Planetes is so fucking good - up until episode 11, it’s just light-hearted workplace fluff, and awe about the grandeur of space. Then in punches you in the emotional gut and shifts the tone entirely, to harsh political commentary about the way that exploitation of the global south is the basis that new technologies are slotted into - that regardless of the technologies themselves, the relationship stays the same - and on the validity of armed terrorism as a response.
There’s been a poll bracket going on YouTube for a while now about who’s the coolest Pokemon Gym Leader and the 2 finalists make sense but put together are fucking hilarious
Yakuza boss vs Greg from Sprint Mobile who will win
Going back and playing Pokémon games from before the physical special split just fucks me up a little. What do you mean Thunderpunch exists in a game where all electric moves are special? What’s the point of it?
It makes Abra EXTREMELY good
Generally, I think the physical/special split is when Pokemon becomes much more enjoyable to play, but there are quirks to the old system that are interesting in their own way. Its such a love/hate relationship for me because it gives some pokemon FANTASTIC options for coverage and raw damage output in some cases, but in most others it just makes a large portion of the roster very difficult to use effectively.
Physical hyperbeam feels really good to use on a pokemon like Slaking, and Alakazam getting full access to all of the elemental punches using it’s incredible special attack stat is SO satisfying… but then you also have pokemon like Gyarados, who completely lack physical STAB outside of awful moves like bounce (which im not even sure it got until gen 4), or Gamefreak’s titular punching bag - Flareon -being doomed to near uselessness due to it’s stat spread + it’s typing… (Editor’s note: they still haven’t given Flareon a break LMAO).
I dunno where I was going with this. I think it just creates such a weird split between pokemon generations that most people don’t think about at all. The only region(s) that you can’t visit in a modern era with all the modern mechanics is Kanto, (if you don’t count HGSS’s truncated postgame visit or Let’s Go!’s lack of abilities and standard catching mechanics), or Orre - though Orre’s status as “Canon” to the mainline franchise is shaky at best. Kanto’s been done enough as-is, but I’m hoping some day, every region is featured with all the mainstay, modern mechanics and typings. Pipe dream, I know.
It’s so strange in retrospect because you’ve got Pokémon with high attack and miserable sp attack like Hitmonchan who end up having all their thematically appropriate coverage moves scale with their worst stat
In Gen 1-3 Hitmonchan has moved with “punch” in the name that don’t do any damage because of how the split works. It’s honestly kinda ridiculous.
And physical hyper beam felt great for a lot of pokemon in Gen 1, but once they removed the accidental-but-really-cool mechanic of removing the recharge turn if hyper beam kills, it became a lot worse. Which is a shame because the introduction of Giga Impact as the physical Hyper Beam replacement never actually saw use due to said recharge turn being detrimental. I know the meta would become significantly worse if they have some of the power creeped special sweepers of today access to 150 power moves that don’t punish you if you kill in the form of Hyper Beam, Giga Impact, Blast Burn, Frenzy Plant, and Hydro Cannon, but I still love the idea of that mechanic even if it was a total accident. Well whatever, at least Slaking can use it without issue. Okay I’m gonna stop typing here because I have jumped to a completely different topic at this point. Physical Special pre split is weird though
I don’t think a single pokemon suffered from the pre-split more than sneasel. Back in gen 2, both dark AND ice were special types, but sneasel is a physical attacker. Not only that, but its pool of coverage moves was extremely limited, so one of its best options was fucking slash.
It’s so weird that dark moves were special originally considering that there aren’t really that many special dark moves today
yeah im not sure why they made that decision. my guess is that since it was meant to be in opposition to psychic they wanted it to be similar, but then almost every dark type move introduced ended up becoming physical anyway
Going back and playing Pokémon games from before the physical special split just fucks me up a little. What do you mean Thunderpunch exists in a game where all electric moves are special? What’s the point of it?
It makes Abra EXTREMELY good
Generally, I think the physical/special split is when Pokemon becomes much more enjoyable to play, but there are quirks to the old system that are interesting in their own way. Its such a love/hate relationship for me because it gives some pokemon FANTASTIC options for coverage and raw damage output in some cases, but in most others it just makes a large portion of the roster very difficult to use effectively.
Physical hyperbeam feels really good to use on a pokemon like Slaking, and Alakazam getting full access to all of the elemental punches using it’s incredible special attack stat is SO satisfying… but then you also have pokemon like Gyarados, who completely lack physical STAB outside of awful moves like bounce (which im not even sure it got until gen 4), or Gamefreak’s titular punching bag - Flareon -being doomed to near uselessness due to it’s stat spread + it’s typing… (Editor’s note: they still haven’t given Flareon a break LMAO).
I dunno where I was going with this. I think it just creates such a weird split between pokemon generations that most people don’t think about at all. The only region(s) that you can’t visit in a modern era with all the modern mechanics is Kanto, (if you don’t count HGSS’s truncated postgame visit or Let’s Go!’s lack of abilities and standard catching mechanics), or Orre - though Orre’s status as “Canon” to the mainline franchise is shaky at best. Kanto’s been done enough as-is, but I’m hoping some day, every region is featured with all the mainstay, modern mechanics and typings. Pipe dream, I know.
It’s so strange in retrospect because you’ve got Pokémon with high attack and miserable sp attack like Hitmonchan who end up having all their thematically appropriate coverage moves scale with their worst stat
In Gen 1-3 Hitmonchan has moved with “punch” in the name that don’t do any damage because of how the split works. It’s honestly kinda ridiculous.
And physical hyper beam felt great for a lot of pokemon in Gen 1, but once they removed the accidental-but-really-cool mechanic of removing the recharge turn if hyper beam kills, it became a lot worse. Which is a shame because the introduction of Giga Impact as the physical Hyper Beam replacement never actually saw use due to said recharge turn being detrimental. I know the meta would become significantly worse if they have some of the power creeped special sweepers of today access to 150 power moves that don’t punish you if you kill in the form of Hyper Beam, Giga Impact, Blast Burn, Frenzy Plant, and Hydro Cannon, but I still love the idea of that mechanic even if it was a total accident. Well whatever, at least Slaking can use it without issue. Okay I’m gonna stop typing here because I have jumped to a completely different topic at this point. Physical Special pre split is weird though
I don’t think a single pokemon suffered from the pre-split more than sneasel. Back in gen 2, both dark AND ice were special types, but sneasel is a physical attacker. Not only that, but its pool of coverage moves was extremely limited, so one of its best options was fucking slash.
also greg is the most bisexual-coded cartoon dad ever
so greg you’re telling me your conservative family doesnt approve of your musical awakening coming from a naked gay icon in gnc/drag makeup and they want to send you to the military but you ran away and changed your name and ended up with a musical aesthetic best described as indie glam rock dad with a non-binary space alien gf instead? das crazy, tell me more about how straight you are
so embarrassing when i forget im checking someone’s blog and i start scrolling through and liking and reblogging shit as if it’s just my dash. it feels like wandering into someone else’s apartment and not noticing and making myself lunch
reblog if i can wander into your apartment (blog) and make myself lunch (like and reblog as if it’s my dash)
does anyone else have this thing where you cant stop yourself from scrolling even after you’ve gotten back to where you were previously on your dashboard?
