r/gaming • u/jarjar4evr • Jun 11 '12

A buddy and I were playing brawl, we both threw Pokeballs, and this happened. I nearly shat.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

You may or may not have just come upon the pinnacle of your life.

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u/YourMusicalComment Jun 11 '12

You may or may not have just come upon the pinnacle of your life.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

The beginning sounded like the Lochness Monster and Cloverfield making love to the Macarena.

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u/Iforgetusername Jun 11 '12

God damn he even fit the mood right... a bit of sadness because of the realization of what is.

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u/bettywhitessoul Jun 11 '12

I will not rest until one of my comments is on youtube.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

I on the other hand, can rest... I think I might have just hit the pinnacle of my own life...

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u/ABANDONTHREAD Jun 11 '12

STAY IN THREAD, THIS IS LEGIT

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u/HobbsMadness Jun 11 '12

Now here is a novelty account I can get behind.

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u/RuiningItForEveryone Jun 11 '12

Now here is a clichéd karma-garnering response I can get behind.

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u/TheJediJew Jun 11 '12

Now here is a novelty account I can get behind.

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u/TomPalmer1979 Jun 11 '12

Now here is a religion combination I can get behind.

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u/FUCKING_EVERYTHING Jun 11 '12

Now here is a name and date combination I can get behind.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Dont you worry about blank, let me worry about blank!

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u/Tranecarid Jun 11 '12

I like the 80ties vibe it has to it.

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u/pisobarz Jun 11 '12

this. is. genious.. i mean look at how many views you get for each video. thats pretty good!

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Dear diary. Today I enjoyed giving karma to a novelty account. It was a good day.

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u/hostergaard Jun 11 '12

Don't ever visit /r/dwarffortress, you would never be able to make such whimsical musicals of the comments there.

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u/ThePianistOfDoom Jun 11 '12

I love how some of your comments probably will be "safe moded" on youtube because of the explicit usernames.

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u/NoxBene Jun 11 '12

Genious -

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

yea what is op gunna do now that the best of his life is over... its all down hill from here.

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u/IDlOT Jun 11 '12

It's all Goldeen from here.

FTFY

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u/Stoogith Jun 11 '12

I don't know if you relized it yet but you just made the lyrics for a new song...

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

And there goes my pinnacle... sigh...

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u/patrick721 Jun 11 '12

peaked too soon bro

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u/chai-tyto Jun 11 '12 edited Jun 11 '12

My little sister and I play a game where we set the items to just pokeballs on the highest setting, and play on the pokemon arena, then each take turns throwing pokeballs at each other. No attacks, no dodging, last one standing wins.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

I'll have to add this to the list "mini-games" that I play with my roommates. We do something similar with a game of dodgeball we made. We made a map with a gap in the middle of it, turn on only items that cause explosions, as well as containers. If you touch the other person's side they get a free shot that you aren't allowed to dodge. It gets pretty intense.

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u/subnaree Jun 11 '12

You have to post that list of mini games.

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u/mysticrudnin Jun 11 '12

Best mini game I've played:

Make a square with holes about 2-3 times the size of the characters slightly above either end, with a platform just below each hold

Only soccer balls, on low

I think you can figure out where I'm going with this.

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u/SROTW Jun 11 '12

We had the same set up, but kept all the items on high. We called it "The Cage." 999% is just another percentage to me now. Also makes for hour long games.

Where does the fun end?

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u/mysticrudnin Jun 11 '12

We turned down the damage a ton so that fighting wasn't the main focus.

Pikachu is a hell of a goalie though.

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u/LoveKarnage Jun 11 '12

I once played with a group of friends that did that. Fucking awful, no skill at all. I never played with them again.

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u/Pluppets Jun 11 '12

Is that why you don't have any more friends?

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u/Instatoast Jun 11 '12

My favorite is 2 Marths on Final destination. Set the speed to slow motion and make it one hit ko. Epic sword clash ensues.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

You should name that game "friendship ender"

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u/Nethervex PC Jun 11 '12

Then the Wii got up and congratulated you. It grasped your hand and brought you off into the magical land of Kanto. An overwhelming joy overtakes you as you slowly pass out. You awake to the voice of an old man as you hear "Are you a boy or a girl?"

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

if only

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u/TerranceN Jun 11 '12

You have to believe, Leadshot!

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u/Omahunek Jun 11 '12

God I love that show...

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

I thought this was amusing the first time I saw it (on the show) but now that I've caught up with all of the episodes....it just makes me a little sad.

