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  • I have never played platinum, but from what I gathered it is significantly improved compared to Pearl/Diamond. Those are really painful to play.

    They’re really clunky and repetitve, but the worst part is mon distribution. There are barely any fire types in the games, to the point the Fire-Type elite 4 has only 2 in his 5 mon team. And one of them is the evolved fire starter. There is literally no other fire type obtainable at that point.

    They decided to keep most of the diversity in the post game (lots of old species that get a new evolution mostly) so until you get there it feels like you’re meeting the same twenty different pokémon over and over again.

    Bonus : Diamond has one dark-type easily accessible before psychic gym (which is already well into the game). Pearl doesn’t have any. Its only dark-type comes in very late game. It’s like nobody checked these games’ balance.



  • It was just me being very stubborn really.

    Technically I went a bit further since I got full Sun/Moon dex next (though if I remember correctly not Ultra, I was missing one or two of the new Ultra Beasts).

    It probably was just the right time really. The DS gens (4-5) are forever compatible because they just need local wifi to transfer. But 5 to 6 (and 6 to 7) need the pokémon bank and thus 3ds e-shop. I am not sure, but unless there is a third party way to do this, I believe that DS-3DS link would be broken today. And it’s probably too late to transfer them to Switch through… Pokémon Home? I think? Is that still a thing?

    And I did that right on time for that mythical pokémon distribution, because even in the past games they were only distributed in time-limited events. So I’d have no other way to get most of these.

    Except for Mew. Pokémon Ranch on the wii had a way to get a Mew if you had Diamond/Pearl and transferred ONE FREAKING THOUSAND POKÉMON from it. So, of course I did it, like an idiot.



  • Back on Gen 6 I organically filled a full dex (721 mons at the time) through a combination of Pearl, Black, X and Alpha Sapphire, with occasional exchanges with my sister who had the counterpart games. Also a few spin-off exports like Pokémon Ranger and Ranch.

    At that time there was a distribution for the mythical pokémon too, so with all that I had everything.

    After that I played through Gen 7 (Moon and Ultra Sun), and then completely lost interest when I learned the next gen wouldn’t even let you use mons that are not in its regional dex (and then the reports of terrible performance. 3DS was already barely tolerable).

    Of all I played, I’d say the most fun were Gen 5 (Black) and Alpha Sapphire. Pearl felt like a chore.


  • The second one is not really a way to check if it’s AI, only if it may be deceiving you, and the third one’s conclusion is not “yes” but “use responsibly”, like it’s in the power of the common person to even choose to use AI and like corporations aren’t the ones pushing it with no regard to impact anyway.

    The problem is those 3 questions are very vague and would need complex answers, and maybe the guy vould have been able to give these, but in any case they’re not in the article.





  • You can see how many upvotes and downvotes a comment has, and this one shows at 0 upvote, despite the fact you should automatically give yourself an upvote when you post. It’s possible to remove your self-upvote, if you want to for some reason.

    Though I think some instances hide downvotes in UI, so maybe you can only see the total? not sure.


  • Yeah, part of the usual “it’s not bad, you’re using it wrong” arsenal. Definitely not the clever hack they think it is.

    This probably has as much potential to create new errors as to find old ones. LLMs are trained to be “helpful”, if you tell it with total confidence something is wrong, it will answer like there is something to correct, and anything will do.

    So even if it had something about right to begin with, now it will thank you for your “insightful” question and output some bullshit to please you.


  • Still spoiler, obviously

    AoC is technically deviating from BotW right from the beginning, because the starter point is the time portal from the very beginning (that originated from Zelda’s prayer in the canon Hateno wall battle).

    It changes a lot right from the start. Thanks to the little guardian, the Sheika slate gets full power immediately and they get to unlock the towers and their teleport function. On the other side, Astor who is not known to have played any role after the prophecy in BotW gets a literal incarnation of his god to worship through the Malice infected guardian.

    And it has a huge effect before Hateno wall, since Astor uses that to betray the great Kohga IIRC.

    And it also makes Zelda’s progression arc a bit weird, because even before awakening, the powered-up slate makes her quite powerful.