That's gotta hurt.

Seems legit.

I'm LIVID that I can't fly around on my owl.

I'm more livid that I have to see that stupid charizard (instead of something like pidgeot, which makes a hell of a lot more sense to be a "commonly rented out flying pokemon) EVERY SINGLE TIME I want to go somewhere else, all because Masuda "really likes it".

Daneasaur said:
I'm LIVID that I can't fly around on my owl.

I'm more livid that I have to see that stupid charizard (instead of something like pidgeot, which makes a hell of a lot more sense to be a "commonly rented out flying pokemon) EVERY SINGLE TIME I want to go somewhere else, all because Masuda "really likes it".

Better than HM slaves.

OverAndUnder said:
Better than HM slaves.

true, true.

OverAndUnder said:
Better than HM slaves.

We should still be allowed to have HM slaves replace our rides.

I think she screwed herself.

It's a bird of prey, what else you expecting to carry you on it's back

OverAndUnder said:
Better than HM slaves.

Furrin_Gok said:
We should still be allowed to have HM slaves replace our rides.

See, this is what angers me; why not make it so that there are a handful of pokemon who can qualify for the rides (I don't care if it's post e4) and they are of your own stock from the boxes provided you taught them the move?

I feel no connection to these ride pokemon other than the Tauros and the Mudsdale, and even my "HM slaves" were much more valuable to me than these things.

Of course, too few people were aware of properly tying in HMs with your actual party, hence the HM slaves. I stopped HM slave-ing in gen 4 and instead made the HMs part of my team right and proper.

But this all is a result that your trainer is treated as an ignorant tourist and you're not cutting any new ground, just taking the tour that ever stupid tourist takes.

Ironically, the Fly lady got bitched out because she was going to fly with her own pokemon "because people could get hurt".

Yet upon returning to the first graveyard, I see a widowed lady mourning over the death of her husband who died because he was using a rented ride pokemon.

"Using your own pokemon is too dangerous, here, use a pokemon that doesn't know you and you most certainly have no connection to. There is totally no chance you'll get fucking murdered."

But back on topic; charizard is not a common pokemon in the pokeverse, (neither is lapras but it was used as the surf sprite for a long time, so it makes sense) so why the hell is charizard the rental pokemon for fly instead of Pidgeot?

SCREW YOU, MASUDA.

Daneasaur said:
See, this is what angers me; why not make it so that there are a handful of pokemon who can qualify for the rides (I don't care if it's post e4) and they are of your own stock from the boxes provided you taught them the move?

I feel no connection to these ride pokemon other than the Tauros and the Mudsdale, and even my "HM slaves" were much more valuable to me than these things.

Of course, too few people were aware of properly tying in HMs with your actual party, hence the HM slaves. I stopped HM slave-ing in gen 4 and instead made the HMs part of my team right and proper.

But this all is a result that your trainer is treated as an ignorant tourist and you're not cutting any new ground, just taking the tour that ever stupid tourist takes.

Ironically, the Fly lady got bitched out because she was going to fly with her own pokemon "because people could get hurt".

Yet upon returning to the first graveyard, I see a widowed lady mourning over the death of her husband who died because he was using a rented ride pokemon.

"Using your own pokemon is too dangerous, here, use a pokemon that doesn't know you and you most certainly have no connection to. There is totally no chance you'll get fucking murdered."

But back on topic; charizard is not a common pokemon in the pokeverse, (neither is lapras but it was used as the surf sprite for a long time, so it makes sense) so why the hell is charizard the rental pokemon for fly instead of Pidgeot?

SCREW YOU, MASUDA.

Actually, the husband who died was using his own personal ride pokemon, one he had trained to be a ride Pokemon. It was the other guy in the crash who was using a rented ride. According to the widow, the Machamp would have died too if her husband hadn't sent it back to its pokeball immediately, which likely means the rented ride Pokemon did die.

...Although that Machamp she had seemed to be glowing which kind of made me think it was a ghost, like the Marowak.

