Pokemon Umbral Discussion 32: Ultimate Showdown of Ascended Classes

[Dracorion]

Originally Posted by Geminex

Wheee! Survived the flight, slightly jetlagged, but nothing too severe. Time to get back to exercising my reign of terror.

You don't inspire terror and you certainly don't have a reign. I've been telling you this since forever: try harder. Or better yet: do something.

Originally Posted by Geminex

More situational than most other pokemon, I'd say. Most pokemon have more than just one use, whereas your anti-cheater would be just that: An anti-cheater. Good against assholes, but not much else. Question is just how many assholes we'll be facing.

How many bosses have we faced this mission alone? Pokegeddon and Wildfire. And there's still Major Grant, Discord, Lucian and Miyo to go. And that's just this mission.

Other missions will presumably have a comparable amount of assholes.

Originally Posted by Geminex

See, Drac sometimes does something like this. He takes something I say, some quote, some minor detail and tries to misconstrue it as an obstacle to my... operations. Thing about that is, you're creating something out of nothing, or trying to. You're telling me there's a barrier, and then you're weakly justifying that barrier. But see, it's not a very well-supported barrier. It's crumbling and unimpressive and when you look closely you realise, it's not actually there. The only way it could... hinder me is if I agreed with you that, yes indeed, the quotes and details you've so meticulously cited are valid reasons to demand my... cessation, if I agreed that there's a barrier there. Of course, if that were the case were, if your protests were based on a formal agreement or promise, then, I assure you, I would not be attempting my protests in the first place. The fact that I'm acting in a certain manner should be enough of an indicator that I think my actions are... justified. And I do. Your protests are immaterial, your wall is nonexistent. In the spirit of generosity I offered to give you a chance to prove my mollesk-related protests wrong. You had that chance, failed. I said that I had forgotten my criticism, that was true for the time being. But then... I remembered, if you will. There's nothing contractual there, friend. It's not nearly as absolute as you'd like me to believe. Quite the opposite; like I said, it's immaterial. And my protests... stand.

Responding to the highlighted portion: except, you know, maybe, juuuuuust maybe, by some freak occurence of nature, the planets aligned and there was a solar flare and you just happened to be wrong in thinking your actions are justified. You know, maybe.

I'm not referring to my attempt to screw you over with some obscure quote. That was admittedly bullshit. Something I did for giggles. Hell, I'm not even referring to Menarker's attempt. That was bullshit too.

Originally Posted by Geminex

If this were a real-life relationship this would be the part where you get a tattoo and piercings, just to spite me.

Maybe if I were talking about you. But I can understand why you might've thought I was: I forgot the universe revolves around you.

Originally Posted by Geminex

Yes. Yeeeesssss....
You have chosen well, milord. I will go out. I will read, model, analyse...
I will create...
BALANCE!

You mean "BALANCE", right? Either way, you shouldn't be in charge of balancing anything. Make proposals, sure.

Originally Posted by Geminex

The way AB described it, it only works on NPCs. No Impact mind-reading for you. You're gonna have to find a better way to justify Pierce's distrust, friggin' oath-breaker.

Again, not talking about you. Pierce is going to be rather self-conscious after his sidequest, and he'll want to know what the others think of him.

Originally Posted by Geminex

Usually, I'd protest that Pierce isn't nearly awesome enough for that, but fair enough. I really don't mind too much. More power for Pierce means more power for me, yah?
In fact, if you really need more sigtech slots, maybe AB'd agree to letting you purchase another sigtech at the cost of a level-up. Meaning that instead of getting a level in a class upon levelup, you'd design and get another sigtech.

I can't really spare a level. Or rather, I really really don't want to. Also, if Pierce isn't awesome enough, no one is. Certainly not Impact.

I mean, what has Impact done? Become leader by being a whiny little bitch? And the flipping the fuck out whenever someone dares to do something for themselves? Not to mention, being obviously evil.

Anyway, maybe I could, I dunno, spend a level on just a Signature Technique? Not sell one, because then I'd just be left with fourteen. Rather, make it so that, say, Demon Half Level 4 gives an extra Signature Technique and nothing else.

Alternatively, can I redesign Aura Blade and Focus Ray?

Originally Posted by Geminex

How did the custom-move discussion end, by the way? Do trainers still get the choice between a Co-Op technique, or a rage-free custom move, instead of a signature technique?

We get one signature move for custom pokemon like Mollesk or Enmakki. More moves have to be gotten as custom moves from upgrades. And Dialga's Time Distortion became a Pokemon Co-Op.

Originally Posted by Geminex

And finally, what the hell is "ability shift" gonna be? Because if it involves giving pokemon abilities that they don't have natually, fuck that. Abilities aren't balanced at all, they're usually either thematic, or they compensate for a pokemon's weaknesses, or they accacerbate a pokemon's intended role. Shifting them around would be a major, major thing.

I think it was stated the the abilities have to be thematic. For example, I can't give Tyranitar Water Absorb. I could instead, rather, give it Sand Veil.


Anyway, I realize I may have been particularly hurtful toward you in this post. But frankly, it does get rather annoying when you constantly go on and on about being an evil genius and how terrifying you are. That said, you're a silly doodle, and will you tone it the fuck down?

I mean, at least I try to keep my annoyingness varied.