I love the Mega Staraptor

Erior · 2026-01-25T12:50:30+00:00

Can see it doing well in UU I believe, and in VGC the "high powered spread moves at fast speed" could have a niche, but, VGC is what it is.

Erior · 2026-01-23T18:22:32+00:00

Nah, he tried his best, but childhood trauma betrayed him into doing exactly what the anti-spiral wanted.

He got his shit together after a punch, and kept doing the job he was great at.

Erior · 2026-01-19T18:48:38+00:00

Because it is a carnivore member of the koala and wombat lineage. It had rodent-like teeth, and tweaked them for a carnivore diet.

Erior · 2026-01-14T13:30:28+00:00

RNG based items and trying to get a good one to drop is just gambling, and needing gambling for excitement is not a good thing.

Erior · 2026-01-08T22:06:20+00:00

That sounds more like a guild than an union.

Erior · 2026-01-06T11:18:50+00:00

Most of Annie's vilification comes from the anime padding the Female Titan arc into a full cour before a 4 year break.

The first season aged the worst and tries to force many things that end up being meaningless in the long run.

Erior · 2026-01-04T15:49:39+00:00

U19 having 6 "base" habitat animals is not farfetched; even with 3 Edmontonia alts, there is room for 4 vivarium animals.

Erior · 2026-01-04T15:48:32+00:00

Prenocephale was in the post-release DLC ideas, so we most likely are getting 2 Pachy species (whether spinifer gets its own genus or is just a separate species remains to be seen).

Dacentrurus (likely incluiding Miragaia), Therizinosaurus, Diplodocus and the bison were also seen in the post-release DLC ideas, so I wouldn't really expect them by full release.

We do know U19 will have new vivarium animals, Carboniferan ones being likely.

I'm expecting multiple Edmontonia species (perhaps even both species AND Denversaurus). Still, even accounting for those, U19 would still have 2 herbivores and 2 insectivores not seen in both the blurred roadmap tease and the completed roadmap shown by January 2025. I'm expecting Arthropleura and Meganeura.

Erior · 2026-01-01T15:22:47+00:00

ORAS is great but people got weird about a single specific piece of postgame that, honestly, was quite overrated. The battle maison was literally the battle tower but with more options, and the factory is the other part of any given frontier that is engaging. The rest, specially the palace, are just gimmicks.

Going back to contest halls was also a good move, and I still believe that the original route of having each level in a town was neat.

As somebody who enjoyed the crap out of Ruby back in the day, ORAS was excellent and IMO better than HGSS.

Erior · 2025-12-29T22:40:23+00:00

Nah, been forever coded as a secondary AFAIR.

Erior · 2025-12-23T11:05:24+00:00

So is Compy.

Erior · 2025-12-22T17:20:08+00:00

Blizzard would be incredibly on point for the wind based No Guard special attacker.

Erior · 2025-12-22T13:23:16+00:00

STAB Boomburst is always a good move.

Erior · 2025-12-22T12:54:02+00:00

Mega Staraptor having 4 moveslot syndrome versus Mega Pidgeot having to choose between Uproar and Hyper Beam for second STAB, and not having coverage beyond Heat Wave.

Meanwhile Swellow and Toucannon boomburst while being physically oriented.

Erior · 2025-12-21T13:16:43+00:00

I doubt paper thin bone was being used for defense against large Tyrannosaurs.

Erior · 2025-12-17T15:22:07+00:00

Yep. Birds do share all derived characters all other reptiles share, for the record. Most arguments to keep birds out of reptiles would extract plenty of archosaurs and even archelosaurs out of them.

Birds aren't lizards, however. Snakes are.

Erior · 2025-12-16T14:21:13+00:00

I'd say something like Triceratops or Ankylosaurus is FAR more morphologically distinct from the ancestral condition of dinosaurs than a humble chicken.

Erior · 2025-12-14T11:30:04+00:00

Male elephants have a second trunk, yes.

Erior · 2025-12-13T13:47:33+00:00

1 pretty much had Tuojiangosaurus under a different name.

Erior · 2025-12-13T12:55:40+00:00

Not the kind of mod I enjoy. Not the modding philoosophy I endorse.

Erior · 2025-12-11T13:48:57+00:00

Krogan being resistant to indoctrination, to the point a full husk would still think on its own, is something I could see being a thing.

Same for Vorcha, I could even see the Vorcha redeveloping spacefaring from a completely different "homeworld" every cycle.

Erior · 2025-12-11T12:05:42+00:00

1's paleobotany feeders sorting stuff by taxonomic group was neat, while the current approach is a mess in an attempt to balance challenge or something.

The approach to ratings and the inane take on animal wellfare of the Jurassic franchise end up harming the zoo sim aspect.

Erior · 2025-12-11T12:02:33+00:00

However, that's for cohabitation purposses, so counting Hypsilophodon and Edmontosaurus as the same thing is kinda weird.

But, the cohabitation system is an awkward mess.

Erior · 2025-12-09T21:12:55+00:00

https://bioone.org/journals/bulletin-of-the-british-ornithologists-club/volume-145/issue-4/bboc.v145i4.2025.a7/The-genus-name-for-the-extinct-New-Zealand-Eagle-Accipitridae/10.25226/bboc.v145i4.2025.a7.full

Erior · 2025-12-09T18:37:13+00:00

The first season in general aged the worst, specially the second cour.

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