until post game in frlg anyways

[foggy plank]

Oh btw are those fun

[sacred warren]

Team so far

[foggy plank]

Peak team

[sacred warren]

Can't get the last 2 until I beat koga to use surf

[foggy plank]

Is there a rhyme or reason to it?

Or just using ur favorites type thing

[sacred warren]

As fun as any pokemon game
Although they have some early gen moveset and pre split jank

[sacred warren]

Just my faves

[foggy plank]

Those are the big reasons im not gonna get em lol, among many other things

[sacred warren]

With a bit of an underlying weird theme

[foggy plank]

Whos the final 2?

[sacred warren]

Muk and tentacrule

[foggy plank]

Yessss tentacruel

Im a big fan of Muk's French cousin swalot

Great team you got, any beedrill n porygon love is a win in my book. If you dont mind, what starter did you pick? Did you pick to make your rival fights easier or harder with ur team comp in mind?

[sacred warren]

I picked bulba
It is my favourite of the kanto starters but I didn't plan to use it much it was more just because its useful for the 1st 2 gyms since I couldn't get a 3rd mon until after misty

Kinda just a coincidence that charizard is probably the hardest for my team

Also I think bulbasaur gets the most hms

[foggy plank]

Im a bulbasaur truther, the best for those first gyms easy coasting. Also methinks you can get porygon the Thunderbolt and ice beam TMs at the celadon department store, plus tentacruel will help out

[sacred warren]

I can
But that's alot more money grinding lol

I need 2 of each since I want bolt on mime and beam on crule too

[foggy plank]

I think giovannis gonna be tough cuz the team is a little rough v ground (3 poisons and the water doesnt resist)

So the beam is gonna go crazy

[sacred warren]

Giovanny is kinda easy lol
2 poisons and 2 slow 4x water weaks

Dugtrio is fast but this is pre stat buff so it doesn't hit as hard

Also I believe the badge boost is still in frlg

Not the glitch tho

Just like the actual intended boost

[foggy plank]

I would wanna be glitching it up haha

Biggest reasons I got the red and blue virtual consoles on 3ds were to abuse the hell out of all of fhe glitches

Same reason I got both diamond and pearl a few years ago, I took diamond seriously and planned to void glitch in pearl (i kinda chickened out/cant find the cart, since it could corrupt the game itself)

I think the glitches are kind of part of older games charm, its like the hardware limitations and weird lil quirks are on full display, products of their time period

Then again glitches arent how it's supposed to be so maybe I shouldnt be b lining to them lolll

I dont remember too much about FRLG, but methinks my team would be Venusaur, Slowbro, Butterfree, Flareon or Jolteon, Marowak, and Persian

[hexed copper]

why did they make them shiny

[reef bane]

I’d love to shiny hunt Mr.Mime once I get there. Shiny hunting in old games is so satisfying.

[steel basin]

i have like 2 full boxes of porygon shiny in scarvio

[reef bane]

Ok now do it in FRLG

[rotund bramble]

just got a shiny latias!! was planning on it to be the only legend i hunt, but she has a lonely nature so now im hunting latios

[uneven scroll]

What do you guys think of pokemon horizons?

For me I like it, but I think they should've made the protagonist a bit more enthusiastic about battling. She also just doesn't catch many Pokemon at all, and I feel like they really should've focused on that as well cus it doesn't feel like she's that compelling of a trainer

[hexed copper]

i havent watched it but i like the purple haired one

[uneven scroll]

Dot

[hexed copper]

yeah

[sacred warren]

Full team

[sacred warren]

Can the I'm game trades be shiny?
I thunk you'd gotta breed for one

Iirc it's only lgpe where the ingame trades can be shiny

[sacred warren]

Got bored so I assigned my ocs pokemon

Woke mothim
Mothey/mothem

[hexed copper]

charjabug andblipbug goated team

[sacred warren]

Slushie was originally gonna have like a gen 1-3 mons team because she likes retro shit but blipbug is literally them so

Well not literally she's a thrips and blipbug is a ladybird but you know what I mean

[hexed copper]

yeah de i know

[reef bane]

Pretty sure you can find them in the wild

But yeah in game trades can also be shiny.

[sacred warren]

Not in frlg

Maybe there's like some sort of glitch thar let's you
But ik you can't normally

[reef bane]

Oh shit you’re right. That’s so weird….why would they do that????

Oh well. I can just hunt the trade then.

[sacred warren]

You can't hunt trades in gen 3 the pid and tid is fixed

Maybe you can hack your save to have the exact necessary ids for it to be huntable
But im not entirely sure if it works because I think If it did I'd have probably seen it talked about

[reef bane]

Wow that’s lame. 😐 usually I’d know this stuff…

Well. Guess a normal Mr mime is not so bad. But I really wanted a green one…

Hm ok so I guess you can masuda method Mr.Mime. I fucking hate hatching eggs so idk if I’m gunna do all that LOL.

[sacred warren]

You're not gonna believe this

But masuda method isn't in gen 3

There is no way to increase your odds without glitches or rng menips in gen 3

Masuda method is gen 4+

Even gen 2 had a way to increase odds with breeding a shiny with a non shiny
But gen 3 has nothing

[reef bane]

https://tenor.com/view/wes-fall-to-knees-scream-gif-27602552

Idk how I know so little about this, Ive been shiny hunting for like 10 years.

[twin delta]

gen 3 is either soft reset, random encounter, or bust

[vagrant marlin]

my favorite youtuber is a hardcore shiny hunter so i kinda knew there’s no way to increase odds in gen 3

[raw nebula]

its definitely rough but at the end of the day it is luck. I injected the old sea map into my childhood emerald copy and got mew around like 980 something iirc

thats to say that its not impossible, I mean

gen 3 hunting feels really special to me even though i only ever started doing hunts seriously post 1/4096 odds, the sprite work is just really nice :)

[sacred warren]

The only poketuber I watch is a shiny hunter lol

Absol blogs

I don't really watch any other poketubers since I prefer videos that actually stimulate thought

[vagrant marlin]

hell yeah that’s who i was talking about

[mellow lagoon]

I personally watch johnstone

[sacred warren]

I'll occasionally put on johnstone if he pops up
But I don't go out of my way to watch him

More enjoyable than alot of other poketubers for me at least

Although he does get a little screamy sometimes

[vagrant marlin]

i watch him too

[sacred warren]

My least favourite poketubers are the ones who scream and cry about every single shiny they see

Not that they're not allowed to be exited I just think its annoying

Like bro it's your 100th duplicate shiny from wild zone 16 calm down until you get the alpha froakie a bit bro

[vagrant marlin]

it’s nice when shiny reactions are like “oh hey cool we got it” instead of “OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD YEEEEEESSSSSSSS”

sometimes i’m like the former but it’s usually cause i like max out the odds cause i’m impatient

[mellow lagoon]

I love the ones that just sigh when they get another duplicate

cause its a more real reaction

[vagrant marlin]

if i do a shiny sandwich and i get it i’ll just keep going and look for more

like i shiny hunted dreepy recently and got 3 shiny dreepy and 1 shiny drakloak

[mellow lagoon]

I was mainly talking about with za

[sacred warren]

I appreciate dupes tbh
I like giving them to friends who don't hunt but like specific shinys

[vagrant marlin]

oh that makes a lot more sense actually

i would sigh if i got the 84th fletchling

[sacred warren]

Corsols is back in wiwa so I hope I'll be able to shiny hunt galarian again since shiny cursola is my favourite shiny pokemon

If not I'll just hunt another one in swsh and transfer it in whenever that's available ig

[vagrant marlin]

go shinies don’t get much of a reaction from me cause you get so much

i have like 300

[sacred warren]

My shiny cursola was crazy over odds via masuda with charm but ig the game felt sorry and gave me the rarer male one

25% male

[vagrant marlin]

i never knew the male on corsola was rarer that’s interesting

[mellow lagoon]

Dude ive just started killing them

[sacred warren]

Idk why it's not genderless but I'm not complaining if it means I have the slightly rarer shiny

[mellow lagoon]

Im still hunting for shalpha dratini

Those lil shits like popping up

[sacred warren]

Although it's not really that much rarer because of a swsh bug

[vagrant marlin]

i’m not even lucky in za i only have 2 shinies in it outside of mareep

pansear and sandile

[sacred warren]

All wild encounters are 50/50 regardless of actual ratio for some reason
Eggs work as intended

[vagrant marlin]

i heard the shiny noise once but i failed it so it must have been a bird

[sacred warren]

But also because of a bug square sparkes in swsh are more common in the wild then stars are

So you can tell my one is hatched because it has stars

[mellow lagoon]

U WANT ANY OF MY MANY DUPES??

