hahahaha bullshit. I know a few personally.

My gut instinct as a programmer is that it has something to do with loss of floating point precision with very large numbers. Minecraft has similarly strange things happen at great distances (used to be called the Far Lands where physics and terrain generation start to break really badly)

I can really only agree on one point — the Kanto portion of the game was underdeveloped compared to Johto, for sure — but I never really felt that was a bad thing either. Being able to visit Kanto was completely unexpected to begin with, and it feels more like just getting to revisit an old locale just for kicks. You…

Will just have to agree to disagree =)

This is likely where differences in our preferences come into play — I liked the starters from the first three gens quite a bit, but found almost all of the DP/BW starters to be completely unappealing.. Especially Infernape. To date it's one of my least favorite starters in the entire series. Could be that it was "oh…

Trudging through Diamond has definitely been the low point of the marathon my friends and I have been doing. Couldn't wait to just get it over with. =/

My problem is that I feel most of the D/P pokemon are poorly designed. They may have powerful movesets and good stats but it's irrelevant if their designs turn me off from using them. I will gladly choose a pokemon with an interesting design over one that's stronger.

RBY gets props for being the One That Started It All, if nothing else.

The starters from DPP and BW were easily the most underwhelming in the entire series. My friends and I have been coordinating our starters so we can breed/trade, and normally I'm rather particular about which one I pick, but for those two generations it's like...whatever, I don't like any of them so I'll probably…

I don't remotely agree with your statement here... I certainly don't think RSE is the BEST gen, per se, but it's far from the worst, even without nostalgia glasses.

No. Portrait video is stupid, unpleasant to watch, and needs to stop. =p

'LL' is the japanese version of 'XL'. They don't use X, they just add more Ls.

thanks for linking these. I've always been somewhat into trance and these sound awesome.

bah. I said 'Mickie M' up there, should be 'Mitchie M'. Dunno why I didn't catch that.

Well, Vocaloid is simply a software application with various voice banks available. What makes it different from regular voice synthesizers is that the creators have given a personality and character design to each voice module, which gives a face to each 'singer'.

Oh I'm well aware of all that. I've used the software myself in the past (just playing around with it) and I have enough of an understanding of language concepts and the vocaloid technology to know exactly *why* things don't usually sound natural. All of that said, there are many Japanese Vocaloid songs out there…

also holyshit I've been seeing the FL Studio synth electric guitar in a bunch of videos lately. Go FL!

It would have to have some pretty extensive vocal tuning done to be remotely presentable. The lyrics in Sharing Your World kinda work out in such a way that the awkwardness of English Vocaloid is masked a little bit, but this one is pretty blatant and makes me cringe a bit just listening to the verses. It also…

eh. doesn't always have the best examples to show, unfortunately. The problem with using a synthesizer is, unless you put in the extra effort to get it to sound natural, it will default to autotunish gibberish. There are some songs out there in which the artists put a lot of effort into manipulating phoneme formation,…

I want to find evidence of good songs produced using the english version, but all of these really aren't helping... the above examples are unfortunately all quite terrible. the second one sounds like a nice song but the english is still completely unintelligible. =/