Have you ever played pokemon Clover?
Yes I have, I never made it past the last rival battle in Victory Road, though.
A few Fakemon designs are genuinely nice (Ice Owl line is so cute I wish it was real, and the Psychic Elephant too), or harmlessly funny (Oreon, the chicken nugget bird), too bad they get lost in the ocean of awful and tasteless jokemons 💔
It is packed with politically incorrect jokes everywhere and it often goes too far, but I'd lie if I said I didn't actually find a few jokes and ideas that made me smile/laugh (Freddie Mercury's ghost as one of the Gym Leaders? It's such a nonsense idea that how can you not love it?; Brock living on a meteorite in outer space to reference the guy in his Gym who says he's "light-years ahead" is a clever joke; the whole thing about one of the Fakemon being inspired by the weird painting in RSE that is said to represent a Pokemon despite clearly not looking like any; the Spooky Scary Skeletons Tower requiring something other than boring battles to be cleared was refreshing).
It also has some good ideas in terms of mechanics (it has been years since I played it but I remember liking how they reworked the HM system and I wished GameFreak actually did that too; there's an NPC that, albeit for way too much money, lets you change the PokeBall you caught a Pokemon in which is something I can't believe the real games don't have yet).
However.
The jokes really, really get annoying, overdone and tasteless real fast. The whole J/ews and n*zis thing gets dragged way too much and there are way too many a/nti
semitic jokes that keep repeating themselves throughout the game. As well as the s*xual and huhh bodily fluids jokes. Ew. And the t/ransphobic jokes. And probably many other things my brain decided to forget.
The routes are often too long and only challenging because they're too long and filled with trainers and of course you'll reach the next Healing Spot crawling because it's impossible to avoid unless you're packed to the brim with Potions, Full Heals and PP Restores.
The AI of the trainers, especially Gym Leaders and other key characters, is very high, unrightfully so. I also got the impression more than once during important battles that the game could read my moves and counter all of my decisions even if it wasn't supposed to (for instance, you recall a Pokemon to send one who is another type, the enemy picks a move that is super effective against the Pokemon you've just sent, or enemy recalls their Mon too to still have an advantage). Some of them are blatant cheaters and very hard to counter and defeat because you as a player have the RNG almost always against you and you're constantly playing against mind readers, ig.
So, in short, if anyone is wondering:
It is not worth your time, especially as a casual player. If you want to test your somewhat competitive abilities as a Pokemon player and are ready to ignore the amount of awful jokes it is filled with, then go for it I guess, but there are other hack-roms or fangames that are geared at competitive players so unless you want to use weird Fakemons and learn how low the human mind can go, they're a better option lol
(Ngl tho, from a technical point it is very well made and I'd lie if I said that it didn't make me wish I was that good at coding and stuff to create my own game)
4 notes
·
View notes
tumblr if people reblogged content as much as they're booping each other rn
11K notes
·
View notes
Great news for uninsured adults in the USA who want a COVID-19 booster! It now appears that ALL CVS locations are now active participants in the Bridge Access Program. The Bridge Access Program gives out free Covid-19 vaccinations to 18+ adults who otherwise can't afford one, so if you have a CVS near you, please go get one! For others who don't have a CVS near them, please go to vaccines.gov, click on "Find Covid-19 vaccines", fill out which vaccines you prefer (you can mix different vaccines if you have to so i reccomend just marking all of them for the age groups you need), and when the next page loads mark the "Bridge Access Program Participant" option to see only locations that are Bridge Access Program participants. Hopefully, other places that aren't CVS will start participating soon, so just check back every so often to see if there are any updates. The CDC Bridge Access Program website also has more details on what locations will be participating, but only CVS is appearing as an active participant on the vaccines.gov location finder at the moment.
16K notes
·
View notes
the thing is that they're so fascinated by sex, they love sex, they can't imagine a world without sex - they need sex to sell things, they need sex to be part of their personality, they need sex to prove their power - but they hate sex. they are disgusted by it.
sex is the only thing that holds their attention, and it is also the thing that can never be discussed directly.
you can't tell a child the normal names for parts of their body, that's sexual in nature, because the body isn't a body, it's a vessel of sex. it doesn't matter that it's been proven in studies (over and over) that kids need to know the names of their genitals; that they internalize sexual shame at a very young age and know it's 'dirty' to have a body; that it overwhelmingly protects children for them to have the correct words to communicate with. what matters is that they're sexual organs. what matters is that it freaks them out to think about kids having body parts - which only exist in the context of sex.
it's gross to talk about a period or how to check for cancer in a testicle or breast. that is nasty, illicit. there will be no pain meds for harsh medical procedures, just because they feature a cervix.
but they will put out an ad of you scantily-clad. you will sell their cars for them, because you have abs, a body. you will drip sex. you will ooze it, like a goo. like you were put on this planet to secrete wealth into their open palms.
they will hit you with that same palm. it will be disgusting that you like leather or leashes, but they will put their movie characters in leather and latex. it will be wrong of you to want sexual freedom, but they will mark their success in the number of people they bed.
they will crow that it's inappropriate for children so there will be no lessons on how to properly apply a condom, even to teens. it's teaching them the wrong things. no lessons on the diversity of sexual organ growth, none on how to obtain consent properly, none on how to recognize when you feel unsafe in your body. if you are a teenager, you have probably already been sexualized at some point in your life. you will have seen someone also-your-age who is splashed across a tv screen or a magazine or married to someone three times your age. you will watch people pull their hair into pigtails so they look like you. so that they can be sexy because of youth. one of the most common pornography searches involves newly-18 young women. girls. the words "barely legal," a hiss of glass sand over your skin.
barely legal. there are bills in place that will not allow people to feel safe in their own bodies. there are people working so hard to punish any person for having sex in a way that isn't god-fearing and submissive. heteronormative. the sex has to be at their feet, on your knees, your eyes wet. when was the first time you saw another person crying in pornography and thought - okay but for real. she looks super unhappy. later, when you are unhappy, you will close your eyes and ignore the feeling and act the role you have been taught to keep playing. they will punish the sex workers, remove the places they can practice their trade safely. they will then make casual jokes about how they sexually harass their nanny.
and they love sex but they hate that you're having sex. you need to have their ornamental, perfunctory, dispassionate sex. so you can't kiss your girlfriend in the bible belt because it is gross to have sex with someone of the same gender. so you can't get your tubes tied in new england because you might change your mind. so you can't admit you were sexually assaulted because real men don't get hurt, you should be grateful. you cannot handle your own body, you cannot handle the risks involved, let other people decide that for you. you aren't ready yet.
but they need you to have sex because you need to have kids. at 15, you are old enough to parent. you are not old enough to hear the word fuck too many times on television.
they are horrified by sex and they never stop talking about it, thinking about it, making everything unnecessarily preverted. the saying - a thief thinks everyone steals. they stand up at their podiums and they look out at the crowd and they sign a bill into place that makes sexwork even more unsafe and they stand up and smile and sign a bill that makes gender-affirming care illegal and they get up and they shrug their shoulders and write don't say gay and they get up, and they make the world about sex, but this horrible, plastic vision of it that they have. this wretched, emotionless thing that holds so much weight it's staggering. they put their whole spine behind it and they push and they say it's normal!
this horrible world they live in. disgusted and also obsessed.
28K notes
·
View notes