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@KylosWeb3 I caught a shiny Paras in ilex forest on my first playthrough, I could tell something about it was odd but I kept it. Didn't find out it was a shiny until many years later. Poor guy is forever stuck in my Gold version of the Gameboy

The year is 2002. Pokémon Silver has been out internationally for a year for everyone to enjoy. You boot it up on your GameBoy Colour. Today is the day you catch Lugia. But wait, something is different, why is he red? Must be a glitch in the game, Lugia is meant to be Blue. You dont want your game to corrupt and lose the data. You turn the GameBoy off without saving, so you can go back to Lugia and try again. Loe and behold, he's now blue. You're happy, you catch him with a Master Ball, you're not taking any chances, he's level 70, a beast in the late game. Years later, you learn of a thing called 'shinies' in the Pokéverse. You recall your interaction with a red Lugia and go to check what colour it is. It's red. Your heart sinks, you let it go, just because you thought it was 'a glitch'. Never to be caught on Pokémon Silver by yourself again.

@MapexDrummer26 Facts, I always blamed it on the heavy alcohol consumption but had White Castle sober on Fremont at 3am, still got the Taco Bell treatment in the porcelain throne

What people describe what Taco Bell does to them, but actually isn't true cause no one actually gets hot snakes and bubble guts from Taco Bell. That's White Castle.

@Hikaru_Chansey @ManaByte This game was so awesome, I remember convincing my mom to rent it for me from Blockbuster when I was 13. I simply kept re-renting it since I couldn't buy it. Played the living hell out of it and my mom never realized how bad it was for us, she only saw the cute squirrel lol

@ManaByte Still, Rare gave us one last masterpiece. A final fuck you to the rating systems. Conker's Bad Fur Day released in March 2001, just 6 months before the debut of the Gamecube. Complete with piss, shit, blood, violence, drug use, and even some titties. End of an era.

By the end of the N64 era, Rare was missing deadlines and their output was slowing to a crawl while development costs skyrocketed. When Rare co-founders Tim and Chris Stamper put their remaining stake up for sale, they triggered a bidding war hoping Nintendo would overpay out of sentimentality.  Hiroshi Yamauchi looked at the math and refused to bite. Rare only accounted for a tiny fraction of Nintendo’s revenue at the time, and critical talent was already leaving the studio to form independent teams. Crucially, Nintendo owned the rights to Donkey Kong and Star Fox, meaning Microsoft was paying an inflated 375 million dollars for a logo and a handful of niche intellectual properties.  Passing on Rare wasn't a mistake; it was letting a competitor spend a fortune on a studio that had already peaked, freeing up resources for Nintendo to build their own internal teams and weather the GameCube era.

@ATadDisturbed @DeeZe @thechosenberg It's 100+ outside so I'd rather not

@dknessfalls @DeeZe @thechosenberg Just fucking turn it off and open the windows at that point

Completely normal 19 year old behavior

@DeeZe @thechosenberg The dad is right though, if the kid went outside for a bit. The 80-87 degree house wouldn't feel so bad. I keep my thermostat at 82 in the summer and keep the house fan circulating air.

@thechosenberg The dude is keeping us 80-87 degrees in his house he’s lucky the kid is wearing underwear That’s fucking insane

@maxchadwick That's y i liked wotc era. I remember buying 2 Neo Destiny booster boxes, pulling 8 Shining Pokemons, using my dups to trade for the rest. Mastered my set in no time for $150

in the original Base Set, Charizard was no rarer than a Magneton every holo in the set had the exact same odds: roughly 1 in 3 packs gave you a holo and there were 16 of them, so any specific one landed around 1 in 48 packs Charizard and Magneton were equally hard to pull the only thing that made Charizard the king was us modern chase cards are a different world the rarest pulls today can sit past 1 in 400 packs, sometimes far worse but back then, rarity was random

@Yoc_Star My house is from the 1940s and based on public records, the original owners paid $8000 for it. They sold it to us for $240k in 2016. It's a starter home for sure but it's on a lot of land, big enough to build a million $ home on for 1/3 the cost

The “starter homes for $25k” makes me laugh. I looked up the price of what my parents paid for their house in 1986. $117,500. The average interest rate was around 13%. It was a small 3 bedroom 1 bathroom 1008 square foot home. My room was the smallest and my brothers shared a room. Built in 1941. That was a starter home. It didn’t have a big kitchen or a spacious bathroom or walk in closets. One bathroom for five people. We didn’t have TVs in our rooms either. We didn’t eat out all the time. Food delivery didn’t exist. And it was NOT in the best part of town; you didn’t leave anything outside you didn’t want stolen. Saw it on Zillow, still has the original basement wall panels and flooring 😂

@ImliterallyETH Only time I saw this product was from a Costco drop and the raffle at Worlds 2025. I always forget this set exists cuz it was barely available or around

Does anyone else feel extremely underexposed to Black Bolt and White Flare?

