@RogerRoger I deleted the last comment because I'm not a huge fan of arguing with people unless it's something really important. Especially people I otherwise enjoy talking to. Also, that last post devolved purely into scolding. It's not my place to scold you.
I do appreciate the apology, though! You're not stupid, and it takes a big guy to go into public and say: "I was wrong." It's one of the hardest things in the world.
We're cool.
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People can put down this website and the community all they want, ita their right. But imo after reading these last several comments, i think most of us are pretty decent people. Its nice to read stuff like this instead of...well just bad, demeaning, and alot of the time ridiculous behavior. Thanks for making my day better by me reading this. 😃
@KratosMD it should be illegal to sell games with out of date codes in them
although if it's a "complete" edition then the games should come with everything on the dam disc, i never liked when they just ship it with DLC codes
plus there was a place in my town that would take games and codes out of the cases for storage and people who worked there used to write the codes down and use them themselves
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"Now! This is it! Now is the time to choose! Die and be free of pain or live and fight your sorrow! Now is the time to shape your stories! Your fate is in your hands!
@KratosMD I think the reason behind giving DLC Codes is so people can't share the DLC discs. I had the GOTY edition of Borderlands back on the 360. I remember loaning the second DLC disc out to everyone I knew who had the base game. Once they installed the DLC they didn't need the disc anymore. They could literally buy the base game for $5 and then borrow the DLC disc and have everything.
I am sure there are ways around it like requiring the disc to play it etc. But there are probably other reasons behind including the DLC Codes instead of a disc. Not necessarily goods I might add.
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So I am super excited. I found out yesterday that select theaters in my area will be showing Metallica's S&M 2 concert at them which happens to be my favorite band of all time. I quickly checked a theater in my area and found some for $15!!! So In will be going to that this October a few days before my birthday too. I am super excited!!!
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@Tasuki what about an activation program on the disc that automatically unpacks the codes and then automatically adds the DLC to your download cue this way the codes can't be stolen NOR would they have a use by date and it would still link them to the initial account they was used on meaning they was still a one time use item and thus can't be shared through the used games market (which i'm assuming is one of the main reasons they do it, it's kind of like online passes
that and they are also lazy)
"I pity you. You just don't get it at all...there's not a thing I don't cherish!"
"Now! This is it! Now is the time to choose! Die and be free of pain or live and fight your sorrow! Now is the time to shape your stories! Your fate is in your hands!
@FullbringIchigo it's probably also cheaper to use slips of paper with codes on them then discs. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the base game discs are just discs that they have left over from the initial print so they just print out a slip with codes and call it a day.
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@Tasuki they are trust me, i brought the Royal Edition of FFXV on XB1 and the game disc is literally the original release and i know this because not only does the disc have the original copyright date on it AND not only did it look the same as the day one PS4 disc (bar the console specific branding of course) but when i first installed and played it my XB1 internet adapter was broken so i couldn't update it and it was the original vanilla release
"I pity you. You just don't get it at all...there's not a thing I don't cherish!"
"Now! This is it! Now is the time to choose! Die and be free of pain or live and fight your sorrow! Now is the time to shape your stories! Your fate is in your hands!
At the end of the month I'm gonna leave my workplace, one more time. It happens every year since I work for a tour operator for 8/9 months per year, then there's a long break before the next season. Last year I had a severe burnout in July which obviously ruined any "goodbye party" hypothesis, but I'm not that kind of person anyway.
August 30th will be a friday so I decided to offer a beer only to the closest colleagues (that's 30 of us in the office, too many for a collective goodbye) right at the end of my last working day.
It's 5 years now I'm into this routine and even if I work 150 kms away from home, my feelings still belong to my hometown.
To me, worktime has nothing to do with the "real life", the one in which I am myself and not a part of a mechanism ruled by others.
@andreoni79 I've always wondered how those who do seasonal work handle the gaps and so on. It must be very busy during the season. Are you away from home a lot?
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@Rudy_Manchego I usually leave my hometown in december/january and come back in august/september. In these 8/9 months there's a lot of work to do, with also some 16hours working days... In one single day we can move around 1000 kids in Italy or abroad. We also sent 510 kids to London only on July 2nd. When we look for a new coaches company in the UK they always think we are joking when we say "there are 500 kids on 15 different flights coming this day. What can you offer us?" 😂
There's a lot of stress, but then I have three months in which I receive a good unemployment benefit. Finally I have time for my studies and writing!
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy I really, really liked how a lot of the people acted like... people... in B/W. Bianca's father not wanting her to go on a Pokemon adventure, for example. It's such a basic, humanizing thing, and I had always kind of wondered why the parents always seemed perfectly content to let their children wander a land filled with dangerous, borderlines supernatural animals and career criminals.
Team Plasma seems like a very organic part of the Pokemon universe. OF COURSE you would have a group concerned about the welfare of Pokemon. It also makes sense that an ostensibly benevolent organization would be rotten as you go higher in the ranks. I thought N was an interesting protagonist.