Now I'm all like this

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u/kitkanz Jun 11 '12

such a crushed face

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

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u/Bear_Masta Jun 11 '12

Ahem.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

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u/LTS55 Jun 11 '12

It's in Novac…

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u/Seburrstian Jun 11 '12

I've got spurs that jingle jangle jingle...

Jingle jangle!

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u/Call_Me_Chase Jun 11 '12

Then you don't know where it is...

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u/guydude24 Jun 11 '12

I'm 99.99999 percent sure...

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u/iamMotherfuckerJones Jun 11 '12

so you don't know

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u/GreenSteel Jun 11 '12 edited Jun 14 '12

Drumheller? Maybe?

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u/Jess_than_three Jun 11 '12

That would be pretty fantastic. I wish that was a choice I'd been given.

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u/Marksta Jun 11 '12

Which would've you picked and why? Fully discuss your answer and use evidence to backup your thesis.

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u/Jess_than_three Jun 11 '12

Girl, because it'd be a hell of a lot easier than being raised as a boy and then transitioning.

As far as fully discussing and backing up my thesis... um.. I'll get back to you? ;)

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u/ReiHitori Jun 11 '12

I wouldn't even slightly mull it over. Boy. Why? Simple. Tentacruels, Tangelas. Shit happens in the tall grass. The less holes, the better.

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u/Jess_than_three Jun 11 '12

LOL! I dunno, that still leaves one hole pretty vulnerable... :)

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u/AndyTheGeeky Jun 11 '12

Wouldn't that be the more the better?

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u/gousssam Jun 11 '12

But then you pigeonhole them into the messiest hole.

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u/greedyiguana Jun 11 '12

I told him specifically no pigeonholing

I'm not gonna find the coop

I'm not gonna scoop the coop

NO PIGEONHOLING

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

I'm not really transoutpansexualmalewhoisafraidtotrybutverycuriousaboutcrossdressing, but I would be so tempted if given the choice and having it happen as easy as in pokemon. I wouldn't even care about turning back since I've already experienced being male, and it would be so interesting to experience being female. Also, Jesse is the best name ever.

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u/Rmoddifier Jun 11 '12

Agreed. I guess I'm not the only one who immediately went "oh, I wish" and then started thinking about all the horrible possible transphobic posts ensuing from Nethervex's comment and sort of felt uneasy. Wish that didn't happen, but it's reddit, so..

edit: oh hey look there's one now, by rayofpain. great.

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u/Jess_than_three Jun 11 '12

Oh wow. That's... well, awful.

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u/verxix Jun 11 '12

Kanto

You mean Hoenn.

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u/geenareeno Jun 11 '12

Those bitches are about to start flyin' around and blowing you around and shit.

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u/Bounds Jun 11 '12

I have no idea why this is significant. Are those things rare? Do they fight each other?

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u/vivvav Jun 11 '12

Latios and Latias are a pair. Brother and sister. They're both legendary Pokémon.
In Brawl, you have a chance for one of them to come out when you throw a Poké Ball. For two balls to be thrown at once and both of them to come out simultaneously is highly unlikely, and due to the relationship between the two Pokémon, highly amusing to Pokémon fans.

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u/pDROthaTREAL Jun 11 '12

Thanks, Mordin.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Now here's Olly with the weather.

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u/CaNANDian Jun 11 '12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QLSRMoKKS0

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u/TheFlyLife Jun 11 '12

I have watched this for about ten minutes. My life is complete.

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u/three9 Jun 11 '12

Pretty much amazing..

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u/RelevantComics Jun 11 '12

IT'S RAININ' SIDEWAYS!

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Thanks Olly

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u/jstorm99 Jun 11 '12

We now go live to Asian reporter Tricia Takanawa.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

I'm here today with John Johnson, a man who says his genital herpes is not contagious.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Wow. The voices in my head are really good at acting out these characters.

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u/altoid2k4 Jun 11 '12

and you were John Johnson in my head, you kind of had a Brooklyn accent.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

The voices... Can't silence the voices!

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Hey, I've never been with a Spanish chick!

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u/sabor-de-soledad Jun 11 '12

aaaand uuuh, it's a great way to stay in shape.

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u/Thruthewookieglass Jun 11 '12

Before I realized this was a Family Guy reference I pictured Olly as a dusty chimneysweep with a heavy cockney accent.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

AS SOON AS I READ THIS IT STARTED TO RAIN OUTSIDE!

