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Alastor Fearless Moderator Hero                    Since: 11-17-05 From: An apartment by DigiPen, Redmond, Washington Last post: 5907 days Last view: 5907 days |
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Alastor Fearless Moderator Hero Since: 11-17-05 From: An apartment by DigiPen, Redmond, Washington Last post: 5907 days Last view: 5907 days |
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Alastor Fearless Moderator Hero Since: 11-17-05 From: An apartment by DigiPen, Redmond, Washington Last post: 5907 days Last view: 5907 days |
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| Ha ha ha ha ha... You all already know what I have to say about GSC so I'll just give a quick summary for those who haven't been around and move on. I think it sucks, 'cause I'm not interested in any of the novelties and only care about the battle system... And Gold/Crystal's high-level battles were absurdly boring. I think Advance > GSC > RBY in terms of strategic depth, but I prefer RBY to GSC because it's many times less boring.
And grey, I must say though that Groudon is the awesomest legendary ever. All that said, I am quite excited about everything Diamon and Pearl are offering. I'm looking at news and everything. This is going to rule  (edited by Alastor the Stylish on 09-27-06 01:58 PM) |
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Alastor Fearless Moderator Hero Since: 11-17-05 From: An apartment by DigiPen, Redmond, Washington Last post: 5907 days Last view: 5907 days |
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| Dogpile is better. | |||
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Alastor Fearless Moderator Hero Since: 11-17-05 From: An apartment by DigiPen, Redmond, Washington Last post: 5907 days Last view: 5907 days |
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| While you guys are arguing, I might as well chip in and say that the effort value system put in place by RSE is leaps and bounds better than that of RBY and GSC. In RBY and GSC you could max everything out at +100, and what you got in each stat out of that was determined by base stats I'm pretty sure, while in RSE you actually have to think, because you can put anything up to 255 but you can only go to 510 in total (and each stat gets 1/4 what you put into it, unless it's affected by personality in which case the personality modifier is applied afterward.)
Since all the moves and such are equally affected by the RNG and the IVs are basically the old DV system with a little less than twice the entries, the only additional things added affected by RNG are which personality you get and in some cases which trait you get. In the long run, personalities and traits don't matter too much unless you happen to get a set that actively works against you, but this is balanced by the fact that more often than not you get a set you can work with. Any boost gotten by tedious work for hours on each thing is going to be pretty marginal. Therefore, the RNG plays much less of a result in the end than it did previously. There are also a few things removed from GSC which were entirely luck-based (lol berserk gene). It's also been revamped quite a bit and is more random than it used to be. This last part in particular leads me toward one of two conclusions. 1. HyperHacker thinks that the RNG is faulty because he is somehow under the impression that random results should be evenly distributed in small numbers of tests. 2. HyperHacker is terribly biased and is simply looking for fault where there is none. |
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Alastor Fearless Moderator Hero Since: 11-17-05 From: An apartment by DigiPen, Redmond, Washington Last post: 5907 days Last view: 5907 days |
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| Uh... Yeah. I tried to hand it in today, but Professor Weinless said that if I hand it in early he's bound to lose it.
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Alastor Fearless Moderator Hero  Since: 11-17-05 From: An apartment by DigiPen, Redmond, Washington Last post: 5907 days Last view: 5907 days |
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| years old != birthdays passed
Also, who's trying to be funny? I'm dead serious on this. I can take a picture. And the date being off was pointed out when it was handed out. He definitely knows about that and was just being a horrible person when I tried to hand it in (edited by Alastor the Stylish on 09-27-06 10:49 PM) (edited by Alastor the Stylish on 09-27-06 10:49 PM) |
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Alastor Fearless Moderator Hero Since: 11-17-05 From: An apartment by DigiPen, Redmond, Washington Last post: 5907 days Last view: 5907 days |
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Originally posted by HyperHackerClaydol - Yeah, because every psychic type in previous games definitely looked like it was psychic. Seriously, it does look like it's levitating to me. Beldum - You've gotta be kidding me. If you can't tell that thing is made out of metal, you are blind. Whiscash and Swampert look about 50 billion times more water/ground than Quagsire. Gulpin: Granted. Koffing: Right. It being immune to ground is flying is annoying, and that's bad, and no element in RBY and GSC was even the slightest bit annoying. Numel: Clearly volcanic. Volcanos are fire. Just because it's subtle doesn't make it not well-designed. Jirachi - Once again, clearly made out of metal. Poochyena: Dark coloration = dark. Okay, Gulpin doesn't look particularly like a poison-type. I'll grant you that. But there are just way too many things that don't look exactly like they're the type they are in RBY and especially in GSC for me to particularly care about this. Originally posted by HyperHackerHeadphones. Originally posted by HyperHackerNo, I believe you missed my point. There are more times random numbers do not need to be generated, and when they are the RNG system is much better. Your cases seem to be simply because random numbers are rarely distributed evenly through small samples. Your specific cases are not really the game's fault. Wild pokemon have uneven appearance rates; In many cases you are going to encounter the same things over and over. This is very much present in RBY and GSC. Just try catching a Pikachu in Viridian Forest without running into Weedle/Caterpie at least 15 times. As for the move things, if you don't want to miss, use more accurate moves. It's just that simple. I'm betting missing six times in a row only happened once or twice, unless you're using things like Sing, Thunder, or worse, one hit KOs. It's fairly likely for anything without perfect accuracy to have strings of misses if it's used long enough. (edited by Alastor the Stylish on 09-27-06 11:32 PM) |
