that's exactly correct (excadrill is just so damn strong)

thanks! I truly have zero understanding of the algorithm, which in a way is nice, since I imagine that's the kind of knowledge that drives people insane over time

@@tortoisecity i think if anyone understood the algorithm youtube would be worse off because then you'd have all those bad channels making content designed to be recommended to everyone and the recommended feature would be rendered completely fucking useless. kind of like how google search nowadays is dominated by marketing teams designing their pages to be always the first which sucks since it makes search engines progressively more useless

They're vitamins.

They're like a suppliment or vitamin capsule or bottle lol

thanks! and I find so many of pokemon's item sprites to be quite odd looking, not inherently clear what they're meant to be imitating

They are more like energy capsules, since vitamins already exist, which boost a Pokémon's EV score instead (10 points a piece, I think).

You mean how it made all moves never miss? It's not _that_ broken.

horn drill and fissure all day long

lmao honestly fair most of the time they just say "increases attack" or smth like that, hard to intuit that it's a 50% boost for one

@@tortoisecity yeah, rby through rse were all infamous at not describing the intricate game mechanics, even though it's poor game design, the idea behind the game carried it so well that my 7 years old brain basically brute forced learning the mechanisms and how things worked, wasn't till years later some things I learned by being told or reading, such as burn halving attack, para quartering speed, aforementioned vitamins. How protein etc worked, EVZs and IVs and so much more however in a way the lack of information gave the game a mythical value to it, playground rumours were a fun way to try out things. It added to the fun. It doesn't however give LameFreak a pass on skipping out on vital mechanics that the player requires to win, such as in the frontier. I have such vivid memories from when i was about 6 throwing a pokeball at brock's onix only for it to bounce off. Of lanevder tower. I used to ride the bike quickly into the pokecentre or right through because the music used to scare me back then. What a game. Wouldn't trade those experiences for the world. (blog post over)

lmao would you believe I have an entire lengthy video on the subject of gamefreak not explaining things well, so I would tend to agree with you there

speedruns are super interesting, as someone who didn't do any for a long time while watching them a lot

speedruns are painful to play through and nuzlockes take forever. watching is tons of fun. i personally like nuzlockes but idk why

fair enough, there's lots of things I watch others do that I have no desire to do myself