If You Love Rumors, That’s OK

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I’m re-tooling this post a bit. Some people and outlets decried the coverage of the fake starters yesterday for not being reasonably believable or not 100% confirmed. I would argue though that reading about interesting stuff can be fun, especially when you’re covering a game intended for a primarily adolescent audience. Everyone needs a break from the stresses of life, why fuss over gaming news. Let’s just have fun and enjoy it.

As long as rumors or suspect information is clearly marked as such I think we can enjoy it without shame. No worries, we won’t stop covering them.

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1,456 thoughts on “If You Love Rumors, That’s OK”

  1. What classical element would you associate with each season? Just curious because it’s relevant to something I was doing.

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    • Its one of the Two Series born out of a thing with Harvest Moon, Story of Seasons is the same series that was Localized as Harvest Moon, while Harvest Moon is now it’s own Series by The People who Published it over here. Confusing. What Bugs me is the Story of Seasons Logo SUCKS.

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  9. I have a 2 fold problem. The first part isn’t quite that bad as the solution will come, but the second one won’t be as easy to figure out. First problem is that I realized too late this morning that Phanpy and Teddiursa can only be found up until 10 am…..so now I have to wait until Sunday to try and catch them as I have work early tomorrow.

    Second problem is I’m not too sure about this team. I know for sure Meganium and Donphan are staying, but as for the rest I’m not sure. I’m thinking about taking off Umbreon for Heracross, but considering it doesn’t learn any bug moves until lvl 54 and Fury Cutter isn’t terribly great idk…..What should I do?!?!?!
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/667530760d70b698db4198683d3b6f2295f53a22fec9fd1eccfda068d482103b.png

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      • That doesn’t help haha I mean you speak truth, but it doesn’t help my need to fully plan out a well rounded team lol

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    • Dude you should’ve talked to me, the Heracross king
      It works like this…
      His main gimmick in a playthrough is his STAB moves get stronger the more you use them

      Horn Attack for major damage which you can upgrade to Strength later but combined with his high attack power it makes a big difference

      Fury Cutter which is decent once it picks up speed
      And Rock Smash which lowers defense often softening them up

      Lastly is a free move slot I found Counter helpful in a pinch

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    • I like how this is my exact team for Crystal except I am using Furret instead of Ursaring.
      I just need me Eevee to evolve but I forget how long friendship evolves take

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          • Glad to hear you’ve been doing well. I miss school, it was easier for me, but I’m sure you’ll be fine.
            I’ve been having troubles I don’t really want to talk about here, but am somehow still just about getting through each day.

          • I’m just been tired of school but I know I’ll go back to grad school eventually, I just really want to pin down what I want to focus on from my psych degree.
            Aw, I’m sorry to hear that, hopefully things do get better for you!

    • Oh and be careful catching Phanpy at least, it can randomly flee from you.
      Source : An angry me from having to deal with this for at least an hour

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        • I eventually got it, I’m at Chuck’s gym now lol
          But yeah, wish I knew that then, but I only had an hour before morning was up so I didn’t think I would make it through all that then be able to get it until next time.

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          • Yeah, plus Gastly is only at night I think. I might get a spare Phanpy just so I can breed Water Gun onto it since it’s Crystal exclusive.

  12. I know it’s a small thing, but I was actually kind of annoyed they make you set the time at the beginning of Crystal for these VC releases. they could have just changed the games code to not have to do that…

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  13. Pokemon can only use moves of their type and Normal-type moves, and only Normal-types get STAB.

    How badly does this screw your faves?

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    • I feel like now we have a lot of good moves that don’t need to be over 100 attk power. Back in the day move pools weren’t super diverse so you didn’t have much choice. Now almost every fully evolved Pokemon has access to at least one attack that has power over 80 I think. Or at least 80 anyway

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      • Speaking of some of these moves, why did GF nerf some of these moves in Gen 6? Like Fire Blast and Thunder weren’t overly OP back in Gen 5.

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        • I don’t know, it was by 10 BP which seems odd, they aren’t the most accurate unless using Thunder in Rain or Blizzard in Hail.

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          • And also the -2 Sp ATK moves (Draco Meteor, Overheat) didn’t need a debuff either, they already have a negative effect after being used.

          • Someone has probably looked into it, I’m sure somewhere like Smogon have done calculations and derived reasoning.

          • As far as I can tell it was balancing them and making it more likely they wouldn’t always chosen over their weaker yet more accurate counterparts (Thunderbolt, Flamethrower etc).