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Alastor Fearless Moderator Hero Since: 11-17-05 From: An apartment by DigiPen, Redmond, Washington Last post: 5907 days Last view: 5907 days |
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| That's not the part that amuses me. The part that amuses me is my professor's reaction to me trying to hand it in early in tandem with the specified date. | |||
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Alastor Fearless Moderator Hero Since: 11-17-05 From: An apartment by DigiPen, Redmond, Washington Last post: 5907 days Last view: 5907 days |
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Originally posted by HyperHackerCan you name five that did? Because plastic and clay definitely shine and look metallic. Quagsire is the other water/ground. I am illustrating the point that you cannot single out Advance in this matter. You clearly implied it. Perhaps you should look at Numel more. Specifically look at the hole on the top. Just because it's not silver doesn't make it not metallic. It has a reflective tint to it that clearly indicates metal. See Scizor for example. Yeah. Dark ones. Like Houndoom. And Umbreon. And Murkrow. But not Tyranitar. Things from RBY in GSC and Advance had color. As for typeguessing, if you really want me to list things from GSC that didnt look like their type... And note that I'm overlooking much more than you were... Natu doesn't look Psychic. Sudowoodo definitely doesn't look Rock. Aipom doesn't look Normal. Wooper doesn't look Ground. Quagsire doesn't look Ground. Slowking doesn't look Psychic. Unown doesn't look Psychic. Wobbuffet doesn't look Psychic. (First time I saw this, I thought it was part of the Quagsire line.) Girafarig doesn't look Psychic. Pineco doesn't look Bug. Forretress doesn't look Bug. Dunsparce doesn't look Normal. Gligar doesn't look Ground. Sneasel doesn't look Ice. Swinub doesn't look Ice/Ground. Piloswine doesn't look Ice/Ground. Houndour doesn't look Fire. Houndoom doesn't look Fire. Phanpy doesn't look Ground. Smoochum doesn't look Ice/Psychic. Entei doesn't look Fire. Larvitar doesn't look Rock/Ground. Pupitar doesn't look Rock/Ground. Tyranitar doesn't look Rock/Dark. Lugia doesn't look Psychic. Ho-oh doesn't look Fire. That's over 1/4 of them. And I could've gotten at least half of them if I wanted to be as anal as you were over crap like Numel. Okay, headphones are these funny-looking things and you wear them on your head and they make things that come out of crappy GBA speakers sound much better. No it's not. Blatantly wrong, as shown by the fact that you are the only one experiencing this. (edited by Alastor the Stylish on 09-27-06 11:55 PM) |
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Alastor Fearless Moderator Hero Since: 11-17-05 From: An apartment by DigiPen, Redmond, Washington Last post: 5907 days Last view: 5907 days |
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Originally posted by rubixcuberI do not specifically see what is wrong with relying on five services instead of one service. Google does a lot of things that I use, like gmail and such. But for searches, I find Dogpile gets me more good topical results. |
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Alastor Fearless Moderator Hero Since: 11-17-05 From: An apartment by DigiPen, Redmond, Washington Last post: 5907 days Last view: 5907 days |
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| Any particular reason why you think you are deserving of this second chance? | |||
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Alastor Fearless Moderator Hero Since: 11-17-05 From: An apartment by DigiPen, Redmond, Washington Last post: 5907 days Last view: 5907 days |
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Originally posted by Fire Trapsteryou killed the joke. The joke was fine, and then you walked up and you murdered its heart out. |
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Alastor Fearless Moderator Hero Since: 11-17-05 From: An apartment by DigiPen, Redmond, Washington Last post: 5907 days Last view: 5907 days |
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Originally posted by neotransotakuNothing even slightly mainstream uses a 5-bit system! |
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Alastor Fearless Moderator Hero Since: 11-17-05 From: An apartment by DigiPen, Redmond, Washington Last post: 5907 days Last view: 5907 days |
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Nooo, don't give them away, then I won't be unique  |
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Alastor Fearless Moderator Hero Since: 11-17-05 From: An apartment by DigiPen, Redmond, Washington Last post: 5907 days Last view: 5907 days |
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| Episode 11 is the best one yet. | |||
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Alastor Fearless Moderator Hero Since: 11-17-05 From: An apartment by DigiPen, Redmond, Washington Last post: 5907 days Last view: 5907 days |
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That wasn't even close to the funniest part  |
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Alastor Fearless Moderator Hero Since: 11-17-05 From: An apartment by DigiPen, Redmond, Washington Last post: 5907 days Last view: 5907 days |
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| Not all of them don't care
I have them all visible, as I do tend to read through every forum from time to time. |
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Alastor Fearless Moderator Hero Since: 11-17-05 From: An apartment by DigiPen, Redmond, Washington Last post: 5907 days Last view: 5907 days |
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| I haven't had a real nightmare in a long, long time. If something really bizarre or nightmare happens, my first response in dreams is to think "Oh, this is clearly a dream." And then I am god.
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Alastor Fearless Moderator Hero Since: 11-17-05 From: An apartment by DigiPen, Redmond, Washington Last post: 5907 days Last view: 5907 days |
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| No A in last place, obviously. |
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