[sacred warren]

Swsh you are such a game

[mellow lagoon]

LIKE GENUINELY

[sacred warren]

I have 5 shinys in the galarian zigzagoon line

3 zigzagoon 1 linoone 1 obstagoon

[vagrant marlin]

i really only shiny hunt in sv cause i actually have the shiny charm there

i’ve only ever completed 2 pokedexes being paldea and the isle of armor

[sacred warren]

3 were intentionally hunted
1 was a random encounter while I was hunting trubbish

And idk where the last was from probably a hacked raid or something

[foggy plank]

If there are no mothim fans, I am 12 feet under

Im a sucker for the bugs but mothim's whole line even the wormadams i am very fond of

[sacred warren]

I like the burmy line too

I have a friend who's favourite mon is mothim

Or at least it's his favourite bug idk if its his favourite favourite

[foggy plank]

2/3 of my team, very menacing stare from beedrill lmao (gardevoir and ampharos decided to be out of frame✌️)

[sacred warren]

But its one of their faves

[foggy plank]

Ok gimme a sec

Mueheheh

[sacred warren]

This is my frlg team rn

[foggy plank]

Most of my guys

I love a lot of the wacky guys, some of my all time favorites are in here

(Reuniclus, minior core form, vivillon river pattern specifically)

Btw if anyone is on the fence about getting a wailord plushie for some reason oh my god just get it its legitimately one of the cutest 😭

[vagrant marlin]

i have a bunch of sitting cuties but i can’t remember most of them

[rotund bramble]

SKIPLOOM SITTING CUTIE MENTIONED 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[foggy plank]

YES YES YES

I WANTED TO SAY SMTH ABT IT BUT I DECIDED AGAINST IT BUT HE IS GENUINELY MY FAVORITE OF MY PLUSHES..

A long while back i had these two crappy little bootleg figures of a skiploom and samurott, they were so dumb looking I miss them so much. No idea where they went but I love skiploom so much I went out of my way to order its plush 🎉

[foggy plank]

I have a kyogre and metagross somewhere i dont remember 🥀

[rotund bramble]

my first pokemon center visit i saw him and was immediately drawn in

[foggy plank]

Thats kinda of a funny story, those were my first sitting cuties (got em a long time ago), and my father was getting me them for my birthday and asked if I wanted any more (cuz they were still only like 10 bucks and he could get 1 more), I declined getting more and ghen started trashing on the metang plush cuz it looked so goofy.
fast forward, he overheard me and got me a metang plush (i think he thought i was tryna reverse psychology, I wasnt, i genuinely didnt like it), this rinkydink little plushie has made me love metang now (very charming guy) sooo

[foggy plank]

As one should be, its so so cute

[vernal fern]

reuniclus!!

[reef bane]

Yeah I actually have like..4(?) shiny Pokémon in my original emerald game. Ive never tried for trade Pokémon before so I’m sure I never looked anything up about it. 💔

In gen 3 at least. I’ve tried in other games.

[twin delta]

never managed to get a shiny in my ruby (did see a shiny rhyhorn in the safari zone) but I have 1 shiny pidgeot in either leafgreen or firered

[reef bane]

It’s tough in gen 3 cause of the frames

Especially if ur battery is dry

[foggy plank]

YES YES YESSSSS

Reuniclus and Chi-yu are both tied for my favorite pokemon of all time

[vernal fern]

YEAAAAAA

[foggy plank]

Reuniclus is my baby, istg my little solosis "Kyoko" evolved into Duosion back when I first played White and the lines been my favorite ever since

And reuniclus cemented itself as my favorite little guy once it evolved and then when I actually had a lot of success using in double battles

Also

[foggy plank]

I have that venusaur!!!

[vernal fern]

YAY AWESOME

fluffy bulbasaur is so cute

[foggy plank]

Back when they released i didnt know they were a thing, so when I saw it I like fnaf 2 foxy jumpscare jumped into the shelf with it lol

Surprisingly good quality on these, too, its flower stands up better than the pokemon center plush

[vernal fern]

i saw it while i was away from home and i was like "aah i want one so bad but i'll find one at my local walmart"

it wasnt there for weeks

always blastoise instead

then one day it was finally there and i was so happy

[reef bane]

I hope someday Pokémon makes a big sableye plush 💔

[vagrant marlin]

these 3 are my goats

i cherish these goobers

[vernal fern]

life sized venusaur would be life changing

[foggy plank]

I dont think i have ever had any luck with the autohunter spot in ZA

I have left it running for an hour before with absolutely nothing

[foggy plank]

Ok so

Not only did nothing happen while I left it running (to be expected, I only left it about 20 minutes]

When i ran around to check and exited the area im pretty sure a shiny fletchling spawned in and instantly despawned itself because I heard the sparkle and then have been utterly unable to find the source

If anyone has spare junk shinies from wild zone 3 that they would be willing to donate (just 1 🙏🙏) that would be much appreciated, I am livid, I have now lost 2 shinies in the same spot somehow. First a budew, now something ill never know the identity of.

[hexed copper]

so what possibly happened is that you spooked it and it flew off!

this is really common with the flying types around wild zones

hope you’re able to reclaim it though

[foggy plank]

No no ik

The roof in that spot has a thing i think where even being near the edge causes all fleeables to flee

[hexed copper]

ohhh yeah that probably happened :( man

[foggy plank]

Im fighting for this guy, i will get him back istg

[cold sky]

are you living shiny dexing

[foggy plank]

No im just bored

[cold sky]

LOL

i caught 2 shiny leafeons and a shiny eevee jus tnow

[foggy plank]

I need to go to this place with ghe green haired chick named Lebanon i think but I dont want to

[foggy plank]

Sickk, you gonna evolve the eevee or keep it like that

[cold sky]

idk yet

i got 3 shiny eevees so far

One is going to stay un-evolved

[foggy plank]

I remember back during sword and shield when the raid exploit was found, and you could just get shiny raids to appear raw completely vanilla

[cold sky]

yeah LOL

[foggy plank]

My buddy got a shiny eevee raid and hosted it 9 times for every eevee

[cold sky]

fuck yes

[foggy plank]

Only i didnt evolve mine, ive just got 9 identical eevees 🙏🙏

[cold sky]

LOL

put them into home for fun

[median portal]

I have Scarlet, no DLC, and Let's Go Eevee. Making a call for Audino catch locations. Please, I can't finish the game without one, and I don't care for trading.

[cold sky]

i don't think it's in scarlet and violet??

it's only in legends z-a

[median portal]

Do they really expect me to finish these games like this

[cold sky]

wdym

why do you need an Audino

[median portal]

Because I do not finish Gen 5+ without an Audino in my party.

That's just the thing I do.

[cold sky]

Im sorry that there's no Audino in Scarlet/Violet 😔

[mellow lagoon]

Audino fans unite

[median portal]

That said, I also do not like main quests of SV anyway.

All of the questgivers are so pushy about it that I refuse to do their quests.

[cold sky]

loool???

[median portal]

"YOU'RE MY FRIEND AND WON'T DO ANYTHING EXCEPT THE THING I INVITED YOU TO DO RIGHT? OF COURSE! RIGHT!" but drawn out over like 10 dialogue boxes is annoying and bad.

[cold sky]

lol

i never found it too annoying but i get it

[median portal]

Also done by 3 people. Count it, you get this spiel 3 times.

Also? Why am I the only one forced to stay in school uniform when 99.9% of the students immediately change into something normal

[cold sky]

yeah that's the most annoying thing

[median portal]

Even worse, why are 100% of the accessories matched to the purple outfit. None of them match the orange one. All the shoes, hats, bracelets, everything.

