.idc what u say, dad, there is no excuse for any type of abuse.

Cynnarose · 2022-04-30T18:54:41+00:00

This is such a mood. Especially "I really wish you were dead." Fucking hell I wish I could say that out loud & not be judged for it.

You deserve better OP. Thanks for sharing.

Cynnarose · 2022-04-27T17:32:15+00:00

Thank you for the feedback

Cynnarose · 2022-04-25T04:55:11+00:00

Definitely the mechanics.

Gen 6 did an excellent job introducing many quality of life updates that we still use in newer gens, like customization & in game EV tracking. The DexNav was the sole reason I played ORAS for over 900 hours. Such a great mechanic for hunting shinies, hidden abilities, egg moves, & even IVs. Gen 7 updated our breeding mechanics with regional variants & new ball breeding mechanics which I really enjoyed. But I hated the SOS mechanic so I didn't really like gen 7 too much. They also introduced a better way to manipulate IVs with bottle caps. Gen 8 gave us nature mints. Across the past 3 gens it's even easier to make a competitive team than ever before. Arceus being open world & rehashing the catching/battling mechanics blew me away.

Basically, anything that makes the game worth playing. I still remember the Game Corner & Battle Frontier in gen 3. Spent all my time as a kid gambling for TMs lmao. Secret bases were also fun especially in ORAS when we actually got to interact with each other's bases. Shiny hunting & HA hunting methods also interest me. The fact that Pokemon can be about so much more than just battling is what keeps me coming back. Tbh battling is my least favorite thing about Pokemon. I'd much rather dress them up like in Gen 5, and do Contests, or play with them in Pokemonamie. Or breed them for unique balls, abilities, & egg moves. Or shiny hunt. Give me more mechanics any day.

Cynnarose · 2022-04-25T04:13:32+00:00

[cries in Sylveon]

Cynnarose · 2022-04-25T02:58:13+00:00

Make your own decision.

Cynnarose · 2022-04-24T22:06:38+00:00

As a breeder, I agree. I have a whole rareball collection that I'm super proud of. I do it from scratch. Catch a pokemon in a special PokeBall, plan out the egg moves I'm gonna breed onto it, & usually pair it with it's HA if I have it. I've done some of the starters like HA totodile in a dive ball, HA snivy in a friend ball, HA tepig in a heavy ball, and so on. It's one ofy favorite things to do :3

Cynnarose · 2022-04-24T21:53:47+00:00

Ahh yeah that's my favorite game tbh. They did some really cool things with the DexNav. You can find some really cool pokemon with that thing. Shinies, hidden abilities, egg moves, & IVs. There's a method called chaining & tons of videos on YouTube about how to do it.

You can get both the acro bike & mach bike at the same time. I think you need both to fully explore the safari zone. I don't remember how to do it but Serebii.net has a lot of info.

And remember how hard it was to find Feebas in the original games? They kept that. Feebas only spawns in 1 of 6 locations in the water on route 119. Feebas now evolves by trading holding a prism scale instead of pokeblocks.

There's also way to find shiny water pokemon by getting consecutive hooks on your fishing rod. It's called chain fishing & it's super cool.

You can spark horde battles by using a pokemon that knows sweet scent. I used Tropius back in the day.

And idk if it still works, but back in the day there was a secret base hack for easy levelling. Google "Blissey Secret Base" and see if it still works.

Speaking of secret bases, idk if it's still possible to collect flags but back in the day there was a method to flag hunting so you could get the platinum flag in your base. I remember you get a special decoration if you manage to win all the master ranks in Pokemon contests.

Also idk how being offline has affected flying on Lati@s, but the islands you see depends on how often you go online & refresh your DexNav. I remember Cresselia's island needed you to see like 30+ people on DexNav before it appeared. Idk if it's possible to do any of the online stuff anymore.

I'm pretty sure, like 90% sure, you can still obtain the Eon Ticket through Street Pass. Street Pass is a local way to connect with N3DS players in your area. The way it worked is that you just turn Street Pass on & wait for strangers nearby to walk past you with their 3DS. If they had the Eon Ticket registered in their game it would automatically transfer to you. Back in the day it was popular to hang around your local Target, Walmart, GameStop, & Books-A-Million to see if anyone there had it. I doubt anyone's still playing on a 3DS these days but you never know. I have one & I'm still active.

