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Y'all know about this?

never seen this before

given that the scenic route to zora's domain is one of the cooler parts of the game, i'd hate for someone to experience this first

it'll come out and everyone's gonna love it

i'd file it under so-bad-it's-good personally

Libra

means absolutely nothing

sometimes i read horoscopes for the fuck of it, and i laugh at how silly and inaccurate they are, despite the fact that they're all written in such a way where the average boring person could vaguely relate to them

this seems like a lot of work

with the amount of writing i'm doing in college at the moment, i'm getting pretty used to typing a whole lot

this is nothing tbh

Quote from: Verbatim on October 24, 2017, 09:00:35 PM

Oh, I also toasted Erika. One-shotted her entire team with Kurama's Flamethrower.

I can't believe she only had four Pokémon.

Wouldn't it be one-shot?

technically yes, even though that sounds really off

I'm gonna talk about Quadcore and Rosalie for a moment.



So, I thought about going the traditional route with my Porygon—a simple "bulky" mixed attacker with things like Recover, Ice Beam, Return, etc. and maybe playing around with Lock-On + Zap Cannon as well.

Trouble is, I can't evolve it. It's not even a case where I could technically cheese it by finding a shiny Pokémon to show to Bill's grandfather—he needs to be traded while holding an Upgrade item. Therefore, he'll be stuck as a Porygon for the rest of the game, unfortunately, and his mediocre stats are gonna stay that way.

So, I'm gonna try to make the absolute best of it by using a little bit of creativity.

His current set involves the following moves:
- Iron Tail
- Curse
- Conversion
- Recover

Conversion works differently than it did in Gen I. In those games, Porygon would change its type to match whatever its opponent's type was (so, fighting a Pikachu would turn Porygon into an Electric-type).

Now, it changes its type to match one of its own moves instead (unless it's Normal-type or ???-type, like Curse). So, if my Porygon knew both Zap Cannon and Iron Tail, it would randomly select between Electric and Steel. But since mine only knows Iron Tail, it will always change into a Steel-type—giving him eleven resistances and one immunity.

It also boosts Iron Tail's power from 100 to 150, despite its terrible 75% accuracy. I'd use something different, but of the three Steel-type moves introduced in this generation, Porygon only learns one of them—so, I'll make due.

Curse and Recover are there, of course, to turn the little duck into a hard-hitting metal tank that can shrug off its injuries—though Curse will progressively make it slower and slower.

There are several downsides to this set. Iron Tail's accuracy is godawful, and having to rely on it as the sole attacking move is kind of shitty—but it's integral if I want to keep having a Steel Porygon, and I do. Curse is also necessary to make Quadcore as tough and formidable as possible, and since the entire set revolves around Conversion, the fact that I have to spend the first turn applying the metal coating is also an issue, especially since I have to reapply it every time I switch out.

If I want an extra attack move, it's gonna have to be Return—both because of its power, the fact that it gets STAB (pre-Conversion), and the fact that it doesn't fuck with Conversion in any way. I can't use any attacks that aren't Normal-typed, and if I absolutely had to replace any move, it would have to be Recover.

I think this is a pretty fun and interesting set, though, and we'll see how it goes.

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Oh, Rosalie.

It's about time I bring her back from the box. I've been waiting to give her a viable moveset for a long time after all those Transform experiments failed—and since I've caught a Paras and Mr. Mime, I can finally start inching towards giving her a viable moveset for her stats.

Her current moves consist of the following:
False Swipe
Fly
Spore

That's right—Spore. In Generation II, before double battles, it's possible to have Smeargle Sketch the move Spore.

How the fuck did I manage that? With great difficulty—but with the help of my new Paras (named Peach), I was able to do it after a couple of tongue-tying and asinine experiments—the first of which involved once again hunting for wild Ditto.

Step one, of course, was to slap that Exp. Share onto Peach and feed her enough experience for her to learn Spore—a move that she learns at level 25 as a Paras, but since she evolves into Parasect at level 24, I had to momentarily cancel that. She's a Parasect now, though.

Next, I had to head over to the Move Deleter and delete all the rest of her moves. Since the Ditto will be transforming into Peach, it would be most optimal for her to have Spore as her only move.

If you see where I'm going with this, you might be asking, "But Spore has 100% accuracy—how are you supposed to Sketch it if it's always going to put you to sleep?"

