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7 hours ago, Clappy said:
Not sure if Kanto is perfect either, but it must have done something right since I found myself playing and restarting that game lord knows how many times and got myself addicted to this franchise somehow?
Basically me with Crystal, yeah. I think if I had been a year or two older when I got Yellow I'd feel the same about Kanto, but as is that was just the gateway drug to Johto and that's what really started the addiction for me. I still really enjoyed Kanto as a kid, but being 4 years old I can't even remember how far I got in that game. All I know is I released my Charizard because I thought I could find it in the wild and catch it again.
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On 11/29/2016 at 5:41 AM, Dr. WhoBob said:
Supergirl episode was decent to me but it had rarely connections with the crossover, except for last 30 seconds, which was so cool.
I'm hopeful for crossover; Arrow, Supergirl and LOT are very improved in their current seasons so far; while I'm not really impressed with Flash this season so far. I mean I'm still trying to be skeptical about how their second half of their sasons but LOT is just incredibly funny now and getting rid of Rip and Savage and replacing Hawks with Steel and Vixen helped it. Arrow season 5 has no stupid drama so far (tho I'm still trying to be skeptical because season 4 started off good and ended up messy), I'm enjoying new recuits of Team Arrow and they are not rushing stuff with the main villain. Supergirl season 2 is not perfect but definitely more fun, more interesting and maturer than season 1 to me. As for Flash this season, it's still mindless fun but I'm not enjoying dark and sad tone of it and Barry still pisses me off, at least he's getting what he deserves.
The Flash to me is so weird right now because I just don't expect them to fully commit to this new timeline, so I'm just waiting for them to change it back to normal and go about their merry way. If I knew with 100% certainty that they were going to stick with it then I'd appreciate the season a lot more, but as it is I just can't fully enjoy it like I did with the first two seasons.
13 hours ago, Clappy said:I am about to face Lusamine in Ultra Space. I've fallen behind a bit in terms of playing the game but I'm still loving it more every day. Definitely not up to Kanto and Johto standards for me since those games are nearly untouchable, but definitely better than I ever expected?
Kanto, eh, I can't tell if my love for Yellow and FireRed are fueled by nostalgia or because they're actually perfect, but Johto I'll agree with. Crystal I think I've played through at least 50 times, and SoulSilver was the last Pokemon game prior to Sun and Moon that I legitimately enjoyed all the way through (Alpha Sapphire was decent enough, but I had to force myself to finish it). I just can't believe I haven't been able to bring myself to face the Elite Four yet - usually I'm just right there, but this time I feel like I have so many options for my team and I just want to be able to use everything. It's great.
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On 11/26/2016 at 6:58 AM, Clappy said:
How would you rank the Pokémon games now (since I assume you're more than likely done with Sun and Moon)?
Believe it or not I haven't finished yet. I'm still really struggling with a final team for the Elite 4. I think I've got it down, but honestly who knows - there's just so many choices. That said...
SpoilerI actually really love this gen and I'd rank it up near the top. It's no secret that I was really hesitant about the length of the game and the lack of gyms, but, man, I was wrong. I'm 30+ hours deep and still haven't beaten the E4 yet. This batch of Pokemon is probably my overall favorite new batch since... yeesh, maybe Hoenn. Sinnoh didn't really have any misses, but I don't totally love anything from that gen either, Unova was just a mess, and Kalos was super forgettable to me. The starters are really the only misstep here, but those are, what, 9 Pokemon I don't like? I can get over that. As I've said in the thread, though, I really don't like how hard it is to find Alolan Pokemon in Alola. They all have really low encounter rates, and then Pokemon like Charjabug and Crabrawler can't even evolve until the end of the game. I'm not the biggest fan of all the stand alone Pokemon, either. Komala just looks like a Pokemon that should evolve, and the fact that it doesn't is just so weird. The stat spread is kinda awful as well - I don't want everything to be a total speed demon, but I'm getting tired of my Alolan Pokemon being outsped by everything from Gens 1-6.
SOS Battles are hit or miss for me as well. Definitely interesting, and it helps for chaining purposes (and it's also the only way to get Mareanie, which, while interesting in terms of lore and backstory as to why you only encounter it in SOS Battles, is still really annoying), but I feel like it happens way too often and is just more likely than not going to be something you get trapped in. I feel like there should be a more elegant way to implement that mechanic. Like it only works when the Pokemon is at less than X% of their health, or it can only be triggered by Adrenaline Orbs, or the Pokemon needs to call an ally instead of attack, or something.
