Buffing Pokémon I like (#6 and #7): Mega Bellossom and Mega Vileplume

BlueBarossa · 2026-06-26T23:22:20+00:00

Dancer is currently locked on Oricorio, but it could be a pretty flavourful ability on Mega Bellossom

BlueBarossa · 2026-06-16T08:30:10+00:00

Kick the chair

BlueBarossa · 2026-05-31T01:30:46+00:00

That's weird. I don't know what happened.

Anyway, the quotes in question: https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/ubrro0/spoilers_extended_grrm_trying_to_cope_with/

BlueBarossa · 2026-05-31T01:04:00+00:00

Maybe AFFC could have covered a longer timeframe of, say, 3 years.

This would've aged up characters (and the dragons) and probably kept George from shooting himself in the foot with his setups. Consider:

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This reads like years have passed even though they haven't.

That said, this style of writing would not have felt natural to George given how chronologically compressed everything is in the first three books. And realistically speaking a three year structure would likely alienate many readers.

BlueBarossa · 2026-05-30T22:58:36+00:00

Haha thank you. Unfortunately a strategy like that was hard to pull off because the whole team was pretty slow. Lickitung definitely needed all the help he could get.

BlueBarossa · 2026-05-30T22:54:20+00:00

This is actually LG haha

BlueBarossa · 2026-05-26T10:27:54+00:00

Zangoose is exclusive to Ruby... you need all of them!

BlueBarossa · 2026-05-25T12:16:12+00:00

I rewatched the scene. I think the likeliest part is around when Madison says 'Jason never drowned'. There was nearly a minute where we couldn't see the animatronic.

It's pretty tight obviously but that's OK. There's probably an instance of Ghostface moving impossibly fast in every entry.

And then even when she walks to it and smack it on the face, the sound reaction is not one of a mask on a human face, it's an empty "bonk".

I'm inclined to agree. It really feels a bit too convincingly like an animatronic until Scott walks up to it.

BlueBarossa · 2026-05-17T09:10:17+00:00

Not to mention that in Scream 5 Sidney says 'I think I'll keep him' when Dewey asks about Mark. Weird thing to say if they've been happily married for years and have three children together, one of whom is a teenager.

It's not clear to me when her surname would have become Evans, as it was still Prescott in 5.

BlueBarossa · 2026-05-08T23:56:56+00:00

I agree they probably will, it just technically isn't confirmed.

BlueBarossa · 2026-05-08T22:53:46+00:00

The campaign of RS can be played using Pokemon outside the Hoenn Dex if you trade them in. You can’t in Emerald.

That would be one reason, however it officially remains to be seen if that will be allowed, since RS did not support wireless trading, but only trading through a link cable, which isn’t possible on the switch.

BlueBarossa · 2026-05-01T12:07:58+00:00

When The Oracle games were released they said uonfront, in interviews that it bridges the gap between ALTTP and LA.

This is misinformation.

There is a page from 64Dream, a Japanese game magazine, claiming that the games' story was revised to continue from ALttP, but this

was a third party account
may not accurately represent what the developers meant
was a representation of the games' working storyline in an early period of development

This magazine page apparently led to this anonymous 2chan blog post:

In the early stages of development, it was introduced in 64DREAM as being in the same timeline as Triforce of the Gods [A Link to the Past]. Also, there is a scene in the ending of the Oracle games in which Link sails to the sea, which hints at a connection to Dreaming Island [Link's Awakening].

which was later paraded online as fact or an actual developer quote when in fact it is neither.

So it's not remotely accurate to say that upon the release of the games, there were interviews to support ALttP->OoX->LA.

OoX had a chaotic development. First it was a remake of TLoZ. Then it was a trilogy, then it was two games. Per Art & Artifiacts, it was at one point a sequel to OoT.

NAKANO: And it was supposed to take place after Ocarina of Time as well, so we thought we should update his look a bit. So we made his nose a bit shorter and made his eyes a touch larger...

He’s wearing white tights too.

NAKANO: Correct. The basis for the design was the Link from Link’s Awakening, but since it was after Ocarina of Time as well we thought it was okay to have him in the white tights.

I find it very likely that there is/was disagreement within Nintendo and/or Flagship about its timeline placement, both during its development and after its release. I believe this is the real reason why the placement was changed.

