Imaginym

Yo it's me.
Would you be free to take a look at this thread, since you're quite knowledgeable on Pokemon in general? The matchup in question isn't my expertise nor is it mine but it's been around for months on end.

I agreed to help this user get some people to vote on their match. Are you familar enough with Jimmy Hopkins?

Hey how's it going? Do you mind chatting on Discord? My Discord is: hellothere1089

What do you think ?

Hey. I'm restarting an old match that never got resolved before the Gingerbread Man's profile got deleted. I managed to get it moved to the Joke Battles Wiki, so now I am trying to get this match started again so it can reach the conclusion it was denied long ago. I am currently contacting people who were in the discussion of the match in the past. You were involved in the past discussion. Are you interested in participating again?

By fire be purged? By fire be purged.

Can I get a vote here?

Yo could you come and vote here, since you've been active in the tourney thread compared to the participants. We need this for the future matches to not slow to a bloody crawl.

Heyo, weird to post it here, but I couldn't find your original comment. I recall you mentioned in the Pokemon thread that you were somewhat confused as to why Kieran in Pokemon Scarlet/Violet turned out to be the kind of guy he was. At the moment I didn't have the DLC so I didn't even know who Kieran was, but recently I went through the two DLC episodes and saw it for myself. Honestly, yeah, he's kind of a self-centered ass, but... huh... I liked that? How to put it?
I guess what I liked is that, they never played the sobstory card, they could have easily brought up some exposition that Kieran was bullied in school, that his parents are dead or somethig like that for quick sympathy, but they didn't, they just let the events talk for themselves and show a screw up of a kid. Helps that the story shows you what led to his change, but doesn't excuse it or try to hard to make it sympathetic or tragic (the usual is to just ramp up the tragedy or show a despicable villain was behind everything, nothing of that here, Kieran had to own up to his mistakes), it's shown that while the events affected Kieran, his own issues also contributed a lot. My only gripe is that the issue was solved in your typical "epiphany" fashion: character gets a realization and the problem is over, when it would have been interesting to at least have a talk regarding his issues.

And to be honest, Kieran's frustration with the Player Character does hold some water, as Pokémon games have kept going the pandering to the player from the game is more and more blatant and the game goes out of its way to make you the most special cookie in the universe, every success falls on your lap and everyone will go out of their way to tell you how much better than everything you are. I know that being able to do everything is part of the gameplay experience and choices, but the game can be a bit patronizing regarding it. Honestly, Kieran's drama almost comes as self-awareness from the game itself.

At the risk of of being repetitive, I can get why Kieran comes as unlikeable, but I think it's because we are too used at characters having nominal or romanticized flaws instead of genuine unlikeable traits and for the story to give us excuses that justifies their actions, be it tragedy, well meaning but misaimed actions, a true hidden villiain or if a character is a genuine screw up it's because they went through a outrageous amount of trauma that would send to a madhouse a person in real life. The game itself introduced Arven as a jerk, but shortly after gave us that he was taking care of a sick puppy, Team Star is shown as a bunch of delinquents, but then it goes out of their way to emphazise how everything was the fault of their bullies and they were just victims. So Kieran, having legitimate unlikable traits, not having a tragic and sympathetic backstory, not going through a conga of suffering and simply having more grounded issues came as... odd.

Excuse me

May I have a vote from you

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Thanks

James_Plays_4_Games said:

Any support is no problem to me. I recommend watching BFDI if you enjoy the drama of characters getting removed little by little until one wins a prize, based on viewer voting.

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Imaginym said:

Yeah, that could be a way to pass the time.
Apologies for the off-topic, but what's the newest season or such called & when's it from?

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It's a little complicated. Currently, season 2 and season 5 are active at the same time. Those are Battle for Dream Island Again and Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two respectively.

The first five episodes of BFDIA were released in 2012 and 2013 until it got temporarily canceled. Season 3 titled dnalsI maerD roF elttaB was released during 2016, with only one episode before getting canceled, which as far as I'm aware was because of a change of plan in the show's return. Season 4 titled Battle for BFDI was released in 2017, and it basically rebooted the entire series, but as a massive time-skip so all the previous seasons would still be canon. This season was originally meant to be goofy and low effort, enough to handle the huge main cast of characters it established, but quality slowly rose and expectations became too high, so during 2020 as of episode 16, the huge cast of characters was split, and season 5 started before season 4 finished. Post-split BFB is meant to be goofy and low effort, with episodes having been released quickly, while BFDI:TPOT is meant to be high effort and long-term, with this actually being the aim this time. TPOT started in 2021 and is ongoing. After BFB finished in 2021, BFDIA took its place as the goofy season, having released episode 6 during late 2023, and is still ongoing.

I find the BFDI series inconvenient for newcomers who intend to understand the story and continuity. I can provide clarifications if you would like them.

Sure hope you're not feeling burnt out this time. Anyway, I have another CRT that I could use some help with

Got any matches for this guy?

Yo what’s up

A'm aff tae be making malakai makaiison, he's aff tae be 8-a 'n' be usin` guns... Dae ye hae ony matches fur him?

So, I've recently gotten to do this. Can you perhaps help?

By the way since there seems to be at least one stargate person here.


Jaffa is on the runway and I'm doing some final preparations. Death Glider and alkesh are next. Could use feedback.

I have a near baseline 6-C now! Just uh... check the skill section before popping him into a match

Since you are a Dragon Ball fan, I was wondering if you could give thoughts on my General Blue thread.

Post Flashpoint Batman vs General Blue

So which Pokémon should I throw this rat at?

You got any 7-As?

I need some sort of analysis or vote here

Please read the following thread and write a reply there about what you think of my revision proposal.
Impostor Speed Formatting (Among Us)

Thought you might be interested in this CRT since you seemed to have some knowledge on the Jackie Chan Adventures verse from the 2018 thread.

Figured you might like these lol

Hi. Saw you were interested in a possible Archie Comics General Discussion, soooo... here it is.

Sorry for bothering but are you a boy or a girl ?

Could you do this for me? I want Giga Queen's feat to have an actual Class M value.

Got any matches for this guy?

Hi, How are you.
3 years ago this match was supposed to happen but due to tier changes did not took place.
Now in 2023 both characters are High 6-A, Would you be fine if I do this fight as a Rematch since you have info on Pokemon ?

Hey Imaginym can you reply in this match?

Hi can you pick either side and vote here both have given their reasoning could use someone as professional as you here if possible.

Interested?

Hiya, got questions
1-What are haxless characters ? Any examples of this "term"
2-What do you define as "Low Hax" when it comes to debating.