  15. I guess am I one of the people against articles on clearly fake pokemon. I’m sorry but I don’t see how it’s fun. It gets people hyped and we haven’t even gotten a piece of gen 8 yet so there’s no point to being hyped at this time. I feel like promoting any fakes just for fun is valid after we know that pokemon is on its way. Yes we have a window of 2018-2019 but still

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    • Think of it this way, if you go full-on with saying a leak is real then you’ll get a whole bunch of praise and attention if it’s true. If it turns out to be fake, then no one really cares because it’s always under the banner of “RUMOR”. It’s really a win-win for everyone to post these leaks because it 1) Attracts attention and 2) reignites conversation during slow periods.

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      • I actually disagree tbh. I don’t see any praise or attention is needed. It gets people hyped because it may not be true and I have read that the japanese in these fake pokemon was so off but people still believed/wanted them to be real. If it ends up being real then what? We praise someone for leaking information that wasn’t supposed to be leaked? And think of it like this, a leak would take a long time for confirmation. Lets speak hypothetically for a sec. If i had information that I knew was 100% real and I shared it. It’s just a rumor. How long till my shared info gets confirmed. I think it’s more exciting when info gets revealed because you cannot know what is real or not.

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      • I have seen plenty of pokemon talk here. And lets be honest, nobody stays on topic with the article here or even remains 100% pokemon discussion, so I don’t see the problem. I think if the switch game(s) are coming in 2018 we should get something relatively soon, otherwise a little longer if in 2019 say June with E3.

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    • Ifeel like it brings more conversation though. Like not only just the fake pokemon, but what they want in the game and stuff like that.

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      • you cant really expect there to be pokemon news 24/7, you cant expect that with any series. Thats probably why PJ wanted to change the site to being Nintendo based rather than just Pokemon. Thats just how it is. I’ll give you an example, serenesforest is a fire emblem based site. That site was dead FEH. awakening brought the series to life and so they had plenty of articles then and since these games brought dlc even more to write about. Fates then came around which brought more to talk about. Then came echoes and again more came with it. But now with FEH you can really expect info a lot more because theres new content like every week. Unfortunately for many series, there are long breaks in between games

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  16. I’ve been trying to use Doomfist lately, and damn it’s very hard to use him. Like I can get his Rocket Punch ability here and there, but the other abilities are very hard, especially slamming people since I tend to land in front of an enemy and get obliterated. Any tips for Doomfist?

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  19. Two Things:
    1. I dont see the problem with speculating at all. Even if we know the rumors are fake I think it’s enjoyable to hear everyones opinions. HOWEVER, I can definitely see how it can get annoying if everyone is saying “here are some starters and heres what we ‘know’ about them.’ with no other input. Like we dont need a million videos on that its so annoying. But as long as we get some input Im down
    2. Anyone wanna do Monotype or ranbats on showdown?

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  20. Ok I have a question

    If you were playing a fan game that Sneasel was your starter and your rival had a fighting type which of these 3 would fit best

    Crabrawler, Scraggy, or Meditite (Not asking which you want to use most, but which would be good for a rival)

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  22. I beat the League in Crystal! Can’t say I was really challenged with the Meganium-Electabuzz duo, but it felt good regardless. Here’s hoping I can one day find a shiny Celebi and also collect the remaining eight badges!

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  23. Well to explain why I asked my previous question I just wanted to get that trivial piece of info down as I downloaded the software to make a fan game today and am getting some details down so when it comes time to add story to it I have an idea for what I’m doing

    The Starter is though a Sneasel because… Well my favorite Pokémon is Weavile, I want it to be a neat game people can have fun with, so work with what you love and hope people will be happy too (I will dull Sneasel’s stats down because it has 430 bst)

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  24. Ugh….I want to play Crystal, but I don’t want to get any further into the game without catching Phanpy and Teddiursa……Which I can’t do until Sunday……

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      • Apparently the guy is an insider and leaked out stuff last year. Not sure how he would get everything this early I am just sharing it because I kind of freaked when I saw it lol all I know is if this somehow is true my wallet is in for so much pain.

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    • Yeah it’s looking like the Pokemon Switch game might be announced at E3 after all. My source even seems to think so as well. This would mean that we’ll get news this year, but the release date will likely be in early 2019 rather than this year. I’d say it’ll come by the end of April. May being the latest.

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      • Honestly with everything on this list I won’t mind lol if it’s true that is because I want almost everything on here. My wallet needs a freaking break. Looking at this list I would say this year we would get Luigi’s mansion 3 in October at least.

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        • It would definitely fill out the rest of this year and start to bleed into the next year. As of now we don’t have anything really announced for the later part of the year. Anything after May we don’t have any dates yet for.

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          • We shall see what happens. I can see smash or Pokémon this year since online is coming out soon. Either way it’s looking like they have even more plans for the switch

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