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mark @aftermark.bsky.social · Jun 2

Joined friends in a bowling league this year and part of the fees paid for a custom ball. Had to do it

Bowling ball of a wizard pondering his orb

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I almost went back and did these for completion’s sake before the ZA release, but you’re making me feel vindicated for skipping

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I remember really liking the puzzle-style purification process. Especially when you got to the end and had to make a giant display of all the Pokemon you’d saved for shadow lugia

mark @aftermark.bsky.social · 1h

Poor lil gal. If you ever want to fix that, I think the battery replacement on GB carts is actually pretty simple

mark @aftermark.bsky.social · 4h

Watched that yesterday! Made me very happy I only played the much less tedious Gale of Darkness

mark @aftermark.bsky.social · 5h

Nice

mark @aftermark.bsky.social · 9h

Amnesia is a terrible move for Pikachu because of its terrible bulk. In the following hour long competitive guide I will

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mark @aftermark.bsky.social · 9h

To their credit, they do seem to have put more time and effort into Palworld than any previous offering. I playing Craftopia on Gamepass years back and it was pure asset-flip trash. It’s also funny that them and Gamefreak have competing farming sims on the way.

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mark @aftermark.bsky.social · 10h

Probably the last thing I'll do in Scarlet before ZA releases - Finally getting all three of the ghoul boys together

Gholdengo and both forms of Gimmighoul in Pokemon Scarlet

mark @aftermark.bsky.social · 10h

Your argument here is very similar to telling Harry Potter fans "Please read a different book" - In that it's good and correct.

mark @aftermark.bsky.social · 10h

When I see people saying Palworld did "what pokemon couldn't" or imply it's what "pokemon should have been", I'm convinced they've never played a Pokemon game, Palworld, or possibly any video game in their lives.

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mark @aftermark.bsky.social · 10h

I remember getting tricked when they initially made that claim about all Windows 11 devices

mark @aftermark.bsky.social · 23h

Vanillish and Bisharp

mark @aftermark.bsky.social · 1d

Also gave it to this dog just to be funny

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

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mark @aftermark.bsky.social · 1d

Forgot that until a started a nostalgia run of Red and pulled a haggard, bleeding pikachu out of "Somebody's Box"

mark @aftermark.bsky.social · 1d

Nintendo testing the waters with "Mario Run" was the death knell, I think. They put out a $10 mobile game and nobody bought it because mobile games even at that point had already moved into the "freemium" model.

mark @aftermark.bsky.social · 1d

I think you're onto something, but I also think the rise of phone games is what actually killed dedicated portable gaming

mark @aftermark.bsky.social · 1d

For what they're worth, initial reviews seem solidly in the "8" range

mark @aftermark.bsky.social · 1d

I remember lots of claims that Palworld accomplished all this, then I played it and it was just ARK with a pokemon mod

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mark @aftermark.bsky.social · 1d

They even seem to have settled into a grove where the main series releases have kids and the Legends games have older teens. Can't make some people happy though.

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mark @aftermark.bsky.social · 1d

Enjoying it on 3DS. Gen 3 combat (with the added physical/special split), gen 2 visuals, and a Pokédex that reaches all the way up to gen 9.

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mark @aftermark.bsky.social · 1d

I enjoyed the very different exploration of both Arceus (except for the damned Spiritomb hunt) and S/V. After 9 generations of big worlds to explore though, I'm fine with them doing something different. Heck, it's already been leaked that we have at least two more big open games on the way.

mark @aftermark.bsky.social · 1d

Assuming the schedule is completely inflexible (and with the anime/card game/merch/spin-offs all being tied in it really is) the best solution I see would be to run A/B teams. They already partially do this by outsourcing the remakes of older games.