3 Hours??? Lore Dump??? “THAT Moment”???????

JUNIOR YEAR!!! I BELIEVE IN YOU!!

Oh shit, the dropout newsletter specifically says that this next episode is going to be about kipperlilly’s backstory-

Part of me hopes that her story is kind of stupid and undeserving of how much hatred she has towards the bad kids. Like, with how many corners the Rat Grinders cut to get where they are, I feel like some super sad reason for her to be as spiteful as she is would be just… unsatisfying.

Maybe it’s just some sort of weird obsession? With her file from Jawbone’s office mentioning Riz all the way from freshman year, it would make more sense to be a jealousy of skills, and all the grinding was a futile attempt to imitate the power that the bad kids got from their adventuring prowess. But there has to be some kind of deeper reasoning for her to have been so bent out of shape about it, right?

GUYS LOOK WHAT FUCKING ARRIVED TODAY IM GONNA EXPLODE

Listen. I know that they’re doing the whole “rival is opposite gender to the prorag” thing, but if gamefreak does not let me be gay with Urbain I will RIOT

When Baron possesses Fabian, they don’t say Adaine’s last name like they do for Riz (and then Gorgug later when they possess Adaine.) I know that was probably just a Lou thing while he was roleplaying, but I have a headcanon now that Baron just fully did not know what Adaine’s last name was.

patron request for RAYQUAZA WITH THE STEEL CHAIR

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

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!

He deserved much better honestly.

Sometimes I worry about a new Pokemon game coming out and having my interests shift away from Scarlet and Violet but then I remember I literally took up and finished a minor in English at my college because the storylines inspired me so much. (And also so I could write better fanfics, but that’s not the point)