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May 4th, 2015 2:16 PMCerberus87Mamoswine UU. I guess, Ice really sucks.
However, IMO this doesn't mean GF should shed Ice from Pokémon. Pokémon is still a roleplaying game at heart, isn't it? -
May 2nd, 2015 11:10 AMMateoYeah, my computer knowledge is pretty much limited to Googling and Sims 1, so I know jack muk about fixing a printer, removing a virus, or anything like that. Yet, my parents still love to use me as their free, personal computer repairwoman (and get mad and call me "selfish" when I can't fix their problems, which is about 90% of the time). I can really relate to this excellent Cracked article.Ah yeah, in that case I can totally get where you're coming from. It's like when one of my friends would ask me to fix his Mac and I was like "Bro I barely know how to use a Mac keyboard, let alone fix it" but I did manage to figure out how BootCamp worked -- He wanted me to put XP on it so he could install Sims 2, so I was cool with learning how to turn a Mac into a PC xD
LOL, sounds like it was a fun class. Do you still write?It was definitely fun. They usually were when they were creative writing, since they were small classes and we were almost all English Majors so we all knew each other as well. Sadly, it's been a while since I did much writing, but I want to get back into it.
Oh, those ToSs never do a damn thing. People never read those to begin with, especially not little kids, so they don't do jack to prevent horror stories like this from happening. No, what happens is that mommy or daddy lets junior play with their smartphone/tablet for a few hours, and at the end of the month, they get a surprise $5000 iTunes bill. And, the greedy developers of these games are laughing all the way to the bank.Oh wow, I'm surprised they weren't hit with a cease and desist for that game, that's such a blatant rip-off. If EA could sue whoever made "The Ville" for it being an obvious rip-off of The Sims Social, I'm sure they could sue over a Pokemon/Mario rip-off if they wanted to. (In the case of The Ville/Sims Social, that was annoying. They tried to get them with it, then cancelled Sims Social anyway. So I started playing The Ville, which was still up, but then they took that down too. At least I never spent any irl money on either of them, because I didn't have to. Wasn't gonna spend irl money on a pretend dress for a sim xD)
What makes it even worse is that many of these games are cheap, crappy rip-offs to begin with, not even worth $0.01, let alone $5000. One of the most infamous examples is Super Monster Bros: Guess which two Nintendo franchises they're trying to leech off of?
So, Marill is going in Red++, then?Well, I still *want* to include him, but the official stance at the moment is that he isn't in. I'm still considering making him available eariler in the game somehow, or buffing his stats a bit somehow like you've suggested, but I'm not sure enough to commit to one yet, so the official stance is still "Marill isn't in". But I do hope I can decide on a way and include him, because he's fun in his Marill sort of way.
As I suggested, the only way to really make a pre-Gen 3 Marill useful at all is to make it an early Pokémon. Stick it on a pre-Brock route, and people who didn't pick Squirtle will have a semi-decent Water type to get them through the earlier parts of the game when Water types are less common. Once Water types start to become far more common, Azumarill will have started falling behind, so you can stick it in the PC along with Butterfree, Raticate, and the rest of the early route Mons who got you through the first 3-4 Badges.
Yeah, that's the hard truth about collecting. Things that were made specifically to be collected are almost never worth anything because they're almost never rare or even uncommon. Basically, if it was a huge collecting fad in the 90s, then forget about investing in it. (Pokémon cards are pretty much the only exception to that rule, and even then, it's mostly just 1st Edition Holos from 1998-2000 and error/odd one-off cards that bring in big bucks.)That makes a lot of sense though. I wanna think I had a couple of mis-print cards somewhere, but I'd have to find them and look. Like I think I still had one of the Team Rocket cards that accidentally said "If tails, put damage counters on that Pokemon" without specifying how many. Which they then later released with corrected text.
Old Pokémon games, believe it or not, have become worth quite a lot. Unopened, mint condition boxes of Red are selling for as much as $500, and even one that's simply complete and still in the box (but not necessarily mint) can still set you back as much as $130. Even the Gen 3 games have started to jump in value, although obviously not as much as RBY/GSC. Pokémon games were designed to be played (duh), not collected, so not many of them were saved (especially the boxes) and they now have rarity and value.
Exactly. Things like the copyright crackdowns and whatnot are only Old Media trying to buy time with the force of law. They know it's over for them, but they don't want to give it up just yet.Yep, pretty much!
The reason why Misty and Ash worked was because Misty's goals didn't overlap/conflict with Ash's (as Green's would've had they used her, instead), and even then, Ash was technically still the hero of the tale.I know that isn't the way I would do it, but I could see them doing it. For example, if I made a fanfic version of Christmas, I'd have Hiro become a Breeder, Mei become a Coordinator, and Kris become the Champion, since that's what each of them do when they are an NPC and not the player.
Knowing the anime's writers, what I fear happening if they were to use game protagonists is they'd always make the male the hero and stuff the female into a "lesser" secondary role (most likely as a coordinator), which would be 1000x worse than the current setup with Ash never aging, IMO.
