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rizuchan
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So the pokemon primers have been around for a couple years - they started with ABCs, 123s, Colors and Shapes,etc. All the topics that you'd teach a preschooler. The new type ones seem kinda bizarre to me, for a lot of the reasons you describe. But also, because lift the flap board books are mostly targeted at Pre-K kids, which seems a bit young to be drilling type combos into their heads even if they are Pokemon fans.
But really, that kind of goes for the rest of them too. I bought the first few for my toddler, but even as a hardcore Pokemon fan, something doesn’t feel right about reading to him “C is for Clefairy” at an age where he is still learning the names of real animals, much less Pokemon. I guess if you have a toddler that’s really latched on to Pokemon - and Pokemon does seem to be trying to target that age group with Pokemon Kids TV and stuff - but otherwise they just seem like a novelty for millennial parents. |
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Treecko Tempo
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Everybody 1-2-Switch is actually getting a physical release. Its the same price as digital. |
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FilthyCasual
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Do you mean Chinchou or Lanturn? Because Stunfisk has no antenna, as it's already perfect. |
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FinalVentCard
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I absolutely meant Chinchou.
I even know where my brain was when I made this gaff, I was going to write about Chinchou and my neurospicy brain thought, "Hey, should we also point out how Stunfisk is a lung fish but it's actually weak to Water-types because of its Electric/Ground dual-typing?". We'll be fixing this later this evening. |
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wolf10
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That Pokemon news is the rare (mythical even!) intersection of "e-sports" and "heartwarming." Faith in humanity has been restored (+1 pont).
I spent a few hours rerolling in X Dive, since suddenly people are coming out of the woodwork to say "no wait it's Good Actually," only to realize that my boy Rogue wasn't even in the starter pool anyway (always check the rates!). But I did eventually get Next Dive Armor X on the 1-a-day S-rank pool (which is X units only), and he's apparently the unit so busted he killed the game, so I may end up giving it a whirl after all, eventually. Or I could just go back to Star Force 3... |
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whiskeyii
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I’m currently listening to an 11-hour-long audiobook called Salt (I’ll let you guess what the subject matter is), and the amount of fermented foods in the first ten chapters alone is kind of mind-boggling. On-topic, here’s to gamers wielding their power for good!  We love to see it.
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freebird1994
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Honestly that competitive pokemon story is so funny for a number of reasons.
-For starters, metronome isn't event that good of an attack in general. In a game where critical hits happen randomly, moves can just miss depending on accuracy, and some moves have a percent chance to inflict status condition or other effect, it's kinda funny that they banned metronome: a move that sure, could give garchomp shell smash, or just self destruct or some other useless move. Now if both teams had nothing but metronome, now we are talking. -As someone who has dabled in competitive pokemon, the fact that games aren't best of 3 in a tourney setting is wild to me. The fact that everything I said above can happen and if you lose cause of it you just have to deal with it is pathetic for a competitive setting. -It's kinda funny they got banned on a strict technicality. Hacking in Pokémon is supposed to be banned cause it could allow for game breaking things like magikarp having mega rayquaza level stats. But they only hacked in a competitively useless move(basically making their team weaker via hacks) out of symbolic protest of the issue with having a best of 1 format for a game where luck is still a decent factor. Those are my thoughts, just wanted to say I found that section funny. (also North America has a number of players that have hacked in pokemon but they aren't ever punished for it cause their "hacks" are just pokemon with the correct stats like ivs and evs and movesets and also probably shinys. These pokemon are all "technically speaking" possible to get normally, they would just take forever and no one plays competitive Pokémon to spend half their time just grinding to put a team together.) |
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enurtsol
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There's also already a major Atlus early leak from their instagram
"Two new Persona games accidentally leaked on Instagram" 
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Triltaison
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They actually make perfect sense to me, as someone who works in a busy public library (and often in the kids' section). Kids of all ages still really, really love Pokémon and all of our books about them circulate frequently. One of the most common combinations of family groups looking for Pokémon books in our library is oldest sibling who reads the manga and plays the video games (roughly age 12), middle sibling who collects the cards and reads the Ultimate Handbook or Whatever Region Guidebook (roughly age 8), and youngest sibling who wants to do the things the older two siblings are doing (roughly age 4). Youngest is often incapable of doing what they're doing, but still demands a turn. The youngest gets cranky and frustrated because he doesn't have the reading ability to do the other books, but wants to do the stuff the big kids are doing. They also are usually familiar with the anime and recognize certain characters, but really struggle to do the manga (what with it being backwards and the length). The new board books are just images of different Pokémon with the same type doing simple activities like climbing or swimming. They aren't doing type matchups or anything complex like that... just simple sentences like "What's behind that bush? Oh! It's an Oddish!" or giving short facts from the Pokédex. I've flipped through the Grass one myself, and would say it's targeting ages 3-5 who are just starting to read sentences themselves. It's also really common here for an older sibling to read to the younger ones with this type of book because they all get engaged with the kind of seek-and-find approach of a large illustration dotted with different recognizable characters in hidden places. But the board book pages will help protect it from siblings fighting over who gets to hold the book. Anyway, I know every book in this series would check out immediately at the library I work at. |
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ThatMoonGuy
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I for sure would buy those Pokémon picture books if I had a kid if for no other reason than they being cute. It's the kind of thing kid me would really love.
On Armored Core... I always felt that the fear of it becoming more souls like was unwarranted. From Software might very well be one of the most competent devs out there. They know their game and would have no reason to try and "soulize" something that works pretty well. Besides, heavy mechs and micromanaged equipment loadouts aren't the thing that comes to my mind when you say "souls game". |
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FinalVentCard
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I didn't cover this for two reasons: first, that stuff all came out after my deadline. There has to be a cutoff point somewhere, I can't be adding stuff to the column right up until it goes live (we mentioned that early in the column with White Album). Second, I don't report on "leaks". Call it a personal decision. If and when that game gets formally announced, I'll cover it and I might even talk about the leaks. Until then, I'm not interested in dedicating space to "Scrimblo Bimblo is rated on Korea's ratings board". There's nothing to talk about there. |
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TokimekiCrisis
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It's pretty easy to bypass Nintendo/Gamefreak's authentication check. The only real way to tell is if the mons have illegal moves or stats. I imagine a lot of people use hacked mons in competitive since it's quicker to do that than raise from scratch. |
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freebird1994
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That's exactly why competitive players do it. And it's funny cause there is a small but vocal part of the community that relentlessly tries to get the Pokemon company to enforce the hacking rule on players they know hacked in pokemon. Not hacked like gave themselves pokemon with illegal moves and stats mind you, just gave themselves a shiny Salamance with perfect IVS cause doing so the "normal" way would take forever. I have always seen it as "while they are TECHNICALLY breaking the rules, they aren't breaking the spirit of the rules." |
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