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We need to find the bozo that ratted us out to the feds
gen 6 went so unbelievably hard with the pokemon designs
>dragalge
>tyrantrum
>aurorus
>talonflame
>florges
>aegislash
>trevenant
>noivern
>gourgeist
>hawlucha
>clawitzer
>dragalge
>tyrantrum
>aurorus
>talonflame
>florges
>aegislash
>trevenant
>noivern
>gourgeist
>hawlucha
>clawitzer
Smogon’s tournament scene is a trainwreck that you want to look away from but cannot
biopoems are the lowest form of literature
Nintendo Switch Online needs DS games in some way shape or form
Sprigatito being furry bait isn't really a bad outcome ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Skype is better than discord because of the memories
Chad skype vs virgin discord amirite
takis suck they taste like shit
Not every cartoon has to be dark or have some deep epic storyline to be good, especially those centered around Batman.
I like Batman: The Brave and the Bold because it didn’t reheat The Animated Series leftovers and did it’s own thing: the biggest downfall of The Batman (2004) in my opinion is that it abruptly abandoned everything that made it different and distinct to chase the DCAU’s coattails (complete with hiring DCAU writers). The times it did its own thing successfully was anything dealing with Hugo Strange: his episodes are great and easily stand up with TAS stories while being very distinct. The Batman vs. Dracula is also a top tier movie despite being tied to the most disappointing Batman show: it single-handedly justifies The Batman (2004)’s existence with how dark it is while not going over the top (looking at you Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker).
Wander Over Yonder and Phineas and Ferb also prove you don’t need a dark narrative to be interesting, just good writing filled with heart.
I like Batman: The Brave and the Bold because it didn’t reheat The Animated Series leftovers and did it’s own thing: the biggest downfall of The Batman (2004) in my opinion is that it abruptly abandoned everything that made it different and distinct to chase the DCAU’s coattails (complete with hiring DCAU writers). The times it did its own thing successfully was anything dealing with Hugo Strange: his episodes are great and easily stand up with TAS stories while being very distinct. The Batman vs. Dracula is also a top tier movie despite being tied to the most disappointing Batman show: it single-handedly justifies The Batman (2004)’s existence with how dark it is while not going over the top (looking at you Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker).
Wander Over Yonder and Phineas and Ferb also prove you don’t need a dark narrative to be interesting, just good writing filled with heart.
Everything you like to complain about in new Pokémon games is absent in Gen 8, so it is objectively the best Gen. It has a battle facility, the new Pokémon are original and cool, and everything you complain about specifically in Gen 8 isn’t even true. It isn’t a “basically unfinished game”, it has everything a Pokémon game should have. The wild area should just be treated as a better Safari Zone, and the dex cut let some underrated Pokémon get recognition. About the complaint that they lied about making new models and animations, maybe they were talking about the models for the new Pokémon and animation for the new moves, idk, maybe that was bad. The old games are objectively worse by just being older, even if it gets slammed for having bad graphics and too many glitches it is still better in that regard than the old games.
BDSP still shit though
The Catcher in the Rye is a damn good book that doesn't deserve anywhere near the amount of hate it gets from people who had to read it in high school English classes. Yes, Holden is an annoying dickhead. The whole point of the book is him gradually accepting that he needs to grow up and stop being that way.
Every smogon meta is really a pet mod. I will not be elaborating further.
Star Wars is bad and has always been bad.
Luigi is better than Mario.
decidingly not a hot take
BW's problem wasn't that it only had gen V pokemon in the main storyline. Its better to start a new generation with a party of just new pokemon.
The problem is that too many of the best Gen V pokemon are stuck in weak evolution stage until about level 40 or higher.
Nobody is using a lvl 30 tynamo against Skyla. If this was Gen III I'd have a manectric already.
The problem is that too many of the best Gen V pokemon are stuck in weak evolution stage until about level 40 or higher.
Nobody is using a lvl 30 tynamo against Skyla. If this was Gen III I'd have a manectric already.
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Wario is better than Mario
The diamonds from steven universe were a great looming threat but were terrible as characters. Also, Steven Universe as a whole was crazily overrated
You're not alone in this!
I merely regard it (and by extension Future) as a good show that had good moments but ultimately tried to play up its own mysteries too much by waiting to say the crucial story beats pretty late (even if some of the foreshadowing was pretty mind-blowing, looking back). The Diamonds felt woefully underutilized, and when they FINALLY got shown more they felt like little more than props via heel-face-turn to make Steven look better rather than actual characters. Best show ever? No not even close, I still like the DCAU shows, Phineas and Ferb, and Wander Over Yonder more, even if they are (mostly) simpler.
I binged most of the show until that long Season 4 hiatus, and even then it felt kinda slow (let's wait a whole season for Jasper to get out of the sea) and messages that, while I commend the showmakers for being bold with, felt overbearing / overshadowing actual plot at times even if some hit the mark fine (Steven's characterization in Future).
While it might be an odd comparison, I'd argue you can present messages in a much more subtle way and still make great stories - A LOT of the old Spongebob episodes I never realized had aesops until I explicitly read about them:
So I won't get too deep into it, I'll sum it up: Steven Universe (Future) is a good show with good voice acting, music, art, etc - but it also shows how sometimes a complex scope can swallow a show whole, for better or worse. I think the movie was really good at catching people up to speed - it's not easy to summarize all that continuity and still have a relatively coherent plot!
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