Recent content by TheMantyke

In terms of a system adding strategic depth to an in game playthrough, I think EVs are a far, far better made system. There is hardly any depth in stat experience. It is a grind check that you have actually used the Pokemon you're fighting with, and is still so muted a boost it's barely...

To give a sincere answer, this all seems like run-of-the-mill theorycrafting without anything particularly interesting done or much effort. You're asking people to discuss how you added numbers to other numbers without giving them any particularly interesting drive to do so. There are hordes of...

I misread this as “Homegirl got Helluva Boss’d” and that also fits surprisingly well with the unnervingly lithe body. Can’t wait for Mega FUCKING Malamar with FUCKING contrary hitting a FUCKING superpower and getting plus FUCKING 1 attack and plus FUCKING 1 defense.

There was a teenager at our Pokemon League in 2015 who played a Malamar coinflips deck and loved it. They went as far as dressing up in a face mask of Malamar-EX for halloween. I know somewhere out there, they're going insane.

I have to get to GOLDENROD for myEnemy??????

https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-announces-us-price-rises-for-original-switch-warns-price-rises-for-switch-2-games-and-the-nso-membership-may-be-necessary-in-the-future 8 years in and a price increase of $40 for a console with 150M units in the wild is maybe even more absurd.

POV: you are browsing through C&C in 2014, about to have an aneurysm.

Look, I’ve already built up a tolerance for explaining to children every hype cycle that 4chan is not a magical leak land. I’m not strong enough for a new era of Pokemon speculation where we’re going to repeatedly explain AI LLMs are plagiarism chatbots that mime out human writing the same way...

Is https://smogonu.creator-spring.com/ still associated with Smogon? I can see people advertising https://teespring.com/stores/smogonu (which redirects to the other URL) a few years ago on the site, but either other posts with it have been deleted or there's just been nothing for four years...

Holy shit the ending of Donkey Kong Bananza is unreal. I am so happy the post above is the lone spoiler I let myself see. My god, it's so good. If you have the slightest nostalgia for the DKC SNES games, you owe it to yourself to play this game to completion. I will not tell you anything about...

Leaks from Donkey Kong Bananza are shoring up. If you are like me and a member of the psychotic side of the donkey kong fandom, I have the answer to the one important question. If you know, you know. I bring no other spoilers but the singular important one and nothing else. Tread carefully...

Does disco feel like a fake word to other people? Feels less like a music genre and more like a media type used as a world building detail in a steampunk fantasy. It’s got a sort of “Hey Greggario! Put the disco on the tracti and let’s listen to some tunes!” vibe.

Channel your soul and speak it into existence. Say “my favorite Pokemon is Maractus”. Let it sit in your mouth and burn into your gums. If you taste regret, spit it out and feel free to chose what you like more instead. The question of one’s favorite Pokemon for someone so deeply entrenched...

You had an entertaining thread idea and automated it to a chatbot? Is this thread really just “look at what the machine spat out”? 0/10 thread I’m afraid. I’m going back to thinking up guys.

Ostrich and Zebra DK are utterly horrifying. Never in my life did I need to see DK ovulating for ammunition. Day 1 buy.