Pokémaniacal

One lunatic's love-hate relationship with the Pokémon franchise, and his addled musings on its rights, wrongs, ins and outs. Come one, come all, and indulge my delusions of grandeur as I inflict my opinions on anyone within shouting distance.

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M asks:

Chris it’s been another year are you okay? have the children eaten you yet? the rites are underway and my ascension nears; the casualties ha

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hugh_donnetono asks:

chris it’s been a year are you ok yeah

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Pokémon Portugal Version: Still Red Though

well, this is simply unacceptable; those flags are flying in direct defiance of my command. I’m gonna go beat these guys up. I don’t suppose

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I SUCCEED in Convincing ChatGPT to Write Me a Recipe for Cooking and Eating Sylveon

As we just saw, ChatGPT is extremely reluctant to produce a piece of writing that contravenes its ethical programming. But as far as I can t

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I Try to Convince ChatGPT to Write Me a Recipe for Cooking and Eating Sylveon

This is the unaltered transcript of me trying to convince the language AI ChatGPT that it should write a recipe for me to submit to next wee

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Pokémon Spain Version: About 700 nm

Let’s move; we’ve got gyms to steal and titans to eat, or something. Apparently we can chat with the various Academy teachers outside of cla

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Pokémon Spain Version: Pokédex Roundup

As promised, here’s all additional the Pokémon I’ve met in Paldea since my first post about Scarlet. So, it’s sort of a grasshopper.  Have w

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Pokémon Spain Version: Even More Red

Artazon seems nice.  “Picturesque,” I think is the word.  Flowers, a windmill, pretty little houses, sunflowers, and lots of weird sculpture

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the time of prophecy is upon us

The old year is dead, and the new is being born, so – in accordance with my usual custom – I shall now briefly rend asunder the forbidden ve

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Pokémon Spain Version: Redness Intensifies

I went to school and now I have a bunch of characters and plot stuff to talk about – first among them, this chick. Nemona introduces her sim

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Pokémon Spain Version: The Red One

It is on, as the saying goes, in a manner not dissimilar to classic 1981 Nintendo arcade game Donkey Kong Here be spoil- oh, who am I kidding, you all played this game weeks ago; you don’t gi…

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I know it has been over 5 years since you’ve worked on Memoirs, would you ever plan on writing something like that again? I loved it so much, and wanted to know if you had any more work to re…

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Do you think it’s awesome that Landorus-Therian is the best Pokemon in standard competitive singles? I do. I mean, broadly, no, not really; as a top-level design and worldbuilding principle I…

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Conjuring Abominations for Fun and Profit

My life is conspicuously failing to make sense right now, so let’s talk about what I’ve been doing to stave off the encroaching despair marshalled against me by the tendrils of the Endless Void: cr…

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I’ve got a Kantonian Gyarados pointed at your head and I compel you to make a regional form of Gyarados that’s a Dragon-type, with a capital D. I permit any historical, cultural, or myt…

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how much damage does quick blow do? six

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Any updates on the advanced kingslocke rules? Well, I was going to finish that test run of Heart Gold before publishing them, and I didn’t mean to have a very long break before starting the Kanto s…