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It is thought that Uxie, Mesprit, and Azelf all came from the same egg.
Foon-Gus Fring
Third Azelf with an uncommon rarity.
783863737
Jfc can you people please stop constantly commenting trivial observations nobody could possibly care about and do something meaningful with your seemingly endless free time
Ambassador
speaking only for myself, you have a point, i’ve been spending a bizarre amount of time looking up trivia about the tcg and posting here and i can only imagine what impression people might have
but i have an important question: did you like the columbo thing tho
televisionnation
Ambassador I have to say I usually appreciate your comments much more than others on this site since they always have a great deal of detail & interesting facts that would be hard to find otherwise. Foon-Gus Fring’s comment on the other hand is more like finding a piece of litter on the street, it doesn’t contribute anything interesting at all (no offense intended, anyone may post whatever they feel like it’s all good). There’s a lot these types of garbage comments on the site but it makes me appreciate finding a rare well-thought out & documented comment like Ambassador’s all the more. Let us know if you do end up compiling all the TCG Illustration Exhibition images we would all really appreciate it! Maybe could be featured on Hi-res Pokémon Art too although they don’t seem to have been active lately.
Foon-Gus Fring
I liked the Colombo thing!!!
Twylis
I never chimed in on this, but I may as well. This site fundamentally serves two purposes: a source of information on cards, and an art gallery. Trivial observations, while not “important”, serve both of these ends: they add little tidbits of info to the cards (which often would have no comments whatsoever otherwise), and they also bump the card up to the home page which helps draw attention to the art.
When there’s a *lot* of comments, it does of course crowd the bigger comments off the home page, but all the comments are still *there*, and after a day or two it doesn’t matter anyway.
It does change the vibe of the site from a quiet art gallery to a more hustling and bustling…art gallery, but that’s neither a good or bad thing. It doesn’t hurt anyone, and it’s nice to see people engaging with the cards in their own ways.
Ambassador
The problem is that many of these comments are wrong. There does seem to be a motivation of just commenting on as many cards as possible, which is good and fine, but there is a trade-off being made in terms of quantity over quality. I was happy to correct some of them here and there as, like I commented somewhere else (or was it here and got deleted, idk?), it’d occasionally motivate me to go and look stuff up I might not have gotten around to, but I don’t visit this site just to dedicate 1-2 hours of my day to correcting several incorrect posts, during which time several more incorrect posts are made. I feel like having done so at all has enabled the mentality that some folks can just post anything so they can get that first comment on a card, and if it happens to be wrong Ambassador will show up to fix it – indeed, I’ve already been called an asshole once for refusing to correct a comment and insisting someone look up the correction themselves. I’m not paid to fact-check comments on this site, and fact-checking comments on this site isn’t what I’m interested in using this site for.
Nor am I particularly interested in reading comments on a site where comments are as trivial as “This is the Xth appearance of Y,” where there is no elaboration about whether this is significant, and it’s tough to tell whether the comment can even be taken at face value as the commenter is wrong more often than not, and changing it to “This is the Xth appearance of Y, in the English TCG” a change I imagine is already on its way, is, as 783863737 suggested in less diplomatic terms, just clutter.
Twylis
I did leave a reply on XY90 Gyarados as well, and yes, the accidental misinformation is definitely a problem. Funnily I myself just suggested that “in the English TCG” qualifier to help avoid that, but I do concede it does make the comments feel even less noteworthy.
Honestly I dunno how best to approach it. I’m commenting far more than I ever intended too — I’m mostly just here to look at pretty art of the pocket men :v
Ambassador
I think Warnock has sort of given himself away this evening, as he only makes enough comments to flood mine off the page. I really was operating off an assumption it was quality vs quantity for this guy – he just wanted to comment on as many cards as possible, but there’s clearly an enduring grudge over a callout a few months back. He just wants to comment on as many cards as possible to bump my comments off the front page. It doesn’t appear to matter if they’re research comments or otherwise, there’s even a comment where I was just asking a follow-up question to a comment someone else made, and he commented enough to make it disappear. On the flip side, when I don’t comment, he doesn’t seem to comment much if at all either.