Furrin_Gok said:
Actually, the husband who died was using his own personal ride pokemon, one he had trained to be a ride Pokemon. It was the other guy in the crash who was using a rented ride. According to the widow, the Machamp would have died too if her husband hadn't sent it back to its pokeball immediately, which likely means the rented ride Pokemon did die.

...Although that Machamp she had seemed to be glowing which kind of made me think it was a ghost, like the Marowak.

it was an accident involving her husband, the ride machamp, and someone else (never stated the other person had anything to do with a ride pokemon). Something happened, guy withdrew the machamp, guy and other guy died in accident, machamp is pissed that it was recalled, got rid of the pokeball when it came back out, though is implied the accident was so bad it might have killed the machamp too.

And there was no glow.

Daneasaur said:
it was an accident involving her husband, the ride machamp, and someone else (never stated the other person had anything to do with a ride pokemon). Something happened, guy withdrew the machamp, guy and other guy died in accident, machamp is pissed that it was recalled, got rid of the pokeball when it came back out, though is implied the accident was so bad it might have killed the machamp too.

And there was no glow.

Tell me that's not a glow

For the man to have had a pokèball to send Machamp into means it was his personal licensed Pokemon, and to cause an accident that could threaten a Machamp's life, the other guy must have had another ride pokémon.

Furrin_Gok said:
Tell me that's not a glow

For the man to have had a pokèball to send Machamp into means it was his personal licensed Pokemon, and to cause an accident that could threaten a Machamp's life, the other guy must have had another ride pokémon.

I'd argue that it's just the natural blur you see around most characters.

But the Ride pokemon have to come from balls as well as otherwise they cannot communicate with humans well enough to be docile around them.

As for the accident, I got the impression the other guy was driving a vehicle and sped out of control (there are TONS of trucks and cars in Alola), and all the roads are one lane, thus if someone was in a car or truck and another person was using a ride pokemon and, say, the breaks on the truck failed or they weren't watching what they were doing, it put the rider and pokemon at risk. The machamp possibly feels it could have stopped the vehicle and protected his human partner had it not been recalled.

Also, seems a downvote fairy is chasing me, so i must be saying something right.

Daneasaur said:
I'd argue that it's just the natural blur you see around most characters.

But the Ride pokemon have to come from balls as well as otherwise they cannot communicate with humans well enough to be docile around them.

As for the accident, I got the impression the other guy was driving a vehicle and sped out of control (there are TONS of trucks and cars in Alola), and all the roads are one lane, thus if someone was in a car or truck and another person was using a ride pokemon and, say, the breaks on the truck failed or they weren't watching what they were doing, it put the rider and pokemon at risk. The machamp possibly feels it could have stopped the vehicle and protected his human partner had it not been recalled.

Also, seems a downvote fairy is chasing me, so i must be saying something right.

No other Machamp has that glow, so it's no blur. All Machamp are either a dull grey or green, yet this one appears to be a much brighter grey, something that occurs no matter what source a screenshot comes from. It's not caused by it being a Ride Pokemon, either, as other Ride Machamp are the same dull grey as any other Machamp.

The rental ride Pokemon come from a Pager, not a Pokeball. The difference here is that a Pager doesn't contain any pokemon whatsoever, but instead can call any registered Ride Pokemon, and can only be used to call a Pokemon for a ride, with no battle capactiy. The Widow's Machamp used the move Fling to get rid of a Pokeball, not a pager, two things which individually would already suggest it being the Pokemon of the man who died.

Not sure what's going on with the downvotes. It's pretty easy to point out your own point of view in a debate, so whoever it is could just make a comment instead of going around downvoting an entire list of comments.

Furrin_Gok said:
No other Machamp has that glow, so it's no blur. All Machamp are either a dull grey or green, yet this one appears to be a much brighter grey, something that occurs no matter what source a screenshot comes from. It's not caused by it being a Ride Pokemon, either, as other Ride Machamp are the same dull grey as any other Machamp.

