Ohhhhh… I probably should have known that. But nope, I pretty much only play gen 3 OU, but I have a passive interest in 1-5 and I enjoy watching ORAS even though I’ve never actually played it.Oh i mean OMs, as in other metagames, on smogon
Ohhhhh… I probably should have known that. But nope, I pretty much only play gen 3 OU, but I have a passive interest in 1-5 and I enjoy watching ORAS even though I’ve never actually played it.Oh i mean OMs, as in other metagames, on smogon
Sure! I briefly touched on my video game collection in the original post but I can certainly get into more detail with that. So, for starters, to really emphasize the size of the collection, two ish years ago my wife and I purchased this shelf, thinking it'd be enough, and then less than a year later it was clear that it wasn't and we bought a second one, and that's to say nothing of all the handheld and digital games we also have. Like you said, JRPGs are indeed my favorite and the most represented genre in our collection, but they aren't my wife's favorite and we both play a variety of genres so we have quite a bit of other stuff too. I have played video games my entire life. I was literally three when I started. I played Final Fantasy 7 right when it first came out in NA and I was absolutely blown away and I've been super into JRPGs from that point on. Final Fantasy 8 is my favorite video game of all time, with 7/9/10 all somewhere on my all time top 10 list, in addition to Telltale's The Walking Dead Season 1 and Supergiant's Pyre as non JRPG games that I really, really like.You once talked about your grand attachment to JRPGs. Would you mind talking a bit (or as much as you want!) about it?
How did you get into it, which games did you like most, and other informations you think could be relevant.
Awww... Reading this tugged on my heart strings, for real. Hearing that kind of thing from someone as accomplished and respected as you are is really gratifying.yo callous, you were my first "insider" friend on PO and without you it's not at all clear i'd take the roads i took in my mons career. you tutored me briefly in adv too although i was very casual about it
where are you at, mons-wise, in three years?
xoxo
You know, regrettably, with some of the wild times I had back in my traveling days, I can't say with 100% certainty that you aren't...am i your son?
i've missed this <3Would you fuck a ghost?
The Magic question is a hard one. I do believe as an in general some people are just naturally better at certain things than others, but I also believe there are other people who maybe aren't as naturally talented who put in a ton of work and become really good. Can anyone who wants to get to the top level? No. The same way some people, no matter how badly they want it and how much time and effort they are willing to put in, could simply never be in the NBA, period. But could anyone who really, truly wanted to become proficient or better? I'd think so. The top level of anything is a different animal and I have countless examples of this from my own experiences. League of Legends, for example, I was a longtime Diamond 2/1 player and was able to maintain that for five or six seasons in a row. Percentage wise, grand scheme, that makes me better than the vast majority of players and it certainly makes me a good League of Legends player. However, the top level is completely completely different. I would have no business, ever, on a professional team and would get absolutely dunked on by professional/Challenger players, and it wouldn't even be close. I could lane against a Challenger opponent and be down 0-3 and behind 80 CS in ten minutes, and that's not an anomaly. There's just much, much better than you. Another example, this one obviously not relating to me personally, there's this ex-NBA player, Brian Scalabrine, who used to play for the Celtics. He hosted this special tournament thingy called the "Scallenge" ("challenge", but mixed with his last name) in which he, 45~ years old at the time and super retired, accepted challenges to 1 on 1 games against Division 1 college players and other top young talent. This guy was never even close to a standout NBA player. When in the league he was one of the worst, most unremarkable guys, his numbers sucked, he was the 7th or 8th guy off the bench and there was absolutely nothing special or memorable about his NBA career. Any guess as to how those games went? He demolished his opponents, effortlessly, and none of the games were even a little bit close. Several of them were outright 11-0 shutouts. Same concept as before- a Division 1 college basketball player, bigger picture, is statistically way better than the vast majority of basketball players in the world, and will certainly clean the guys up at the local court, but they're way, way, way worse than proper professionals by an amount most people do not fathom. So, circling back, in Magic (or Pokemon) could just about anyone become good, or some level of good? Yes. Could anyone who wants to be a top player? No.Hello!