@FanSince09 Meanwhile us Millenials drank so much from 16 til our 30s, the smell of jager makes us dry heave uncontrollably

Boomers were “mean drunks” who’d come home hammered and beat their family Gen Xers were “fun drunks” who maybe had some beers on the couch every day and it totally wasn’t alcoholism but it kinda was Gen Z grew up with them as parents and grandparents so of course they don’t drink.

@ryansatin That's how it was growing up in SoCal, I went to 2 high schools cuz we moved, I went from a school being so diverse, everyone was represented, to a high school where I was the token Mexican kid. Only 2 cities over but dang was it a culture shock.

This is why the shift to everyone hating each other has been so hard for millennials. Many of us went to diverse schools where everyone basically got along. Sure, jokes were made & bad people existed, but there was a general code of respect. Social media + rage bait ruined that

@downbadcomment Dude asked for it

@TristenPalori It's the only way to get away from the wife and kids for a bit. They never want to be outside doing yard work

Can someone explain to me why people do cosmetic yard work for 4+ hours every weekend? Wait, so the 10 seconds you see it when you leave/enter your home makes it all worth it? I just can’t think of a worse way to spend my time.

@RottiesandPits @PaulAnleitner If you own a modern PlayStation console, you have a Blu-ray player

@PaulAnleitner What are you going to play that disc on? Nobody has Bluray players at this point. This ship has sailed.

If Pizza Hut can return, then we can resurrect Blockbuster. And we should. While Netflix made things more “convenient” we lost something irreplaceable: The ritual of going to a place with your family or friends to choose a story together. That experience was special.

@Llghtnlng_Blade Dual type Pokemon didn't have resistances but instead more weaknesses. Using poison or ground attacks on Venusaur wasn't neutral, it was super effective. Same with electric attacks on Zapdos. Game couldn't neutralize dual typings effectiveness

It’s kinda funny to me how people call them an unplayable buggy mess when all the iconic glitches require you to go out of your way to mess with the game lol You aren’t finding missingno randomly in your playthrough Also they’re still fun games without nostalgia

@_toxicblonde @Seaabastian

@dknessfalls @Seaabastian Yep, great point. They probably want someone they know they can control too. Both parties do the same thing. It’s insane.

If Kamala is the nominee again then the DNC is more okay with losing to republicans and letting fascism take control than instituting change within the party NO ONE wants Kamala man

@_toxicblonde @Seaabastian AOC is still too new for the DNC, they don't trust her. It's always long time members that get picked. Or the relative of someone in power, like Newsom.

Mhm. I can tell you as someone who’s lived in Colorado for 12 years and had all the Californians move in, I am very upset about some of the Newsom logic that is being brought over here. I don’t know if AOC will be their pick. I think the DNC doesn’t want her for whatever reason.

@_toxicblonde @Seaabastian If Newsom runs, DNC is done. He's ruined California so much and the scary part is other states and cities want to emulate California. If the left wants a chance to win the next election, it's AOC. Need some younger blood higher up in the ranks

@Seaabastian Bro between her and idiot Newsom I am SCARED.

@khazarAntlers No Ninetales, post invalid

I truly believe that when genwunners say they love the Gen 1 dex, this is what they actually meant

@Krissa_Kray_ With enough beers, I can be a plumber, electrician, painter, mechanic and computer tech, all in 1

Maybe I've been marred by having a perfect father and a perfect boyfriend but all men can't just... do this stuff? You need to hire someone for it?

@SYNDCapital_ @CardGameNomad No elite four in Pokemon Go so had to do it in FireRed

@dknessfalls @CardGameNomad Time to face the Elite Four.

Most people who joined the hobby recently don’t like or know 800+ of the 1025 Pokémon we have now 😂 Some of y’all think Jangmo-o is fake and Type: Null is a medical condition. We’ll hit Gen 20 and people will still say: “No Charizard? Set sucks.”