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  • Luigi
    hey did you ever play on PBS way back in the day, and if so, do you remember what the battle interface looked like? was it in the same vein as PS, PO, Shoddy and Netbattle with the 2 pokemon occupying a relatively small space and a big text log to the side?
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    Luigi
    Luigi
    oh i was familiar with porygon’s big show, but i somehow thought pbs stood for pokemon battle simulator and was a different thing, lol
    Luigi
    Luigi
    thanks though
    Hipmonlee
    Hipmonlee
    There were multple PBSes, it usually stood for Pokemon Battle Simulator, but Azure Heights personalised theirs a bit...
    Roy
    was thinking today how absolutely insane we've been around for more than 2 decades. remember fuzion, lesm15, nitro, redwall dude, cloggerdude, gunbladelad, yurika, fish the legend, gk, kuleguy, vineon, jshadias, glalie, soniczoid, metalman or something, wally. and of course ggfan/fire bunny/cool poke/etc. etc.
    we truly grew up in the wild wild west of the internet lmao. hope all is well in nz my friend
    Hipmonlee
    Hipmonlee
    metalmew I think. Man, I miss 4p randbats (proper randbats).

    I do not remember soniczoid though. Haha, so many people.

    Did some guy PM you asking about smogon history as well? Made it click for me that the 20th year anniversary is this year...
    YBW
    RBY OU, when is best to play. I am GMT 0 so timezone could be an issue. Are you free to play in your morning any day? I am usually available from 6pm-11pm my time on weekdays. Not sure about this weekend yet
    Hipmonlee
    Hipmonlee
    Mornings are terrible for me. I can do during my lunch break, which I could take early on friday, and that would make it like 10pm your time. Or around 9pm my time most nights, which is 8am for you.
    YBW
    YBW
    Yeah my Thurs 10pm/your Friday 11am is good for me thx for being accommodating, see you then!
    YBW
    YBW
    Hi I'm on PS on main now send chall whenever
    Aether
    o/
    Sorry to bother you but you're the person I know who's been around for the longest period of time
    Do you know why species clause exists?
    Hipmonlee
    Hipmonlee
    Pretty sure it comes from Stadium 1. But it might predate that even?

    Early RBY had Mewtwo legal, so, basically without species clause the game is unplayable.
    Aether
    Aether
    Thank you!
    Hello, I happened to come across your Prediction Gudie for RbY. It was a very good read, thank you for having taken the time to write it and make it publicly available here! I was wondering how you know precisely which numbers to assign to the payoff differences between certain choices
    Hipmonlee
    Hipmonlee
    Yeah, that's basically the hard part. The first number you pick is pretty much arbitrary, and then your just asking yourself questions like "is this other outcome a little bit better or a lot better". Even a question like "is this twice as good?" is really hard to judge. To start with just trust your intuition, play some games, and then adjust until you are happy with your results.
    Aether
    Happy Birthday!
    Hipmonlee
    Hipmonlee
    Thank-you!

    Do you do this for everyone?
    Aether
    Aether
    Mostly when I'm lurking on people's profiles and notice its their birthday -- happens more often then you'd think
    Hipmonlee
    Hipmonlee
    Yeah, I just checked, turns out there's quite a lot of people with birthdays today! Well, thanks again!
    Isn't this your first badge in like a decade hahaha
    Hipmonlee
    Hipmonlee
    technically no! I got my tiering contrib alumn only recently! But that was my first badge in like a decade.
    ausma
    surprised you didn’t have this sooner tbh
    gz, much deserved
    Hipmonlee
    Hipmonlee
    Yeah, this badge didnt used to exist... Otherwise I probably woulda given it to myself immediately!
    MMII
    Yo, I'm just some random who wants to say that I disagree with your premise in this post that the hax factor is more impactful in good vs bad or great vs bad than in great vs good. I believe the rng plays a stronger role in determining the results of a match when the skill gap between two players is smaller.
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    MMII
    MMII
    Incidentally, I'm not convinced pokemon is a game with sufficient depth to benefit from completely removing luck based variety. (these things also vary based on the metagame/generation mechanics in question) So I understand your objections to removing rby miss / recover bug.
    Hipmonlee
    Hipmonlee
    So I would say, for at least gen 4 onwards, and probably gen 3 and possibly 2, that you could more or less remove all the RNG without damaging the richness of the game. For Gen 1 specifically though, is a bit too narrow.

    I think the rps in chess comes from choosing what to spend mental bandwidth on, either in calculation or preparation. Although it probably isnt really useful making the comparison.
    MMII
    MMII
    That makes a lot of sense, thanks for responding to me and putting up with my spam.
    Roy
    the original RBY legend
    Hipmonlee
    Hipmonlee
    I tell ya, the kids these days, they've got no respect at all...
    Roy
    Roy
    kids would never last in the era of undone, cloggerdude, and redn13 or whatever the gfaqs mod's name was
    Duckman
    Hey, do you remember me? I was around back in the day. If so, would be cool to catch up. If not, it's OK, Mr.E said he doesn't remember me either.
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    Duckman
    Duckman
    I was there on Netbattle, on IRC, on forums, generally all around. I was wondering what had happened to you, Jumpman, Vineon, BH, and the gang. Is anybody else still around?
    Hipmonlee
    Hipmonlee
    Vineon has been gone a long time, BH and Jumpman I'm not sure about, I haven't been in touch with them anyway. TBH most people from back then I am not really in touch with any more.
    Duckman
    Duckman
    Oh ok. Yeah I was like 14 or something back then. Didn't even think to consider that I should keep in touch with some of the coolest people I'll ever meet. Anyway I saw in the below post that you have kids now. I do too. Crazy to think about how we all got on :). If you ever want to chat hit me up. I'm in one of those gym league discords, not sure if you ever heard of them, it's pretty chill, we could talk there.
    phoopes
    we're set to play each other for the RBY NU tournament. I'm GMT -4 and have a lot of free time this week
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    phoopes
    phoopes
    I'm going to a wedding this weekend so I'll be away this upcoming Friday-Sunday.

    I'm generally up fairly late, I might be able to catch you after midnight my time sometime this week
    Hipmonlee
    Hipmonlee
    Ok, just heads up Tomorrow probably wont work. Other days should be fine.
    phoopes
    phoopes
    Sounds good
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