The "What Are You Doing This Moment" Thread

[Carpe Mortem]

That lack of synchronicity always bugged me. The games came first and the show should have had Pokemon make similar sounds to the game. Although I'm sure it would have taken away the cute kids' show factor if there were just a series of terrifying grumbles and shrieks. Not to mention there aren't labels beneath all the Pokemon in the show so it would be harder to identify them unless it was forced into the dialogue.

Still. Would have been way cooler if they started off appealing that show to older children, shrieks and badassery and all.

 

[no country for old wainds]

they did start doing that later, moreso anyway. there's plenty of fairly adult humour in there from the get-go too. everyone hates team rocket but they legit make me laugh out loud multiple times in just about any given episode, even now. i agree they could've been more creative with the sounds they make though.

 

[Dak]

What is this faggotry?

 

[The Butt]

Pokeymans, homo. Fuck, get with it.

(<3)

 

[Dak]

Thou be-ist the homo.

 

[CiG]

The older Pokemon have at least a modicum of iconicity and distinctiveness, unlike, for example, the X/Y Pokemon that literally blur together for me. For every one 4th+ Gen Poke you show me to attempt to disprove this, I can show you three older ones that confirm it.

Whether they're "dumb" like Diglett or Electrode is irrelevant to what I am saying. I don't really see how my point can be debated tbh.

That has nothing to do with the franchise and everything to do with you, you're romanticising your memories and coming entirely from a position of nostalgia.

 

[no country for old wainds]

the worst and most boring pokemon in the first gen is clearly seel. fuck seel. at least it's not an ice cream cone though i guess

 

[CiG]

At least it's not a Pokéball mimic piece of shit.

 

[no country for old wainds]

voltorb is cool conceptually IMO, i like the whole *pokéball gone wrong/mutated and nobody knows why* thing. electrode looks like absolute dogshit though.

 

[CiG]

It's just a recycled RPG idea though. I dunno I just find it very cringy.

Edit: Suffice to say, I think anybody thinking any era is more creative than another is talking out of their ass.

 

[Satanstoenail]

Enjoying a rare Saturday off while my van gets serviced and the timing belt gets replaced. Using my free time in the best way possible, drinking a Sam Adams Boston Lager, noodling on my bass and posting rubbish on the internet.

 

[The Butt]

That has nothing to do with the franchise and everything to do with you, you're romanticising your memories and coming entirely from a position of nostalgia.

Nah man. Distinctiveness between Pokemon is a relatively objective thing to measure imo. :s

 

[CiG]

Nah man. Distinctiveness between Pokemon is a relatively objective thing to measure imo. :s

So give some examples.

 

[EspaDa]

So bad we don't have any football thread anymore, holy fucking shit, have you seen the Everton - Bournemouth result, @no country for old wainds ?

 

[The Butt]

So give some examples.

Time to put my HBB Comparison Goggles (TM) on.

Limited to fourth gen only:

Snivy is a green Cyndaquil.
Emboar may as well be an evolution of Magmar.
Oshawott is basically a non-bird Piplup.
Pansage and Panpour are literally the same sprite with colors changed.
Gigalith looks like Giratina and any of the other shitbag Pokemon with the "sharp, colored jutting protrusions making the creature seem "aggressive" aesthetic.
Archeops, same thing.
Zoroark, same thing.
Haxorus, same exact thing.
Bouffalant is basically Tauros but fucking gay.
Bisharp, see above regarding "generic jutting Pokemon"
Scolipede is Giratina, if Giratina got fucked in the ass and broken emotionally by a Machamp in prison.
Krokorok is basically a ground-type Totodile.
Alomomola, see above regarding "generic jutting Pokemon"
Axew is another green Cyndaquil clone. in the same gen as the other Cyndaquil clone no less.
Braviary is the Native Ho-Oh.

This literally took me at most 20 minutes to compile. And again, I am not arguing quality, but straight-up visual distinctiveness/iconicity. None of these listed Pokemon are instantly recognizable as anything unique, half of the third-gen and up Pokemon are literal rip-offs of other pokeys.

Get rekt, gg, QED, checkmate etc etc.

 

[Krow]

You missed the part where Bisharp is fucking badass though.

The Pan monkeys are lame yeah, but the original Eevee line wasn't exactly much different, design wise.

The whole Oshawott/Piplup thing is pretty stupid too because one of a penguin and the other is an otter. No fucking clue what you're going for there. Samurott is a bizarre final evo that makes very little sense though. Oh every water starter is blue. Feel like that's where similarities end.

 

[The Butt]

The whole Oshawott/Piplup thing is pretty stupid too because one of a penguin and the other is an otter. No fucking clue what you're going for there. Samurott is a bizarre final evo that makes very little sense though. Oh every water starter is blue. Feel like that's where similarities end.

The species may be different but the visual aesthetic is near identical. Turn that stupid nub nose into a small beak and you have basically a Piplup.

 

[CiG]

I'll pick this shitty argument apart later, but holy lolz the Machamp in prison bit.

 

[The Butt]

All I am saying, is that there was a stylistic change that happened sometime where Pokemon started to blend together. I don't like it, I think it's kind of lame; I preferred the more amateur, less unified visual direction of the first and second gen.

 

[Satanstoenail]

Fuck you guys are really into Pokemon hey