 There we go. We're live. Welcome back, everyone. My name is Lee, also known as Osiris and I'm joined by my co-cast, Scott S9 Vibes. As always, this is week three of the Poker Balls podcast. I hope you're all doing good. Scott, how are you doing, mate? I'm doing excellent. You know, good weekend, good bit of relaxing. I'm excited for the upcoming weekend because it's EUIC weekend, baby. It is. Yeah, no, I'm good, mate. How are you doing? I'm all right, mate. Happy Easter, by the way. Happy Easter. Happy Easter. I've been munching on my mini egg, mate, as we've been talking. So, you know, I am full of chocolate and, you know, what more can you want in life? Exactly. Full of happiness. Yeah, I'm all right, mate. Yeah, I'm staying off the chocolate, trying to fit in a suit. As you know, I'll be casting this coming weekend at EUIC. So, I've got to fit in the suits. So, I've got to have had to have been good. I haven't had any chocolate eggs over the weekend and no egg hunting for me. But no, I'm all right, mate. A bit tired because I've travelled to my parents over the weekend for the Easter weekend. So, finally, it was nice, but... Saw that video going, though, I see. The video going in the living room. Yeah, my parents' living room. They all loved it. Mate, there was one brilliant comment. Someone was like, it's got the yellow colour of the room. I can't remember exactly what they said, but it reminded them of the, like, the yellow tint of Breaking Bad. You know, the yellow filter that Breaking Bad had on. Add the whites for the weekend. But, yeah, all right, mate. Yeah, so hopefully after today, get rested up and then I'm travelling down to London tomorrow night. So, because we've got rehearsals, rehearsals Thursday and then the event starts Friday. So, it's all go. Excellent. So, if I don't fit in my suit, I don't know what I'm going to do, mate, because there's no way I'm losing. I mean, could we go like, extremely... Snorlax onesie. Snorlax onesie. I should have worn that today. I should have worn it today. I missed opportunity. Do you reckon if I do that, like, if I don't, I'm genuinely here, like, if I don't fit into the suit, do you reckon I could do that thing where people wrap, like, bin bags, like, tape them around, like, everything and just get into a sauna for, like, 12 hours and then just melt, melt away and then I'll get into them? That sounds horrible. It does sound horrible. That sounds so bad. Might work, right? Mate. Don't worry about it. You get in. You get in fine, mate. You get in fine and if you don't, I can just squeeze you into it. I'm actually, I'm going to give my good friends poker sports a bit of a shout out tonight because they sent me this amazing t-shirt ages ago. I don't know if you've ever seen it. I'm a dozo bozo. So, yeah, big shout out to Mike and the crew over there and a big thank you to them. I've just got my jacket up because I'm a bit cold. It's cold here today. So, but repping the dozo bozo shirt, which is nice. That was such a tangent as well. I think you might do, mate, but I think you'll be all right. I think you'll do good. We're all going to be rooting for you on the podcast, mate. You have to, you're representing the podcast. I don't, what did I say? I called it, didn't I, last episode. When I'm on the main stage, it'd be great because, you know, if you can, you know, if you cast a funnel as well, it'd be fantastic because then, you know, we'll be on that. We'll just be like this, but in person then. That would be amazing. I'd be like, down. That'd be good. I'd rather be the one that give out the trophies and then I could hand it to you and be like, Yeah, true. Congratulations. Fingers crossed. You look out this much over a weekend. I'm joking, mate. You're going to do great. I will be rooting for you for sure. I really want you to do well. I had no help from you at all. This was all me, nothing to do with you. I actually haven't really given you much help, mate. You have been grinding on your own, so it's all off your own back. I'll try and give you as much help as I can. You always give me the support that I need. I'll be the inside man. That's what we'll do. Yeah. Just be like, what's going on in the stream every game, every round? What's going on? I don't understand. It's just so good. Who face the VG? It'd be good, mate. No, you'll do it by the way. United's there as well, which I'm really excited for, because we haven't really seen United since a while. What is this? No, this is going to be really cool. It's going to be an epic event. I think it's going to be really big goal. TCG, United, VG. It's all goal, mate. So it's all good. It's all good. It's going to be great. Talking of Go. Talking of Go. I know we touched on Go last week, but the drama seems to only have escalated. These people are really not happy about these changes to the remote raid passes. You're going to have to fill me in, because I've been in the bubble. You've been in the bubble. The bubble of the Northeast. So I haven't really had any contact with the social world as much as I normally do. I don't know what's been going on. Tell me in the viewers or the listeners. Well, where has it gone? Joe Merrick has posted about it, because they've been doing some, I mean, not just Niantic. I mean, there's some interesting things going on this weekend with Pokemon. But Joe Merrick was tweeting. Joe Merrick