Lurker > Drakeryn

ctesjbuvf posted...

I suppose the opposite argument is that you can't really walk too much in isolation? But yeah, I agree it's annoying.

It depends on your phone, mostly. I habitually walk in place while watching shows, etc., and my main phone counts it as Adventure Sync distance. But my old phone (for my alt) doesn't.

Currently I'm missing:

Carracosta (need 28 candy)
Hydreigon (need 40 candy) [currently walking, should have this in under 4 weeks]
Gurdurr/Conkeldurr (need 130 candy) [I got a 100% Timburr, which is pretty cool, but it means I need all the candy]
Axew line
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I wish they'd put more eggs in gifts, I had to open six gifts to get a single egg and I still have two egg slots empty

since gift eggs are the only kind of eggs you can get in isolation you'd think they'd raise the drop rate
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yeah, I got Scraggy last season and then the novelty kinda wore off
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Oh I thought you meant FD instead, so I didn't even check lol

I sent you a gift, feel free to open anytime
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azumarill is the answer to altaria; make ice beam your secondary charge move

as for an answer to azumarill, idk. just have your own (it's what I do)

(I also sometimes use magnezone but it's not the greatest pick because a lot of people run ground-types (whiscash/swampert) to counter registeel)
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wow nice FD

I understand the Community Day decision but am still kinda bummed, I was just going to catch the pokemon showing up in my apartment like usual
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yda was zzzz. her and papalymo are Exhibit A for bad ARR storytelling - boring questgivers who periodically show up and make you do stuff but have no actual personality.

lyse is likable (if a bit forgettable) and cute. she's not great or anything, but I'm kinda stunned that anyone thinks yda was better
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SantaRPidgey posted...

Yeah I don't understand why we can't evolve anything with a hat

is it really that hard to add a hat onto the models of the evolved forms? Raichu already has a party hat form, it's literally just a palette swap.

Yeah this makes me sad, I was looking forward to collecting all the hat Eevee evolutions
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two days ago, I hatched my first Archen and immediately dropped ~30 candy to evolve it

so I am taking full credit (blame?) for this event
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Urianger too high
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I married Emily because she has blue hair

would probably pick Abigail on a replay
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apparently not (re: Nincada in eggs)
https://thesilphroad.com/egg-distances
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congrats wedge
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jealous of your progress

maybe I should just burn some candy but ehhh it feels like such a waste for 3 km buddies, or for trade evolutions. on the plus side, I'll be done with Scraggy in a week of walking

Scrafty (need 20 candy)
Garbodor (need 24 candy)
Darmanitan (need 30 candy)
Dewott/Samurott (need 34 candy)
Cinccino (need 35 candy)
Gurdurr/Conkeldurr (need 226 candy, or Timburr on my alt + 50 candy)
Boldore/Gigalith (need 238 candy, or Roggenrola on my alt + 50 candy)
Archen line
Carracosta line
Deino line
Axew line
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I don't need the exp, feel free to open whenever.
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EmoCombeeDancin posted...

lol they reduced the chance of you getting eggs from gifts

niantic lives to make us suffer

this is the worst btw

I keep running out of gifts for egg slots. Plus I'm out of gifts to hand out, but I can't spin any pokestops with egg slots open.
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congrats XIII
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XIII_rocks posted...

Me: OK cool. *catches all the Pokemon*
*2 minutes later*
*Habitually spins a Pokestop and gets a 5K egg*

My brain: you stupid piece of shit.

I've done this so many times
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I got Scolipede and Seismitoad yesterday (and immediately found, like, 5 more Tympoles), which leaves me with:

Galvantula (need 10 candy)
Crustle (need 35 candy)
Garbodor (need 44 candy)
Dewott/Samurott (need 46 candy)
Gurdurr/Conkeldurr (need 232 candy, or Timburr on my alt + 50 candy)
Boldore/Gigalith (need 238 candy, or Roggenrola on my alt + 50 candy)
Archen line
Carracosta line
Deino line
Axew line

So basically not ready for Darmanitan at all.
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how was everyone's community day?

it was super cold here (7 degrees, windchill -11) so I mostly hung out in my apartment and caught all the Piplups that showed up. I got one shiny, and my alt got a shiny Bulbasaur.
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bryans7 posted...

finish the community center/jojo mart

This is the big thing for me, I basically consider this the "main quest" even though there's obviously a lot of other stuff to do. I'm not in a hurry to min/max things but completing the center feels like beating the game (with a long postgame if I'm so inclined).
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wrench

xp1337 posted...

i'm not saying our NP could be a mech... but our NP could be a mech.