Your well makes it apparent that you were one of the best Magic players in the world at one point (and more than likely you are now too!).
So my question for you is: do you believe that anyone can become a top tier magic player if they practice enough? Or is getting to the truly top level not achievable for all? Is there some special talent, some knack that, as my friends would say, some people "just got" and some people "just don't got"?
How would you answer the previous question if it were about pokemon instead?
Why do you enjoy martial arts? People have a variety of reasons from "I improve my self-discipline" to "me like punch people!", and your reason is obviously particularly compelling to you if you've opened a fighting gym.
My last of the serious questions is (I've read every single word in this well but my brain is fried so hopefully you haven't answered this already): Why ADV? Is it just because it's the first gen you played? Or is there something special about the nature of ADV that can't be matched?
What was your favorite deck type in Hearthstone? Please don't say grim patron.
How many beers would Mike Tyson have to drink before you could beat him in a fight > 90% of the time?
Finally, thanks for making all your answers interesting. This is a good way for the well to come back smogoff.
Woah you played Castle Crashers?If you can name a JRPG, or even just an RPG for that matter, I probably have it, including some rarer and more expensive games like a physical Suikoden 2 or Valkyrie Profile. I also have a good amount of strategy games, a few shooters and of course a few random oddballs that don't fit very well into generic category labels. Genres I generally don't like are Platformers, Puzzle and Sports games. I find Platformers and Puzzle games really frustrating and tedious more than fun and I'm just not a big enough sports fan to get into any of the games based on actual leagues/actual players. I'm not anti-sports, I just don't really care. Finally, my wife and I really, really love to play couch co-op games together. We've beaten a ton of things together, usually getting the Platinum Trophy, such as Overcooked 1 and 2, Divinity Original Sin 1 and 2, all the Borderlands games, all the Trine games, Moving Out, Tools Up, Castle Crashers and many others. Some games we play together one or both of us don't even overly like, but anything we can do together is a good time as far as we're concerned, and we refuse to play games against each other. Teammates or bust!
To be honest with you I didn’t overly enjoy the game. It felt very button-mashy and mindless and repetitive to me. I enjoy playing just about anything with my wife, but, this was not an all time favorite for me.Woah you played Castle Crashers?
whats your favorite character to play with? weapon? animal orb?
is it true that fencer/industrialist are cracked and overpowered?
whats the appeal of fire demon over fire knight and vice versa?
what was your reaction when you thought you beated the final boss for the first time and opened the chest but then this giant spider demon monster thing came out?
what are your thoughts on the gameplay? stuff like difficulty, story, boss fights, etc.
I have this on my million-year-old xbox 360 and its really cool to see someone else that plays it thats not my sister.
If you played them, any thoughts on Gwent or Artifact?As an older guy, twenties, I played every online card game you can think of.
I put a good amount of time into Gwent and enjoyed it. I don’t view it as a game that is necessarily meant to be ultra-competitive or something that should be an e-sport, but I think it’s a solid game. Matches can feel like they move pretty slowly and after playing a lot the grind started to test my patience, and I think at various times certain factions have been pretty clearly stronger than others as with and game of this nature, but as a whole there’s a solid core under there.If you played them, any thoughts on Gwent or Artifact?
Do you have any aspirations to be a content creator for any non-Pokemon things?
Are there any pics of yourself you would be willing to share?
I don't think Magneton is better than Dugtrio, no. I don't know that most/all top players would agree with me, but I personally think Magneton is a pretty bad Pokemon. If you're not against Skarmory it's almost always the worst Pokemon of the 12 in the game and it doesn't accomplish much. That's not to say I never use it or you should never use it, but it's definitely not overpowered or something that needs a suspect test or a ban discussion. If you think trapping is lame on principle I don't necessarily disagree, but Magneton is definitely not ban worthy or something that's ruining ADV.Do you find Magneton better than Dugtrio in ADV? If so, do you think it is suspect worthy? Do you think anything else, if at all, is suspect worthy in ADV?