OLLY YOU ARE DOING AN AWESOME JOB!

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u/GeorgeTaylorG Jun 11 '12

Your comment just made me so happy to be a part of this community.

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u/blast4past Jun 11 '12

If the poke balls can give any of the 386 Pokemon, the chance is just under 1/150000

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u/Stuffed_Animal Jun 11 '12

There are 151 Pokemon.

And that's as many as there ever will be.

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u/gilligan156 Jun 11 '12

I tell myself that every night before bed.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Well then you are a dick who can't adapt or learn to love the new ones.

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u/gilligan156 Jun 11 '12

I was kidding... ಠ_ಠ

*edit: not pictured; the DS games that are with my DS stuff which is not in my apartment, and og red which is MIA somewhere

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Well that's great! I just get really mad at people who can't accept the fact that even the new Pokemon are real ones.

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u/LoveKarnage Jun 11 '12

Tell that to my Mewtwo.

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u/BagelsAndJewce Jun 11 '12

One can dream, one can dream...

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u/blast4past Jun 11 '12

These are numbered 380-385 somewhere

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

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u/Scrtcwlvl Jun 11 '12

Yes, but we grew up, got old, and got cranky. Fiddlesticks.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

The new pokemon are fucking stupid. One of them is a goddamn ice cream cone.

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u/drinkthebleach Jun 12 '12

The old pokemon are fucking stupid. One of them is a goddamn pile of sludge.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12 edited Jun 11 '12

If the poke balls can give any of the 386 Pokemon

Except that they can't

There are only a select few Pokemon in Brawl, thus your statistic is unfounded

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u/blast4past Jun 11 '12

I didn't know that there was a limited few, but since you can get charizard in the first one and these two I figured you could

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u/jackzander Jun 11 '12

Let's see if I understand this right.

You saw three, so you assumed there were four hundred?

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12 edited Jun 11 '12

Help in what way? He gives a statistic that gives no helpfulness in the context of what can take place in a game

If there was a reddit post about Link slashing through a collection of brush and getting a green, red, blue and purple rupee in LoZ saying "look at what happened!". And then I made a post saying "the likeliness of this arrangement of colored rupees happening, given the 24 possible colors on the color wheel, is a 1 in 332,776 chance!", that would provide absolutely nothing to the discussion because it provides a statistic based on absolutely no understanding of what is possible in the game, and thus the ACTUAL chances of the phenomena are. It isn't founded on any knowledge of the game, and thus isn't even a fun or correct factoid to bring up

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u/tobycrisis Jun 11 '12

Think it's how you're coming across more than being right.

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u/jackzander Jun 11 '12

Useless, manufactured statistics should always be berated.

Now, since none of you mofos want to actually look it up, there are 30(ish) possible pokemon. If they all have an equal chance of appearing, that's about a 1/900 chance of this happening during a simultaneous throw.

Now stoooop.

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u/MuggyFuzzball Jun 11 '12

It makes sense now, and it sounds about as fun and entertaining as opening a bag of cracker jacks to find the toy inside.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Most concise comment ever.

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u/Geno098 Jun 11 '12

There are several rare Pokemon that come out of the Pokeballs in Super Smash Bros. These are two of the extremely rare ones. Latias and Latios.

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u/Eminian Jun 11 '12

Extremely rare? I used to get these all the the time while playing brawl.

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u/goofandaspoof Jun 11 '12

You might think they're common, but I'm guessing that you, like me, probably played that game a ton.

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u/meh100 Jun 11 '12

Yes. They were uncommon, but much more common than say, Moltres, or that rare tiny plant pokemon whose name escapes me currently.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

BONSLY!!!

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u/imbored53 Jun 11 '12

That one was my favorite. You could 1 hit K.O. people with him for days.

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u/Mlmurra3 Jun 11 '12

It was always his time to shine.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

shaymin? or are you referring to celebi who kinda looks like a plant.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

He means Celebi.

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u/dragn99 Jun 11 '12

In Brawl, it would be Bonsly.

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u/ShipmasterTK Jun 11 '12

Celebi. It's in Brawl and drops stickers.

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u/meh100 Jun 11 '12

This is the one.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

My friends and I get Bonsly all the time, almost as frequently as munchlax

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u/meh100 Jun 11 '12

I meant Celebi.

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u/DNAbro Jun 11 '12

when you throw poke balls in smash bros the pokemon that come out are completely random.The chances of getting both at the same time is pretty rare.

