What really makes you mad about Pokemon?

[Koori Renchuu]

Anyway, yeah, Ash dying is funny/boring but not upsetting... but then I'm a boy and thus incapable of emotion ^_^

LIES, I cried when Ash died. It was so sad! I still tear up at that scene, and I'm 19.

 

[Thanks for All the Fish]

QFW.

They could use that to make a far better game...

PLOTLINE:
A kid awakens with only their starter Pokemon, to find that they must travel far and wide over Johto and Kanto to try and recover their memory and discover the cause behind the darkening of Pokemon's hearts across the regions. As the game progresses and travels to Kanto, people will start to recognise the player and ultimately, you're reunited with your parents/gaurdians/potatoes or something. Legendary Pokemon could play a part in the story but it'd be better if the majority couldn't be captured until after you've defeated the league.

...Well I dunno *shrugs*

Wow, Pokemon has existed for, what 11 years now? and they can't even make something good in the games. Last good one, I belive would be...G/S/C.
Also, the new evos kinda look.... SO FREAKIN"FUCKING STUPID!!!!

 

[Negrek]

No one has ever said that, buddy. I've only seen the opposite. I am tired of seeing these stupid sigs with people boasting about how they want nothing to do with EVs/IVs/whatever. No, I'm not going to turn sigs off. I wish you could just turn off certain sigs, though. I'm fine with people who don't want to EV train or whatever. I'm not fine with people who think their superior because of it.

Agreed. Why on earth do these people think they have the moral high ground because they're not willing to invest the time necessary to improve their pokémon's battling skills? "OMG you take your games more seriously than we do you awful awful trainers! :("

 

[Blaziking the God General]

No one has ever said that, buddy. I've only seen the opposite. I am tired of seeing these stupid sigs with people boasting about how they want nothing to do with EVs/IVs/whatever. No, I'm not going to turn sigs off. I wish you could just turn off certain sigs, though. I'm fine with people who don't want to EV train or whatever. I'm not fine with people who think their superior because of it.

Gosh, I remember a month or so ago on these forums when someone put something along the lines of "I don't care about EV's or IV's, and I like my Pokemon the way they are". Good for you young Pokemon trainer. But my Minun in Emerald happens to have a better Sp. Atk stat than my Sceptile thanks to EV's, so HA!

Seriously. I get so annoyed with some people like that.

Is it really abnormal that I actually find it fun to EV train? Watching a Pokemon's stats go up by 6 instead of 1 or 2.
___________
|HP + 1
|Atk + 1
|Def + 1
|Sp. Atk + 7
|Sp. Def + 1
|Speed + 1

It happened with a Castform I had once. That was the game in which I first discovered the wonders of EV training.

Fwee Castform.

 

[#1 bro]

PLOTLINE:
A kid awakens with only their starter Pokemon, to find that they must travel far and wide over Johto and Kanto to try and recover their memory and discover the cause behind the darkening of Pokemon's hearts across the regions. As the game progresses and travels to Kanto, people will start to recognise the player and ultimately, you're reunited with your parents/gaurdians/potatoes or something. Legendary Pokemon could play a part in the story but it'd be better if the majority couldn't be captured until after you've defeated the league.

um, no, because that's incredibly cliche and no better than the good ol' "you're some kid with pokemans who has to win the league and defeat the evil team" plot.

Also, the new evos kinda look.... SO FREAKIN"FUCKING STUPID!!!!

haha, no. they're awesome. you just don't appreciate awesomeness.

 

[Phoenixsong]

Agreed. Why on earth do these people think they have the moral high ground because they're not willing to invest the time necessary to improve their pokémon's battling skills? "OMG you take your games more seriously than we do you awful awful trainers! :("

Following this logic, Drifloon Rocks et al, do you also hate professional artists and major league sports players? They aren't creating art or playing sports "casually". And since I doubt that you are a professional artist or sports star and therefore do any sports or art "just for fun", are they horrible and worthy of your hatred, too? Are you morally superior to Vincent Van Gogh and Serena Williams?

No one ever said you had to EV train, no one said you had to like the concept, but hating something that generally doesn't affect you in any way just on principle is outright shallow.

By the way, if any of this vitriol has anything to do with some of the responses people have gotten in the competitive battling subforum: no one was ragging on those people because they weren't competitive battlers. They were ragging on them because they didn't take the time to realize what competitive battling actually is and assumed that "beat the Elite 4" or "level 100" meant "competitive team" when it absolutely does not. There's nothing wrong with being proud of your ingame team or wanting a little advice on it, but posting that team in a forum about competitive battling is just as inappropriate as posting a poem in the main writing forum instead of the poetry subforum. The idea is that you shouldn't be posting in there if you don't actually understand the concept of competitive battling, but if you don't understand it and don't want to then no one is going to look down on you for it. Just don't pretend you know what you're talking about when you obviously don't.

...that tip will get you pretty far everywhere else on the forum (and in life), too, but anyway.

So yeah, silly comments like that are another thing that really pisses me off about the Pokémon fandom. Can you tell?