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This piece of art had me scouring this guy's account in confusion and apparently based on what Google Translate is letting me cobble together there is a decently popular fan theory among the Japanese playerbase that Paxton/Harmony is a former Team Plasma grunt who just got out of jail and is starting over in Lumiose City. The basis seems to be some dialogue and character emotes, mainly the wish being for people and pokemon to coexist
Really striking and inventive, it's neat
Hm, to post something cursed or not...
This Youtuber, WINGLAYER, in addition to a few more Mega Starmies performances, also has a lot featuring Subway Bosses Ingo & Emmet (as well others featuring the characters from Cells At Work and other anime here and there such as Sailor Moon)
Also the black Starmie with a deep red jewel looks pretty sick. Red Starmie is also neat looking. Sadly I don't think yellow quite works with Starmie.
Also the black Starmie with a deep red jewel looks pretty sick. Red Starmie is also neat looking. Sadly I don't think yellow quite works with Starmie.
See, that's why the devs of Sun/Moon had the right idea. Just don't have the character show any emotions at all, that way no one can get the wrong idea.
I’ve been reminded of Pearlsaurus recently and I wanted to talk a little about their art because it’s so unique. Like I just gotta share a little of it here
https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/727546
http://web.archive.org/web/20190911115513/http://pearlsaurus.fc2web.com/elog.html
Like I’m not sure how to describe it exactly, it’s like it’s still super cartoony, but it’s so detailed and even cinematic in a way that no other artist has never done before or since.
It is such impressive artwork truly, and it’s a shame that both their art stopped years ago, and now their website for it shut down leaving only what’s on the internet archive and reposted on other websites.
https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/727546
http://web.archive.org/web/20190911115513/http://pearlsaurus.fc2web.com/elog.html
Like I’m not sure how to describe it exactly, it’s like it’s still super cartoony, but it’s so detailed and even cinematic in a way that no other artist has never done before or since.
It is such impressive artwork truly, and it’s a shame that both their art stopped years ago, and now their website for it shut down leaving only what’s on the internet archive and reposted on other websites.
You're dooming? Infinite Alolachad victory with sexy alien women is dropping and you're dooming?
In celebration of the 30th anniversary, it is time for some fan music! Jyc Row released a new epic orchestral track, which is about Groudon. It features vocals from Christian Correa. Go listen to it below!
As some people might remember, Jyc Row made a Kyogre song five years ago, and he has a Rayquaza song in the works as well, so all three members of the Weather trio will get their own song eventually.
As some people might remember, Jyc Row made a Kyogre song five years ago, and he has a Rayquaza song in the works as well, so all three members of the Weather trio will get their own song eventually.
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This is a neat video I stumbled across that talks about how Shiny Pokémon were designed prior to Gen 7. The tl;dw is that most Shiny colors were likey determined by an algorithm to swap color values to save time, energy, cartridge space (at least for Gen 2 for the space part). We don't know what the actual algorithm is, but there is enough evidence in Gen 2's code to suggest one was used.
The video also goes into stuff about binary code without getting too complicated, so I recommend still watching even with the answer in mind.
Sorry, but I'm a hater of this theory and have to object:
This video is like
80% "explaining how binary and computer colors work for the uninformed" (in a way that's correct but has nothing to do with proving whether or not the theory is true)
and 20% "every time that the input was the exact same color, the output was also the exact same color" as the literal only piece of evidence
which would be compelling... if not for the subsequent reveal that every time that the input was the exact same color, the Pokémon were part of the same evolution line, so the fact that they shared a color to begin with was a conscious artistic choice and of course the Shiny would stick with it
Then he basically goes "I couldn't figure out a consistent pattern at all, BUT all of the times a Shiny doesn't do what I expected, it looks really cool, so I think a human made those ones! it's not like they had to use the algorithm for every Pokémon"
There's a whole lot of "hey, the algorithm (TM) isn't in the code at all and must have been done externally, so any time there's an exception, it's simply because they didn't use an algorithm in those cases; a human did design some of the Shinies. but not all of them! only the ones I like!"
