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Oh, that isn't too long ago. So you've only missed the past 2 generations, and means there are only 158 Pokemon that you are unfamiliar with.
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scarletspeed7 posted...

Just curious. I've not played the last couple generations and there are side games I haven't played either.

What is the latest generation that you have played?

But anyways, I'd be interested in a topic like this.
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Team Rocket Elite posted...

It depends on how big a site needs to be to qualify as being a "major social media platform". It doesn't specify what the minimum threshold would be. If GameFAQs does qualify, we would not be able to delete that post nor ban your account. However, it sounds like we can restrict your account to one post and one topic a year as long as well tell you.that we are throttling your account.

I don't think GameFAQs would be considered a major social media platform, at least in comparison to sites like Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, or Reddit.
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Decidueye


Bane_Of_Despair posted...

Oh I should say, sorry to the other legit Ribombee fans that that festering waste Whirly had to go and sour a bit. Ribombee is fine as well, and especially as fairy types go because I don't really like probably a good 90% of fairy types.

Well, Ribombee wouldn't have gotten as far as it did without having a lot of other legit fans.
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Captain Falcon
Samus Aran
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Original Metal Gear playrate poll today:

https://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/6935-
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Ribombee
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Well, I understand not doing it for other users, but you have my permission to ping me at the start of the topic (as does anyone else who posts these topics). Waiting until the voting was almost over with wasn't really a good time to ping me.
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XIII_rocks posted...

@LusterSoldier

WHY THE FUCK DID YOU WAIT ALMOST 24 HOURS TO PING ME

YOU SHOULD HAVE PINGED MY ASS AT THE START OF THE TOPIC
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Ribombee
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Ribombee
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Then again, I don't know what else could go in the Wii U poll besides BotW.
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So in yesterday's poll, Final Fantasy 1 finished with a playrate of only 62.61%. This is nearly 5% lower than a playrate poll from 1 year ago. For reference, here are the 2 most recent playrate polls:

https://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/6932-
https://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/6551-

Both polls have a different set of options, so it's a bit harder to make solid comparisons here. Looking at even earlier polls suggests last year's poll was either an outlier, or last year's poll was flawed in some manner to otherwise inflate FF1's playrate. In the Board 8 wiki page on playrate, FF1's playrate is listed here:

Final Fantasy 1's Playrate history - 58.47% on 6/26/06, 58.50% on 2/16/07, 59.04% on 12/18/12, 67.21% on 12/18/16, and 62.61% on 12/19/17

The 67.21% playrate result seems out of line with the other results, although the playrate was trending upwards in every poll after the 2006 poll. I'd put yesterday's poll as being more accurate than the poll from 2016.
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Final Fantasy 1 playrate poll today.

https://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/6932-
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Ribombee
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I actually had a tab open showing the results at 36 votes, so I took a screenshot of that as well:



Based on the other screenshot, here were the results for the final 14 votes:

Decidueye - 3
Incineroar - 1
Ribombee - 3
Lycanroc - 1
Marshadow - 0
Zeraora - 6

That kind of suggests there was stuffing going on.
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Terastodon posted...

I researched this, and Mountain Dew Red and Mountain Dew Code Red are two unique products.

Huh, never heard of Mountain Dew Red before. After researching it, it was an extremely limited release back in 1988 and has not been seen since then.
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LeonhartFour posted...

man block quoting like that just isn't fun anymore

stupid show hidden quotes

For those who know how to modify things with CSS, this will uncollapse quotes by default:

.msg_body blockquote {display: inherit !important}

I included the .msg_body part mostly to avoid possible conflicts with other websites.
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Marshadow did quite well in Board 8 Ranks the Gen VII Pokemon, so I'd say it already had some fans at the time. The unique typing probably helps it out here. It's also cute, but isn't considered the super cute type that typically dooms most other Pokemon.
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@tennisboy213 posted...

Yes and everyone might want to be there at the start with the number of eliminations in the first few rounds.

Whenever you're about ready to start the contest, you may want to create a pre-contest discussion topic first and leave it open for at least 4 days before dropping the first round on us. It would be very helpful in getting good participation from the start. Dropping the first round on us without any prior warning would be a bad idea. And no, I don't regard this as an actual pre-contest discussion topic.

A pre-contest discussion topic would also allow people to discuss their plans on what Pokemon they will save using their first set of saves. The early rounds will present the issue of chaos as some people may end up saving Pokemon which have already been saved. So if there was a particular Pokemon that 2 or more people plan on saving with their first set of saves, they could work out which person will save that Pokemon with their first set of saves. I will mostly avoid this problem completely by using my first set of saves on Pokemon that are unlikely to be on someone else's first set of saves.
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Vlado posted...

True, true. Let's discuss again when the poll ends.

So the poll has ended. For reference, here are the poll updates for all 24 hours of both polls:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15dHaOBE0KtnCUBKK7-AoqOo5IrbpYv-jLLN7EUzP9LU/pub

In an effort to cut back on the column widths, I had to shorten the options down a bit (a downside of the long wording Allen uses when writing up poll options).