[cold sky]

it hsa the best facial customization in the series but no clothing customization

at least the DLC gives you kemonos

[median portal]

We already have Legends Arceus for kimonos though

If I want traditional Japan I'll play LA.

[cold sky]

it's more like festival kimonos

but also arceus clothes are better

[median portal]

And still no Audino there either.

😭

[cold sky]

there's an Audino in ZA at least

and Mega Audino

[foggy plank]

I think it flags the raid dupes

[cold sky]

weird

lol

[median portal]

But I don't have ZA because I heard it was poopy.

And also I've been prioritizing getting Switch 2 exclusives

[foggy plank]

More like wack lol, your mistake for putting out such a bugged game that the players could turn those bugs into shinies, gamefreak, dont punish us for your doing lolll

[cold sky]

Z-A is good

i have like 170 hours in it

[foggy plank]

Za is good if you get the dlc

[cold sky]

i think it's fine without the dlc but the dlc is huge

[foggy plank]

The shiny printer unleashed

[cold sky]

it's a shiny printer without the dlc

[foggy plank]

Shiny printer+ haha

[median portal]

My only shiny encounter was the first Noctowl I encountered in Pokemon Silver. I was a kid so I assumed it gave me Ash's from the anime.

[foggy plank]

Since one of the hyper space tasks legit spawns one in guaranteed

[foggy plank]

Thats actually sick

[cold sky]

my first shiny encounter was bellsprout in gold

[foggy plank]

My first ever shiny was a miltank in Sun

[median portal]

I did not have a concept of shinies until years later

[foggy plank]

Her name was ice cream, its such a good shiny

[cold sky]

i didn't know it was shiny until after i caught it

[foggy plank]

Did you rhink you just seen a diseased plant 😭

[cold sky]

idk i was like uhhh

let me google the daets

i was 6 years old

[median portal]

When I was a kid you were a nerd if you didn't play Pokemon.

And stupid if you did play.

....this double standard only applied to me.

[foggy plank]

I swear im gonna finish auto hunting and find that only 1 thing shined and it was the stupid skiddo

[median portal]

Lol

[foggy plank]

Now I love shiny skiddo as much as the next guy, but maybe not so much when I have 3 shiny skiddo and a gogoat in home 🥀

[median portal]

Shiny Joltik my beloved

Look at this baby. Now imagine he blue

[foggy plank]

Shiny joltik isnt blue tho (unless im dumb n misinterpreted it)

It turns highlighter yellow w purple eyes

[median portal]

What

But I swear I saw an image where he blue

[foggy plank]

No 😅

It does the exact same thing as jolteons shiny

Better photo

Hes still very cute!! I like the highlighter yellow shinies, neon looks nice on electric types

[vernal fern]

I LOVE JOLTEON

Joltik* 😭

My brain is fried rn

Jolteon is cool too

[reef bane]

So was mnt moon made to torture players?

[mellow lagoon]

yes

[sacred warren]

I have the wailord sitting cutie too

I don't actually have that many sitting cuties compared to my standard sized plushies since I was stuck with whatever was in retail for most of my life lol

[foggy plank]

Reall

[sacred warren]

Most of my sitting cuties are also bugs

[foggy plank]

Bugs are the best

[sacred warren]

I'll see if I can get them all but they are in a bag so it might be a while
I'm almost done redecorating tho so they will be free as soon as I get the last wall done

[foggy plank]

Im tryna get ribombee soon

[foggy plank]

Hoorayy!!

[sacred warren]

I have a ton of flat bugs because I used to stack them

[foggy plank]

Lmao?

[sacred warren]

Paras wimpod spinarak ect

[foggy plank]

I am in desperate need for them to finally drop a mega beedrill plush i dish out the big bucks for it

I need a life sized mega beedrill that I will tie to an RC car and chase children around the park with

[foggy plank]

All amazing little guys

I currently have shedinja, mothim, and vivillon

Im looking to one day own ninjask, butterfree, beedrill, volcarona (only gonna happen if I go to japan cuz itll sell out instantly online), cascoon, leavanny, maybe vikavolt, and golisopod

Never gonna own all of those but I would be happy to own some, particularly ninjask cuz shedinja needs his brother

[mellow lagoon]

I need my favorite little babies :(

I need meowstic man

[twin delta]

I have 6 sitting cuties I’m pretty sure: typhlosion, garchomp, giratina, hydreigon, reshiram, and a shiny rayquaza

[sacred warren]

All my siting cuties

Idk where wimpod is I have that too
Buy I'm not searching for an hour

Because my plushies are all in bags my siblings keep knocking the bags over and not picking them up

So it's probably fell somewhere

Ok I think I found all the missing ones

[foggy plank]

HEAVY sigh

If theres any side quests that want a skiddo or something I know what im giving

Only 2 things shined and it was TWO skiddo bruhhhhhg

[sacred warren]

There's one that needs an xl gogoat

[foggy plank]

I could hypothetically use a 6 gogoat team in champions then ig 😭

[foggy plank]

I know abt that one, i already did it

I have an idea

Does anyone have a shiny fletchling they would trade for a shiny skiddo

Wait nvm

Cuz if I wanna do a living dex ever this is whats required

[toxic pilot]

No, that’s rock tunnel.

I don’t think I’ve had flash when I’ve gone through it literally ever 💀

[hexed copper]

i will be stealing from you.

[sacred warren]

I have like somewhere around 80 pokemon plushies total

Although I'll probably not buy any new pokemon stuff for awhile unless I find it in like a charity shop until gen 8 sitting cuties come out
I wanna work on collecting other toys for my room since I don't want it to exclusively be pokemon

The pory keychain was the last thing I really wanted

[foggy plank]

Ok so

I came back to the game just to check the staircase bc I only checked the bottom part of the zone, shalpha fletchling yay

I haven't caught it yet bc my classes are calling to me but what should I name it?

[mellow lagoon]

Gurt

[lilac kettle]

Drew them based on memory

[median portal]

Can we get the whole game in this style

[lilac kettle]

I can try. I’ll just have to knock out the developers

[meager perch]

angry bird

[foggy plank]

Ima do this too

[median portal]

If I drew them from memory you'd have my dog, a lump of butter with a beak, and that third evolution of Sobble

[foggy plank]

How they look

I hope you can tell who I have comprehended the least

Gecqua's proportions r all outta wack, I couldn't remember if it was built more stylized or like a legit gecko, im just happy I got the tail right loll

[twin delta]

please enjoy my finger doodles from memory lol

[foggy plank]

I remembered pombon has a bootleg fire Kanji on its foot for some reason.

Also im gonna say it, pombon is an industry plant

[meager perch]

i like the angry bird

[foggy plank]

If i end up picking browt, im naming it "Angry Birds"

[foggy plank]

https://tenor.com/view/monkey-gif-1073017265361415453

[foggy plank]

Never before has there been such an obvious marketable plushie intentional favorite-starter-of-the-bunch mascot as this guy, sprigatito was unprecedented at the time but this guy takes the cake 😭

Also, if it stays on all fours its just arcanine 2, if it goes bipedal its just fire okidogi

[clear kindle]

This is perfect

[foggy plank]

I wanted to add here, I really hope browt isnt an owl

BUT, if it is, please let it be a great horned owl or a burrowing owl (preferably the latter 🙏🙏)

[clear kindle]

Become part ice type snowy owl.

[toxic pilot]

in pokemon tower

love how these channelers keep having their pokemon use curse and knock themselves out with it LMAO

[median portal]

Let him be an ugly duckling situation where he kinda looks like an owl early on because he's blob-shaped but then he turns out to be some kinda great eagle

[foggy plank]

I need you guys' help

Do i need multiple Nintendo online memberships for my switch 2 (bc i still have my switch), or is it a thing where I can have the profile with the online attached to it on my switch 2 (so still 1 subscription, same profile on both consoles)

[toxic pilot]

the latter

it's never been the first scenario

[cold sky]

NSO is tied to your account

[foggy plank]

Thanks guys

My switch 2 came with a year of online but it cant be added to a preexisting membership

[cold sky]

weird

does it expire?

[foggy plank]

Idk thats just what it said in the fine print

[cold sky]

just wait until it expires and renew it?