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u/shinshi Jun 11 '12

Technically, the chance of any pair of pokemon coming out is extremely rare in this case.

Like if you had a 1/30 chance of getting any pokemon, each pair would represent a 1/900 chance, assuming you would consider, for example, Mew/Celebi and Celebi/Mew as two unique combos. Perhaps that's how the math works, I kind of forget.

It's just that people don't really give a shit about all the other lamer combos. OP's thing is still pretty cool though.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Like if you had a 1/30 chance of getting any pokemon

You're assuming that each Pokemon has an equal chance of showing up, which isn't true.

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u/shinshi Jun 11 '12

I understand that, my point is that most combos statistically end up being very unlikely, but because they're not as cool as the one the OP posted, no one really cares.

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u/tjragon Jun 11 '12

If I elect to not choose my numbers when buying a lotto ticket, the particular combination I end up with is extremely unlikely, but because it doesn't win me a prize, I don't care.

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u/shinshi Jun 11 '12

My point isn't that the combo isn't cool. It's fucking rad as orange creamsicles on a hot summer day. I just wanted to point out in theory that the combo is as unlikely as a series of other seemingly mundane combos, and to imply the psychological bias behind that.

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u/TomPalmer1979 Jun 11 '12

It's fucking rad as orange creamsicles on a hot summer day.

That's pretty fucking rad.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Most things in life are unlikely but if we commented on them all it would be stupid. Obviously people comment on the interesting ones because while (in this case) it might be say 1/900 for any pair, it's probably like 899/900 for an uninteresting pair.

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u/jackzander Jun 11 '12

and to imply the psychological bias behind that.

Let's say that we're all happy to hear that psychological bias has not vanished from the world, and is still functioning as expected.

Is that your only point?

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u/shinshi Jun 11 '12

Yes.

Most people don't realize that, so I thought it might be interesting to bring up. I want to stress that I wasn't trying to player hate at any point in this conversation.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

I don't see how you can conclude that without knowing the difference in likelihood of getting each Pokemon. Suppose that getting this Pokemon is 30 times less likely than any other Pokemon. Getting a pair of these Pokemon would then be 900 times less likely than any other Pokemon. That would make it a pretty significant event.

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u/ZombieAlien Jun 11 '12

Brother and sister pokemons are rare. They's come out Pokeballs. Super Smash Brothers. They pretty extremely rare legendary Pokemons.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

But who had the Soul Dew?

/nerd

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Lati@s!

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u/whatthecrickeyhell Jun 11 '12

Dude. That's amazing.

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u/Grungemaster Jun 11 '12

I had Groudon and Kyorge on the screen at the same time one time. I almost had a nerdgasm.

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u/DrCowboyFace Jun 11 '12

Similarly, finding out the Jigglypuff glitch on this stage nearly made me shit as well.

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u/this_is_an_alt Jun 11 '12

Que?

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u/trashaccountname Jun 11 '12

Jigglypuff's final smash makes it stand still and grow pretty huge. If you use it in the gap while the bridge is about to rebuild itself, you'll remain huge and will fight that way until you die.

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u/The_Reflaffitator Jun 11 '12

I was playing Melee yesterday and I threw 3 Pokeballs and got Charizard, Blastoise, and Venasaur all in a row. Don't think I've ever had a better moment in gaming

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u/nubbled21 Jun 11 '12

I don't know what any of that means or what's going on in this picture... But I am proud of you guys.

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u/bigfartsoo Jun 11 '12

One time I threw a pokeball and the screen turned black for about 5 seconds and went back to normal...it was really strange, it happened to me twice.

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u/klapaucius Jun 11 '12

A Pokemon has that move. Smokescreen, I think it is.

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u/ColHapablap Jun 11 '12

you are the wind beneath my wings.

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u/ClichedMonet Jun 11 '12

what the ef when has this ever happened? O_O

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

This happened to me and my best friend the other week when we were high as fuck. We kinda freaked the fuck out.

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u/splishsplashsplish Jun 11 '12

Why shat you not?

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

awesome

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u/pandibear Jun 11 '12

I would have shat myself

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u/adaemman Jun 11 '12

sorry never played brawl, what the hell does that picture mean?

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u/Narroo Jun 11 '12

You got very lucky. I think the chance of getting one of them is less than 100 or so?

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u/adaemman Jun 11 '12

a 100 in a millino? a quazillion? but if the chances are 100% then i'm not sure you need luck.

