General Chat: Yeah, no. I'm still your benevolent neighborhood deity.

...ok that is funny but

how did you put your signature on top of your avatar

Yeah, I'm wondering about that too. Did you just pour CSS selectors all over your profile or something?

I want type chart rejigs FAR before I want new types. Like, I have no attachment to new types, so I don't care if I don't see them in forever. What I dislike is the inequality between types - I know we've had this conversation several times, so I won't start it. But a new adjustment I've considered since playing RBY again:

Remove Steel's resistance to Normal types.

This is actually a boon for Rock types! First, Steel is defensively OP. Yes, it was nerfed (sort of), but it's still leagues the best defensive type by A LOT. Normal types, meanwhile, suck. Yeah Lopunny does work (thanks to scrappy and a cool moveset tho) and Chansey is neat (not because of it's typing though) and Kanga is borked (because of its ability, and in spite of its typing) but Normal types largely stink. Normal coverage also sucks (despite Water/Normal being kinda okay, there are a million better ones.)

Contrast gen 1! Normal was the type you use to hit things neutrally. It's the classic "base" type and it had a real niche. Likewise, Rock types in Rhydon and Golem were actually USEFUL because they defensively put in work against the hard to wall Normal types.

Enter steels, which were OP for a bazillion reasons, made Normals a liability and overshadowed the Rock niche by miles (and actually eradicated it) as well as being SE against it (salt in the wound!).

So yeah, remove the Steel resist to Normal. It'd be a small change that noone would really miss (since nothing is weak to normal it means no new 4x weaknesses) but it would have a great impact on the game.

Doublepost because my last post took a while.

Me after the KOTANNOUNCEMENT:

Hot damn. iT is serious detectorativatory business.
I hope I haven't said anything incriminating...
Uhh. Poor OJ. And/or poor Kotakun? Umm. This is sort of really embarrassing even at a second-hand level so I'm gonna pretend nothing is remotely wrong.

that's... exactly what I was referring to, but I didn't spot Kotaception's post which... is actually really funny. So. Yeah. Talk about the long con! *googles username*

OH SHIT YEAH TINNING,
So, like, a few pages ago, not all that long ago really, iT became a detective and discovered that Kotakun, the nebulous internet force, was actually Kieros, the MSPAF moderator (not the one that shut down the thread). It was a really good and really...really...confusing discovery and prompted my AMA thread. Also OJ likes kotakun but doesn't like kieros which is funny and sad and kinda cringey but also funny.

/recap

So dissapointed that samurott wasn't a water/ fighting, it used a feckin' sword for crying out loud, and they were named after a samurai. Which i admit isn't hand to hand fighting, but i still think it fits better as fighting than emboar does.

Though I never noticed the gen V starters having the different inspirations of style, I definatly notice it now. I thought there had to have been something more to them, that's fun to know

Also, sorry if it's obvious, but what is anger inducing about that post I don't understand, i'm missing the context. Did kotakun out themself as keiros

aaaah why do my posts keep getting preempted by other people's posts ;-; check my edit

Heh I started writing that small post before iT, I just took a while to send it and kept getting new ones to read.

I didn't know there were 2 keirosi, those posts do ring a bell. I just assumed it was the keiros that closed the thread that we were talking about.