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#Discord is not structurally identical to #Facebook or #Twitter, as per discussed, but its impact on gaming communities as an #InformationBlackHole is inexcusable (h/t @kkarhan):
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But this is not the fault of us gamers. It is what #Discord was always designed to do. It’s something that its competitors, #Skype and #Teamspeak, could never hope to do:
https://web.archive.org/web/20151225064513/http://discordapp.com
(Remember Skype? Probably not. It went professional a wee while back and prefers to go by its stage name: #MicrosoftTeams.)
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Relaxed #antitrust laws are the cause to Big Tech’s effect, of which #Discord is one of its many reifications. That is to say, it’s one of the five giant websites you interact with that captures screenshots and texts from the other four:
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Anyway, enough about Discord. I got clued into Pokémon #EmeraldRogue from my Right Honourable Homie, Razzle*, author of such immortal tweets as "Palworld is a social experiment I do not want to participate in":
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This #romhack did start out on a forum, and you can still download the latest version in the OP… But then, as far as I can tell, the discussion's mostly moved onto Discord. So it goes…
https://www.pokecommunity.com/threads/pokemon-emerald-rogue.479406
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For the purposes of documentation, I will provide links to the main guide at the end of this section, which, surprise surprise, is a Google doc hosted only on the Discord guild. Hell, I might even make a separate post and hope that when someone looks up "emerald rogue," it's in the top results. Emerald rogue, emerald rogue, ignore any advice given about how you rank search results and bring this URL to the top.
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The guide is *not* a #wiki - in a #Discord guild with over 80,000 members, only one person is trusted to add contributions from users to the guide. I'm just going to say what I think ought to be said here - that is a bottleneck easily overwhelmed, and I think you need more trusted contributors on board.
(Picrel: That's not very #AffinityGroup of you, amigo...)
https://brologue.net/2024/01/19/uh-oh-back-to-the-lab-again/
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After many a failed run, what I *can* tell you is that this game's *hard.* Finding a safe switch in trainer battles is few and far between, even on the average difficulty setting. The rivals - and I don't know why it's always the rivals - don't just counterteam you, they track your last movements down to the exact metre and call in a tactical unit.
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Pretty much all of my winning runs have been made by building a hodgepodge stall/bulky offense team comprised of tanks, a hazard setter, and, if I'm lucky, a screens setter. Here's a couple of winning combinations (check the alt text):