is the guy who runs Serabie that was a very useful Pokemon website. I'm sure you guys have been on there at some point. He was tweeting about how he doesn't support it at all. I'm just trying to find the tweet and get it brought up. But reading on Reddit, I mean, as we said last week, people are heavily boycotting it. I mean, I've read a few articles of people talking about how disabled people, for example, the remote raids really helped them connect with other people. There is that side of it. I guess they also didn't consider. I think they also approached, apparently what happened was, some of these articles I was reading, they went to a lot of Pokemon Go creators and they asked them for feedback and they gave them loads of feedback, what they thought was bad. And this was one of the things that I don't think they agreed with, but obviously they just didn't listen to. So yeah, lots of people were still angry about it. And as we said last week, we, you know, we both maybe naively said, you know, I guess they're kind of trying to, well, not naively, but I guess they're trying to, it feels like what they were trying to do maybe is that encourage people to go outside and by limiting the amount of right raids you can have and also increasing the price. But it just doesn't feel like that is the general consensus from people. I think, I don't know, I think the biggest thing from what I read yeah, I've just found it is that for people, as you mentioned last week, there's loads of people that just live in the middle of nowhere that love playing Pokemon Go and just can't because they just don't have exactly, don't have any Poke stops or even just like one or something. And so I think particularly in the US, I'd imagine that's a big problem because in a lot of world where this is probably nothing for miles. So I guess in that sense, it makes a lot of sense. I'm just going to send you the tweet now that I think when you mentioned as well about like people with disabilities or anything that does affect them being able to kind of go out and do the norm like just go outside and play like other people. If they can't do that, then it's not really that fair, is it when you kind of look at it on a broader spectrum like that, it does kind of punish those people for like in a way that it really, it shouldn't. I think one of the biggest problems is for once you have a change like this, you're never going to be able to please everybody. You know, any change, you know, to do with anything, you're always going to upset one party. But it just feels like this change is affecting more people than they originally realised and it feels like it's becoming more apparent while they're doing it rather than, you know, because I felt like it would have flooded away at this point. I mean, like I said, it's had a lot of attention even Joe's tweet and I've seen a lot of stuff on the subreddit like people really want to boycott it. And you know, I guess it is true. What is it? Let's read what he has in here. Putting my support out with fellow at Pokemon Go at players as plan changes to remote raids and the game in general over the past year have been very bad, not just for the general player, but rural and players with reduced mobility. Please listen, Niantic. And then they go on to these points as well. There's a huge letter here. I don't know if we want to read this out or if we just link this down below, mate. I don't know. It has, I think we can just quickly look at the points. It says it covers the main points. It says we're all trainers who lack adequate local community support, which, you know, is basically what we just said. Trainers with disabilities. I think that's a big one. That's the main one. Yeah. Do you want it to be very inclusive? Yeah. Pokemon has to be inclusive. You know, that's the big things about Pokemon. You know, it's something everyone can do. And I think when you look at it a bit more in depth, like, you know, you've said already, you know, we looked at it a bit naively last week. And I think it definitely like more, like not thinking about it enough from my end, at least think like just overlooking that and thinking, yeah, it's a way for them to get people outside. But then you think, what about the people that actually genuinely can't, you know, you've got to kind of consider them. And they're part of your, your customer as well. So you've kind of, yeah, you've got to take everyone into consideration when you're making these changes. So no. I mean, also there's some other good things here. People who have social anxiety. I would imagine that maybe a lot of people who play video games do suffer from social anxiety. You know, I do to some extent, not as bad as some people, but some people really do struggle with social anxiety. People who work night shifts because apparently a lot of rates happen during the day. Sorry, day shifts, rates happen during the day, so they can't take part if they're working during the day or night. And then also single parents who have children can't play as well necessarily if they don't have the time. So I guess that all makes sense to be honest with you. I was reading underneath. Yeah, but it's a bit blurry. I don't know why that one isn't coming. Yeah, but yeah, it's crazy to me. Well, and it is now that we think about it more. I also want to drop a like on that just to support it because, you