This isn’t really a site where moderation over this sort of thing makes any coherent sense – it’s not like his comments are out of line with what’s come before or what’s going to come after, but when it’s this deliberately focused way that seems to be with the intention of drowning off any posts I make, even if it means other posts by other users get drowned off the front page as well, it’s this really juvenile game I don’t want to play, and I don’t want to make others play either. I have some posts I’ll be making soon only because I’ve already put them together, and then – well, I dunno. I could play musical chairs with usernames like he does to shirk accountability, but I just don’t want to be dragged down to his level. On realizing what’s going on, this is so ridiculous.
Warnock 2022
You sound a bit paranoid.
Ambassador
w/r/t the Illustration thing, I have some saved but the ToS of the Illustration Exhibition (using what Twylis has pointed out is a suboptimal way of going about it w/r/t image quality), on actually reading it, it would be awkward to share it. If I have time this weekend, I might do a scattershot approach of saving some images randomly and hoping I hit some cards I like, but it won’t be an immediate thing of posting them online. If, in like 5-10 years TPC hasn’t made any of the images available again, that’s a bridge that could be crossed at that time. I don’t know.
Insofar as the comments and quality here, I’ll admit I find some personally annoying but they’ve occasionally motivated me to look into things it probably wouldn’t have occurred to me to look into. To tl;dr a personal blog post this is not the venue for and I’m sure nobody cares about, what started as occasional comments because I happened to have too much free time on my hands has turned into a regular thing because I *still* somehow have way too much free time on my hands.
At some point, I did actually look into whether this might be time spent better on contributing to an English language wiki like Bulbapedia, and without going into it, I don’t really want to deal with that wiki’s policies – things like the EX UF Unown Hidden Power stuff I looked into is “original research” and would probably be deleted if I went to efforts to add the trivia to the respective Bulbapedia articles. But there are certain comments that would fit that site fine. Like you said, anyone may post whatever they feel like here, but I will note that the current staff of that site’s TCG project seem to have either dropped off, become busy, or are focused on other sections of the site, and several pages are falling out of date over the last few months. There’s probably a power vacuum there and I’d imagine anyone willing to put some work into it could probably end up a de facto project head. Myself, I’m now working on something of my own accord¹, and won’t be able to keep up on any “fact-checking” of comments here anymore – it takes me much longer to x-ref certain trivia across the site, Bulbapedia, Pokumon, pcg-search, various JP-wikis than it does for any one of us to look something up using this site’s wonderful search engine.
¹ Preview; https://imgur.com/a/2QUiGDm (Very EARLY preview. There’s stuff I’d like to work on in terms of tone and readability – I don’t want to be too “um, actually”ish or too ‘weeaboo’ – but anyways you can see how the sort of thing I’d like to work on just wouldn’t fit on any other popular wiki right now. Lots of work having to start one yourself from scratch but, ah well.)
Foon-Gus Fring
I’m sorry if I am annoying anyone with my comments :( I am just trying to share little tidbits of knowledge and connections as I make them!
For instance, I find it very interesting that the Lake Trio–and Azelf in particular–often gets relegated to an “uncommon” rarity, which doesn’t happen to any other Gen 4 legendary or mythical Pokemon. I’m sorry if people don’t enjoy seeing the comments–but this is a big beautiful world, and let’s all be nice to each other :D (I’m not referring to you, Ambassador, you’ve been plenty kind!)
televisionnation
Ok the added context that it might be unusual for the Lake Trio to be uncommon compared to other legendaries makes more sense, thanks for adding that!
That prompted me to test a bunch of legendaries & find at least 8 that have uncommon prints, you can replicate with this search:
pokemon:darkrai,manaphy,cresselia,hoopa,jirachi,victini,tornadus,thundurus,zygarde rarity:uncommon
This practice seems to be commonplace beginning around the time of Sun & Moon Ultra Prism, if you find any more earlier examples like the Zygarde & Jirachi feel free to share! (I didn’t test every legendary, just a couple that I would expect uncommon prints of. Odd there is no uncommon Shaymin IMO, or if there it’s not in this English database).