It’s a combined issue that began in Gen 6.

Not only do you have a much more powerful Exp. Share than you had in Gen 1 (when it was programmed incorrectly) or Gen 2-5 (where it only affected the Pokemon holding it, thus also losing a held-item slot for that Pokemon), but you also have opposing trainers with less Pokemon…

What do you mean, 3 gyms straight?

1st two were Brock and Misty. 3rd could be either Lt. Surge or Erika. Charmander (or Charmeleon or Charizard) could easily take out Erika as she used Grass-types, and it was neutral against Lt. Surge and his Electric types

It undoubtedly has made the Gen 6 and beyond games easier.

As other people have said, aside from Gen 1 (where it was called Exp.All and was intended to function as it does now, but like many things in Gen 1, was programmed incorrectly), from Gen 2 until Gen 5, it was a held item that only provided xp to the Pokemon…

To be fair, the Exp. Share has changed significantly since we were kids.

In Gen 1, it was called the Exp. All, and was supposed to have functioned as it does now, with the bug(s) that if you used multiple Pokemon, some of the gained experience ended up being lost, and if you had fainted Pokemon, their percentage would…

I have a simpler fix.

Have it be a toggle, and then have a trigger that activates whenever the game/system is restarted. When a player goes to load their save, if the Exp. Share was toggled off, it gives them the option to switch it back on before they reload the save. Adults and kids who want it off can keep it off,…

To play Devil’s Advocate, you haven’t been able to soft-lock in that manner since the original Diamond and Pearl. Even then, it requires a setup that no kid would accidentally do, least of all because it requires having a specific Pokemon traded to you from a prior game entry, amongst other things which a kid simply…

They actually had difficulty modes back during Black 2/White 2.

Granted, you had to use Unova Link to get each one (Challenge Mode required beating Black 2; Easy Mode required beating White 2), but once that was done, you had the options.

Makes absolutely no sense why they wouldn’t bring it back, especially since it’s…

I think Dave has a major blindspot (and maybe some cognitive dissonance) in that he still feels as though he’s the underdog and the rebel who went against Comedy Central/Viacom and stood up for himself even though it involved turning down a stupid sum of money, but he also has to contend with the fact that he’s…

As a black man, and a gay man, Dave’s wrong. There’s not more public outrage over negative language about the LGBT+ than it is about the black community. To say that is silly, especially because he’s provided no examples.

The Civil Rights protests of last year were fomented and buttressed by the murders of George…

The irony is all the greater in that he (along with people like Neal Brennan) were the one making the jokes. It wasn’t as though it was him, Neal, and a room full of Comedy Central/Viacom executives writing the material. The one thing he, as a comedian, has full control over is what comes out of his mouth. He cannot…

It’s tough.

Dave is in my top 3, but my God, he’s making it tough. And there’s also a salient reality that people forget about Dave: he wasn’t a stand-up superstar before Chappelle’s Show.

Yes, he had done specials before. Killing Them Softly was great, but it dropped in 1999, a full 4 years before the 1st season of…

To be truthful, Fleming described Bond as looking like Hoagy Carmichael, who was rail thin compared to Connery (who was an amature bodybuilder). I don’t think they particularly look similar (not to mention Connery had to wear a toupee), and Daniel Craig and Carmichael are about as dissimilar in looks as you can get.

Hon…

A few things.

1) If Dave was frustrated he lost gigs, did he forget that he’s...Dave-fucking-Chappelle? He has enough juice to where a cancelled gig in City A on Night B can easily be replaced with a gig in City B on Night C. Just like most of us, if we say some stupid shit at our jobs, we might end up being…

1) I’d answer that for many people, depending on your various group identifiers, it’s either very hard or very easy to tell when a comedian is making fun of you and your people, or trying to have people laugh at you, not with you, or whether they’re simply using the group as a sort of foundation for a joke. With Dave,…

It’s ironic that a person as rich and powerful as Dave Chapelle, who has gotten to that position because he’s talented at what he does and lives in a capitalist country that allows his talent to be paid handsomely, is framing the response from people as a “punishment”.

It’s not a punishment: it’s the free market at…

It’s interesting.

I know I’m biased because I’m a Florida boy and I love the 80s, so Vice City and the map instantly had me hooked.

Conversely, I enjoy Liberty City in IV, and don’t particularly care for either San Andreas or V, so I think for me, how I view the map is heavily influenced by the gameplay and story, not…

Yeah. That ending brought me straight to tears.

This.

As I responded to someone above, people can maintain and foster close, personal relationships with others in groups they are bigoted towards, with seemingly no cognitive dissonance. Plenty of white racists fathered children with black people. Plenty of Nazi’s lusted after Jewish people. Most misogynists, after…

I love Dave. He’s arguably my favorite comedian of all-time. I agree with your first point, in theory, however it doesn’t necessarily hold water in practice.

There’s a long and storied history of people in minority groups who receive preferential treatment by those in the majority and those in power, seemingly in spite…

BP2 might not lose money at the box office, but delays or shutdowns on a $300m+ production costs a fuckton of money that Disney/Marvel will have to either write-down, or recoup.

Tom Cruise is a loon, but he was absolutely right during his tirade when it came to mask wearing and vaccines. Shutting down a production not…