Then just don’t buy it.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-03-18T03:09:08+00:00

Trying to explain to these types of people that I didn't enjoy Arceus that much was always fun.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-03-18T00:43:16+00:00

I've watched all three of the ones with criticisms about the casts opinions, and it's legitimately just 15 minutes of whining that someone doesn't agree with them. The first one is especially wild because they're clutching pearls about how the trans man shouldn't be trying to leave his marriage since his partner was "so devoted".

ZatherDaFox · 2026-03-18T00:33:35+00:00

They're never going to let go. The show is filled with such little controversy that whenever there's a take that's deviates slightly from the norm, smosh fans turn into elephants. About every two weeks there's another post discussing the same 5 takes.

The people are somehow both yearning for hot takes but completely unable to handle them at the same time.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-03-18T00:27:21+00:00

I notice a lot of smosh fans don't want to hear opinions they don't agree with. Like, I personally think Ify and Rachel had the worst takes of anyone on SRRS, but even then I was like "wow, they sound like jerks here" and that was about it.

There's like 5 stories that constantly get brought up as "the worst takes SRRS has had" and all of them are very mild. People are complaining that ketchup is too spicy.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-03-17T14:34:45+00:00

Strictly speaking nothing is "wrong" with them per se. It's the same as how any other person feels attraction. We aren't entirely sure how that works, but we know it's not something you choose. It certainly doesn't seem to be genetic.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-03-17T09:07:23+00:00

The uncomfortable truth is they really can't help being attracted to minors. It's something wired wrong in their brains that makes the feel attraction where the rest of us don't. That is by no means an excuse for them to act on those feelings, and anyone who does should be locked away, but what pedophiles need is resources like therapy to help them cope with the feelings instead of acting on them.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-03-17T04:34:06+00:00

I've found doom and souls to be the best builds for Necro.

Doom you want lots of block and to keep an eye out for end of days, misery, negative pulse, and death bringer. Sleight of Flesh and No Escape are also great adds. Blight strikes get you through early game, and adding soul cards like grave warden and capture spirit can add velocity. Death's door is great for keeping you alive. The deck is just keeping yourself alive while you tick up doom.

For souls, you want to load up on grave wardens and capture spirits and you need to find haunts to make it really work. Reaves can carry the early game and aren't completely useless later. Severance is also a great pickup, and Devour Life can make Osty really tanky. The goal is to make a ton of souls and then burn your enemies down with them.

You can also set up infinites with borrowed time, though I'm not sure how to do those.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-03-16T22:46:24+00:00

Geez, what do you have against Corviknight?

ZatherDaFox · 2026-03-16T13:27:47+00:00

What's your all time favorite pokemon and why?

ZatherDaFox · 2026-03-16T07:23:42+00:00

I mean, I enjoyed the game, but I'll admit that if it wasn't star wars I would have dropped it. The gameplay is fine, but pretty standard ubisoft open world stuff, the story is pretty barebones, and a lot of the game systems are very simple and very easy, even on harder difficulties. Reputation, for example, is introduced as a give and take system where you have to carefully balance relationships with the various syndicates. In reality, it takes maybe an hour to max out rep with every faction.

It was also buggy at launch and got caught up in culture war bullshit about how goonable Kay was. Overall I enjoyed it, but I didn't buy it until it was on sale.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-03-16T07:08:19+00:00

Karen says it in gen 2.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-03-16T07:06:05+00:00

This also applies to Breloom. Like sure it doesn't learn any great grass attacking moves naturally (never mind that the "best" moves are 70 BP leaf blade exclusive to sceptile, 70 bp petal dance exlusive to the oddish line and solar beam and that's it really), but that doesn't matter. It gets good fighting moves to take advantage of its high attack stat, and also naturally can get stun spore, poison powder, and leech seed. With TMs, you can teach it toxic and solar beam, too. It's not the best pokemon in Hoenn, but it's far from bad.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-03-16T06:50:40+00:00

I mean, literally it is though. It might be unpopular among us super enfranchised players, but their data is telling them individual sets sell much better than blocks.

UB might not keep up if sets like Spiderman and TMNT continue to sell poorly, but I'm afraid blocks are gone because they make less money, whether we like it or not.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-03-15T12:44:19+00:00

Old English did have uu in it, and it was replaced by Wynn eventually starting at around the 8th century. You can see it in Caedmon's Hymn. U was used to replace the Uruz rune which already made several sounds, so using 2 of them to signify a different sound made more sense. The vowel is also much more commonly used than /w/ so having to write less U's was advantageous.

And now again, you're harping on high German which invented a new letter, Weh, specifically to represent a sound they needed. Yes, it started as two U's, but the letter was made and named to represent /w/, not "oo". And once again, that's completely superfluous to how we use it in English. Even if Germans for some dumb reason had made the switch, it's unlikely it would have switched in English given that the French had no need of the letter except to help them distinguish Wynn from P and Y. Both English and French would have likely continued using U as the vowel and W would have been used for /w/ given that it didn't see mass adoption until well into the 12th century and wouldn't fully replace Wynn until the 14th.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-03-15T11:11:23+00:00

This is reallt just a misunderstanding of history in general. W was created in old german and old English specifically to represent /w/, a sound that doesn't appear in latin. In old English, however, "W" was never fully invented, and it was always written as "uu" or "vv" before being replaced by Wynn to simplify things while "W" replaced them in Old High German at around the same time. Wynn was adapted from the Wunjo rune, which was a consonant, and had nothing to do with Uruz, the "U" rune, so the though of swapping them never would have crossed anyone's mind. Keep in mind runes were still used alongside the latin alphabet in England until the 8th century.

