I’ve watched all of his specials, and I’ve had the privilege of seeing him live, back in 2014.

My points still stand.

In the sense that Pokemon has a rather simple gameplay loop, then yes, it’s a grind by definition, but not a “grind” as it’s colloquially used (meaning doing something you don’t necessarily want to do because it’s arguably the most efficient option available).

Take an MMO for example. The ostensible goal is to get to…

That’s the thing.

Pokemon has never been overly grindy. A normal, non-speed run of a Pokemon game, from start until beating the E4 and the Champion (or whatever derivation the specific game has) can be done in under 10 hours, easily. There are very few modern JRPGs that can be completed that fast, with the caveat that…

It’s all well and good that he’s against the Bathroom Bill, but it’s naive to think that being against a single reprehensible bill is indicative of advocacy for the rights and opportunities for the group as a whole.

It’s even more telling that the idea or the implication is coming from a black man like Dave, where he…

Maybe I’m misremembering or conflating something from a different show, but wasn’t there an episode where they put TVs in the headrests in a person’s car...and the person drove a 2-seater?

Yeah.

It involves having a Finneon be traded to you from Ruby and Sapphire, never picking up any fishing rod, teaching your Finneon Surf, then Surfing to a specific solitary island that has a single NPC that wants to trade his Magikarp for a Finneon.

Once you trade the Finneon, and save your game, you’re completely…

Allow me to step in, as a black man, and a gay man.

The vast majority of people aren’t aware that DaBaby shot and killed a man. In fact, fewer people know that the man had broken into DaBaby’s home, and DaBaby shot and killed the man in self-defense. He was charged, and the charges were dropped by the police because…

1) It can have an indirect effect on how overlevelled your active Pokemon get.

Without an Exp. Share, the only Pokemon who gets XP are those who participate in battle. Meaning you’re spending time switching out Pokemon who might not necessarily do anything in the battle to win. In fact, you probably don’t want them to…

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…