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

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I already said that I was busy with ArtFight, but I really wanted to do this.
I managed to fix the glitch that comes from giving items. That was because I hid the repeated ChooseAMonString in the PartyMenuStrings because I thought hat hey were unused. I might change those to the unreferenced ChooseAFemalePKMNString and ChooseAMalePKMNString, but I feel a little scared... maybe later.
I also attempted to fix the Kurt issue. The fade should go away, but going to Kurt's house before I get Fly is too much a bother to me.

Since I was up to Whitney's Gym, I wanted to teach the Haunter I got Ice Punch, but, even thoug Haunter has hands, he cannot learn elemental punches in this game. I found that weird. I ended up updating EVERY POKÉMON'S TM LEARNLIST with any TMs that are present in this generation but can learn in future generations. I also ha Drowzee and Hypno learn Dream Eater naturally and had Celadon Department Store stock all evolution stones and the Link Cable.

I also learned tha the obstacle to Ice Path is nowhere in Route 44, bu the Rage Candy Bar guy in Mahogany Town. I commented ou the code that provoked him into blocking your path whenever I tried to leave, but, when I actually entered Mahongany Town, the game glitched, froze, and pretended that I took too much time or Pokéballs in a Bug-Catching Contest. (This was in a Tuesday.)

I eventually found ou that I commented out def_coord_events, which should be present even if there are no events. I fixed that, but I fel that I should upload the bugged build first, since that is a funny glitch.
 

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Anonitolia said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-3p5O0GaJZINew short released to promote the world championships. Looks neat.
Has a slight case of ADHD since it’s only a minute long, but I like how it looks and the fact that they tailored (most) of what showed up to actual competitive builds (instead of solely focusing on shillmon).
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Agreed to an extent, the video actually covers all four of the current competitive divisions for Pokémon's sanctioned tournaments (GO, TCG, Unite, and VGC) but the 'mons featured are a bit iffy.
My knowledge in GO's Great League (the PVP ruleset that Pokémon' sanctioned tournaments use) is a bit rusty so take this with a grain of salt.
  • Sky Forme Shaymin is really bad in Great League. Its only good fast attack is Hidden Power but that's only true if you get Grass Type Hidden Power, any other is just pure garbage. Seed Flare is also a really bad charge move and you're actually better off running Grass Knot of all moves.
  • Gholdengo has a great attack stat and its Ghost/Steel typing gives it great resistances but its too frail for Great League outside of annoying Bastiodon/Medicham combos. Its charged attacks aren't cheap and Hex is a mediocre fast attack.
  • Salamence isn't designed for PVP, it's learnset is too slow and despite having a wonderful Attack stat the other two are terrible.
  • Melmetal is the only one that actually doesn't feel out-of-place here, it's not the best Steel-type in Great League but it's serviceable due to it having access to Superpower and Rock Slide.
I actually have experience in this one soI was really happy to see it featured.
  • Lugia and Archeops are both key parts of any good Lugia VSTAR deck. Lugia VSTAR's Summoning Star Ability lets you set up Archeops without being hassled by the craptastic "evolves from a Trainer Card" gimmick that Fossil Pokémon have had for years and Lugia VSTAR isn't that bad of an attacker (it used to be much more dangerous during the SWSH-CRZ era due to cards like Powerful Colorless Energy and Capture Energy) Archeops' Primal Turbo Ability lets you search your deck for 2 Special Energy and attach them (making it one of the more, if not the most, busted form of Energy acceleration I've seen in the Pokémon TCG) to your Pokémon in any way you like and basically fuels a bunch of amazing attacks, most of which are Single Strike Pokémon right now.
  • Miraidon and Flaaffy represent Miraidon ex decks but the deck archetype in general is iffy tournament-wise, it did well early on but now it's rare to see it get anywhere beyond Top 16 in smaller (anywhere bewteen 200-500 competitors) tournaments and even more so in larger events like Regionals.
Iron Bundle, Dondozo, and Dragonite have a presence in teams used by the Top 8 players at the recent North American International Championship while Meowscarada has only popped up in a tournament's top 8 results once back in April where it was present at Sydney Regionals in the Senior division (as part of the runner-up's team). Dondozo not being teamed up with a Tatsugiri kind of threw me for a loop but after checking the NAIC Masters Champion's team on the main site it they basically run it as a physical wall with Yawn/Protect support.