Oh, those poor, forgotten COTDs. Strange, though, that nobody remembers Mateo, despite the Crystal Onix being one of the most memorable Orange Islands episodes for many.I know, right? You'd think people would remember him since Crystal Onix was so popular, and was rumoured to be available in the games back in the day even though he wasn't of course. Nowadays, I think people in the community are more likely to think of me when they hear Mateo than they are to think of the CotD that I stole the name from xD
Yeah, I prefer old!Flannery, myself. One thing that's hard not to notice is that remake designs seem to be becoming increasingly more and more drastic. Aside from the protagonists, Blue, Brock, and the Elite Four, most of the major NPCs in FRLG pretty much looked the same as they did in RBY (or, at least, GSC). On the other hand, few characters resembled their original selves in HGSS, and the same goes for ORAS. Sometimes, this was for the better (like in the case of Morty and Pryce), but most times, it was for the worse (as in the case of Clair, Karen, Lance, Sabrina, and Blaine).Some of the redesigns (or at least the new outfits) I wasn't bothered by. Some I didn't understand at all, but some were fine. I was ok with Blaine's design for example, while Sabrina's was clearly just fan service. -
April 29th, 2015 5:25 PMMateoUgh, I hate when older relatives automatically assume that people our age are magical computer whizzes who can instantly solve all of their problems. Just because someone uses a computer all the time doesn't mean they know how to do anything and everything with one.For the most part, I don't mind it. Usually what they want done is something simple, and I do know a good bit about computers beyond just the usual "I dick around on one all day" kind of stuff, so it's usually not a big deal. Plus they usually pay me for it if it's anything remotely complicated. I've also done that kind of stuff for other people too, either for free or for money depending on like who it was and stuff. Backing up and transferring files, fixing errors, re-installing Windows, whatever needs doing. (I can probably install Windows XP in my sleep at this point). But I know what you mean, still. It does get old to be in the middle of doing something and get a phone call because Granny's printer won't work, even if it isn't all the time.
LOL, that's hilarious. I hate when people insist on using terrible, awkward file formats just because they can.I even made him the villain in one of my totally-not-serious stories I wrote for class. (He was attacking the administration building or the chancellor's house or something in an "iMech" to get back at them for not letting him graduate because he sent in all his paperwork as PDF files.) But that's just par for the course in one of our creative writing classes. The not-serious stories mentioning real people, I mean. He was the only one I knew of with a PDF file fetish. smh.
That's the worst thing about many freemium games like that. Even though MLP has a lot of adult fans, its target audience is still children, and marketing a freemium game to that demographic is just sick. They're only encouraging kids to run up huge bills on their parents' credit cards because, hey, it's not like they know they're actually using real money to buy all of those gems.Exactly. I know at least now there is some extra popup that comes up asking you enter your age and warning about in-game purchases and making you approve them and stuff like that, probably as a response to those complaints. But even still, I know they have to be doing it because like you say, they know kids don't know it's using real money. And they know they can get away with it, because your authorized it in that ToS you didn't read but agreed to anyway.
Oh, I remember that line... Yeah, just as Marill didn't become common until Gen 3, it didn't become any good until that Gen, either. It was one of the few Gen 1-2 Pokémon that benefited 100% from the transition to Gen 3. (Most either stayed the same or became worse.)Yep, totally quoting the G/S guide there :p Hopefully I can make Marill at least decent enough in Red++, even though I'm not giving him uber Pikablu stats.
I work in the collecting business, and one thing I've heard over and over again is that, in general, if it was made to be collected, then it's not worth anything. This applies to anything that's a special "Collector's Edition," reproduction, or whatnot. That's because rarity is what makes things valuable to begin with, and something can't be rare if they made a million of it and everyone who bought it saved it and put it away neatly. This is why, for example, an original copy of Action Comics No. 1 is worth a fortune, while an original copy of Superman #75 is completely worthless.I never knew that for sure, but I always had a sneaky feeling that was how it worked. I mean I've never been a huge collector of much of anything so it wasn't something I spent a lot of time looking into. But I know that it's always the really rare things that end up fetching a high price. Like right now, a copy of PSO Episode 1 and 2 for Gamecube is really expensive, which is why I'm glad my irl friends still own copies so we can play it when we hang out. And like Shantae for GBC goes for some crazy prices on eBay these days.
It's a similar story with Pokémon cards. They didn't make too many 1st Edition Holo Charizards, and many of those cards were either lost or damaged over time, which is why they're selling for as much as $5500. On the flip-side, they made a zillion Ancient Mews to give out for free to kids seeing Pokémon 2000 in theaters, and the cards were pretty much designed solely for collecting (they were actually horrible in the TCG), so don't expect to get any more than $10 for one (and, that's mint condition and still sealed in the package, mind you).
Streaming is where the future lies. TPTB may be fighting nail and tooth to keep people watching TV in front of a TV set and dutifully giving them money for a cable/satellite subscription, but they're fighting a losing battle. New Media will win, like it or not.People will always demand convenience when it is available, and that's just something normal broadcast television can't keep up with. It's why Redbox and Netflix killed normal video rental stores, and I'm sure streaming is going to kill normal TV. I'm sure TV sets will do fine, people still want a huge screen to watch their shows and movies on, they just don't want to wait around for the cable company to get around to showing it, they want to watch what they want, when they want.
Yeah, that would've been the best way to do it, even if it might've caused issues later on with the remakes and even different gender PCs. (Do you pick the boy or the girl to be the hero? Do you revisit the stories of the remakes?)The way I would do that is say have it focus on the male and the female the way it had Misty and Ash in the original. Both traveling together but doing their own things. They can have their own interests and whatnot, and both receive character development. Maybe they can both beat the league in their own time, whatever works best for the story.
As for the remakes, those were always released during another generation and not on their own, so I would say they could get away with only focusing on the new stories in the anime and not doing a rehash when it was time to cover the remakes.
LOL, I was wondering where you got your name from.Yep, that's it! Everyone forgot about Mateo, so it wasn't as obvious as if I'd named myself Brock or something. Mateo is just a regular name, (It's "Matt" in Spanish) so people don't really think of it as a Pokémon reference in particular.
