Dude It’s So Hard. I Know Deep Down That I’m Writing Straight Fire But Then The Awareness Hits Like

JUNIOR YEAR!!! I BELIEVE IN YOU!!

illusion of choice

i should have made the box darker but whatever its the guy

Starting scarlet and violet over as the default player character because I’m at that level of brain rot where I feel like they’re their own person and I CANNOT mess that up for them. No customization for me

first rotom phone

okay but if the professors succeeded, what would the odds of zygarde scaling that wall between paldea and kalos be

As someone who grew up southern Baptist, Bobby Dawn triggers my fight or flight in a way that I can’t possibly explain.

My favorite thing ever when writing Pokemon fics is taking common idioms/metaphors and replacing whatever animal in them with the closest approximate Pokemon.

Like “hold your Mudsdales” or “Not my circus, not my Mankey.”

For some reason otherwise it makes me think of the character saying the normal one and going “wait what the fuck is a horse?”

I do agree with the vast majority of this, but I think there’s an argument to be made that sometimes it’s nice to do it for fun in cases where there’s no harm in it. Mostly I’m talking about the games that no longer have internet connectivity, so everything from the 3DS to before. I don’t necessarily hold the belief that “shinies only have value because they’re rare”. If somebody wants a shiny starter just for the hell of it while doing a nostalgia playthrough or because it looks nice, I mean why not. Sometimes the only reason is because a black charizard looks sick as fuck and that’s ok.

Pokémon Discussion:

What do you guys think about hacked Pokémon? Because I have a couple of opinions on it.

First, I don’t like hacked shinies. The thing about shinies is that it’s only an aesthetic change and nothing changes gameplay-wise. There’s no reason to hack one, unlike, say, a perfect IV competitive Pokémon. The thing about shinies is that they only have value because they’re rare. That’s it. Meaning, hacking a shiny takes away its value.

Where my opinion differs is on hacking shinies for competitive purposes, that being because it actually affects gameplay, and there’s actually another reason. As mentioned above, shinies only have value due to their rarity, and thus hacking them completely defeats the purpose of a shiny. On the other hand, you can pretty easily get a max IV or EV Pokémon in scarlet and violet. I’ve seen some people claiming that maxing out a team takes them 3 hours, but with a decent amount of money it takes me, like, an hour at most. At the end of the day, it’s not that much time or effort to max out a team and thus hacking doesn’t really matter. If you honestly care that much about hacking competitive Pokémon, then I honestly think you’re overreacting.

Those are my thoughts, anyway. See ya!

patron request for RAYQUAZA WITH THE STEEL CHAIR

i dunno how to use this site please don't kill me if i do it wrong ^^;