The first island is the lowest point of the game for me. The characters were getting on my nerves before the first trial, and I felt like I was being coddled the entire time. I mean, you leave with such a diverse team with a bag full of Pokeballs, and Exp. Share, and more than $30,000. I get that Pokemon needs to cater to children, but, like, so did every other generation before this one, and everyone using the excuse of "well Pokemon is for kids" clearly hasn't played any other Pokemon game before because the ones before this weren't hand-holding you this much or giving you a two hour tutorial. Gens 1-4 basically just sent you on your way without so much as a goodbye. Yellow was my first Pokemon game, and I believe I was... 4 or 5 years old. Yeah, I was frustrated trying to beat Brock, but I didn't quit playing because it was too hard or because I didn't know what I was doing. I kept trying different strategies and kept leveling up to see what I could do. I didn't need (or even want) Oak to show me step-by-step what to do and when to do it. It made beating Brock that much more worthwhile.
However, all that said, these games are amazing. I actually felt invested in the story. It wasn't some generic cataclysmic event happening - it was about a family falling apart. Lillie, regardless of how much I couldn't stand her throughout the game, was extremely integral to what was going on in the game and it felt like she was your friend and like you were helping her throughout the whole thing. She got a decent amount of development, which was surprising because this is, well, a Pokemon game, and no one ever really gets developed all that well (Archie got developed well enough in Alpha Sapphire, which isn't surprising because the director of that game directed this game, so he clearly knows what he's doing). Hau was... tolerable for me, I guess. Well, he got more tolerable as the game went on, anyway. Battling him was never too challenging, and that was kinda whatever, but his involvement in the plot and the humor he brought elevated him as a character and also felt like someone who was actually your friend and someone that you were legitimately traveling with, rather than someone who would just speed ahead of you or get left behind or whatever. He was definitely an improvement over his predecessors (I'm thinking Cheren/Trevor/Tierno). Gladion was just great all around. Love the bit when you walk into his hotel room he just says "Get out.". Super funny. Also decent-ish development, in that his Null only evolves after he realizes how horrible he's been as a person. Team Skull is probably my favorite team yet - they brought so much comic relief to this game, and there was never a dull moment when they showed up. Po Town was such an interesting concept for an area and I really enjoyed it as a mock-gym. Guzma and Lusamine were both great villains in their own right - Guzma by just being a general dick for no good reason, and Lusamine for how deeply involved she was with everything and how there's a lot of backstory going on, and I thought the motivation was a bit more interesting than any other villain thus far.
The story itself was so unique and different for Pokemon and I thought it took a lot of risks and they all paid off. It was integrated really well into the trial-aspect of the game and everything felt so tight and neat. I never felt like either one was a side thought (I didn't even feel that the E4 was a side-thought, it got brought up enough that it was always constantly in the back of my mind). Before, it always felt like the story and the quest for badges were really separate and never crossed over at all (except for Giovanni being the last gym leader in Kanto). It never felt like I needed to be doing both of them, it felt like the story was just also conveniently happening at the same time. This time, it felt a lot more organic and a lot more like I needed to be doing these trials in order to finish the story. I think that's partially due to how well the guardian deities are woven into the lore of the islands, and how they choose the kahunas and how they're the protectors when threats arrive and you end up learning a lot about all of that as you progress deeper and deeper into the game - which brings me back to my point about how tight and neat this game feels. There are all these moving parts going on - the trials, Hau, Lillie, Team Skull, Lusamine and Aether, Gladion, Ultra Beasts, kahunas, deities - and they all feel necessary. The deities could've just as easily been something like the Regis in Hoenn, where they're just these weird things you can kind of stumble upon but have no consequence to anything, or like how the Pixies in Sinnoh didn't do all that much (as far as I remember, anyway), but they were actually written into the story as being these important things that actually serve a purpose (even though you only get to know Tapu Koko, you're still basically aware of the other ones).
I've seen some vague things about the post-game, and I'm really excited for it. I don't think it'll be enough to boost the games higher than they already are for me, just because that first island was so brutal, but I doubt it's going to hurt it at all.
On 11/26/2016 at 8:09 AM, Dr. WhoBob said:Are you gonna watch Invasion crossover with 4 DC shows next week?
...Maybe? I only keep up with The Flash at this point, but if I hear good things I'll watch all of it.
On 11/26/2016 at 2:02 PM, Fred Rechid said:You can run but you can't hide, bitch!
Ah!