[foggy plank]

Uhhh dont think so

[cold sky]

hmm

no big deal

[foggy plank]

Main thing is that im looking to do smth like those princesses makin all the suitors partake in physical challenges to see whose worthy of marrying her

Except im making all my online-less friends compete for who begs for the free year the hardest

[toxic pilot]

lmao

[cold sky]

isn't a year membership like 20 dollars

yeah LOL

my friends and i share a family group expansion pass

80 dollars for 8 people

[foggy plank]

Lmao

A fair amount of my buddies who are sophomores cant get their own stuff (aka minors who have to ask their parents for things; having Spotify premium still puts you at rich guy status for some of them 💀)

[toxic pilot]

i want to murder snorlax with my fists

JUST BE CAUGHT ALREADY

[foggy plank]

It might just be me but kanto kinda pisses me off???

Like ive already lived the whole region a bajillion times, tied with the fact that its one of those games where you gotta grind for levels (pretty typical for a pokemon game ofc), enough that spending a lot of time on something ive already experienced (grinding for a story im tired of) makes me not wanna play FRLG??

[toxic pilot]

i don't mind kanto

but catching snorlax is a pia

[foggy plank]

Thats fair

[toxic pilot]

GOT HIM

[foggy plank]

YESSSS

[toxic pilot]

god he used rest like 20 times

[foggy plank]

I think another thing is that the physical special split makes some mons miserable

Poor poor flareon

[toxic pilot]

flareon is miserable either way

there aren't many physical fire moves, even now

[foggy plank]

It got better at least

But geez GYARADOS???

Also to whoever said Gurt, I am naming one of the Skiddo Gurt instead, I forgot in the heat of the moment that all first instances of a meaningful Talonflame of mine get named Chara

[rotund bramble]

oh yeah what should i name my shiny bulbasaur when i get it?

[foggy plank]

Do you have a naming scheme already?

[toxic pilot]

Lettuce

[rotund bramble]

nope

[foggy plank]

Mk

[rotund bramble]

im pretty sure i have had a lettuce bulbasaur before lol

[foggy plank]

Sprout, Salad, or Baxter

[toxic pilot]

maybe name it squirtle then

[foggy plank]

Nah name it Victreebel

[rotund bramble]

i think i'm gonna name him sprout mole

after this freak

[toxic pilot]

one step closer to dragonite!!

(screenshotted before the text changed lol)

[vagrant marlin]

i just discovered a youtuber that goes into deep dives of pokemon games back when they were being developed and it’s crazy

i watched the legends arceus one

[toxic pilot]

i've seen that dude

[foggy plank]

Oddish

Oop here we go

Oh shit

I do not know a LICK about fashion chat how ass is my fit

[vagrant marlin]

for those who haven’t seen it here is some interesting stuff

• zoroark was designed to be a pretty big part, which it then got shafted a bit but still got a hisuian form
• there was supposed to be a cutscene at the beginning of the game that shows the protag in their room, then they get transported by arceus
• hisuian growlithe didn’t even have a design until after the game was announced

[foggy plank]

He got shafted to hisuian snow

[vagrant marlin]

wow this is just sad, they didn’t want sv to be the mess it was, look how pretty this is

[foggy plank]

This still bas most of the things people complained about

The lighting on the house is nice at least

[vagrant marlin]

rushing probably played less of a role than people thought

the main issues were probably small budget and hardware limitation

and the night and day difference between sv and wiwa makes more sense when you realize wiwa has double sv’s budget

10 million dolla and 20 million dolla

but anyway i think this screenshot proves that gamefreak didn’t want the game to be released like that and tpci is mostly to blame

[toxic pilot]

that goes for most games within the last 12 years lmao

[tiny snow]

makes me wonder how unfinished wiwa is gonna be
the first mainline pokemon games on a new console usually realize their least potential but maybe wiwa will be different since it's coming out for just a more powerful switch

[vagrant marlin]

i mean they broke the 3 year cycle for it

[foggy plank]

Theyre taking longer on this one

[vagrant marlin]

it was already their main focus for 3 years and it has another 2 down the pipeline so

plus bigger budget and more powerful console

[foggy plank]

I wish they would stop being stingy with the money

[toxic pilot]

so real

[foggy plank]

This is the most profitable franchise in the world, you've got PLENTY of cash to pitch into the budget

Although its most definitely because they WANT to limit their potential

People will still buy pokemon games when theyre shit, people continue to play and the company doesnt have to put too much in

[cold sky]

lose the hat and u'd be good

[foggy plank]

Hell it might even be that, since they have such a chokehold on the market for creature collectors, spending money on better games would bring in less players (Law of Diminishing Returns)

[cold sky]

i don't think scarlet and violet and ZA are shit

sword and shield was shit

[foggy plank]

Oh im not saying those games are shit (in fact theyre great! SV in spite of its struggles is a step in the direction of better quality over time, and ZA is good)

Just that people will still buy new pokemon games even if they ARE shit

[toxic pilot]

the lets go games were also pretty decent, even though they were a bit jank

[foggy plank]

But the main thing is that having a higher budget on a game sets a precedent; a standard of quality

[cold sky]

im excited for pokopia

i'll probably not talk in here tho when it's out

avoid spoilers

[foggy plank]

Valid

[toxic pilot]

pokopia looks really good

[foggy plank]

It looks fun and ill probably get it, but I've already got so much going on between my coursework, ZA, wanting to play Off, and also needing to play Undertale (for the first time lmfao) and Deltarune

Oh and my buddy wants me to play cobblemon with him so I guess im gonna learn how to play Minecraft on PC

OH that and Tomodachi Life

[cold sky]

tomodatchi is going to be so fucking good

[vagrant marlin]

worth mentioning that it, for some reason, has a 90 on metacritic, making it the highest rated game of 2026 so far and the highest rated pokemon game ever

do with that what you will

from review copies btw

[cold sky]

that's insanely surprising

interesting

[mellow lagoon]

You don't understand how excited i am

[vagrant marlin]

101% chance it’ll drop after release though

there are still pokemon haters, people who don’t like key cards, and fans of other games who are salty

[cold sky]

the keycard shit is so stupid because it literally doesn't matter. If you hate keycards there's no fixing you

like you just don't know how modern video game distrobution works

and your ignorance is making you blind

"I Just want to own a game physically when i buy it without downloading anything, just incase the store goes down"

1. Day 1 Updates exist for every single video game ever, you will have a broken video game the moment you have it physically and you will need to update it. This is not Gamecube/PS2 era and before anymore.
2. Play teh game now, why are you scared that online will die for, is you anxiety that badly unchecked that you have to plan for the future that hard?

Just pisses me off

[vagrant marlin]

i saw someone say “digital isn’t any better” i guess this guy doesn’t play games on pc then

[cold sky]

why do people give a fuck about physical and digital if they don't talk to anyone in real life anyways

you can literally sell and have people borrow game keys becuase they are the physical thing

if you're complaining about literally anything else about it you're fucking stupid and your opinions are literally useless

0 Critical thinking mother fuckers when a single thought walks into the room

You aren't ever selling your games, you don't even let people borrow them, you don't even tlak to people in the real fucking world

so why do you give a fuck if a game is digital or physical

you don't own any of this shit at fucking all, physical or digital

🤪

but because it's nintendo doing it it's liek it's the first time it's ever been made obvious none of this is real

because nintenod is the first fucking company to SPELL IT OUT FOR THE MORONS

Bro has never bought a ps4 game before where it says "30gb of additional download is needed before playing"

it's crazy that these peopel are allowed to speak online when they have no fucking idea what the fuck it is they're arguing about

🤪

If you're reading htis and you hate key cards for the switch 2 i hope you get really mad at what im saying

you fucking moron

https://www.ign.com/articles/physical-copies-games-the-answer-when-nobody-owns-anything

a decent article that at least tries to parse the fact that no one owns what they buy in the game space

you own a licence

you do not buy the code, you buy access to use the code in operation

but whatever

LOL

[cold sky]

https://tenor.com/view/eevee-dance-gif-26519502

[vagrant marlin]

after watching these videos i don’t want anyone to call gamefreak lazy

instead get mad at the pokemon company

“the windows are flat!!” they didn’t want that, higher ups forced them to to preserve costs

[toxic pilot]

Also game freak is still a somewhat small company. XY had a lot of cut content because they didn’t have enough budget and people with the other game freak projects going at the time.

