Pokémon (Not-So) Griefing Thread - Scarlet and Violet Released with 10 Million Copies in First 3 Days in Buggy States

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Not sure if this is the place for this so if I need to delete and repost somewhere else someone please correct me.

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tl;dr Pokemon TCG player gets DQ'd at the top table of a high-level event for not volunteering his pronouns with the appropriate level of enthusiasm and making a person of gender feel "threatened."
 
RatPlague said:
Not sure if this is the place for this so if I need to delete and repost somewhere else someone please correct me.

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tl;dr Pokemon TCG player gets DQ'd at the top table of a high-level event for not volunteering his pronouns with the appropriate level of enthusiasm and making a person of gender feel "threatened."
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Yecch, at least people are supporting him and demanding that the judge gets shitcanned for this nonsense. I'd rather see this person gender get their just desserts though, preferably in the form of someone dousing their competitive decks with alcohol or kerosene and lighting a match in Minecraft.

Also, I'm generally against TPCi restructuring their premier events from the previous 6-tier tournament structure to their shitty 4-tier tournament structure. The previous iteration was a good way for people to get a Worlds invite without having to deal with the insanity that are higher-level tournaments, now you HAVE to compete at these events if you even want a chance at a Worlds invite in addition having to compete with international competitors outside of Worlds.
 
RatPlague said:
Not sure if this is the place for this so if I need to delete and repost somewhere else someone please correct me.

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tl;dr Pokemon TCG player gets DQ'd at the top table of a high-level event for not volunteering his pronouns with the appropriate level of enthusiasm and making a person of gender feel "threatened."
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>2019 account
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>4 messaages
Totally not a sock
 
Archeops said:
Yecch, at least people are supporting him and demanding that the judge gets shitcanned for this nonsense. I'd rather see this person gender get their just desserts though, preferably in the form of someone dousing their competitive decks with alcohol or kerosene and lighting a match in Minecraft.

Also, I'm generally against TPCi restructuring their premier events from the previous 6-tier tournament structure to their shitty 4-tier tournament structure. The previous iteration was a good way for people to get a Worlds invite without having to deal with the insanity that are higher-level tournaments, now you HAVE to compete at these events if you even want a chance at a Worlds invite in addition having to compete with international competitors outside of Worlds.
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It was actually the tranny judge who was triggered by the kid not displaying proper reverence for the pronoun rituals, not the disqualified player's opponent.

Wokeists are unbearable.
 
I disliked Incineroar because cleaning it up in Pokemon Refresh made me feel like Mac in Always Sunny. So, I stopped cleaning him off after he evolved. Why can't the cat starters just stay on four legs like good cats should?
 
i'm actually shocked how much fun i had with scarlet. performance-wise it's an unacceptable mess but the game itself and exploring the region are so much fun. also meowscarada may be my all time favorite starter now. leaf trick is a busted ass move.
 
Time for a little update on my Sun Hardcore Nuzlocke.
Haven't played much since last time, but I beat Totem Wishiwashi.
Right now, I',m doing some backtracking to get the team ready for the upcoming third trial.

My Team:
Fomantis Lv. 20
Slowpoke Lv. 20
Trumbeak Lv. 20
Mudbray Lv. 20
Brionne Lv. 21
Misdreavus Lv. 22

Box: Diglett, Sableye, Eevee Egg, Grubbin, Magikarp, Finneon

Deaths: Smeargle (Totem Gumshoos Tackle), Zubat (Wild Pokemon), Rattata (???), Cottonnee (Dexios Espeon), Morelull (Wild Psyducks Water Pulse Crit in the rain), Cutiefly (Totem Wishiwashis water gun)

Dexio has been the hardest fight yet. If Cottonnee hadn't sacrificed itself to land a paralysis and a leech seed, i would've wiped to his confusion spam.
130 Special Attack is too much at level 15, if i havent got a Darktype at this point of the game, i always lose one or two pokemon to him.

There is a huge level cap issue between Trial 2, 3 and 4, each being only two Levels higher than the previous one.
You have to be careful about that.

considering the everlasting USUM controversy, that vanilla SM feels pretty empty as a game.
compared to the improved version. You cant even go upstairs in the hotel on akala island. USUM is more fleshed out, everybody keeps
hating on it because the expectations were too high after BW 2, but didn't Platinum do the same thing?
You know, to be the game the inferior Diamond an Pearl will never be. Nobody is shitting on platinum.
 
