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XIII_Rocks posted...

In Qatar, a bottle of beer costs around 9-10 usd.

A cocktail is 20

Even in London a pint of Guinness costs $7! You've got it easy man.

I should have mentioned that I don't really like alcohol

I thought you were tagging Pawggle and Murder of Sonic with a content warning

I think Harrich's first name is Harrison. He should be investigated as well

Food, like maybe 30 bucks

can't imagine spending more than $5 on a drink, unless I'm somewhere drinks are overpriced like a sporting event

isnt brie a type of cheese

Maniac64 posted...

Your team of 4 Gyarados will be so strong?

Might struggle with Volkner

Got Good Rod and decided to hit Ecruteak City, Olivine City, and Route 40

Three Magikarps.

*Kricketots*

jcgamer107 posted...

Also, a ranking of the games I've played (79/261) since I haven't posted one yet:

I decided to count how many games I've played including before this project, and I got 80

lol pwned jk

Gosh darn it, I finally got something good (a Miltank on Route 38) and Poka killed it with a critical hit. Argh!

I don't like Poison type much, yikes

Gen VII - I don't care for anything here. Ultra Beats suck.

Gen IV - Not a single Pokemon I care about

Gen V - Trubbish is alright, Garbodor is a step down and everything else is meh

Gen VI - Only one new line and it's not great. Mega Gengar and Beedrill are the only reason it's this high

Gen III - Seviper is cool and Dustox is alright, and you can keep the rest

Gen II - Crobat is good, the spiders and Qwillfish are decent but not great.

Gen IX - Pretty much carried by Clodsire, but I also like the vacuums and Iron Moth

Gen VIII - The regional variants help a lot, but Toxtricity is also pretty good.

Gen I - Yeah agreed with Kenri here, I would take this lineup over the rest combined. Gengar, Ivysaur, Nidoking, Beedrill, Vileplume... it's really incredible how stacked Gen I is and then there have been like 5 Poison types since that I care about at all

used to be one of my favorites but when I replayed it last year it didn't hold up

it's just now occurring to me that Wally is wallz with a y

wallx is next

We're finally back in Heart Gold after that brutal stretch of Platinum, and this first order of business is beating Whitney and her infamous Miltank. The good news? I have a Geodude, which resists all its attacks. The bad news? chey really loves that cow booty apparently. I kid you not, he refused to act 12 turns in a row because of Attract. Felt like playing with disobedient Pokemon all over again. I eventually got tired of it and switched into Poka, who finished the job. With relative ease. I collected my third badge, the Squirt Bottle, and head for Route 36. I catch the Sudowoodo and name him Wally. Why? It was the first thing that popped into my head, that's why. I continue to Route 37 and catch a Spinark, which I named Kenri. This is your punishment for your lack of faith in ctes the Sunkern!

Oh right, I also caught a Meditite in Platinum on Route 211. After looking through the topic for someone to name it after, I spotted user Mewtwo59 and the idea of a little garlic head monkey named Mewtwo made me chuckle, so I did it. Welcome to the squad.

Team update

Heart Gold:
Zen the Rash Bibarel - Lv. 22
tcaz the Hasty Staravia - Lv. 22
Poka the Quirky Luxio - Lv. 21
chey the Quiet Geodude - Lv. 18
Maniac the Careful Magikarp - Lv. 10
wallz the Bold Ponyta - Lv. 8

On Standby:
Mewtwo the Quirky Meditite - Lv. 13
cates the Hasty Cascoon - Lv. 12
Wickle the Sassy Zubat - Lv. 6

Platinum:
Ermy the Quirky Togetic - Lv. 21
Wally the Naive Sudowoodo - Lv. 20
ctes the Adamant Sunkern - Lv. 15
Aga the Impish Hoothoot - Lv. 12
Ana the Serious Magikarp - Lv. 11
mnk the Docile Aipom - Lv. 8

On Standby:
Kenri the Quiet Spinarak - Lv. 13

The Fallen:
Skull the Adamant Monferno - Slain by Bugsy's Scyther
Lea the Rash Geodude - Slain by Flubb the Bold Buizel
Tickle the Docile Zubat - Slain by a Grunt's Stunky
Kirby the Brave Rattata - Slain by an Abra in Eterna Forest
Raka the Jolly Quilava - Slain by Gardenia's Cherrim

skulltrumpets posted...

raka my sibling from another mother

It is wild that both starters died to an unlucky critical hit in the second gym at around the same level

Don't play Undertale.

Paratroopa1 posted...