Recall how, once afflicted with a status condition, you can't be afflicted with another one. So, simply enough, I have to find a way to poison, burn, or paralyze poor Rosalie—this will prevent her from falling asleep against the Ditto!Parasect. Paralysis is obviously the safest and least suicidal option, so I found a wild Pokémon that can induce paralysis and had Rosalie paralyzed. I also have her holding a Mint Berry, just in case.

Unfortunately, the Ditto we'll be facing are all level 10, and Parasect is level 25. Even though Parasect is a very, very slow Pokémon, Ditto isn't exactly the fastest thing, either—so if I want the Ditto to swiftly transform into Peach without putting it to sleep first, I have to use a bunch of silly time-wasting items like Dire Hits, just to burn my turn and allow the Ditto to use Transform in peace.

Once the Ditto is transformed, I switch to Rosalie, who is still paralyzed and thus cannot fall asleep. Her speed has also been crippled greatly, which definitely helps me out, since Sketch needs to move last in order to work. As expected, the Ditto!Parasect's Spore failed, and—moment of truth—I used Sketch.

And it failed.

It would seem that Sketch is hard-coded to always fail when used against a Ditto, or something to that effect. That actually raises a couple of interesting questions and possibilities—like, if something other than a Ditto were to use Transform—like a Mew, or maybe a Clefairy after getting it with Metronome—could I THEN have Smeargle try to Sketch it? The speed tie experiment is still up in the air, as well.

Anyway, I still wasn't finished with Spore. There's still one thing I can try out—find a wild Smeargle and try to have it Sketch Spore from Peach, and then switch to Rosalie (still paralyzed) and have her re-Sketch the move from the wild Smeargle.

A couple problems still arose. This time, Peach's low speed was starting to bite her in the ass. She couldn't outspeed the wild Smeargle, so they would Sketch nothing—and since the move only has 1 PP, they would be using Struggle for the rest of the battle. And a low speed means she can't escape very well, either. I tried giving her a Smoke Ball to remedy this, but unless I wanted to grind 20 levels so that she can outspeed these things (which I don't), I needed to give her something else to use: the Quick Claw.

In this game, the Quick Claw actually has a pretty dang decent chance at getting your Pokémon to move first—it's somewhere between 20% and 25%. What I needed to happen was this—upon finding a Smeargle, she'll use Spore, and the Quick Claw activates, putting the Smeargle to sleep before it's able to Sketch anything.

Now it's asleep, sure. That's a problem, but there are no ways to reduce your own accuracy in this game—though, in retrospect, I could've tried switching to Peckham. He would use Thunder Wave to paralyze the Smeargle, preventing me from putting it to sleep, while still giving it a chance to Sketch Peach's Spore upon switching back to her.

Yeah, I'm just realizing that I could've done that, but I didn't. Whoops. It even would've solved the speed issue, because paralysis quarters your speed in this game. What an obvious solution that flew completely over my head.

The way I did it instead was to continually spam Spore until it woke up—but on the turn that the Smeargle would've woken up, the Quick Claw would have to activate a second time so that it can be Sketched.

Very unlikely thing to happen, but fortunately, it ended up happening a quick two attempts in. Awesome—I taught a wild Smeargle Spore. That means I'm halfway there.

Since I obviously cannot just catch this Smeargle, I have to switch to Rosalie, who—yes, she's still paralyzed—and then use Sketch on the Spore that the wild Smeargle just Sketched. Doesn't that just make your head spin.

But, wouldn't you know it—it actually fucking worked. I have a Smeargle that legimately knows Spore in Generation II, in a fucking nuzlocke challenge. What the fuck is this run?

It doesn't end there, though. Once Rosalie learns Sketch for the fourth and fifth times, I have even more moves I want to teach her, including Belly Drum (which Mr. Green learns naturally) and Baton Pass (which Madam already knows).

And since I caught a Mr. Mime (who I named Chaplin), I can even have her Sketch Substitute down the line, if I so please—but that means I'm gonna have to sacrifice her Flying abilities, and I may not want to do that.

By the time she's all ready, though, she'll be level 71—so I have that to look forward to, now.

Welcome back to the team, mascot.

