Quote from: Verbatim on September 09, 2017, 04:32:55 PM

Quote from: challengerX on September 09, 2017, 04:32:10 PM

lmao can you ride your bike with no hands too? Like I said they treat you like a freak show.

and even if they did, that would still mean that you're wrong

i'll take being a freak show any day over someone who nobody gives a shit about, which is what you said originally

so you're either wrong or wrong, those are your options

Nobody cares about a freak show they just throw stuff and look at him because he's weird. And that's even more so now because nobody knows what to talk about here anymore.

so they care

thanks

Quote from: Verbatim on September 09, 2017, 04:00:14 PM

Quote from: challengerX on September 09, 2017, 03:58:14 PM

Quote from: Verbatim on September 09, 2017, 03:56:26 PM

Quote from: challengerX on September 09, 2017, 03:54:50 PM

who asks you about your opinions on anything lmao

like fucking everybody

literally half my posts here nowadays are just me responding to people's questions about my thoughts on random shit, and i'm including bungle as well

did not read the rest of your post because it doesn't matter

You're gonna act like you didn't read the rest of my post because you know it's true and it's hurtful.

what could even be considered hurtful about it

do you still think you're clever or something

You just live in constant state of frustration man it's really toxic. I don't really have any interest in "conversing" with you about yourself. You need therapy and medication.

okay shithead

i have several PMs from people choosing to consult me specifically about various philosophical subjects, i get recommended things to play and watch nonstop in discord/plug/PMs/etc, i have several people following my dark souls thread and videos almost two years after i started the thread, and i'm the only member on this entire fucking website who is still capable of making 100+ reply threads anymore

no one cares what i think about anything though, you're right

who asks you about your opinions on anything lmao

like fucking everybody

literally half my posts here nowadays are just me responding to people's questions about my thoughts on random shit, and i'm including bungle and plug and discord as well, especially fucking discord

people are interested in my thoughts on shit, it's not a big deal, why does this fact offend you so much

did not read the rest of your post because it doesn't matter

Quote from: Verbatim on September 09, 2017, 03:43:27 PM

i can't wait to shit on mass effect

Nobody cares about your childish opinions.

that's why so many people ask me about them right

i'm gonna shit on mass effect and i'm gonna love me3's ending

please continue quoting me

What do you think of the transgender population?

idk

they're human beings, and a lot of them are my friends

a lot of them are crazy cunts, too, but then so are the rest of us

if you're asking me if i believe they're mentally ill or something, then i'd say yes by definition, but i've found that the best cure is acceptance rather than forcing them to feel a certain way about themselves, which is why their suicide rates are so high—because so many of them just don't get the love and support that they need as human beings

But do you believe that a larger portion of the poulation are pedophilic than is known?

guaranteed, though the same could be said of almost anything

Do you think AIDS is artificial?

i wasn't aware it was a question

but no

What do you think about the U.S. governments excessive military spending?

it's excessive

What do you think of age of consent laws?

too low

should be 30, minimum

Quote from: challengerX on September 08, 2017, 12:52:32 PM

Too bad you failed your suicide attempt

don't do this man

yeah you should ban him for that Death Threat(tm)

So, in preparation for Gold/Silver's rerelease, I've just been going over all of my favorites to see which Pokémon I'd like to use this time around (despite the fact that I'm nuzlocking, and I only have a slim chance of catching everything I want).

Turns out, this generation doesn't want me to have any of my favorite Pokémon.

We'll start off light. Ledian is one of my favorite Bug-types, despite being one of the weakest Pokémon of all time. Ledyba can only be found in the morning, though, so if I want to use one in this nuzlocke, I'll have to set my alarm clock. It's the only Pokémon in the game that is exclusively available in the morning.

I've never used a Smeargle, and I've never actually seen one in Silver before, so I thought about using that. Turns out, it's a 10% encounter on the outside of the Ruins of Alph, which isn't accessible until the late game, if I recall correctly. This one isn't SO bad, but if I want it in a nuzlocke, I'll have to use some Repels—and even then, I'll likely just end up with a Natu instead. Still better than Unown, at least.

Steelix, Scizor, Politoed, Slowking, and Kingdra are all AWESOME Pokémon that I'd love to use, and I cannot use any of them, because they all involve trades. Not just trades, but trades with obnoxiously rare items attached. Every single one of them—even Porygon2, who evolves from my favorite Pokémon of all time.

Sneasel and Misdreavus are only available after you beat the Elite 4.

