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

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hey @Sandshrew

There's a minigame in Stadium with Sandshrew -- "Dig, Dig, Dig!" -- where 4 'shrews dig until the winner hits underground water first.

"Sandshrew dig dig dig, pokemon stadium, retrogame"

- Gam!ngdude00
 
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Lone Star said:
Seeing the disdain for the upcoming game and them mentioning you play Go gave me whiplash.
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At least with Pokemon Go, I don't have to spend money on mega stones whenever new Megas arrive. All I have to do is just get out of my place, and hope people will do a raid or two while they focus on something that's not a retarded fomo like Eternatus.
 
I was talking with a coworker today about how promos have become some of the most expensive cards and he brought up that the 151 SPC mew promo is $75 as of writing this. He had to explain to his son that they weren’t going to be able to complete their 151 master set because now people are either rushing to get them graded or want to try to sell them at a markup in case they go up even more. Says a lot about this hobby when these were just sitting around on release, much like most of 151 up until late last year. It’s not even a good looking card, just like bubble mew, it’s just retards trying to hype up cards.

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ToroidalBoat said:
180 HP?? Back in Gen 1, the TCG Mew had only 50. Even as late as 2006, Mew only had 70 (POP Series 4).

Also, I think that if a pocketmons card costs more than a few dollars, that may be way too much... 🤔
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It’s power creep and an ex Pokémon. I agree with you 100% though. There’s no reason for any card to be above $5 and even that’s more than I’m willing to spend usually. I liked the gallery cards because up until late 2024 they were almost all very inexpensive and not as desired and were around $2-$3 except for the V/Vmax/Vstar ones. I’m not even going to bother with the rayquaza unless some chinkoid can print a fake that’s not garbage quality.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
Back in the day, you only needed up to 12 damage counters per 'mon. Now you need like, what, 32?
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Yea the most HP a pokemon had back in the day was 120, and only a few niche Pokemon had it (e.g. Chansey base set, which was not only a rare card, but was used more like a damage sponge while you build up your bench).

Now the highest HP a pokemon in TCG has ever had was 500, and only 5 cards have them, and they are all promotional legendaries of MULTIPLE pokemon that need multiple different energy cards to do any sort of damage.

Outside of that it's in the 300 range
 
Celebrate Nite said:
120
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Used to be a fairly consistent system. Like average final evolutions had somewhere between 60 and 80, and 120 was reserved for really tough or a lot of HP. And usually moves were around 1 energy card each for every 10 a move does, and final evolutions usually did 30 to 50. Now it seems it's like 1 Energy card for 50 to 80 or something like that.
 
Palworld's getting a cozy life sim spinoff and honestly, I'm starting to suspect Nintendo has a mole over there. The two wouldn't coincidentally come up with the exact same idea at the exact same time. I know everyone calls Palworld a Pokemon knockoff, but I think between this and Z-A, the opposite is true and Nintendo is purposely trying to copy Palworld because it outsold every Pokemon game except the originals.
 
GlupShitto said:
Palworld's getting a cozy life sim spinoff and honestly, I'm starting to suspect Nintendo has a mole over there. The two wouldn't coincidentally come up with the exact same idea at the exact same time. I know everyone calls Palworld a Pokemon knockoff, but I think between this and Z-A, the opposite is true and Nintendo is purposely trying to copy Palworld because it outsold every Pokemon game except the originals.
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I believe this.
After I realized the whole “Yokai watch freak out” which explained a whole lot of gen7 craziness, I will never put it past them.
 
You'd think that the people running the highest-grossing media franchise of all time would be a little less insecure about their position.
 
Pokemon has gotten so large that it doesn't even need to make the games anymore, the merchandise sales alone far eclipse the need for new games to be developed.
I don't get why they're so scared of Palword, it was a streamer bait game that got big due to the novelty of Pokemon with guns, its more or less already ran its course. Nintendo's continued lawsuits are the only thing that keep me from forgetting the game happened.
 
Rion said:
Pokemon has gotten so large that it doesn't even need to make the games anymore, the merchandise sales alone far eclipse the need for new games to be developed.
I don't get why they're so scared of Palword, it was a streamer bait game that got big due to the novelty of Pokemon with guns, its more or less already ran its course. Nintendo's continued lawsuits are the only thing that keep me from forgetting the game happened.
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This video pretty much explains why: they are so high and full of themselves nowadays thanks to Snitch 1 high sales.
Nintendo needs an ass-whipping in court somehow to hopefully humble them the fuck down. If this has to come from Sony of all things, so be it.
 
GlupShitto said:
Palworld's getting a cozy life sim spinoff and honestly, I'm starting to suspect Nintendo has a mole over there. The two wouldn't coincidentally come up with the exact same idea at the exact same time. I know everyone calls Palworld a Pokemon knockoff, but I think between this and Z-A, the opposite is true and Nintendo is purposely trying to copy Palworld because it outsold every Pokemon game except the originals.
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Za is basically Pokemon Shemue while the ditto game is them ripping off of themselves.

Pokemon is the perfect example of the grandfather theorem, because it debuted as such a sweet spot and when most of the West had little if any at all care for jrpgs, so it was able to basically artificially mold a culture around it that can't really be contested.

A lot of the fundamental ideas from Pokemon originate from Ultraman and dragon quest, but very few people would even notice because neither of the after mentioned franchises popped off outside of Japan.

For all of the technical issues that plague the series, one thing they're really smart about is their marketing and presentation of the Pokemon.

The vast majority of the original generation 1 and 2 Pokemon are based off of Japanese myths or pop culture references, but the localization team manage to make them relatable two kids outside of Japan in a way that most series outside of something like Digimon have managed to do.

Nintendo it's basically doing with Capcom did back in the 90s after Street fighter 2 took of.

SF2 is basically the fighting game of all time and after it came out it kind of revolutionized the genre, and it inspired other developers to want to put their own spin on it, but Capcom basically tried to paton the idea of a fighting game but they ended up losing in court because that's ridiculous.
 
Rinyuu is my EX said:
This video pretty much explains why: they are so high and full of themselves nowadays thanks to Snitch 1 high sales.
Nintendo needs an ass-whipping in court somehow to hopefully humble them the fuck down. If this has to come from Sony of all things, so be it.
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Bunny Tracks said:
This is a real video released by the Department of Homeland Security. (archive)
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As funny as this is, and it certainly is very funny, the idea of Nintendo actually suing the United States government over it is even more hilarious, and I hope it really happens.
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I pray that they try to sue the government and we end up seeing either new tariffs levied against Japan, an outright ban of Nintendo/Pokemon products, or all Japanese Nintendo employees deported/disappeared in an ICE facility unless they bend the knee and send Junichi Masuda and Shigeru Ishiba out to personally deliver a shadowless base set Charizard encased in a gold plaque to Trump in the Oval Office.


Holy shit my dreams might come true. It'd be so funny if this results in an outright ban on Japanese media in the US.
 
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