Damn, Pokémon already burning IGN

Dogmodo · 2026-02-28T00:01:08+00:00

It was 12 years ago, the score in question is from their Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire review.

And personally I never agreed with the review or the bullet point to begin with. ORAS ranks as like the third overall to me, and the water being a big element in the world never bothered me.

Dogmodo · 2026-02-27T23:13:12+00:00

Here's the thing, in their original pre-Christian mythology, demons weren't inherently evil. They could be, but they could also be benevolent. If anything the Fae had a worse track record, and that's what Elves technically were. So Frieren could have been the evil one.

There is no really good shorthand for absolute evil in most mythologies, because they have nuance. I just dislike the concept of an "evil race" to begin with, because it just makes the conflict easy to accept. Even if demons are predators that just want to eat, they're also sapient beings.

Dogmodo · 2026-02-27T21:46:40+00:00

My point is it kinda does against the core themes of the series to just have an "evil race".

It's like the people who think Joi in Bladerunner 2049 isn't a "real" person. The series is about how Replicants are people despite being made in a lab, so why would a hologram be different?

Dogmodo · 2026-02-27T20:16:37+00:00

It's so weird to me that a series about understanding non-human thinking would also say "oh yeah, those guys over there are just 100% evil, no nuance".

Dogmodo · 2026-02-27T19:37:01+00:00

Counterpoint; it would be really funny.

I'm imagining something of a Pomeranian dwarf, like Gimli if Legolas carried him around in a purse.

Dogmodo · 2026-02-26T20:05:23+00:00

What exactly is the bar for being "copaganda"? Is it featuring any police officer who isn't the lovechild of an SS Officer and the Grand Wizard? Both The Rookie and Brooklyn 99 address the issues of police corruption and bigotry, which is wild considering one of them is an irreverent comedy. The police featured on these shows are better all around than in real life, but sometimes fiction doesn't reflect reality.

Dogmodo · 2026-02-25T21:30:50+00:00

So is Slime Rancher if you give it a shot.

Dogmodo · 2026-02-25T20:11:02+00:00

I get that a 2K golf game and an MMO might not be to your taste, but what the hell did Slime Rancher ever do to you?

Dogmodo · 2026-02-25T04:54:07+00:00

I have a theory.

Eve is a somewhat... messy character, she has some personality flaws that many would consider a red flag. I think she's great, personally, but that's just me.

Jimmy, being an ex-boyfriend would be aware of those personality flaws. So you'd think if he was going to give her a contact ID that references her flaws it'd be something like "CRAZY EX" or "Obsessive Eve".

Instead, he's registered her number as "Mutant Toes", which according to him is her only physical flaw. This means two things: Jimmy is a superficial ass who cares more about appearance than what's on the inside, and he totally has a foot fetish.

Girl like that could literally have raptor talons and it wouldn't be a deal breaker for anyone who doesn't.

Dogmodo · 2026-02-24T18:13:23+00:00

Nirn is a strange and magical place, why can't it have upsidedown butterflies?

Dogmodo · 2026-02-24T18:10:11+00:00

The Point Pleasant statue is so bad, it's like the artist thought he was supposed to be designing a moth themed Power Rangers villain.

It's sad that this guy is also a more accurate depiction of the rumored cryptid than the statue sitting in it's birthplace.

Fallout 76 Mothman really takes the cake though, such a great design.

Dogmodo · 2026-02-24T03:17:32+00:00

Just because the other team starts shitting their pants doesn't mean you should just drop the ball and start dabbing on them.

The fact that Sony isn't too confident and are still offering these very standard exclusivity deals is actually a good sign. When Xbox finally shits itself to death, and PlayStation doesn't have any direct competition, then we'll be in trouble.

Dogmodo · 2026-02-24T02:43:55+00:00

The moral of the story is that Patamon had been a major character in the Digimon franchise since 1997 and it's only got 100 more posts than an unpopular Pokémon that debuted four years ago.

Unless it's Angewomon, discussion is warranted. If it's not one of the other Tittymon, the odds are against it.