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On 11/23/2016 at 10:03 PM, Aya♥ said:Spoiler
Jess never had a chance anyway, though. She's been on borrowed time since before the swap (it would've been episode 4, right? I don't totally remember, I think it was either 4 or 5 where she would've been eliminated). David made, probably, one of the best moves of the season and there was no way she'd be able to justify her case at FTC if she had made it there. She could've been the strategic mastermind for the entire rest of the game, it'd still all boil down to "well, yeah, but you wouldn't be here if it wasn't for David". She also mentioned in her exit interview how no one respected anyone that flipped (citing that Zeke was targeted for flipping on Chris, and Zeke targeted Hannah for flipping on him) and if she flipped to Zeke's side then she would've bought herself, like, two more tribals and she would've burned her bridges with Ken, David, and Adam (combined with the vote she already wasn't getting from Chris [and also Hannah, in this scenario], that'd be 5 of 10 votes she'd be guaranteed not to get, meaning at best she'd end up in a tie). I'm guessing if she flips then what happens is Zeke works with his initial alliance of Bret/Sunday/Jay/Will, brings in Jess, and splits the votes to take out David. Zeke dumps Jess, runs the table, and heads into the FTC with Bret and Sunday - resulting in a (unanimous, or close to it) Zeke win. Without Jess giving Zeke that additional number, he still has to navigate a tribal or two before he's totally in the clear and in a solid majority.
But, I mean, this is all conjecture. Who knows what could've happened.
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Finishing up on Poni Island. Still having a bit of team trouble, so I've just resorted to rotating out when I need to.
Raichu: Lv. 48
Bewear: Lv. 44
Salazzle: Lv. 41
Palossand: Lv. 42
Araquanid: Lv. 40
Ninetales: Lv. 37And I've got Golisopod, Tsareena, Dugtrio, Exeggutor, Golem, Ribombee, and Crabrawler (I think a snowy area is coming up, so hopefully I'll have Crabominable soon) on rotation. Gonna do a bit on grinding before I progress so I can get Mudsdale and Toucannon, and I still wanna go find Komala, Mimikyu, and Mareanie before moving on in the story. Really really love the Pokemon this generation a lot. That tutorial was brutal but after that ended this game got amazing.
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Just got to Ula'ula as well.
Raichu: Lv. 33
Araquanid: Lv. 32
Crabrawler: Lv. 30
Salazzle: Lv. 35
Sandygast: Lv. 32Gotta do a bit of training, I think. Also gotta figure out a sixth member, but I have zero clue what I should be using. Guess I'll wait and see what pops up.
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On 11/20/2016 at 5:48 PM, CyanideFishbone said:
Holy shit is Bewear a tank.
Is it really? I kinda wanted to use him as a Crabrawler replacement but Stufful feels impossible to train, and I'm having enough trouble as is trying to train Salandit.
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Just finished up Kiawe's trial. Almost blacked out against Totem Salazzle, but Dewpider came in super clutch and took care of it.
Pikachu: Lv. 24
Trumbeak: Lv. 20
Cutiefly: Lv. 18
Crabrawler: Lv. 21
Dewpider: Lv. 16
Salandit: Lv. 17Pikachu, Salandit, and Dewpider are staying on. Everyone else is subject to rotation. For the most part they've all been helpful thus far, but I dunno. Cutiefly isn't really cutting it, Crabrawler doesn't evolve until late-game, and Trumbeak is just kinda... there.
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13 hours ago, Clappy said:
It took me five hours to get past the first island since I kept stopping to use the internet just to figure out where the hell the Pokémon I want are. It's frustrating, yet I am having a good time. I just wish there was a way to skip all the endless cut scenes and tedious dialogue because as termi said, I'm already getting sick of Lillie in particular since I keep having to drop everything I'm doing to do her side quests. That being said, I FINALLY caught one of the Pokémon I wanted in Rockruff to go along with my Dartrix. Yes, I was holding out the entire first island with pretty much my starter Pokemon in my party getting all the focus with a few side pieces just because a few someones needed to fill the gaps in case I got screwed over. I am having fun though so that's something because if this were any other game series, I would be fed up with it by now but the game really should be getting started now that I'm on the second island. Just please...I beg you Game Freak...provide me more of my potential team sooner rather than later.
I was really kinda ticked at how relatively long it took before you could get Rockruff, especially because if you took all the cutscenes and tutorials and sidequests out of it, it'd only take, like, at most 45 minutes of gameplay to reach Ten Carat Hill. But instead they padded it with all this junk and it took a number of hours instead.
