KAZUNOKO!!!

you saw earlier when K-Brad beat Daigo, right?

ughhhhhhhh

you FUCK

USA vs. USA for winner's finals--was not expecting that.

First fight is live: NuckleDu vs. MOV

1/1 on my predictions

It's starting soon.

This is the biggest Street Fighter tournament since Evo, for the record.

Quote from: Big Boss on December 03, 2016, 07:38:03 AM

I so badly want to read the thread but I still need to wait another 3 weeks until I can finally play it. The pain is real yo.


I posted this from the first page of thread so no spoilers still, heh. I'll catch up eventually.

Honestly, I'm really not the biggest fan. I played for maybe 2 hours and haven't touched the game still. I know they're supposed to be for kids, but so far I feel like they keep targeting younger and younger audiences. I cringed a few times during first two hours and haven't felt like playing much since.

The game's sense of humor can be pretty childish, but that's sort of the charm. I'd argue that you're just getting older, because the humor has been quite consistent all throughout the generations. I'm struggling to think of anything in particular that might have made you cringe--except for perhaps Hau's dialogue.

Akuma reveal trailer:


Capcom Cup Top 8 is tonight. Gonna change the thread title for that.

actually guys i'm pro-life now

you shouldn't be allowed to kill innocent lives just because they're an inconvenience to you

that's why we should let cancer and other diseases flourish and stop developing medicine, so we can stop this global genocide of microbes that has run rampant in our society once and for all

stop normalizing murder; cancer lives matter too

TBH if you're going to get an abortion because you don't want to take responsibility for your own actions then you should be sterilized after the abortion procedure. It would be a win/win for everyone involved.

I support this.

Quote from: Verbatim on December 03, 2016, 12:42:03 PM

hey, you should pick up pokemon sun and/or moon, though

The demo left me unimpressed. I think I'll pass.

the demo showed, like, nothing tho

i'll write a review later next week and see if i can't convince you

Yeah, Overwatch won literally because it's extremely popular.

The reason I'm triggered is because I think GOTY awards should at least TRY to be a little bit objective. You may like Overwatch and think it's a fun game--I think it looks kinda fun, and I've been following it casually over the past couple months--but to say it's GOTY just because millions of people play it?

I mean, yeah, it's a meaningless award. But it's only meaningless because games like Overwatch can win it.

I recently got to Poni Island and I've just been messing around leveling up some different pokemon and trying to catch some of the more interesting ones. My current team are all around 50. I don't really mind breeding and retraining my favorites (I'd probably just give them the same nickname and pretend they're the original). My team composition has been pretty bad so far though (poor type matching). Is there a resources that discusses building a basic team? I don't really want to just copy somebody else's exact team and movesets.

The Smogon forums are probably your best resource for that if you have the patience for them.

There are some good YouTube videos out there, but avoid ones by the user Verlisify (he's cancer).

I'd show you this, but it hasn't been updated for gen 7. It has a checklist for staple roles that your team should have (it's okay to not fulfill every role--but you should have at least 2/3 of them, I'd say).

There's also me--I consider myself pretty good at this stuff, so I could try to help out if you let me know what your team looks like. Though, bear in mind that Gen 7 is still relatively murky water for a lot of people right now, though, so even the best of resources will probably contain conflicting/theoretical information--but it's all based upon what's worked out in the past, and the metagame adapts very fluidly.

Quote from: Verbatim on December 03, 2016, 09:16:09 AM

Quote from: Comet on December 03, 2016, 04:44:47 AM

Spoiler

i was also kinda surprised that it was glossed over how much of a fuck up Drake made. His wife is very forgiving i guess..

what did he do

everything

i read that post immediately after i woke up, and i thought she was talking about drake the rapper or some shit

like, if he was at the show and pulled a kanye or something

Quote from: Spartan on December 02, 2016, 11:35:23 AM

Another beginner question: Which stats should be EV trained? Do you normally do two full stats, or one full and two halfway maxed? Also, is the only way to reset EVs through berries in Sun/Moon?

It has a lot to do with what are using. Generally, always max out two stats 95% of the time--and always max out the best two.

Say you have a Chansey, whose base stat spread looks like this:



Notice how HP and Sp. Def are by-and-large Chansey's best stats. Therefore, all EVs should be invested in those two stats and nowhere else. Investing in Attack, Sp. Atk, or Speed would be a lost cause, because they're already so low by default that investing in them wouldn't make a real difference. So, focus on honing Chansey's greatest assets instead.

The same general principles apply to all other Pokémon. If you have a Machamp, invest in Attack and Speed. If you have an Alakazam, invest in Sp. Atk and Speed.

There are some cases where you'd half-invest in three or more stats, like Ferrothorn. Smogon recommends that you fully invest in HP while half-investing in both Defense and Sp. Def to create the most balanced defensive wall possible. Smogon in general is a great resource for this sort of thing.

As for resetting EVs in case you fuck up or want to start from a blank slate, I think berries are the only way to do that for this generation. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong on that.

Not legally.

Morally, it's a different ballpark.

No it isn't. A person is someone with an identity--someone with thoughts, opinions, emotions, and other personal idiosyncrasies that make them an individual. A fetus has none of these things

It's also not really rhetorical to refer to it as killing. Ending the life of an individual is killing them; whether it's immoral is a separate question.

"Kill" has weasel-ish-ly negative connotations, so I find it disingenuous and manipulative to use the term for this subject. You use the word to describe and vilify the actions of murderers--serial killers. It's for the same reason I try to avoid using my preferred term--euthanize--because it's biased for my views. A parent who delivers his or her child from a miserably squalid life is not a murderer, but they're also not a saint or a hero.

The most neutral, non-partisan term you could use is "terminate"--but I'll still use the word "kill" just to humor my opposition.