know, I think, yeah, I do, I agree with it. I think there's some good points there. And there was also this that happened recently. I'm just going to send it to you again as well. So there's an app called Campfire. I don't know if you've heard of it. It was made by Niantic as a companion app for Pokemon Go. To help people meet up in the community and play Pokemon Go. And recently, people have been getting robbed when responding to Campfire rageflares, which is terrible, obviously. And now people on top of all this raid stuff is happening. Now people are too afraid to use this app because apparently it was really popular in the community for finding people to raid, to do raids with. It's all about community raids is what the app was used for. And there's been loads of cases of people getting robbed. This is ridiculous. That is awful, isn't it? Absolute assholes. Yeah. You know what I mean? How is that even like? It just, yeah, I've got no words, no. Yeah, yeah. That's on to be a Pokemon Go player. Yeah. I want to enjoy that, you know. I know, yeah. Anantic on doing themselves any favors at the minute in the slightest with all of this stuff as well. The thing is as well, like, you feel like Pokemon has, I mean, unfortunately, it's not directly, it's run by Anantic, right? But the game, you know, the game has proven to remain popular. So, and it can continue to be popular, but they need to stay on top of shit stuff like this because, you know, you know, it has done well, especially like even the competitive scene, you know, Pokemon Go is getting really big. We've talked about it, how it could be even bigger than the video game because it's, again, back to the whole accessibility. It's more accessible to the general public, people that aren't necessarily super into playing competitive, like on the Switch or even playing the card game. Pokemon Go is a lot easier to pick up. I know a lot of people that just play Pokemon Go, but don't really pay the main series games at all. And so it's something they need to get sorted out quickly, really, because it's going to annoy a lot of players. You would imagine they will as well, because like knowing Pokemon stands on any sort of bad press, they're going to come down on this so hard. You would imagine they'll come down on this so hard with Neantic, and, you know, they don't, they have a line pretty much. If you cross that, you need to, it needs to be resolved with it. And, you know, I'm on about, and you'm on about the raids and how the performance of Scotland Violet, but it's a totally different level, you know, to this sort of thing, which is... Can we just, just, this is really, sorry, I just had to touch it while I remember, but I've had some massive problems just playing online in, on the online ladder in-game where my game is just like, not, I'll go to terrestrialize my Pokemon, and the game just goes, the screen just dims. And then for like a minute, nothing will happen. And then all of a sudden the Pokemon will appear terrestrialized, and the game will run like super slowly for another 30 seconds, and then it'll be fine. That's weird. I don't understand. You see that tweet from Pengie, Stefan, he put over the weekend, and he had that weird glitch where everything on the opponent's side disappeared, and he was... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, and he could still attack, and his moves were still happening, but there was no Pokemon in the field at all. So weird. Yeah, cause I could also kept getting like no animations when I was playing. I still get it. So what I did was I reset my switch, I turned it off, closed the game down, turned it on, that terrestrializing glitch thing went away, because I only have one I terrestrialized, but I still get, because I was getting four, like the no animations moves, like, so I don't know what it is. I mean, it has to be, as I mentioned, Pokemon, yeah, many problems. So weird. So weird. There's an update coming at the end of April, so hopefully that solves some of these things about... It better. It has to. Getting back to Niantic though, I think, yeah, Pokemon will probably be coming down quite hard on them, and yeah, I think great for the community that everyone's kind of getting together and pushing against these changes, and hopefully it gains enough traction for Niantic to finally kind of sit up and do something about it to accommodate everyone. So we'll keep you updated though, as we go forward, of course, on the podcast with anything that does kind of come from this, the campfire stuff I'm just speechless with, mate, speechless. No, I could believe when I saw it today, I was like, what the hell? Yeah, I just hope people that believe I could go, all right, it's awful, awful, mate. But yeah, so that was a nice way for us to ease into the pod today, mate. Yeah, pretty brutal stuff. On a lighter note, and maybe not a lighter note, we did, we didn't get to cover it last week, because we had to record the pod a few days earlier, so we missed being able to include it in last week's news, but we did get an update with a date for Pokemon Stadium coming out, and it will be coming to the switch. I think it's coming tomorrow, mate. I think it's a 12. You know, people don't seem that fast about it. When is it coming? I'm sure it is a 12. I'm sure it's a 12. I'm not seeing any date there. This article doesn't say it, but I'm pretty sure Pokemon Stadium is coming. I'm sure it was a 12. I should have been prepared for this. I'm sorry. I just wanted to put it in. Pokemon Stadium, you look, and I'll talk about it anyway. Pokemon Stadium finally got its announcement date for the switch. It will be coming onto the expansion pass for online services. It will only be Pokemon Stadium one at the moment, but there is some bad news. Yeah, Aval 12. Aval 12. 