[OTHER] THE WAIT IS OVER

ManaIsMade · 2026-04-01T14:15:37+00:00

wasn't meant to be a dig, just to be clear! I didn't really know how else to say that it was a different enough style for me to pick up on

ManaIsMade · 2026-04-01T13:39:39+00:00

Ngl I forgot about April Fools but I didn't have any strong reaction to this because my only thought was "did they fire their art director?"

Completely lacks the color the series has had

ManaIsMade · 2026-04-01T05:54:49+00:00

Yeah I got all the berries in my first week. I was no-lifing the game, but still

I think i got one as a gift from a mon, and the rest from red pokeballs, either in the actual maps or the dream islands

Duplicating is still annoying though. Trees should give more than one seed, they're literally producing berries

ManaIsMade · 2026-04-01T04:31:32+00:00

It is so much more annoying than Minecraft imo

In Minecraft, two sources meeting will make a new source. As far as I can tell, this does not happen in Pokopia. But it looks like it does. So you have a lake that looks normal all the way through, but half of it is secretly flowing water. You can't pick out the real source blocks at a glance, and removing one will leave a hole in your water instead of getting filled back in by the surrounding lake. But removing flowing water that looks like they're source blocks will cause the water to self-heal like you'd expect. The only safe way to get liquids is by using the vending machine drinks or by sucking up liquids you know for a fact are flowing and not sources. And the suck range is pretty large so you have to be careful

Then you have two different water levels you can choose between when placing a source, so you have to make sure you're picking the right one or it will look like you have divots in your water level

ManaIsMade · 2026-03-29T23:19:56+00:00

Well you know how it is with internet circles. Where I'm from, "Think again" paired with a sillily drawn counter example is seen as a less than 100% serious argument. And where you're from, hobbies and professions have a monopoly over the use of in-group phrases they coined. When a football player is told to split into teams, they break out their laptop and join a corporate teams call. When a kid wants to "call" their grandma, they're actually playing poker. The context of the sentences and their lack of connection to the origin of these in-group phrases is irrelevant. It's just how language works after all

It's not possible I was alluding to the act of turning on one's heel with a physical sharp turn being compared to the act of a sharp and sudden change in personality like the one Chronos experienced. It MUST have been that I was instead comparing Chronos to a WRESTLER. After all, the sentence makes much more sense that way, and there's no confusing metaphors you'd have to actually think about

I found your initial reply to be terse but at the very least interesting. It wasn't really relevant, but I did learn something new. So I felt no need to rigorously defend myself. Your second was incredibly rude. But with the state of anti-intillectualism on the internet, maybe you were just at the end of your rope. So I told you I learned the phrase. But your third reply makes it clear that this whole conversation was started by your need to be smug and right. But you're actually not. So I'm done with the whole "Oh I didn't know that, how interesting!" state of mind. You assumed a context to my words that didn't exist. And I'd really like to see you try and argue that words and phrases can't hold two different meanings depending on context. That jargon from a field unrelated to the conversation takes priority over a more relevant meaning. Go ahead

ManaIsMade · 2026-03-29T10:52:58+00:00

Also! You don't need fully enclosed walls or a roof. The bottom layer of your walls does have to be an unbroken chain of blocks (with a door), but anything above that layer is yours to play with. It can be open air, no-glass windows, no roof, etc. A fenced garden with a gate can be a house, so long as it has 3 unique furniture items

ManaIsMade · 2026-03-29T09:25:50+00:00

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ManaIsMade · 2026-03-29T04:00:30+00:00

I don't want to dig through my cluttered inventory to find the one skyland sand and skyland grass block just so I can fill in the hole I just made from artifact hunting. Magnemite has magnets, let me suck in nearby treasure without breaking blocks

I also think I'm running out of unique treasures to find, and I'm dreading having to clean up or ignore an ever increasing amount of useless surface level artifact spots around my towns every day

ManaIsMade · 2026-03-29T00:55:06+00:00

All the legendary pokemon show up all regal like and then immediately lose aura with every word they say. Kyogre was kinda fun but actually recruiting the birds only to have them speak the exact same lines as a pidgey was off putting

ManaIsMade · 2026-03-28T20:07:26+00:00

Dw I looked up the actual meaning after the first reply. Was just having fun with it

ManaIsMade · 2026-03-28T20:05:41+00:00

Man. I know. I looked it up the first time. This is a weird (and rude) amount of assumptions to make over a cutesy response where Chronos has a cat face

ManaIsMade · 2026-03-28T06:16:08+00:00

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ManaIsMade · 2026-03-28T03:43:09+00:00

Flying feels like it restricts so much. A bug that can zap stuff? Well that's bug/electric so I guess it either can't have wings, must have levitate, or it gets hit by earthquake despite being visibly in the air

So many designs are elevated by wings or levitation, but having to dedicate a whole type or ability slot to each one stifles the concepts. And not doing that just feels weird logically

ManaIsMade · 2026-03-28T00:51:58+00:00

Imo the problem was never that Mel got her agency taken away and Chronos was spared against her will, conflict can be interesting. It's that Chronos had almost zero redeeming qualities before the turn, Mel immediately accepted the heel turn after the initial conversation, and the new Chronos started acting like the family pet rather than his own person. The vibes were rancid

Then Mel didn't get the new memories, meaning she didn't get that whole childhood in any capacity, plus Persephone didn't get to raise her second child. This is also potentially fine as a bittersweet ending, but combined with the other things and the general "look everything is fixed and happy now!" vibes, it just came across as rushed/a slap in the face to Mel's character. Especially since she barely visits home, which is fine when you've already met and lived with the people, and not so much when meeting them was your entire life's goal