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oh yeah I also need like 60 oshawott candy but I'm not fussed about that because of inevitable community day
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Here's what I need, not counting regionals:

Ferrothorn (need 22 candy)
Galvantula (need 33 candy)
Crustle (need 35 candy)
Garbodor (need 44 candy)
Whirlipede/Scolipede (need 52 candy)
Palpitoad/Seismitoad (need 54 candy)
Roggenrola line
Archen line
Carracosta line
Deino line
Axew line

Looks like I gotta hatch a lot more eggs. The hatchathon gave me enough candy for Chandelure, so that was cool.
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I love the new buddy system but it makes choosing a buddy so much harder.

I've been walking my Tepig and in a couple days I'll have enough candies for Emboar, but I just hit the second level of friendship and I don't want to switch yet
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B
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I got Karrablast/Escavalier, Shelmet/Accelgor, and a couple Venipedes

no Joltik yet though :(
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MariaTaylor posted...

One of the best reasons to marry Sebastian is that with his new heart event you can get a terrarium set up inside of the farm where he keeps frogs. As someone who really loves frogs, I think this is pretty awesome. And there's no other way to get it! You don't know true desperation until you've married someone for a pet frog.

whoa

okay that settles it definitely marrying Sebastian if I play Stardew Valley again
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those Alex/Sam fanarts are legit
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I never played Sun/Moon. If I were either going to play that, or this, which is better?
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yeah it's a gray area

I probably wouldn't count it for myself though
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LeonhartFour posted...

Also, when I was a kid, I was playing Michael Jordan's Chaos in the Windy City (yeah, yeah, I know), and I was messing around with the password system just for fun one time. By complete chance, I entered a password that put me at the next to last level. If I beat the game from there, does that count as "beating" the game?

imo no (but that's still pretty sweet)
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I should go back to making dumb mafia setups that will never see the light of day

like the time I had a case where a guy fell into a pit and sued, and I made a mafia setup out of it

the pit cover was town hider because it didn't exist lol
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Grimlyn posted...

Gatarix posted...

I agree with wg here. One guy used an emulator cheat function, one didn't. That's all that matters.

but why does that matter

Honestly, I don't have a great answer for this question, except that I'd hesitate to put it on my games beaten list or count it for the Board 8 Games Challenge under such circumstances. Do I care too much about lists? Probably. But it's part of the board 8 experience imo.

(Also I'm not a hyper-purist about these things. Like I said, I'd use save states to save during long RPG dungeons and still count it. But if I were using them to circumvent, say, clean execution of a long platforming segment, then I'd consider that cheating.)
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my issue is there's no easy way to switch back and forth

I would use the new editor solely for posting pictures, but I'm not going to bother going into settings twice every time I want to post a pic
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yeah that looks great
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tag
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Guides are kinda interesting

Obviously guides are cool in like 90%+ of situations

But there are a few fringe situations, like a puzzle game where you can directly look up all the solutions. Or an old-school game with level passwords, so you could just look it up and hop right to the final level.
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I had a dream where I grabbed a flying bird out of the air, just to be mean

then it morphed into a giant tarantula-beetle with adhesive all over its back so it was stuck to my hand

moral of the story: don't mess with birds
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Jakyl25 posted...

Like, the comeback against Matei is not Yes huh they did so beat the game!

Its Why do you care enough to try to put yourself above other people based on gatekeeping your hobby? Dont do that.

huh, okay

I feel like a lot of posts in this topic were "Yes they did beat the game, and you should stop gatekeeping aka having the wrong opinion"

(but I was wrong about SEP's view so I could be wrong about the others too)
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okay, I'll bite

how is it inaccurate? it seems spot-on to me
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StealThisSheen posted...

There's a difference between, say, bringing up your thoughts in a discussion like this, which is obviously fine, and just randomly deciding "I'm going to obnoxiously proclaim this out of nowhere."

to be fair, that goes for any opinion. being obnoxious is obnoxious.

if someone makes a topic "yay I beat SMB3" then I'm not going to enter just to dump on him (whether for save-state related reasons or otherwise)
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yay Hatchathon

meh to Lapras, I want legendaries
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HashtagSEP posted...