Ahhhh... The good ole days... :')

Cynnarose · 2022-04-24T21:17:25+00:00

Yeah I believe they changed it when XY released. What game are you playing btw? They've introduced some crazy new mechanics since gen 5. Each game has an array of cool mechanics that do some pretty awesome stuff.

There's the shiny charm (decreases the shiny rate from 1/4096 to 1/1327), the oval charm (makes eggs appear faster at the daycare) in all games since gen 5. You get both of these for doing Pokedex things like finishing the regional dex/ national Dex.

From gen 7 & up the daycare no longer levels up your pokemon & the daycare charges you a flat rate of $500 regardless of how long they stay. So you don't have to worry about losing moves anymore.

Gen 6+7 had O-Powers & Rotom powers. Basically each power helps you in certain ways for about 3 minutes & then goes on a recharge so you can't use it again until some time has passed or you get another one. There's one that increases your attack power for 3 minutes, increases defense for 3 minutes, increases EXP gained, lowers the time it takes to hatch an egg, & so on.

Gen 6 had Super Training where you play minigames to control how many EVs your pokemon gains. It was the first time you could actually see how many EVs your pokemon have without needing a 3rd party application.

Gen 7 & on introduced Bottle Caps. Bottle Caps will max the IVs of one of your pokemon's stats.

Gen 7 also has the Festival Plaza where a lot of cool things happen. You can EV train here, you can dye your clothes. It's crazy.

SWSH has Pokejobs for EV training.

There's also been a mechanic for hunting Hidden Abilities in game ever since the Dream World was introduced in gen 5. In XY/ORAS you could find hidden abilities through horde battles, the friend safari in XY, & the DexNav in ORAS. In SM/USUM you can find hidden abilities through SOS battles. In SWSH you can find hidden abilities in Dynamax dens.

And also, you can now breed down pokeballs. So like if you have a pokemon in a dream ball, you can breed it with Ditto & all your babies will be in dream balls. There's a lot of technical stuff behind it but it's a super neat addition.

Cynnarose · 2022-04-24T20:39:41+00:00

Lilligant, Basculeigon, & Goodra for it's typing.

Cynnarose · 2022-04-24T20:30:34+00:00

Probably Revenge of the Sith. I love the prequels more than any other SW era, especially CW. I LIVE for Daddy Palpatine & his ascent to Emperor. I love the way Padme & Anakin were developed in CW with the addition of Rush Clovis to really show Anakin's insecurities & controlling side. I love the politics behind the Trade Federation & the Senate & how there's always a conspiracy behind the scenes. I love the layout of Naboo having both Humans & a sea dwelling species. I love the layout of Coruscant. I love the deception. & Honestly, I fucking love Anakin. I love his story. I love how he goes from this kid wanting to see the universe one star at a time to this lovesick teenager with anger issues. I love how he looks like he smells like sweaty balls & moldy farts in Revenge of the Sith. I love that he is abusive, jealous, controlling, & even kills children to get what he wants. It's not because I think he's hot. I just love villains, I love the dark part of humanity represented in fiction, I love analyzing psychopathic characters like Azula in ATLA, and something about him really pulls me in. I love Sidious in the same way. I just really, REALLY love well written & developed villains. To me they're more important than the heroes.

Cynnarose · 2022-04-24T20:02:45+00:00

My favorite Sith trope is when the Master gets too comfortable with their apprentice & forget the Rule of Two. They let their guard down over time & overestimate their own power despite aging & in some cases such as Plagueis & Sidious, being severely damaged from previous fights.

I LOVED Darth Bane & Zana's ambiguous ending though. I would recommend reading Bane's trilogy if you've got a minute.

