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

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AnotherPleb said:
No more Flint, the Fire Type member of the Elite Four having to use Steelix and Lopunny because he had nothing else.
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Yup, lmao
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I can't believe I just had my image converted into webp slop. I really hope this is fixed quickly.
 
Null said:
bro the site is running fast at the moment because people's lazy ctrl+v pastes are no longer 5MB.
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Well, saving images is another matter. I have to manually open every new webp image from the last few days and screenshot it, gets really annoying as I refuse to have any of this garbage on my computer. I appreciate the option, but I liked how it worked earlier.
 
Lambda Corps said:
i forgot what enhancements platinum even added besides the battle frontier and distortion world. It was basically the "emerald version" of Gen 4 with minimal additions and small edits to the main story that didn't change very much.
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I disagree, in my opinion platinum is the most different out of any inhanced version. I'd say it's so different to diamond and pearl that it's a practically a completely different game that happens takes place in the same region. It added all non-legendery sinnoh pokemon to it's regional dex, which gave both more variety for the players and more variety for the npcs. It revamped certain areas to give them more of an personality, like enterna forest or team galactic's enterna base. It of course also including a better engine that made the game run leauges better than diamond and pearl. It also included gym leader rematches like emerald which is always nice. It even added small things like the pal park allowing for more than 6 transfers from gen 3 per day.

I'd aruge that the battle frontier is the least of platinum's addition and platinum is the sole reason why sinnoh is so beloved. most people didn't know or remember how barebones diamond and pearl are before bdsp came out and nostalgia no longer played a factor.
 
Fenrir Ratatoskr said:
Use JpegXL and be a rebel! Google hates it!
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zero browser support

mentally retarded user said:
Try AVIF it compresses better and it doesn't have the webp artifact pattern that triggers our collective autism.
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very recent but even less supported outside of recent browsers than webp. if i start deploying avif people are going to complain even more.

btw webp is baseline xenforo with no alternatives so you're also asking me to write custom code.
 
Grayback said:
I finally found a little store that still has card packs.
$8 for Journey Together ($4 for Japanese), $7 for Temporal Forces, $9+ for everything else.
Back in my day (literally just 4 months ago), Pokémon card packs were $5 at most, and it was a scandal if the store wanted more than that. But I guess we're living in different times now. I still don't really get it.
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Yeah, at those prices I wouldn’t buy from ‘em since those are higher than market price (Journey Together packs are 6-7 bucks a pop market-wise and your store is charging 8 bucks.
Grayback said:
Weirdly, the store also had some of those promo packs that you usually see by the checkout lanes in Walmart or Target—the ones that come with one or two regular packs, a holographic card in the front that you can see, and a plastic coin, all held together in thin clear plastic on a cardboard backing.
They were from normal, contemporary sets, not vintage or rare or anything, but they had prices in the $20-$40 range. I have no idea what was going on there.
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Seeing blister packs outside of big box stores isn’t unusual but considering that LGSs have vastly smaller allocation numbers than stores like Target/Walmart/Best Buy than they may be responsible for your local big box stores selling out the minute it’s restocked.
Grayback said:
They also had some packs from Sword & Shield sets going for normal prices ($8-$10), but then some other sets going for almost $30.
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The only SWSH-era set whose packs have a market value around that $30 asking price is Evolving Skies and that’s in large part due to Alt Art Umbreon VMAX, the only other SWSH-era set to get close to that is Celebrations at $10.
Grayback said:
Does anyone know why some of this recent (seemingly-random) stuff would be so expensive, beyond the price hikes that the cards already have these days?
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It's investorfags manipulating the market price of chase cards, it's been a problem since November and it's only starting to get better due to TPCi bumping up card production and reverting pull rates back to their early SVI-era numbers.
 
With Worlds coming up I’ve been digging through my cards and checking to see if there are any decks I could build and, almost as if the universe wants me to get back into the TCG, I have a majority of the cards needed to build the Gardevoir ex deck (a deck archetype I thought would die due to the rotation that occurred earlier this month) that won last weekends Atlanta Regionals and the Dragapult ex deck that 2nd place at that same tournament.

Oh, and the Secret Rare cards for Japan’s The Glory of Team Rocket set were revealed yesterday. Combine that with the Secret Rares from Heat Wave Arena and you’ll get the Secret Rares for late May’s Destined Rivals set.
Computer God Autism said:
Do you regularly lurk the Pokemon thread or is someone talking about image formatting like a bat signal for you?
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I think Null’s just hyper-aware of site-related complaints due to the site maintenance that happened last Sunday.
 
Null said:
I don't have a really strong favorite but I don't believe in any generation after Gen 3. Probably Larvitar, Gengar, and Mew.
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Null said:
they still looked like animals back then, now you got garbage and ice cream cones and key loops. it sucks. voltorb was a stinker but his conception comes from the overworld layout and taking inspiration from mimics in similar games. i never liked magnetite for the same reason.
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Umm, based?
Gen 3 truly is the best generation, from gameplay to variety of content to Pokemon designs and even competitive meta it was pretty much the ultimate Pokemon experience in my opinion. I personally extends this to Gen 4, which feels like Gen 3 part 2 similarly to Gen 2 being Gen 1 part 2, but the franchise really hasn't felt the same since. It was a rollercoaster of ups and downs, mostly downs after Gen 5, until the ride started breaking apart as of Gen 8 and then fell into a lake as of Gen 9.
 
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