I know Tracey appeared in that horrible "Pokémon Naranja" hack that was made years ago, but otherwise, you don't see him in many hacks. I have seen many fan-made sprites of him, though, including a rare GSC one here.
Also, I've seen those GSC style sprites and more, since I know Pia Carrot :p He's made some sprites for me before as well.
She mentions the "skills inherited from my grandfather" in her pre-battle dialog, so I'm guessing that's who gave her the gym. According to the anime, she got the gym from him after he retired to become a poet.Ah yeah, that's the line I was thinking of. Sounds about right then, I think I was sort of combining the two canons but they still went hand in hand so it all works out.
Which Flannery design do you like better, RSE or ORAS?
As for the design, I still prefer the classic design a lot, but the ORAS one is alright. It doesn't ruin Flannery for me or anything, but I do still like the original a lot more :) It seems a lot more natural and normal, suits her better, etc. -
April 29th, 2015 2:34 PMMateoOffice 2007 works fine enough for me, but I probably still prefer Office 2003. I don't think I'll ever fully like that "Ribbon" interface. What happened to good, old-fashioned menu bars?Office 2007 is what we used in my "Computer Concepts and Applications" class I had to take back in '07, so at least at the time I was familiar with those versions of the office programs. Since then though, I've forgotten most of it and still just use 2003. I remember my grandmother got a new computer and it had the much newer version of office on it. She asked me to help her get it set up and I had to look at it for a minute and say "Well, since we're both used to Office 2003, you know as much about this version as I do. But I'll do my best!" lol
(And, it's ironic that I say this, since Office 2007 is far from "new" anymore, having been succeeded by Office 2010 and 2013. In fact, Office 2007 is so old that it isn't officially compatible with Windows 7 (ie. the box doesn't say it), although it works just fine.)
If there's one kind of file format that I wish would go the way of the Dodo, it's .pdf. Slow and clunky and exclusive to the equally slow and clunky Adobe. Blech.
As for PDFs, yeah, they're ridiculous. I use them sometimes when I have to. Like, some of the D&D guide books I downloaded are in pdf format, and I've used it at times when I needed to print something at the library that needed to be in a font I knew that computer wouldn't have, but yeah. Beyond that, it can go away. When that guy kept submitting his stories as PDF files (after we were instructed to e-mail them as .doc files, and after half of the class complained that they couldn't open them) I started going out of my way to send him my critique in increasingly strange formats (while sending a copy to the professor as a .doc file). Like, one week he sent his story as pdf, I sent my critique as an excel spreadsheet. One week it was a fake Yu-Gi-Oh card (a continuous trap card with the same name as his story), etc. What I was planning to do the last time he was scheduled to have one of his stories workshopped was to quickly hack Pokemon Gold so NPCs made comments on his story, record me playing it on a VHS tape (totally doable without much effort because of all the junk I have lying around) and during class go wheel the TV into the room and play the video of my critique. The professor was cool with it, but I never got a chance to. He didn't submit anything the last time he was scheduled because someone had missed a day and they let her go instead. Once I told the class what my plan had been, a lot of people were disappointed, but oh well. </rambling>
Oh, dear, I think I've heard of that MLP freemium game. Beware of anything that has an in-game currency like gems, or whatnot. The game will always be unplayable without said currency, which happens to cost real currency, because why charge people $5 upfront when you can charge them $100 for gems to complete the game?Yep, it's the Gameloft one. The only gems I use are the ones I get for free on occasion from in-game things, I haven't given the game permission to make in-game purchases and haven't accidentally made any either. But I know some people aren't so lucky and get some crazy bills from their kids playing ponies on their phone. smh.
I think Marill isn't mistaken for Gen 3 not because of the games, themselves, but because of the way it was heavily pushed in the anime at the time. It was in Pikachu's Vacation, Tracey had one, and it was plastered all over many tie-in products in 1999-2001. Yet, it barely existed in the games, themselves, being a rare swarm encounter that few NPCs even used. Itonic how it ended up being a bigger part of Gen 3 than the Generation that marketed it so heavily.And especially since Marill is the real-life version of Pikablu, you'd think that they'd have at least made him, y'know, good...
I only collected the cards, myself. Never had any interest in playing the game. Many of them actually are worth a lot (especially if it's Charizard), but not any of the movie promos, since tons of them were made and more importantly, they were literally designed to be collected and not used in the game. There's tons of them left.Yeah I used to play a lot, because back in the day my friends were into it and so were my brothers, so it was easy to find someone to duel. I also had Pokemon TCG for Gameboy, too. I know some people didn't care for that game apparently but I always enjoyed it. Nowadays though I probably wouldn't even know what I was doing if I tried to pick up and play the current gen cards. They've changed so much around it seems.
And you've got a point about the movie promos. They aren't a big deal at all these days.
Yeah, I guess TV sets still have their uses, but it isn't for watching TV shows and movies the old-fashioned way. I could never go back to stupid commercials and horrific network schedules.I watch some TV on TV, just not in my room. And I don't watch commercials, because TiVo. Just wait a bit to start watching it, jump back to the beginning of the show, then fast-forward the commercials. Then again, the only shows I currently watch regularly in general are Doctor Who, Castle, Broadchurch, My Little Pony, Community, aaaand... I think that's about it. And since I don't get BBC America or Hub Network anymore, the only one of those I watch on actual TV is Castle. Other than that, it's just whatever I feel like getting after on Netflix or whatever other streaming site I find.
