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Which, basically means the same thing. All Pokémon evolved from Mew, so ergo, no Pokémon would exist without it.

Fuck the Deformed Llama. It's a flagrant example of poor storytelling. Why spend so much time emphasizing one Pokémon as "the creator," only to pull a retcon out of your ass 10 years later and give that role to another Pokémon? Especially when the previous Pokémon actually had science behind it, while the new one is 100% religion?

I can really see why DPP almost made Mateo (and probably several others) quit Pokémon. GF made a grave mistake in trying to introduce religion into the games.

I don't believe in God. Or, that Deformed Llama.

That's because our government is at the mercy of an extreme right GOP that's still fighting the Cold War and refuses to compromise on anything. (Especially, if it's with the Kenyan Muslim Socialist Radical, aka. the black guy in the White House.) I seriously hope to Mew that they don't win the Presidency in 2016. Things could get really ugly.

That's because the NPC role was written that way for whatever reason. That being said, having the two PCs play the exact same airhead role is far better than what we got in RSE, where Brendan was a sexist douche if you played as May.


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. :rolleyes2:

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 :rolleyes2:).

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.


Yeah, with TV shows so widely accessible online now (both legally and less-than-legally), a lot of people have no need for cable or even a TV set anymore. Old Media's days are numbered, even if they're doing everything in their power to stop progress, be it copyright crackdowns or bandwidth caps.


The past 10-15 years have been better for some groups than others. The representation of LGBT people on TV, while still not great, has increased considerably since the 90s, while the representation of women and people of color has stalled and even regressed in many places. Of course, you could argue that LGBT people were moving up from a lower point than women and POC, as non-stereotypical, respectful LGBT representation was almost non-existent before the 2000s.

A lot of it is also genre-based, too. Even nowadays, you'll still find plenty of female representation in sitcoms and primetime dramas, but good luck if sci-fi, fantasy, or action is your thing. The token sidekick or love interest in a male-dominated ensemble is usually the best you'll get.

It's arguably even worse for POC. They get sitcoms on a designated "minority" channel like BET, a few trashy reality shows, and nothing else. Otherwise, they have to hope that the token sidekick or best friend in the white-dominated ensemble is decently-written and non-stereotypical.

The biggest problem, IMO, is that the vast majority of writers and producers are still straight white men, so narratives about straight white men and straight white male audiences are still being prioritized over others. We won't see true diversity on the screen until we have more diversity behind it.


Well, THAT sounds familiar. :rolleyes2:

Okay, to be fair to Obama, he has fulfilled a few things. And, he's had to constantly butt heads with an extremist, far-right Republican Party that hates his guts and thinks he's some evil Kenyan Muslim Socialist Radical who wants to institute Sharia Law and send old people to death camps. And, he basically had to spend most of his first term cleaning up the gigantic mess the Cowboy Idiot made in the previous eight years. (Which will probably take several Presidencies to clean up, provided no Republican Presidents are elected for the next 20-30 years.)

But, still, it wasn't exactly the Hope and Change he promised back in 2008. :sideways:


Lucky you. :P Up here, tuition costs have soared so much that even the middle class can barely afford to go to college anymore, and even fewer are able to pay back the gigantic loans they need to attend in the first place. Very sad situation.

Nonsense. They could've created a new role for the unselected PC while leaving Lyra as a separate airhead NPC.

As for Gold/Ethan, he resembles Kris more, especially with his original design. Same Red/Yellow/Black color scheme, and his bangs also have a similar angular shape as Kris' pigtails.

Lyra, on the other hand, is more of a mirror match to a certain Italian plumber. {XD}


I rarely watch TV or read books anymore, because I can do all of that online. Terrible, I know. :P


The 90s were the best for everything. Up here in the US, they were pretty much the last time we had a booming economy and weren't at war. Our biggest concern was where the President was putting his dick, not whether or not he was lying about WMDs.

They were also a better time to be a woman, IMO. Reproductive rights weren't constantly under attack, there was a boom of strong women in music (be it Riot Grrrl or Lilith Fair; heck, even the Spice Girls were pushing "Girl Power"), and TV was filled with all sorts of female-dominated shows, from action shows like Buffy, Xena, and Charmed to sitcoms like Sabrina and cartoons like the Powerpuff Girls and Sailor Moon.


Not sure that the situation in Brazil is, but up here, underemployment is a huge problem. In high school, most of us were told that if we got good grades and went to college we'd get better jobs and make more money. Instead, what has happened is that college grads have found themselves flipping burgers or bagging groceries for a living because there are no other jobs out there. To make matters worse, fast food places and the like have started to deliberately pass over applicants with college degrees out of fear that they'll demand higher wages, so you have a lot of college grads who are hopelessly unemployed and broke. And, with $250,000 in student debt that can't be discharged in bankruptcy, of course.

This has very serious and long-term ramifications for the US, too. With so many people in permanent debt and buying fewer things, the odds of the economy ever fully recovering are very slim. This has also prevented a lot of people from settling down and starting families, which has the potential to cause a population collapse down the road. The US will also continue to fall further and further behind the rest of the world in education, and China will almost certainly overtake it as the world's next superpower.

Which is why they should've kept Kris and had Lyra just be the air-headed NPC with a Marill, instead. Win-win.


I actually was here several times today, but most times, I saw no new messages or notifications, so I immediately clicked out. I don't like to post or reply to anything unless I get something, myself. (Which is probably a bad habit, I know.)

