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ComaDose
Canada10357 Posts
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jcarlsoniv
United States27922 Posts
On July 16 2014 05:38 ComaDose wrote: i literally just finished licking the cheeto dust off my fingers this moment mmm healthy afternoon snack ? tilt and eat from the bag - what are you, some kind of neanderthal? Why risk getting all that nastiness all over mouse/keyboard? | ||
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ComaDose
Canada10357 Posts
On July 16 2014 05:42 jcarlsoniv wrote: ? tilt and eat from the bag - what are you, some kind of neanderthal? Why risk getting all that nastiness all over mouse/keyboard? i can only do that after i finish the first half otherwise it spills on my face, also its louder and more disturbing to cooworkers, its a good excuse to only use my 1 hand on mouse for ~5 min with which i can browse many websites. I keep my desk pretty clean but i cannot clean inside my keyboard and it is distressing, the dust blowers do nothing. | ||
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wei2coolman
United States60033 Posts
On July 16 2014 05:44 ComaDose wrote: i can only do that after i finish the first half otherwise it spills on my face, also its louder and more disturbing to cooworkers, its a good excuse to only use my 1 hand on mouse for ~5 min with which i can browse many websites. I keep my desk pretty clean but i cannot clean inside my keyboard and it is distressing, the dust blowers do nothing. you're suppose to remove the keys, and then wipe it down. | ||
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ComaDose
Canada10357 Posts
On July 16 2014 05:45 wei2coolman wrote: you're suppose to remove the keys, and then wipe it down. i do that with my mechanical one at home but im not sure this work one would survive that. | ||
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Lord Tolkien
United States12084 Posts
On July 16 2014 05:44 ComaDose wrote: i can only do that after i finish the first half otherwise it spills on my face, also its louder and more disturbing to cooworkers, its a good excuse to only use my 1 hand on mouse for ~5 min with which i can browse many websites. I keep my desk pretty clean but i cannot clean inside my keyboard and it is distressing, the dust blowers do nothing. What kind of keyboard? As long as it isn't a laptop keyboard, you can usually disassemble it or remove the keys to clean beneath it. | ||
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kainzero
United States5211 Posts
well i like jokes in general i love playing certain sports videogames where i just utterly destroy the computer | ||
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ComaDose
Canada10357 Posts
On July 16 2014 05:48 Lord Tolkien wrote: What kind of keyboard? As long as it isn't a laptop keyboard, you can usually disassemble it or remove the keys to clean beneath it. some old microsoft one, probably dome switches, i just tried to take off a key and it looks like its got those little plastic scissor things too. i mean it looks clean on the outside and i shake it upside down I just dont think it would completely survive me prying off the keys and i can see dust inside, maybe i can take off the back or something there are screws there. | ||
MoonBear
Straight outta Johto18973 Posts
On July 16 2014 05:25 Parnage wrote: My copy of PokemonY arrived today, how to does ev training o-o? Moonbear this seems like something in your department of knowledge. Well, there are a few ways. 1. The old fashioned way Basically, you find wild Pokemon that give a certain EV stat and farm them (e.g. Zubats in caves for Speed). Pokemon XY helps this because you can get horde battles of, say, 5x Mime Jr and you get EVs from each of them. Smashing through these encounters will rack up EVs really fast, especially with things like Pokerus and Mach Brace. Of course, this is fairly end-game sort of stuff. Horde Battles are primarily for when you significantly out-level the wild Pokemon and can just AoE them all down (e.g. moves like Earthquake), and stuff like Macho Brace is end-game stuff. I mean theoretically it's possible at the beginning but it's really slow so I wouldn't advise it if you're just starting up a new game. That leads us to... 2. The new high-tech way called Super Training! Super Training is one of the things you can do in the touch-screen area (this is also where Pokemon-Amie, Wireless Connectivity, etc. all are). You can scroll between them using the arrows in the corners or the L/R trigger buttons. Super Training is a minigame where you select a Pokemon in your Party as the "Active" Pokemon and then play a mini-game with it where shoot balls at targets by tapping the screen with the stylus to get points. Get enough points and that clears the stage, giving you EV points. You get to choose the target and that determines the EVs you get, and how many of them. For example, Magnemite target gives +1 SpA EV but Magnezone target gives +12 EVs. The levels get harder of course, and the targets can also fire balls back at you which will lose