The rental ride Pokemon come from a Pager, not a Pokeball. The difference here is that a Pager doesn't contain any pokemon whatsoever, but instead can call any registered Ride Pokemon, and can only be used to call a Pokemon for a ride, with no battle capactiy. The Widow's Machamp used the move Fling to get rid of a Pokeball, not a pager, two things which individually would already suggest it being the Pokemon of the man who died.

Not sure what's going on with the downvotes. It's pretty easy to point out your own point of view in a debate, so whoever it is could just make a comment instead of going around downvoting an entire list of comments.

I'm saying that everyone has this blurr around them because 3ds has poor resolution.

I'm aware of the pager, but it has yet to explain how the fuck it works other than "poof, a pokemon". I THINK the lens is a gateway to a ranch/box as indicated by removing it and holding it up into the air for the FLY command, but otherwise it's not shown proper in any cinematic.

And by downvoting comments, what they are tryign to accomplish is the mindset of pre-judgement; someone sees a downvote arrow and instantly thinks someting is "wrong" with my comment, and so other people downvote because it must be bad or soemthing.

Daneasaur said:
I'm saying that everyone has this blurr around them because 3ds has poor resolution.

I'm aware of the pager, but it has yet to explain how the fuck it works other than "poof, a pokemon". I THINK the lens is a gateway to a ranch/box as indicated by removing it and holding it up into the air for the FLY command, but otherwise it's not shown proper in any cinematic.

And by downvoting comments, what they are tryign to accomplish is the mindset of pre-judgement; someone sees a downvote arrow and instantly thinks someting is "wrong" with my comment, and so other people downvote because it must be bad or soemthing.

I can back up the blur part or whatever it is. It happens to various npcs and i think even your character has it happen.

SuperKirby said:
I can back up the blur part or whatever it is. It happens to various npcs and i think even your character has it happen.

I think it's just the general resolution on the 3ds.

On another note, while the UB's are a nice touch and the whole "fbi/cia/interpol coverup" story showcases that LOTS of shady shit goes on in the pokemon world as a whole, the problem is that there is zero post game content other than the battle tree.

There is no vs seeker (it's been 4 fucking generations, i'd like it back), no phone calls, no high tier repeatable trainers, no audino at level 50+, none of that.

After finishing the dex, while there was the teas of "maxing out IVs on a pokemon who has poor IVs", I found that there is nothing TO get your pokemon to that other than doing nothing but fighting the e4.

Also, while I understand a more story heavy pokemon story, prof Kuki and "overly cheerful useless baggage: the character" were completely irritating.

There also was no excuse for being treated like a god damn tourist.

"Oh hey, I'm on an island with a beach. You know, alola is famous for the pokemon pyukumuku. I'd really like to have one of those on my team and the map here says i just need to follow this pathway and..."

"HOY, CUNT! As you can see, i'm sitting my ass on a stoutland and I know you'd like to get to that beach but that's just too fucking bad you fucking tourist."

"But I actually moved here and intend on living here-"

"YOU'RE STILL A GOD DAMN TOURIST AND YOU'LL BE TREATED LIKE ONE. Now go fuck off and find the next 12 event flags."

-After 12 event flags-

"Oh good, I'm back on the road and a lot of not much happened and I'd really like to get that pyukumuku now that the game has been advertising and showcasing in damn near everything. So I just go right down the road and-"

"HOY CUNT. Bet you through you were gonna get to the beach, well FUCK OFF. As you can see, I'm not sitting over THERE with my stoutland, i'm sitting over HERE and you're still gonna have to just fuck off because you're such a tourist."

"I told you, I fucking moved here, I'm a citizen of Alola and intend to freaking live here, you moronic dipshit."

"WELL TOO BAD! Go find 15 more event flags, fucker."

-15 event flags later-

"Okay finally got to the beach and now I can finally get that pyukumuku-"

"HOY CUNT!"

"In the name of every tree-named-professor out there, what the fuck now? At least you're not blocking the road. Maybe I can battle you and kick your shit in like the inbred ape you are."

"Nah, see, I'm just gonna sit here on the beach forever and spout off the same damn thing you've been seeing since I first sat my ass on the road, so you can have an everlasting reminder that YOU. ARE. A. FUCKING. TOURIST."