Raichu fans, rise up!

This is genuinely one of the most rancid, thoughtless articles in the history of the AV Club. It is antithetical to what this website used to be. G/O Media should do us a favor and shut the whole fucking thing down.

Pokemon X? That’s 10 years old.

Incoming response from the dregs of the world:

I wish 2 hours of this was flying manually to the end of the game, and then 59 min of dialog sandwiched around 1 min actual gameplay.

I guarantee that the fact that the seller was black was a major factor in the asshole turning him in lmao.

And yup, dude is already responding to random comments on this article.

Yup.

Sounds like a problem for the giant corporation, not random internet narcs.

This was my thought too. What an absolute dork

He’s so smug and proud it’s honestly pathetic. People like this are just so intensely lame. 

“I am now a pariah of that subreddit,” Adkins wrote in his initial email. “I get it, hype and excitement are at an all-time high. I’m just as excited as the next person, but I draw the line at theft. I was raised to believe that crime doesn’t pay. I had hoped our society, and so-called Bethesda fans could be held to…

Thank you, their post was foolish, and it just seems like they don’t realize you need hundreds of dollars of equipment and games in order to be competitive in the current system. Now maybe if we could get all the mons from Scarlet and violet, it would be one thing, but currently it’s crazy that they can demand you get…

The rules also prohibit competing naked, but if you did so that isn’t cheating. At best, you could argue that it’s unsportsmanlike conduct, but it isn’t cheating if it doesn’t give you an advantage.

Cheating would be manipulating the RNG seed so your Fissure always hits. Because hacked pokemon perform identically to caught/bred pokemon, this is only eliminating grind that has nothing to do with the competition.

Why not just require that ALL Pokemon on the teams be generated with a specific set of stats.  Then you check before the competition and if any of the values are different than what they should be you know something is wrong rather than having to analyze a bunch of different factors to try and guess “did someone get…

Wait... are you complaining that a CRPG looks like CRPG?