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So, today was election day in the Netherlands (well, for one part of the government, at least, but details). As you might know,the Dutch government doesn't just consist of two parties wning about 9% of the seats, but rather a whole bunch of different parties. Now, although I really like this (it pretty much ensures you don't have to pick between two evils like in the last US presidential elections), it... tends to get a bit silly at times.
This is (apparently) the USA presidential pre-election ballot: http://www.ci.neenah.wi.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/April-5-2016-Sample-Ballot-W9_Page_1.jpg It's small, clear, and seems like it fits on one A4 page.
And THIS is the voting ballot for the Dutch elections (And no, that is not me on that pic): http://images0.tcdn.nl/binnenland/article27430626.ece/BINARY/u/Screen+Shot+2017-01-13+at+21.54.44
...So yeah. Note that that latest pic is from quite a while back; this year's ballot is even larger XD.
This is (apparently) the USA presidential pre-election ballot: http://www.ci.neenah.wi.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/April-5-2016-Sample-Ballot-W9_Page_1.jpg It's small, clear, and seems like it fits on one A4 page.
And THIS is the voting ballot for the Dutch elections (And no, that is not me on that pic): http://images0.tcdn.nl/binnenland/article27430626.ece/BINARY/u/Screen+Shot+2017-01-13+at+21.54.44
...So yeah. Note that that latest pic is from quite a while back; this year's ballot is even larger XD.
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I was going to say that the US presidential ballots, and even the primary ballots, vary by state (as the image you linked to definitely isn't what the one in my state looked like), and that some might be more complex than others, but... yeah, I'm pretty sure there aren't any states whose ballots look like that. O_O
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Yeah, I don't really have that much knowledge about the US elections, I have to admit that. But from what I could find on Google, they at least all look relatively simple. In the end, I just ended up picking the one that had a recent date on it :P
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Welp, the preliminary results are in, and god am I relieved that the PVV (The Partij Voor de Vrijheid, or the Party For Freedom, AKA the local right-wing conservative nutcases) seems to stay relatively small. If the current exit polls are anything to go by, the Tweede Kamer (roughly comparible to the House of Commons) is going to be somewhere between right-progressive and center-progressive.
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It must be nice to live in a country where "election season" is more like two weeks long rather than two years...
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Very much so, yes, (though it's more like two months or so, but again, details).
Personally, I voted for the Green Party. Not that I agree with them 100% on evertyhing (then again, who does with any political party, but I figured it was my best choice to keep another party out of the government. Currently, the big three are:
VVD [People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, right-liberal] -- 31
CDA [Christian Democrats] -- 19
D66 [Democrats 66, the number referring to their founding year] --19
This totals out at 69 out of the 150 seats, so a minority, which means they have to find another party to join them too. The SP [Socialist Party] is too left for them to even consider it, the PvdA [ Labour Party] seemed like it would become a fringe party after they essentially formed a right-wing government even though they re supposed to be a left-wing party, and the PvdD (Animal Party. Yes, we actually have a political party who mainly focuses on animal welfare, though nature care in general is also a main point for them) is also a fringe party. This left GL (Green-Left) as the only viable option to keep the PVV out of the government. So... yay for that plan seeming to pay off, I guess? I mean, formation hasn't even started yet, but still.
By the way, GL gained 16 seats in total, more than enough to bring the total over the necessary 75 votes. So yay for now ^_^?
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Ok, I have mixed feelings about that ending.
On the one hand, it is really nice to see Pokemon mix things up and go beyond its usual formulas -- you know, throw some surprises at you for a change.
On the other hand...
WHEN I DEFEAT THE CHAMPION OF THE ELITE FOUR, I AM EXPECTING THE CREDITS TO ROLL SHORTLY AFTERWARDS.
I AM NOT EXPECTING TO BE THROWN INTO A LEGENDARY POKEMON BATTLE, WITHOUT EVEN HAVING THE CHANCE TO SAVE BEFOREHAND -- MUCH LESS STOCK UP ON ULTRA BALLS OR VISIT THE PC.
YOU CAN'T JUST THROW ME INTO THAT SHIT WITHOUT ANY WARNING. I WAS NOT PREPARED. OWO"""
And, I did capture it, but... I almost wasn't able to... owo""" And I'm really curious as to what would've happened if I blacked out (which almost happened, given how many turns I spent throwing balls). Like, everything from the moment of defeating the Champion to the battle with Tapu Koko was pure cutscene, and then there was a bunch more cutscene after I caught it, so I honestly don't know where the game would've started back up again...
On the one hand, it is really nice to see Pokemon mix things up and go beyond its usual formulas -- you know, throw some surprises at you for a change.
On the other hand...
WHEN I DEFEAT THE CHAMPION OF THE ELITE FOUR, I AM EXPECTING THE CREDITS TO ROLL SHORTLY AFTERWARDS.
I AM NOT EXPECTING TO BE THROWN INTO A LEGENDARY POKEMON BATTLE, WITHOUT EVEN HAVING THE CHANCE TO SAVE BEFOREHAND -- MUCH LESS STOCK UP ON ULTRA BALLS OR VISIT THE PC.
