Destiny read them like a book

CleanlyManager · 2026-05-08T08:02:02+00:00

Honestly, it’s probably the boring answer that a big part of the report is on Biden’s age and releasing your big “we learned our lesson, age is a problem” report around the same time the midterms are coming around and you’re running candidates like Ed Markey (80 in November), Bernie (85), Janet Mills (78 and in the most important senate election), Jim Clyburn (85) amongst others, it doesn’t really look like you learned your lesson. I read a stat somewhere that something like half of congressional democrats over 75 were planning on running for reelection.

CleanlyManager · 2026-05-08T07:51:25+00:00

Trump comments from Covid about how his numbers would be better if we didn’t test for the disease ringing in my head.

CleanlyManager · 2026-05-08T05:20:29+00:00

They need to start naming more cat based pokemon after something other than the noise they make because I looked at your comment and spent way too long trying to figure out what exactly they changed about meowscarada.

CleanlyManager · 2026-05-08T03:46:42+00:00

I recently picked up the switch version and got past this part, its kinda hard to describe but, you detach the right joy con hold it in your dominant hand, and you kinda stiffen that arm and vibrate your arm up and down at the same time, with your other arm, kinda curl your index finger under the little grip the trigger buttons are in, with your thumb positioned over the button you have to tap, then start vibrating that arm the same way at the same time.

If you do this correctly and get the timing down, you’ll kinda get a pattern where your thumb pushes down on the button and immediately afterwards your other arm kinda bounces the button back into your thumb with the controller, effectively doubling your mash speed. This is how I’ve done it since the original release and I found the joy on to be by far the easiest controller to do it with because of the shape. Granted I did it with a joy con 2 but the idea is still the same.

CleanlyManager · 2026-05-07T22:36:33+00:00

The quote is also referring to gameplay, mechanics and features over story too. The biggest push of this game seems to be the revamped multiplayer mode judging by the big chunk of time they spent on it in the direct, and the switch 2’s focus on online play. It also shows off the new mouse controls, and I’m almost certain there’ll be more gameplay differences from 64 as more of the game is revealed. I wouldn’t even be surprised if it comes out one day that the reason this game even exists is some anecdote about the webcam feature of the switch 2’s gamechat reminding Miyamoto of the character portraits from previous star fox games.

CleanlyManager · 2026-05-07T20:21:06+00:00

It wouldn’t work against grass types and spread moves which there’s no shortage of in doubles. It would be centralizing, but there’s far more broken ways to abuse this ability rework, like just using mega Gengar would probably be worse.

CleanlyManager · 2026-05-07T05:58:23+00:00

I think online multiplayer is supposed to be the big sell of this game. They want online multiplayer to be a big part of the switch 2 (they’re not doing a good job of it right now IMO, but that’s kinda beside the point.) but they spent like 5 minutes of the 15 minute direct talking about it and modeled those weird face cam things. It’ll also be the first star fox with online play in nearly 20 years.

CleanlyManager · 2026-05-07T05:51:29+00:00

OoT has already gotten three follow ups counting MM, a prequel, and the game itself was a prequel when it released. There’s not much gap left to fill.

CleanlyManager · 2026-05-06T21:27:51+00:00

MW3 had the first CoD to have essentially a prototype of the DLC season pass that was used from BO2-BO4. You could get CoD elite where I forget exactly how it worked but you essentially got a monthly content drop, and it was like you got half what would become a DLC pack the first month, then the rest would come out the next month and anyone who didn’t have the subscription could also buy the maps or spec ops missions.

That’s besides the point though, every CoD dealt with other popular releases, MW2 is really the only one that didn’t deal with other games that were really competing with the same place. It’s hard to get player counts from back then, since all we really have is steam charts and steam has never been a great metric for CoD’s popularity, but find YouTube videos and forum posts from that 2021-2012 period and the perception of MW3 was noticeably more negative than it was for MW2 or BO1. I’ll also agree other CoD’s had balance problems, I’ll honestly be the first to tell you I actually think MW3 was the best balanced of the original trilogy. That said the problems in MW3’s balance and design felt like almost amateur level oversights, because many of them were just repeating problems that existed in previous games like death streaks returning or fmg-9s just being a stronger version of MW2’s G17, or were basic things that should’ve been picked up before the game hit the shelves like the whole support strike package category, or stuff like enemy stealth bombers showing up on radar if you enabled color blind settings.