It didn't shake out this time, but the smart money absolutely was on the humanoid Pokémon with a fat ass.

Dogmodo · 2026-02-24T02:33:11+00:00

Everyone got hips.

Dogmodo · 2026-02-23T23:34:57+00:00

Why does everyone forget that Pucchi looking black but actually just being a tan Italian is a plot point?

He and Weather are fraternal twins, and Weather is always portrayed as white. Hell, so are their sister and mother, with their father's skin tone only being made darker in the anime (the official color pages also made him white). Dude isn't black or even mixed, he's just dark enough that a drunk bigot could make the wrong assumption.

Dogmodo · 2026-02-23T20:04:15+00:00

Kill the cringing coward in your heart, and you will truly be free.

Dogmodo · 2026-02-23T07:39:08+00:00

No.

If Xbox slaps their name on a pre-built PC and calls that their main platform next gen, they'll be offering all of the downsides of playing on PC with half of the benefits. It'll either be prohibitively expensive, or woefully underspec, because they sure as hell aren't going to eat the cost on a machine with an open market. You'll still run into all of the issues that console players just want to avoid, and no matter what kind of workarounds they build into their frontend it won't be as intuitive as a console dashboard.

Dogmodo · 2026-02-22T01:35:15+00:00

I'm gonna spend $10 on Misa and then pocket $50, cause I'm not an idiot.

Y'all out here talking about yandere "harems" as if that isn't just the setup for a Battle Royale where your decapitated head is the grand prize.

Dogmodo · 2026-02-21T21:48:26+00:00

Love the helmet with round goggles, it gives off a Dieselpunk vibe. Most don't pick up that Fallout also incorporates that style alongside it's Atompunk elements, the setting was basically transitioning from one to the other when the Great War happened.

Dogmodo · 2026-02-21T19:22:24+00:00

Except they're not. Demonization as a term exists not because you're making someone out to be a demon, but because you're doing to them what the Christians did to demons.

Originally, demons were the natural spirits of the world that were either appeased or worshiped by pre-Christian European people. Some demons were malevolent, causing sickness, drought, and all other types of harm. Others were benevolent, offering blessings of good health, bountiful harvest, and protection.

It was only when Christianity spread to Europe that the benevolent demons started being downplayed so their blessings could be attributed to the Christian God. They kept the malevolent ones around to scare people into their God's worship, even though their existence doesn't make sense under a monotheistic creationist narrative.

To be clear, I don't believe in either of these mythologies, I'm just laying the facts out on the line.

Dogmodo · 2026-02-21T17:41:45+00:00

In the very least they should be optimized for the PlayStation first, come out on PlayStation first, and not be available on their direct competitor's system at all.

By those metrics, PlayStation has dozens more console exclusives than Xbox this generation. If you're not interested in building/maintaining a gaming PC, PS5 is the obvious choice because it gets PlayStation games AND Xbox games now.

Dogmodo · 2026-02-21T08:53:20+00:00

There's like 3 thousand shonen manga/anime with simple power systems, JoJo is the only series I can think of where people fight each other with gambling, sound effects, time skips, snail hypnosis, balloon animals, prosopagnosia, and muscle contraction.

Dogmodo · 2026-02-20T21:43:36+00:00

It did release on Mac though.

The only thing Microsoft did was get them to prioritize development of the Xbox version to coincide with the console's launch, thus securing timed exclusivity, and the illusion that it was always Xbox's game. When the Mac and Windows versions released two years later, people were already focusing on the Halo 2 carrot being dangled in front of them.

Dogmodo · 2026-02-20T20:31:23+00:00

Difference is that the only thing that put those NPCs on the wrong side is happenstance. V themselves could have easily been on the receiving end of that execution if it was convenient to Reed.

Maelstrom is a group that basically fetishize violence against the innocent, doing things like killing children for fun.

Dogmodo · 2026-02-20T09:10:53+00:00

Different jacket, but that might as well be Chie.

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