There was a pokemon Z, it was cancelled

[vagrant marlin]

also has anyone seen beasts of reincarnation? look how good they can do when they ACTUALLY have a budget

tpci has billions of dollars but they never give gamefreak enough to actually make fantastic games out of it

it’s sad

[toxic pilot]

That’s why the pokemon games that have had help with outside developers have been better recently, excluding bdsp

More people

[vagrant marlin]

“hand the series to someone else not gamefreak” gf CARES, they wanna make the games good, but pokemon company won’t let them

[toxic pilot]

Yup

[foggy plank]

Ok change of plans

There was a second one, say hi to Gurt

I am banking on there being a third, so if anyone would like to jump ahead on the name of the next shalpha fletchling go ahead and put that out there

[rotund bramble]

Fish

[foggy plank]

Aight then fish it is

Also I found a brown pancham

Very happy about that, you guys are free to pick the name on that too

[toxic pilot]

Shart

[foggy plank]

No

[toxic pilot]

:(

[foggy plank]

Ok ":(" it is

Aight then

Ok ok guys last one for right now

I have a shiny skiddo, gogoat, litleo, shalpha pyroar (female), flabebe, and floette

Pick one of them and tell me what to name it (only taking one suggestion), I will name it WHATEVER you tell me to without push-back (expecting smth nuts)

[foggy plank]

Its all the typical stuff but its funny to let the people decide what my animals are called (except naming my pancham shart bro 😭)

[mellow lagoon]

DUDE I HAVENT EVEN FUCKIN FOUND PANCHAM YET MAN

[foggy plank]

...And it almost got named shart 😭

Also chat I traded away one of my shiny litleo for this guy in a random trade, big win 🎉

[toxic pilot]

ngl i thought the ot said weiner at first LMAO

[foggy plank]

Should I name her that

[mellow lagoon]

DO NOT

U ONLY GET ONE NAME CHANGE FOR TRADED POKEMON

[foggy plank]

Oh I know 😁

[mellow lagoon]

DONT NAME HER THAT

[foggy plank]

• stepping closer to the edge *

[toxic pilot]

NAME HER IT JUST TO SPITE GHOUL

[mellow lagoon]

BRUH

[foggy plank]

Happy ghouloween(er)!

[mellow lagoon]

:(

[foggy plank]

Its fine cuz one day ill go get the dlc and have a bajillion golisopods

[mellow lagoon]

Im being bullied

[foggy plank]

(Ok being fr genuinely sorry abt it)

To make it up, would you like the pancham I got?

Since u havent found one

[vagrant marlin]

just found out za was finished in 2024 and the last year and a half was dedicated to bug fixing

[toxic pilot]

it's also my fault lol, sorry ghoul

[mellow lagoon]

i dont want ur HANDOUTS /s

[vagrant marlin]

and yes they absolutely did rush the development the story was done like half a year after they were still building the game

and by story i mean the whole rest of the game

[foggy plank]

Artist's shitty rendition

Anything but studying for my exam

[cold sky]

that's why it's so fucking good

[vagrant marlin]

true but i’m pretty sure the bug fixing is also why the textures are meh

[cold sky]

the textures are fine

i feel like ppl are too picky

[vagrant marlin]

i personally believe they don’t impact the game a whole lot but they did originally have 3d buildings and were disappointed when they had to change them

but they don’t bother me

[cold sky]

the game has to run on a switch 1, isn't 60fps on it and you want 3d windows??

you know how many more tris that adds

i know you could use normal maps instead

and it helps with rendering

but i think the flat windows is fine

this isn't Rockstar

[vagrant marlin]

oh yeah i think performance issues were the main reason they were changed

[cold sky]

yeah

it runs flawless on switch 2 tho

[vagrant marlin]

and honestly i agree with this cause pokemon is meant to be cartoony, a dumb looking frog in rockstar graphics would be weird

[cold sky]

lmfao yeah

i think za's pokemon look better than scar/vi

if you look at the difference of shading, they look more like pokemon

[vagrant marlin]

that’s why the people who are picky with the wiwa graphics are expecting too much

[cold sky]

they're not even playing the games

they just want to bitch

Scarlet/Violet VS Z-A

scarlet and violet are more muted and realistic, fine i think that's ok

[vagrant marlin]

probably just cause it’s aaa even though aaa games have actual real and passionate devs behind them

[cold sky]

BUT

Z-A is toonier and i love it

[cold sky]

I don't think pokemon games are AAA

their budget is not that high

[vagrant marlin]

oh yeah true

[cold sky]

they make a lot of money but they're not AAA

[vagrant marlin]

by definition it’s aa

[cold sky]

yeah

but no one cares about that LOL

[vagrant marlin]

they probably think so highly cause it’s the highest grossing media franchise

[foggy plank]

I got another shiny litleo and sent it into the great beyond, got this guy in return. Gonna label this one a moderate to severe win

In my mind rn 1 auto hunted shiny is worth 1 new dex entry in trade or something found in the dlc

[foggy plank]

I found 2 random shiny fletchling directly next to each other, but im holding out for the shalpha to appear to name it fish 🙏 (also ghoul I got a second pancham to appear)

[foggy plank]

Oooo ok I second this heavy

Ive never griped much bc the whole more realistic graphics thing (fur n scales n the rest textures) was coming from a place of seeking improvements in quality so I just accepted it, but honestly I think that more cartoonish look does more for me

[sacred warren]

Got like 20 minutes left on this sparkling power 3
Might aswell go for another wimpod and the weedles too

[sacred warren]

Well OK then

This isn't even 2 being saved I had checked this spot went to check the weedles reset and checked there and got 2 in 1 lol

[sacred warren]

Give it up for number 4

[sacred warren]

I may be stupid I definitely have way more then 20 minutes it's like an hour

[sacred warren]

Got another 2 in 1

[foggy plank]

WEEDLE WEEDLE WEEDLE ❤️ ❤️

Alright guys, whos winning the throwdown?
Gecqua or Gekkomon

[hexed copper]

they are friends

[foggy plank]

Friendly competition

Like a rival battle

[hexed copper]

neither wwould lose theyre both great

[foggy plank]

Correct

[foggy plank]

Beautiful haul

Im doing this again, I have found a shiny pidgey (i am very happy about this), I already have a shiny Pidgeot from some time ago named Lemon Bar, so what should I call this lil pastry-yellow pidgey?

[toxic pilot]

pee

[median portal]

Is there a way to beat SV without the main quests

I want to get it over with but I refuse to do the main quests as long as the NPCs that give them act like that when giving the quests.

[cold sky]

no

[median portal]

[sacred warren]

No
You need to do all 3 story lines to get to erea zero

[cold sky]

The final quest is a culmination of the 3 story lines

yeah

[median portal]

I just wanna hit the credits.

[sacred warren]

There's probably a way to glitch in because it's sv and sv is hold together with strings and school glue

But you can't do it regularly

[median portal]

[cold sky]

not to be rude but why do u wanna beat a game u don't like

LOL

[median portal]

Because people tell me I need to play SV

[cold sky]

you don't need to do anything

do you want to play sv

[median portal]

I want to beat a Pokemon game with Audino in my party while I don't look like a clown.

I did it in both Gen 5 games, have not figured out how to do it since because I didn't care enough for XY or SwSh to finish it and ORAS is a remake so it doesn't count.

[cold sky]

it's funny cause u picked a pokemon game that doesn't have Audino

[vagrant marlin]

no? i don’t see what the issue is

what’s so bad abt the main story

[cold sky]

She just doesn't like the story

which si fine

[vagrant marlin]

ohhhh

[median portal]

I don't like the way the quests are given to you, the characters attached to them act like whiny "my dad works at Nintendo" selfish babies

[cold sky]

lol i don't see it that way but it's funny

[vagrant marlin]

i think i see the vision ngl

[median portal]

"You are going to do MY THING and NOBODY ELSE'S THING because you're MY FRIEND and NOBODY ELSE'S FRIEND and if you do their thing you are a terrible stupid person who should move back to Kanto and never touch a Pokeball ever again" is the basic gist of what all of the questgivers said.