Overall, it's the most "JRPG-feeling" of the mainline Pokemon games. Which, I think, is a big reason why it's so contentious in the fandom: it feels very different from Pokemon games before or since.
If you didn't like the sort of linear, people-popping-up-all-the-time thing in B/W, I'd strongly advise against ever playing SuMo. Feels like you don't go five minutes without someone interrupting the flow of the game. Not to mention the game feels like it's running at 20fps most of the time, even on the New 3DS.
Oshawatt is actually my nephew's favorite Pokemon. While I'm not a fan of the evolutions, I always found Tepig to be adorable. No set of starters will ever match R/B/Y, but the starters in B/W are a solid second or third for me.
As a mom that's always really confused me... The anime did it pretty decently with Deliah always being pretty concerned about Ash's wellbeing whenever he called home (Or the plea she makes in the second film) and yet in the games they're always like "You're 12 or whatever now... Go make monsters fight each other and don't come back"
I mean, I get it. The Pokemon Journey is that society's rite-of-passage for adolescents on the cusp of young adulthood. It's a powerful concept insofar as it taps into humanity's universal yearning for freedom, discovery, and adventure. But, even in a society where that sort of thing is the universal norm, you'd still have parents who weren't cool with the idea. So the introduction of that element brought a uniquely human element to the series.
But yeah, the original anime did do a good job of keeping Ash's mother in the picture, so to speak, and maintaining that important child/parent connection.
Actually, there's something I've thought about for a while now. While it makes sense for the Pokemon brand to remain wholesome and family-oriented, I'm surprised, given how much of the fanbase for the series is probably 30+ at this point, that there's no attention paid to the 'life transition' aspect of the series. Pokemon, as a brand, has been a big part of a lot of people's lives from childhood. That, naturally, makes the brand one that possesses an exceptional amount of emotional clout for people. Why not, to some extent, produce some Pokemon media that highlights and (for lack of a better word) exploits this? What better way to play on the emotions of your consumers than to mirror their own life developments in your fictional media? Imagine a Pokemon game or movie or something that highlights the development of a character from childhood, when they first leave on their Pokemon adventure, to middle age, as they grow into their lives, settle down, and seek to share the world of Pokemon with their own children. This needn't even be the primary focus of whatever the piece of media happens to be, but they could maintain their child-oriented focus while connecting with their older fans in a powerful way. The brand is uniquely situated in such a way that it'd be perfect for this sort of thing, considering it'll be popular with both children today AND the children of yesteryear (who are now adults and parents), mirroring the central role Pokemon and the Pokemon Journey in that society.
Just rambling. Don't mind me. How old are your children, if you don't mind me asking?
That's true... except like the first two grunts you meet are up to no good and as it turns out none of them believed the cause aside from N right?
I really don't remember though if that's the case but I definitely agree there should've been a team like that in the series. To me I think it's more of a missed opportunity, the reveal could've been done much better.
They've always struck me as, in real world terms, a mix between Peta and Antifa, at least on the ground level. Like Peta, you have the radical commitment to changing how humans and animals (Pokemon) live and relate to one-another. Like Antifa, you have mostly younger people who feel like they're defending a moral cause, but that gets lost a bit as violence, questionable methods, and abuse of power get mixed into the fray.
Of course, I'm also operating on a decade old memory, so I could very well be wrong, but that's the impression I got from talking to various characters. I think most of the people on the ground probably genuinely believed in Plasma's cause of liberating Pokemon. The Bulbapedia wiki page on the team even specifically says that Ghetsis "exploited" the group toward his own ends, which, again, implies that the group wasn't originally corrupt, and that most of the people on the ground who were kept out of the loop probably meant well.
But, yeah, the entire Team Plasma storyline could absolutely have done better. But, as much as I like the series, the storytelling bar is pretty low overall, so I feel like Team Plasma brought something unique to the series, and were compelling in a way that the cartoon villains of other games never were.
My poor 2DS is never getting any new games at this rate lol ... It's kinda neglected.
I can't sympathize. The 3DS has one of my all-time favorite game libraries, so I frequently find myself returning to it and playing smaller games that I never fully completed in the past (I'm actually almost done with Box-Boy, as a matter of fact), along with bigger games that I never picked up at the time.
Even having sold off a large chunk of my library in the past, I still own 50+ retail games and 100+ pieces of digital-only software (way more if you include VC releases). And there are still many, many games I want to buy for it.
I'll agree to R/B/Y having the best starters... But I'd have to give Hoenn second and then probably Kalos actually. I think I'm the only one who doesn't think Delphox's design sucks... I like the robe like fur and weird ear tufts 😅
Fennekin's evolutionary line is one of the best in the series. Braixen is VERY cute, and Delphox has a powerful, wizardy sort of look to it. I confess I can't stand Greninja, though, despite really liking Froakie. Chespin is cute, but its final evolutionary form is so different that it looks like it evolved from an entirely different type of Pokemon.
The best Pokemon from X/Y is Sylveon, though. That design is SO cute, and once it learns Moonblast, you can basically destroy anything in your path.
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