Thanks so much man, for this and for all you've done for the Pokemon community <3

yea lol. He could have avoided being dishonest by not commenting on it, seriously he didn't need to comment on the performance at all, he could have just said he enjoyed the games a lot and that's it - so did I, they're just broken technically.

Yeah I saw. Idk if that's some next level delusion or really weird attempt to save face after realizing that nobody's behind him on this. Here's some more for you.

He could have just remained silent on the topic, or maybe given a PR response like "the performance issues are a shame but they didn't impact my enjoyment of the game". How can you even trust anything he says anymore when he kept insisting so strongly that the game wasn't a broken mess.

I understand that he wants to maintain his good relationship with TPCi to keep the level of access he has, so he can't say anything explicitly bad, at least not seriously bad. But yeah he really didn't have to lie and say he didn't experience issues in the first place, then keep defending that take.

Heya! Really interested in the homebrew app you were making to automatically fix the 3DS milliseconds. Are you planning to release it, or have you already?

On the flipside to that, we are really lucky that you're so unapologetically sharing your passion about video games with us!

than it is fence sitters. Kamala lost because she couldn't convince them, not because the fence sitters went over to Trump. So Sam's performance here is largely inconsequential when it comes to moving the needle. I do agree he could have done better on economics, but he was fine on social stuff imo

the point at which these dudes gave up and said "no we SHOULD do Christian nationalism" is a more powerful motivator to people on the fence than "actually you will get 83% of your social security if we do nothing".

Imo this fight is far more about getting left leaning people motivated to vote

What I'm disagreeing on is that you will lose middle fencers. I think Sam showing how unhinged they are when asked blunt questions is more effective than trying to appeal to fence sitters with numbers. As much as we want to think otherwise, this argument is dominated by emotion, not logic, and

I don't think it's a case "it's 2025 we don't need to have this argument anymore", but more like, some people just won't be convinced by arguments and we are giving up on them. Instead trying to show that these people are total freaks to everyone else who might not care about the trans issue instead

agreeing with him when he said if you aren't a Christian nationalist you shouldn't vote for trump. Like the one girl that said what's wrong with being xenophobic.

And that puts people off. Now the gamble is if there are enough non-theocrats who care anymore that are put off enough.

I see what you're saying but I disagree. I think Sam could have argued some specific points more effectively, but I think his overall strategy of appealing to normalcy and decency above all else worked wonders. It goaded them into being incredibly unhinged, it provoked the Christian theocrats into

I'm so sorry to hear, my heart goes out to you.

For World of Warcraft players that's been a discussion for a long time now, since the game largely lost so much of its friction with every expansion and a large % of people who quit cite that as one of the reasons why. It's good to sed it become a more prominent discussion in gaming

Hey I'm just trying to help out by letting them know their moves aren't gone. I also wish SV had a system like SwSh where the changed moveset only applied to competitive play and you could use the moves in-game. They took the lazy approach here.

Just an FYI, the moves are still there. There are just different "views" (basically data per game) and if you deposited them to SV, it defaults to the SV view which has auto assigned moves. If you switch views to the Home view or SwSh if they're legal there, you can still see the OG moves.

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