Even worse, they all said it back to back one after the other.

[cold sky]

they're just fighting for your attention but after that it doesn't matter

you can do it in any order and they're more chill

sounds like you just started the game tbh

[median portal]

I kinda quit immediately after getting the quests and haven't picked it back up. Left a very bad taste in my mouth after I learned Audino wasn't in it, and that I couldn't get any accessories that matched the orange monkey suit, or even change out of the monkey suit.

[foggy plank]

You can TECHNICALLY do that sort idr by beating the league???

I dont remember

[median portal]

That's one of the main quests though

But like... I already wasn't having fun before I got the quests, because of the clothes and the missing Pokemon.

[foggy plank]

To me its kinda reading like person who has no friends or sucks at socializing enough to lack a normal connection begs the one person who'll listen to hang out with them, times 3

[median portal]

I only ask for 3 things in Pokemon games:

1. Let me have Audino
2. Don't force me into ugly clothes
3. Don't make the not-rivals spoiled-sounding annoying kids

[foggy plank]

1. Preach
2. Preach
3. Preeachh

[median portal]

They failed on all three fronts.

All the accessories in the game match the purple outfit, too. Which could be taken to mean that Violet is more canon than Scarlet.

[foggy plank]

I dont know anything about fashion but what i DO know is that they have put me in clothes attuned for the bug catching competition

[median portal]

Because why would there be no accessories in Scarlet that match the orange uniform if Scarlet was canon.

[foggy plank]

I get that paldea is open world but I do NOT needa feel like Im on a safari 😭

[median portal]

Honestly I just want ORAS again. Like sign me up. Port that to Switch.

[foggy plank]

No legitimately

[median portal]

I'm okay with the safari but I'm not okay with the safari taking place in a fanmade game's pre-alpha.

[foggy plank]

ORAS did Chibi the best of all remakes, the graphics were honestly really appealing (idk why but it was so vibrant and filled), and also the primals and mega beedrill

[median portal]

SV's open world just looks like a fan was making an open world Pokemon game and released the alpha as a proof of concept.

[foggy plank]

Shout out to the several random ass singular trees everywhere

[median portal]

Shout out to the forest with (count 'em) exactly 6 trees.

[foggy plank]

Probably cuz 2 would make the switch explode 🙏

[median portal]

Bro Switch plays Skyrim I think it can handle more than 6 trees in a forest the size of Oklahoma

I think we can just all agree that Pokemon Company forces Game Freak to release games before they've been put in the oven

I've seen their games when they do non-Pokemon stuff. Those are light-years better than Pokemon games released around the same time.

You seen Part Time UFO? USUM released the same year. I feel like PTUFO is superior in quality despite it being a smaller game.

Giga Wrecker released the same year, also for mobile like PTUFO. It's superior as well.

Beast of Reincarnation is looking better than Legends ZA

[vernal fern]

Do NOT play za

[foggy plank]

No yeah fs 😭

[foggy plank]

Which forest are you talking abt again

[sacred warren]

My 1st non static shalpha and its my favourite starter and favourite starter shiny

[foggy plank]

Yay!!

[median portal]

Just any of them lol

[foggy plank]

Tag tree thickets got a lot

And when you enter you might as well cook dinner on the console 🥀

[median portal]

Yeah but the forests ain't got crap for trees

[foggy plank]

Somehow I lucked out on whos in the game, all of the ones (mostly) that matter to me are present

[median portal]

If Skyrim can do it with a more demanding visual style then Pokemon can do it, they just gotta optimize their game properly (which they don't do).

[foggy plank]

Yep

I have a suggestion thats really bad

[median portal]

Pokemon SV is not even hitting PS3 level of graphics, they should not be having so much trouble making it look less empty and crap.

[foggy plank]

Make it interesting, thats what I did once, I used just skeledirge

[median portal]

They have Gamecube level graphics. Gamecube is on NSO and will soon have Colosseum, IIRC. Colosseum is more graphically advanced than SV.

[foggy plank]

Cuz skeledirge for some reason can solo geeta pitifully easily

[foggy plank]

I think its a bit better than that tbf

But like.. the textures look like vomit..

[median portal]

But... I wanna use Audino because they keep saying you can catch your favorite Pokemon.

[cold sky]

SV looks better than game cube

[twin delta]

I mean if you’re not having fun then just don’t play the game? you can do whatever you want forever and ever, just tell the people who recommended it that you didn’t like it lol

[foggy plank]

Yeah, just cuz ppl tell u you need to play it only holds as much actual relevance as you hold their opinion

[median portal]

Where is the mainline game after Gen 5 with Audino in it

[cold sky]

you would probably have more fun with a romhack

[foggy plank]

Modify the hell out of ur switch and play as sora from kingdom hearts instead of the player

[cold sky]

LOL

[median portal]

but if I do that will I need to play it via the cloud? /s

[vagrant marlin]

za

[cold sky]

Z-A does have Audino

[median portal]

I thought Legends was a side series

[cold sky]

it is... astrisk

[median portal]

...so it's a side series as much as FF7R is just a remake I'm guessing.

[vagrant marlin]

they count as mainline but it’s a weird story

[twin delta]

za is even more quests to finish the game

[foggy plank]

No you will need to play it like that one guy did doom on the task manager

[cold sky]

yeah but i like z-a's characters

[median portal]

I don't mind quests I mind annoying main characters.

[twin delta]

the thing is I didn’t find the characters in sv annoying so our definitions probably differ

so idk if you’d find the za characters annoying

[median portal]

The main questgiver characters in SV were annoying and condescending.

For reference I find the main character of Forspoken to not be annoying, but I know she's almost universally considered annoying.

[foggy plank]

Hearing them described as quest giver is spinning me in circles

[twin delta]

lol

[vernal fern]

The main quest in za is that youre trying to have a nice vacation then someones like “actually, help me with all of these tasks i have and work for me”

Let me enjoy my vacation !!!

[median portal]

They give the quests, they gave no reasons to be emotionally attached enough to just be NPCs

[vernal fern]

It’s fun but im urbain’s #1 hater

[foggy plank]

This is not D&D, this is bootleg palworld /s

[twin delta]

I fear getting attached to them is part of playing the story

[median portal]

Palworld without guns

[vernal fern]

I blame za’s abnormally long intro for my initial hate for urbain

I like everyone else

[cold sky]

I mean Urbain literally sucks

im ngl

[foggy plank]

I blame urbain being genuinely stupid

[vernal fern]

THANK YOU

[cold sky]

I think every character in the game is great but Urbain is an actual fuck up

[vernal fern]

He actually pissed me off so bad but i try to not let it get to me

[foggy plank]

Me to all of u rn

[cold sky]

LOL

[twin delta]

LOL I haven’t finished but I’ll take your word for it

[foggy plank]

https://tenor.com/view/smiling-friends-psychicpebbles-pim-smiling-friends-pim-mr-boss-gif-1373626090718171797

[vagrant marlin]

if you don’t like the characters for being entitled and snobby then you’ll hate jacinthe cause she’s literally written to be that way

[cold sky]

Jacinthe is awesome

[vernal fern]

Yeah she’s just perfect like that

[median portal]

I like Urbain

[cold sky]

LMFAO

[vernal fern]

ARE YOU KIDDING ME

[foggy plank]

1 man army

[cold sky]

the reason i hate urbain is not because he's stupid

it's because he does drag you into his stupidity

but it's fine

[median portal]

Pokemon characters usually I like or dislike due to vibes. I was vibing with that first friend in SV until they gave me the main quest. Loved them before that, after that hated them.

[foggy plank]

I dont hate urbain, he just gets on my nerves with his tomfoolery and personality thats just grounded enough to not stick out but just close enough to being obnoxious to feel like a splinter in my thumb

[twin delta]

distracted you enough to get mugged 5 minutes into the game

[vagrant marlin]

urbain/taunie’s writing kinda locks in at the endgame though

[cold sky]

im ngl you should legit get past the first few quests in SV

instead of just the tutorial/prolog

cause it sounds like u played for like 3 hours

[median portal]

I got to the part where everything was open and gave up.