Ariados, Ursaring, Gligar, and Mantine are all varying degrees of cool/interesting, but they're all exclusive to Gold (I'm playing Silver). It's okay, though—Silver has better exclusives anyway (like Skarmory).

Not only is Celebi unobtainable, it has NEVER been obtainable in this generation's entire fucking history—unless you lived in Japan. They literally never had a Celebi distribution event for this game in the west. You can still get it by doing this really bizarre glitch involving the daycare, but fuck. The things we had to resort to just to get our hands on this fucking thing, which is one of my favorite legendaries, if not my most favorite.

And then there's Pineco and Heracross. Hoo boy. It's probably common knowledge that these two Pokémon only appear when you headbutt trees, which was always a pretty funny and cool mechanic on its own—but I've never actually delved into how the mechanic works until just recently.

There are two kinds of headbuttable trees—"forest" trees and "mountain" trees. You can find the Caterpie family, Weedle family, Exeggcute, or Pineco in a "forest" tree, and you can find Spearow, Aipom, or Heracross in a "mountain" tree. Sounds simple enough, but there's more to it. I'll try to explain it as best as I can.

Both of these groups of trees, forest and mountain, are split into two subgroups—"moderate-encounter" (ME) and "low-encounter" (LE). Whether you're able to find a Pineco or Heracross in any given tree depends on which subgroup the tree belongs to. The trees are randomly generated and placed based on your trainer ID, so they're always arranged and set differently when you start a new game. And to top it all off, they are visually indistinguishable from each other, and they may not even appear on certain routes at all.

The only way to "tell" which trees are MEs or LEs is by testing it yourself. An ME tree will produce a lot of Pokémon, and an LE tree will produce fewer. In Gold/Silver, Pineco and Heracross will only appear in LE trees—but in Crystal, for whatever reason, they only appear in MEs.

Once you find yourself a good tree, you have a 30% chance of encountering a Heracross or Pineco, depending on whether you searched in a forest/mountain area—which, by the way, also varies depending on whether you're playing Crystal. Azalea Town, for example, is considered a "forest" area in Gold/Silver, but a "mountain" area in Crystal.

These all seem to be recent developments, too. No one was sure how any of this shit worked until very recently. There have been Prima strategy guides written for these games, telling kids that they have a 30% chance of finding a Heracross by headbutting trees, leading them all to headbutting the wrong trees about 2000 times before realizing they've been had.

So yeah, I guess I can kiss my odds of using a Heracross in this playthrough goodbye—or almost any of my favorites, for that matter. Just my luck, I suppose. Rare Pokémon have always been a cool and exciting mechanic, and I'm not opposed to it, but it just sucks to know that there's so many great Pokémon that I straight-up cannot get for the absolute silliest fucking reasons. And I haven't even got into the first-gen Pokémon.

At least I can reliably get Typhlosion, Crobat, and Ampharos—and maybe if I end up with something lame like Aipom, I might grow to appreciate it. That's the magic of nuzlockes, after all.

i wish this fucking website didn't give me a fucking tutorial on how to use it every single time i log in

in second generation pokémon games, your rival in this game is notorious for being a huge prick, probably the worst in the franchise—not only does he hate the weak and love talking others down, there are several moments where he'll physically kick and shove you around just for being in his way—and, worst of all, he raises his pokémon with hatred and not love

but naturally, he does come to a point where he sees the error in his ways, and he starts becoming a better trainer and better overall person once you beat the game

one of his key pokémon that he uses throughout the playthrough is a golbat

golbat is the evolved form of zubat, and it can evolve further into a crobat, its final form—but only when its friendship stat is raised above a certain point (friendship is a hidden stat that goes up when the game thinks you're treating your pokémon "nicely," typically by walking around with it, winning battles, grooming it, giving it treats, etc)

and wouldn't you know it—as soon as your rival starts changing his ways, his golbat evolves into a crobat, showing that he really does care for his pokémon after all, d'aww

that's not something i noticed until several years after i beat the game for the first time, and the fact that they added that little touch that no one ever notices still makes me smile

you remind me of this youtube channel that i used to watch that nobody but me would know about

he was a pathological liar and lied about his suicide several times and people wonder why anyone takes him seriously

Hmm... Idk really. I disagree with your positions, but at the same time I understand where you're coming from when you are calm and explain yourself. I'd say modding, but then I think of Bethesda and how they take advantage of mods to make up for their own shortcomings, and then try to make people pay for it (lol). So idk.

likewise

i guess if i had to bring up something, it would either have to do with veganism or drug use, but i think you're already well-aware that you're in the wrong on both of those subjects already, so it's harder to say