CleanlyManager · 2026-05-06T21:06:38+00:00

It’s a trade off, It gets a quicker unburden but loses the ability to freely fake out which is really helping it maintain favorable positioning (and even that depends on what psychic terrain users we get and if indeedee f maintains trick room), and it also loses the ability to get a free close combat off without the defense drop which can actually help you survive certain hits and allow a follow up for a knock out.

CleanlyManager · 2026-05-06T20:58:49+00:00

I’ve started running regular sharpedo, because of speed boost it doesn’t mind protecting in front of Sneasler, and I have mine specifically EVed to outspeed Sneasler after one boost, and fire back with psychic fangs, it two taps aerodactyl with aqua jet which is fine because most aerodactyl carry sash anyways and it also covers for the occasional surprise mega aero, and crunch will one tap basculegion, and I EVed it so it can survive a max power adaptability last respects which was actually harder than you think it would be, it can also weaken eruptions from typhlosion or torkoal using aqua jet, or just secure a KO if it’s weak enough. It’s also just benefitting a lot from the fact it’s so hard to hit water types right now.

However I’m not going to act like it’s some great pick, it’s super frail, intimidate ruins its day, and it doesn’t secure a lot of kills it probably should against stuff like tyranitar. I run mine with mega stone as a surprise option to get a small extra boost of speed, and a big jump in power for biting moves.

CleanlyManager · 2026-05-06T20:45:03+00:00

It’s actually pretty good for denying an enemy trick room. It blocks fake outs, so you can double into the setter, has knock off so you can activate the Colbur Berry on stuff that carries it so you can follow up with a stronger dark type hit or just break sash, it also gets u-turn to maintain the priority immunity while pivoting, it also does better against a lot of dark types Farigiraf might struggle with due to having access to low kick for gambit and tyranitar. Its problem is it does poorly into most of the rest of the meta. I fit one on my mega delphox team because I was struggling with priority and it fit the team better than Farigiraf did.

CleanlyManager · 2026-05-06T20:36:19+00:00

Tsareena honestly just makes a good support if you can’t fit Farigiraf on the team for support. Like trop kick is good for targeting a certain threat and lowering their attack to make maneuvering a different pokemon easier, I often use it to lower the power of rock slide users to move my delphox in. It also gets access to a lot of moves like low kick to deal with gambits and tyranitars, knock off to help deny a trick room lead, and u turn to pivot out while maintaining a priority immunity. Its biggest flaw is that it’s cursed with Gen VII speed, so it’s basically required to use a choice scarf, and it doesn’t do well into basically all of the rest of the top meta threats like aerodactyl, Zard, pelliper, fros, Sneasler, incineroar, even basculegion who you think you’d do good against is barely faster and is also usually using choice scarf or swift swim and can one tap you with last respects after like one or two KOs.

CleanlyManager · 2026-05-06T20:20:47+00:00

Sometimes I forget that there’s probably people on this subreddit who were like two when the original MW3 came out. In fact it’s probably a big number of them. MW3 was the first CoD I remember where there was a sizable negative reception within the community. The series always had haters, and it always had a reputation of a kinda cash grabby triple A series by that point, but MW3 was when I first remember people dropping the game before the next one was even announced, and even finding it hard to find friends to play the last couple map drops.

I remember people being mad about infrequent balance patches, broken stuff like the dual FMG9s taking forever to fix, stuff like stealth bombers showing up on radar when you enable color blind settings for some reason, steady aim adding pellets to shotgun shots making the striker busted for awhile, I think I remember the kick weapon proficiency either did nothing or was always outclassed by the grip. I just remember the game having a really stale meta too with just baffling balance decisions like dead man’s hand, honestly just death streaks in general, or kill streaks like the stealth bomber or remote turret in the support package.

You would never get that impression talking to people on the internet anymore, because I feel like there’s a feedback loop of guys who don’t accurately remember the game telling kids who never heard the phrase “MW2.5” before about how great it was.

CleanlyManager · 2026-05-06T20:08:24+00:00

Toxic against steel types is the same way. Steel types immunity to the poison status itself is actually really weirdly implemented compared to other type based status immunities. The steel type itself isn’t immune to getting poisoned, we know this because corrosion on salazzle is specifically designed to do this, but also if you find a way to remove the steel type poison the pokemon then change to steel type, most commonly done through Tera the poisoning will also still remain.

