Hello, my name is Cris. :)
I like being nice to people on the internet and looking at cool art stuff
I just wanna stop for a moment and say I really appreciate all the hard work you’re doing.
Its really not the easiest to find news stories that are sincerely really good news, and not just a slight letup of something awful.
Your posts make my timeline a much nicer place and I really appreciate it ❤️
That sounds like absolute hell lol- best of luck my friend, may your patience last longer than mine would! ❤️
Hey, I was researching my options for gen 5 and found this very helpful thread (though I don’t know that it’s entirely complete):
and this option from the thread, which is compatible with following platinum if you wanted quality of life, plus your pokemon following you :) (frankly I really wish I had played this instead 😅)
https://www.pokecommunity.com/threads/platinumqol-now-compatible-with-following-platinum.465574/
and following platinum https://pokehacking.com/fangames/following-platinum/
I think I was mistaken that renegade is compatible with following platinum, here’s it’s page if you’re interested in something that makes more changes and adjusts the difficulty curve :)
https://projectpokemon.org/home/forums/topic/52294-pok%C3%A9mon-renegade-platinum/
Hello ☺️
it’s funny watching people downvote us for saying hello to each other lol
Honestly I largely did too, I pick my favorite designs from each gen and make a team with them, but it worked out okay! I considered chimecho but I mostly just adore chingling and it’s way too weak to battle with. I also considered using trash wormadan; steel and bug are my favorite types, but it’s not that compelling of a design, and it’s not very good 😅. I’d love to include it on a team someday though
The fact that you get locked into combat as soon as you step into the room with her (unlike all the elite four) nearly completely fucked me over, but fortunately I was able to stall and item spam all my Pokémon back to full health 😅
I tend to really like building teams that can beat stuff a lot stronger than me, so curse on spirit tomb, toxic on toxicroak, and gastrodon and bastiodon to wall did a lot of work 😅 I think I used curse to beat like three of her strongest Pokémon lol. Its such a dumb move, I love it so much.
It was definitely hard though, and item spam is kind of a cheesy way to beat stuff
Regardless of whether it has original content (of course it does, its userbase is massive 😅) it does still absolutely have a bot problem, and reddit has way more resources to throw at the issue than we do. This is pretty much all community built and run with donations.
I’d just make a new gmail, proton mail, or tutanota address you can provide with no other connection to other stuff 🤷🏻
The threadiverse really does have to be more guarded against spam and bad actors. The servers here are largely run by volunteers, and community projects with no full time sysadmins, fewer devs and moderators, and less fancy protections are a very appealing target for trolls and bad actors. If I remember right lemmy was actually hacked sometime early in my time using it and I think instances running a certain version went offline for a while while they tried to fix the vulnerability. And there’s a well known bad actor who periodically shows up in a thread with like 50 accounts and makes hundreds and hundreds of comments drowning everything out with angry gibberish
Federation combined with an anonymous platform modeled after reddit makes it in some ways a lot harder to ban people. So all his accounts get banned and he just comes back.
This is all managed by volunteers being paid donations and occasionally sponsor money. Thats part of what allows it to be independent and resilient to enshitification (combined with federation, and being self hostable, and free license open source software) but it also means we don’t have the same luxury of resources that reddit does.
This is my first playthrough with most of these games, so I’m tending to pick stuff thats very vanilla+ or just focused on quality of life, to cut down on some of the tedium and frustration that Pokémon often comes with
I’m not sure if I’ve maybe played one of his hacks so far, but I wish he had patches that didn’t make the difficulty changes and stuff if I don’t want them, I think he usually hasn’t had that as an option
I still need to sit down and investigate what if any ROM hacks I might wanna pick for gen 5, his will be one I take a look at. Plus I need to go double check which games I was gonna play, I think I was planning black and white 2, but have to go look stuff up and ask my friend who’s a huge Pokémon nerd her thoughts
(I nearly broke my run with a cheat to give myself max TMs at the end cause I think the game is better when you can play with designing your team- the cheat overwrote all of my HMs without me realizing, and I deleted waterfall off my Pokémon who knew it. Off the top of her head she was just like “oh seaking learns it by level up at 40 if that helps”, I was so glad I mentioned to her I might have fucked myself over completely on a whim while texting lol. So I have a seaking named escalator now 😌)
I really like really like the names Macarona and V
That sounds like a blast! I’m not a super competitively knowledgeable player, this was actually my first platinum playthrough. Technically I started black or white when I was a kid, but I burned out and set the game down pretty quickly. I love Pokémon on paper but find a lot of the gameplay a bit tedious honestly 😅 I play mostly cause I fall in love with the Pokémon designs and the games are how you get to engage with them. Battleing is fun though.
I had fun using curse and stalling my way through the elite four though lol. Except the fire guy, garchomp with earthquake one-shot all of his Pokémon which was kinda funny 😅
The clear blue layer around his orange body kinda reminded me of a marble :3 I struggled with what to name him for a while lol 😅 But I’m happy with what I landed on ☺️
The ROM hack I’m playing is just following platinum. I don’t remember what quality of life changes there are, but it adds your Pokémon waking behind you like in HG SS
This is my first play through, so I wanted something focused on quality of life stuff, or that could be described as vanilla+
https://pokehacking.com/fangames/following-platinum/
(Having looked at the link now I don’t think it adds any quality of life stuff, and I just REALLY wanted my Pokémon to follow me. I think renegade might have a version based on following platinum though? It makes more changes like difficulty though)
That’s sick as fuck, thanks for the link!
I’ll have to figure out what exactly that enables and how to set it up but it looks neat! If its just setting the DNS like the page says that seems super duper easy
Thanks lol, thats always one of my absolute favorite parts of Pokémon ❤️
Sorry for the crappy offset picture lol, I was just grabbing a pic for myself to remember my team by while watching, I hadn’t intended to post it anywhere
I probably should have at least cropped it lol 😅
Bro what the fuck…
Yeah, the steam deck gives tons of space to grip comfortably to support the weight, I can see how that wouldn’t be as bad as it might look
The DS through the 3DS had even tinier controls than the switch, but weigh significantly less which is why I was curious if you’d ever tried them
I’m glad you find a way of setting up the switch to work better for you, in spite of the very child-centric feeling design lol
I’m glad its appreciated ☺️
Love your username! Hope you have a lovely day my friend
Yeah they also cut huge corners on the wireless card that has an issue with dropping packets, didn’t add an Ethernet port to the dock, and then made all their online games use a peer to peer connection limited by the worst connection in the lobby 😅
Its cool the retroid works so much better for you! Did you ever try like the DS or 3DS? If you have I’m curious how you felt about the ergonomics
I feel like a huge part of the issue with the switch are its ergonomics combined with its weight. You can only use your hands for but so much, supporting the weight, operating the tiny controls, and gripping the device. Like it feels like kind of a combination of not enough space to grip, too small of actual controls and also enough weight that you really need a better grip on it
Thanks for making this thread, I didn’t really realize it worked this way either!
When I’ve posted to lemmy from mastodon, you “@” the community, treating it like a user which is interesting. The underlying guts of the fediverse are fascinating lol