Also, as a reminder, I am not going to be doing any results from now until April 8th at the soonest. Someone else can do results if they want - if not, I'll do them when I'm back!

I'll be doing results while Para's away

wallmasterz posted...

What happened to my beloved bold ponyta

I assume a death so immediate and uneventful it didnt deserve a mention lol

you're alive and well in Heart Gold!

Maniac64 posted...

Seems like a good time to evolve a gyarados...

can't wait for Maniac the Careful Gyarados tbh

POWER-UP PUNCH
+3 Cubchoo
+2 Bouffalant
+1 Sawsbuck
-1 Vibrava
-2 Celebi
-3 Tapu Fini

very blah division

ACUPRESSURE
+3 Tyrantrum
+2 Simisage
+1 Quilladin
-1 Helioptile
-2 Cobalion
-3 Venipede

Nothing I really hate here, minuses were tough

I'm not sure what cilantro tastes like. I've probably had it in something before but I don't remember

Oh sorry, I meant a trainer's Abra, not a wild one. Either Psychic Lindsay or Psychic Elijah. It was a double battle so I'm not sure

Route 205 encounter was a Buizel, which I didn't catch. Eterna Forest I got a double battle of Budew and Cascoon. I tried to catch Budew but Cheryl killed it, so I caught the Cascoon. I named in cates because it only knows Harden.

catesdb posted...

this sounds hard

As I mentioned, Kirby was slain by an Abra in the Forest. After I made it to Eterna City, I wanted to get the gym done with as quickly as possible for obvious reasons. Of course, you're forced to fight every trainer in there which was very tedious. The battle against Gardenia didn't go well either, and unfortunately we have to say good bye to Raka, as I got a little careless and got him killed by a critical Magical Leaf. RIP. It took me forever and a billion potions to kill Roserade with Ermy, but hopefully things should go better from now on, as the cap increased to 30. We'll never forget you, Raka and Kirby.

Team update

Platinum:
Ermy the Quirky Togetic - Lv. 21
ctes the Adamant Sunkern - Lv. 15
Aga the Impish Hoothoot - Lv. 12
Ana the Serious Magikarp - Lv. 11
mnk the Docile Aipom - Lv. 8

The Fallen:
Skull the Adamant Monferno - Slain by Bugsy's Scyther
Lea the Rash Geodude - Slain by Flubb the Bold Buizel
Tickle the Docile Zubat - Slain by a Grunt's Stunky
Kirby the Brave Rattata - Slain by an Abra in Eterna Forest
Raka the Jolly Quilava - Slain by Gardenia's Cherrim

Back to Heart Gold for awhile for the sake of my sanity

Zigzagoon posted...

Oh no, what a shame, Kirby the Rattata went down the next fight... how could this happen?

how could you put this into the universe :(

Kirby was one-shot by an Abra in Eterna Forest. Wasn't expecting its Hidden Power to be Fighting type. RIP

9. Gen VII - Toucannon deserves so much better, but everything else is so bad.

8. Gen VIII - Yikes. The H-Zorua line, Obstagoon, and Ursaluna save this from being an absolute disaster, but it's never good when your only good Pokemon are evos or variants of existing Pokemon.

7. Gen VI - Mega Pidgeot and Pyroar are great and Heliolisk is okay, but Diggersby is terrible and everything else I could live without.

6. Gen IV - This is a tricky one to rank. There's some great stuff like Bidoof, Porygon Z, and Munchlax, and then there are abominations like Lickilicky, Purugly, and Ampibom. A very up and down generation.

5. Gen IX - Other than the Grafaiai line, everything is at least solid. Nothing really stands out as amazing, but my favorite is probably Cyclizar.

4. Gen I - As usual Gen 1 is pretty safe, which leads to a lot of good, but very little great or terrible. Snorlax and Ditto are the stars here.

3. Gen III - Swellow is one of the best early birds, Skitty is adorable, and Zangoose is such an edgelord and I love it. Castform and Kecleon are interesting concepts, at least. Zigazagoon is pretty great, but I don't care much for Linoone.

2. Gen V - I like Male Unfezant, Cinccino, and Braviary a lot, and Bouffalant, and Sawsbuck are pretty good too. The rest are only okay though, and having a Mythical docks it some points.

1. Gen II - Furret and Teddiursa are top tier friends

Every fight is a potential disaster when none of your Pokemon obey

Almost lost several Pokemon to a single Piplup

Zigzagoon posted...

Raka and Ermy will fight together and win!