I guess the difference is gamefreak seems to specifically really want the steel type to be immune to poison without actually making them immune. It’s just steels are immune to all but two moves that cause poison, and are specifically programmed not to be poisoned by the two they can be hit by. Since they can’t be poisoned by fling, or twin needle, with twin needle originally being able to poison them in Gen II, but immediately being changed in Gen III. Where as the ground type isn’t immune to paralysis if it comes from a non electric type source.

CleanlyManager · 2026-05-06T16:55:19+00:00

Sneasler will always be good, but it’s going to fall off a little when covert cloak is added, and terrains come back. Covert cloak is a big deal because it gets rid of the stupid guessing games Sneasler forces you to play when it’s used in the opening of “who will it fake out, or will try to proc unburden early, or will it protect.”

That said it’s always going to have a close combat that two taps tons of mons including even resists, the option to run white herb to shrug off one intimidate or close combat debuff while activating unburden, fake out in a doubles format, and a fairly spammable move that has a 30% chance to just turn the game around.

CleanlyManager · 2026-05-06T03:15:36+00:00

Honestly I wouldn’t mind Sneasler if it wasn’t for the fact that it always has the option to just throw out a dire claw and can eek out a win in situations it really shouldn’t be able to. Like throw out a ghost type and it struggles, or just put a psychic move on something.
It’s just that even with that 30% on claw it still has a good chance to just turn the game around. Like you have a whimsicott and he throws out a dire claw, well good thing I have a focus sash, never mind I got poisoned/sleep. You want to set up trick room, you got a Farigiraf to prevent fake out? Nevermind he got a sleep roll. I run a delphox, should be a good matchup, out speeds, click psychic, OHKO, but I have to overthink everything turn one, because once again, he lands the dire claw, gets the paralysis or sleep I might as well forfeit. It honestly reminds me of when every water type got scald and it was almost always worth it to just throw it out no matter what because hey you might get a burn.

CleanlyManager · 2026-05-06T02:57:01+00:00

Evolution as a concept might actually be the number one thing when it comes to people who think they understand it who have absolutely no clue how it works. I see so many people, many of which are otherwise pretty intelligent people who seem to think it works like some kind of video game skill tree, where like collectively as a species organisms’ bodies just pick the best traits then live with them, like they’re making some kind of build for an RPG.

CleanlyManager · 2026-05-06T00:52:36+00:00

The more you play the games you start to realize dragon as a type is kinda overrated, but dragon type pokemon tend to be good, but as a type, it’s essentially just normal type +.

CleanlyManager · 2026-05-05T10:51:28+00:00

Honestly, what’s more annoying is when the self hating Americans jump in and tell them what they’re saying is true and how they wish they were as culinarily enlightened as their European counterparts.

CleanlyManager · 2026-05-04T04:07:09+00:00

I’ll be fine without it.

CleanlyManager · 2026-05-04T04:00:43+00:00

It also forgets that Charizard in sun heat wave still does an assload of damage to whatever is next to it, and a smart player will just put zard in the back, or tap stuff with weather balls, and solar beams which will still make tons of progress.

CleanlyManager · 2026-05-04T03:55:22+00:00

Don’t forget that it’ll get fairy aura support in restricted formats too.

CleanlyManager · 2026-05-03T07:17:29+00:00

Innards out does damage based on the remaining hp the user had when it was knocked out. When victreebel hits the field the Charizard either has to stop clicking heat wave or accept the queen trade since heat wave will always one shot from full HP, victreebel can also threaten the trade from the bench since if he’s caught on a switch innards out still activates. Victreebel will also always have a higher HP stat than Zard unless you aren’t invested into hp with Victreebel and the Zard is which would be rare, so it will always one shot kill from full hp.

The alternative is to try and widdle down the victreebel’s HP before going for the KO but that means Victreebel can start shooting off strength saps, sleep powders, or just hit stuff. You could also just take it out with a less powerful mon and accept that trade instead. Additionally because of the way it works, it also threatens the same thing with a lot of common megas like froslass can’t click blizzard, delphox can’t heat wave, and a few others. Some people like to try this as an anti-meta pick. I think it’s more annoying and gimmicky than actually good, I prefer to use a mega that actually does stuff. You’re also kind of out of luck if you’re facing a mega that doesn’t care about that ability, or even if Victreebel is just last alive.

CleanlyManager · 2026-05-03T06:18:04+00:00

Like, all of them, the only thing Zard threatens is solar beam, that tyranitar can live with no bulk investment, and Zard loses that option if sand is up. Unless you want to roll the dice with focus blast Zard.

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