Pokemon Go is having another shit show by increasing the price of an item that lets you battle in raids remotely by almost 100% as well as limiting their use to 5 times a day from the previous unlimited. It wouldn't surprise me if the remote raid pass was actually accounting for like half their current revenue since it's what whales use to grind. everyone everywhere is clowning on them for this decision that makes playing the game anywhere but big cities a bad experience since you aren't just going to stumble into other players for raids in urban and suburban areas.

Niantic is truly a hilarious company, it's like it's run by the three stooges if they where troons. All this effort to screw over legitimate players and it just makes spoofing all the more powerful.
 
Uni
Executive Petrel said:
Time for a little update on my Sun Hardcore Nuzlocke.
Haven't played much since last time, but I beat Totem Wishiwashi.
Right now, I',m doing some backtracking to get the team ready for the upcoming third trial.

My Team:
Fomantis Lv. 20
Slowpoke Lv. 20
Trumbeak Lv. 20
Mudbray Lv. 20
Brionne Lv. 21
Misdreavus Lv. 22

Box: Diglett, Sableye, Eevee Egg, Grubbin, Magikarp, Finneon

Deaths: Smeargle (Totem Gumshoos Tackle), Zubat (Wild Pokemon), Rattata (???), Cottonnee (Dexios Espeon), Morelull (Wild Psyducks Water Pulse Crit in the rain), Cutiefly (Totem Wishiwashis water gun)

Dexio has been the hardest fight yet. If Cottonnee hadn't sacrificed itself to land a paralysis and a leech seed, i would've wiped to his confusion spam.
130 Special Attack is too much at level 15, if i havent got a Darktype at this point of the game, i always lose one or two pokemon to him.

There is a huge level cap issue between Trial 2, 3 and 4, each being only two Levels higher than the previous one.
You have to be careful about that.

considering the everlasting USUM controversy, that vanilla SM feels pretty empty as a game.
compared to the improved version. You cant even go upstairs in the hotel on akala island. USUM is more fleshed out, everybody keeps
hating on it because the expectations were too high after BW 2, but didn't Platinum do the same thing?
You know, to be the game the inferior Diamond an Pearl will never be. Nobody is shitting on platinum.
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Question: Are you using Z-Moves in your nuzlocke?
 
Executive Petrel said:
Time for a little update on my Sun Hardcore Nuzlocke.
Haven't played much since last time, but I beat Totem Wishiwashi.
Right now, I',m doing some backtracking to get the team ready for the upcoming third trial.

My Team:
Fomantis Lv. 20
Slowpoke Lv. 20
Trumbeak Lv. 20
Mudbray Lv. 20
Brionne Lv. 21
Misdreavus Lv. 22

Box: Diglett, Sableye, Eevee Egg, Grubbin, Magikarp, Finneon

Deaths: Smeargle (Totem Gumshoos Tackle), Zubat (Wild Pokemon), Rattata (???), Cottonnee (Dexios Espeon), Morelull (Wild Psyducks Water Pulse Crit in the rain), Cutiefly (Totem Wishiwashis water gun)

Dexio has been the hardest fight yet. If Cottonnee hadn't sacrificed itself to land a paralysis and a leech seed, i would've wiped to his confusion spam.
130 Special Attack is too much at level 15, if i havent got a Darktype at this point of the game, i always lose one or two pokemon to him.

There is a huge level cap issue between Trial 2, 3 and 4, each being only two Levels higher than the previous one.
You have to be careful about that.

considering the everlasting USUM controversy, that vanilla SM feels pretty empty as a game.
compared to the improved version. You cant even go upstairs in the hotel on akala island. USUM is more fleshed out, everybody keeps
hating on it because the expectations were too high after BW 2, but didn't Platinum do the same thing?
You know, to be the game the inferior Diamond an Pearl will never be. Nobody is shitting on platinum.
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Part of the hate on USUM is the fact that for a 'third edition' its released as two games, which irritates as its meant to be the definitive edition (like Emerald/Platinum). B2W2 gets away with it somewhat because its set as sequels.
Frankly this is only a problem for people who buy both versions of a game, which is weird and a waste of money.
Also people dont like what they did with Lusamine in Ultra
 
usum are definitely better than vanilla sm but they were still an absolute slog to get through imo. give me a skip cutscene option or fuck off.
 