YOU CAN'T JUST THROW ME INTO THAT SHIT WITHOUT ANY WARNING. I WAS NOT PREPARED. OWO"""
And, I did capture it, but... I almost wasn't able to... owo""" And I'm really curious as to what would've happened if I blacked out (which almost happened, given how many turns I spent throwing balls). Like, everything from the moment of defeating the Champion to the battle with Tapu Koko was pure cutscene, and then there was a bunch more cutscene after I caught it, so I honestly don't know where the game would've started back up again...
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Goodness, that fight annoyed me. I only had like four ultra balls and my master ball to catch it. Guess what I had to use.
At least give us a warning or something jeez.
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And when the battle started, I was thinking, "Ok, this won't be so bad. They've been making the legendaries really easy to catch in recent games. I caught Solgaleo on my first throw, and I'm pretty sure something similar happened for Xerneas and Mewtwo in X. And throwing you into an old-school-difficulty-level legendary battle without being able to save would just be cruel. Yeah, I'm sure this won't be super difficult..."
BUT NO
TYPICAL LEGENDARY-BATTLE ROUTINE. NOT SET TO SUPER-EASY.
I'm just really glad that my Raichu knows Nuzzle. In battle, I mainly use it to paralyze the opponent while doing a little bit of damage (since that move's power is only like, what, 20?). Unfortunately, electric-types like Tapu Koko are immune to paralysis (and, other than poison and burn, there weren't any other status conditions that my team was capable of inflicting... >_<"), but, I was at least able to use Nuzzle to whittle its health down. It was really the only move that any Pokemon on my team knew that would be good for cautiously lowering a Pokemon's health...
Also, do wild Pokemon have PP in this game? Or can they just attack infinitely? After a while, I got worried that Tapu Koko would struggle itself to death. ><
BUT HEY, at least this isn't Gen I, where legendaries can dodge the balls you throw at them, and even a Master Ball has a very slim chance of failing due to Gamefreak's inability to program probability correctly.
And at least it isn't Gen III, where the entire Hoenn legendary trio knew Rest. (WHYYYY)
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And now, for the next installment of "why is this particular game so much fun to break":
In an "out-of-bounds glitch city" (which is a slightly different thing than a normal glitch city, but can be accessed by going to the regular glitch city and then poking a few things under the right conditions), all of the seemingly-random scrambled map data is actually based off of the items in your bag (or at least, some OOB glitch cities work that way... it's complicated). While the concept of making the game read one set of data as something completely different isn't exactly new, the interesting thing about this is that it allows you to modify the overworld by modifying the items in your bag, and vice versa. If you don't have a walk-through-walls glitch enabled, then a glitch city is normally very difficult to navigate -- but in an out-of-bounds glitch city, you can rearrange the objects in the overworld by moving around the items in your bag, therefore clearing a path for yourself. And because every object in the overworld corresponds to some piece of data in your bag, your items can be corrupted or modified by interacting with the overworld.
"This cuttable tree corresponds to the poke-doll in my bag. If I cut it, the poke-doll will be replaced with a glitch item."
"And this cuttable tree corresponds to the quantity of rare candies in my bag. Cutting the tree will cause my number of rare candies to jump to 108."
Seriously, why is the game like this? XD
I kind of feel like it would be better to stop posting about glitchy Pokemon things here and turn that into a series of blogs instead -- but I'm noticing that things seem to be pretty quiet around here, otherwise... and I'm not sure I want the OOC to go silent... o_o"
In an "out-of-bounds glitch city" (which is a slightly different thing than a normal glitch city, but can be accessed by going to the regular glitch city and then poking a few things under the right conditions), all of the seemingly-random scrambled map data is actually based off of the items in your bag (or at least, some OOB glitch cities work that way... it's complicated). While the concept of making the game read one set of data as something completely different isn't exactly new, the interesting thing about this is that it allows you to modify the overworld by modifying the items in your bag, and vice versa. If you don't have a walk-through-walls glitch enabled, then a glitch city is normally very difficult to navigate -- but in an out-of-bounds glitch city, you can rearrange the objects in the overworld by moving around the items in your bag, therefore clearing a path for yourself. And because every object in the overworld corresponds to some piece of data in your bag, your items can be corrupted or modified by interacting with the overworld.
"This cuttable tree corresponds to the poke-doll in my bag. If I cut it, the poke-doll will be replaced with a glitch item."
"And this cuttable tree corresponds to the quantity of rare candies in my bag. Cutting the tree will cause my number of rare candies to jump to 108."
Seriously, why is the game like this? XD
I kind of feel like it would be better to stop posting about glitchy Pokemon things here and turn that into a series of blogs instead -- but I'm noticing that things seem to be pretty quiet around here, otherwise... and I'm not sure I want the OOC to go silent... o_o"
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More important question: How in the name of Arceus do people even figure all of this shit out? XD
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The game's been out for over 20 years now. Bored tech-savvy nerds have had lots of time to dissect it. XD
Also, ZZAZZ Glitch, the guy I keep getting most of these videos from, uses a program that lets him see the entire code of the game and which values are being changed in real-time. So with that in mind, you can see how one can say "Ah, yes, viewing the sprite of this glitch pokemon corrupts this other part of the game's code... for... some reason!" And then, by making sense of the patterns that emerge in these changes, what areas of the code are being affected and under what conditions, and what those changes will cause the game to do when the corrupted code is read -- you can see how people have been able to figure out some pretty intricate stuff.
