Lurker > BlueCrystalTear

TORMENT
+3 Empoleon
+2 Krokorok
+1 Cyndaquil
-1 Torkoal
-2 Kartana
-3 Quaxwell

Meh.

PSYCHO CUT
+3 Togekiss
+2 Spectrier
+1 Golurk
-1 Clobbopus
-2 Meltan
-3 Feebas

Solid division here. Didn't want to minus three anyone, but chose to do that to the one that I've spent way too long hunting.

Mewtwo59 posted...

I think they had to do the one foot thing so that challenge would eventually end. They could've kept going for hours with two feet unless the waves picked up.

Which is what I wanted to see, lol

Also Venus is just asking people to vote her out by trying to call shots without any bullets. Like... why? She thinks she's Kim Spradlin but she's really just ineffective. I have no idea who's going home from NuYanu. I think Q will get Tim out on NuNami though, and Charlie will take his place in that alliance of six. Tim being the last pre-juror makes sense story-wise.

"I jumped off on purpose"

Historical revisionism, my friends.

Because this is the severalth episode of this season, it's called "Episode Several" - the Jelinsky tributes are hilarious.

Also, did they skip a level? Nah, probably not, they just edited it out since nobody fell.

I wish more challenges were just fun like this one was . I also wish they didn't do bullshit like the "one foot only" - it's more fun when it's an actual duel.

Also happy Venus gets to make jury and look glamorous at Tribal every episode from here on out, since I think she's gone. No idea who goes from NuNami, but I'd think OG Yanu is in full control since they have half the votes.

KINESIS
+3 Drampa
+2 Gastrodon
+1 Passimian
-1 Spheal
-2 Watchog
-3 Illumise

HEAL BELL
+3 Swampert
+2 Oranguru
+1 Tornadus
-1 Slurpuff
-2 Binacle
-3 Comfey

Two pretty weak divisions all around, with just a few standouts.

COURT CHANGE
+3 Lampent
+2 Glaceon
+1 Vanilluxe
-1 Toedscruel
-2 Boldore
-3 Eiscue

This division is mostly even for me.

TECTONIC RAGE
+3 Gallade
+2 Raichu
+1 Muk
-1 Flabb
-2 Melmetal
-3 Munkidori

Meh. Hard-to-get legendaries/mythicals are... yeah.

Mega_Mana posted...

Ocarina of Time
Goldeneye 007
Banjo-Kazooie
Mario Kart 64

I can go with this.

G-MAX VOLCALITH
+3 Vespiquen
+2 Mamoswine
+1 Combusken
-1 Wishiwashi
-2 Slakoth
-3 Greedent

I hate Greedent's stupid face with a passion, and I don't know why. I just do. (Seems like I'm not alone there, at least)

G-MAX SWEETNESS
+3 Greninja
+2 Feraligatr
+1 Houndour
-1 Fomantis
-2 Dartrix
-3 Ledyba

Super Mario Bros
Super Mario Bros 3
The Legend of Zelda
Punch-Out

I never owned an NES myself, but I knew the first three immediately. The last one is very difficult - a choice between Punch-Out, MM2, Duck Hunt, and Metroid. But I went with the one of those I actually played, so...

SIMPLE BEAM
+3 Mudkip
+2 Galvantula
+1 Corviknight
-1 Togetic
-2 Nickit
-3 Remoraid

STEEL BEAM
+3 Staraptor
+2 Sprigatito
+1 Ursaluna
-1 Shroodle
-2 Tepig
-3 Servine

This was a tough division aside from my 3s.

This is a tough one, because 75% of these suck.

Gen 1 has classics like the original Geodude line, Onix, Rhydon, and Lord Helix.
Gen 2 has Tyranitar and... Magcargo would be decent if not for that horrendous typing.

Yeah, that leads me to why Rock-types are usually awful: Their weakness profile is the most crippling of any. Water, Grass, Ground, Fighting, AND Steel is particularly terrible. There's a reason a majority of these Pokemon have at least one 4x weakness. Rock/Ground to Water AND Grass, Rock/Water to Grass, Fire/Rock to Water AND Ground, Rock/Dark to Fighting, Rock/Steel to Fighting AND Ground, Rock/Electric to Ground, Rock/Ice to Fighting AND Steel...

