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guardians_song) wrote2013-11-26 11:06 am
guardians_song) wrote2013-11-26 11:06 am
Remind me to spork a Corific.
I haven't sporked in a while, and I'm probably rusty.
I've got about 200 screenshots to post from the Pokemon Red run, but... not feeling motivated. I was too exhausted last night to do anything but pass out, and... eh, the narrative style grates on me. I should play it, especially since I have a good team forming up, but I'm more tempted to play a randomizer using PsychoJoe's settings:
- The starter pokemon have been randomised, but it will be a choice between three basic pokemon with two evolutions each.
- All 'event' pokemon such as legendaries, Game Corner prizes etc have been COMPLETELY randomized.
- All wild pokemon have been COMPLETELY randomized. I prefer this to a normal Nuzlocke, although I will be attempting normal Nuzlockes in future.
- Trade evolutions are off, so Machoke, Graveler, Kadabra and Haunter will evolve through level should they find their way onto my team.
- Trainers have had their pokemon randomized, but will remain a similar type and level to the base game.
- Moves have been randomized, with preference towards the original type. Each starter will have at least one decent attacking move to begin with.
Since nothing about the actual statblocks are getting shuffled, I shouldn't wind up with Uberlaxes like Teraconic. (Different randomizer, anyway. Teraconic only did so well because Ghost-types became much more prominent in Artemis251's Randomizer.)
It would be interesting, anyway. A likely welcome-to-the-land-of-Exploding-Snorlaxes, yes, but interesting...
House Rule: Mew may not be used except as an HM Slave. Mewtwo is similarly overpowered, and thus receives the same treatment. However, the Birds are all right due to their weaknesses.
I've got about 200 screenshots to post from the Pokemon Red run, but... not feeling motivated. I was too exhausted last night to do anything but pass out, and... eh, the narrative style grates on me. I should play it, especially since I have a good team forming up, but I'm more tempted to play a randomizer using PsychoJoe's settings:
- The starter pokemon have been randomised, but it will be a choice between three basic pokemon with two evolutions each.
- All 'event' pokemon such as legendaries, Game Corner prizes etc have been COMPLETELY randomized.
- All wild pokemon have been COMPLETELY randomized. I prefer this to a normal Nuzlocke, although I will be attempting normal Nuzlockes in future.
- Trade evolutions are off, so Machoke, Graveler, Kadabra and Haunter will evolve through level should they find their way onto my team.
- Trainers have had their pokemon randomized, but will remain a similar type and level to the base game.
- Moves have been randomized, with preference towards the original type. Each starter will have at least one decent attacking move to begin with.
Since nothing about the actual statblocks are getting shuffled, I shouldn't wind up with Uberlaxes like Teraconic. (Different randomizer, anyway. Teraconic only did so well because Ghost-types became much more prominent in Artemis251's Randomizer.)
It would be interesting, anyway. A likely welcome-to-the-land-of-Exploding-Snorlaxes, yes, but interesting...
House Rule: Mew may not be used except as an HM Slave. Mewtwo is similarly overpowered, and thus receives the same treatment. However, the Birds are all right due to their weaknesses.
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...sounds like a good idea!
Because my inner masochist is dancing a vigorous samba, I'll take To Extend. It lampshades itself by accident so much it's fucking ridiculous.
...fuck, the abuse-apologism in this one is unbelievable. I might retract what I just said - this is just frickin' DISTURBING.
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Either that or he'll set the theater on fire.
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I remember there being some good stuff in Broken Souls, as I think of it, too. DAT AUTHOR'S NOTE!!!!
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Broken Souls is loopy as heck. In fairness to it, it reads like the High Anime Fanfic Melodrama I used to eat up by the ton when I first discovered fanfiction.net, so I'll cut her some slack on that just being the fanfic culture at the time. Doesn't mean it isn't massively sporkable. :P ;)
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I will say this, though--the fic that "inspired" Broken Souls, from the way Cori described it, seemed pretty stupid and melodramatic to begin with!
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I think the dead-triplets was to prevent Jessie from being a child-abandoner, and the two husbands was... I dunno, to prevent any suggestion that sweet and wonderful Jessie might have gone through multiple tumultuous relationships. Because Cori!Jessie/James ISN'T prone to massive instability? :P
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*Sigh* Yes, because heaven forbid her precious, precious heroes make any mistakes that weren't ultimately someone else's fault.
Which begs the question, actually: could Jessie's dad be considered slightly less of a Mary Sue than anyone else (not to say he's not-Mary Sue, of course)? Because, he did make a mistake in abandoning Jessie and her mother, and he did regret it ever since.
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"Which begs the question, actually: could Jessie's dad be considered slightly less of a Mary Sue than anyone else (not to say he's not-Mary Sue, of course)? Because, he did make a mistake in abandoning Jessie and her mother, and he did regret it ever since."
Naaaah, because Jessie makes plenty of dumb (AND ABUSIVE DEAR GAD THE FUCKING FEMALE-ON-MALE ABUSE APOLOGISM IT'S LITERALLY LIKE GENDERSWAPPED 50SOG) mistakes because of her emotional issues, and even gets called (temporarily) on some of them. Dorian is just as much of a Sue as his daughter.
What matters with Cori's fics is how the erring character is treated in the end. Misty gets physically and verbally abused by Team Rocket on a regular basis once she 'befriends' them, and Ash is beaten to a bloody pulp (and eventually declared insane) for his childish errors. Meanwhile, Team Rocket gets infinite hugs and kisses and sycophancy for THEIR criminal mistakes. She DOES acknowledge the errors at the time, no matter which side they're on; the difference with her precious woobies is that she nullifies them.
(Heck, remember that The Difference STARTED OUT with Jessie being eaten alive by guilt for having betrayed the villagers that had been so good to them. The Sueishness is that it ENDED with A FESTIVAL IN THEIR HONOR, A STATUE DEDICATED TO THEM, AND ALL THE FOOD THEY COULD EAT. D8
I mean, literally, I could not make this shit up even in a parody. By the end there, that fic was just sporking itself.)