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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Did they Arezu-ify Mars in the new #TCGP expansion? I swear Mars was much less cutesy than her Legends ancestor in DP. #pokemontcgp #pokemontcgpocket

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MrCheeze @mrcheeze.github.io · 01/01/2025

Do you know how Pokemon types being immune to status conditions work? There are *way* more inconsistencies between generations (and within them) than you'd expect.

Notes from the code

RBY
Poison: immune if target is Poison (regardless of move type) - but all the moves are poison
FreezeBurnParalyze side effect: immune if target type matches the move type. (which means Body Slam and Lick can paralyze electrics, but not their own type)
Paralyze (thunder wave, stun spore, glare): immune if the move is Electric AND the target is Ground (hardcoded interaction)

GSC
Poison side effect: immune if the target is poison type OR immune by the type chart (results in twineedle being able to poison steel types, but not any other move)
Burn side effect: immune if target matches move type (unless they are both normal type)
Freeze side effect: immune if target matches move type (unless they are both normal type)
Paralyze side effect: calculates immunity using the type chart (Foresight + Body Slam can paralyze ghosts)
Poison (poisonpowder, poison gas, toxic): immune if the target is poison type OR immune by the type chart (steel types are immune to all of these moves)
Paralyze (thunder wave, stun spore, glare): calculates immunity using the type chart (affects thunder wave on ground and glare on ghost) (Foresight + Glare can paralyze ghosts)
TriStatusChance (tri attack side effect): follows the logic of BattleCommand_ParalyzeTarget, BattleCommand_FreezeTarget, or BattleCommand_ParalyzeTarget

RSE
poison - Poison and Steel-types have a universal immunity to poison
burn - Fire-types have a universal immunity to burn
freeze - Ice-types have a universal immunity to freeze
paralysis - Follows the type chart to determine immunity, even for status moves (affects Thunder Wave and Glare)

DPP/BW
poison - Poison and Steel-types have a universal immunity to poison
fire - Fire-types have a universal immunity to burn
freeze - Ice-types have a universal immunity to freeze
paralysis - Thunder Wave alone is hardcoded to follow the type chart, despite being a status move

BW: Same as above

XY+: Electrics immune to paralysis, grass types immune to powder moves.

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

You don't get it, bro. You just need to get a crypto gaming handheld console, bro. The only console designed for fast spending action.

An article from cryptocurrency news webside Decrypt covering an alleged "crypto gaming handheld" SuiPlay0x1, aiming at a 2025 release.

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Of course, this has lead to a race to the bottom of sorts in the long run since their space has got so used to unpolished, dated tech that openly grifter newcomers can do the same on purpose, all in the name of "being still early" in the so-called "web3".

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

So people who were not necessarily the most experienced or competent in their fields (e.g. amateurs or rookies who happened to be crypto enthusiasts too) suddenly became rich, whether briefly or permanently.

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Not saying this is the reason but —no joke— a lot of people who had never handled more than a couple thousand dollars ended up with millions in capital due to the pandemic era cryptobubble. Not just the gambling, ponzi En Ef Tee types, but *dev teams* as well.

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Didn't know Lillie could learn Darkest Lariat

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Ricardo Juchem @ricardojuchem.com · 26/12/2024

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Yes, my bio says I'm from Panama. No, don't ask me how I feel about the American Cheeto threatening to invade my country to take the Canal back and doubling down after my president stood up against it.

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Maybe some kids now are of a much more "plug-and-play" disposition (which, ironically enough, was how things were at first before consoles with hard drives became a thing), but I remember when I had to set up my PS3 with very slow (for today's standards) internet and all that. Tedious but fun.

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Also, due to DOA's nature as a de facto companion to Itagaki's Ninja Gaiden reboot, DOA's strength also relies heavily on the Ninja Gaiden brand, which hasn't been worked on anymore by Koei Tecmo either. Kasumi's character needs Ayane and Ayane needs Ryu Hayabusa. Simple as that.

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

And even if we argued DOA *was* competent as a fighting game, you need to market it as such, both directly and through word of mouth. That matter, of course, tends to be beyond game design's reach. It's largely marketing strategy at that point, which creatives and devs alike can't handle themselves.

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Like, if it was simply the seuxalization, Skullgirls wouldn't be a thing (AKA a game whose problematic issues with female oversexualization overlap with real-life harrassment and an overall male chauvinist worldview of one individual). But the game is competent *as a fighting game*.

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

All of this is full of a subjective angle, of course, but I feel like the whole "hot women"/"sex sells" premise became too much for DOA's own good, to the point that a good portion of the fanbase just expected more hot women in hot outfits, etc. and less FG innovation.

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

3) Moreover, even the name "Venus Vacation" is featured more prominently than "Dead or Alive", which could signal a "Rabbids; not Rayman" moment. 4) Also, Mai clearly went on to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of King of Fighters on Street Fighter 6 instead, alongside Fatal Fury co-star Terry.

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Thinking about it, I wouldn't want to be Tomonobu Itagaki right now: 1) Tekken is the top fighting game right now, meaning his vision of DOA dethroning it didn't fulfill. 2) Koei Tecmo controls the franchise on their own now and their only upcoming release is another "Xtreme" spin-off. Asia-only ofc

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Based Virizion saying nothing but facts here

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Aww hell naw they doin premium gacha now

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

TPC should make inflationary expansions just for the sheer sillines "Limited print? Yes, 5 years ago. Let's drop these reprints!"

