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

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Lol. I'm surprised they kept the comments. Oh yea, if you look at the full picture, the Black kid you can't see in the screenshot looks like Johnny Somali (I can't open it on my browser, but I can open the pics on my phone).
 
Kari Kamiya said:
That's wild, but yes, that sounds right for my position. The house was at the bottom of the screen.
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I was talking about this with my husband, and he also remembers the running overworld beast...
I'm very tempted to boot up Crystal on the virtual console, and playing up to there. I just got a see.

Buuuut I had this elaborate thing to also get shiny starters in Crystal, and it involved trading to Gold and performing ACE glitches, and it was just a lot of waiting for trades.
 
Played a lot of Unbound today, I just don't like how I love the mini missions and extra content but absolutely hate the main story.

I realized that since I activated the level caps, I rotate a lot of pokemon in my team. I currently have 20 pokemon at lvl 52 (my level cap).

I just got into the criminal city, I even had to pay to use the pokecenter lol
 
On pokémon special sun and moon manga:

I read the first 5 volumes, only one left. I dunno if it is because I didn't play the games but it kinda felt... Underwhelmed. But I also didn't play XY and I liked it way better. It isn't bad by any means, it just felt kinda generic, without all that passion from BW, RSE, DPPt.

I will read the final volume later today, but so gar what I liked were the ultra beasts and that ultra world, cool idea but not very well explored. It was the same with Alola overall, we barely see the cities/islands unlike the previous arcs.

I really wonder if we peaked and now is all downhill...
 
Twin Addler said:
I was a dumb child playing Soulsilver so I was hardstuck on Clair. It didn't help that I autistically used the Pokewalker on my whole team everyday I went to school and levelling up via Pokewalker means they don't learn level up moves. I remember my Feraligatr being stuck with Water Gun because of that. Even though the Waterfall HM is right there and is literally his BiS water move. I googled how to beat Dragon types and it said use Ice. So I spammed Feraligatr's Ice Fang... on Clair's Kingdra...

I vividly remember losing to Clair multiple times trying the same thing over and over and only winning because Ice Fang froze Kingdra after enough attempts. He's chilling in Home now.

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"Hates to lose"
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Why are Pokemon fans the only ones who see the act of grinding and putting a lot of time/money into a game as "unfair" and "unwelcoming", and use it as a justification to cheat?
I consider the amount of effort I put into any game as a badge of honor. If you cheat to win a competition, you're a loser. It's a digital sport, the effort and time you put into it is apart of the challenge.
 
deermeat said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_p-PAnQ4lAcWhy are Pokemon fans the only ones who see the act of grinding and putting a lot of time/money into a game as "unfair" and "unwelcoming", and use it as a justification to cheat?
I consider the amount of effort I put into any game as a badge of honor. If you cheat to win a competition, you're a loser. It's a digital sport, the effort and time you put into it is apart of the challenge.
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It's cognitive dissonance. Pokemon is a kids game. It was never meant to be and should never have become a competitive sport.

But soy infused retards can't accept that because then they'd have to admit they've dedicated their lives to shilling for a kids entertainment brand.
 
Any game that requires 20+ hours of grinding and 200USD to even participate is retarded. At least if I'm playing LoL or OW or whatever other PvP, I can load up the game and get into a match with all the tools I need to play for the cost of the game.

There's no honor in being a retard willing to pay Nintendo 300 bucks because you need a Jirachi with a move exclusive to XD or a fucking enigma berry or whatever.

Making Pokemon into a serious business competitive game was stupid to begin with, but defending Nintendo's shitty practices for a game mode they financially endorse isn't any better tbh.
 
deermeat said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_p-PAnQ4lAcWhy are Pokemon fans the only ones who see the act of grinding and putting a lot of time/money into a game as "unfair" and "unwelcoming", and use it as a justification to cheat?
I consider the amount of effort I put into any game as a badge of honor. If you cheat to win a competition, you're a loser. It's a digital sport, the effort and time you put into it is apart of the challenge.
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I can sympathise with people not liking grinding. I like the Pokémon games' difficulty because I can use almost any Pokémon and grinding is minimal in the recent games.
 
deermeat said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_p-PAnQ4lAcWhy are Pokemon fans the only ones who see the act of grinding and putting a lot of time/money into a game as "unfair" and "unwelcoming", and use it as a justification to cheat?
I consider the amount of effort I put into any game as a badge of honor. If you cheat to win a competition, you're a loser. It's a digital sport, the effort and time you put into it is apart of the challenge.
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What happened to just leaving your critters at the daycare?
 
Catgirl Tyranid said:
It's cognitive dissonance. Pokemon is a kids game. It was never meant to be and should never have become a competitive sport.