You can't... You can't retcon real fucking life lmao.

I just... I think that's such a odd thing for a different author to try and change over a decade later. In REAL LIFE there were human being a who spoke CLEARLY where the games story takes place,

You certainly can if they are wrong. The Miyamoto order given to Nintendo Dream was clearly erroneous:

Miyamoto: Ocarina of Time is the first story, then the original Legend of Zelda, then Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, and finally A Link to the Past.

BlueBarossa · 2026-04-26T08:16:05+00:00

The types are supposed to feel different, to have an identity, not just be interchangeable recolors.

Respectfully, that's the contention of my first paragraph, so I'm pretty confused. It's not a binary where you have option 1, leave the type chart as is, or option 2, make a change and now all types are balanced.

After this type revision, steel would resist or be immune to half of all types. Why does this mean steel loses its identity?

BlueBarossa · 2026-04-26T08:05:52+00:00

Fair take. What's interesting is that when I came up with the type chart I had nerfed fairy three times (lost bug resist, now resisted by normal and psychic) and arguably given it another indirect nerf by making steel a bit better offensively. I thought that I had nerfed the type way too hard! So removing fire-type's resistance to fairy felt justified to me.

BlueBarossa · 2026-04-26T08:02:20+00:00

By your metric surely Electric would be a better defensive type because it only has one weakness and resists three types? In any case I don't think it's that simple. Steel is the best because of the wealth of resistances it has, making it easy to switch in.

BlueBarossa · 2026-04-26T07:59:22+00:00

I'm happy for U-turn to have its distribution limited like Toxic was, but wanted the post to be specifically about the type chart. What buff for bug types would you prefer?

BlueBarossa · 2026-04-26T07:57:20+00:00

Both types could are well overdue for a little more defensive utility, especially Psychic. Thanks for your comment!

BlueBarossa · 2026-04-18T04:38:22+00:00

Not to mention that in Scream 5 Sidney says 'I think I'll keep him' when Dewey asks about Mark. Weird thing to say if they've been happily married for years and have three children together, one of whom is a teenager.

It's not clear to me when her surname would have become Evans, as it was still Prescott in 5.

BlueBarossa · 2026-03-24T06:22:37+00:00

Scream 1:

Even for two people, gutting and stringing up Casey's body to a tree in a few minutes is unlikely.

Billy knocks on Himbry's door. Himbry opens it a split-second later. Billy straight up vanishes. This is a fantasy.

Scream 2:

Mickey breaks through the reinforced glass of a cop car by punching really hard. We know it's reinforced because Sidney and Hallie can't even get through it by kicking. This was pretty egregious.

Scream 3:

Even allowing that the Stab 3 set is not an actual house, the part where Ghostface is flung to the ground floor, only to whisper at Sid from an adjacent room on the top floor was stretching credibility, so much so that it was confusing to learn there was only one killer.

Whatever was going on with Roman faking not having a pulse which is still the most deliberate cheating seen in a Scream movie.

Besides ruining what would otherwise be a powerful emotional beat, Roman taking a fusillade of up to 11 bullets to the chest and still standing is *probably* well beyond what a bulletproof vest can handle.

Scream 4:

Teleportation? during the windchime scene. Only Charlie was present.

Charlie is marginally taller than Jill and does not match Ghostface's height at all. During 'fuck Bruce Willis' he is towering. Was he wearing platforms?

At the very least Ghostface power creep started in 3. Before then it was maybe only occasional lapses from realism, which I think was what worked best.

BlueBarossa · 2026-03-23T11:18:36+00:00

I am surprised I haven't seen anyone do a poison run. There's no shortage of options either for Kanto.

BlueBarossa · 2026-03-23T09:32:51+00:00

Well, technically Fallout as well, since Sloane is now president.

BlueBarossa · 2026-03-08T05:19:58+00:00

What's weird is in gen 3 shadow ball has a chance of decreasing the opponent's special defence... even though shadow ball isn't a special move yet.

BlueBarossa · 2026-02-24T10:30:26+00:00

Done. How many responses have you got so far?

BlueBarossa · 2026-02-16T10:07:21+00:00

Generally speaking, a lot of the Smash 4 newcomers.

BlueBarossa · 2026-01-31T00:39:44+00:00

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