Oh, I did like Brock in Kanto, but no more after that. He was a complete waste of space in Johto, and bringing him back for Hoenn and Sinnoh was just insane. His shtick had worn very thin.I still think it would have been better if each season of the anime started fresh with the game's protaganists in the proper region. That way kids who were watching it would be able to better see the parallels between the games they were playing and the anime that was based on it. Nowadays, kids don't even know who Ash was based on, because it was a player from a game that came out before they were born, and for those of us watching longer, it means Ash has to forget what a pidgey is because he went to a new region so the Pokedex can explain it again. So yeah, I can totally agree with wanting a breath of fresh air instead of bringing people back for no reason, even if I was ok with Brock being there at the time.
Cool that you put Tracey in one of your hacks. It's a shame that he never appeared in any of the games, even as a generic NPC.
As for Tracy in a hack, I think Pyro and I were the only ones to do that for a long time. I *Think* Tracy might show up in the Orange Islands part of Liquid Crystal, but I'm not sure. I know Mateo and the Crystal Onix show up (that part tripped me up when I got there xD I was like "Wait, Mateo? Oh right, it's the guy I stole my username from").
Yeah, Flannery's dialog seems to indicate someone who might've been pushed into being a Gym Leader, regardless of whether of not that was her goal. Her pre-battle dialog almost reads as a parody of the generic "I am tough" dialog that previous Gym Leaders said (like the aforementioned Falkner). Kind of interesting what GF did with her there.I think they said she inherited the gym from her Father or Grandfather or something, and she wasn't exactly awesome at the whole being-a-gym-leader thing, but she was obligated to. I'm not sure how much of that is from the games and how much is from the anime, but yeah. -
April 25th, 2015 5:16 AMCerberus87I'm in shambles.
Steam announced payware modding. Seriously, psyduck these crooks. They even get 75% of the revenue.
We should go back to the 90s.
On a side note, I love Metallica, which is weird because they were the ones who took down Napster. -
April 24th, 2015 8:43 PMMateoWow, sorry to slack on my reply! I thought for sure I had responded to this, but apparently I didn't. My bad!
Well, 2007 was 8 years ago now. I was a Junior in high school then.Fun Fact: My current laptop is running Office 2003. I had Office 2007 that I got when I got that laptop, but I had used my product key too many times to re-install it by this point so I've been running Office 2003 since like '08 or '09 I think. But that was fine by me, since all of my professors wanted us to send in papers as ".doc, NOT .docx!" because of the same reason you mentioned. I did download the compatibility pack though since in my creative writing classes I would still have other people send out their stories as .docx files (or in the case of one person, .pdf files. Much to the annoyance of literally every other person in class, which caused me to start sending him my critiques of his story in increasingly bizarre formats.)
I was actually considering putting XP on my Vista laptop at the time, but unfortunately, that was around the time Microsoft stopped selling XP, so it never happened. I remember constantly having to save my essays, PowerPoints, etc, in Office 2003 compatibility mode because all of my high school's computers were still running 2000/XP and Office 2003. (Alas, the public school system is always behind the times. They probably just got their first Windows 7 computers last year.)
Hopefully 10 will be better, because I have a sinking feeling that 7 won't be an option anymore by the time I have to get a new laptop.
Ah, an Android phone. Those aren't bad, and they're a heck of a lot cheaper than iPhones. (And, more of their apps are free, too.)Yep, if you could send me Siri, we'd be set then lol! Time to port her to Android.
My iPhone has Siri, but I never use it. I wish I could give it to you.
I love having games on my phone for when I'm out in public and stuck in a waiting room, or whatnot, but the loads and loads of cheap, crappy freemium games are aggravating.
And yeah, I mostly play emulators when I'm bored and have my phone to play with, but I have spent some time on freemium games too while avoiding spending money. Like, I was playing this My Little Pony game on there for a while. Like you said, the freemium aspect gets old after a bit.
LOL. Ironically, there are a lot of Gen 2 Pokémon that many people think debuted in Gen 3 because they were so much more common/prominent in RSE than they were in GSC (think Marill, Slugma, and Skarmory, for example). GSC had a (unfortunate, if you ask me) habit of giving more spotlight to Gen 1 Pokémon and making the Gen 2 ones either rare, unavailable until the postgame, and/or nonexistent on NPC teams.I've never mistaken Skarmory or Marill for Gen 3, but I always forget Slugma and Magcargo were Gen 2. I associate them with Flannery, so I associate them with Hoenn. I'm sure a lot of people are the same way or at least similar.
I still have all of the promo cards from the first two movies, although, sadly, they aren't worth that much.I'm not sure where all of my cards are. Some I know are in my closet, others I think ended up in a box somewhere. /me shrugs. Been ages since I played the game though. The cards have changed so much since then I probably wouldn't know what I was doing anymore lol.
Just recently, I finally removed my TV and (early 00s era) DVD/VHS combo from my room, which wasn't doing anything but taking up space and gathering dust. I think the last time I watched TV on an actual TV set was sometime in 2007-08. Even when I want to watch a DVD, I'm more likely to just pop it into my laptop. TV has become obsolete.
As for the TV, that sounds like what the one in my room is doing. It collects dust and I throw my hats on it. That's about it. I do use other larger TVs though. Like there is one in the living room that I do watch TV or movies on when I want a bigger screen. Or sometimes I hook my laptop up with the HDMI so I can play PC games on a bigger screen. Plus I have an old desktop computer with emulators on it that just uses the TV as a monitor (and other old consoles that I still have hooked up to it). But yeah, most of the time when I watch a TV show or movie these days its streamed to my laptop.