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Games should be fundamentally enjoyable things and thus they ought to be inclusive by principle, so a game which is exclusionary by design is betraying such principles.

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I could care less about "culture wars". I just happen to believe games are for everyone and they can portray all kinds of worlds or situations, simple or complex, in various welcoming ways. So this whole gatekeeping overlaps against my views.

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

That's where you can't call it anything else but misogyny: when girls who are fed up with the sexiness defaultism can't have nice things, but those who embrace them can't either because "they're just thirst traps" or what not. A rigged game were women always lose.

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Anyways, the whole "hot women in games" thing always backfires (in the sense of exposing the creeps as precisely creeps) because then the girls who *do* identify with them and cosplay as them get harrassed by guys and even called out as "fake gamers" even if they are not posers or wannabes.

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Yes, "sex sells" but maybe some people have come to realize both through maturity and societal shifts that you don't *have* to market a female character as the hottest new babe in town to make them good (?). You just have to actually put effort into their design and role in the game.

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

What many of the self-appointed Priests of Gaming fail to acknowledge is that a good share of so-called "hot women in games" have more stuff going about them and that's why they work. Female characters being more varied and not always looking like pin-up models doesn't make them "bad".

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I might have strong opinions about GO's business model and heavy data recollection as part of it, but I love Wurmple with party hat and how it comes back every single year

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RETIRE @retireglitch.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Custom sprite injection over WIFI using RCE on a legit copy of Pokémon pearl :)

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Grass/Fighting is an awesome combo against Rock types btw. It is, however, quite vulnerable against Flying types (x4 weakness; x2 per each of its types).

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Remember when we thought the craziest reputation shift that could happen to any Pokémon in 2024 was the worldbuilding myths from the Teraleak?

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

English grammar isn't real. English speakers make words up everyday and usage decides which ones stay or not. If everyone agreed to call them "vidyas" now, it would become the new norm too.

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

They're building it upon a currently-failing blockchain tho, so it might be dead on arrival lol

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Some cr*ptobros are working on a "more Web3-friendly alternative to Discord" as if the issue with Discord was it not being cr*pto enough. They're even argue that they could have airdropped us a token instead of selling themselves to investors lmao

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

It would be interesting for CPU AIs in videogames to be more willing to bet on losing in high risk/high reward scenarios, especially when they are high difficulty CPUs, because real humans are willing to have temporary losses for definite victories.

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Instead, a real player could have done this: a. Save Mewtwo ex for a turn or two later, let opponent take out active Pokémon without attacking, take it down with Mewtwo ex (Psychic Sphere) and take down Charizard ex with Psydrive b. Not do this stratagem and quit when hitting the cul-de-sac scenario

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

The Moltres was a Moltres ex, might I add. What the CPU had done was to switch out its active Pokémon for Mewtwo ex, which then took down Moltres ex with a single attack bc it was already on low HP. The CPU clearly priorized taking out Moltres over whatever could happen next.

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I love when games offer you the possibility of forfeiting a vs. match and computer players never ever use it lol I was playing a CPU match on TGCP against a Mewtwo ex deck (not the Mewtwo x Gardevoir one tho). It took down my Moltres, but I was charging up a Charizard Ex. OHKO'ed Mewtwo. I won.

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I'll double down on the silly tho: How is it even legal that Adobe and Autodesk control so much of the design industries software-wise and there are no real alternatives to many of their products? Ask me to switch to Linux for Architecture and I'll laugh on your face... then cry out of impotence lol

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Anyway, too much venting, I guess... I just think these overreactions whenever a vg characters isn't perceived to be "a hot woman" are annoying, they imply much darker stuff about the views on women said people have and are an insult towards the creative process of worldmaking.

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Of course, a videogame character isn't a human, but the tales you can tell through them (in the case of story-driven games) are. And for non-story driven ones, you'd still want some variety in the aesthetics of each character instead of rehashing 80s/90s BGA but with CGI.

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Worst thing is that, thanks to the normalization of oversharing in social media, there's a large amount of examples of such women having public breakdowns on posts, but these guys do not even recall it because either they didn't care or they were being reply guys saying "don't be sad; you're so hot"

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

"There's a war on attractive women in games", says someone who seldom to never ever cares about what their irl, very human counterparts think & feel All these actresses, models, even s*x workers... Do you think they do not have off-screen lives & that they do not ever feel solitude, sadness or pain?

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Add to it that not only the rest of us might not have an incentive to intensely comment on trivialities, but that we're not willing to spend money to do so in any case, whereas hatemongers, true to their name, will pay every view booster mechanism possible to amplify their reach, thus they go viral.

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

That stratagem is only useful as long as the corresponding society chooses to still hold their hostile views towards X. Same with racism and other derogatory or misanthropic X-phobias, miso-X and X-isms. It's the people who allow valid criticism to be dismissed as hate by embracing hate first.

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

There's also Charkoal, Glamrock and Martini

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Arikk AKA HyperHoundoom @arikkhoundoom.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I really need to mess around with this one again

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