Quote from: Verbatim on October 24, 2017, 05:20:52 PM

Quote from: Snake on October 24, 2017, 04:57:19 PM

All this console needs is a few more games, 3rd party app support (YouTube, Netflix, Crunchyroll, etc.) and backwards compatibility to be perfect. In the words of the immortal TBlocks, "This is some space-age shit" and I've loved every minute of playing it on the go. Today I had to wait an hour and a half for my brother to finish at the gym. I adjusted my steering wheel, took off the joycons, and placed the screen leaning on the horn to play in the comfort of the driver's seat while I waited. This is something I fantasised about in the eight grade: a portable home console.

will you be getting mario "killer app" odyssey

"killer app"?

the game that's most likely to cause a torrential downpour of switch sales and be the primary reason people will be getting a switch, like halo: ce was for xbox

you might say botw was that, but i think most people just played it safe and bought it on wii u instead

I don't see how ARMA and Ninja Gaiden would be the weird guy

that's because you never see how anything about you could be perceived as negative in any way

All this console needs is a few more games, 3rd party app support (YouTube, Netflix, Crunchyroll, etc.) and backwards compatibility to be perfect. In the words of the immortal TBlocks, "This is some space-age shit" and I've loved every minute of playing it on the go. Today I had to wait an hour and a half for my brother to finish at the gym. I adjusted my steering wheel, took off the joycons, and placed the screen leaning on the horn to play in the comfort of the driver's seat while I waited. This is something I fantasised about in the eight grade: a portable home console.

will you be getting mario "killer app" odyssey

With Capulet dead, not only does that leave me out of a Cut user—I also have to teach somebody Flash.

I tried Ocellus (my new Tentacool), but he doesn't learn it. Eeylops (my Noctowl) does, though, and I'll be able to use his trusty Hypnosis to catch whatever cool things I find north of Lavender Town.

I wanted to take care of the Cycling Road route west of Celadon and Fuchsia City first, though, since there's a particular Pokémon I wanted to catch there that's more common during the day.

Speaking of Celadon City, Porygon is available here, but I need 9999 Game Corner coins to get it. It's my favorite Pokémon of all time, I can't just not go for it—so, for several hours between performing productive tasks in the game, I spent a lot of time intermittently gambling, stopping whenever I felt I made a decent gain.

The slot machines are actually easier to game than you'd think, and I had a pretty decent rhythm going.

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Route 17 - West of Celadon
What I wanted: Slugma
What I caught: Slugma



I don't have any particular desire to use this Pokémon. I just think it's interesting, because it's one of the only Pokémon introduced in Generation II that is only available in Kanto—plus, it's still kind of cool for what it is. I'm glad I caught one, especially since I've never actually seen one in the wild before.

Now, time to stop dilly-dallying and head to the Power Plant.

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Rock Tunnel
Wanted to catch: Cubone, Marowak, Kangaskhan, Machop, Machoke, Geodude
What I found: Onix



As you can see, I wanted to catch just about any other Pokémon in this fucking cave—but I had to go and find one of the only two things I didn't want to see at all. How cool would it have been to use a Cubone? I love Cubone. Not this time, though.

Didn't bother catching it, obviously, since I already have a (well-trained but retired) Onix.

After this point, all of Kanto's interesting encounters kinda go down the shitter.

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Route 10
What I wanted: ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOTHING
What I got: Goldeen



This route sucks. In Silver, these are literally the only Pokémon available:
Rattata, Raticate, Spearow, Fearow, Magikarp, Goldeen, and Seaking.

Notice something? Not only is every single one of these Pokémon available in droves across the entire game, I also happen to own every single one of them. I didn't have the Pokédex entry for Goldeen, but I did catch its evolved form.

How incredibly boring. In Gold, there's at least a chance to catch a Mankey, and Crystal, of course, adds a ton of interesting shit. Silver got the shaft this time.

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Route 10
What I wanted: Electabuzz
What I found: Voltorb



I already have one; didn't bother catching this one.

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Cerulean City
What I wanted: Staryu
What I found: Krabby



After stopping by at the Power Plant, I was sent on a mission to receive a missing machine part that'll cause the plant to start generating power once again. Then I can start taking the Magnet Train back to Johto and stuff.

West of the plant is Cerulean City, where I was eventually able to find the part, which was thrown in the pool at the gym by the last remaining Team Rocket member (who doesn't even realize that Team Rocket has disbanded and speaks in broken English).

