Pikachu Batteries Recalled for Unintended Sparks

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Turns out batteries are best left to bunnies, not mice (Energizer joke). Two varieties of mobile smartphone back-up batteries are being recalled in Japan, one featuring Pikachu and the other a generic Pokéball image. Buyers reported that the units became uncomfortably hot and some even saw smoke.

If you came into possession of one of these, please see the page linked above for refund instructions or contact the seller! For the rest of us, let this be a lesson that Pikachu’s power cannot be harnessed so easily by human technology!

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606 thoughts on “Pikachu Batteries Recalled for Unintended Sparks”

  1. As horrible as this is, it is always nice to see something that creates such a perfect title.

    In other news, Finished Breath of the Wild, and yeah with out question its a 10/10 for me. Probably the most fun I’ve had in an open world game that didn’t make me feel fatigued, lovable characters, fantastic music, a great battle system, good dungeons, and while bosses were a little lack luster, they never didn’t feel epic right to the final moment. I really did like the idea of discovering Link’s past more by exploring the world rather then a conventional story, though I hope that don’t do it again. Also I’ll admit, seeing the final name in the credits, knowing it would probably be the name everyone’s eyes would naturally fall on brought a tear to my eye. Really id this is our only zelda entry for the switch, I couldn’t be happier.

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    • The game’s really great, definitely the best Zelda I ever played (and I played them almost all) and maybe eve the best game I ever played. It’s not perfect, there are some small annoyances that could be improved on (larger dungeons, an unbreakable weapon or at least one easy to repair, more traditional music tracks,…) but what it does it does sooo well. It’s really pushing the genre forward and that’s why I still think it deserves the 98 MC score.

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      • Technically there is an unbreakable weapon being the master sword. It does break, but it has a timer before its fully repaired, something like ten minutes.

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      • The game’s as fast as you want it to be. I finished it with 45 shrines finished, all of the memories found, and with the master sword. In total I had 18 hearts and really didn’t even bother fully upgrading my armor since it takes 10k ruppies to unlock the final fairy fountain. Just go at your own pace and enjoy the game how you want to.

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  5. Well I sit alone in a blizzard in the confines of a empty house, the snow whiteness eliminating all vision, I turn my tv around to the foot of my bed and take my memory foam wedge and have Switch in hand, I wish not for dry sunny forests and mountains I yearn to climb the icy peaks or northern Lanaryu maybe I’ll find the dragon and claim a shard of horn to finish my armor
    Only time will tell

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    • That was…… oddly beautiful….You may not have meant to (maybe you did idk lol), but what you wrote here is quite poetic lol

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      • I may be a violent somewhat perverted brute who enjoys bloodshed and mayhem but I possess a distinctive artistry that I simply cannot ignore

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      • I’m always happy to see more fire emblem as well, but I’m really not a fan of the fact that it seems to be a 1to1 remake of Gaiden. Gaiden has a lot of mechanics that I can’t stand, like certain classes being near god-tier broken where others are completely broken or magic costing hp to use, or even making leveling pretty much pointless since every character has all of their stats risen to a certain preset number when classing up, meaning its best to class up as soon as possible, instead og getting as many stat points as possible.

        I’ve always like the pokemon way of making remakes in which they use more modern mechanics instead of the old ones.

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      • Aka the game I’m most excited to even tho the only things we know about this game is:

        1.It’s a FE game
        2.It’s coming in 2018
        3.It’s a videogame

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      • I’d say its more of a test to see if there’s a market for the older games, which there isn’t that much of a market for, but yeah. And by that I mean that really there aren’t any other FE games they can remake. 4 can’t be remade due to its content not being kid-friendly, 5’s a squeal to 4, 6-8 sell well on the VC still, and 9 and 10 would be a nightmare and a half to try to put on the VC and preformed fairly poorly.

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        • What was wrong with 4?

          And I think they could easily remake 6, it’s never been to the states in the first place.

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          • There are several points in 4 that would need to be heavily altered or simply can’t be altered due to story reasons that would give the game an M raking with out question. Some of these points include having the first female character you see in the game be raped by a bandit, having the first main character burned at the stake, having a female character CANONICALLY cheat on her husband(one of your party members) with another man(another one of your party members), and LOTS of Incest. Really combine that with the fact that gameplay wise 4’s not the best, and you have a hard sell to Nintendo to fund the game.

            As for six, yeah it wasn’t released outside of Japan, but it’s also not that good of the game either. There’s a reason why Roy’s considered the worst lord in the series. Seven and Eight are much better games in terms of gameplay, and both still sell well enough on the VC. So might as well do the bare min. of work, rather then spending money on something that will probably sell just as well.

  8. I wanna use a basic team for the Kanto x Alola competition, I was thinking something like:
    Mimikyu
    Garchomp
    Charizard
    Gyarados
    Mamoswine
    Blaziken
    Lucario

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  10. I know have 4 Star Barbarian Garb
    With grants me a whopping 60 defense and increased charge attack with stamina to boot….it was worth getting molested by the Great Fairy, I wonder if the climbing gear would have set bonuses if upgraded

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    • I’m pretty stoked for the new season. I’ll have to recap the end of the last one so I can remember what happened. It’s been so long since the show was originally on lol

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  15. Ru removed half of the things Araquanid had trouble with and gave me Dhelmise and Flygon, two Pokémon I desperately wanted in that tier
    Thank you smogon

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      • maybe instead of constantly restarting games why not focus on something else, honestly do you do anything other than pokemon restarts?

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    • ive been waiting for a friend of mine to get online so we can play some stuff together. might go back to botw as i wait

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