Dextero published an article about the whole "kid gets DQ'd from a high-level Pokémon TCG tournament over pronouns" fiasco. The TL;DR is basically what we already know but ends with the kid getting reimbursed via a GoFundMe page.

Meanwhile, someone on 4chan did some digging and discovered the offended judge's Twitter account.
And lo and behold, it's a they/them enbie chucklefuck with trans flags in their bio. Clown World's starting piss me off something fierce. Sadly, the judge protected their account so I can't see any of their posts.

EDIT: It appears that, according to this tweet, the above account in question doesn’t belong to the offending judge but rather the event’s stream lead. Said tweet chain mention might mention the judge’s name in question but the responding account has protected their Tweets.
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Pokemon Go is having another shit show by increasing the price of an item that lets you battle in raids remotely by almost 100% as well as limiting their use to 5 times a day from the previous unlimited. It wouldn't surprise me if the remote raid pass was actually accounting for like half their current revenue since it's what whales use to grind. everyone everywhere is clowning on them for this decision that makes playing the game anywhere but big cities a bad experience since you aren't just going to stumble into other players for raids in urban and suburban areas.

Niantic is truly a hilarious company, it's like it's run by the three stooges if they where troons. All this effort to screw over legitimate players and it just makes spoofing all the more powerful.
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I've always viewed Niantic as a geolocation data-harvesting company who collects said sellable data via a gaming apps so this is a bit of a nothingburger for me.

Also, if you want to have a bit of fun try to convince said angry players to do an in-person protest at Niantic's headquarters.
 
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a very mild trans joke
because of course
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As a member, i can confirm we're always making troon jokes behind the scenes. Sometimes Professor Oak joins to tell us how many troons went 41% after he asked them whether they are a boy or a girl.

Kari Kamiya said:
But who's his fucking dad? What a cop-out, fucking liars.
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@PipTheAlchemist Yes.
 
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PipTheAlchemist said:
I caught a shiny Gyarados back in HGSS. It's literally the least valuable shiny you can own.
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yeah well fuck you

also sure, you can catch shiny gyarados in hgss, but it's not a shiny magikarp. get fucking rekt. :smug:

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ANYWAY, so the current samurott raid in sv... i tried fighting it in a group a few times, but, as usual, my pokemon are shit. however, i did see a solo strategy that seemed doable, involving koraidon.

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fortunately the koraidon i caught had the correct nature. i also had more than enough money to buy whatever vitamins i needed and i had enough bottlecaps to hypertrain the rest of its ivs, then i leveled it up with a bunch of rare candies. this basically turned the fight into a joke, although i wish i had a better option than screech for lowering defense, since its accuracy is fucking 85%. that being said, prepare to die a lot, because your only attacking move is flare blitz. i was lucky that one of the AI had an arboliva because its default ability is called seed sower, which summons grassy terrain if it's hit with a damaging move, so i was getting some passive healing from that.
 
I recently went to check the second-hand prices for cards from the newest Pokémon TCG set, Scarlet & Violet, on TCGPlayer and I haven’t seen prices this low in a good long while.
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The highest-valued card there is only around $60-$80 USD, that’s insane when the most-recent SWSH-era set had its highest-valued cards in the triple-digits.

As to why this is happening it’s largely due to pull rates and the new pack structure, depending on the products they’re much fairer that they were in past sets and shifting ALL alternate arts to one of the reverse-holo sets is making things much more bearable.

Oh, and I’m hearing reports of hype beasts being scared away from the TCG in general after seeing box breaks and whatnot. It’s a good day to be a player and/or collector.
 
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So, a new Pokémon (forme) got released.
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I say that is a pre-evolution of Tierrapagos, though there is talk abou this being a depowered forme.
(Th is going in my hack either way, though I am really starting to feel the pinc, here.)
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here's a proper image that non-ants can also view
 
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