12. So it was right. Try not to transfer the Pokemon over. Yeah, that's a big caveat. It's a real pain. And it did say that in the initial trailer, but they kind of doubled down on it in this new trailer. And I didn't realize how big of a deal it was, but from the comments I read on your video, a lot of people like this isn't the only reason I play Stadium, like rental teams are boring. Like the whole point is use your own Pokemon. Oh, rubbish. They're rubbish. It's like they... Unless they're waiting for home to come out, but then they just, it would... You feel like they would say that, you know, until home comes out or something, once home is available, but home seems to be such a bloody hot topic in the air right now. So... They've got a mod in Pokemon Stadium. There's the do-do or the do-drio mod, which is like a Game Boy that sits in the option screen when you can choose what to do in the game. And you can choose to play... It's like a virtual console inside Stadium so you can play Pokemon Red, Blue in the game. And you can play it faster speeds, depending on what you've got unlocked. And people are kind of theorying that, you know, when, hopefully, potentially, if they do release the classic GB games for the Switch, that'll be the time when there might be integration between those games and then Pokemon Stadium, where it'll give an incentive, I think, as well. In my mind, at least, I think if we do get the classic games coming onto the Switch, like Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow, it gives players an incentive to play through those games if you can one, transfer them to home, to transfer to new games, and also to transfer to Pokemon Stadium, as well, because, you know, if you're really into Pokemon Stadium, you'll be like, I'm going to get Pokemon Red or I'm going to get Pokemon Yellow just to play through so I can have my own team on Pokemon Stadium, and then you can do the same with Gold, Silver, Crystal when Pokemon Stadium 2 comes out. I'm just praying that's what happens, because, yeah, otherwise, you've really got nothing to play on Pokemon Stadium other than the mini-games, which are great. If we can play those online, that'll be brilliant, but the rental Pokemon are trash. Right. I haven't actually ever played Pokemon Stadium, so I haven't got a lot of reference, but it sounds like I'm not going to be playing it on Switch Online. We should play the mini-games. We should play the mini-games. The mini-games are very cool. Talking about the mini-games, again, this is a weird tangent, but I'm going to go there anyway. Australia is passing laws about... This was on a tech show, I was just watching, but we're talking about Australia passing laws, anything to do with gambling as basically rated R, but banning any games or putting an R rating on any games that have any kind of gambling in, and that includes loot boxes, and then they were talking about in the original Pokemon games, the slot machines. Yeah, the slot. They could get rated R just for the slot machines in Australia, which as well would do. That's crazy. They were talking about it, and in a way, yes, you really shouldn't be encouraging children to gamble. I guess which does make sense, but also it does seem a bit wild that they could just slap an R rating on it. That is wild. Just because it has one building in it where you can use some slots. I think all kids were in a lot of them, weren't they? Were they in Ruby Sapphire? Was there slots in Ruby Sapphire? I think there was some sort of, I'm sure there was in the battle factory in Emerald, at least. Yeah, so. I'm sure there was some slot facility or something like that. All these old classic Pokemon games slapped with an R rating. That is madness. Everyone always said they were just kids' games. Yeah, not anymore. They've got hardcore gamblers. Hardcore gamblers. So that is, yeah, that is it with Pokemon Stadium, so that'll be coming tomorrow at the date of this pod going live, which is really exciting. So if you're excited for it, do let us know what your thoughts are. It is a bit annoying that there's no transferable Pokemon at the minute, but I don't know if that is going to be something that's set in stone. I could see that potentially being something that gets integrated maybe later when they do announce, because in my mind, they're not going to say you can transfer Pokemon in on it when they haven't announced they're bringing the classic games to the Switch. They might not even be bringing any of the classic games to the Switch, but if they were, they're going to sit on that information and then they're going to be like, oh, by the way, as well, with Red, Blue and Yellow being released on the Switch, you can now transfer Pokemon from these games to Pokemon Stadium one and Pokemon Stadium two with Gold, Silver and Crystal. Do you know that sort of announcement? That would be hype, but. I just find it so weird, a company that cracks down so