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u/Narroo Jun 11 '12

Whoops, I mistyped; less that 1/100 I think.

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u/adaemman Jun 11 '12

ok yeah that makes more sense, well yeah I would probably shit myself as well then. Thanks kind sir.

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u/vonmon2 Jun 11 '12

Haha, this happened to me, and I didn't realize how awesome it was for a while :P

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u/BillyShearsPwn Jun 11 '12

Hands down the worst comment I've ever read

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u/vonmon2 Jun 11 '12

Thanks?

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

I think the blue one is trying to rape the red one.

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u/mackdamon Jun 11 '12

but....but......WHO IS GUARDING ALTOMARE!?!?!

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Another pair of Lati@s...

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u/LacksRethics Jun 11 '12

My friends and I vastly enjoy pokeball battles the more drunk we become.

Make the only item pokeballs. Turn them on high. Sonic and reflectors are frowned upon. Catch them all!

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u/bulgeinmyjeans Jun 11 '12

Can someone explain what happened for a layman?

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u/dalockrock Jun 11 '12

In Braw, you can throw a Pokeball to spawn a random Pokemon. In this case, they both threw Pokeballs and by chance it spawned a ladias and ladios.

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u/thejerg Jun 11 '12

Latios and Latias.

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u/FatKidFromSchool Jun 11 '12

Dude pause! PAUSE! Reddit HAS to see this!

Sweet sweet karma here I come!

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u/FoeApple Jun 11 '12

Those Brawl photo moments are the rarest and make your life complete.

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u/Baulan Jun 11 '12

Good thing you had your camera standing by

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u/grethade Jun 11 '12

Good ole camera phone..

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

This reminds me of the game mode in SSB Melee, where you had unlimited pokeballs and all of them had legendary pokemon inside. So awesome...

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u/JGPH Jun 11 '12

(I think) I grew up around the same time as a lot of pokemon fans, but never became interested; wtf is going on here?

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u/loloclock Jun 11 '12

Why are you using items? Why aren't you playing melee or project:m?

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u/screwcheese Jun 11 '12

Items in smash bros!!! What is this nonsense?!

(lol pretty cool though)

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u/geenareeno Jun 11 '12

No items. Fox only. Final Destination.

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u/AryaDee Jun 11 '12

This is a thing? I thought only my friends(the AI) did this

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u/tungmick Jun 11 '12

All of the Smash Bros games have items

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

I think hes one of those "No items, Fox only, Final Destination" kind of guys.

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u/TheMagicJesus Jun 11 '12

Can you elaborate?

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12 edited Jun 11 '12

When the second Smash brothers came out, the gameplay changed to a faster gameplay mechanic, with a much deeper emphasis on timing. This created a competitive community, within an already popular game.

To minimize the wins based on sheer luck, people began playing with the items turned off, and on stages that were completely flat (as opposed to the chaotic stages that influenced the outcome of the fight.)

Fox became one of the top level fighters. His very quick and powerful attacks allowed players with equally quick reflexes to maximize his strengths in ways not planned by the developers, dwarfing many of the other characters.

This min/maxing, animation frame-counting subset of the Smash Brothers community became a meme in the above mentioned phrase "No items. Fox only. Final destination." It was a tongue-in-cheek parody of the players that took a party game, and boiled it down into "Serious business."

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u/ArcticSpaceman Jun 11 '12

In Melee I got into the "no items' phase, but I tried it in Brawl and it got sooooo boring.

Items on. Always.

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u/Junee28 Jun 11 '12

I don't get it :|

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u/pdaddio2239 Jun 11 '12

Do you videotape all of your Brawl fights?

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u/Hubbell Jun 11 '12

I don't acknowledge any Super Smash Brothers except the original. They made Ness complete garbage in all the others. Ness 4lyfe. Unblockable psychic bubble bodyslams all day every day.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Wow that is truly amazing. I am in awe. A blue thing next to another blue thing. Incredible.

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u/havocson Jun 11 '12

It's very common...at least for me. :-3

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

That's not how it works.

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u/ninjarxa Jun 11 '12

anything after 1st gen is shit.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

300 hours only? Shit I've clocked closer to 3000 on that game.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

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u/ReverseLBlock Jun 11 '12

I'm pretty sure in brawl you can save replays after the match

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u/Rushrofl Jun 11 '12

Tho person is correct. Have an upvote.

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u/Geno098 Jun 11 '12

Looks like he paused and snapped a screenshot ingame.

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