Ironic.
This is the first time in years you've had anything remotely positive to say about me or anyone else in seemingly years. If you actually wonder why the community has regressed, it has everything to do with posts like this, where you literally discourage and invalidate the brilliance, creativity and efforts of anyone else.
GG Unit, you have been a detriment to this community.
You have discouraged users like me from actually trying by being an taciturn moving target. And you have discouraged the posting of our community with years of petty, mean-spirited belittlement and criticism.
Why do you think
Level 51 just went in on you so hard?
And why do you think I disappeared?
Even when I
questioned the gameplay of Vizually for savestating, you went out of your way to be a conversation-killer:
"Not really worth that much discussion other than it's obviously fake."
Not only does this kind of rhetoric kill discussion, it missed the point, one that
Altissimo and
ReptoAbysmal gladly expounded upon. And even further, the irony here is that what you dismissed has actually occurred right under "our" noses here:
Someone on the leaderboard with a remarkable streak savestated his or her progress. And it is ironic that you of all people, someone who loves criticizing teams and generally knocking posters down a peg, have missed it.
(I'm probably not going to out the offending poster. I've known about the savestating for a long time, and a new generation is upon us tomorrow. Chalk it up as one of many things I haven't posted here, even though I've wanted to.)
Unchecked savestating is enough to keep would-be community members from playing and contributing. But what baffles me most about you, GG Unit, is how you would so brazenly decide to be a moving target the second you got to #1, after I expressed how discouraging that was
when TDP did it in the Battle Maison. It is as though you, by going months at a time without posting your progress when you got to the top, decided to discourage anyone would dare challenge you to deal with the same "torture" I detailed in that post.
So, take it as personally as you want to, but your moving-target streak has not mattered to me one bit. When you went out of your way last gen to affect the weirdest flex ever on
VaporeonIce and me, trying to prove that your beloved Chansey was better than Suicune and his slightly different Chansey on our respective, soon-to-be-2,000-win teams, I knew what was more important to you. When you decided to be a taciturn moving target for much of this generation in the Tree, I knew what was more important to you.
And if it is more important for you to discourage users and contribute to the regression of this community, keep doing what you've been doing. And people will either leave this community, or not want to post. But if you're more interested in uplifting our community, you can decide to engage the way you used to, generations ago.
I hope that Sword and Shield breathes new life into this community, and that all our users, new and old, will be encouraged to contribute positively to the community. And while I've saved quite a bit of time not caring about the BT for the past year or so, I've missed it, and have missed this community more. I miss not posting. I miss the days where people weren't moving targets, and where people didn't savestate to pass off streaks as legit. If you're going to be a part of this community, don't be a part of the problem.