LOL at that revised theme.I enjoyed Tracey, but I liked Brock as a character too. They were just different. But yeah, Tracey was cool, and he even ended up as a battle-able trainer in Pokémon Sterling Silver back in the day. He was in the Mobile Room in the Pokemon Communication Center in Goldenrod, and he had like a Marill and a Scyther on his team I think. You could battle him as often as you wanted.
As I've mentioned before, I'm one of the few people who didn't vehemently hate Tracey when he replaced Brock. In fact, I liked him. Brock was great in the early days, but he had started to wear out his welcome by the end of Kanto. His constant drooling over the same Jenny and Joy clones was getting old, and it was obvious that his character was starting to stagnate. Him coming back for Johto was the last thing I wanted to see.
Tracey was a much-needed breath of fresh air, and he also happened to be kind of cute. Plus, I'll take a sweet, sensitive artist any day over, well, this. Pity he wasn't developed more, though.
I will agree though, Brock was extremely predictable in his girl crazed antics lol.
Tell me about it. The 10 year old PCs worked back in a time when most Pokémon fans were 7-10 years old, but let's face it, those days are long gone. Most fans, nowadays, aren't any younger than 15-16, and a large number are in their 20s. Why should the PCs continue to be preteens when most fans are well past that stage of their life?That's good enough proof for me, I'm all for them retconning them into being the age they are depicted as instead of the age they were arbitrarily claimed to be.
There's possible evidence that May/Brendan may have been retconned into teenagers in ORAS, something that I hope happens to all of the pre-Gen 5 PCs.
Flannery's pretty, yes, but surely, there's more to her than that.Oh definitely. I always found her more interesting since she wasn't just some generic gym leader like the others were. She was like a real person, in that she clearly felt like she needed to be a certain way to fit in as a gym leader, but that wasn't really her, and so we saw just from the bits of dialogue she has that she was a character with more backstory than say Falkner or something.
(Of course, I'm a straight woman, so I'm sure you already know how I feel about T&A. )
Also, the "hot" comment was my reasoning for why there was so much R34 of her, and of course a pun based on the fact that she uses fire types, which are hot xP -
April 23rd, 2015 7:00 PMCerberus87Based your your comments about both Pokémon and Windows, you're obviously the kind of person who always embraces the new, no matter what. I don't think we'll ever see eye-to-eye on that.No!... Just no. I just think they're not as bad as you think.
W8.1 doesn't make me entirely happy, you know. I'm a PC user, and I get annoyed when I see the instructions and they're like "swipe across the screen" and then under it, between brackets, "if you're using a mouse..." Because most people who are using Windows are doing so with a mouse, and making these people feel like they're an afterthought was wrong on Microsoft's part.
I sometimes embrace the new because it's simply better, simple as that. Like, the mechanics of Pokémon are vastly improved since the original. I'm more casual so I liked the old stat system better, but the new one does have merits. The problem is how EVs work. You can bet that, if they worked like in other RPGs (like, you have an EV pool which is updated after you beat a mon and you can add the EVs in any stat you want), I'd embrace the new system and not look back. The premise really is better, the execution is what's bad.
Other series which I think improved over time are Mario and Sonic. Once you play through SMB3, you won't want to go back to SMB1. And Sonic 3 & Knuckles is the pinnacle of the series on the Genesis, largely surpassing its predecessors. I can't comment on the newer games though because I haven't played them and from what people say I'm not interested in them either. There are other series where I prefer the older games, and so on.
If I'm going to analyze something I can't go into it with the mentality that "it's new and it's not my childhood favorite so it sucks". I prefer original RoboCop to last year's remake, and original The Omen to the 2006 remake. In terms of movies, I'm quite like you, actually. In Pokémon even, I think Conkeldurr and Gigalith can't beat Machamp and Golem, and when 3rd gen came out I was disappointed because quite a few Hoenn Pokémon were too similar to older ones. I used Manectric and Aggron, but what I really wanted were Jolteon and Rhydon. But I feel that some people just don't like new things because they're not the ones they've grown with, and this isn't exactly a good mindset. -
April 22nd, 2015 10:45 PMCerberus87Also, Windows 8.1 isn't THAT bad. It runs faster than 7 and they sorta gave the Metro a Start Screen feel with the app list. The integration with mobile devices benefitted Windows in some areas, like system management. The interface that allows you to boot into safe mode, for example, is much cleaner-looking than the old DOS mockup thing we had up to 7. It had to be, since tablets aren't very command-line friendly. Updating my video drivers on W8.1 is a breeze and requires less manhandling than W7. The Metro interface itself sucks and is buggy, but then, which things from M$ AREN'T buggy? I keep it to a minimum. I've only used Metro to upgrade to W8.1, really.
Though, I won't lie, I use a Classic Start app. :P Control Panel in two clicks is too good to pass.
My biggest gripes with Windows are things that have been introduced in Vista I think (UAC), so they're not 8.1's fault. -
April 22nd, 2015 10:23 PMCerberus87Are you really sure of what you're saying? Because I'd say it was at least 50/50, leaning towards the mythology thing. N's whole reason to act is his belief that he's the hero Unova needs.
B2W2 weren't so hot and they had less of the mythology thing going on. You only learn about Kyurem after the 6th badge, I think. Even then, it's a great mix of tech and myth. The splicers are an ancient artifact that act very technologically.
The fact the fandom readily embraced Arceus kinda doesn't help your case. If RBY were remade today, you can bet they'd add some mystical background on the birds and expand on the Mewtwo story, and that would be pretty good, although it would no longer be a remake anymore. Since your desire is for them to basically design a new game around Kanto from the ground up, I feel you think at least something from the later games' storytelling could be taken advantage of.
