(request) DELETE SMOGON NOW [decision pending]

BlaziiBoi's Like quest has come to an abrupt end, a man denied his 10 Likes.

https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12193/pokemon-and-fakemon-neglect#latest
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However, we do get to see the final part of a Tale of Two Mangosteens.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...-king-a-tale-of-two-mangosteens-part-4#latest
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12207/the-start-of-a-new-arc#latest
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Of course there is a sequel hook with the next generation.

Meanwhile, BlaziiBoi has created his own version of our regis thread and if you know the regis thread you know what will immediately be brought up.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...an-art-at-home-if-the-regis-were-human#latest
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Lygars and clasingla have made peace with the ho(enn) incident:
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12089/when-will-we-get-hoenn-profile-pics/p2
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12197/please-change-ranked-matchmaking#latest
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...s-where-you-can-t-do-anything-mid-game#latest
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12053/new-app-idea#latest
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The movement to #bringbackashkentcum continues with the help of AI and Spanish translations confirming that Ash is returning:
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12167/peaceful-movement-to-bring-back-ash/p1
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Lastly, a strange Smogon-Pokemon Forums coincidence or connection I noticed. QuentinQuonce posted on Smogon on Wednesday July 17 about these fake leaked Sinnoh starters:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/little-things-you-like-about-pokémon.3546505/post-10192026
QuentinQuonce said:
Prior to the release of DP one of the more notorious fake designs floating around the Internet was this image of three new starters: a Psychic-type rhino, a Fighting-type infant kangaroo, and a Dark-type cat.
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Then YagoFuecoco brings these up on July 19:
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...nge-in-the-starter-pokemon-be-possible#latest

Just kind of odd to independently bring up for something that's been irrelevant for years, unless YagoFuecoco lurks Orange Islands or both of these got posted on social media around the same time.
 
with all the forum kids in the official pokemon forum being stu- I mean with the mods purging everything in the official forum, surely there is some forum kids that will come to Smogon. If they do they will ruin it with their cringe Miiverse-like posts. If it does eventually happen, we must make a new Smogon, with a new name, so then we won't have to deal with idiots on pokemon official forums. Who agrees with me?
 
TheShield said:
with all the forum kids in the official pokemon forum being stu- I mean with the mods purging everything in the official forum, surely there is some forum kids that will come to Smogon. If they do they will ruin it with their cringe Miiverse-like posts. If it does eventually happen, we must make a new Smogon, with a new name, so then we won't have to deal with idiots on pokemon official forums. Who agrees with me?
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we could just make a sub forum for them-
 
TheShield said:
with all the forum kids in the official pokemon forum being stu- I mean with the mods purging everything in the official forum, surely there is some forum kids that will come to Smogon. If they do they will ruin it with their cringe Miiverse-like posts. If it does eventually happen, we must make a new Smogon, with a new name, so then we won't have to deal with idiots on pokemon official forums. Who agrees with me?
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I don't think the mods are really purging that much of anything really with what's still left up, so I wouldn't worry about it too much.

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It's been a while. I saved this reply to A Tale of Two Mangosteens a while ago just for context with the post count, but it fits with the theme. Lately BlaziiBoi has gone mad with power with all the new thread series he's been making and there has been nothing else to comment on.

https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12213/sweet-and-sinister-more-than-frienemies#latest
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12250/if-the-regis-were-human-regice#latest
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12259/if-the-regis-were-human-regigigas#latest
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...pokemon-were-human-ultra-beast-edition#latest
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...easts-were-human-the-gigachad-mosquito#latest
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...sv-id-why-terapagos-is-a-total-failure#latest
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12282/pokemon-voting-for-edge-lords#latest
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12286/cosmoem-he-she-could-do-more-than-this#latest
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Unite players are still not happy with the game.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12293/mewtwo-unite-makes-me-sad#latest
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12328/battle-pass-feels-like-a-scam#latest
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I think the & sign broke in the forum name breadcrumbs.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...-the-card-game-and-where-can-i-play-it#latest
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12301/i-m-back#latest
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I think most people should really try going without a month online sometimes. I respect it.
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There is a new mystery error going on regarding posting that people have noticed. It seems to prevent posts from going through at first.