Yeah, looking at that, there's a reason Rock is among my least favorite types. They really could've done without the weakness to Ground. I never played Sword, only Shield, but the idea of there being a Rock-type gym so late in the game is not a good one. I've heard people say that Gordie is among the weakest gym leaders they've ever faced; Melony is considerably better, since I at least had a halfway decent fight with her.

I guess I'll just vote for the gen where I like the designs the best.

Tagging this

for whatever reason I missed last week's topic

7/10

The only case in AJ I played in full, and the only one to feel like Ace Attorney. Too bad the writers butchered the rest of the game.

The Shit in the Dark once again produces a boring reveal.

Blaziken posted...

The fact that they DIDN'T consider Charlie as a legitimate target is kinda frustrating. I hate how often the merge is just "we want this to be easy, so let's take out the person already on the bottom."

At one point, the merge episode was one of the best episodes of the season. Now, the "Mergatory" episode, which any reasonable Survivor fan would say is the real merge since they're all on one beach and voting together, is one of the worst, because of this strategic shift. It's sad. I'd think if they dropped the twist BS, they could make it more exciting again.

Blaziken posted...

Moriah is trying to out-misplay Venus.

I think she thought by telling the truth at Tribal, she could get some people in her corner. Instead most of Siga changed their votes to Mo because they saw they couldn't trust her, and she told Q.... let me quote LJ from Cagayan: "In order to show he's trustworthy, Tony told us that he lied. ...different."

UGH @ this preview. Doing two rounds in a row that aren't a "real merge" AGAIN.

Is Venus... trying to flirt with Jeff, Julie Berry style?

Mewtwo59 posted...

Yeah, if Jelinsky wasn't on this season, I'd say Jeff's speech about "one of you has no chance of winning this game" was referring to Venus.

There's also Jess, who could never in a million years make it to endgame without having a panic attack and jetting out of there, and Bhanu, who is an out-of-control puppy dog that any alliance would get tired of babysitting. I'd say Venus is somehow the 4th-worst player in this cast.

Also Mo dropping that bomb is entirely stupid given the lies she told earlier. Terrible timing and even more terrible to contradict herself before they even vote together. So maybe she's even worse than Venus.

Also, I am LOVING all this poor play. Such a trainwreck. Tim hasn't committed to anything and torpedoed a lot of potential bridges. Mo doing this.... geez.

Mewtwo59 posted...

Venus is so bad at Survivor

Yeah, as I alluded to in the previous post, one thing I bring up consistently is "Don't call your shot if you don't have any bullets." Venus called a shot on Charlie despite her lacking any bullets. If she'd just trusted that the Nami/Yanu group had her back and voted Mo, she'd make it through another vote, but she won't because she tried to run shit when she had no power... and REALLY bad reasoning. The girls already have a 7-6 majority. You can afford to lose Mo, who's a Siga lemming anyway.

I am hoping it's Mo accordingly, but I think it's Venus at solely her own fault. She'll vote for Charlie and look like an idiot in doing so.

Venus didn't just fucking listen to "Vote out Mo" and now she may be going home accordingly. If she'd just done as she was told, as she should when she has as little power as she has right now, she'd probably make jury no problem. And it sucks that we won't get to see her looking glamorous on the jury bench.

There has been SO MUCH bad play this episode, and I love it. Siga establishing that their fivesome runs this game. Odd conclusions. Shooting a shot without a bullet. All kinds of crazy bad play.

So... Venus, Mo, Liz, or Soda? Who ya got? It certainly isn't gonna be Charlie or Maria given how things have headed. I am only including Soda because of her "agita" confessional just now.

I'm thinking Venus or Mo. Leaning Venus but could be convinced otherwise. Like... if Q gets out of Tim that Mo was left out of the Jungle Jem vote, that will be it for her because Q will know she lied.

Voted 3.

Gardevoir, Metagross, Medicham, Lati@s, and Jirachi are awesome. Deoxys is good. Lunatone and Solrock would be awesome if they had +30 in stats. Grumpig and Chimecho are okay but could do with better movesets. The NFEs I like enough.

Why did Venus throw out so much when that makes her stand out to Siga?
Why does Mo want to stay loyal to an alliance of 5 she's on the bottom of?
Why does Q think Mo idolizing Aubry equate to her being as good as Aubry?
Why is Tim not committing to anything at all?
Why did they not split the girls and the guys evenly at this Mergeatory challenge?

Blaziken posted...

Venus has had merge boot written all over her for such a long time. She's got big RC energy.

