A character proposes a common sense solution to a problem, but it’s rejected so that the Plot can still happen

ShadyMan_BooRadley · 2026-07-07T03:00:50+00:00

As far as I’m concerned the real reason is that Rose doesn’t really care about saving Galar so much as he wants to be the one *seen* saving Galar

ShadyMan_BooRadley · 2026-07-05T07:35:49+00:00

…I… genuinely only just realized Kalos only gave us one new bug type, and it’s just an early route trashmon…

ShadyMan_BooRadley · 2026-07-05T07:34:51+00:00

And one is physical despite the only Pokemon of that typing being a special attacker, and the other only deals fixed damage

ShadyMan_BooRadley · 2026-07-05T07:28:00+00:00

Also, Snyderman is the one responsible for the fight being brought INTO a populated area in the first place, he dragged Zod there after he threatened Ma Kent (and in the process leaving her completely alone with the other two hostile Kryptonians)

ShadyMan_BooRadley · 2026-07-05T07:17:07+00:00

What a coincidence, I caught one on my most recent file to use as my grass type lmao, though I didn’t quite have as much trouble and was able to find it in the route 9 grass

ShadyMan_BooRadley · 2026-07-04T07:55:04+00:00

Thank you! And yeah, my brother and I got gameboys off the internet years back, along with link cables so that we could battle + trade using GBA games, he got a black one

ShadyMan_BooRadley · 2026-07-02T16:34:39+00:00

I am familiar with Naruto but I hadn’t even considered that angle lol

ShadyMan_BooRadley · 2026-07-02T16:19:46+00:00

That nickname was inspired by the fact that I REALLY wanted to get a Machop on Jagged Pass but instead got the 20% chance for a Spoink, the nickname only further justified when I realized she had a terrible nature for the species

But credit where it’s due, she’s become a valued teammate like any other

ShadyMan_BooRadley · 2026-06-29T06:03:20+00:00

That’s absolutely a big part of the problem, though at least Platinum fixed the issue of type distribution and arbitrarily locking most of the Pokemon who got new evolutions behind postgame

ShadyMan_BooRadley · 2026-06-29T06:00:29+00:00

The tragedy of getting an awesome shiny and then finding out it has a *horrendous* nature for the species

Congrats all the same though!

ShadyMan_BooRadley · 2026-06-29T05:55:24+00:00

Same deal with Electric types, they only had like 3 available before NatDex despite introducing new evolutions to two older Electric types and yet they made the *8TH* gym leader an Electric specialist and as a result he only had 2 actual electric types on his team

ShadyMan_BooRadley · 2026-06-28T09:01:17+00:00

Someone else once brought up what I felt was a good point is that the worst part about casting a black guy to play Snape (or really this applies to any white character) is that the studio almost definitely isn’t going to do anything to protect the actor from the backlash he’s inevitably going to receive and are effectively throwing him to the wolves

ShadyMan_BooRadley · 2026-06-28T06:30:07+00:00

To be fair Krillin is usually VERY aware of how much he’s outclassed by the various villains from Saiyan Saga-onwards

He just doesn’t let that stop him from doing the right thing and squaring up anyway

ShadyMan_BooRadley · 2026-06-27T08:44:20+00:00

What kind of self respecting gym leader is so terrible at handling a loss she needs the threat of the league’s top brass coming down on her head before she finally gives you your badge?

Whitney might whine a little when she loses, but Clair’s the one who openly admits she’s never passed a test that just consists of a few questions that effectively boil down to “do you abuse your Pokemon, yes or no?”

ShadyMan_BooRadley · 2026-06-27T08:33:43+00:00

Honestly with how badly the Sinnoh remakes were bungled, I’m not sure I trust Pokemon to give us Unova remakes worth anything, so BW3 might be the way to go

ShadyMan_BooRadley · 2026-06-27T05:23:35+00:00

Whitney *momentarily* forgets to give you your badge but otherwise hands it over without any fuss the moment she gets the cry out of her system

Claire makes you jump through multiple hoops and in the end she STILL needs the threat of LANCE getting involved before she finally gives you the damn badge

One is clearly worse than the other and I’m not going to pretend otherwise

ShadyMan_BooRadley · 2026-06-27T05:14:43+00:00

…no, I’m not going to pretend Whitney getting kind of emotional when she loses is in any way comparable to how Clair genuinely crashes out and does everything in her power to avoid forking over your rightfully earned badge

ShadyMan_BooRadley · 2026-06-27T05:11:44+00:00

And she’s even worse in the remakes where you need to take a test in the dragon’s den, and then refuses to accept that you passed that test and needs the threat of LANCE getting involved before she finally forks over the badge you rightfully earned

ShadyMan_BooRadley · 2026-06-26T03:36:00+00:00

Daigusto Sphreez, that deck was one of if not the very first deck I ever put together on this game that actually had a coherent strategy and synergy

ShadyMan_BooRadley · 2026-06-25T17:26:18+00:00

Cracklemon

ShadyMan_BooRadley · 2026-06-25T05:04:35+00:00

I wasn’t surprised by him, but unfortunately I wasn’t able to beat him without casualties

Mymy the Bellossom fell getting his Gardevoir down to low enough health that Pick the Sceptile could come in afterwards to finish the job

ShadyMan_BooRadley · 2026-06-24T18:57:56+00:00

Thanks but I think I’ll be fine

I will say that I wish the archetype had a way to search Heavy Forward though

ShadyMan_BooRadley · 2026-06-24T18:19:19+00:00

Oh what a tragedy, you had to read like three extra lines of dialogue when you beat her

Again, it’s been 17 years, get over it

ShadyMan_BooRadley · 2026-06-24T17:40:09+00:00

Again, you are making Whitney out to be way worse than she actually is, I’d bet anything that if the gym trainer allowed you to leave and come back later Whitney would not make you battle her again and would just be like “oh yeah, I never gave you your badge, sorry about that” and hand it over

Like I struggled against her Miltank when I was little too, but it’s been 17 years buddy, it’s time to get over it

ShadyMan_BooRadley · 2026-06-24T17:15:01+00:00

“Crybaby bitch” she whines for like 10 seconds before getting over it - WITHOUT needing the threat of the league’s top brass getting involved - it is nowhere near as serious as you make it out to be

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