CommentModel::getDiscussionThreadOffset(): Argument #1 ($commentRowOrCommentID) must be of type object[array int, string given, called in /applications/vanilla/controllers/class.postcontroller.php on line 952
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...for-a-potential-mega-of-raichu-in-legends-z-a
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It doesn't seem to appear consistently, but may be related to certain threads like this poll that did not load. I have noticed that sometimes these comments can show up later though, but this hasn't happened consistently with every post in my experience, so perhaps moderators need to manually approve these posts. Unlike approved posts though, these errored posts are not timestamped with their approval time and are inserted when they were originally attempted to be submitted. I don't really have any other examples to illustrate this but most of the discussion is in these threads.

https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/11586/annoying-censorship/p3
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12366/why-cant-i-post-comments

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I googled this error and recent posts from other Vanilla forums came up without much insight.
https://forums.playcontestofchampio...en-trying-to-respond-i-get-this-is-this-a-bug
https://forum.fizz.ca/en/discussion/2653081/cannot-access-mms-with-data-only-sim
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In other news, UnovanZorua has reached 1000 points to become the first 5 star rank poster. It doesn't seem to add much apparently.
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12468/access-pokemon-com#latest
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/profile/Oafifz
I captured this discussion from the other day and it was fortunate that I did in time. Whether it truly is the same "hacker"/bot that clasingla fears is a mystery, but the thread was deleted and the user banned.

As a quick update to the BlaziiBoi series, there have been some more interesting meta developments. Instead of asking for likes, he is now asking for answers, and/or just to read his posts. Personally I'm surprised he's managed to still be at 1 star, but I guess he just invites flags with his attitude.

https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...ums-what-i-hate-most-about-how-no-one-answers
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After figuring out what it means to be a poster and uncovering the harsh truths of engagement, BlaziiBoi may or may not have learned to value external validation less, and began a new series soon after:

https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12456/if-the-eeveelutions-were-human-vaporeon#latest
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12460/this-was-an-accident#latest
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...elutions-were-human-kanto-eeveelutions#latest
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...lutions-were-human-sinnoh-eeveelutions#latest
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12495/if-pokemon-were-human-ub-battle-themes#latest
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More undocumented mechanics updates: I believe the mystery error is just a newly returned version of post approval, and the error message has been updated accordingly. I noticed that I couldn't post the word "weed" both before and after the error was updated when trying to talk about Weedle and Oddish. So I guess approved posts just work differently now timestamp wise.
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UnovanZorua also noted yesterday that posting showed the error but editing showed an approval message in their congratulations thread (detailed below).
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In other minor changes I notice while using the forums, notifications have also been updated to count each notification row and not the total comments. Previously this would have counted as 3 notifications counting both 2 new comments as individual notifications (as they do on the dedicated notification page), but now it only shows up as 2 in the icon which is more like Smogon. It doesn't really matter in terms of notification clearing, but it reflects the number of active threads better I guess.
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I achieved 100 LOLs the other day, joining an exclusive club of 10 users. In terms of pure pointsmanship, it is not particularly worth it to accrue LOL reacts because they do not affect reaction score, but at least the badge gives 10 points, and out of the 3 positive reactions it is the rarest by badge count after likes and agrees, which all put together comprise a roster of the typical forum regulars. It says something about how we see ourselves in others that it is easier to simply agree based on a shared opinion, than to like and laugh on its own merit.

https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/badge/lol-100
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12532/pokemon-forums-weekly-schedule#latest
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Fortunately BlaziiBoi has retired for the fall, though the ghosts of his past still haunt him.

https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12003/game-freak-better-not-cancel-me-for-this
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Meanwhile, the Pokemon Forums attempt to comprehend a paradoxical threat, voted on by the public as a test of altruism.
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12528/should-i-rip-one-of-my-favorite-pokemon-card/p1

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On the other side of the spectrum, UnovanZorua's 5-star ranking has been universally acclaimed with a great following.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12561/is-delphox-the-best-pokemon/p1
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Their achievement actually got its own thread which I missed, which can be summed up in one video. Even Mod_Skrilla acknowledged it.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12479/congratulations/p1
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A ChatGPT bot has struck again to advertise "pokemon dessin", and they even voted on this poll.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12562/is-shaymin-land-forme-or-sky-forme-better
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...-untransferable-to-pokemon-scarlet-and-violet
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Somehow Galam15 returned, still unyielding in his quest to find out the true colour of Greavard's candle, but we have now learned that he does not like the color yellow. Honestly I feel like none of this was worth it, but I did notice that he kept trying to post something multiple times and I saw them all as notifications but weren't approved yet.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/11376/greavard-s-flame-candle/p5
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Also he went to the wall before his post got approved. I found out you get notifications for people replying to comments on your wall but not people posting on your wall.
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Very subtle update, but the three dots icon on posts only shows up on posts you can take action on now, so only your own posts that are within the week range for editing. This makes it slightly more obvious that it actually matters and the Edit button exists, compared to before when there was no reason to check the icon that just displayed an empty menu on every post before and most people didn't even know it was back.