Also, same boat with checking to see where the Pokemon are. I never have any clue where the Alolan Pokemon are because I just keep running into Gen 1-6 Pokemon. Fomantis and Dewpider in particular were both hard to find because I'd just never run into them and I'd have to keep checking Serebii and going "wait - no, this can't be right, they HAVE to be somewhere else". Found both of them eventually, but yeesh that was rough.
Just cleared the first trial on the second island and it's already much more enjoyable than the first island. Much less being sidetracked and much more just playing the game. SOS Battles are the one nitpick I have, just because it's super annoying when my Pokemon goes last and gets hit with, like, two attacks or two Smokescreens or two whatever in a row, but they're pretty helpful for finding Pokemon. Getting a female Salandit was super painless with that.
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2 hours ago, CyanideFishbone said:
This has been fantastic so far, holy shit.
Really? It felt like the entirety of the first island was a massive tutorial that took, like, at least two hours. There were so many cutscenes and dialogue and I couldn't believe how slowly everything was progressing. Not to mention how often Kukui, Lillie, and Hua keep popping up. Like, holy crap, I started to hate all of them before I even got to Route 2, and by the time I was done with the first island I didn't want to ever see any of them again. The battles are fun and the trials are neat and the captains/kahunas are cool, but, jeez, it always feels like there's so much dragging me out of the game. Not to mention the infuriatingly low-encounter rates for the Alola Pokemon. Cutiefly took me like 10 minutes to find because of all the Spearows and Growlithes. I get that they didn't make a lot of them so they have to pad the game with a bunch of other Pokemon, but they could've at least made the encounter rates a smidge higher than the older gen Pokemon. I don't wanna sift through 15 Roggenrollas and 10 Carbinks to get 1 Rockruff, I just want to get a Rockruff.
That said, the new Pokemon are all great, the environments are great, Team Skull is hilarious and amazing, and I really hope the storyline and the gameplay itself gets a lot better because I want to like these games so much but all this dialogue is such a drag.
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Gonna get Sun or Moon or neither or both?
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On 11/13/2016 at 6:02 PM, Katniss said:
How do you feel about Greg leaving the show?
Not as upset as the majority of fans (or at least the majority of the Crazy Ex-Girlfriend subreddit). The creator said it was the plan from the get-go and she wanted to stick with it, and it sounds like Santino had signed on under the assumption that that was going to happen. A lot of people (or, again, just the subreddit), are up in arms about the whole thing, saying how, like, they all should've accounted for the chemistry between Greg and Rebecca, and how popular Greg ended up being, but... if you've ever plotted out any kind of story, you want to stick with your idea. You can't just abandon your vision halfway through like that and just start making shit up as you go. If the idea from the start was for this show to be about Rebecca's growth and her effect on the people around her and not a love-triangle, then good on the writers for sticking to that by taking the not-so easy route by having Greg leave. Sure, it's gonna be a compromise, and maybe it'll end up being a mistake that Greg left and maybe the rest of the show will inadvertently suffer for because of it, but when you're doing anything creative like this you have to listen to your gut and not the fans. I think it sucks that he left because they gave Greg all the good lines and all the best songs and they really made us root for him, but it was necessary because they both needed to move on and if Greg was always there he would've never grown as a person and he would've been defined by the relationship and he would've been stuck in a never ending vicious circle of self-loathing and contempt.
On 11/15/2016 at 2:38 AM, King Sombra said:You still like Harry Partridge?
Man, I forgot how good he is. Too crazy.
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4 hours ago, Dr. WhoBob said:
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has been very heartbreaking and very fun at the same time this season, just wow?
The songs have been great, too. Greg's Drinking Song, Ping Pong Girl, It Was a Shit Show, and We Tapped that Ass are all so amazing.
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15 hours ago, Katniss said:
I'm all caught up with The Good Place now and it's still so good! Can't wait for it to come back in January?
Damn, is it already on break? Bummer. But yeah, I'm really enjoying how story-heavy it is. I was afraid there wouldn't be any depth to it and I'm really glad I was wrong.
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1 minute ago, Renegade the Unicorn said:
@terminoob, do you take requests? I'm looking to get some art done for my lit.
I can't guarantee I'll be able to find time to do anything, but if it's not a super large request I might be able to do something. PM me with what you're thinking and we can figure something out.
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Cover sketch for a comic I'm whipping up. It'll be a good'un.