The 2 polls share similar trends, with both polls happening on the release day of their respective movies. The first 2 options all start out poorly as those who have seen it are mostly limited to midnight release viewers. Most of the increase for the first 2 options happens after 12:00 PM, or the final 12 hours of the poll. The third option was the least affected in terms of percentage change over the course of the poll. The fourth and fifth options both lost percentage over the course of the poll as the first 2 options gained percentage.

The fourth option is the most controversial one, since Allen changed the wording in The Last Jedi poll. I preferred the wording "No, but I'll probably watch it on TV or my computer eventually" from The Force Awakens poll, which was much more fair and very unlikely to cause voters to go with the fifth option instead. When the wording got changed to "No, I'll wait until it's available for streaming at home", the percentage for the fourth option dropped from 23.49% to 19.90%, suggesting that the voters who planned to wait until a DVD/Blu-Ray/Digital version didn't agree with the wording of the option and went for the fifth option instead. The fourth option lost 3.59% of its percentage from the wording change. Assuming that gets added to the fifth option's percentage in The Force Awakens poll (originally 13.70%), it gets bumped up to 17.29%. This is still less than the 22.17% it actually received in The Last Jedi poll.

The first 2 options combined for a release day viewership of 15.16% for The Force Awakens and only 13.22% for The Last Jedi. This is a step down from the first movie in the newest trilogy. The lower viewership for The Last Jedi could be explained by people simply being more hyped for The Force Awakens as the first movie in a brand new trilogy, so they rushed to the movie theaters in greater numbers on release day. If there was less hype for The Last Jedi, I wouldn't expect an urgent need for people to go watch it on release day, thus the lower viewership.

As for the 22.17% for the fifth option in The Last Jedi poll, it is also worth noting that the third option lost 2.94% of its percentage compared to the previous poll, which is expected to go towards the fifth option instead. Combine that with the 1.94% loss in its release day viewership, plus the 3.59% loss in the fourth option's percentage and add them to the 13.70% that the fifth option had in the previous poll, and you end up with 22.17%. I still think the fourth option was poorly worded, since it's not likely that we'll see The Last Jedi available for streaming on Netflix since Disney has been trying to sever ties with Netflix. Maybe it'll appear on their own streaming service (like they might plan to do), but appearing on Netflix seems unlikely. Allen's poor poll writing strikes again.
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Today's poll is interesting:

https://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/6929-

It's interesting to see The Simpsons and X-Men being in a near deadlock here. The poll question makes it difficult to assess their strength as a franchise, since voters are probably voting on which option makes the most sense for a Kingdom Hearts crossover game.
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Captain Falcon
Samus Aran
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StifledSilence posted...

Ziggy only had Ermine pushing him, along with a few sympathy votes here and there.

Licky is amassing an army. He also has the BEAR BROS. I mean come on. That guarantees a good run.

If only Zigzagoon had Ermine trading saves for it, it would have been eliminated well before the finals. Ermine was aggressively trading for Zigzagoon during the contest and I remember Wicklebee and some of Ermine's friends also trading saves for it as well. Zigzagoon wouldn't have had a chance of sniffing the finals without multiple people (essentially, an Ermine Army of sorts) helping out Ermine.

Lickilicky won't be getting sympathy votes since it's very unpopular Pokemon among a lot of users who will be participating in Save My Pokemon. Zigzagoon was able to get sympathy votes because of Ermine being a lovable user on Board 8, and even it couldn't get the necessary 50% of the vote required to win Save My Pokemon. Great_Paul won't have the same luxury that Ermine did. Great_Paul is not the lovable user that Ermine is.

No army is going to save you here. You might be able to push Lickilicky to the finals, but there is a world of difference between getting 33% of the vote in the final 3 to getting 50% of the vote in a 1v1 match.
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Vlado posted...

There is no problem with the poll. 1/3 of immediate viewers (among this site's populace) have been lost due to disney's inadequate handling of the series. And people who've given up on the series have almost doubled. That's what happens when you inject the poison of cultural marxism into things people once loved.

The 2 polls are only separated by a period of 2 years, and it is very hard to imagine that we could have such a large change in results in just 2 years. Also, it's bit too early to draw any conclusions here since many people haven't gotten around to watching the movie in theaters yet. The first 2 options should continue increasing in percentage over the course of the day as people get around to watching it at a theater, and this increase will come at the expense of the last option.

The poll for The Force Awakens happened during the immediate aftermath of the Undertale contest, where we were probably still getting elevated vote totals due to people continuing to visit GameFAQs to check up on the final result of the contest. So that poll could possibly be tainted slightly as a result of the spillover from the Undertale rallying.
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I noticed the last option is a lot higher compared to this poll:

https://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/6183-

I think the problem with today's poll is the fourth option where it's worded in a way that would exclude people who plan to watch it later on DVD or on a computer (without streaming the movie itself). The fourth option in The Force Awakens poll is much more fairly worded and doesn't exclude those people. In today's poll, the people who want to watch the movie later (not in theaters or by streaming it online) don't have an option to vote for and that could be affecting the results of the last option.
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Going to keep this alive so tennisboy has a chance to read the above message.
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Metal_DK posted...

so if u stay logged in aim works. Tested with my 2nd aim screen name and can't log into it anymore after signing out

I'm still logged in, since I signed in yesterday. Once I get disconnected completely, then I'll uninstall AIM and keep the log files of my convos and chatrooms.
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Delseban posted...