The bots are getting more blatant.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...arlet-and-violet-will-get-another-mythical/p2
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/11684/why-are-redeeming-codes-important#latest
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The polls are getting less coherent.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12624/britt-daniels#latest
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But humans still reign when it comes to discussing the subtle goals of an evil organization.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12584/the-team-flare-agenda#latest
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This is an especially meta post about forum opinions. Personally I wouldn't agree it's free of negativity at all with how the TCG Live and Unite forums are, but I guess if your standard is other social media then I guess it's not that bad to actually talk to people about topics. I would say there's a lot of nostalgia responsible here but most people on the forums have barely been on for a year.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12613/opinions-on-the-forums
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I thought this would be a prime thread for MajorBrendan but it went in a different direction.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12546/ive-seen-people-trying-to-get-hired-here#latest
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I was not expecting FallenFurfrou to cast the first stone at MajorBrendan while admitting his own sin, but it had to be said.

Meanwhile, greater visions of the future of gaming are being actualized on the forums as we speak.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12598/the-ultimate-pokemon-game#latest
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...ed-and-with-pokemon-legends-z-a-or-not#latest
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Here's a potpourri of observations from the past week.

I have isolated more words that get caught for approval. This includes "chinese" talking about Pokemon Unite's new mode, "ugly" talking about Quilladin, and just the word "fat" talking about Snorlax. I also thought one of my posts was caught for saying the new Unite patch name was "lazy" but I could edit it in fine so I'm not 100% sure about that one. Lately TPCi_GarbageKing hasn't even been making discussion threads for the patches like before so I've had to do it myself.

For context, Pokemon Unite's last major patch was titled "Shadow Flame" because it mainly buffed Fire types and some Fire/Ghosts like Chandelure and Ceruledge. Before that you had Scorching Waves, which buffed Blaziken and Slowbro.
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The next patch would go on to buff Inteleon, Greninja, and Glaceon. For some reason this would be called "Shadow Flame Part 2" (in the original Japanese as well) which makes little sense to me.
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Speaking of which, here's what it looks like when you post a discussion that gets sent to approval.
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You can also change a discussion to become a question when editing it from the topics menu, as well as its title.
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...se-md-i-just-found-out-about-this-show#latest
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The eating pokemon thread has reached over 500 posts, with 245 since I last bothered checking. Apparently they delved into cannibalism which got controversial, and also it still gets comments from people talking about the actual starters which is interesting out of context.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/10725/what-starter-would-you-eliminate#latest
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Personally I will not be the one to archive this whole thread but it seems to be a noteworthy cornerstone of the Pokemon Forums legacy.

https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...one-fren-me-darckniss-on-pokemon-unite#latest
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12664/how-do-you-post-a-picture#latest
This thread was interesting because they have a v-cdn image which is what the avatars and old image uploads were hosted on, which means they somehow uploaded something to the forums directly, which I couldn't reproduce and got either an extension or permission error. Maybe it's a mobile thing.
https://us.v-cdn.net/6034460/uploads/B5BE8GE7LZYI/download.png
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The discussion of the geography of the ultimate pokemon game has continued in an interesting direction.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12598/the-ultimate-pokemon-game/p2
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12698/eeveegoesrawr#latest
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12633/chinese-unite-is-real#latest
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There is more concern about the security/hacking guys, due to hackxadi and his alt appearing. Despite the name they haven't posted any links or gotten banned though.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12680/pokemon-is-best
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12685/bg-test#latest
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12721/lane-assignment#latest
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Yet again Unite players want to ban people for being bad at the game.

https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12713/how-heavy-weigh-metagross-will-be#latest
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...pokemon-for-me-coming-to-pokemon-unite#latest
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...on-coming-to-unite-are-you-excited-about-most
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Psyduck is probably the most hype announcement of Worlds.

