Jjs Goodman

I dunno, I'm just not feeling it, imho. It's not terrible, but it felt very bland, dull and uninspired. Every "story arc" (if you want to call them those) feel like worse rehashes from better seasons. Red Ranger has missing parent(s)? Wild Force and Dino Charge did it much better. Levi's imprisonment felt very similar to previous similar sixth ranger imprisonments in Wild Force and Dino Charge. Galvanax's hunt for the stars is literally the exact same as Sledge's Energem hunt. Even the ending of the season is exactly the same as the ending of Dino Charge's first season finale, with the destroyed ship cliffhanger and a "new" villain rising. It just feels like they're trying to copy Dino Charge without much of an identity of its own, and I don't feel they really added any unique flavors or much of a new spin to anything I mentioned above. I'll admit the game show aspect for the villains is something new, but they could've done a lil more with that. The only somewhat interesting things they did story wise were robo Aiden and Levi being the real brother, but even then I don't think they did as much as they could with those. 

Character wise, the rangers aren't really all that interesting. I'm having a hard time even really writing anything about them, they just feel so bland with the exception of Levi. Mick is okay though, probably the best mentor in a long time. The villains are also painfully boring. Galvanax was a terrible villain who put me to sleep the entire season. Odious should've just been the villain from the beginning, and even then I don't care for her as much as most fans. The acting is mixed, neither great nor terrible. Also Victor and Monty are terrible and useless characters.

The season was overall just really boring and dry. It feels like PR has entered an Al Jean era. Maybe the Super season will improve and surprise me (haven't watched it yet), but so far I'm not impressed. And with how the previous "Super" seasons have gone, I'm skeptical. More to power to you if you like it though.

Yeah. As someone who's writing a Power Rangers fanfic himself (albeit one that's darker and with more mature themes), I can say that Ninja Steel is...OK, but it just rehashes ideas. It feels more like they just wanna focus on the fights. It feels like season 1 of PR: MVF to me, man...and I'm just comparing it to my own work not to sound egotistical or anything, but because I've kinda been in that boat before.

Sure, I understand there needs to be "meat" so that episodes, while formulaic, can be interesting, but it just feels lazy rehashing stuff that's been there before.

Wow, they're still going with Power Rangers? I did not know that.

"take 'em home myself" gets me every time

"Yup, I just said that"

I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m a Christian, but you don’t need to be in the pew every Sunday to know that there’s something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can’t openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school. As president, I’ll end Obama’s war on religion and I’ll fight against liberal attacks on our religious heritage. Faith made America strong. It can make her strong again. I’m Rick Perry and I approve this message.

Let's Go: A Pokemon Story

Wait how do you have the game already? And that comparison is very telling.

@Clappy I don't have it early, I was just saying that based on everything I learned from the leaks I've been reading and I think that's a fair comparison to make after everything I now know lol (although given everything I know I may as well have played the games already)

like I'm still going to get eevee just to see how it is on my own and of course the games are gonna do well money wise regardless (fuckin duh) unlike Solo but much like that quality wise, ehhh...I'm just not feeling this, but if you want a more laid back and "back to basics" approach and don't care about a lot of features being removed then perhaps you'll surprisingly enjoy them

however, they're basically just FireRed and LeafGreen in HD (except no Sevii Islands oops) with a bit of Yellow/manga inspiration, Go mechanics, a few minor character/story changes and some admittedly nice quality of life improvements but even the things I like aren't really enough for me unfortunately, and I can't promise these are worth the $60 depending on your tastes

there's gen 8 next year so I'm not really mad over the games' existence like most of the internet, I'm just mostly baffled by some of the decisions made 

I know

Ikr gruncle stan is clearly batman.

CAN'T WAIT FOR S2

what a story, Mark.

WHERE'S THE FUCKING MONEY, DENNY?

WHY ARE YOU SO HYSTERICAL?

have you seen the movie?

yes

LISA ISNT REAL!

Lucky. D:

Totally unfair considering I live somewhere where snowdays are common.

In Minnesota, too much snow is just an excuse.

wow

Ye wanna feel really old? It's been 73 years since I gave birth to that no-good Eugene, yar har har har! 