Honestly I'm more surprised at the things that haven't been figured out yet. Like, after you successfully capture 'M, the battle continues as normal, as if you didn't catch it at all. And if you then catch the "phantom" 'M that you were left fighting after the first capture, the game will treat it as a Ditto.
You will have captured 'M, and you will have captured a mostly normal Ditto, with the only weird thing about it being that it still has 'M's level (which is often 0). Its attacks, stats, and all its other behavior are all perfectly normal.
No one knows why this happens.
People have dug deep enough into this game to figure out how to re-program it to do damn near anything we want. We still don't know why capturing 'M results in the battle continuing with a "phantom" 'M that the game treats as a Ditto after capture.
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Obviously this happens due to a trolling Rotom. One that is somehow capable of possessing all Pokémon RBY games in existence at the same time. Obviously.
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Another wonderful little glitch update:
You know how you can transfer Pokemon from the VC versions of Red/Blue/Yellow to Sun and Moon?
Well, Gamefreak did think to put in a filter so that glitch Pokemon like Missingno cannot be transferred. However... attempting to transfer Missingno still causes other weird things to happen. Like screwing up the nicknames of any pokemon that are in the same box as Missingno.
Oh, Gamefreak. You never cease to entertain... XD
Although, now I'm really curious as to what might happen when attempting to transfer other glitch pokemon... or normal-ish pokemon with glitchy attributes. Missingno is a hugely well-known glitch, to the point where Nintendo even made an official statement about it (which can still be found on their website to this day. ...and is still completely inaccurate), but there's a lot of glitchy nonsense in those games that wasn't even discovered until years after they were released. Makes me wonder what else those filters might overlook...
You know how you can transfer Pokemon from the VC versions of Red/Blue/Yellow to Sun and Moon?
Well, Gamefreak did think to put in a filter so that glitch Pokemon like Missingno cannot be transferred. However... attempting to transfer Missingno still causes other weird things to happen. Like screwing up the nicknames of any pokemon that are in the same box as Missingno.
Oh, Gamefreak. You never cease to entertain... XD
Although, now I'm really curious as to what might happen when attempting to transfer other glitch pokemon... or normal-ish pokemon with glitchy attributes. Missingno is a hugely well-known glitch, to the point where Nintendo even made an official statement about it (which can still be found on their website to this day. ...and is still completely inaccurate), but there's a lot of glitchy nonsense in those games that wasn't even discovered until years after they were released. Makes me wonder what else those filters might overlook...
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Personally, I would use a whitelist instead of a blacklist. It's much easier to make the system only accept mons 1-150 and auto-block everything else than to make sure you block every single glitch mon there is (of which I'm pretty sure there are more than there are normal mons). Of course, that doeasn't say anything about all of the other funky effects these glitch mons can have, but hey :P.
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Well, it probably is a whitelist, but some glitch pokemon are sort of a "glitch hybrid" of a real species, and share certain attributes with that real species. For example, "h poke" is a hybrid of Gengar -- and if you catch h poke while Gengar is already registered as "owned" in your pokedex, then the game won't treat h poke as a newly-obtained species and show you its pokedex entry (which is good, because its pokedex entry soft-locks the game). So, at the very least, we know that the original games themselves can somewhat mistake a glitch pokemon for a real species...
Also, in addition to glitch species of pokemon, there are also valid pokemon with glitchy attributes -- such as, a Ditto that was captured from a phantom 'M (and could therefore be at level 0), a Ditto that was obtained normally but later glitched so that it forgot Transform and now knows only a ridiculous glitch move, a Kangaskhan that evolved from an 'M (and therefore has a very bizarre moveset), a Rhydon that could've originally been any one of numerous glitch species, etc. Makes me wonder if anything else might be overlooked if one of these is transferred. :P
Also, even assuming it is a whitelist -- I do know that it accepts species 1-151, not 150 -- because it lets you transfer Mew, even though Mew is literally impossible to obtain without using a glitch. :P
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Finally got a post up for Trigun, after a very long wait. I have more planned for SU's post, but, since it's considerably longer, it'll be a longer wait.
I doubt that @AquaTheLita will mind, however. I know that she's been very busy IRL, which is why I didn't feel bad about putting those Trigun/SU posts on the backburner for so long in the first place. I plan on contacting her off-site just to make sure she gets this update on what I've been up to, but, yeah, I think we'll both be ok with letting those interactions move at a very slow pace for now... especially since the only people we're holding up are each other. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I doubt that @AquaTheLita will mind, however. I know that she's been very busy IRL, which is why I didn't feel bad about putting those Trigun/SU posts on the backburner for so long in the first place. I plan on contacting her off-site just to make sure she gets this update on what I've been up to, but, yeah, I think we'll both be ok with letting those interactions move at a very slow pace for now... especially since the only people we're holding up are each other. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