I can tell you right now that I probably suffer from Internet Addiction. I usually spend most of the day online, and I usually have bad withdrawal/meltdown symptoms when I'm forcibly disconnected (like during a power outage). Having an iPhone helps, but it's not enough to be a cure-all. :(


Yeah, I think that's happened to a lot of us as we've gotten older. Time seems to go by very quickly and actually feel like a tangible thing when you're a kid or teenager who's still growing, but it freezes to a standstill as soon as you hit adulthood and your life slows down immensely. (It's a reality that the gap between 20 and 25 isn't nearly as large as the gap between 10 and 15 or even 15 and 20, even though it's the exact same amount of time.)

Well, gee, I wonder why... :rolleyes2:{XD}


No, they don't... Which is why Green is a great PC design. She's definitely feminine, having long hair and wearing a skirt, yet she still looks strong and like someone you could take seriously as a trainer. Even her original beta design (seen here on her Adventures counterpart), which was even more overtly girly, still gives off similar vibes.

Lyra, on the other hand, is just a frilly moeblob with an obnoxiously cutesy outfit designed to appeal to creepy guys who get off on 10 year old girls. You know, the same demo May's rack and Dawn's miniskirt was targeted towards in the anime. :rolleyes2:

No, it doesn't matter as far as the protagonist (except in monotype runs) and multi-type NPCs are concerned, but it does matter as far as type specialist NPCs are concerned. One of DP's few Fire types, Infernape is a strong Pokémon, but that didn't make Flint's DP team any good. Sinnoh's lone Dragon, Garchomp, is good enough to be outright broken, but that wouldn't have stopped a Dragon specialist in those games from having an even worse team than Lance (that goodness GF was smart enough to not put a Dragon user there).

The only reason Karen didn't have a Honchkrow was because it didn't exist yet (and they never fixed it in HGSS because, for whatever reason, they didn't add Honchkrow to the Regional Dex), and Murkrow was the lesser of the two evils compared to Sneasel.

As for Ariados, it's main purpose was to Baton Pass Spider Web and Double Team, which is an extremely useful skill. It's still a weak early bug, yes, but it's not meant to be an all-out attacker.


The core issue is that Gens 1 and 2 just had really bad type diversity, which is something you don't want to admit. You have plenty of Water, Normal, Flying, and Poison Types, and a fair number of Grass, Rock, Ground, and Psychic, but that's about it. Fire, Electric, Dark, and Fairy are uncommon, at best, and Steel, Ghost, and Dragon practically don't even exist.

While some types are meant to be more common than others, type diversity isn't just about what you can use but what major NPCs can use as well. Glacia couldn't just fill her team up with Cloyster, Jynx, and Piloswine because they weren't in the Hoenn Dex, so she was stuck with a horrible, repetitive team made up of nothing but the Snorunt and Spheal lines. The same issue applies here. Kanto/Johto have practically no Ghosts and Dragons, yet have Ghost and Dragon E4 members, so the end result are two underwhelming, repetitive E4 teams that are actually mono-Poison and mono-Flying instead of their intended monotypes.

I don't see anything wrong with adding later Pokémon to the Dex (be it a hack or a remake). GF, themselves, did this exact thing with Platinum and B2W2, and the end result was vastly improved NPC rosters. Hardly anyone complained and for good reason.

While that works for Gym Leaders (who are supposed to have varying levels of difficulty), E4 members are supposed to be the strongest trainers in the game. They should have good teams that pose a reasonable challenge. No, not a competitive challenge, but a team that can, at least, make you believe how they got there. Lorelei, Koga, and Karen fall into this category. Bruno, Agatha, Lance, Will, and the Hoenn E4 don't.

It's not even just about difficulty, but about being able to respect them as trainers. It's very hard to respect someone who calls themselves a Ghost specialist, yet uses a single family of Ghosts and has a team that's made up of an entirely different type. And, it's even harder to respect them when they use NFEs and other low BST Pokémon, yet they claim to be one of the most powerful trainers. No, this isn't competitive, but this isn't the anime, either, where Pikachus can zap Rhydons by aiming for the horn and conquer Dragonites with ease. Stats actually mean something here.

(I can't help but laugh at Agatha for sneering at Oak when he had a team that could wipe the floor with hers any day. {XD})

After all of these arguments I have to ask you--What does a "good" E4 member team look like to you? Be honest, and don't just say something for the sake of disagreement. ;)

ah sorry for the confusion, i wasn't talking about you specifically but, anyone in general, haha. yeah they do sound nice; i have a couple favorite japanese voice actors. (:

yeah, if you're japanese then you can't really be a weeaboo. xD

i like to call myself a weeb jokingly, but i wouldn't go as far as to think you're an annoying weeb because you prefer the japanese voices. i prefer watching my anime with subs as well.

if you starting saying "desu" and "kawaii" every sentence, then i'll consider you the annoying kind of weeb. :pink_tongue:

you do? aw, you shouldn't! there's nothing wrong with liking anime. as long as you don't act like an annoying weeaboo, lol.

hell yeah! i have two of them, eheh. a milk chocolate one and a cookies 'n cream one. :0 almost done with the first one, haha.

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Probably not the best day to have one, huh? ;)

You mean, this happens every year?! {D:}

On another note, I think I just came across leaked footage from the next Pokémon game, called Pokémon Z-Emerald. Looks stunning.

Okay, why are our posts appearing in broken, misspelled English?!!? Is this some sort of April Fool's joke? {D:}