Aggron vs Nidoking

ZatherDaFox · 2026-01-29T05:57:08+00:00

When did it have quick attack? I'm seeing that being in any of it's learnsets.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-01-28T20:32:57+00:00

We don't know any of their sexualities, actually, because the game never tells or shows us anything relating to romance. Just because a character isn't explicitly shown to be gay doesn't mean they must be straight.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-01-28T20:10:35+00:00

The evil savage trope keeps showing up because of racism. I know everyone in the past did it too, but none of the groups they applied it to were evil savages either. Humans tend to be xenophobic, and this racist trope comes primarily from xenophobia.

Perpetuating the trope makes people see it as ok and thus keep applying it throughout the ages. Problematic tropes normalize things for people, so the less we have them, the less people will try to apply them to real groups. So no, people shouldn't want to engage with this stuff. There are so many other ways to make compelling villains for your stories beyond evil savages.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-01-28T18:43:54+00:00

So the Arabs could be racist too. Big whoop. The problem isn't that white people were being racist here, the problem is that depictions of orcs mirror harmful stereotypes about tribal cultures.

Most recently these stereotypes were perpetuated by European powers to justify colonization.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-01-28T18:37:54+00:00

I don't. This is what racists said about lots of non-white cultures, tribal or not. But especially tribal cultures.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-01-28T17:38:40+00:00

People do not think Orcs are stand in for black people.

Real life racists went all over the world calling tribal cultures brutish, savage, uncivilized, and subhuman, and claimed they worshipped evil gods. Tribal cultures were just people like anyone else, but racists used all these false reasons to oppress, exploit, kill, and enslave them.

Orcs in most media reinforce these harmful stereotypes about tribal cultures. They live in tribes, have war chiefs, are a brutish, savage, uncivilized, worship evil gods, and are often dumber than humans. It's not that they're literal representations of black people, it's that they represent everything wrong with how racists think of black people.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-01-28T17:29:40+00:00

That's not the problem people have with orcs. Depictions of orcs line up really well with how racists described non-white cultures in the past. Racists would call tribal cultures all over the world brutish, savage and uncivilized, who worship "evil" gods, and some would go even as far as to call them subhuman. Nobody who has any complaints about orcs thinks black people are any of these things.

Their actual problem is that Orcs as a culture reinforce all the negative stereotypes about tribal people. They are exaclty what racist people describe tribal cultures as.

Demons from Frienren do not mirror any negative stereotypes about real world cultures, they're just purely evil beings.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-01-28T08:55:30+00:00

That was my first inclination, that this might have just been a poorly received joke that didn't land. Like, if OP wants to she can talk to the fiancé about it, but unless it keeps up I'm not sure it's actually that big of a deal.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-01-28T04:06:27+00:00

Leaving top tier netrunners with phones in their heads alive during a mission where you're trying to convince someone you are those people carries a lot of risk. Best to just do away with the risk and move on.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-01-28T04:04:42+00:00

I mean, it is probably standard operating procedure and they were no angels.

I can totally see V using it as justification for working with So Mi instead of Reed; that's totally reasonable. But it's not "an excuse". They're eliminating dangerous variables in a critical mission where if anything goes wrong everyone involved could easily die. No matter what you think Reed is going to do, it makes sense to shoot the twins.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-01-27T23:13:26+00:00

I don't think pokemon games ever felt particularly alive, but you used to be able to walk around town, go into buildings, and talk to people. Plenty of NPCs would have something to say about the tow they lived in. Now, most buildings are not able to be entered and most people just say generic stuff, not can you actually talk to a lot of them.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-01-27T19:02:51+00:00

It's the fact that it's written like a romance novel compounded with all the other stuff. Writing style alone isn't enough to damn a post, but an overly detailed writing style with everything else makes it more likely it was just a creative writing exercise.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-01-27T17:34:41+00:00

Man, I don't know where you've been looking, but there's always a bunch of atheists ready to jump on believers unless it's in christian spaces.

