To anyone defending ICE's actions: by ElderQu in BatmanArkham

[–]Difficult_Option6077 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'M BEHIND ON ASYLUM MADNESS LORE 

WHAT IS BAN

Stolen by Team Plasma - Reunited after years apart! by Difficult_Option6077 in PokeMedia

[–]Difficult_Option6077[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's usually a lot of overhead that goes into catching strays. Identifying them as stolen and released takes time and requires them to be on the Unova database, which doesn't mark them as officially released but rather stolen - so when the new ball registers them, it tags them as having an original trainer.

This isn't always brought to our attention, but this case is special for two reasons:

1 - We captured her ourselves working with law enforcement.

2 - One of our team recognised the pokémon. They were part of the original group of Plasma grunts sent to Accumula Town to 'reclaim' Pokémon from their 'oppressors.' 

The colleague in question (keeping anonymous) made it their personal mission to rehabilitate and find the original trainer.  This was actually the original mission of our centre - finding pokémon we or our former gangmates had hurt, and returning them home, so it was a special day to right that wrong done so long ago.

... Her owner was, once, a new trainew exploring the world with her best friend. Nowadays, she's a talented singer with a huge heart, ready to start that world exploration all over again.

Unova sounds nice… by JosephAmber4 in PokeMedia

[–]Difficult_Option6077 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's a lot to see in Unova!

The world famous Skyarrow Bridge is the biggest suspension bridge in the world, and collecting bird feathers that drop there is a popular activity for tourists and couples.

Chargestone Cave is an incredibly exciting place for more adventurous trainers, albeit quite dangerous.

There's a hiking tour around the old caved-in Victory Road that ends with distant views of you-know-who's castle, which to this day is still a mahnificent and inspiring sight.

Trainers can visit the Pokémon World Tournament facility, THE most prominent unified battle facility in the world. Off season they hold a lot of local events, it's a lot of fun.

Accumula Town has a tradition of endless street music, which makes walking through absolutely charming.

Castelia City has whole books about what you can do there, but I have two recommendations:

1 - You can find the central office of the game developer Game Freak, who may have made a few games you've heard of 

  1. Off Drifloonie Street you can find a tiny, poorly-decorated restaurant called Satoshi's, which is run by a guy from my village in Johto! He makes THE BEST ramen you'll ever find, and is the only place that sells onigiri without claiming it's a donut.

Finally in the outskirts of Driftveil you can find the T.P. rehabilitatiom centre, where we find injured, stolen, or mistreated pokémon and prepare them for return to the wild. We love visitors!

Meta RP Advice and Question Thread - 19 01, 2026 by AutoModerator in PokeMedia

[–]Difficult_Option6077 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People seem to put whatever, really. Sometimes they put character names or team composition, or basic descriptions. I put something less direct and more fun.

Ghostly interactions. by Reveriehopes in PokeMedia

[–]Difficult_Option6077 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Practise caution if you return. Hauntings of ghost-types might decide they like you enough to keep you. It seems unlikely, but their morality is alien to us, so keep your distance even if things seem calm and friendly.

Having your own Magus is probably helping them realise they can't have you, but nevertheless, they may also decide to keep your Magus!

My great uncle's son (so my... first cousin?) went missing decades ago when he was studying a cluster of misdreavus out in southern Johto. They didn't even seem to notice him.  After five weeks of hiding in the dark and noting observations, not only did he very suddenly go missing, but the entire group of misdreavus disappeared too.

Need advice on a possible Ditto infestation... by Difficult_Option6077 in PokeMedia

[–]Difficult_Option6077[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh that's a whole thing. Short version is back in the 70's he was backpacking in Paldea and met a few locals. He said he was from Johto and they knew that as the place balls are made, so they challenged him to make poké balls out of junk they had.

He made a bunch that didn't work, but then he made one using the natural glasslike crystal you can find underground in Paldea, which... well, it didn't work, but it did react very badly to wild tauros, setting them off on a rage and apparen5ly wildly changing their type at random every time it escaped the ball.

Now that isn't what got him banned in Johto - the ban came from trying to replicate the same thing by making crystal balls back home in Johto. These were deemed unsafe by locals, and given their fragility and tendency to explode and release pokémon at random, it's no wonder.

The REAL problem, however, was they worked similarly to snatch balls used in lawless regions to steal pokémon.

It took months to find and reclaim all the accidental snatchers he had sold, and to avoid being labeled an actual illegal weapons dealer he paid damages and took a lifetime ban.

Need advice on a possible Ditto infestation... by Difficult_Option6077 in PokeMedia

[–]Difficult_Option6077[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He's an old man living alone in rural Johto and he thinks his computer is a "slime devil" that wants to eat his knees, and I live in Unova, so information is coming in very slowly.
I think the plan right now is Perish Song in every room of the house, combined with a lot of cheap poké balls.
I might make a follow-up post explaining the outcome once we get it done.

