I mean if it means that much to y'all i can keep doing it
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My hot take: This isn’t a hot take. Unless it is. But it still won’t be.
You either have to be in the loop to understand tournament memes in the commencement thread and/or there’s like 10% memes and 90% inside jokes
I know it's the point of the thread to have hot takes but how is Venusaur, the most bizarre, indeterminate starter "generic" but Charizard, a regular dragon with a fire tail, is "standout"
The Mind Electric
Calming if you look at it right.
GF has successfully convinced millions of people that Charizard is a unique and interesting design by spamming them with it so much that it's impossible to forget. You think it must be a standout design because it stands out in your head as one of the iconic Pokémon, so popular that its name doesn't come up as a spelling error as I'm typing this post, but that's just because GF did the video game equivalent of overplaying a mediocre song on the radio until people like it.
GF simps for Charizard super hard, though the same logic applies to Pikachu
To be fair, its simple design is probably what makes it a) so appealing and b) easy to make multiple forms and other iterations. complexity/uniqueness isn't necessarily good design.
but calling Venusaur generic when there's no clear consensus on what the hell animal it even is... that sent me
but calling Venusaur generic when there's no clear consensus on what the hell animal it even is... that sent me
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Anyways hot take Druddigon is the best dragon to come out of gen 5 fight me
I mean, I get giving extra attention to your company mascot, but charizard didn't exactly do anything to earn the fawning it gets.
Anyways hot take Druddigon is the best dragon to come out of gen 5 fight me
I mean, that's not true. it was on the cover of both the Japanese and International first games, was a major character in the tv show, was the most popular card... it arguably deserves it more than Pikachu.
Maybe it has to do with the quality of the tenders at a higher-end restaurant compared to KFC?
But at that point, just make 'em yourself...
di no saur
charizard was never a bad design. like, ever. there's quite literally nothing bad about it. its a fire-breathing dragon. you can't go wrong with it. its just hated on because people wanna 'gET bAck at DoZ gEnWunERZ' because its overrated or some shit, and its like
why bother at this point?
anyways my own take: johto is not the ultimate region like some people seem to think. you've heard the stories of 'le level curve' and 'trriple the underleveled dragonites, triple the fun' but there's also fun and games like:
- the plot was just not, imagine the final boss of johto team rocket being some nobody with 2 unevolved mons
- the fact that more than a third of the gym leaders don't use any johtomons. at all. its not even like bugsy where the johto bugs like heracross would be nuclear at the current level, morty chuck and falkner are stuck with all kantomons for no other reason than just spite i suppose. misdreavus deserved better than being shunted for gastly's evolutionary line as the entirety of the gym leader's team.
- the open-worldedness of the region works against it because of ONCE MORE THE LEVEL CURVE YAYYY i love fighting level 25 wild mons after the 8th gym
- why the hell did bruno come back for the elite four? i understand koga since his daughter janine takes up the poison gym for him, but why's bruno coming back AGAIN??? why doe
The other regions need regional variants
no cinderace bad list
YT creators are more like playthings of the big companies due to the broken copyright abuse.
Nuke Mars
Um, the meme threads are to the left sir.