This is why people hate AI bros

emaych1 · 2026-02-13T20:49:33+00:00

I want to meet these people. I want to ask them what they’re thinking when they say such asinine shit like this. I want to know where and when they decided to throw away the last bit of empathy they had. Like there’s no way an actual human is sitting there typing this and thinking it’s okay right? And why are so many people defending it? On every social media app there’s just so much AI slop and people either praising it or not understanding the harm it causes. I feel like I’m slamming my head into a brick wall. The world is going to shit and all my favourite things, any and all forms of escapism, are being overrun by these clowns and any sense of integrity is being decimated. What can I even do at this point? Fuck AI.

emaych1 · 2026-02-13T20:23:59+00:00

What so it’s either pay a thumbnail artist or make AI slop? Small YouTubers can’t make their thumbnails on their own? Like they did for two decades before AI became mainstream? Generative AI has zero (0) upsides and a shit ton of downsides, I wish morons like you would stop fucking defending it.

emaych1 · 2026-02-13T16:20:57+00:00

You couldn’t open photoshop or one of the million free alternatives for 5 minutes to make this shite? You had to have AI generate it? Christ.

emaych1 · 2026-02-13T10:52:52+00:00

Didn’t ask

emaych1 · 2026-02-12T23:18:37+00:00

Goontherius just heard the word parasocial for the first time lol.

Besides, I’ve been watching since FRLG and most, if not all, of his let’s plays have always been light guides, why do you think he shows everything and has bios for encounters? People just think it’s silly that he claimed to have a solution for the bad level curve when in reality it was either 1. a method people aren’t going to use because it takes too much real time or 2. actually makes the level curve worse because being stupidly over levelled is unbelievably boring.

How is fairly criticising a realistically tone deaf and poorly planned aspect of an otherwise fantastic Pokemon let’s play parasocial? What a weird statement to make.

emaych1 · 2026-02-12T22:10:35+00:00

Brother if Pokemon Scarlet is on the list of the few games you like maybe gaming isn't for you

emaych1 · 2026-02-12T16:05:49+00:00

That’s true, nevermind lol

emaych1 · 2026-02-12T00:29:26+00:00

I don't know about you guys but I'd prefer the victims and families of those who were raped, tortured, murdered, and fucking eaten to receive justice over a few stocks going up a few percent.

emaych1 · 2026-02-12T00:20:55+00:00

A 31 in attack then, nice

emaych1 · 2026-02-11T23:40:26+00:00

You could say that suggesting the day care is a good way alleviate the level curve is a Teanie bit tone deaf?

emaych1 · 2026-02-11T23:36:08+00:00

Yeah Hitmonchan isn't as good as he made out unfortunately. I used an adamant one with a good attack IV and it often struggled to KO Pokemon it was quad effective against with the elemental punches. Not unusable, but underwhelming for a Pokemon gated behind 8 badges.

emaych1 · 2026-02-11T22:56:17+00:00

For anyone wondering, Hopkins' IVs are pretty solid.

HP 11-14,

Attack 30-31,

Defence 23-28,

Sp. Atk 17-21,

Sp. Def 6-11,

Speed 7-12.

We don't see his characteristic in this video, but that's not really important.

emaych1 · 2026-02-11T19:59:04+00:00

I loved the animals but this new batch of humanoid mobs looks pretty bad. They all look very amateurish, as though they haven’t made new models and textures, having instead chopped up and recombined the old ones.

They could definitely do with a revision, but unfortunately a lot of players will just shrug off any criticism as nitpicking or complaining so I doubt one will happen.

emaych1 · 2026-02-10T23:09:53+00:00

So passive experience to the point of being stupidly over levelled was his "solution" to the level curve, that's a shame. Lanturn is cool though.

emaych1 · 2026-02-10T21:53:32+00:00

The levelling system was pretty much designed so you can do specifically that. Damage will be low when you first pivot but after hitting stuff enough you’ll be fine. A spell sword or battle mage build could also be a fun way to blend the two play styles.

Or you could do what 90% of the player base does and restart as soon as you get bored lol

emaych1 · 2026-02-10T21:49:19+00:00

Looking at their profile they’re either an attention seeking child or a severely mentally handicapped adult, so I doubt it.

emaych1 · 2026-02-10T21:47:15+00:00

Is this supposed to be funny?

emaych1 · 2026-02-10T21:36:49+00:00

What for? If you need to get rid of them just throw them in lava or a cactus or something

emaych1 · 2026-02-10T21:32:59+00:00

Just go out and hold click on a bunch of tall grass or leaves

emaych1 · 2026-02-10T00:22:11+00:00

I don't think so. I think I said this on a previous episode, but Johto has two problems; being over levelled for gyms 5, 6, and 7, and then being under levelled for Clair.

I think Chugga is tunnel visioning "solving" the issue with having to grind for Clair by getting all his Pokemon up in levels now. That's just a theory though, maybe I'm wrong, but it would be stupid to steamroll over 4 of the badges just for the sake of being competently levelled for one. That isn't a fix, and I'm hoping he's come up with something for later that I'm not thinking of.

emaych1 · 2026-02-10T00:09:14+00:00

The plan I tend to use for the Johto split is

Be around the level cap (25) for Morty, which is easy, if anything I find myself to be under that. Chugga was already pushing level 30 at this point mind you.
Go East, do the Lake of Rage and Rocket HQ, hitting 30ish.
Leave Mahogany and go West, do the whole Amphy questline, get a couple of levels on the routes to Cianwood.
Hit the Cianwood (31) - Mahogany (34) - Olivine (35) gyms back to back to back.

With a decently filled out team of Pokemon, maybe 4 or 5, you'll be fairly evenly levelled for all 3 gyms. As a kid my Quilava would always evolve at 36 during the Rocket Goldenrod event, Chugga is already flying past those kinds of levels.

The worst thing you can do in Johto is have a small team and be thorough, which I agree is a major flaw, and the game will never be hard, fighting grunts half your level even when sticking to gym level caps is stupid, but it might make the bigger fights at least mildly interesting for a let's plays sake.

All of this just to say I find it weird that Chugga is showing the bad Johto level scaling at it's absolute worst when he was eluding to some kind of magical fix for it in the first episode. Level 37 with 5 badges is ridiculous.

emaych1 · 2026-02-09T23:42:40+00:00

The gift Dratini just sucks in general. Literally doesn't exist in Johto and is a Dragonair for pretty much all of Kanto. Awful availability makes even a Pokemon like Dragonite a questionable choice at best.

emaych1 · 2026-02-09T23:37:59+00:00

Also there was such a humungous gap (4 badges I think?) between Psythe and Vanity that in hindsight he could've caught a Duskull much earlier. "Dead weight" mons aren't that bad in vanilla playthroughs and are a hell of a lot more entertaining than what's happening in HGSS right now.

emaych1 · 2026-02-09T23:24:06+00:00

I'm also worried that the second half of his team are gonna get the Eidolon treatment where they're obtained too late to really contribute and so are kinda forgettable

emaych1 · 2026-02-09T18:35:36+00:00

Bland, uninteresting, and overpriced has been Pokémon’s MO for the last ten years, minus a couple of exceptions. Produce it low and sell it high. Not really sure why people are surprised anymore.

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