https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12709/update-tcg-pokemon-21-08-2024#latest
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...ad-to-share-this-abomination-of-a-game#latest
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12666/evolve-quest-realm-collectors#latest
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I looked at the 3 Apple Store reviews on the front page of the game and I'm still not sure what it's about.
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/profile/46259/qwilfish_love
This Qwilfish account made some interesting posts I want to highlight.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12384/qwilfish-appreciation-thread#latest
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...f-your-scarlet-and-violet-screenshots-here/p1
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I posted my Marill photos here (can be found in the ingame photography thread) and they were well received with a whole 5 likes.
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Finally, another look to the future of Pokemon. For the most part people don't seem to expect much more than Gen 10, some more than others.
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Update on banned words: I think one of my comments got queued for saying "90s" and another for calling Snorlax a "god" of the Gen 2 competitive metagame while trying to avoid the word fat, though the latter was eventually approved anyway.

Supposedly "Evolve Quest: Realm Collectors" has been taken down thanks to NoahLaprasForum's efforts.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12666/evolve-quest-realm-collectors#latest
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doipy hooves said:
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12698/eeveegoesrawr#latest
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I also have an update about the Eeveegoesrawr thread, aka "such a little $$$$$ player". This thread was actually deleted, but I managed to screenshot most of the latest replies confirming what the word behind the $$$$$ was (think female dog), and also saved the text of the last reply I saw from Ampersundae last night before it was deleted. Interestingly enough one of the replies actually took the dollar signs literally.
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Ampersundae said:
I took a break from this place, but it's as immature and unmoderated as ever. Good luck you guys.
Oh look, an edit button now? Getting better. Now to address that this kid is implying he used the b-word.
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Ampersundae's return is better documented in this old thread that got bumped for some reason.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/6878/implement-a-report-system-for-players#latest
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TheJeffers decided to ask the TCG Live forum about why they are so toxic relative to the rest of the forum which I myself pointed out in the forum opinions thread recently, and the people he was pointing out as being aggressive somehow missed that they were the people he was identifying.
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12761/aggressive-attitudes-among-tcg-players
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"idiotdevs" responded to my Unite patch note discussion thread.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...t-2-version-1-15-1-7-discussion-thread#latest
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12786/the-original-6#latest
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This was posted in "Pokemon Mobile Games & Apps" and could really apply to any game with the Kanto starters.

While you can't directly say the word "fat", this new user has been posting some disturbing fantasies about Snorlax and Goodra that even clasingla disapproved of.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...-little-pokemon-and-the-sleeping-giant#latest
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12814/about-pokemon-3d-adventure-find-mew#latest
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They also seem to have some things in common with YagoFuecoco.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12784/my-pokefamily-from-the-3ds-titles#latest
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The eating Pokemon thread OP returned to celebrate it being the longest thread on the forums, making a new thread with the title of what the old topic about eliminating starters became.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...emon-and-what-would-the-food-be-called#latest
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What if Pokemon Sleep was for ADHD? I think the micromanagement would probably exasperate the issue.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12791/focus-modible-game-like-pokemon-sleep
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...-fun-what-pokemon-do-you-hate-the-most#latest
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The Johto Times made an account asking experiences with the early Pokemon era, which is where my post talking about 90s kids (or lack thereof on the forums) got sent to approval.

https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...early-history-of-the-pokemon-franchise#latest
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The Lance AMA just keeps on giving. I think he has left at this point but new people keep bumping it.
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/3187/anyone-else-feel-hard-done-by-unfair-rng/p2
More TCG live players feeling like victims of Big TCG rigging the games against anyone who criticizes them or wins too much. This is actually a very common sentiment but this was a fun set of posts back to back.
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...instead-of-an-actual-shuffle-algorithm#latest
This random old topic also got bumped which also pretty much sums up the conspiracy.
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Meanwhile in Unite, people are still not happy about the game even though they spend money on it.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12770/rayquaza-is-too-overpowered
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Somehow this guy has 0 posts. Maybe this is a side effect of the approval queue too.
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The forums don't really talk much about Masters EX but UnovanZorua made a thread about a datamine which is apparently good news, though that might be relative to after apparently the worst news ever dropped.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...he-masters-ex-5th-anniversary-datamine#latest
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BlaziiBoi is back with a game theory about what Legends Z-A truly stands for.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12768/legends-z-a-a-isnt-a-but-alpha/p1
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12787/something-i-realized#latest
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I think clasingla is talking about the full recent discussions page here, because the individual Pokemon Video Games forums go up to page 207 (though it is blank).
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Finally, more hot takes from the Scarlet/Violet forum about things people do not like.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...hate-some-pokemon-for-absolutely-no-reason/p1
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genuine question, why do you do this