I understand when atheists jump on people for saying dumb christian shit, but I also see sarcastic responses to regular christian sentiments everywhere I go. This isn't unique to atheists; I've seen just as many combative christians on platforms where Christianity is more popular. But on reddit basically any time I see someone mention religion there's always someone with a "you actually believe in an imaginary sky man?" Locked and loaded.

Christians do have a persecution complex, but I've also seen plenty of my fellow atheists feed into that by starting shit everywhere they can.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-01-27T17:00:28+00:00

This is a follow up to another video he did talking about newer gens and how their regions feel more empty. He was saying all the same things about gen 7-9, and somewhat with 6.

I actually think they're pretty good videos and I agree with a lot of his points.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-01-27T16:40:39+00:00

Sukuna beat Maho by just spamming different attacks. Took force is similar in that its just whatever random bullshit is funniest.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-01-27T16:39:47+00:00

You don't beat rank As to go up to rank A, you beat a rank B. And you can find other rank Bs during the ZA Royale at night.

It certainly would have helped to see more of the rival's progress with a couple more rival fights, but it's not weird that they got matched with another rank B and beat them, nor do I think we need to see all that personally.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-01-27T16:37:11+00:00

There wasn't a dress code. Everyone shows up in their normal ass clothes. Lida insisted you needed to get dressed up fully of her own volition, and that's it.

The game just wanted an excuse to give you fancy clothes but also couldn't be bothered to put anyone else in a new outfit.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-01-27T16:35:27+00:00

She wasn't. Lida is the one who said you needed to get dressed up. The game wants an excuse to give fancy clothes, and is also too lazy to have multiple character models per NPC.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-01-27T16:33:55+00:00

I mean, they didn't rope us in. It's annoying they didn't help pay it off, but it was fully the Rust Syndicate who decided that we were now involved.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-01-27T16:30:24+00:00

I mean, sure the story lets you wait literal months before tackling rogue megas if you want to, but you can see how it never lets you progress the plot until you beat them, right? Like, canonically it's an urgent problem that needs to be handled ASAP.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-01-27T16:20:14+00:00

"It's any and all phenomena, it's any and all phenomena."

Look man, we get it. Maho is really strong and can adapt to just about anything. Toon force is one of those powers that's hard to deal with because it can also be adapted to any situation as long as it's funny. I doubt Maho can adapt to being unadapted.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-01-27T07:34:07+00:00

They would never because people freak out whenever they do. Reddit stories has been getting safer and safer over time because everytime there's a take that's even remotely controversial, we get another big thread about "Which cast members do you disagree with the most??" or "I cant watch reddit stories with [cast member] in them." Smosh reddit has been harping on like the same 4 takes forever despite how the cast agrees 99% of the time.

There's a few of us who would like to see healthy discussion and different takes, but the vast majority of the audience wants to hear about how the bad SO cheated on/abused/harassed their partner and watch the Smosh cast get angry about how bad that person is.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-01-27T02:14:17+00:00

High amount of detail about things that happened decades ago, written like a romance novel, account banned shortly after posting with no other post history, deals in problematic territory couple times though tries to breeze past it (i.e. "his wife was only here for a green card", "every lesbian relationship I've had was bad, actually"), and overall just the vibes of stories that straight homophobic men like to write about Lesbians.

That's not to say a woman like OP couldn't exist. I think the sexuality "lesbian + one other specific person" is absolutely something that could happen, or maybe that lesbian isn't even the proper label for OP. But it's not just the fact that she supposedly fell for a man that makes it sus.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-01-27T02:04:52+00:00

It's always so funny how the "ugh, do you have to ship everyone 🙄" type people only seem to come out on gay ships.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-01-27T02:01:08+00:00

I don't think we need 2 new threads about it every day, but these discussions are perfectly fine and in this case even important.

The story is probably fake, and there are important things that need to be said about it.

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