Oh, and Dragonite's Tera Type being Normal is the standard despite Steel becoming another common Tera Type for the 'nite, it helps with boosting Extreme Speed and nullifies Dragonite's crippling 4x Ice weakness.
And I can't speak for Unite since I don't really keep up with MOBAs.
 
Still very slowly going through Diamond for the first time in over 15 years. I'm currently at the slump between the last Gym leader's levels and Elite Four's. Why is it always such a big gap?

Anyway I just wanted to say: why is Dialga's theme so good wtf:
 
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Pokémon Sleep is out in specific territories for a soft launch. Let’s fucking goooooo!
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Pokemon Sleep is so "meh". It's buggy as shit even though there seems to be an update every fucking time I open it, it's very selective about what it qualifies as "sleep" and I get a good deal of my research nulled because "I was sleeping too deeply". The catching mechanic is predatory as shit for any Pokemon that's not a fuckin' shiny. To reasonably "catch" Pokemon, you're either forking over money, or being stuck with such limited resources you're making 2-3 catch's A WEEK. GO definitely has some predatory shit in it, but you don't feel like you're being gyped 100% of the time if you're not forking over money for the premium pass/items like you do in Sleep. In it's current state, Sleep is mediocre, predatory, and bug ridden.

Nitpicking by comparison, but I also really hate how the Snorlax can be shiny (like my current one is). Don't give me a shiny I can't fuckin' keep. Only reason I even bother with it is for the hope it gets Home compatibility at some point for collection sake.
 
Unpopular opinion: Dusk balls should only work in caves, not outside at night. They basically make trying to catch Pokémon during the day pointless.
 
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Anonitolia said:
Unrelated sidenote- Nintendo's Quarterly Earnings Report came out recently.
Here's some links- to the explanatory material and consolidated highlights respectively.

Some highlights:
  • TOTK shipped 18.5mil units... 15.7mil of which were during its launch quarter. Not sure if it has no legs to speak of or if it's just too early to tell. I'm not very experienced with breaking down finances like this, sorry.
  • Apparently, a vast majority of those launch sales also came from people who'd played BOTW. The further away it gets from launch the more the sales seem to skew towards totally new players.
  • OLED sales have nearly doubled from last year, for some reason. The other units remain at about the same level as before, with base model sales increasing and Lite sales dropping.
  • Pokemon Scarlet and Violet have sold approx. 22.6mil units. I find this interesting for one reason only- didn't 10 million of those sales come from preorders? I distinctly remember a shit load of articles and people complaining about how the games had sold 10 million units in 3 days, and while it's wholly possible that they were exaggerating (frankly I think most of the people who parroted it were), assuming that they weren't would mean that the games took about 9 months to double their initial launch sales.
  • Regardless of previous claims, the above is made doubly more interesting by the fact that Pokemon Sword and Shield have sold about 25.9mil... over the entire course of its entire lifetime.
  • Nintendo states that the release of the Mario movie positively impacted Mario sales. They don't elaborate much further, they just give a number and move on.
  • Digital sales still make up about half of total software sales (approx. 47%), but they were lower this quarter due to TOTK's retail release doing fairly well in both mediums.
  • This is the strongest Q1 for the Switch since the beginning of COVID in terms of hardware sales.
  • It's worth noting that, due to inflation of the yen, a lot of the increases in profit might be due to price differences instead of genuine surges in interest.
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primarily for this reason.
Anonitolia said:
  • Pokemon Scarlet and Violet have sold approx. 22.6mil units. I find this interesting for one reason only- didn't 10 million of those sales come from preorders? I distinctly remember a shit load of articles and people complaining about how the games had sold 10 million units in 3 days, and while it's wholly possible that they were exaggerating (frankly I think most of the people who parroted it were), assuming that they weren't would mean that the games took about 9 months to double their initial launch sales.
  • Regardless of previous claims, the above is made doubly more interesting by the fact that Pokemon Sword and Shield have sold about 25.9mil... over the entire course of its entire lifetime.
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Jesus fuck, 22.6mil in less than a year?? SV are already in the top 5 best-earning games in the series before any DLC releases, before its first anniversary, before ANYTHING else? Fuck this, gen 10's gonna be an unplayable mess.
 