I think, the 16th is the 10-year anniversary precisely, let's try and play that night.

We can't use AIM, but we'll find an alternative. I'm too busy this week to figure it out, but I can on Saturday.

Discord could easily work. Well, except for the fact there's no #mafia channel, so someone would have to create that first.
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Inviso just misspelled "Pheromosa" in the poll.
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Well, I placed "Part 1" in the topic title just in the event the topic lives long enough to reach 500 posts. I didn't bother putting a "Part 1" in the topic title for Twitch Plays Pokemon Ultra Sun because I clearly knew it wasn't getting close to 500 posts.
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tennisboy213 posted...

don't get your hopes up as I may change my mind but I'm thinking early 2018

Mid-2018 would be better since DSRage is probably going to run Pokemon of the Year again in early 2018 (he ran it in early 2016 and early 2017). Running it in mid-2018 avoids overlap with Pokemon of the Year.
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Poor Cosmog.

It's super cute and actually did fairly well in Board 8 Ranks the Gen VII Pokemon, but doesn't even get a single vote here.
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Solgaleo
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tennisboy213 posted...

don't get your hopes up as I may change my mind but I'm thinking early 2018

Mid-2018 would be better since DSRage is probably going to run Pokemon of the Year again in early 2018 (he ran it in early 2016 and early 2017). Running it in mid-2018 avoids overlap with Save My Pokemon.
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Chris
Nee/david
eaed
XIII/Stifled
DP/Solio
Wigs
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StifledSilence posted...

Licky's going ALL DA WAYYYYYY

Don't count on that. It's tough to go from getting at least 33% of the vote in the final 3 to getting over 50% of the vote in the final round in a 1v1 match. Zigzagoon couldn't even win the last contest, and it's not even considered to be unpopular Pokemon like Lickilicky is. If Zigzagoon couldn't win the last contest, what makes you think Lickilicky will?
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Poor Tapu Lele.
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I don't know if Inviso is planning to include the new Pokemon from USUM in this contest, although I told him about them (they all come after Marshadow in the Pokedex).
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This is why Tapu Lele is amazing:

https://vtt.tumblr.com/tumblr_ouh69yWhAh1rxenr3_480.mp4

Giggling her ass off while she's battling a Rockruff. The clip is from the Japanese version of the anime.
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Oh damn, Tapu Lele has arrived. With Primarina gone, Tapu Lele is the only remaining Pokemon that would be higher on my list than Ribombee. I might have to hold off on my vote for now.

Inviso posted...

And with that, we add Gen VII's pseudo-legendary, plus the beginning of the goddamn cavalcade of Gen VII legendary Pokemon with two Tapus. Hooray.

We technically had some legendaries earlier with Type: Null and Silvally. Both of them are classified as a legendary in the game code (they're in the same group of Pokemon with Articuno and legendaries of similar status).
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Cheeze_E_Breath posted...

Poor Togedemaru.

I was planning to say the same thing too, but you beat me to it first.
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LOLIAmAnAlt posted...

The deal breaker was when the person running the channel decided to go straight into gold/silver. If he had made it a yearly event I feel like it would have more hype around it.

On Reddit, the streamer explained why he went straight to Gold/Silver after completing Red:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/5tlshm/i_am_the_creator_of_twitch_plays_pokemon_ama/ddni5uz/
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I have no idea what game TPP is playing right now, but they managed to create this:


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Captain Falcon
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Huh, looks like the playthrough ended earlier than I expected. I knew they were getting close to completing the entire Pokedex (that's 806 Pokemon, which doesn't include Zeraora) when I made my previous post. After looking into it more, it looks like they completed the entire Pokedex which would explain why the playthrough ended earlier than expected. Zeraora isn't available yet, so it's not possible to trade it online (making it impossible for TPP to obtain).

Right now, they are playing Super Mario Maker on the 3DS while waiting for Pokemon Battle Revolution to return in about 17 hours from now.
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foolm0r0n posted...

Lister doesn't drink dew, he chugs

Why did you call me "Lister" instead of "Luster"?

Also, I do sometimes drink it rather than chugging it. Like, I'll always drink it down when I'm trying a new flavor for the first time.
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The stream has a countdown timer for when this playthrough will officially end. We have about 1 day, 10 hours remaining before the playthrough ends and they go back to playing Pokemon Battle Revolution again. This would give us a total of 14 days spent on Ultra Sun.
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iiicon posted...

get fucked mario

Mario probably won't have a chance of winning GotY on GameFAQs either. Mario would have to avoid getting completely destroyed by Zelda in the Switch poll for Allen to put both games in the overall GotY poll. Otherwise, I expect only one game from the Switch poll moving onto the overall GotY poll.
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I'm watching this right now.
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