It was in this gym that I was able to fish for another Staryu attempt that night, but I just found another Krabby instead. No thanks.

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Route 4 - West of Cerulean
What I wanted: Jigglypuff, Ekans
What I caught: Jigglypuff



Finally, something cool. I wanted to use a Jigglypuff since the beginning, but it might be too little too late at this point in the game. Still, it's a pretty rare encounter, and I don't mind catching one at all.

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Route 24 - North of Cerulean
What I wanted: Oddish, Abra, Venonat
What I caught: Venonat



I was looking for an Oddish because I'm still on the verge of finding out that I can't get evolutionary stones. In the end, what I ended up finding ended up being better anyways. Beedrill, Scyther, Shuckle, Venonat. If this keeps up, I'll be turning full Bug Trainer.

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Route 25
What I wanted: Oddish, Abra
What I caught: Venomoth



Yeah, no joke.

I guess that instantly invalidates the Venonat that I just caught? I wouldn't know; I still have to look up their learnsets.

It was shortly after this catch that I found out about the evolutionary stones thing. Fuck me.

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Route 5
What I wanted: Abra
What I caught: Bellsprout



Apparently, the game thinks I deserve a third chance with one of these things. All right, then.

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Route 16
What I wanted: Grimer, Muk, Murkrow
What I found: Grimer



Just one thing I needed to do before taking my break—clear up the two routes above and below Cycling Road.

I didn't catch anything here. The Grimer I found ran away before I could successfully catch it. Oops.

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Route 18
What I wanted: Grimer, Muk, Murkrow
What I caught: Grimer



I caught this one, though. Yay.

Lavender Town

This area doesn't have any Pokémon in it, either—nor does the Lavender Radio Tower—but I was able to pay respects to all my deceased Pokémon at the Soul House. Fifteen deaths.

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Route 12
Wanted to catch: Qwilfish, Tentacool
What I caught: Tentacool



Cthulha died in such a stupid way, so I really don't mind getting to use another Tentacool.

This is also the route where I can finally pick up the Super Rod, which means I can head back to Johto and cover the last few areas that I've been saving all this time for this one moment—Cherrygrove City and Dragon's Den.

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Cherrygrove City
Wanted to catch: Staryu
What I caught: Krabby



God fucking dammit.

I didn't even actually catch it—I just ran away. At level 40, the Krabby almost assuredly knows Guillotine, which can instantly kill any of my party members. Definitely not even worth it.

As I would later find out, I wouldn't even be able to evolve a Staryu even if I caught it, but it still kinda sucks.

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Dragon's Den
Wanted to catch: Dratini, Dragonair
What I caught: Magikarp



Sorry, Flee—it seems that the Dragonite Gods have not smiled upon me. It just wasn't meant to be.

But that's okay, because the Magikarp Gods have much more clout anyway. It's level 40, so even if it evolves, it'll be piss useless because it won't learn any good moves. But I caught it anyway and named it Clair.

The last remaining areas in Johto are Tin Tower and Silver Cave.

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Route 13
What I wanted: Chansey, Nidorina, Nidorino, Noctowl
What I caught: Nidorina



Back in Kanto, I made it over to the infamous Chansey Routes. There are three bordering routes—13, 14, and 15—that each have a 1% chance of finding a Chansey. If I were to find one, I also have the option of trading it for an Aerodactyl, the only fossil Pokémon available in Gen II (but I'd rather just keep the Chansey).

Needless to say, I did not find one here.

I'm okay with a Nidorina, though. Since B and G both died stupidly, I appreciate having been given an (undeserved) third chance with this species. In keeping with the theme of naming them single letters (after the speedrunning practice of doing so), I named her J.

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Route 14
What I wanted: Chansey, Nidorino, Noctowl
What I found: Quagsire



Keyword "found."

I didn't catch it.

It ran away.

Fuck.

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Route 15
What I wanted: Chansey, Nidorino, Noctowl
What I found: Noctowl



All right, no Chansey for me.

That's actually fine, though—I've always wanted to catch a Hoothoot or Noctowl anyway, so it's about time. It knows some pretty great moves, like Hypnosis and Reflect, so I'm definitely not against using him to help catch more Pokémon.

