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You're both overlooking the real reason Florida is turning so red — the influx of conservative retirees. The fastest-growing "city" in Florida is just an overgrown retirement home and Florida's median age is the fifth-highest in the nation. Compare that to Texas, which has a much more varied...

But is this really the case when 2000, 2016, and 2020 were all razor-thin elections that could have easily gone differently if they were held a week earlier or later? There is a strong argument that the Comey letter alone was enough to swing 2016, and without it Clinton would have likely won a...

Unironically yes. Trump came very close to winning Minnesota and within a hair of winning New Hampshire in 2016, while Virginia and New Jersey both swung sharply to the right in their 2021 gubernatorial elections. These are all states Biden could easily lose if things continue the way they are.

Although it's probably because we actually expect better from Democrats

They don't really need the games to sell super well, as the majority of the money is in the merchandise. As the biggest video game franchise in history, Pokémon has the most room to innovate, yet they don't. Also, Nintendo is definitely the type to take risks; Super Mario 64 and Breath of the...

I don't know if you've heard, but they kind of already did that

I don't think the reason for the limited variety in starter's secondary typings is out of a desire to stick to type advantage triangles, as every type besides Normal, Dragon, and arguably Ghost fits neatly into at least one (Grass/Ground/Poison, Ice/Ground/Rock, Electric/Water/Ground...

Yeah, one of my criticisms of SM's story is that they try to say that Lusimine's actions were all because of Nihilego's poison or whatever, which really cheapens any of the character interactions that came before. I like that they didn't take the cop out path with Kieran.

Some of the repeated excuses the fandom makes when aspects of the games are criticized. "But capitalism, you can't expect Pokémon to stop doing what is profitable!" "But the games are balanced around doubles, stop expecting singles to be balanced!" "But this is justified because twenty year old...

Basically sums up the whole discourse around this game

This is a bad argument. The problem with sleep is that it's random, both in whether it hits (for moves not named Spore) and in how many turns it lasts. What moves an opponent brings or whether a person runs Booster Energy is not random, it's a conscious decision made in the teambuilder. Thus...

I feel an argument can be made for keeping Yawn, since it works differently mechanically and avoids the uncompetitive elements of the other sleep moves because the counterplay is consistent. I mean, Perish Song is legal despite the OHKO moves being banned, and I feel like this is a similar...

If they can do it for all the Vs. Seeker trainers, they can do it for the gym leaders.

I don't really see the concern of level scaling/updating rosters for major trainers when even some random trainers had updating teams in gens with the Vs. Seeker. It probably wouldn't be that much effort to just do it for the eight gym leaders.