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oh don't worry that's in the game i ain't out here making smeargle make shiny icons just for me

so there was a question about whether this works for altforms. it does!

protip to save people's eyes in the future ctrl + shift + v will paste without formatting so you can get rid of that white background

like delibird

that is not how their name is spelled

i think her having pokegod might also contribute....

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Suspension_of_disbelief

yeah i feel like now is a good time to mention that i didn't actually count or anything

don't worry about it. sometimes i just want to be funny. and sneak some small things in.

it's actually been there the whole time!

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some kids were bitching about the content there so i took the joke down :(

there's a guy who trades you a delibird. some monorun passwords will change specific event mons. it'll be ok.

oh the dream trope fuckin sucks (unless you do it like deso)

so i haven't checked on this thread for about two years but man there's some stuff i really want to comment on but can't some of you are technically not wrong!!!

omg is that faith? in us? incredible.........

help

time for merch!!

oh, sure. stringing the two quotes together was a bad move. it's way more harsh than i meant, and i did it out of laziness- i still trimmed the original quote, but i definitely should've done it more. it's also derailed the hype train a bit. edit: i'm just going to hide the original.

sure! and i admit that i likely came off a little too harshly in my original comment ("every once in a while some asshole would show up and bitch about it.") since i was trying to preserve the original quote. this is certainly not nearly as bad as some of the other shit i've seen, and i think that in avoiding writing more i've made the situation worse. but this gets a yikes from me, dawg. i'll just ask that there's a little bit of faith that maybe this won't be the worst thing imaginable.

i'd say that everyone who shows up in early game has benefitted from the early game changes. there's more than enough room in the city to expand on the characters that are already present while also adding a new one. the preexisting meteor leadership has lot of grumpy old dudes who say edgy shit and murder people. there's lots of room in there for someone a bit more fun. plus, y'know, enby rep. my lawyer has advised me not to comment on this. but it sounds like you'll be surprised. my lawyer has advised me not to comment on this. but it sounds like you'll be surprised. ok but why tho why is the reaction to this "ok but do you have to add more characters?" instead of, well, anything more positive. i'm glad you don't think ace is going to be "totally terrible"! i suspect they'll actually be pretty capable of clearing that high bar. i find the lack of faith disturbing. my lawyer has advised me not to comment on this. and, like, i really can't comment on this one. so i will suggest taking a more charitable approach. can you think of any justifiable reasons why this might be the case? yo same

also for fuck's sake i'm so tired of hearing about apophyll. yes it's a hiccup in narrative momentum. no it's not that bad. please shut the fuck up.

hi so this is gonna get 100% buried we are now all aboard the hype train though so i'm gonna shove some dynamite into the engine core and shoot this thing off the rails so something that i comment on a lot is how i can't play pokemon anymore. it's a great example of a joke that isn't quite a joke- on the one hand it's like "haha lol oh cass ur so funny cuz you make like 100 of these games how can you not like mons", but on the other i'm pretty fuckin burned out on the gameplay. there are times when i definitely am playing the game like it's my job because it's my job. i can only do the mons so much until i lose my desire to look at pikachu ever again. last mainline game i played was SuMo and the last one i cared about was BW2. so, y'know, i'm here cuz i think the games are neat. reborn was my introduction to fangames and it's also just, like, really good*? ...but you see that there's an asterisk there. i usually condition that statement with "yeah, early game's kinda rough but once you get through that it gets a lot better." every once in a while some asshole would show up and bitch about it. sometimes they'd bitch on the forums and sometimes they'd bitch in a cracked article, but the problem with randos bitching about shit is that there's no reason to listen to them. if they're lucky, they're coherent. i've yet to meet a rageaholic rando that made a good point. if you don't understand what you're talking about, how can you? which is why it's nice to have me around! i am scathing. like early game is "fine", right? but why would anyone settle for fine. early game is fucking bland. when you're not beating up nonthreatening randos, you're running errands to fetch shit. and that shit is usually the plot. if this game included the pokewatch, your step counter would be through the roof. every single person who has ever played this game is tired as fuck of running through jasper. on top of that, there's a general lack of context for most of what's happening. there's often a reason for things, but those reasons are often arbitrary. if it wasn't for the fact that team meteor was there to duct tape the plot together, all early game would be is a series of "hey, there's a gym over here and you gotta fight it. also some batshit stuff might happen. have a good day." which, like, if this is your first fangame excursion, that's probably fine! "hey, there's a gym over here and you gotta fight it" is basically the sole drive behind early gen canon games. there's, at best, a paper thin plot sitting on top of that. early game reborn is far more compelling than that! but do you know what's way better than early game reborn? late game reborn. late game reborn kicks early game's ass. you can clearly tell that the quality of development dramatically improved over the course of the game, and that's mostly because ame's gotten better at this whole game dev thing. i'd been hammering her about doing anything to fix up early game for a while, if for no reason other than to bring it up to par with the bar set by the rest of the game. and, like, i really had to hammer. finally after a lot of pushing, she figured out a few things that she'd really like to change. and she did them! and then the rest of the changes just kind of rolled out from there. and, so, like i haven't quite finished the new early game yet. i'm just over three badges in. but yo this shit is fire it's not an overhaul of early game: the interior "dungeons" are redone and there's more character interactions, but most of it's still untouched. but honestly? that's really all it needed. it's amazing how a few small changes in just the right places make such a huge difference. for me, it's really been a lighting bolt reminder of everything i first loved about the game back when i was sitting on the other side of the dev blog. i'm not done with it yet, but if the rest is anything like how it's been so far, i'm super confident that it'll will be worth the wait. oh also there's the new shit too but who cares that's not this post