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Route 11
What I wanted: Magnemite
What I caught: Rattata



Sigh. Pretty bad route, honestly—the only other thing available here is Drowzee, which is one of my least favorite Pokémon in general. This will be the last Rattata that I catch for this entire run—if I see any more repeats, I'm just gonna run away from them.

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Back in Vermilion City, I decided it probably wouldn't hurt to do a little bit of training at the gym. I wasn't planning on fighting Surge just yet—before I fight any leaders, I want to take care of the Power Plant issue first. I was just gonna fight the gym trainers, that's all.

The trainers here are all very low level, so I thought it would be easy—and then something had to go and happen.

There's a cut bush blocking Surge's gym, so I took Capulet the Weepinbell along. I could technically just use Surf, as well, but since I'm saving my Vermilion City encounter for Snorlax, I didn't want to take the risk of encountering something useless in the water.

This was also before I discovered how stupidly difficult it is to get evolutionary stones in this game, so right now, I'm thinking, "Capulet needs to gain some levels before he becomes a Victreebel." So I use him against the first gym trainer: a Juggler named Horton.

He used four Pokémon—or, more specifically, four Electrode. They are all significantly lower leveled than Capulet, and Electrode has the weakest Self-Destruct in the game, so I wasn't too worried.

The first Electrode blew up on the very first turn, though.

Capulet survived, taking about 70%. That's pretty scary, but the odds of the second Electrode blowing up immediately afterwards are pretty dang low, so I took a chance and used Sleep Powder.

It missed, but thankfully, there wasn't a second blow-up.

I tried Sleep Powder again, and it missed once more. Now, I'm getting a little pissed. Still no Self-Destruct, but my fucking god. This Weepinbell is easily the weakest and most useless thing I've ever used. You may recall me having issues with him earlier, but he just never got better.

The third Sleep Powder worked, but it didn't matter—the third Electrode finally did Capulet in. After healing, he proceeded to miss with Sleep Powder three times straight before getting hit by Self-Destruct and dying.

I don't even feel that bad, really—he was an absolutely good-for-nothing Pokémon who was obviously very miserable to be on the team, and now he's out of that misery. Had he hit with Sleep Powder just ONCE on the turns that he absolutely needed to, everything would've been fine—but no.

Even in death, however, Capulet is still inconveniencing me.

Since he's, you know, dead, I technically shouldn't be able to use Cut now when I exit the gym. Because that doesn't make any sense. Other people treat those rulings differently, but personally, I don't use the dead corpses of my Pokémon for specific HMs, even if I absolutely need them. If I'm ever at a point where I need to use an HM to progress, I don't have a single living Pokémon that can learn the move, and I don't have any remaining encounters, then my options are to either take the L and forfeit the run, or grind for a suitable shiny Pokémon.

But, yeah. I don't have to worry about that, because I can just Surf my way out with Peckham. It just sucks, because I'm technically risking a minimum of two tiles worth of potential encounters—if I encounter ANYTHING in the water, that'll prevent me from catching Snorlax later, so that ended up being potentially disastrous.

I didn't encounter anything, though. That's nice, but now I have to re-teach Cut to Alkali. That's not so nice.

Next stop is the Power Plant.

Quote from: Verbatim on October 23, 2017, 11:47:02 PM

weird guy due to fighting games

i'm ashamed that i'm not deeper, i must play more video games

Fighting games should be gamer tier tbh.

take away smash and SF and they're more niche than you think they are

weird guy due to fighting games

i'm ashamed that i'm not deeper, i must play more video games

http://nintendoeverything.com/switchs-4-0-0-update-now-allows-for-gamecube-controller-support-with-wii-u-gamecube-adapter/

Here’s something very neat about Switch’s new firmware update. If you’ve installed the new 4.0.0 update, you can get GameCube controllers to work with the console. You just need the Wii U GameCube Adapter that Nintendo sold back in the day.

Once you’ve plugged the adapter in, you can pair the GameCube controllers to your Switch in the main menu. On the controller settings page, press L+R as you normally would. And that’s it! It should be working when you’re back on the main menu, and can work with games like Fire Emblem Warriors.

The only issue is that the GameCube controller doesn’t have a left Z button – there’s only the one Z button on the right, and only has a start button, so you can’t go back to the main menu. But hey: maybe GameCube controller support could be brought back for the eventual Smash Bros. Switch or theoretical GameCube Virtual Console?

this is pretty big