And yeah, sometimes I feel you don't like newer things in Pokémon out of stubbornness, which is something that makes me a bit uneasy because then we'll have to agree to disagree. You sound like a guy on Twitter who's very biased towards DOS games and rejects most new stuff. I don't hate you both for it, but I'd sometimes wish you were a bit more open to certain things. In Pokémon terms, I wouldn't want to go back to 2001, sorry. A Scizor with Bullet Punch is too good to pass.
4th gen is my favorite, but it has some pretty bad flaws, like its speed and, as you agree, the bad distribution in DP. The game has evolved since 2006, though. (I still think you can make a good Pokédex with only 150 Pokémon, because some types don't need that much representation, but there's no free lunch)
Speaking of distribution, Kalos has over 400 Pokémon, but IMO that wasn't necessary, and overshadowed the Pokémon introduced in those games. I always try the new Pokémon, or Pokémon I couldn't use before, because of the novelty. -
April 22nd, 2015 2:18 PMMateoI don't blame you for being cautious. I remember way back in 2007, I readily ditched my 3 year old XP laptop for a brand new Vista laptop, thinking that Vista was just as good as XP. BIG mistake. Even with Aero turned off, it ran like a dog, and trying to reinstall old programs from my XP laptop (like Sims 1 and my printer) was an utter nightmare. And, since the laptop didn't have enough juice to run the bloated OS, its internal cooling fan started to crap out after less than a year and it eventually got to the point where the laptop was unusable unless it was stacked up on a pile of books with a desk fan jammed underneath it. Just terrible.Wow, you just said "Way back in 2007" like it was a long time ago... that was my freshman year of college (or senior year of highschool, depending on the month) so it still doesn't feel like that long ago. But that's still the same time I got a Vista laptop as well. It did alright in some ways, but like I said, as soon as I found out how to replace it, I did. Windows Vista made me fail a History class. (Or more specifically, my professor not receiving my e-mails with assignments + failing to backup said assignments when putting XP on my laptop because of Vista's nonsense cause me too fail it, but I'm gonna blame Vista.)
When it came time to get a new laptop in 2010, my experience with Vista made me leery of Windows 7, but luckily, that one turned out to be a genuine improvement. Once Windows 8 reared its ugly head a few years later, I had learned my lesson and stayed the hell away from it.
Unfortunately, those who stuck around with good old XP this late have no choice but to upgrade now, as Microsoft ended support for the OS a year ago. Unsurprisingly, most who did upgrade went to Windows 7 instead of Windows 8 (much to the chagrin of Microsoft), as Windows 7's share of the market shot up as XP's started to decline. Even now, though, XP still has a larger share of the market than Windows 8, which really shows how much of a flop Windows 8 has been.
(And, of course, most of those of who didn't upgrade to Windows 7, instead "upgraded" to an Apple product or Android tablet, which Microsoft hates even more. Windows 8 basically killed half of their userbase.)
It doesn't surprise me at all that when they forced us to give up XP, we moved to 7 instead of 8. 7 Still feels like Windows. I made the comment before, "If I wanted my desktop to look like that, I'd tape an iPad to my screen and call it a day". They really did shoot themselves in the foot with 8. Hopefully 10 will fix that.
Yeah, copying Apple has never worked for Microsoft. Nothing will ever get Mac diehards to buy a PC, no matter what, so all they end up doing is alienating their own userbase.I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 Active. It can do everything an iPhone can do, plus it's waterproof even without a lifeproof case. And it runs Android, so I know wtf I'm doing with it lol. Every time I use a friend's iPhone, I find it incredibly annoying to navigate and do things. I'm used to having a back button and a menu button (or as I call it, a "right-click button") so when I try to borrow their iPhone for something, it gets annoying. The only thing I like about iPhones is Siri, and that isn't enough to make me buy one. I just got a free voice assitant from the app store to play around with when I get bored (but mostly I just play my emulators and stuff if I'm bored and wanna play on my phone).
I don't have a hatred for Apple, myself, as I own an iPhone and it has worked well for me. I see it as a separate (and occasionally, backup) computer from my laptop rather than a replacement. What kind of phone do you have? (Don't tell me you still have a dumbphone. )
Haha I do enjoy Siri though. She also makes it fun to troll people too. Like a few times, my friend left his iPhone lying around, and his gf wanted us to prank him, so I took his phone and said "Siri, call me Princess Twilight Sparkle" (he hates MLP). So later we're all at Waffle House and he asks Siri something and she is like "Ok Princess Twilight Sparkle" and he was like WTF WHO DID THAT!?! xD Oh, random college shenanigans. Good times.
Nuzlockes were kind of fun at first, but they quickly became tedious and rather samey. And, the quality of the fanfiction inspired by them is very hit and miss.I'm really not surprised that Zigzagoon is one of my favorites though, even without anything to do with the games themselves. I've always liked Raccoons in general, so when we finally got one I was like "omg I'm going to catch you and name you Coonie" And apparently, I put them in Johto so often that one of my friends had accidentally started thinking Zigzagoon came out in Gen 2. He was playing vanilla Gold and looking all over on Route 29 and was like "Geez, I can't find a Zigzagoon anywhere. Do they only come out at night or something?" and I said "They weren't in Gen 2, they are from Hoenn" and he facepalmed and was like "I've been playing your hacks too much, I legit thought they were in Gold so I've been looking for one all afternoon". #oops
Cool that you have an early game Normal rodent as one of your favorites. While some of these Pokémon do have some battling use in the early game (Rattata gets an 80 BP STAB move as early as L13-14, and Zigzagoon gets a 70 BP STAB move as early as L9, for example), most of the time, people only use them for HM Slave/Pickup duty, if even that. (Bidoof, in particular, seems to have been created specifically for this purpose, as its evolved form, Bibarel, can learn all but two of Sinnoh's crapload of HMs.)