I'm STILL not even FINISHED with my parody season of it!  Partially, it's due to the fact that I made it TWICE as long as the ACTUAL season, but it's partially due to the fact that unlike the "Total Drama" writers, I have to figure out ways of trying to make it SOMEWHAT original, all on my own!  At least it won't be too much longer before it's done. Enough said! 

yeezus christ

Careful what you wish for

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Me

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from who's the boss says

I'M KANYE WEST

WHAT THE FUCK I'M A CLAM

penis

who?

star-lord, man... legendary outlaw?

Part of the ship, part of the crew.

ROTFD is hated??? I love that game

Ignoring the loading glitch for the PS2 version, RotFD is a fairly decent game. With it, it's kinda leans towards being mediocre, IMO. The rest of the game functions very well, but I just feel like it really lacks a sort of punch that BfBB had.

I really like that game, though I gotta admit...it's become pretty dated now- especially when you compare it to BfBB.

Be careful jjs, giving even the slightest defense against dexit could get you billed as a corporate shill for Game Freak.

But seriously, this whole debacle is especially bad once you glimpse at the kind of behavior that a chunk of the Pokemon fanbase has been inhibiting where some would go as far as to harass/insult other people in the same clique they represent who defend GF, and accusing GF of being lazy, not caring about their fans,  etc. to boycott a game.

I've seen people rag on GF before, and this shouldn't be something new to be, but this is a much more special kind of hostility. These kind of people should know better than this and should really think about their actions while they have classified themselves as Pokemon fans...but given my experiences with other fandoms, some fans like these most of the time will think that what they are doing is better anyways.

Even I think the removal of a select variety of Pokemon from Sword and Shield was a disagreeable move on GF's part, but still...

Here's my juicy breakdown on my thoughts surrounding this whole controversy and why I'm sick of it:

At its core, I'm personally ultimately indifferent to the National Dex's removal and the unhealthy rage over it has made me even more apathetic. It does not affect me because as you know by now from my gameplay style, I only use the region's new mons on my team to see how the generation stands on its own. Plus, I don't have Bank nor do I plan to get Home anyways, and most of my good teams are stuck on roms (oops), so whatever. For those who did want to use their favorite mons, I get the disappointment. But as I'm going to say below, a lot of the backlash feels like it's going in circles because neither side is really helping anything one way or the other.

In some regards, the backlash was a longtime coming and brewing, because I've been seeing the fandom become much more critical of GameFreak ever since gen 7. Problem is, people aren't really going about it in any healthy ways in the slightest and it's just been making the whole fandom look awful. I do think many people have gotten way too angry and borderline lunatic over it. You don't have to make a long melodramatic reddit rant about how GameFreak ruined your childhood or whatever the hell. It's all just morphed into one boring, repetitive blob of "haha modern pokemon is bad!" circlejerk. Plus, they're just yelling at literal statues anyways because GameFreak never really looks at criticism from the west and they only care about what the Japan audience thinks when making these games (they literally made the region layouts more linear because too many japanese kids got lost in Sinnoh, showing who they care most about). If Japan doesn't give two shits about no National Dex, then GameFreak is gonna keep it gone. Sorry fam.

One of my biggest problems with the controversy is the godforsaken "#BringBacktheNationalDex" hashtag on twitter. Good lord, do I hate that hashtag so much. Why? Because...

News Flash: The National Dex has been gone for almost half a decade now! Yeah! Some may be shocked and confused by that, as the outrage would imply it was only just removed. Yes, the National Dex has not been in a game since ORAS. It was not in SM. It was not in USUM. It was not in LGPE. Another fun fact a lot of people also seem to overlook: The National Dex "replacement" was locked behind a paywall with Bank for gen 7, because you had to use Bank to see the updated dex descriptions for mons not in the Alola dex. The only reason people didn't complain as much as they are now is because all of the mons were still coded into the games and available throughout the generation or by using Bank. You may be asking yourself "so why are people complaining about it being "gone" now" which is a valid question in this instance. We literally went a whole generation with no National Dex and the alternative was locked behind a paywall, but we did not have this large scale protest before, so what the hell. It shows a lot of people don't really know what they are talking about, as usual. People are focusing too much on the National Dex itself when the issue is that lots of old mons can't be transferred this time. So when the Dexit crowd has that very misleading hashtag as their campaign, it doesn't help them and only blurs what the actual problem people are trying to convey is (missing mons) further to outsiders. 