Do you think Smogon has become less and less about "being good" and more about "trash talking", "clout chasing" etc? If yes, when and what, do you think, sparked this change, and was it a positive change?
Tell us, in as much detail as you wish, about your milk intake.
I've never broken one of my own bones, no. I attribute that to some combination of genes, strong bones (aided by excessive milk drinking), luck and my own choices in avoiding stupid or dangerous activities. I never went through that phase as a teenager where I wanted to copy the things on Jackass or whatever. I've been in a couple bad car accidents, including flipping the car and having it roll five or six times as a teenager and being hit by a drunk driver and the car being completely totaled in my 20s and I somehow managed to walk away from both of them without any serious injuries. I've never had a cavity or poison ivy either. Look at me go!Have you ever broke a bone
E: yours or anyone else's
Ah, the main reason I asked was because I saw an additional restriction on BP in CI5, but it was by player request, sorry about that. I also loved Cacturne but Gligar was a bit too swingy.lSome people want to do more about Baton Pass than we already have to prevent certain types of cheese teams from being possible.
Ehhh… I don’t know… I have really mixed feelings on that. On one hand I do believe there’s some amount of truth to “a team is either viable or it’s not” but at the same time certain teams, definitely some more than others, really benefit from surprise value or forcing your opponent to take some risks in scouting and possibly get caught out and get snowballed on. I don’t think it could ever possibly be a good thing if your opponent knows your team from early on in the game- more that what level of bad it is depends on the team and the format of the tournament. Maybe in a best of three you can get away with defaulting to something known in one of the games. I’d imagine in bo1 it’s quite detrimental. As a whole I think matchup is under appreciated and too often brushed aside in ADV. Fairy gen players seem to talk about matchup a lot more, and some of them genuinely believe certain matchups, even with supposedly completely viable teams, are as bad as 20/80. ADV is about as balanced of an OU tier as you’re going to find, but matchup is still definitely a thing. You can’t cover everything. Some teams are weak to specific sets of Rachi or Cune. Some teams do a lot better or worse depending on whether or not they’re against Blissey. An archetype like MagDol is a complete matchup fish in and of itself and has highly favorable and highly unfavorable matchups. Some teams have no switch-in to OffStar. There’s a million examples here, but the point is the same. I’d also note that generally speaking if your team is only good if your opponent doesn’t know your sets, then the team simply isn’t good. It’s a gimmick at best. At the end of the day I think the solid happy medium is sticking to viable and proven archetypes and cores but mixing up the sets a little bit from team to team. Basically, just different variations of things that are good. If you use the same teams/same style all the time certain opponents will counterteam you and you have no one to blame for that but yourself.Ah, the main reason I asked was because I saw an additional restriction on BP in CI5, but it was by player request, sorry about that. I also loved Cacturne but Gligar was a bit too swingy.
Do you think using a well known unique team puts a player at a disadvantage? I don't really know how to put this distinction into words: say Skarm Tar Pert Gar Bliss Star does not qualify, but Mag + HP water Rachi is.
I love you too Bea! <3You My goat
I haven't spent much time thinking about this specific question, but there is soooo much in Pokemon that makes absolutely zero sense. Nidoking and Nidoqueen can't breed but somehow Skitty and Wailord can. Pokemon aren't used to commit murder, torture people or commit other atrocious crimes. Pokemon, their trainers, referees and spectators are never seriously injured or killed when hit directly with torrents of fire, targeted bolts of electricity or earthquakes powerful enough to destroy the ground of the stadium battlefield. 10 year olds are trusted to be the sole caretakers of much larger, much stronger, much smarter animals and they are free to roam about the world on foot or via bicycle with no adult supervision. Luckily, they're never harmed, kidnapped or killed and they are always very responsible and keep themselves and their Pokemon fed and safe.what do you think happens to gravelers other arms when he becomes golem.
he just grew them so its stupid to think they become rock again.
i think its pretty obvious that t he rocks are like a shell and he has his hands under there like a rock blanket lol.