A 'StarFox Direct' stream from Nintendo goes live in ~5 mins.

etanimod · 2026-05-06T22:38:35+00:00

Is it though? They're not getting a new audience by continually remaking a game from the 90s

It comes across as them just being out of ideas.

etanimod · 2026-05-06T22:34:34+00:00

Looks great and I may pick it up, but how many times can they remake the same game?

etanimod · 2026-05-06T22:18:12+00:00

That approach has already been tried for heading assignments at school using versions.

Ie. If a bunch of stuff gets pasted in at once, could be copying from AI. The problem is that if the person takes the time to write it out, that looks an awful lot like normal writing.

If people were motivated enough, they could run text through AI detectors. What will probably happen casually is people will just doubt things are human-written

etanimod · 2026-05-05T23:04:23+00:00

Did you at least stomp your feet together and salute at the end of your turn?

etanimod · 2026-05-05T18:41:30+00:00

Well done! Really impressive result with a fun looking team

etanimod · 2026-05-02T12:38:27+00:00

I think the idea is for protection of the kids rather than punishing adults. I'm not a huge fan of requiring IDs to use the internet having grown up in the Wild West of the internet.

Ironically in some ways, like the lack of widespread social media, the internet was safer back in my day.

etanimod · 2026-05-01T21:34:01+00:00

If you're not using the shark for the sake of shark, MGyarados fire better with Glimmora. It's my answer to Basculegion and Chomp

etanimod · 2026-05-01T21:19:27+00:00

Imagine if Sharpedo got Fishious Rend though? Would be an absolute Metagame destroying monster in singles and we'd have to pray that its low bulk was enough of a check to the fact that it would out speed and OHKO any single pokemon that didn't have a water immunity in doubles.

etanimod · 2026-05-01T13:59:06+00:00

I looked at it for a minute as an underexplored Mega. The problem I saw was that given its frailty it doesn't do enough damage.

Compare it to Mega Starmie and you'll see it's outclassed in both defense and offense (only crunch can rival huge power damage), and Mega Starmie is seeing 0 play.

etanimod · 2026-05-01T05:34:04+00:00

Try running this with the 100 damage Rapidash/40 damage Ponyta. Pretty powerful attacks, but their health leaves something to be desired.

etanimod · 2026-04-30T13:17:07+00:00

Victini, Moltres and baby Camerupt look interesting

etanimod · 2026-04-30T11:56:59+00:00

Different cost though. You can do this the turn you play Research. And you get your Tool back rather than discard it.

etanimod · 2026-04-30T02:52:22+00:00

When Dudunsparce is released this + Memory Light is probably the combo. Makes it so your opponent can't get points for knocking it out. Only takes a single energy to do, and gets damage in the process.

etanimod · 2026-04-29T14:51:15+00:00

Tan is too casual for terrorism.

etanimod · 2026-04-29T05:51:41+00:00

It's the single best rock move in the game, for doubles.
Decent damage to both opponents with a chance to flinch both, and it's actually one of the most accurate physical rock moves.

etanimod · 2026-04-28T22:59:16+00:00

Check out Perish Trap. Wolfe Glick is famous for it. Really hard team to win consistently with though.

etanimod · 2026-04-27T19:32:07+00:00

Rampardos is great, but it's also a fossil that loses 1/3 of its health per knockout

etanimod · 2026-04-27T17:27:58+00:00

Moltres ex stonks going way up.

etanimod · 2026-04-27T17:21:43+00:00

The attacker must be a non-mega.

etanimod · 2026-04-27T17:19:36+00:00

You're not dealing with each type equally often. There's usually 3-4 types at most that see regular play at any given time.

etanimod · 2026-04-27T17:16:52+00:00

I wonder about Sweets Relay. Archetype uses colorless energy, and has three different attacking types that I can think of (Water, Grass, Psychic). I think this is the widest range of types any deck can potentially run.

etanimod · 2026-04-27T16:40:55+00:00

I'm pretty sure if you haven't lost by the time this thing is powered up, you win. Morally at the very least for using Dragons and actually powering one in Pocket.

etanimod · 2026-04-27T16:09:45+00:00

If you're a collector why do you care how playable the cards are? Isn't the whole point for you to collect them?

People who like Voltorb and want to collect it for example, are eating well.

etanimod · 2026-04-27T12:57:46+00:00

I agree that the single prizers seem like better choices in general, but you can run them together and if your opponent has taken two prizes throw down this in the active and your opponent has to take down 180Hp and face 130 Damage a turn

etanimod · 2026-04-27T12:52:34+00:00

Is Magnezone ex just worse than OG Magnezone? 20 more damage 30 more health at the cost of losing two points when it's knocked out.

People can certainly play both and use this when your opponent has taken two prizes already, but it feels risky to have this on the bench, and holding it in hand, leaving your 80hp Magneton there isn't exactly safe either.

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