hard on emulation running their games outside of the original console or whatever, the fact that they haven't, they don't have these things in place yet, and yet they're still hot on it already. They make it so hard for actual players to do anything. And so it's just like, you have, Pokemon has like one of the best back catalog of games in the entire world, you know? And I get it, the Switch online is new, but it's not new anymore, you know? It's not, it can't be hard to port the game files onto the Switch. Like, don't drag it out, like over to Gajillion, just make the Switch online good, okay? Okay, you have a different angle, and that's not as expensive of, you know, it's still, arguably still not worth the money. And a lot of people could argue that Switch online, the only reason I have it is to play online for Pokemon, otherwise I wouldn't buy it, because you don't need to buy it to talk to people, because there is no way to talk to people. No. I mean, we talked about how you can't even play Mario Kart together, you know, it's ridiculous when we had our Mario Kart spur on YouTube. Yeah. We had, it was ridiculous to even try and like get into the same race together. Oh man, yeah. I just, I just don't understand the logic sometimes. It's crazy when you think like how, you know, when you go back to the first Pokemon games and they were integrating these like trading mechanics in a game that you hadn't really seen before, like trade with your friends between, and they had the link cables and stuff like that, and they were so at the forefront of wanting to be on this kind of multiplayer platform with their games. But they're so far behind now with anything to do with like you know, anything online. It's probably because they're probably really popular, right? And just stop caring. I'd imagine that's what happened. Did you think as a company, as we discussed a couple of weeks ago, they were worth so much money? Yeah, they make some questionable decisions. They are really far behind as a console. They're ahead, but they're also really far behind on some of the stuff that actually really matters. It would be really interesting to see if the next iteration of the switch whether it be a switch called, probably won't be called a switch. They'll probably call it something else just because you know, whether it fixes a lot of those issues or whether they're just waiting, they're saving a lot of that stuff to give you more incentive to buy it, which would be a bit of a dick move. But you know, it would kind of make sense. So we'll have to see. There's a lot of talk on the DLCs as well, you know, the DLC dates about that second DLC pack being in 2024. So it hits with the release of the new switch potentially. I was also reading people talking about and then bringing back like a like a plus mode, like as in you could have an additional save for like for every game where but the save is a little bit harder. So you could play for again. Maybe the Pope won a slightly higher level. The trainers are harder or something. That would be really ready today. Or even just like have access to like, you know, just another playthrough if you wanted to do another one. That would be amazing, wouldn't it? But then still have access to the other people that you call in the other play if you wanted it. Apparently it has a similar thing on black and white. People were saying in the comments, but I can't remember. But you know, I don't remember that. As we said, they kind of got lazy. It feels like they take two steps forward, one step back, or you know, one step forward, two steps back, whatever it feels like with a lot of their stuff. You know, sort of shield on paper is a great game, you know. I mean, seen how successful it's been, but it runs like doodoo as we all know. You know, I never had a lot of those. I didn't realize the problems were that bad because I actually played most of my playthrough handheld. Didn't play it docked. As soon as I put it on docked, I was like, ah, I get why people were moaning now. You know, so it's just, they're just a weird company. They don't have to try it because they know they're going to. I mean, you saw my Nintendo in general. I mean, the Mario movie, you know, debatably. I haven't seen it. I've heard it's the better of the game adaptation movies. But you know, it's made them like a billion pound. You know, like just Nintendo and bloody Pokemon. They don't need money. I mean, if they want some, they're just releasing a new set. TCG set, just print some more money. There's a hundred million pounds. There you go. How much does that cost to make? Ten thousand pound. Oh, nice. Nice. I should print an old set as well. Because everyone would like that. They just make stuff up. They've got the classic set, haven't they? The classic set coming out. Yeah, it's just throwing some other cards. No one cares. No one cares. It's funny. We'll just throw one rare card in the entire world. People go mad. You know, they can literally do whatever they want. People just go nuts for it. I mean, don't get me wrong. Some of the, as we discussed, some of the stuff in the new sets, Japanese sets coming up, some of the artwork is amazing. Some of the art are very, very nice. Yes. The full art. I've seen a lot of, I saw one today of the streamer. The streamer, Jim Lee, the electric one. I see if I can find it on Reddit. I don't know. I