Her story in this episode is either that her name "comes up" on the parchments or that she actually manages to integrate and potentially win the season. I'm leaning more toward the former. Shame, since I really want to see her on the jury bench.

Also is this the first spring season in Fiji to not merge to Yanu's beach? I believe Nami is the fall season merge beach, and I can see why they picked there because of the shelter discrepancy.

Leonhart4 posted...

Put a contest together

Underleveled posted...

KoS Preston

Really just these two things, which should both be givens.

Only so many things you can do in one day to drive up site traffic, though.

3-4: 8.5

3-5: 9.9

Bitto posted...

Older Characters

what

POWER-UP PUNCH
+3 Vibrava
+2 Celebi
+1 Dratini
-1 Carkol
-2 Bouffalant
-3 Cubchoo

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

Instant minus to any of the Gen V monkey evos, and that's even with Quilladin there. Venusaur doesn't need the help.

Blaziken posted...

Gen I (There is almost NOTHING bad about this generation.

The worst thing is probably the overabundance of Grass/Poison types, which is more a Grass-type problem, but even so they're mostly excellent.

also

Gen VI (The Mega evolutions are all that this generation really has going for it. Dragalge is okay, but it's such a late evo.)
Gen VI (There's nothing all that BAD here, but nothing among this group is top tier for me. It's still surprisingly solid, given some of the Poison-type lines post-Gen I, but only okay.)

I think you meant IV for the second?

Wii Sports
Brawl
Twilight Princess
Mario Galaxy

Can you do one for me? I kind of need it right now...

I want to be as specific as possible here...
Pretty human female, mid-20s, wearing a tank top and shorts
Dark hair, slightly wavy, down past her shoulders, topped by a visor or baseball cap (whichever you want)
Beautiful eyes magnified by steel-rimmed glasses that aren't too thick or too tall (let me know if you want me to find a comparable picture)

Just ask if you have questions

And here's a fun idea: Sonic about to roll into a ball to push a car into some of Eggman's Robo-thugs.

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

What a weak division.

COMEUPPANCE
+3 Zamazenta
+2 Rookidee
+1 Lotad
-1 Gouging Fire
-2 Spearow
-3 Cosmoem

On one hand, one of my favorite recent legendaries, an actually good starting bird, and a good meme 'mon. On the other, a dumb legendary clone, a Normal/Flying when we already had Pidgey and Doduo, and a worthless mid-stage legendary that doesn't exactly serve any practical purpose and is a pain to acquire for Living Dex.

Leonhart4 posted...

Away

This, specifically in Pat Benatar's voice.

3-2: 9/10, a unique thrill ride with plenty of surprises

3-3: 7/10, it's good, but has too many sequences that aren't overly memorable for me to truly love it. Way better than 1-3 and 2-3, though.

That was about me having no fun and no answers. It's not healthy for me. That's all.

I really don't care to say anything more than I don't care in any shape or form.

This game was the exact opposite of fun for me - at no fault of the host - and my wholly unnecessary vig death has completely killed my interest in ever playing here again. I still have no clue whatsoever what I even did to get targeted when I was obvtown; there's a reason I guessed Lea was 100% scum upon entering DTC because her actions made zero sense coming from town. Her alignment was one of the biggest surprises I've ever encountered playing Mafia.

But yeah, I was hoping to have some fun with this role, and I didn't get to for no reason whatsoever. I am very disappointed and have decided to move on with my life.

Since I at least enjoyed watching, I will stick around to co-host/offer feedback on setup/watch, but that's about it.

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

FROST BREATH
+3 Kommo-o
+2 Cofagrigus
+1 Toxicroak
-1 Cleffa
-2 Naclstack
-3 Tarountula

Tarountula is an unnecessary spider. No idea what Naclstack is. Cleffa is fine, but... babies, y'know.

7.5/10

This was a tutorial case? It sure doesn't feel like it. It's even more satisfying on replay when you know how much of a sadist Dahlia is.

Rookie Crusher and angsty Phoenix are great and offer more perspective on existing characters; one for better, one for... thank goodness he's not like that anymore.

This is nothing compared to the time when there was that pornographic ad that showed actual boobies and anyone who reposted it only got an NKL.

That said, I didn't realize this site still had ads, because I've been running uBlock for some time now solely because of what Fandom has done with the place.

AbsolutelyNoOne posted...