This actually happened! After a bit of grinding, including running around in circles in Floaroma Town for what felt like hours, I decided to take on Mars with the dyamic duo of Ermy, the Level 15 Togetic, and Raka, the level 16 Quilava. It... actually went a lot better than I was expecting. Ermy has great defense and managed to land two Charms (one intentional, one not) which rendered Purugly mostly powerless. He did get poisoned by the Zubat though, at which point I switched into Raka to tank some hits while I healed. Then a combination of Returns and Extrasensory (whichever Ermy felt like using lmao) I took down Mars and cleared a major hurdle.

Also I didn't mention this but I've been playing with an unofficial rule that I need to stay within one badge on both games, so I can't beat Whitney before Gardenia, for example. This is so I can't just go to Victory Road on Heart Gold and catch some level 50 Pokemon to make Platinum easier

MZero has beaten Metroid

It finally happened, and by god I wish it happened sooner. This game is really great once you get past the early game. Metroidvania is my second favorite genre, and you can feel how this game created the foundation for future titles. I've played Zero Mission before, and usually I'm a remake guy, but this game might just be an exception. What an absolute work of art that is perfect just the way it is. Hard to believe this is an NES game.

I don't want to go into too much detail in case someone who hasn't played through it yet reads this. It's a game you really have to experience first hand to truly appreciate.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/f7830f7d.jpg

April Fools

Cyndaquil is no more... because he's a Quilava now

grinding when your Pokemon don't listen is Not Fun

Sheep007 posted...

I believe in Ctes. You get a sun stone early in Platinum, if he lives til the fourth gym he'll be ready for Wake!

Could be even earlier, but Pickup can't get one in Platinum, only HGSS!

Lopen posted...

Funny thing is I said "if Ulti was playing this role right he'd have 3 town 2 scum on it as a hedge" and was shouted down there too

And sure enough, 3 town 2 scum was what was on it

yeah I was super wrong on that and must own it

My luck has finally turned around. Got the 25% Sunkern encounter in the National Park. Welcome to the team ctes the Adamant Sunkern

back in mah day

PSYBEAM
+3 Reuniclus
+2 Armaldo
+1 Zebstrika
-1 Duskull
-2 Pineco
-3 Glastrier

This division is brutal. Flapple would get my +3 in a lot of divisions (including the other one today) and I couldn't even fit him in. Armaldo is probably like top 15 for me and only gets a +2. Glastrier is the only minus I feel good about. Yeesh

COMEUPPANCE
+3 Rookidee
+2 Poochyena
+1 Lotad
-1 Spearow
-2 Cosmoem
-3 Dudunsparce

Conversely this division is very blah. I don't even dislike any of these, just a lot of average

SirChris posted...

36k posts

kill me now

oh

Seanchan posted...

Not that I haven't already dropped some in here, but that's certainly a hot take right there! Really, 2 is the worst of the trilogy?

Easily. I've tried like 3 separate times to get through it and I don't think I've made it past like, World 2. I replay 1 pretty regularly and 3 isn't as good but I at least finished it

Yeah losing Lea was an absolute tragedy :(

DKC2 is terrible and by far the worst of the original trilogy. Thankfully Chrono Trigger was here to avert an absolute disaster

AriaOfBolo posted...

I feel like this is less true than I'd expect, I see a lot of comments mentioning battle worth or putting down NFE's. I think it's the most common deciding factor, just less universally so than I would've guessed.

or being mono-type if you're Invisio lol

NEEDLE ARM
+3 Ceruledge
+2 Meganium
+1 Snivy
-1 Hattrem
-2 Exploud
-3 Tsareena

FROST BREATH
+3 Cofagrigus
+2 Kommo-o
+1 Minccino
-1 Cranidos
-2 Cleffa
-3 Celesteela

Forceful_Dragon posted...

And then MZero suggesting it should be me first seems like he could be Chris's scummate trying to end the game. I think host saying that scum would have majority at 3/6 and would win even if town had the ability to cast enough votes. So if we miss today I think we lose tomorrow regardless of my ability to hammer or Lopens ghostly vote.

I already changed my mind on this lol

Before heading into Ilex Forest, I level up Zen to 18 so he can learn Headbutt, then I got back and check a few trees in areas I haven't had an encounter yet. Route 46 and Azalea Town both yield an Aipom, and I went all the way back to New Bark Town just to find yet another Hoothoot. I'm counting Togepi as the Violet City encounter, so that's all for now. I named both Aipoms mnk, cause those letters all appear in the word monkey. One of them has Pickup, which might come in handy.