Yeah, I love Mewtwo, Mew, and Lugia, too, and if pressed, Charizard is probably also my favorite Kanto starter (although, I still dislike a lot of the hype and overpromotion it receives).I saw the first two in theaters, and I still have my Ancient Mew card around. Sadly, I didn't get one of the promo cards at the first movie because the theater ran out. I have the first 3 on VHS (but don't own any of them on DVD or anything.) I still have a VCR in my room though. Built into the tv. But as a testament to how often I watch TV on an actual TV, I'm pretty sure that TV hasn't been plugged into the cable or the wall since at least 2012 xD I never have seen Mewtwo Returns, but I hear it was cool. I should probably add that to my list of "movies I need to watch" lol.
I remember Pokémon 2000 (as well as those VHS things, LOL ), and I remember enjoying it, as well as The First Movie. The Entei one was the first one I didn't like (and apparently many others didn't either, as it completely bombed in theaters), and that was the last movie I saw aside from the direct-to-video Mewtwo Returns (which I liked).
Yeah, I like Jessie/James as a couple, too. As for Misty, though, I think I actually prefer her with Tracey. I don't think Ash is good enough for her, to be honest, and I think she deserves a sweet, mature guy who would treat her well and balance out her attitude. Misty/Tracey have a fair number of fans, but obviously not as many as Misty/Ash.I will agree nowadays that Misty and Tracy would make a much better couple than Misty and Ash. I shipped them during the Kanto saga though, before Tracy was even a character. Ash is a pretty lame character though. I feel like he had potential, but he's basically wasted it over the past decade. "Pokémon! (Gotta catch like 5 then quit) It's you and me! The show's here indefinitely! Pokémon! Oh, you're my best friend... And I'll still be f***in' 10..." -- Revised lyrics for accuracy.
(And, speaking of another very popular opinion that I hold, yes, Ash completely sucks as a character. He wants to be a Pokémon Master, yet only catches 5 or so Pokémon per region and never wins any Leagues (aside from Orange) and after almost 20 years is still the exact same annoying, immature 10 year old he was when he first left Pallet Town. Even as a kid, I thought he was the worst part of the anime, and he's only gotten worse since then.)
I've never liked the idea of the protagonists being 10, myself, especially since, as you said, none of them even look like 10 year olds (except, perhaps, Lyra and new!May). Plus, having a bunch of 10 year olds roaming around on their own just isn't realistic at all. 15-17 years old makes more sense. (Something that even GF seems to agree with now, as all of the Unova and Kalos protagonists are literally meant to be teenagers.)
Flannery's quite popular, although it's mostly for rather icky reasons. (Seriously, don't do an Image Search for her, just no.)
But yeah, I was glad that they started acknowledging the PCs as being teens finally. I mean, what kind of a world would decide "Oh you're 10 now? Time to go leave home to fend for yourself and make monsters fight for your amusement. Don't forget to change your underwear!" I mean seriously, that premise never made sense. I get that it was to make the player relevant to the intended audience, but still, willing suspension of disbelief only goes so far.
As for Flannery, well, she is pretty hot. *badum tiss* /lame_pun -
April 21st, 2015 6:23 PMMateoBe careful, though. These kinds of places tend to be funny about people taking pictures.I think I'd be ok with what I'd be doing. Plus, my friends and I have even recorded videos in the one I based my TS2 waffle house on and nobody complained, so I figure it would be ok to take a pic as a reference. But even still, I'd try not to look suspicious about it. I'm a regular and don't want to get myself in trouble and accidentally banned or something lol.
Yeah, Windows 10 seems to be better than 8. In fact, the Windows Star Trek Rule says that it has to be.That windows graphic seems pretty accurate :p Hopefully 10 will keep the pattern and make itself useful enough to be worth the upgrade. As of right now, I'm not sure if it's worth it-- even keeping in mind that the upgrade is legitimately free for Windows 7 last time I checked. I just had so much distrust from 8 and still have resent leftover from Vista and all, so it's hard to look at it without a lot of distrust y'know? But maybe it will be ok.
(But, on the other hand, wasn't it the 10th Star Trek Movie that broke the Star Trek Rule and bombed when it should've been good? Uh oh...)
Apps belong on an iPhone, not a laptop. I wish Microsoft would stop trying to chase that demo. They're just never going to compete with Apple and Google in the mobile market, no matter what.
As for apps, definitely agree. They have no place on a desktop OS at all IMO. I think what they are doing is trying to copy Apple-- I seem to remember hearing some of my friends say that OSX now supports iOS apps in some way? I don't know, I can't stand Apple so I don't try to keep up with them. Don't own an iPod, iPhone, or have iTunes on my computer and don't want them. But I've thought for a while now that Windows has been trying to copy Apple just looking at their changes, despite the fact that most of us nowadays choose Windows specifically because we don't want a Mac ~_~
Like to me, 7 initially looked like a cross between Vista and OSX. 8 looked like a cross between 7 and iOS. 10 looks like 8 with a start menu (but still trying to make the start screen apps happen). Oh well, I guess time will tell.