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Been playing Pokemon since Yellow came out and for the first time I'm foregoing using a starter, so this is gonna be a bit strange. I'm disappointed in the designs across the board, so once I snag myself a Pichu/Pikachu (whichever it is that pops up) I'm boxing whatever it is I chose. I knew from the get-go I wanted A-Raichu, but everything else was super difficult because I love so many Pokemon this gen. This team is just me spit-balling ideas to myself because I have no idea what to do, so for all I know my final team is gonna look super different from this. All I know is I want one Alolan form (being Raichu), and the rest are gonna be straight Gen 7s. Komala and Passimian are probably locked in as well - other three slots are up for grabs. Might switch Araquanid for Golisopod, might swap Palossand for Dhelmise, might swap Salazzle for Toxapex (especially because Salandit only evolves if it's a female and the gender ratio is skewed towards male so I might get impatient). Might try to fit in Lycanroc or Ribombee or Crabominable. Who knows. This gen is gonna be so good.
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On 11/8/2016 at 9:51 AM, Clappy said:
This honestly reminds me a lot of what happened to The Mighty B when Nickelodeon decided to end it abruptly too. It always sucks to see a show that you pour all of your heart and soul into get screwed over so royally.
I feel awful about CH's experience with Nickelodeon and he has every right to be pissed off, but at the same time, he is risking career suicide by being as vocal as he is right now. As Nugs previously stated, he's already burned bridges with Cartoon Network and is doing the same right now refusing to work with Nickelodeon ever again. Who's to say that any other network will be willing to give CH another chance knowing how he reacts to if you do him wrong? Eventually you will run out of chances as studios see how you unprofessionally talk about your previous employers.
As talented as he is, it's hard to see CH getting another chance on a major animated studio.
I think being vocal about how Nickelodeon treats animated properties is something that needs to happen more often, though. He's risking a lot by doing this, and yeah, maybe Disney or Adult Swim or Fox or Netflix or whoever is gonna see this and think "well, okay, if we screw this guy over he's gonna put us on blast" and not give him a job (alternatively, they can also go "hey, we're not gonna dick you over, so come work for us"), but I think the important thing happening is that he's giving a first-hand account to up-and-coming creators (or even creators that are currently working and looking for a network to pitch to, or hell, maybe no one he's talking to are creators and they're just consumers - telling consumers to not buy into this brand can still help). It's always been super obvious that entertainment is, unfortunately, a huge business being run by smarmy people in equally smarmy suits with no creative bone in their body, but if they're not letting a passion project flourish then it's important to get creators to come out and say "these people don't understand what they're doing, they're not running the company successfully, they're killing creativity and passion and anything new because they think that just because they're established they're allowed to be impatient, and they're terrible to work under because they force you to do X, Y, and Z and they'll jerk you and your show around by doing A, B, and C".
Creators and creative people have to stick together and stand up for their creations and what they believe in, and I know if I was hired under false pretenses and then had my creation diminished and swept under the rug because my bosses were impatient or just didn't understand why whatever I was doing wasn't "clicking" with an audience after, like, seven 11-minute episodes spread out over the course of a year, then I'd do the exact same thing as a warning for other creators to not trust that network. It may be career suicide, but if publicly calling out a network is going to deter someone else from going to them and falling into the exact same trap, then that's already going to help in the long run, because then that potential creator will go somewhere else that'll actually treat their project with respect and give them a fair shot.-
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Gotta be UPA. Gerald McBoing Boing and Rooty-Toot-Toot are amazing shorts with such a classic style, and Rocky and Bullwinkle is one of my all-time favorite cartoons (regardless of how well it's actually animated).
Others with more modern relevancy would be Laika, Aardman, Titmouse, and Bones.
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Still beyond excited for this.
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I'd say it got better but I don't know if that's just because there isn't anything else that good on right now so comparatively it's really good or if it's actually pretty decent - but either way I'm really enjoying it?
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8 hours ago, Katniss said:
I watched the two part series premiere and the second episode of The Good Place. Loving this show so far and can't wait to see the world fleshed out more?
So good, right? It only gets crazier from there.
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5 hours ago, Katniss said:
Stranger Things really knocked it out of the park with kid actors?
Yeah, yeesh, going from that to whoever the hell was in Miss Peregrine was... eugh. Asa Butterfield was the worst of them, too, and he's, like, vaguely established as an actor. It was really weird seeing these amazing no-name kid actors on a random Netflix show and then seeing Butterfield and a bunch of other no name kid actors in this Tim Burton movie. Not even just Stranger Things - Jacob Tremblay was phenomenal in Room last year, and Quvenzhane Wallis got a huge amount of buzz with Beasts of the Southern Wild a couple years ago. Amazing child actors clearly exist, but for some reason Asa Butterfield is still getting work.
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La La Land was absolutely incredible and I wanted to go see it again immediately after leaving the theater?