don't know. Like a full art, one of that. Maybe see if I can find it on the Pokemon subreddit. Nice. But yeah, I mean, even this, the most recent set, some of the cards, I agree with you, with the Scotland Violet one are actually really nice. Yeah, some of the full arts in that are super nice. Have you opened any? I haven't. You know, every time I buy stuff now, like sealed products, unless they're loose packs, I just feel like. So here we go. Wow. It's literally straight away. I'll send it to you on them. Send it over, mate. Oh boy. Twitter. Look at that. That's nice, isn't it? Sick. I mean, the same image. There we go. I can pull it up for everyone to see. There we go. It's not the best image, but it looks gorgeous. It's a nice card. It's a very nice card. It is a nice card. Yes. Very nice. For one of the collectors. Yes. Probably want to go crazy about that. Another news as well. Moving on, mate. You've got the new seven star seven star terror aid now. No one knew it was coming. No one knew it was. No one had any idea what it was going to be. Yeah. And that'll be happening this Friday for the first phase. And then obviously the following Friday for its second phase. And we'll have another. I'm kind of excited about the next spotlight terror aid. The last two that they've done have been really good, like the Blissy and the Ditto. I was thinking about this the other day. I think it's going to be Herb and Mystica drops. Oh, that is a great call. They've done XB Candies and Terror Shards. What would make sense next? Herb and Mystica. People go nuts if it's Herb and Mystica, mate. Because there is no right way to farm Herb and Mystica really in the game either. So that is a great shout. That is a great shout, mate. Paulie at Mount Boys and Girls. On Sunday they were announced it. I heard it here first. Yeah. It'll be Sunday night, midnight. What platform would it be? A drop Herb and Mystica. That's what I'm trying to think. Yeah. Maybe Don Dozzo. Yeah, yeah. Or any one of them. The, what do they do? The warden program or whatever. I wonder what they would do. Yeah. Because it's like that select group of Pokemon that can drop all of the different Herb and Mystica, but they might just do just what they did with it. Just a handful of Herb and Mystica drops like with the Terror Shards and you know. Yeah. Just any, yeah. Yeah. I'm calling now. That is 100% what I'm going to do. That is a great shout. I like that. They frame play. You know, they've been doing the useful ones. And that would make sense as well before Pokemon Home comes out. Get everyone stocked up on all the things you need before home integration. Because I feel like this is the last seven star Terror Raid before we get Pokemon Home. Yeah. I think you're right. I think this is why they've been cramming them in to get through these, the Hissui and ones especially like obviously the Hissui. Are there any special days coming up at all? No, but we did get that announcement earlier. In the, was it last month, the mid last month about the walking wig and the iron leaves raid issues? You know, the bad egg that people had issues with. And they didn't specifically mention the save date glitches that had been happening. But they did say that there was going to be an update in late April to patch over the issues that people had had with that bad egg. So you'd imagine after the 21st, the next raid will be the walking wig iron leaves one. Again, they'll run with that update. So you're looking at probably, what's the 21st? So probably some, that Friday the 28th will be when that event drops. Probably the 27th will be the update that week. Now I would imagine. So maybe home compatibility is that week in April. Like going off kind of timelines with stuff, which would be very, very cool. And that would take us into May, which would be good. Cause then we got all the Hissui and Pokemon into Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. Very exciting. All the other Pokemon as well that you can get access to. I'm excited to see what turn to raid to do once a home is out. Yeah. As we mentioned, there's scope for a lot of stuff. I think they have to do the Hissui and Pokemon, right? Because there's going to be a lot of players that haven't played Legends RCS and don't have the Hissui and Pokemon. So they could do the Hissui and Pokemon one by one for the next few weeks, which would be really cool if they do that. Also, yeah, maybe do something special with them. I doubt they'll do Zoroark because that's the mystery gift for the download and the DLC. So they might do the rest of them. I mean, they've done the Zoroark already. So it kind of hints that they probably will do the rest of them. It'd be very cool though if they start dropping. They might even do the Hissui and versions of the starter Pokemon. You know, like the Typhlosion deciduous samurai as their Hissui in forms. Oh, I didn't actually know there was... Joseph, I haven't played Legends RCS really. Sacrilege. Sacrilege. You didn't even know there was a Hissui and deciduous. I was like, what? Well, let's see. Mate, I'm telling you now for VG, okay? Honestly, if people thought that the Paradox Pokemon would burst or broken or strong, right? Wait until we get access to the Hissui and Pokemon. Incompetitive. They are... Which ones? Which ones are the bad ones? There's too many to go through in this episode. We