Pokemon Presents coming on August 8th. My prediction was only a week or two off, I am clearly a clairvoyant. :smug:

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Okay, but seriously- what are you guys expecting? It's supposed to be about 35 minutes long and it has its own unique little teaser, so I think there'll be a bunch of DLC news and maybe some announcements for spin-offs or other media as well. I might be jumping the gun a bit here but it feels like it's building up to something sorta big. At the very least, I can't remember the last Presents that got its own 15 second trailer like this. Considering the teaser i'm almost tempted to say there'll be a focus on Detective Pikachu- possibly a revival of the movie's sequel- considering how much emphasis there is on the neon, but honestly I'm not getting my hopes very slightly raised. I'll just watch on Monday and see what happens.

EDIT: I will watch on Monday after the fact because I just remembered about something else that's more important and at the exact same time, whoops. Regardless, I'll do a write-up on it after the presentation if nobody else has by the time I've gone through it all.
 
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Kari Kamiya said:
The YouTube algorithm gave me this special kind of autistic mathematics that I knew existed in the Pokémon community while conveniently forgetting speedrunners are fucking obsessed with probability.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=LynBpxaAcjc
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Screeching soyboys, trannies, and a libtard randomly crying about election doubters and racism. Even for a Pokemon speedrunning video that was extremely autistic.
 
Lone Star said:
I refuse to watch the video, but I have to ask how the fuck any of those subjects cropped up.
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One of the featured speedrunners was a tranny and he was, of course, respecting his pronouns. Another was the soyjak meme come to life screeching HORRIFICALLY because his Pokemon caught PokeRUS.

Then the TDS ridden narrator just had to randomly shoehorn in election denial and racism, and he did it through a type of closing remark. He basically said "ok now you understand math, and when your uncle comes over talking about the terrible 1-in-100 voter fraud which stole the election you can say 'does that racist dude actually know what he's talking about?' He probably doesn't!"

Because apparently concerns over election integrity are racist, but only when it's from conservatives. Just goes to show you can be a math nerd but also an insufferable retard.
 
I am playing pokemon emerald enhanced.

If you dont play hack roms and only stick to official games, you are a nigger. These guys makes systems out a gba game that makes gsmefreak look like a demo, I really like the concept of stronger monsters inside the areas. The quests are cool too, the revamped areas is nice.

Being able to rematch the gyn leader to farm exp is amazing, and to hell with hms fucking the party up. All of it in a gba game.
 
Since we seem to be on the subject on a weekly basis, I could powerlevel and MATI a lot in a single post and talk about how upset I am over Pokémon (and Nintendo) communities in the west being so pozzed. I miss the Newgrounds era were your Pikmin parody involved Olimar calling Louie a fag. :(
 
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I am playing pokemon emerald enhanced.

If you dont play hack roms and only stick to official games, you are a nigger. These guys makes systems out a gba game that makes gsmefreak look like a demo, I really like the concept of stronger monsters inside the areas. The quests are cool too, the revamped areas is nice.

Being able to rematch the gyn leader to farm exp is amazing, and to hell with hms fucking the party up. All of it in a gba game.
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>dogshit UI with awful contrast
>changes to abilities that make little to no sense
>unnecessary changes to canon typings
>gen 4-5 (and fanmade) sprites haphazardly shoved into a gen 3 game without any changes to make them more stylistically coherent
>hilariously bloated regional dex (685 mon!!) that doesn't even contain every mon up to gen 7 (despite almost every other mechanic being updated to gen 7 standards) so what's the point
>completely unnecessary addition of open-world staples (crafting, freedom of movement, followers) and achievements to an originally-linear game
>fanon moves
it's shit
 
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