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(Disclaimer that it's been hours so I don't remember my ratings perfectly)
General Enjoyment I gave a 6. The meta is far too volatile for my tastes. An earlier criticism I saw was that we're being forced into building teams on the extremes of either HO or full stall, and I largely agree. My...
Thank you very much for this. I hope to see more posts on the discussion from you going forwards, I think it'll be very healthy for the thread and lessen the kind of discourse that can spawn if we end up getting more regular discussion involving the council. Regardless, I'm looking forward to...
I see, that's my mistake, then. While I am not a part of the discord and rarely use twitter, I did miss/skim over his mention in this post (and it wasn't picked up in my search to try and find stuff mentioning xav since I only searched 'xavgb' in this thread) and that's on me. Apologies.
I'm not saying that I would prefer an uninformed opinion, I think abstentions are perfectly fine. I didn't see xavgb's votes as more than something curious about the vote, but I do think it's reasonable to even just include a footnote on the results post or in the thread for the meta that the...
Is it really unreasonable to ask for a post about an OU council member being unable to vote in the dedicated metagame thread for which they are part of the council for? xav hasn't even been mentioned in this thread before now. I would imagine this thread would be one of the more relevant places...
Knowing this makes it completely understandable, but I do have to agree with saying that there should have been some heads up about xavgb being unable to play the meta.
Very happy to hear this. It's been a rough week but I think this and the proposed quickban threshold change will do wonders for discussion and the meta going forward.
There isn't much flaming going on here, at least not as much as when HOME meta started, most of what's being said is valid criticism over the opaqueness of most of the council barring Finch. People want to know what goes into the decisions being made. When our only spokesperson isn't even happy...
Moves like Last Respects and Rage Fist are comparatively even more uncompetitive than Dire Claw on the grounds of invalidating skill, considering their reliability. IMO they're far more egregious than Dire Claw, and we banned the only mons who had them. What is the meaningful difference between...
I think the Blaziken example really illustrates that criticisms saying that the council's approach to banning is predicated on a slippery slope fallacy are unfounded, because people have illustrated that they will actively ask for said slippery slope to be put into effect. There's no fallacy if...