Ish. I found three Charcadets with no boosts, and I still haven’t found a Happiny.

To be fair, Palafin is one of the least convoluted, and could pretty easily be done accidentally: have it gain a level above 38 while playing with someone else.

I’m all for reasonable critiques. But this feels incredibly petty.

If you’re playing Violet, your specific Charcadet evolution is essentially Fuecoco but faster and with more defense. You can get it as early as you can get to Zapapico to farm materials, about level 20-30. Which is EXTREMELY easy to get to, both in location and level. 

It’s f-ing glorious in my opinion. 

Ish. For the new mythicals, that’s fairly true. But as I said, only the concept of special evolution conditions itself is discussed. Which Pokemon require them, which of them can only be gotten under those conditions rather than finding in the wild, which of them have which special condition, or, as in the article, how…

So, I like the concept of these special evolutions. But what I don’t like is the implementation. More specifically, how you’re supposed to figure it out. Which seems to boil down to trial-and-error, knowledge from previous games, or turning away from the game and looking it up on the Internet.

Why the F, when our…

The least chill is trying to hunt for water Pokemon, and getting consistently torpedoed by rabid Veluza. Literally every other battle I have is a Veluza (or two) shooting in from off screen.

A bit. More like Liam Hemsworth. At the time, Booth’s brother Edwin was the bigger name, and Edwin unfortunately spent the rest of his life trying to escape the shadow of his now-infamous younger brother.

Very much so. But it’s also what Loki, Hawkeye, Wandavision, No Way Home, Black Widow, Eternals, almost the entire fourth Phase are about: “I don’t want to be a superhero, I want to live (or have lived) a different life; TOO BAD ASSHOLE, THAT DON’T WRITE CHECKS, NOW BE SAD ABOUT IT”.

Yeah, this feels like “we’ll fix it in post” crap, especially considering how smooth the two previous games were, and it’s not like they added a whole bunch of engine upgrades or anything. These are still cel-shaded creatures made of simple polygons. The models haven’t really been updated that much since even Sun and…

I agree with some of this. BUT:

So... am I going nuts? When did we start using the term “nepo baby” like it’s a thing? Did we really need to make the idea of nepotism “adowable”? Am I getting old? Am I a nepo baby if my parents granted me the privilege to think this was dumb at an early age?

Reversing the questions: do you think a quick 10 second aside on Twitter is something we should waste our time condemning as if it actually was the difference between a politician looking electable and not looking electable? Is your bar for rage so low that sniping on Twitter has become something to give two fucks…

Yes and no. It was about the desperate desire to put a low-stakes need (his relationship with Sophie) over the traditional high-stakes needs (the multiverse being ruled with an iron fist to avoid free will itself destroying all of reality).

What’s hilariously apt for the misdirection of the Marvel Universe is that it…

Because he has a lot of honest, completely straight faced game criticism as well, and people are allowed to be two things, and it’s not their fault they’re misinterpreted by people acting under pre-existing misconceptions about how to behave. It’s audiences that don’t want to be responsible for their own actions that…

“the best 3D Sonic since Sonic Adventure 2"

I think a big point of Deadwood is that they simply wouldn’t end up in those pens: the Duttons are heirs to the the legacy of George Hearst, or at least the fictional George Hearst of Deadwood.

Yep. It’s the most boringly cliched among us who think they’re the most cutting or witty. Dunning-Kruger and all that.

See, that narrative I can buy. It’s essentially an expansion of Truffaut’s “you can’t make an anti-war movie” quip. Which I appreciate in many ways, especially for Scorsese’s work: that critique’s been following him around since Taxi Driver.

On the other hand, while it’s not an especially slippery slope, I am reticent…