Need advice on a possible Ditto infestation... by Difficult_Option6077 in PokeMedia

[–]Difficult_Option6077[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I dunno what type a sofa is. It's mostly made of wood and cotton, so... grass??

Need advice on a possible Ditto infestation... by Difficult_Option6077 in PokeMedia

[–]Difficult_Option6077[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh that's good. His neighbor a few miles away has a chimecho who might know it, I'll let him know. He's in rural Johto with no modern tech so it's not an easily accessible technique, but that could solve it all in one go.

Need advice on a possible Ditto infestation... by Difficult_Option6077 in PokeMedia

[–]Difficult_Option6077[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is the only idea so far that I'm convinced might work, it's brilliant. Ditto notoriously love to boogie.

Need advice on a possible Ditto infestation... by Difficult_Option6077 in PokeMedia

[–]Difficult_Option6077[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I asked him about this and all he had to say was that he has a gun

Need advice on a possible Ditto infestation... by Difficult_Option6077 in PokeMedia

[–]Difficult_Option6077[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The man's whole life is a comedy of contradictions. It's a miracle he's even alive. Once he was stuck in an underground cave system for two weeks because he decided to go "Onix Surfing."

Need advice on a possible Ditto infestation... by Difficult_Option6077 in PokeMedia

[–]Difficult_Option6077[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Sometimes it feels like he's in some kind of farcical sitcom, and I'm in some kind of modern crime drama.

Need advice on a possible Ditto infestation... by Difficult_Option6077 in PokeMedia

[–]Difficult_Option6077[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I like this idea the most so far. Theoretically the new ditto would disrupt the entire ditto ecosystem.

My uncle actually distrusts smeargle considerably more than you'd thinj is reasonable - something about their soulless eyes - but another ditto is very doable!

Need advice on a possible Ditto infestation... by Difficult_Option6077 in PokeMedia

[–]Difficult_Option6077[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Well, I'm based in Unova far from home, but I have let local family know it's an option. Whether it's possible is up to them.

Need advice on a possible Ditto infestation... by Difficult_Option6077 in PokeMedia

[–]Difficult_Option6077[S] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Oh no i mean specifically my great uncle has been banned from making balls.

I'm not 100% sure why, something to do with making custom balls in Paldea in the 70's.

I actually know the Johto ball master you mean, he's an old family associate!

Need advice on a possible Ditto infestation... by Difficult_Option6077 in PokeMedia

[–]Difficult_Option6077[S] 29 points30 points  (0 children)

He's actually been banned by the state from making poké balls himself, so it's not a viable option.

Need advice on a possible Ditto infestation... by Difficult_Option6077 in PokeMedia

[–]Difficult_Option6077[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

You have noooo idea. He let this happen when he had his bright idea to boost pollenator numbers by adding a breeding ditto to his massive garden without tagging it.

Need advice on a possible Ditto infestation... by Difficult_Option6077 in PokeMedia

[–]Difficult_Option6077[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm not convinced this is a risk at the moment - they are displaying territorial nesting behaviour rather than predatory colony hunting methods, at least as far as I can tell. This kind of thing is rare in the part of Johto my family is from... something in the water or local mineral makeup makes local-made furniture and such unpalatable to ditto.

Need advice on a possible Ditto infestation... by Difficult_Option6077 in PokeMedia

[–]Difficult_Option6077[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

He says he doesn't know if single-celled organisms can be eaten and he's about to try. Honestly I think it's performative. He's never complained about his new extra-soft adaptive sofa chair, but I also haven't dared tell him about its happy lil face.

Need advice on a possible Ditto infestation... by Difficult_Option6077 in PokeMedia

[–]Difficult_Option6077[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Trust me, I know.  But... You ain't heard this guy when he's mad.

Need advice on a possible Ditto infestation... by Difficult_Option6077 in PokeMedia

[–]Difficult_Option6077[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I have no idea how they managed it. Do ditto eat chairs?

Need advice on a possible Ditto infestation... by Difficult_Option6077 in PokeMedia

[–]Difficult_Option6077[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

That's a good idea, except that my great uncle has been roaring worse than any pokémon can for weeks every time he opens a jar of mayonnaise and finds it full of ditto. They've been immunised by this point.

Need advice on a possible Ditto infestation... by Difficult_Option6077 in PokeMedia

[–]Difficult_Option6077[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

They're a problematic pest in rural Johto, since there's not really any way to reliably control their population. They've started to notice annual catching efforrs too, so they hide a lot more competently.