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Which was your favorite new Pokémon revealed from the Scarlet and Violet trailer?

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Cutie Gwen

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Solar Nyan said:
If Frontiers is good, what are Sonic fans gonna do? Good games existing denies them their purpose.
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Pull an Arin Hanson, mess with the controls of the game and then cream while pissing all over the floor about how the game is awful or pretend that it's impossible to figure out where to go without knowing every minute detail and then claiming Utopia is superior and then cry because enemies are just ti dang tough while showing footage of slowly trying to double jump on late game enemies or something.

That, or get cured of irony poisoning and remember that this franchise is pretty good, but where's the fun in that?
 
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Been watching Ms Marvel, and while I love the stylistic choices in how they showcase every characters thoughts or emotions on screen, the story really takes me out of it.

Iman Vellani is great, but the story literally isn’t about her.

We’ve spent four episodes side lining Kamala and that sucks. It’s called Ms Marvel, there’s no real reason the story should ignore most of her arc to get into her ancestors, who aren’t even the inhumans. So I don’t see the point of this plot line so far.

They had a great idea presented early on to with:

the question of should she be a hero when the world around her, even her own community may not always been accepting.

That’s such a great concept and it’s kinda wasted so far imo.

At least she should get time to shine in young avengers down the line.
 
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No matter what, the fanbase will always find something to nitpick at regardless if the game had a successful debut. It is the community's ongoing problem with trollers, salty fans, etc.
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Well at least Scott Lang provided an answer to a fan's theory on how he could had defeated Thanos.
 
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dezeray112 said:

Well at least Scott Lang provided an answer to a fan's theory on how he could had defeated Thanos.
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Ok that was awesome
 
Z25

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Fire emblem heroes making a billion is really funny because Nintendo fans kept trying to say on Twitter it was a dead game and going to get deleted after Dragalia.

Mario Kart isn’t even close to sales and that was leading the race.

So everyone’s favorite smash franchise will continue to win.

Which if the money helps with doing more with the franchise in general, that’s cool by me.
 
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I think I've shared my thoughts on gacha enough times that it should be no surprise that I think those FE:Heroes numbers are really gross.
 
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Z25 said:
Been watching Ms Marvel, and while I love the stylistic choices in how they showcase every characters thoughts or emotions on screen, the story really takes me out of it.

Iman Vellani is great, but the story literally isn’t about her.

We’ve spent four episodes side lining Kamala and that sucks. It’s called Ms Marvel, there’s no real reason the story should ignore most of her arc to get into her ancestors, who aren’t even the inhumans. So I don’t see the point of this plot line so far.

They had a great idea presented early on to with:

the question of should she be a hero when the world around her, even her own community may not always been accepting.

That’s such a great concept and it’s kinda wasted so far imo.

At least she should get time to shine in young avengers down the line.
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I wouldn’t really call it sidelining when every story (main or not) connects right back to her having to accept the consequences in having a destiny she didn’t expect would backfire. The Djinn stuff, to compensate for Earth-19999 currently not using the Inhumans, is to represent how Kamala is the modern day Aisha, and how the bangles allowing her to control the embiggen within her are a curse.

Then of course there’s the rest of the family and friends around her, all being key influences towards how she’ll have to mature and grow as a person across all walks of the life she lives in. It’s why she keeps piling up disappointment after disappointment trying to juggle everything together just so that she can end up in a deeper hole…all just to become a hero Jersey needs. Besides some of the more obvious changes, it’s pretty much like her debut storyline. Trying to base every decision off of family, friends, and Carol, only to end up in a worse spot than before. Episode 5 will likely be where she finally realize she must be her own type of hero and not copy-past from others. Then we get the Kamala Khan that most people know her for (the grown up enough era and up).

tho I guess they could’ve just copy-pasted the more simple beginning of her transforming into Carol, as she had fears that a Muslim couldn’t be a superhero like Captain Marvel is
 
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I got to see the Stanley Cup for real today. The crazy thing about this is that I signed up to go to Denver for Fan Expo which starts tomorrow, and then the Avalanche win the Cup, and the parade was today, the day before the con, and if you thought I was going to miss out on finally getting to see the Cup for real you've got another thing coming. Today, Stanley Cup, tomorrow, Froppy and Todoroki (schedule dependent, of course).
 
Michael the Spikester

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All caught up on Camp Cretacetous.

Can't wait in three weeks for the fifth and final season. Primal season 2 also comes on that day baby! :D
 
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TMNTSSB4 said:
I wouldn’t really call it sidelining when every story (main or not) connects right back to her having to accept the consequences in having a destiny she didn’t expect would backfire. The Djinn stuff, to compensate for Earth-19999 currently not using the Inhumans, is to represent how Kamala is the modern day Aisha, and how the bangles allowing her to control the embiggen within her are a curse.

Then of course there’s the rest of the family and friends around her, all being key influences towards how she’ll have to mature and grow as a person across all walks of the life she lives in. It’s why she keeps piling up disappointment after disappointment trying to juggle everything together just so that she can end up in a deeper hole…all just to become a hero Jersey needs. Besides some of the more obvious changes, it’s pretty much like her debut storyline. Trying to base every decision off of family, friends, and Carol, only to end up in a worse spot than before. Episode 5 will likely be where she finally realize she must be her own type of hero and not copy-past from others. Then we get the Kamala Khan that most people know her for (the grown up enough era and up).

tho I guess they could’ve just copy-pasted the more simple beginning of her transforming into Carol, as she had fears that a Muslim couldn’t be a superhero like Captain Marvel is
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The thing is though, she doesn’t really have a destiny. Yes:
the bangles tie back to her ancient family. But it’s not her job to free the Jin. None of her current family had any ideas on any of this and it didn’t really affect their lives outside of generational trauma that didn’t correlate to Kamala because before those bracelets she had no insight and thus no impact from these events.

I get the idea they are trying to tell with the story, but it’s just not the best connective tissues imo. I do think the concept of trying to be what her friends want or think to work when we do get to see those scenes, and I think if they incorporated her more people in her life/region think about her as a hero, it could really stand out from normal tropes. Giving us a great depiction of her heritage and region, while also showing how your the only person who can become a hero, you can’t please Everyone. The best way to do good is by being yourself, not trying to stay in different lines while trying to save everyone.
 
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