I'm kind of hit-and-miss in regards to liking popular stuff in Pokémon fandom. I like Misty and Jessie/James, and they're very popular, but I also like Tracey, and well... a large number of people haven't exactly gotten over him replacing Brock for one season 15-16 years ago.I guess I'm pretty hit or miss too in that regard. I know a lot of people are obsessed with Nuzlocke runs, but I don't enjoy them and get tired of hearing about them. We've already discussed how I feel about Smogon competitive battling, so no need to bring that up again. And as you know, I don't like the Sinnoh games very much :P So I know I have some dislikes that go against the mainstream. I also enjoy some Pokémon that most people ignore for being inferior, so that's pretty non-mainstream as well. Zigzagoon has been one of my favorites for a long time, even though I know he isn't super useful in battle. The only reason Pickup was added to Christmas originally was because I wanted to replace Sentret with Zigzagoon, and wanted to give him his gimmick (even though other Pokémon have Pickup, I always associate that as being Zigzagoon's thing).
As for the games, I loooove Lance, and he's fairly popular. But, I hate the most popular version of him, the Adventures one, and like the least popular version of him, the anime one. I also love his less popular RBY and FRLG designs and hate his very popular HGSS look. And, my favorite ship of his is the very unpopular Lance/Lorelei, while my most hated are the very popular Lance/Silver, Lance/Lyra, and Lance/Clair (because, unlike a lot of fans, I actually find statutory rape and incest to be disgusting ).
As for Pokémon, I like Charizard, but I like Dragonite better. I also hate Salamence and Garchomp and wish they would make more unique, non-Dragon Pseudos. But, I love Mewtwo and Mew, and they're extremely popular. Same goes for Lugia, too. Yet, I also prefer Raichu to Pikachu and wished it got more love.
I find the Dragon type, in general, to be very bland (with a few standouts), while I think Poison is underrated, if badly neglected. But, I also love Water, Dark, Ghost, and Psychic, and those are all very popular.
But there are plenty of things I enjoy about the series that are pretty main-stream as well. I've always been a fan of Fire types, which I know at least used to be popular, not sure if they still are or not :p But Charizard has been a favorite from the start and he's still a top tier fan favorite even today. Lugia is another one that I love, ever since Pokémon 2000 (I know people seem to like calling it The Power of One these days, but in theaters it was totally just called "Pokémon: The Movie 2000" and my VHS copy only says "The Power of One" on the back of the case in the same size text as the rest of the description). So hey I guess that's another non-mainstream thing too xD I don't know if it's still mainstream to enjoy that movie or not, but it was certainly one of my favorites of the movies that I saw (I stopped watching the new ones around the time I stopped watching the anime regularly). But yeah. Like you mentioned, I'm also a fan of Mewtwo and Mew which are also very popular, and unlike you, I do prefer Pikachu to Raichu, although I certainly don't like "hate" Raichu or anything, I just think Pikachu is cuter and whatnot.
When it comes to shipping, I don't get into that a whole lot but I do see Jessie and James together, which I think is a pretty common 'ship still. I used to ship Ash and Misty as well. I can't say that I have any ships I really think about regarding the Elite Four and stuff, although at one point I shipped Flannery and Green/Leaf/Whatever-you-want-to-call-her. Not sure where that idea came to me, since they aren't from the same region and canonically wouldn't have even met one another, but it was a thing for a while. That being said, I never imagine the protagonists as being 10 even though in at least the early games they were claimed to be. I always imagine them as around highschool age, and given her attitude and new-leader nature, I assume Flannery to not be a whole lot older, either in her late teens or early twenties, but around college age. Figured I'd clarify since you brought up the whole statutory and incest ships and didn't want to come off as supporting any of that, because I don't.
I feel like that doesn't really cover all of it but I feel like I'm going to end up rambling even more than I probably already am, so I think I'll just go ahead and send this as it is and we can build on these later :p -
April 21st, 2015 3:07 PMCerberus87But what's the problem? There's been myths in Pokémon since 2nd gen. Johto was based on Shinto which is a part of Japan with many myths.
That also makes sense. Raikou and Jolteon are both fast, frail Special Attackers with minimal movepools, Entei and Flareon are both slow Physical Attackers with Special-oriented movepools, and Suicune and Vaporeon are both slow, bulky Special-oriented Water types that can learn Ice moves naturally despite not being part Ice. The Hidden Abilities of the Dogs also happen to be the main Abilities of the Eeveelutions (Water Absorb/Volt Absorb/Flash Fire).No...
Which is a sign of poor storytelling and really shouldn't be defended. GF really needs to stop trying to worldbuild, because it's obvious that they aren't very good at it.I prefer the blend of myth and tech they have now. -
April 21st, 2015 2:16 PMCerberus87It's not religion, it's myth.
Here's the Ditto theory. It makes a tone of sense, if you ask me.That's all just a bunch of coincidences. It's like saying the Pokémon that were reborn into Raikou, Entei and Suicune were Eevees because their types match the types of the original eeveelutions.
You could argue that Ditto is more adept at Transforming than Mew, since Ditto can breed with other Pokémon. Mew gave birth to Mewtwo, but how the scientists impregnated it is unknown, considering all Pokémon come from eggs. It's hard to incorporate 1st gen facts into the current lore, since after those games they retconned so many things.
Regarding Mewtwo, it has intelligence beyond humans. This means it could train and develop its own skills. This is how I believe it can learn Psystrike, for example. -
April 21st, 2015 2:00 PMMateoJust wanted to let you know I'm not ignoring these, I saw them, and I'll reply when I get the chance. Assuming I'll have a long answer to those combined, so waiting until I don't have distractions to reply :)
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