shnizmuffin

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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • shnizmuffinAtoPokémon@lemmy.mlthoughts on event pokemon?
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    9 days ago

    I feel a special connection to some of my event Pokemon because they are keepsakes. I appreciate their rarity because I actually went to get them, or plugged in the code, or whatever and others did not.

    I’m old, so I remember missing out on Mew when there were extremely limited North American mall tours. Never won the Nintendo Power contests. Missed, skipped, or was wholly unaware of basically all of these. I refused to risk my save files to GameShark one, and I didn’t understand how to execute the Emerald glitch to get one without an event item.

    But then, I got to use my Adult Superpower of Spending Money on Whatever I Fucking Feel Like on Let’s Go Pikachu with the Pokeball Plus. Now I have a Mew. Its name is Anne.









  • An eternity ago, I got really good at manually strafe-hopping in Team Fortress Classic. I got banned from a few pubs for “scripting” anyway.

    I don’t like banning users because of the devices they use or the technical knowledge they have. I feel like the onus should be on the development team to make hardware or software macros impossible or unnecessary. Like, maybe the switch from left to right has a random interval that would instantly nerf a script. Or maybe the apex of a player’s jump is also a little variable or random - or deeply tied to their momentum in a weird way.

    Barely noticeable changes for natural players, kryptonite to script kiddies and Mad Katz Turbo Mode, but still accessible to people with disabilities who legitimately need macros or weird hardware because they only have 2 fingers or whatever.