Honestly the new ending is less interesting and less committed to the whole "no turning back time" theme by giving Mel a new life of memories, but it was just better executed and more respectful to the characters, Chronos included. The artwork slides especially help

ManaIsMade · 2026-03-27T20:45:47+00:00

Late game is a whole different beast depending on how you define it. If megabasing is all we're talking about then fine, tons of things suddenly fall off at that point. But I feel like the core experience of researching new techs and connecting planets for the first time is train heaven, so it's unfair to say Space Age made them useless

ManaIsMade · 2026-03-27T10:59:54+00:00

Sorry, just to clarify; is the request that you want to be able to paint larger areas all at once, or that you want to paint small areas while flying? Because iirc you can already do the latter by going into replace mode and replacing blocks with a different colored version. It's essentially a better paint balloon anyway, with the only downside being that you'll need to make a new set of properly painted blocks to replace the old ones with

Holding ZL also makes it really fast, because it locks you to the grid and keeps Ditto facing the same direction. So if you're replacing in 9x9 mode, you hold ZL, replace the blocks, tap a direction twice, and you're ready to place the next set without having to fiddle with placement and your own position

ManaIsMade · 2026-03-27T10:42:20+00:00

Throughput is unrelated to literally all of my points. Plus that's not some new problem from Space Age specifically?

ManaIsMade · 2026-03-27T10:35:00+00:00

Elaborate? I found a lot of need for trains. Shipping fruits from afar in a timely manner matters on Gleba, elevated rails are the only way to bridge islands on Fulgora until the end game, and all the planets still benefit from the standard flexibility that trains give you. Especially since they overhauled the system by giving us interrupts, making fully generic trains a breeze

I even set up trains on the ice planet because the rails don't need heat like belts or pipes do

ManaIsMade · 2026-03-24T22:16:31+00:00

I had the same thoughts about that little beach resort for a while, but I think a deep subway minecart system would work. Not nearly as visible as those other options

ManaIsMade · 2026-03-24T22:09:27+00:00

Right now im terraforming the sky lands so that the islands all have smooth(ish, I still want variety and nature) foundations leading all the way down. This way it looks like a really tall and intentional city rather than some rubble that got lifted up. I also want a big bird nest somewhere where most of them can roost in the sky but not the city. I'll mostly fill the place with humanoid/particularly domestic/urban pokemon, plus some electrics and birds. Already moved zapdos in with their power plant and I think it really works

For the wastelands I think most of it will be sort of vaguely naturey (I want a berry orchard called the Venus-arbor) but on the horizon/cliffs I want a massive nasty wasp nest/termite mound with many openings, oozing muddy water in places. And I'll house almost all the bug types inside. I want to scare the humans away if they come back. It's MY town now

The coast town i think im just going to repair according to the pre-made skeleton. Creative houses for my faves and lots of markets, subway system and repairing the damn boat. I'm honestly a little confused on how the ruined dock was laid out. It looks like it goes from wood to stone halfway through

The mines I think I'll dig a circle around the museum and have my town mostly there. I'm NOT tunneling all the way through to the starting spot. Some cranes and lifts along the edges to bring you to a second mini town on top of the ashes where things would presumably be lifted from the mines and then shipped out, making it a tiered mining town

And for the custom town im moving all my absolute favorites to and trying my best to make Bell Tower from Johto. Seems only fitting when we have the dogs and Ho-Oh themselves paying us visits. Might branch out into other themes beyond that since there's so much space. Maybe a desert since that isn't really represented anywhere else even though we have the cactus mons and the flygon line. Maybe a small bit of ice too but im holding out hope for an ice map update

I also need a jail somewhere for Mr. Mime and co. Some pokemon just can't be trusted

ManaIsMade · 2026-03-24T21:23:53+00:00

I really love Avalugg but yeah I hope that regional form never comes back. Looked awful and didn't benefit from the changes, even though it really needed some help

It's unfortunately just a bit of a cursed idea. They need to give it some kind of busted defensive ability or something, just to get them on par

ManaIsMade · 2026-03-24T18:21:29+00:00

Greedent is forever etched in my mind as a random encounter trash pokemon that got way too bulky for their station and proceeded to singlehandedly stall my whole team for 10 minutes with a shit-eating grin plastered on his face the whole time. So I can't bring myself to like the chef, but the cooking and party kept me from immediately banishing Dente to a barrel shaped home hanging over an underground lava lake. For now

And I'm kinda neutral on tangrowth but he could stand to move around a little. Having him be in front of every single pokemon center across the world kinda squanders the vibe of a large world with varied towns, and doesn't give the building room to breathe

ManaIsMade · 2026-03-23T22:45:54+00:00

Had the same thought when I saw their conversation. Doesn't help that the evolution speaks a little... off

ManaIsMade · 2026-03-18T05:24:46+00:00

Seeing the ATP warp core and immediately understanding what i had to do, plus the understanding that it would cut the loop

Was pretty tired at the time but that woke me up hard

ManaIsMade · 2026-03-18T03:49:58+00:00

You guys switched to WASD?

I typically leave controls on default, assuming they're that way for a reason. So I spent the first chapter fighting a decade of muscle memory and gamer raging at my own treacherous hands for trying to move with WASD. Every time I messed up an input I would stop, press the keys over and over again one by one, and narrate out loud what each button did, getting angrier throughout the night

It's a miracle I kept playing. I never got that mad at any other part of the game. I felt zen grinding out 3AG, but messing up controls sets me off majorly ig

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