But soy infused retards can't accept that because then they'd have to admit they've dedicated their lives to shilling for a kids entertainment brand.
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Cope, kids play competitively too so it's clear it's not too hard for them, given they have their own bracket at the VGC. If a child can do it, what's your excuse? This is the same kind of kvetching that gave us yellow paint, lobotomy markers everywhere and made almost every game today piss easy, idiots complaining that "things are too hard" or "it takes too much effort!". The filter that is main story vs Battle Tower/Battle Frontier/Online Competitive is real visible and I'm glad it's there.
Anyone who has any experience with competitive Pokemon knows the effort isn't as bad as people make it out to be, breeding and raising competitive Pokemon takes time but not skill. Movesets can be gotten from Bulbapedia and Smogon unless you're experimenting, and the only pain in the ass is transfering some obscure event Pokemon or those with move combinations not available in the newer games(moot point as Dexit killed that and all Pokemon are forced to wipe their movesets when deposited from HOME). Still, if you're this dedicated to playing competitively, you should already own all required hardware years ago, have fun trying to get it now with all the scalpers. Once you're done it a few times, the process becomes almost automatic, but then again, learning things is too hard so we need dumb down everything. "Hurr durr, kidz game!" despite everything I mentioned being easy enough for hundreds of kids to learn and compete against one another. This franchise deserves the absolute mindless brainrot that modern mechanics, difficulty and meta are, it's clearly what the fans have wanted.
 
30+GameOvers said:
Cope, kids play competitively too so it's clear it's not too hard for them, given they have their own bracket at the VGC. If a child can do it, what's your excuse? This is the same kind of kvetching that gave us yellow paint, lobotomy markers everywhere and made almost every game today piss easy, idiots complaining that "things are too hard" or "it takes too much effort!". The filter that is main story vs Battle Tower/Battle Frontier/Online Competitive is real visible and I'm glad it's there.
Anyone who has any experience with competitive Pokemon knows the effort isn't as bad as people make it out to be, breeding and raising competitive Pokemon takes time but not skill. Movesets can be gotten from Bulbapedia and Smogon unless you're experimenting, and the only pain in the ass is transfering some obscure event Pokemon or those with move combinations not available in the newer games(moot point as Dexit killed that and all Pokemon are forced to wipe their movesets when deposited from HOME). Still, if you're this dedicated to playing competitively, you should already own all required hardware years ago, have fun trying to get it now with all the scalpers. Once you're done it a few times, the process becomes almost automatic, but then again, learning things is too hard so we need dumb down everything. "Hurr durr, kidz game!" despite everything I mentioned being easy enough for hundreds of kids to learn and compete against one another. This franchise deserves the absolute mindless brainrot that modern mechanics, difficulty and meta are, it's clearly what the fans have wanted.
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The closest I've come to competitive pokemon was bullying my younger cousin by putting his entire team to sleep with a Gengar and laughing manically as I added Confuse Ray on top of it.

When I say this is a kids game and it should have stayed a kids game, I meant it. Pokemon is at it's root not meant to be competitive and the staff at Game Freak are so inept that any attempts they make at balancing it around competitive play will only serve to further fuck over the base gameplay of Hero's Journey Simulator: Pet Monster Edition.
 
Catgirl Tyranid said:
When I say this is a kids game and it should have stayed a kids game, I meant it. Pokemon is at it's root not meant to be competitive and the staff at Game Freak are so inept that any attempts they make at balancing it around competitive play will only serve to further fuck over the base gameplay of Hero's Journey Simulator: Pet Monster Edition.
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You're right that it was designed as a kids game, however over the years, people found that the mechanics are indepth enough to play competitively, hence in-game battling facilities and an IRL active competitive scene. Even the very first generation had tournaments and a competitive meta that grew more and more complex over the years as players understood the inner workings of the janky game engine.
It's better to say that the game has two sides to it: One for casual players, one for more hardcore players, and both are valid. Trying to generalize Pokemon as a "kids game" when there is a kids bracket where they play on pretty much the same skill level as adults is a dumb argument. That's not to mention that many of the veterans today started out as kids, many of them during Gen 4 when internet was widely used enough to look up strats and play online against others without simulators.
 
30+GameOvers said:
You're right that it was designed as a kids game, however over the years, people found that the mechanics are indepth enough to play competitively, hence in-game battling facilities and an IRL active competitive scene. Even the very first generation had tournaments and a competitive meta that grew more and more complex over the years as players understood the inner workings of the janky game engine.
It's better to say that the game has two sides to it: One for casual players, one for more hardcore players, and both are valid. Trying to generalize Pokemon as a "kids game" when there is a kids bracket where they play on pretty much the same skill level as adults is a dumb argument. That's not to mention that many of the veterans today started out as kids, many of them during Gen 4 when internet was widely used enough to look up strats and play online against others without simulators.
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My initial argument was that arrested development man-babies who don't even have the excuse that they're autistic were causing themselves psychological damage because they dedicated their lives to playing a children's game and all you've done is convince me my initial hot-take was truer than I knew.
 
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