This is just a millionth case of someone pushing a baseless conspiracy theory to explain why there are Shinies they don't personally like
and getting praised for it because they have the coldest takes in the world on which Shinies are "good" and which aren't and everyone thinks that's some kind of unsolved mystery
Nothing here is evidence of
the Shiny algorithm
Edit: okay, serious counterargument
We're talking about an "algorithm" that was apparently finicky enough to give these three similar-looking Pokémon completely different Shinies
We're supposing there had to be an exact match for it to spit out a comparable output
but then in Gen III, where all of their base sprites had entirely different base palettes made from scratch - for a completely new art style - and could not possibly have ended up with the same result from the same algorithm...
... they handmade their preferred interpretation of those Shiny palettes in the new art style.
But only for the old ones, right? They were still using "the algorithm" to come up with Shiny ideas for the new Pokémon?
And then they went through this process every single time they made new sprites with new palettes for old Pokémon - that is, we're supposing they consistently did Shiny palettes by hand, for everything except the current Gen, to maintain consistency between games...
... even for Pokémon whose base color palettes were observably different between games...
They did all of this with intentionality, but they also "only started designing" Shinies as recently as the 3D era? Only old designs got this privilege? The algorithm that was allegedly created to save effort got first dibs on every design all the way through Gen V, but they were fine spending as much time as they needed faithfully recreating what it put out in every subsequent game?
The "theory" doesn't hold up to the slightest bit of scrutiny.
It's not like people don't have complaints about plenty of new Shinies anyway;
they just stopped being able to default to the conspiracy angle when the games switched to 3D models,
and they haven't yet managed to grapple with the possibility that the designer might have had different goals and preferences than them to begin with...
There really isn't...
This video is like
80% "explaining how binary and computer colors work for the uninformed" (in a way that's correct but has nothing to do with proving whether or not the theory is true)
and 20% "every time that the input was the exact same color, the output was also the exact same color" as the literal only piece of evidence
which would be compelling... if not for the subsequent reveal that every time that the input was the exact same color, the Pokémon were part of the same evolution line, so the fact that they shared a color to begin with was a conscious artistic choice and of course the Shiny would stick with it
Then he basically goes "I couldn't figure out a consistent pattern at all, BUT all of the times a Shiny doesn't do what I expected, it looks really cool, so I think a human made those ones! it's not like they had to use the algorithm for every Pokémon"
There's a whole lot of "hey, the algorithm (TM) isn't in the code at all and must have been done externally, so any time there's an exception, it's simply because they didn't use an algorithm in those cases; a human did design some of the Shinies. but not all of them! only the ones I like!"
This is just a millionth case of someone pushing a baseless conspiracy theory to explain why there are Shinies they don't personally like
and getting praised for it because they have the coldest takes in the world on which Shinies are "good" and which aren't and everyone thinks that's some kind of unsolved mystery
Nothing here is evidence of
the Shiny algorithm Edit: okay, serious counterargument
We're talking about an "algorithm" that was apparently finicky enough to give these three similar-looking Pokémon completely different Shinies
We're supposing there had to be an exact match for it to spit out a comparable output
but then in Gen III, where all of their base sprites had entirely different base palettes made from scratch - for a completely new art style - and could not possibly have ended up with the same result from the same algorithm...
... they handmade their preferred interpretation of those Shiny palettes in the new art style.
But only for the old ones, right? They were still using "the algorithm" to come up with Shiny ideas for the new Pokémon?
And then they went through this process every single time they made new sprites with new palettes for old Pokémon - that is, we're supposing they consistently did Shiny palettes by hand, for everything except the current Gen, to maintain consistency between games...
... even for Pokémon whose base color palettes were observably different between games...
They did all of this with intentionality, but they also "only started designing" Shinies as recently as the 3D era? Only old designs got this privilege? The algorithm that was allegedly created to save effort got first dibs on every design all the way through Gen V, but they were fine spending as much time as they needed faithfully recreating what it put out in every subsequent game?
The "theory" doesn't hold up to the slightest bit of scrutiny.
It's not like people don't have complaints about plenty of new Shinies anyway;
they just stopped being able to default to the conspiracy angle when the games switched to 3D models,
and they haven't yet managed to grapple with the possibility that the designer might have had different goals and preferences than them to begin with...
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