Also remember there is no breeding in this game so for the mons you want to use catching many is the only way to get a good nature. IV are also gone and every mon can max all EV there is no cap. So really only thing that matters is size for looks and Nature for stats.

Yep.  For Pokemon you actually use in your party, this will likely be how you get most of your research levels.  For Pokemon with only one (like legendaries) using moves is about the only research you can do.

“Easy tips”... Provides one tip that the game already gave you.

The tasks for seeing a pokemon use a move are SUPER clearly intended to be earned by using the moves yourself.  It's also worth noting that the tasks with the red arrows are worth 2 levels and 20 research points (as opposed to the normal tasks that are each worth 1 level and 10 research points).  Since catching is…

He's not wrong.  It’s great for blowing off steam, and it’s even more fun with a partner.

Congratulations on buying a son for Christmas! Did you get a black Friday deal or did you pay retail? Asking for a friend.

That post-nut clarity must be all the more depressing with the extra steps of removing a giant device attached to your face.

I would disagree. QA, if done right, needs understanding of coding and game mechanics. In the last game company I was working, QA also started out as the department that “always played the newest games, found bugs and reported them back to the game teams”. In short, the devs hated QA, QA laughed about the devs having…

Great news! And now, that familiar kabuki theater. The company will refuse to voluntarily recognize the union, instead forcing an NSRB vote because it “respects the democratic process” or some toss. About five to six months from now, the vote will go through with an overwhelming majority vote. But in the interim,…

I mean, even if the game is not great to play, it is a great excuse to gamify going out and walking around. I live in a rather populous downtown area, so there is a ton of stops and gyms, which allows me to make a few laps around the block, get my steps in for exercise reasons, and trick my brain into thinking I’m…

All of this hand wringing about what’s going to happen is silly. I guess there’s some weird expectation that Microsoft is going to somehow fire Kotick, purge upper management at Activision and Blizzard, “fix” all of the shit going down there, and install a brand new fresh-faced management team...two days after the…

It’s hard to believe that an executive at one of the largest tech companies in the world isn’t familiar with the basics of how collective bargaining works.

This is... not how the IT industry works. You don’t just let a bug run rampant to “collect data.” You shut it down and collect data in-house. They have plenty of testers and devs that can reproduce the bug on internal builds that aren’t available to the public.

“Is nice that a single person benefitted from something and they immediately batten down the hatches”

But Palkia will still look dumb no matter what

the typhlosion in particular will have some kind of fire coming out of it (somehow) in game. effects like fire/smoke aren’t shown on the leaked models.

Oh, and the new “force of nature:”

Meanwhile Dialga is just...

Most pokemon leaks look bad because it’s just the raw models doing the equivalent of a t-pose. They *usually* look better in motion, where you can get of sense of their personality and whatnot.

Therapist: Centaur Palkia isn’t real, it can’t hurt you.