On the Website Formerly Known as Twitter, it’s common to spell his name wrong so fanboys who search his name and harass anyone who has anything less than kind to say about him won’t find your posts. The misspelling has since become a meme unto itself.

I think it’s because Nintendo wants to use Go to advertise the current games- remember, there was a similar controversy when they released some of the Galar Pokémon (including Zacian/Zamazenta) before doing anything from Alola that wasn’t a regional variant. So PoGo is sitting in an awkward spot, where its original…

Regigigas has gotten a few reprieves over the years, at least. In the generations it was introduced, it couldn’t learn Protect, which would have helped it stall out Slow Start. It’s worth mentioning too that Protect was a TM, and one that almost every other Pokémon could learn, so the snub was pretty clearly…

The only thing you can’t currently get easily are 0 IVs, which are ideal in certain scenarios- some strategies revolve around having as low of a speed as possible, and on a pure Special Attacker a 0 Attack IV is optimal to reduce Foul Play damage. Once you get a couple of Ditto with the relevant 0 IVs, then breeding…

That’s entirely possible! I do think it still poses a question of how that translates into sales, though. If we can assume that removing the human element means samples converted into a sale but also an overall increase in samples taken, then whether or not this is good or bad for sales is still up in the air.

I always assumed that at least one aspect of free samples was having a real person there made you feel vaguely guilt-tripped into buying it after commenting on how good it is.

Grusha is male. This was confirmed shortly after he was revealed by the official Pokémon twitter account.

Slight issue with this bit from Grusha’s card:

I’m surprised I haven’t seen this point brought up more. I went to make a Threads account earlier only to find I couldn’t do it on desktop, and I really don’t like that.

I imagine they’ll patch up the script at least in a few places- no way are they not changing Toadstool to Peach, for example. They might clean up some translation issues, like the NokNok Shell, but I do hope that the script stays mostly intact. I also wonder if they’ll still imply that Mario tries to punch a child in…

They support a Steam Deck docking station that can connect to an external display, and I suspect that they don’t want to release any self-competing hardware that extends beyond that.

Metronome is a TM in Scarlet/Violet, able to be learned by a number of Pokémon. Unless one of the submitted Pokémon can’t learn it normally, there’s no reason a full team of Pokémon knowing only Metronome would be assumed to be hacked. It was clearly a coordinated protest, yes, and that’s why they were banned- but I…

Say what you will about the Pokémon itself, that Mr. Mime art of invisible chess in the park is brilliant. 

Once I unlocked the towing harness, I found my horse to be incredibly useful for the Korok reunion quests that don’t require much vertical movement. You don’t even need to build a cart, you can just attach the Korok to the towing harness and drag it along behind you. It’s far and away the most efficient way to move…

A correction on Sabrina’s entry- Psychic isn’t weak to Ghost in the first generation games. It was supposed to be, based on the type chart and other media, but due to a programming error Psychic is actually immune to Ghost attacks.

There are two types of animals in Disney canon: “Real” and “Domesticated”. Real animals are the ones like Pluto, who are more or less indistinguishable from their non-cartoon counterparts. Domesticated animals are ones like Goofy, who are more anthropomorphized (bipedal, wear clothes, speak English).

I’m convinced people’s views on Tom Nook are based on whether or not they played the original AC first as opposed to one of the sequels. Because the biggest difference between the original and later games as far as Tom Nook is concerned is the direct contradiction between what you wrote and the quote from the article-…

That was my first thought too- Goku with a gun feels more like a downgrade than anything.

Eh. They’re good in some parts, not so great in others. Aang is ridiculously out of character in The Promise; and The Search has some retcons I’m not a fan of. (For example, a late season 3 episode humanizes Ozai and his family, with Zuko speaking fondly of their time at the beach house and how they could have been a…

Spiritomb is 108 in its regional dex, which is a significant number in Buddhism and shows up both in its dex entries and base stats (plus the fact that in Legends, it’s been split into 108 wisps that the player must collect).