I did read most of your posts. I just got sick of you acting like you're more entitled to hack a competitive game because of your responsibilities. As if you have far more commitments and they are far more important than anything the rest of us have to deal with. The fact that you assume that you're busier than 90% of the people here further proves my point. Even if you ARE busier than 90% of the people here it's arrogant to think that it makes it okay to hack and cheat in a competitive game.
Glad to see no more insults - aside from arrogance but my wife accuses of me of that so no arguments there.
I laid out my situation for people to see another take. there are plenty of people on here with a lot of time, I laid out what having no time looks like. As for my assuming I have more commitments than 90% of people on here, whether it's arrogant or not is neither here nor there. The odds are pretty good but that was never the point of my comments (though it does seem to be where your focus is), the POINT was to lay out that there are bound to be people who have limited time and that hacking is pretty much the only viable way to play the entertaining bit AND not spend entire months of our free time doing so.
There was no value judgement (I was not the originator of the claims of "value" on time in this thread), but an explaining of what another's argument may be. I prefer to see an argument from ALL sides. Interestingly this was my attempt, I have more middle ground (though still hacking to most) in that I have only hacked for either cloning or item purposes, I have never used Pokesv or others, nor have I ever changed a Pokes IVs, nature, etc.
But I prefer trying to see things from various angles. And in this case since "cheating" doesn't impact me in any meaningful way then I don't care. So I have to face a team of hacked Pokemon on the battle spot? As long as they are just hacked to still be game legal it's no different to facing any other team and in so in NO WAY changes my enjoyment of the game.
And that's key here. Does someone creating what would otherwise be legal Pokemon impact YOUR enjoyment of the game? If you prefer playing against substandard Pokemon, maybe. But if you are in the battle to "be the best", then for me it ADDS enjoyment knowing I am facing teams at the top of their abilities.
No, but again you seem to be using your personal situation to justify hacking your pokemon. I just didn't want you to think I was making light of your commitments just because I wasn't letting you off the hook for cheating.
Again I am trying to stress how other people can view the game. The question is, how do they/we play the game impact on YOUR game?
It's not dictating if I'm telling you not to do something that's ILLEGAL, especially if it affects me and other players (which it does whether you want to admit it or not). If we were in a weight lifting competition or competing in a marathon and I said "don't use steroids because it gives you an unfair advantage", would that be dictating?
Define illegal. Will I be arrested? No. Am I creating something that couldn't be created? No.
Is it tournament legal? Probably not, but that again is a different matter.