Podseidon
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Podseidon
@ProfPodseidon
Retired streamer who now yaps on YouTube. Business inquiries: [email protected]

23 years ago today, Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire Versions were first released for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance in North America! Together, they became the best-selling Game Boy Advance games of all time.

📢 Call of Duty: #Warzone Black Ops Royale Solos will be added to playlists tomorrow at 10 AM PT. This will include both the public playlist and a private match option.


006: Did you know Game Freak purposefully stripped Charizard of its true "Dragon" typing because it would have permanently broken the foundational mechanics of Pokémon? • The Identity Crisis: It looks exactly like a European dragon. It learns Dragon moves. It’s in the Dragon Egg Group. Lance, the Kanto "Dragon Master," uses one on his elite team. But it is officially classified as Fire/Flying. • The Collateral Damage: Charizard's physical heat is uncontrollable. Its fire can melt boulders and glaciers, and the Pokédex repeatedly notes it accidentally causes massive forest fires just by flying around. • The Massive Nerf: In Gen 1, the Dragon typing was practically invincible. If Charizard was Fire/Dragon, Blastoise’s Water attacks would only do neutral damage. It would have completely shattered the Water-Fire-Grass "rock-paper-scissors" balance that the entire franchise was built on. Charizard is a biological weapon of mass destruction that Game Freak had to legally classify as a flying lizard just to keep the game playable.



Announcing NVIDIA DLSS 5, an AI-powered breakthrough in visual fidelity for games, coming this fall. DLSS 5 infuses pixels with photorealistic lighting and materials, bridging the gap between rendering and reality. Learn More → nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/…