However, my other biggest and more pressing problem with this backlash is GameFreak has done many things over the recent years that are arguably much worse than the National Dex removal but a lot of people mostly turned a blind eye to them. Literally all of the following I'd say are worse boneheaded decisions on GameFreak's part as of recent...

• Omitting the Battle Frontier and most of Emerald's additions in ORAS
• Their revolving door of many features that disappear from one generation to the next, never to return
• Giving us essentially unfinished games with XY and Sun and Moon (I don't personally hate them, but I'll throw them in here because a lot of their criticism is justified)
• Releasing DLC in 2017 as $60 games with Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon 
• Literally not having 6 generations of Pokemon available in Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee

...why is it that THIS was what finally broke the Camerupt's back to the fandom and none of anything above??? And to be fair, yes, a lot of the more hardcore players and longtime fans did complain about the BF and USUM but a lot of the more casual players and newcomers didn't care about those or would justify them. This is the first time in a long time though where it seems where everyone, no matter how ingrained in the fanbase they are, is angry. I don't even think Let's Go or the infamous "all new pokemon campaign" in Black and White (which I love btw) got as much vitriol as this decision. I wanted the fandom to start being more vocal about GameFreak's issues, but this backlash isn't what I really had in mind either. Maybe I'm just very cynical but a lot of the NatDex backlash feels like it's for purely selfish reasons. People lose their goddamns minds when they find out their favorite mons aren't going to be in the game, but when numerous other features get gutted over the years or GameFreak does another shitty practice, it's okay. I dunno, man. There's fair criticism from the people who just don't want more features removed, which I agree with and has been one of my biggest issues with GF as of late, or if you just feel locking mons off is incompetent programming on GF's end, fair enough. But if your biggest issue worth dying on a hill for is that your favorite fictional (!) video game creatures aren't going to be available, then you may need to reevaluate your life. 

I have my issues with SWSH too, and criticisms over stuff like the graphics is justified, even though I wasn't expecting BOTW level graphics and they told us not to. But this Dexit shit ain't it anymore. I hate to reuse this old cliche but as the old saying goes: If you think you're going to hate the game, then don't buy it and move on. Or, you know, play a game that will have your mons in them. Or just do literally anything else. It's that simple. People have just long prolonged this controversy and it's tiring.  

2019 yeah!

P.S. Also, no people, they aren't going to "patch the missing mons" into the game. I thought people would've learned their lesson about expecting that by now from GF.

P.S.S. also most of the people who say they are gonna boycott the franchise will probably just end up buying it anyways or pirating the games whenever the switch emulator works fully lmao

One Pokemon fan to another, THANK YOU.

Yeah it sucks it's being removed but the whole thing is just being completely overblown. This is by far not the biggest blunder of Game Freak's; I do think Dynamax is a cool idea but I'm tired of ideas being introduced and then scrapped/forgotten about almost immediately after (Megas/Z-Moves). I think a lot of the criticisms are valid but when it's blown to this degree, please just don't buy it. It's that simple, and it saves you all money and energy. It's just really frustrating how overblown this has gotten.

i don'r get it

neither do i

I am now learning scooter legit cameo'd in the new christmas special and y'all didn't tell me smh

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damn it

But is he as sexy as an alligator.

HUNT YOU DOWN EAT YOU ALIVE

I never had Platinum, but I had Diamond. I don't get why so many say that Sinnoh was meh. Roserade <3

Current team for those wondering:

Prinplup 

Luxray

Gallade

Crobat

Gabite

Unsure on a 6th team member atm. I've had some ideas, but I am open to any suggestions.

OPERATION 666

There may be a war on for my mind, but at least I still have a mind to fight over, unlike poor Alex.

Can you drop Yandhi

I'd unironically love to hear jjs rap

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but jjs we tell each other everything

uhhhh what

people are fucking mad over nessa?

why

what even going on the controversy ?