It would be really cool if Game Freak actually adopted Nuzlock mode and make it into their own thing. I could see them renaming it "hard mode" or "challenge mode." It would add more value to the game, and make it easier to keep track of the rules.

It's not ignoring anything to admit that people are more than their sexuality

But books are ultimately written by an author. The inclusion or exclusion of queer characters is a conscious choice.

This post is really directed more at this thread than you, but I thought I'd reply to your post first since you mentioned one of my hated tropes, the Word of Gay.

I don't get why Rowling's books specifically get a pass on the requirement to do actual artistic legwork and include things in the writing, and comments such as these discuss them as if all J.K. Rowling is doing is describing a world that already exists and is populated. She created it, and she populated it — so you…

I think there *should* be a certain disapproval of same-sex relationships among the pureblood wizarding class, if only to discourage relationships that wouldn't result in a pureblood child. But maybe it's allowed if the heir has already done their duty.

The lack of LGBT representation means there were no LGBT characters. This isn't a documentary of real people - the characters represented in the book are what is in the story. They don't have lives beyond the page - what is represented is what we have, and what was represented was a whole lot of cis, straight people.

She specifically straight-washed Dumbledore. Or just forgot to elaborate on the most important relationship in his backstory, while pretty much every other major and minor character had their heterosexuality confirmed.

I feel like this is a cop-out. I mean, you could say the same thing about Middle Earth. "Oh, sure. There were tons of LGBT characters. You just never see them!"

There were no LGBT students there - this is one thing I hate, Word of Gay from an author. We saw no LGBT people in the books, there were no LGBT characters there - retconning in a hypothetical LGBT character is a terrible cop-out. I'm assuming that JK Rowling's straight, cisgender privilege stopped her INCLUDING any…

Seems like it would save them both time and money to just get it right the first time.

This game has been around for literally years and it's abandonware, so...

Same shit happened in the card game. On average, the power of individual pokemon has basically doubled. Not that it matters, because EX cards are all anyone uses now anyway. We play without EX cards in our games because they're so stupidly OP (and the two prize cards you get as a reward don't remotely balance them).

Do players normally compete with legendaries? I, as a rule, box all of them and ignore them competitively.

There are a few Megas that don't really seem worth the effort, since you can get more use out of them in their default form with a good held item, but I feel like forcing them to hold their megastone was overall a good balance to the system. This is actually kind of upsetting to me... I'm not a competitive player and…

But, more importantly, if you're playing Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, chances are good you're going to capture Rayquaza. And if you've been happily using Mega Rayquaza this entire time, now you know why he seems to sweep through every poor Pokémon that gets in his way. No wonder the ancient peoples of Hoenn prayed…

any person with dark skin.... so only black people get unfair treatment, gay, native american, women, disabled ( to name a few) get fair treatment?

People should be angry.

One tip, Dusk Balls have a higher success rate than Ultra Balls if it's night time or if you're in a cave.

I'm sure he was talking about that "Gamergate" nonsense, but what he's describing is basically the Internet, every day, everywhere.