[cold sky]

yeah

you gave up right when the game started

that being said

[vagrant marlin]

you do you but like the long tutorial really sucks

[cold sky]

if ur not having fun that's fine

you don't have to play it

[foggy plank]

Yup

[cold sky]

are you emulating it or did you buy it

[median portal]

If I don't vibe with a game's screenshots prior to playing I normally don't vibe with the game. SV I immediately thought "hey this looks like not fun" but I gave it the benefit of the doubt.

[median portal]

I bought it

[vagrant marlin]

i think sv’s actual story is actually pretty solid but i understand the complaints of the main characters being spoiled and entitled

[cold sky]

just keep going then tbh, try to have fun in it

[vernal fern]

I dont remember their personalities all i remember is sandwich

[cold sky]

I love penny and nemona and arwin

[vagrant marlin]

no spoilers but arven’s side of the story is really good

[cold sky]

penny has the best battle music in any pokemon game

[foggy plank]

I find penny amusing, nemona a bit overbearingly enthusiastic, and arven annoying

[median portal]

Nemona stopped feeling like a decent character once that spoiled waah dialogue came in.

[vernal fern]

I have a card of penny

[cold sky]

she's just excitable

[twin delta]

I don’t read them as spoiled at all lol

[median portal]

It wasn't because of that. I love excitable characters.

[cold sky]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5i4U6jx5FQ
Trying to find a penny battle theme video that isnt' a spoiler

[median portal]

They read like that kid in your 2nd grade class that swore up and down his dad worked at Nintendo

[cold sky]

i love her

i still need to draw her

[vernal fern]

Yess

[foggy plank]

My melaninless goat

[twin delta]

CUTE! I have a nemona card I pulled a while ago

[cold sky]

no the real spoiled characters are Carmine and Kieran

Nemona is just like

the girl who wants to be your best friend cause you're new

[twin delta]

kieran is so funny to me

[cold sky]

Kieran is a loser

[vagrant marlin]

unrelated but something i wanna see in pokemon is a male fairy specialist who is just this super tough scary dude and then you fight him and his team of pink creatures

[twin delta]

kieran had a joker moment

[median portal]

I think I got to the first Pokemon Center outside of town and just stood there like...

[vernal fern]

I need to remember who kieran is

[cold sky]

Bro who wants ogerpon

[vernal fern]

Oh i dont think i got that far?

[foggy plank]

Yeah nemona isnt like spoiled or anything, shes just positivity flavored eccentric

[cold sky]

it's DLC stuff

[vagrant marlin]

carmine’s a dick too though did we forget about how she gaslighted him

[vernal fern]

Ohhh yeah i didnt

[twin delta]

kieran was from the dlc

[cold sky]

Nemona just has something wrong with her and that's okay

her special interest is pokemon battling

[foggy plank]

Yes ❤️

[vernal fern]

Which games dlc let pokemon walk around with you

[vagrant marlin]

swsh

[vernal fern]

Ohhh

[median portal]

Like I stood there thinking like... why is there just this huge open field that looks like baby's first attempt at making an Enhanced GM_Flatgrass map.

[vernal fern]

Okay i had that one

[median portal]

I could make that first open area in Gmod with GM_Flatgrass as a base and I can't even use modeling programs.

[vernal fern]

oohh yeah i did not finish sv cause i got stuck lol

[cold sky]

SV is worth playing if you have a switch 2

switch 1 is so rough

[vernal fern]

[cold sky]

you can still beat it on switch 1

i did

but

[vagrant marlin]

sv is just okay on switch 1 and like pretty fine on switch 2

[vernal fern]

If zomboui doesnt drop before the next pokemon game comes out i’ll buy a switch 2

[vagrant marlin]

like it’s still like a b tier game

[median portal]

The first actual open area past the tutorial looks like the game's still in alpha. They got all the gameplay in and stopped before they finished the terrain.

[cold sky]

Next pokemon game is like 2027 LOL

zomboui will be before 2027

[vernal fern]

YAY

It feels like it’s already been an eternity

[cold sky]

Donald Trump's Tarrifs were deamed appropriately illegal so shit will be a lot easier for us.

That's all I'll say on that

[vernal fern]

But that just means more money saved to gamble

[cold sky]

Yuuurp

[median portal]

Pokemon Champions, a mobile and Switch game, is releasing next month

[cold sky]

and pokopea is in 2 days

but

[vernal fern]

YAY i think

[cold sky]

mainline is 2027

[cold sky]

This is insanely yay

[vernal fern]

OKAY GOOD

[foggy plank]

1 positive and 1 negative 😭

[vernal fern]

im always scared i’ll read things wrong

[median portal]

Pokemon XD is coming to NSO this month

[cold sky]

Trust me if i was upset about something political you wouldn't se me talking about it in here

[foggy plank]

Oh I thought that meant like casino n lotto ticket gambling ✌️

[cold sky]

XD is coming out but not the first one

the first one eventually but

it's weird we're getting XD first

[vernal fern]

I wanted to play pokpoia so bad but any time i wanna play a new game i think of it being $500 to play and it feels very not worth it

[cold sky]

i'm playing it tomorrow

at midnight

: )

[vernal fern]

YAY

[vernal fern]

LMAOOO

[toxic pilot]

i wish pokopia was still in like a month because i spent over 200 on this guy last week and i'm not ready to spend more money yet

[median portal]

Pokopia looks fun but not like something I'd put a lot of time into

[foggy plank]

Cant wait for colluseum to drop and people to begin hunting for a shiny Groudon cosplay on the switch now 💀

[median portal]

Colosseum was in the original Gamecube NSO reveal, but not XD. Now XD is being released with no news of Colosseum.

[cold sky]

i hated colosseum as a kid but i think i need to play it now as a smart JRPG lover and not a dumbass Monster RPG fan

[vagrant marlin]

i might get pokopia it seems pretty fun

[cold sky]

when pokopia releases i won't be checking this chat

[vagrant marlin]

i wasn’t interested at first but now i’m seeing those review scores like..

[vernal fern]

If you all convince me it’s fun i might consider buying a switch 2 this year

[foggy plank]

My buddy just hates all rpgs for some reason, like its not his game, but when he talks about games that are rpgs he always says theyre bad

[vernal fern]

Ive always been interested i just put my money elsewhere…. (Ouioui)

[cold sky]

Your friend is stupid im sorry

[foggy plank]

No he is 🙏

[cold sky]

RPGs are probably the best genre out there

[toxic pilot]

[foggy plank]

Legit

[vagrant marlin]

put him on twewy who even care

[cold sky]

JRPGs, Action RPGs, etc etc

except i don't like CRPGs

but

i won't say they're all bad

[vagrant marlin]

wait what are crpgs

[cold sky]

Like Fall out 1

[median portal]

When Pokopia releases I'll be playing Super Mario RPG

[cold sky]

and balders gate 3

CRPG = Computer RPG

[toxic pilot]

ohhhhh

[vagrant marlin]

ohh

[foggy plank]

The part that peeves me is that my other buddy was asking about his thoughts on undertale to see if he should get it, and my rpg hater buddy told him it wasnt a good game purely off of his own preference 😭

[vernal fern]

I need to study but before i go i wanna share this pokemon card my friend made for me

[median portal]

I thought Baldur's Gate was an SRPG

[cold sky]

Undertale isn't even an rpg

[toxic pilot]

kill

[foggy plank]

Exactly 😭

[median portal]

Did he hit his head as a baby

[foggy plank]

I asked him why he thought it was bad and he just said its cuz he doesnt like rpgs .. ??????

[median portal]

Undertale is a visual novel life simulator

[cold sky]

Balder's Gate is basically just a series of CRPGs and the comany that made them makes CRPGs, they're not Stratagy RPGs, that's closer to Fire Emblem

[foggy plank]

Crazy cuz he loves doki doki

[toxic pilot]

you gotta mice & men this dude

[median portal]

Tell him all games are RPGs because you play a role in them

[cold sky]

I mean Zelda is an RPG

[foggy plank]

Holy slam dunk

[cold sky]

Literally Zelda 1 is called an RPG

[median portal]

I came up with this idea after mobile developers decided that's how their visual novels were RPGs

There were candy crush clones on the damn app store being called RPGs. Not like Puzzle and Dragons but stuff that is literally an asset swap of candy crush.

