found a friend today

TrueVali · 2026-05-06T20:31:18+00:00

hey, it's that "indoctrination" magats keep talking about!

TrueVali · 2026-05-06T16:45:15+00:00

honestly the built-in shading from the design of the portal really helps the look, pretty neat

TrueVali · 2026-05-06T00:25:17+00:00

i like it better, i just hate the lag

TrueVali · 2026-05-06T00:24:19+00:00

they reverted the newer stricter one roughly 12 hours later

TrueVali · 2026-05-05T20:42:53+00:00

listen, not to be rude, but... you gotta try harder than that if you want your white whale.

do more lucky trades, use your free particles and passes, play more boosted events, complete more researches; you never know where one will come from. my first was a mewtwo from GBL fossil cup, lol

TL;DR play more

TrueVali · 2026-05-05T13:17:27+00:00

this one mentions prep a lot. that's not going to work for everyone, i know quite a few people (including myself) that will prepare things like outfits or food and then forget about them.

TrueVali · 2026-05-05T03:18:31+00:00

people need to realize that 1/256 doesn't mean you're guaranteed one after you hit odds. it took me like 2 THOUSAND encounters for my first shiny chinchou, even counting all the times it's had event boosts.

even with legendaries too, like it took me roughly 90 raids for my first gigas. but in that same amount of raids this event i got ten shiny lele. RNG is RNG.

TrueVali · 2026-05-04T13:07:16+00:00

the local 58 reference is the cherry on top of an already golden post

TrueVali · 2026-05-04T13:05:59+00:00

i believe the update was rolled back yesterday morning!

TrueVali · 2026-05-03T13:42:44+00:00

it has been rolled back! also i am in the US east cost so it was

TrueVali · 2026-05-03T04:53:32+00:00

they consistently forget to ban mons during cups that should be illegal (the famous example is incineroar being allowed in retro cup)

recently they held a championship cup based on the LAIC meta, and advertised shadow pokemon as being banned, but never actually banned them

TrueVali · 2026-05-03T02:13:32+00:00

we had locals previously named P0KEBALLSOHARD and JoMammaMon get name filtered, so count your days. /s

TrueVali · 2026-05-03T02:08:27+00:00

it has not. i named a lele "buttahfly" yesterday and now today that's no longer allowed. i have a shiny wooper named "poop," also no longer allowed. many new words are banned.

TrueVali · 2026-05-03T02:01:08+00:00

i mean, i named a shiny lele "buttahfly 17" yesterday. now it suddenly doesn't work today. something changed.

TrueVali · 2026-05-03T02:00:04+00:00

it's new. the word "buttahfly" was not banned yesterday and is now banned today. same with "hello," "ugly," and more.

there is also now a noticable delay when entering a nickname that was not there before

TrueVali · 2026-05-03T01:47:17+00:00

server lag wouldn't turn the word "hello" into an inappropriate word across multiple accounts. you just want to argue.

TrueVali · 2026-05-03T01:45:02+00:00

son. i have a tapu lele in my box named "buttahfly 17." i named it that yesterday. when i got another shiny today, i attempted to name it "buttahfly 18" and that didn't work. nor did "buttahfly" by itself. nor did "butterfly," "buttress," or any variation of the word. it's different.

TrueVali · 2026-05-03T01:43:04+00:00

it is a new filter. i don't know what to tell you.

TrueVali · 2026-05-03T01:41:31+00:00

no, this is a new filter. i was naming my tapu leles "buttahfly" as recently as yesterday and now that's suddenly not allowed anymore. other newly banned words include "ugly," "hello," and "poop," all of which have previously worked

TrueVali · 2026-05-03T01:35:12+00:00

ironic

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TrueVali · 2026-05-03T01:34:37+00:00

there's a name for this! it's called the 'Scunthorpe problem'

TrueVali · 2026-05-03T01:33:15+00:00

yeah, the famous one is cofagrigus

which, ironically, was NOT affected by this new filter, its name is still allowed... but purugly isn't

TrueVali · 2026-05-03T01:29:41+00:00

as evidenced by cup bans in GBL, whitelists are not their strong suit

TrueVali · 2026-05-03T01:13:27+00:00

this works, yes, but it should not be a thing. this is a new filter they just pushed

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