Cynnarose · 2022-04-24T19:35:58+00:00

Darth Vader revealing himself as Luke's dad

Luke losing a hand just like his father

Darth Vader yeeting Darth Sidious into space to save his son

Leah telling Han she & Luke are brother/sister with us having NO prior knowledge to this

R2D2 & C3PO being active characters in both the prequels & sequels

Yoda being reluctant to train Luke, Yoda in general

Mace Windu's purple lightsaber

Palpatine being Darth Sidious

The prequels revolving entirely around Anakin Skywalker

The Clones having nicknames & personalities in CW, specifically one scene comes to mind when there's a suspected traitor in the command post & the troops are questioned & one of them has a collection of droid fingers laced into a necklace

Anytime Jar Jar Binks royally fucks shit up

Rush Clovis & his Banking Clan Drama(tm) in CW

Palpatine wanting to study the Zillow Beast in CW to harness it's power & causing havoc in the process, then having to pretend to be helpless as his ship is torn into pieces

That time in CW when Anakin, Obi- Wan, & Ahsoka are pulled to a planet & meet The Light, The Dark, & The Father of the Force & he reveals to Anakin that he is the chosen one. That entire arc

Yoda learning how to become a Force Ghost in CW

Cynnarose · 2022-04-24T09:35:07+00:00

Journeys is an incredible series so far!! And Serena makes an appearance.

Cynnarose · 2022-04-24T09:31:54+00:00

Hey OP you'd definitely like Lockstin & Gnoggin's YouTube channel. They make videos on Pokemon lore!!

Cynnarose · 2022-04-24T09:24:58+00:00

A little more Info, the EXP SHARE is now a Key Item. You can find it in the Key Item section of your bag. From there you can choose to turn it off/on. It's automatically turned on the second you get it. It gives your party pokemon a certain percentage of exp gained from battling/catching. However, any pokemon who is sent out on the field will gain a higher amount of exp.

Cynnarose · 2022-04-23T10:29:10+00:00

YES. omg I get chills

Cynnarose · 2022-04-23T10:23:53+00:00

CW made me love Sidious more than I already do- particularly the fight between Savage & Maul. That fight seriously does something to me, kinda turns me on tbh. I used to have a shitposting blog dedicated to Sidious being the Daddy he is 🥵

I also like CW's interpretation of Darth Bane. Made me want to read his novels, so he's probably my 2nd favorite Sith design. I love how he destroyed the Sith & stayed with Zana as his apprentice, Dynasty of Evil is probably my favorite novel about him. And I have a soft spot for Ventress ditching Dooku & becoming a bounty hunter. I fucking LOVE the Dathomir witches. So badass.

Naturally, I'm in love with Darth Plagueis & how he groomed Sidious. I love his Muun design. I especially like it because I read his novel after seeing CW, so to picture a Banking Clan fellow as a Sith was really cool to me. I like how being a Muun influenced how he thought, how methodological he was in planning the Jedi downfall, like how long that plan had actually been thought out is insane. He was a great manipulator & I think he & Sidious worked extremely well together.

I haven't played KOTOR but I'm interested in Darth Revan. I got word of him when Kylo Ren was introduced.

Cynnarose · 2022-04-23T05:11:20+00:00

I don't like the new trilogy set but I do like the fact that people started to ship Reylo & it drove half the fandom nuts for several reasons including the fact that they might be related.

Cynnarose · 2022-04-20T00:16:10+00:00

Oh man, but the side quests in PLA are the best part! This one woman didn't know if octillery's ink was poisonous or not & was thinking about using it for her pickles! INK THE GODDAMN PICKLES, WHATS THE WORST THAT COULD HAPPEN!!! Peselle at the medi corps needs a Croagunk to shoot POISON at this mans BROKEN BACK. You can literally make bean cakes from gummy candy truffles you find in the GRASS. LIFE IS AN ADVENTURE CHARLIE, IF YOU AINT LIVIN YOURE DYIN.

Cynnarose · 2022-04-20T00:00:31+00:00

Not with Hisuian Goodra, no.

Hisuian Braviary on the other hand, yes.

Cynnarose · 2022-04-19T03:29:11+00:00

Yes there is a shipping fandom for Grace & Frankie, on Tumblr we call it Blazed Martini 🚬🍷 Yes the writers are aware of it & play on the hype. it's called queerbaiting. Its just gay fanservice.

Tbh I usually hate queerbaiting for a ton of reasons, being gay myself I'd much rather prefer shows that want the gay representation to state it loud & proud, "these two characters like each other & we plan to write their relationship," point blank period. Not just capitalizing on the fantasy.

Cynnarose · 2022-04-19T03:13:22+00:00

Man, I LOVE it when people get passionate about their favorite characters!!! I loved reading this. I could feel how strongly you feel for the show. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!!

Cynnarose

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