ive never seen a greater non-4chan effort to own like 12 year olds or probably some really immature older people that are using a website moderated on hopes (probably interns) and dreams (autofilter)
 
ant4456 said:
genuine question, why do you do this

ive never seen a greater non-4chan effort to own like 12 year olds or probably some really immature older people that are using a website moderated on hopes (probably interns) and dreams (autofilter)
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I think it's an important part of official Pokemon history that they still seems to be pushing as a thing, and it would be a shame if it was all deleted one day with no records other than that day in 2023 when people still think it closed afterwards. It has a particular miiverse/yahoo answers energy to it.
 
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I think it's an important part of official Pokemon history that they still seems to be pushing as a thing, and it would be a shame if it was all deleted one day with no records other than that day in 2023 when people still think it closed afterwards. It has a particular miiverse/yahoo answers energy to it.
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i see what you mean
 
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...r-flags-incorrectly-if-so-how-did-you-feel/p1
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Is it innately incorrect for someone to disagree react to you? The official Pokemon Community Forums weigh in on this increasingly relevant topic.
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More weird meta/security posting, this time editing the text in quotes.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...n-for-exploring-the-discussion-feature#latest
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/13039/x#latest
This discussion url is just named x which I guess is different.
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12957/waht-deos-hydrapple-tatse-lik#latest
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12978/shuffle-system-is-rigged#latest
TCG live players are still very mad about their game.
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The TCG live mods even added a whole issue tracker thread and the first response was just asking how long it would take to fix them. You just can't win.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/13009/pokemon-tcgl-community-tracked-issues-9-6-24
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...t-would-take-to-fix-the-issues-tracked-so-far
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12996/why-is-this-game-so-bad#latest
Meanwhile the Unite fans are more resigned about the game forever being bad.
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I preface this by saying that this is an open letter to the developers, the powers that be, the people with any control or input in the creation and maintenance of this game. I have played it continuously since its launch 3 years ago. I am a diehard fan of the franchise because I grew up with it. For better or for worse, this franchise has been part of my life since childhood.

Over the years of this game’s existence, I’ve made it to Master rank every season, and I’ve done it by solo queuing 99% of the time (the last 1% is when I was duo or trio queuing during the first two or three seasons). When I played intently, as opposed to casually, I was ranked in the top 5000, if not 500, accomplished via solo queue. I have played almost 10,000 games. I hope this demonstrates that I know what I’m talking about when it comes to the metagame.

Issue 1: Poor balancing. When a new playable species is released, it’s always overpowered. See: any EX Pokemon, Ceruledge, etc. When a “balance” patch is implemented, it’s more often than not that dominant Pokemon are overly nerfed (Blastoise) whereas others are overly buffed (Gengar, Buzzwole). This makes the gameplay extremely frustrating and, worse, boring. If your team has a Gengar, you get to steamroll the opponents, or vice versa. This makes for a staid, predictable experience. It frustrates your teammates, who all too easily give up and surrender at the 5 minute mark, thereby tanking your win ratio and ranked match points. Why do I care so much about the ranked match points? I wouldn’t, if there weren’t any prize incentives, but there are, and you developers are actively penalizing those of us who play the game properly by allowing us to lose points so easily when our teammates surrender or maliciously and intentionally throw the match, which brings us to issue 2.

Issue 2: Poor matchmaking experience. I have played almost 10,000 games—why am I being matched with/against players with less than 2,000? There is a clear skill imbalance, a lack of strategic thinking, that can be easily ameliorated by preventing this sort of matching that would benefit both parties. Is this really so difficult to implement? This has been suggested by the community for years now—why has nothing still been done to address this?