Peach

This, and I haven't even been playing the game

Voted Gen 3 for Swampert and Flygon, two of my top 10, alone.

4 and 5 are runners-up.

GLaDOS

STUN SPORE
+3 Gurdurr
+2 Corphish (Ash's, specifically)
+1 Cufant
-1 Kilowattrel
-2 Barraskewda
-3 Seedot

Weaksauce division. +3 to one of my earlier shinies, at least, since evolved.

CORE ENFORCER
+3 Gardevoir
+2 Moltres
+1 Mr. Rime
-1 Spritzee
-2 Kricketot
-3 Snom

At least those two pathetic bugs both evolve into something decent, but Kricketot happens so quickly and Snom is... rough for a later-game 'mon.

10, absolute thrill ride throughout

Regarding Survivor, yeah... what all of you said.

Tim and Jem both handled that idol accusation thing poorly. While Tim not offering her a deal when she was giving him the BS, Jem being dismissive of his intelligence just confirmed to him that she was hiding something, and made it clear that the two could not work together long-term. I think she overplayed greatly, while Tim just played poorly.

The challenges really need more diversity, because I barely watch them. That said, the slo-mo shot to punctuate Yanu's victory was amazing, and even though the setup spoiled that the shot was a hit, I didn't mind. Yanu deserved that moment of celebration. I did like the logo-ordering thing, though, since it was something different that a day one fan like me could do in his sleep. Hell, I remember lock combinations by using Survivor seasons!

I liked how Maria used her extra vote to make it appear that everyone on the tribe had a vote. This should be good for tribe unity going forward... except for Mo, who is definitely going to look elsewhere for allies. She may not find many though, and these days the merge boot is usually whoever they can all agree on.

Am surprised that Jem went out here. I'd thought she was the strongest winner contender on Siga, but now I don't think the winner is coming from that group. But I have no clue who has it at this point, and that's why it's so fun.

Glad I'm not watching TAR. It sounds unbearable to have 90-minute episodes with pandemic restrictions. Would not surprise me if that went back to 60 minutes for TAR37, though some weirdos want Survivor to go back to that too. I am not one of those people - I would stop watching if it was 60 minutes again, because 41 to 44 were such a blur because the episodes felt like they were supposed to be longer.

Prince... or Prince Rogers Nelson.. or "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince" - you know, that guy

DIAMOND STORM
+3 Meowth, that's right!
+2 Dracozolt
+1 Gabite
-1 Applin
-2 Pawmo
-3 Pansage

I echo that I don't think Pawmo needs to exist (just Pawmi -> Pawmot would be fine), but though Pansage's design is fine, the Pokemon itself is completely worthless before you even get the third badge.

TACHYON CUTTER
+3 Latios
+2 Tapu Bulu
+1 Arctibax
-1 Regirock
-2 Capsakid
-3 Cherrim

Grass is one of those weird types where there's not a clear winner for me. Each generation has some good shit and some shit shit.

It's just that some have more good shit than shit shit, and vice-versa. 3 and 5 are really the only considerations for me. Like... 7 has just Exeggutor-A, Decidueye, and Tsareena (one of my favorite grass monotypes), while 2 just has Chikorita-Baeleef-Meganium, which is still one of my favorite-designed grass starter lines.

Yeah, Grass just isn't one of my favorite types. It's one of those types that needs another type to function properly, what with its weaknesses to Fire, Flying, Bug, and Ice. Three of those are bad to be weak to. The Grass/Poison types they insisted on in Gen 1 were even worse, with the additional weakness to Psychic in lieu of the one to Bug. Roserade is awesome despite that.

1.5/10

After suffering through it twice, it's one of the only cases I skip on subsequent playthroughs. Most of the cast is bad; Moe has some hilarious moments but others that are just terrible, Acro is an underrated ruthless asshole who the game instead tries to make you feel sorry for, Ben is an incel pedophile (I mean, he's twice Regina's age), Trilo is the obnoxious twit Ben wants to be, and Regina is oblivious in the least endearing way possible. Max is okay, I guess, and really the only characters who are likable are too dead to make a difference in the case.

What I mean about Acro is the fact that he was legitimately planning to murder a teenager over an accident caused by her being a teenager. All because she's too young and naive to understand the ramifications of what she did!Like... that's as fucked up as "fucked up" gets. I don't feel sorry for him at all, but I do feel really sorry for Bat.