You "play a role" so they called it a role playing game.

[toxic pilot]

i think by this definition, the only game i can think of that does not fall into this category is placid plastic duck simulator

[cold sky]

All genres of any media when scrutinized become so abstracted it means nothing

which is why you shouldn't think too hard about it

[median portal]

Until you get to the secret room in the default pool level and start going on a little first person point and click adventure into a conspiracy.

[median portal]

That was meant to be a reply to this, whoops

[foggy plank]

I have come to the conclusion that reading is also an rpg because I am the role of a tired student and the game is to make a 100 on my exam

[cold sky]

talk to a movie buff about why Thriller and Horror are seperate genres

[median portal]

Those are very different. Thriller is meant to be dark, and thrilling. Horror is meant to be dark, and scary.

[cold sky]

I'm just saying that Final Destination is tagged as Horror and Thriller

[median portal]

Funny enough I've heard arguments against Pokemon Go being an RPG because it's an "exercise game"

[cold sky]

you're leveling up monsters and battling them...

It's a Monster RPG....

[median portal]

Some people only do the catching part of Go I guess

Which would mean for them it has no leveling up or battling.

But at that point we're getting onto the level of "6 year old claims his spinach ravioli doesn't have vegetables in it because he can't taste them"

[cold sky]

I mean if i play sudoku but color in the squares with crayons that doesn't make it not a number game

LOL

guy who plays dark souls like a life sim

[tiny snow]

now i want some spinach ravioli
or spanakopita or anything else that's spinach and cheese

[twin delta]

spinach and cheese empanada

[median portal]

But honestly to go back to the topic this spawned from, fighting genre discrimination with stupid semantics like "you play a role in call of duty therefore it's a role playing game" is probably the only way you're gonna win, because discrimination is based on emotions and you can't fight emotions with logical logic. You gotta do something that makes them feel weird about it, but they can't protest it because you are technically right.

[foggy plank]

👋 😁

I only played a little bit on and off and im just hear to see what random little guy appears for me to capture

[median portal]

I kinda fell off of Go because after they added new Pokemon early on and made updates to prevent Rattata Only Mode, my town was still stuck in Rattata Only Mode

[foggy plank]

Its the gift that keeps on giving and also keeps on draining my battery 💖

[foggy plank]

The legion lmao

Is that an actual thing???

[vagrant marlin]

“yeah people say deltarune is peak but it actually sucks because i don’t like rpgs”

[foggy plank]

He said that deltarune was undertale but better but that he doesnt like rpgs

[vagrant marlin]

the game’s description calls it an rpg

[foggy plank]

It mainly peeves me because like you can have your opinion, but he happens to have the messiah position in our friend group for some reason (the guys the glue and the one everyone flocks to)

And maybe he doesnt realize that hes in that position, maybe hes blind to it somehow. But you've got the kind of influence that the others will listen to what you say and take your advice, so when you let your opinion of a genre impact how you rate and recommend something shhdsjkfksksks

[twin delta]

I would argue the rest of your friends might also be stupid if they blindly follow what he says

[foggy plank]

Everyone's got their flaws, were all just highschoolers, im just more keenly aware of it

Its kinda funny bc the one sophomore in the group is also aware of it

[sacred warren]

I used to have one of those gen 1 pikachu plushies that my mum gave to me but I traded to some kid for a scooter and my mum was so fucking pissed

[foggy plank]

What in the bartering 😭??

[median portal]

I check in ever so often and find that:

1. My town's spawns are majority Rattatas, Zubats, and the occasional Tangela. Rarely you see others.
2. We have a gym on a church near my house. It always has the same guy running it. Nobody ever takes it. I tried to take it once and it was taken back under a minute later. I think it's botted.
3. Nobody ever does the Power Spots near my house. Ever.
4. My town has no nests or routes.

[sacred warren]

It was the play by play arcade / carnival prize pikachu they arnt exactly worth much at least

[foggy plank]

We get mostly birds and sentret

[twin delta]

I mean you probably played with the scooter more than the plush but that is kind of funny

I have a fair prize giant zorua somewhere in storage that I got back in 2012 I think?

[sacred warren]

I could get another one if I wanted
But I said I'm not buying pokemon plushies until I get some more important stuff done

[foggy plank]

I saw a zorua plushie at walmart the other day and did a backflip

So so so cute

[sacred warren]

The greatest thing about play by play pikachu is that every single one looks different

The quality control was so bad its beautiful

[twin delta]

old ass photo

[sacred warren]

Behold

All of the play by play 90s and 2000s plushies had horrible quality control
But the pikachu is just iconic and the most widely released

[foggy plank]

Just to tie up my thoughts on this cuz i havent really ever been able to express it fully, its just blegh bro people are very privied to listening to what you have to say so maybe you could've said oh its actually pretty good (bc he said he liked it at some point, hes just a stinge now (my words)) but its just not for me, not "its not that good bro", bc thats legit just bc you PERSONALLY dislike the genre (it isnt even that genre 🕊️ )
Now im pretty sure my other friend wont play it ever cuz my buddy said so 🫩

Rant finished 🙏

[foggy plank]

Straight peak right there

[sacred warren]

Beautiful creature

[foggy plank]

Legitimately just the Peepy and Ouioui disclaimer

It makes them cute 🙏, their wonky lil faces give them personality

[sacred warren]

I love plushies were every one looks slightly different

As much as I appreciate that modern pokemon plushies do have really good quality control for the most part especially for the price I'd expect they do
But there's something so charming about the 90s and 2000s just looking off half the time that I love

[foggy plank]

Ok ive got a question for you all, is there any turbo controller that might connect to both switch 1 and 2??

Wondering bc ive been thinking about getting one and id like that its utility carried over to the newer consoles if need be

[median portal]

So it's Peepy-level quality control. That goodn't control.

[toxic pilot]

Can confirm lmao

I love how eevee eated a bee

[twin delta]

pikachu in the back is holding in a laugh

[vagrant marlin]

pikachus looking like the villain’s two henchmen

[cold sky]

Pikachu my mother is kinda homeless, i can see you laughing

[mellow lagoon]

all ima say

what the fuck

[toxic pilot]

I love vintage plushies. Sometimes it’s something really niche or something that is genuinely sculpted really well, and the other half of the time it’s something that took 10 kinds of edibles at once

Sometimes both are true at the same time

[meager perch]

the garfield ones are my favourites

[vernal fern]

Pokemon fossil museum tickets are available

[vagrant marlin]

https://youtube.com/shorts/o3_iifgXVgY?si=QQNoFWEZyD-zZIt8

[hexed copper]

more shiny rotom

[median portal]

Here's a challenge that no person on earth can possibly complete: a truly glitchless playthrough of vanilla Pokemon Red, on real hardware, without a gameshark.

It is not possible to do this. Not because it's tedious or because it's very very difficult.

But because the Pokemon that appears in the intro has the wrong cry, and it's a glitch that has a 100% chance of occurring.

Doing a true glitchless run of Red is my white whale in gaming.

[hexed copper]

at that point it isn’t a glitch its a feature

[median portal]

It is a glitch though.

[hexed copper]

i know i was just making a joke

[median portal]

Apparently the code to show the Pokemon is the same as the Pokedex but somehow the cry is different.

I'm not technically minded so that's just what I've heard.

[hexed copper]

might just be the code being read wrong

[median portal]

Or just being entirely coded wrong, and it's considered a glitch by function instead of code

[hexed copper]

could be either really

[sacred warren]

Bought something
Price withheld for dignity

[sacred warren]

Nvm apparently someone in the pokemon server payed 120 for just the cartridge I feel much better about how much I spent

[mellow lagoon]

200+ dollars right there

[mellow lagoon]

Or maybe even more idk ur currency

[sacred warren]

£65

[toxic pilot]

Oh yeah that could be a lot worse ngl lol

[lilac kettle]

I’ve deigned my own starters. Took about 2 minutes

[twin delta]

I like whatever is going on with that fish

[lilac kettle]

He can stand, he can walk, he can dance

[sacred warren]

My reasoning was kinda just if I ever want a physical copy I might aswell just get it now instead of just watching the price go up even more