I decided to wait until night time to go into the Forest, as that gives me a 75% of either Oddish or Paras, both of which would be- gosh darn it it's another Zubat. I accidentally killed that last one, so the species clause wouldn't even have saved me here. I catch it and name it Tickle, Wickle's evil twin. I chase some Farfetch'd around, get Cut, and move on to Route 34.

This route has Drowzee at 50%, Abra at 10%, and Ditto at 5%, so of course I get the 35% chance of ANOTHER FREAKING RATTATA I HATE THIS POKEMON

Before doing story stuff in Goldenrod, I pop up to Route 35. No Rattatas or Zubats here, and only a 5% chance of running into Hoothoot, surely my luck isn't that bad! 90% chance of getting either an Abra, Drowzee, or one of the Nidorans. Suffice to say I did not, I got Ditto, which is a 4% encounter. Would Ditto even be useful? I'll never know because it broke out of all my balls and I had to kill it. I don't even know how luck can be this bad.

Now that I have caught exactly nothing to make Platinum easier, I head back to Sinnoh to try and make some progress. Outside the Power Plant I find a wild Buizel, which is level 10 and stronger than most of my team. This is where I made a grave mistake. Buizel doesn't learn Water Gun until around level 14 or 15 in the recent games, but in Gen 4 it's around level 6. I send it Lea to do some damage and get one-shot by Water Gun. Well, that's not good. I end up catching the killer and naming it Flubb the Lea Slayer.

The grunt guarding the door nearly kills my entire team, but I escape without any casualties. I head to the meadow where one of the Grunts has a Stunky that is Bad News. Tickle falls in battle, but at least it wasn't the real Wickle. The other Grunt has two Zubats which are powerless against Aga. I get the key and some honey, but I really don't know how I'm going to beat Mars. I might need to abandon my low level strategy and take the risk with high level Pokemon ignoring me. Platinum is definitely much harder so far, but I think it will be mostly smooth sailing if I can get past Gardenia.

Team update

Heart Gold:
Zen the Rash Bibarel - Lv. 19
Poka the Quirky Luxio - Lv. 19
tcaz the Hasty Staravia - Lv. 19
Maniac the Careful Magikarp - Lv. 7
wallz the Bold Ponyta - Lv. 5
chey the Quiet Geodude - Lv. 11

On Standby:
Wickle the Sassy Zubat - Lv. 6

Platinum:
Raka the Jolly Cyndaquil - Lv. 11
Aga the Impish Hoothoot - Lv. 9
Kirby the Brave Rattata - Lv. 9
Ermy the Quirky Togepi - Lv. 7
Ana the Serious Magikarp - Lv. 10
mnk the Docile Aipom - Lv. 5

The Fallen:
Skull the Adamant Monferno - Slain by Bugsy's Scyther
Lea the Rash Geodude - Slain by Flubb the Bold Buizel
Tickle the Docile Zubat - Slain by a Grunt's Stunky

I've changed my mind and think we should kill Chris actually

The fact that no one agreed with him Day 1 and then he claimed to save himself, which is suspicious enough in it's own right, makes me thing he's full of poo

My pet theory is that only the kill part is true, which was day 2 when Lea also agreed, and the saves part is fake

SirChris posted...

As long as you agree with my outstanding theory about aliens being real and converting their hivemind into a mafia sleuthing ability I will do this, yes yes.

SirChris posted...

Sultan, do you agree that the reason you were swayed to vote death is because of the aliens disdain for the backwards of his name? Yes yes, good for town if say yes, yes yes

SirChris posted...

There may be cookies for you if you say yes.

Chris really wanted Sultan to say yes, but he never actually did. I assume that's what he's claiming.

Day 2

SirChris posted...

Ok fd this is easy. All you have to do is agree with this post.

The reason you elected to use your power on ulti is because I have magical time travel powers and went back in time to tell you that ulti was going to be scum. This is why you voted for ulti and had him executed.

Right?

SirChris posted...

Hey Lea

Post 73

That's why you voted ulti right? Me time traveling? I know you won't be a stick in the mud

Lea and FD both agree

Day 3

SirChris posted...

you chopped lopen because of my next generation spy information on him, yes?

Interesting that FD was responsible for two of these, although he originally refused Day 2 before changing his tune for whatever reason

SirChris posted...

when someone gives me credit for a crazy theory on a town chop, I get a doctor save. When they do so for a mafia chop, I get a vig.

I can save myself and did so n1, n2 obv killed kirby, and n3 targeted mzero

its why i bought mzero's self mayor thing

wait a minute

I just went back to the EoD1 and it looks like you were trying to get Sultan to give you credit but he never actually did. How did you get a save?