People that feel the need to dictate what is and isn't "beating" a game feel the need to make it a competition in order to try to feel superior to others for some reason. They don't want to feel on the same level as somebody who used rewind or savestates, thus they want to insist it's not beating the game. That way they can continue to look down on others. And just "Oh they used rewind" isn't enough, they feel the need to insist the other person can't say they beat the game at all.

As one of the people who says that using rewind/save states is (generally) not beating the game, it's not about feeling superior to others. It's more about respecting people's accomplishments.

Like, Harrich beats the carnies every year and I think it's neat that he's got the skill and dedication to do that. I've never played a carnival game in my life, so this is not about me feeling superior to anyone; it's about Harrich, a cool dude. If it somehow turned out that Harrich was, I dunno, bribing the carnies to give him infinite retries or something, it would be a letdown.
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lordjers posted...

I don't think you can get social value out of beating games lol. Not since school at least. It's more of a personal satisfaction.

I give people social value for beating games imo

a few months ago, our board 8 raiding static was doing the Binding Coil of Bahamut and we were one guy short, so newbie got his friend to join. I didn't notice this at the time, but HGR later pointed out he had the Legend title (that you get for beating the Ultimate version of the final boss of the raid sequence we are just doing for the first time). so I was like, whoa, respect.

nothing toxic about that tbh. he's a very accomplished raider slumming with our group and I respect that
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paulg235 posted...

There is nothing wrong with doing it, too, despite what these judgemental gamers full of bravado lead you to believe. We live in an age where a lot of people who play video games are now in their 20's or older, most of which have other responsibilities in their lives such as "jobs" (and not "the ones where you play/talk about games" like some of these people arguing against this) and "family" that they have to provide for. They also probably have a bunch of other things they wish to do their free time too such as other games to play, stuff to watch (movies, shows) and other hobbies. So why shouldn't they be free to use said option if it means beating the game quicker and allowing them to move onto something else? In many cases, they could have probably ended up beating the game without that anyway after so much time, but felt the "extra grind" isn't worth it.

Oh, for sure. Games are for fun and everyone should play them in whatever way they enjoy.

Not everyone is going to beat every game, and that's okay! There are some kinds of games that I suck at and would probably never beat legitimately (or at least, would not enjoy the effort to get there). If I find it fun to cheat code my way to the ending, that's cool, I had fun. But I still didn't beat the game.
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StealThisSheen posted...

Well, right, but that's different than the people who are bothered by other people using rewind/save states.

Well, not bothered, but I'd (privately) apply the same standard to other people.

So if someone beat each stage of Necrodancer in stage select and said "well, I beat the game," I'd think, "actually you didn't."

But I probably wouldn't say anything because I'm not interested in being internet police.
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MZero11 posted...

Underleveled posted...

Are there any particular names that could turn you off from even the most attractive person

yes, especially if they have the same name as an ex

Underleveled posted...

make you give a second look to someone that at first glance you weren't attracted to?

no

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StealThisSheen posted...

It's kinda wild to me that there is apparently a fairly common fear that there is this large contingent of people out there who beat games with save states, go "Yeah, I beat it, better than anybody else who has ever beaten it," and then the internet police is going to come knock on your door and go "Sorry, sir, but your previous claim of beating Mario 1 is now invalid because somebody beat it with save states."

It's not really about fear of internet police, it's just how I would view it for myself.

If I were playing an old RPG that didn't have a save point before a long final boss sequence, and after a long final dungeon, then I would use save states and not feel bad. I beat that game.

On the other hand, for a skill-based game like Crypt of the Necrodancer or Touhou, I might use stage select or continues (or rewinds, if those existed) for practice; but I wouldn't consider myself to have truly beaten the game unless I cleared it all in one go with no saves/rewinds/etc.
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Dels posted...

i mean i think it depends on context

if you're just chatting with someone about which games you've gotten through you don't wanna be like "i didn't beat celeste" "oh okay i won't talk about the ending then" "no no i saw the ending and credits, i got to the end, i just didn't beat it because i used accessibility mode"

but if someone is like "have you beaten 7C in celeste" you probably wouldn't wanna say "yeah i beat it" if you did it with invincibility on because then you're being misleading

this exactly
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