Issue 3: Poor player education and moderation. The players aren’t taught by the game how to play—they’re just taught to pick whoever they want, regardless of team composition or other strategic inputs, and press A. This can be easily resolved by redoing matchmaking formulas. Players with low average KOs, high average deaths, low average damage per game, etc., all could be matched with each other and not with those of us who actually accomplish the game’s goals. Moreover, this game’s detection and moderation of poor player behavior is below subpar. If one of my teammates has exited the game (as evidenced by only 4 or less, not 5, surrender lights appearing on the surrender module), why do I not automatically preserve my ranked match points at a minimum? Auto surrender at 1 minute resultant of detection of player idling was a good implementation but it does not go far enough. Often, when I report idle players for idling, I never receive any confirmation later that they were deducted the customary 10 fair play points. Finally, there must be stricter detection and enforcement of malicious noncompliance during ranked match games (not standard). Too many times I have teammates who do not engage with the enemy team or objectives (Regis, Rayquaza) at all, to the detriment of the rest of the team. These players idle at base or spend the entire game circling around our team’s jungle or just flat out do not do anything, yet reporting them never yields any results. This gives the impression that the game developers still do not care about the player experience, and it has been a chief complaint since the beginning: so why has there still been no action taken to address this? Moreover, why should my ranked match points be deducted just because we were at an unfair team disadvantage the entire game where only four or less of us actually tried to engage the enemy team? This has created such a disgustingly frustrating player experience that festers all the more because you, the moderators, continue to take no action.


Why don’t I stop playing if I’m unhappy? Well, I do. I take breaks and don’t return to the game for days or weeks or months. I go about my normal life. Sometimes, I’ll get the urge to return, only to find the same issues abound: poor balancing, terrible matchmaking, and abysmal teammates. After 3 years, I’m so fed up that I looked up if there were official forums so that I could post this.

If this is so unbearable, why don’t I just team up with some reliable friends to queue in ranked matches? Because the matchmaking is still unbalanced—when I queue with one or two others, I’m too often paired against teams who are in lockstep coordination all the way, as if they were on voice or video chat together, whereas I am not doing that with my teammates, nor do I feel it should be a requirement to play this game competitively—but that is why I am a solo queue player, and solo queue players should not be matched with or against team players for proper balancing.


Why do I care? Why don’t I just drop the game and move on? I like this game. It’s cute, it’s a unique take on the franchise’s intellectual property, and the gameplay itself is fun. All of this is marred by poor matchmaking and other existing issues, and the game would be so much better if the developers devoted significant attention to improving. So many of my friends in real life who have played this game casually have dropped it due to the same frustrations I’m laying bare here. So, I write and post this to vent my frustrations and to beg for changes that I believe will not come, because the past three years of this game have shown me that the developers do not care to improve their game. They only care about monetization, and that is a somber truth that has shattered my appreciation of this franchise. But—hey—who cares? I’m just a nobody.
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But also the TCG live players still have to point out that their game is worse.


Unite players also have to do with Christmas music playing in a Halloween event which is something I have never heard of in any other game.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...ground-halloween-2021-uses-wrong-music#latest
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/13021/ho-oh-issue-using-fly-skill#latest
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/13019/legends-z-a-granted-eternity#latest
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It really says something that biggest Legends Z-A theorizer on the site does not even want to play XY.

https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/13040/genesis-ark-this-weekend#latest
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...urrent-former-official-trained-pokemon#latest
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What are your thoughts on the writers' thoughts?
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By the way, PokemiiAC has only been registered for a little over two weeks now and they already have 411 posts, mostly random bumps and responses like this. They also have only 1 star but actually got to rank 2 twice before, just lost points due to a thread that was not well received at all. The people of the Pokemon Forums are vindictive towards spam.
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/13033/mochi
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https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...y-idea-that-i-dont-know-if-i-will-write-about
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On a brighter note, more story writing has been going on the forums lately. clasingla is writing a pmd story and often asks for constructive criticism which is admirable. Writing is not easy and I get the idea of sharing your ideas to keep yourself accountable.
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Mod_Bee had to remove personal information from this post after a day and one callout post passed. All I will say is that I think it was too little and too late in the big picture, but at least there was an effort to do their job that I will maintain as well.

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Ironically the writing thread gets a chatgpt reply of praise.

https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/12882/baddy-bad-eevee-move/p1
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Apparently a link to Bulbapedia got censored and then removed as well.
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Also the Gen 1 bracket is almost over which may be the last bracket to come for a long time. The battles have been pretty close and right now Bulbasaur and Mew are tied in the semifinals.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/13051/gen-1-bracket-semifinals-1
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Also clasingla and DoubleCure have 5 stars now which didn't really see as much fanfare.
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