Playing Yellow. I accidentally deleted my Pikachu's Thundershock. I was going to reset but that would put me back about 2 hours so fuck it. I'll power through.

you know what black and white did really well

HMs

playing through fire red again and I don't want to use fucking ROCK SMASH or FLASH fuck off

there's absolutely no need for them

just have pokemon that CAN learn fly be able to FLY. why does my pidgeot need to learn a move to let me fly on his back?

maybe like defog, i can understand. but rock smash? here's what i would do: "Hey machamp, punch that rock homie".

I never thought HMs were the problem, to be honest. Having attacks that can interact with the environment is actually a cool idea.

The problem is that
1. the moves themselves fucking SUCK DICK in battle except for surf, which is only decent
2. they're such a fucking hassle to remove or delete
3. too many of them are required for progression

You see the problem with that, though, right?

If your Pokémon can just clear obstacles automatically, then there may as well be no obstacle at all.

I accidentally hit start when nicknaming Charmander, now I'm stuck with it being called D until Lavender town