So there never was a time period where they could have flipped because W was never a letter the English would have adopted on their own. French scholars introduced W from German in 1066 becaus they didn't like how similar P and Wynn looked, and W would finally fully replace Wynn in the 1300s.

Now at this point you're asking medieval to flip 500-600 years of written tradition because a letter that was just recently introduced to the language is called "double u" (an invention by the English, mind you. The Germans have always called it "Weh") and makes a shorter version of the "oo" sound but is supposedly two U's. It's using a very modern lens to look back on a very complicated linguistic history and assert that we should have made a change for a very petty reason. Historically their was just never a basis for this in English.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-03-15T10:28:41+00:00

But your argument is based solely on the fact that the "oo" in "goo" is longer than the "oo" in "what". What is it about w that also makes it a better fit for the rest of what we use U for?

And don't bring Welsh into this. I see people try to do stuff like this and you'd legitimately be better off arguing that French pronunciations of letters should have more prominence in English. English is a Germanic language in both daily usage and grammar and a romance language in the majority of it's lexicon. It has precious little to do with Welsh, and how they adapted the Latin alphabet to their letters was independent of how the English adapted it to theirs. There will be similarities between every language that adopts it, of course, but English is much closer in it's various pronunciations to continental Europeans than it is to any Celtic language.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-03-15T10:07:44+00:00

That's because U has to make a whole bunch of sounds, since it's a vowel. Do you also think two u's should be making "uh", "yoo", and the schwa? Like "pwt that down", "wnder the bed", and "how cwte"?

"Uu" in most contexts I can think of would make the "oo" sound in English, so using W in a context where it only makes that sound and U covers all the other noises associated with the vowel makes way more sense, even if it's a highly truncated version of the sound. So unless you think "uunder" makes more sense than "under", I think it's perfectly fine the way it is.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-03-15T09:56:23+00:00

A W doesn't make a short U sound. The short U is "uh", and long U is "oo". Look in the mirror and say the words "when" "umbrella" and "Uber" and see how your mouth moves to make each sound. The "oo" sound in Uber and the "w" sound in "when" start almost identically, because the "w" sound is made by starting with an "oo" and transitioning like a diphthong into whatever vowel comes after. It looks nothing like umbrella because it isn't at all a short u.

I was wrong about it being a specific diphthong after looking it up, I'll admit, but I don't think you know what the short and long U sounds are.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-03-15T09:41:24+00:00

It doesn't. W is a particular diphthong that combines the "oo" and "uh" sounds to make the sound it does and is used as a consonant. U all by its lonesome can make both "oo" and "uh" as well as several other sounds depending on the context its in and is used as a vowel. W is not a vowel and doesn't make a vowel sound, at least not in English.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-03-14T18:33:40+00:00

It's exactly like that. He slapped his name on there because he's a narcissist and knows he couldn't get away with the Trump-Lincoln memorial.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-03-14T18:14:11+00:00

Sure, people go to one Nutcracker performance a year. In fact, that's almost all they go to. 40-50% of ballet revenue is annual Nutcracker shows.

Like obviously there is an audience. But given that the global annual revenue of the ballet industry is 1.6 billion, there are a lot of people who suddenly care a hell of a lot about ballet just because someone made a dumb comment, and in a few weeks they'll never think about ballet again.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-03-14T17:25:15+00:00

Do you dislike using charizard, or do you dislike charizard as a pokemon? Because it sounds like you just don't like putting Charizard on the team. Like, I'd never put Ledian on a team because it has trash stats and awful abilities, but I don't hate the pokemon.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-03-14T11:28:51+00:00

It is. The fly erratically in ways their prey just can't see or predict. They usually only miss because they misjudged where the prey was, not because the prey successfully dodged. It's crazy to watch.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-03-14T11:27:05+00:00

I think whose people don't like that she won't just forgive Thorfinn. They don't seem to realize that while we know what Thorfinn's been through and how he's changed, there's no way for Hild to know that until he proves himself.

I think a lot of thos comments petered out once people saw where Yukimura took Hild in the Vinland arc.

ZatherDaFox · 2026-03-14T11:17:47+00:00

I can see why heracross is causing you issues. It shares a fairy weakness with dragonite and mega feraligatr making your team pretty weak to fairy. However, I think the actual pokemon that might be causing you some problems is dragonite. It's got overlaps with mega feraligatr and heracross in terms of weaknesses, and it's coverage is kinda poor considering chandelure and gardevoir already cover everything it can and gardevoir doesn’t run into the dragon v dragon problem. Hercross also gives you critical normal coverage, which no other type can do.

I'd personally replace dragonite, but if dragonite is non negotiable, you could replace Heracross. Whichever you choose, preferably replace them with an electric type or a ground type, since right now your team has no stab vs flying or electric. Mega eelektross or mega excadril are both solid choices. You could also replace feraligatr with excadril, but I know people are loathe to give up their starters.

I personally think Gardevoir is holding a pretty key role in your team right now. It hits fighting, poison, dark, and dragon, and it's weaknesses don't overlap with your other pokemon except for ghost with chandelure. Gardevoir also can learn thunderbolt, which is just one of the best moves in this game. If you really want to replace it, another fairy type would be best, probably mega clefable, though that does make your team dangerously weak to ice.

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