you points! Different Pokemon also have different styles. For example, my Mareep shoots one ball at a time with average speed and power, while by Minccino shoots them really fast but with less power. You can also shoot charged attacks by holding down the stylus and then releasing. Mareep for example shoots a big power shot while Minccino fires off a volley of like 5 shots from its charged shot. The more EVs a Pokemon has, the more points it scores per target hit too. The in-game tutorial is pretty good at explaining how this all works so I'll let that explain the rest. At the end of each round you also get an EV Punching Bad of the same type as the stage you cleared. If you select on of these Punching Bags, you can break them on the main Super Training Screen. Tapping the screen with make your active Pokemon hit the bag once and each bag takes a different number of hits to break. If you leave the Super Training Screen as the main screen on your DS as you're running around, your Pokemon will automatically just punch the bag every now and then. Most of the punching bags are EV bags, and the more decorative the bag the more EVs it gives and the decorations follow Pokemon styles. For example, the Lampent bag gives +4 SpA EVs while the Chandelure bag gives +12 SpA EVs I think. You can also get special bags with special properties. For example, the Pink Bag gives Friendship stats, some bags give you power-ups when you play the target shooting game in Super Training, and there's a white bag that resets all your EVs completely (yay!). Super Training also displays a radar-graph that shows how many EVs a Pokemon has in each stat and a bar that fills up as you get more EVs, showing how close you are to being fully trained. Sadly it doesn't show numerical values so you still need to manually keep track but it's a nice tool nevertheless. Super Training is a great way to just EV train the exact stats you want at the very beginning of the game cause you're OCD perfectionist like that, or if you want perfect EVs on really low level Pokemon (e.g.if you play Little Cup battles). It's pretty fun and way better than just grinding hordes of wild Pokemon but it is slower than end-game horde grinding. Bulbapedia has a really great article on this if you want to read more about it. | ||
AsmodeusXI
United States15536 Posts
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Duvon
Sweden2360 Posts
Bow before the noobrame! | ||
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Frolossus
United States4779 Posts
then smogon happened and ruined the fun  | ||
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MoonBear
Straight outta Johto18973 Posts
On July 16 2014 06:40 Duvon wrote: I love how a few people have asked questions targeted at boonmare and very soon get a nice big reply. Bow before the noobrame! It's always nice to help people. ^^ On July 16 2014 06:46 Frolossus wrote: i played competitive pokemon a ton in gen4 then smogon happened and ruined the fun What did you not like about Smogon? I think they generally do a pretty good job in trying to create balance in what is otherwise a very imbalanced game. | ||
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jcarlsoniv
United States27922 Posts
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Frolossus
United States4779 Posts
On July 16 2014 06:51 MoonBear wrote: It's always nice to help people. ^^ What did you not like about Smogon? I think they generally do a pretty good job in trying to create balance in what is otherwise a very imbalanced game. i didn't agree with most of their balance changes specifically during gen4 regarding garchomp/scizor/latias/salamence then they went into this whole thing when platinum came out in japan over simulators vs the game cartridge for competitive play. eventually they took over shoddybattle as well. overall i think they adopted the worst mindset towards their game that i've ever seen from a competitive community | ||
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Parnage
United States7414 Posts
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Lord Tolkien
United States12084 Posts
such Karma~ (inb4 bulimia jokes) | ||
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PrinceXizor
United States17713 Posts
On July 16 2014 07:14 Lord Tolkien wrote: Update Two: I promptly vomit the risotto because I went to the gym too early and did too strenuous an exercise. such Karma~ (inb4 anorexia jokes) did...did... did you vomit as you were working out? because you better have yelled "ONE" afterwards. | ||
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Lord Tolkien
United States12084 Posts
On July 16 2014 07:15 PrinceXizor wrote: did...did... did you vomit as you were working out? because you better have yelled "ONE" afterwards. Held it in until I got home and had a porcelain god to pray to. <_<; | ||
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Cixah
United States11285 Posts
On July 16 2014 07:01 jcarlsoniv wrote: waveshining is hard... You dirty spacies picker .It's ok tho. I don't blame you. | ||
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