could do a special episode on it if you wanted one Pokemon. I didn't realize there were bad many Hissui and Pokemon. Yeah, there's quite a few, mate. And they've got some broken moves. Mate, they're going to be really strong. That's what I meant. It's going to be really exciting because you know I'm a big fan of Legends RCS. It's probably my number one game out of every Pokemon game. I enjoyed it so much. I need to play it. I need to play it at some point. It's just really immersive. You've got to play it with your headphones on or just the volume on. Just immerse yourself in the game. I would be all over it. It's like a Gen 4 thing, mate. So I was like... The catching mechanics are different. Battle mechanics are all different. And I heard on the Grapevine that a lot of the battle mechanics and the training mechanics that were in that game were kind of like a pilot, test pilot, alongside the mechanics that we saw, we see in Sword and Shield that will be maybe integrated with the Gen 10. It makes you think, right, because realistically, the next Pokemon game, the main series Pokemon game that comes out, it's going to be on the new console. Let's call it a new console now. Next iteration of the Switch, which, given all this experimentation, that argument why it's been running bad for so long, the game could be awesome. That's what I'm saying. But a combination of all the stuff that they've tried out, it makes you think, potentially, like maybe this was the end goal. When the next Switch comes out, they can do all this cool stuff. Yeah. It'll be interesting if they do integrate the training mechanics, like the EVing, IVing, from Legends Aussies into main series games, because it's so simplified. How do you do it? Do you know what I miss? Right, I know it's just like... It's one of the... I don't know what they call it. Is it EVs or something? I can't remember off the top of my head. Anyway, they run from one to 15 on every... They've got like four stats, I think. I think they run over four or five stats. I can't really remember. It's been such a long time since I actually looked at Pokémon Legends Aussies to know exactly. But anyway, they run from one to 15, I'm pretty sure. And every Pokémon, you just give them this grit that you get so easily anywhere. And you can feed them this grit and it boosts that number from one to 15 if you use enough of it. And it's so easy to do. And there is nothing else to do. Once that Pokémon's stat is 15, that's it maxed out. And you can do that with every Pokémon very easily. And every stat. Sounds easy. It's very cool. I must admit... I like it a lot. It's relatively easy in Scotland Violet. But I really miss, and I know it was a bit tiresome, but the way you EV trained in X and Y with the punching bags and the minigames, it was actually so much fun. Like, I know it was dumb, but like... It did make it fun, yeah. It was more fun. What did they call it? Hyper training in that game, was it? I think it was something like that. But I just... Even like I saw a clip with someone today, just I was getting like hardcore X and Y flashbacks, because that's when I really got into competitive Pokémon with X and Y. And, you know, I was just... Even like the Horde Pokémon, when you run into Horde Pokémon. The Horde was great, weren't they? Because you get the Horde Pokémon for EV training as well. So that was like one of the easier ways to... quicker ways to EV train. And yeah, I was just like, damn, I missed that game. Yeah. Hopefully they have something, something in the future. If they bring in that though, you know, integrate what they've done in Legends R. Oh, I want Mega's back. Bring back Mega's. Well, we're going to have to wait till the remake of X and Y, I think, mate, for that. So that'll be Gen 10. That one actually made... That's only Generation 10. That's one Generation away. It's not that long. That would actually make a lot of sense to save it for when they bring it back. Because obviously if they bring it back, if they do a remake, they're going to have to... They can't not do Mega's. They're doing it. So that would make a lot of sense. But I think though, for that, right, when they get around to Generation 10, they can't do... They can't have a studio like Ilka making the remake, right? Like they did with BDSP, right? Because they're going to need to integrate those Mega's into the main series games, right? So it can't be crap. So it can't be rubbish. Game freak, listen. Nothing on the Ilka. Why did they put Gen 4, man? The Gen 4 remake? Why did they make it so bad? I enjoyed it, but yeah. It could have been so much better. The Gen 3 remake was so good. Yeah, I was actually really looking forward to potentially playing a Gen 4 VG format. Oh, well, on BDSP? Could you imagine? It would have been amazing. But I think that was a bit wishful thinking. They were never going to port it over from Sword and Shield. They could have done that, you know, especially with the way they're going if they weren't able to have ideas. It's like the next season, if they don't... You know, just be like, yeah, we're just going to go play the remake. I don't think they'll ever port away from the main series titles though now. You know where we had... Yeah, I guess I don't make sense. We had like back in the day, you know, you had Omega, Ruby, Alpha, Sapphire were like the add-on games. But that was a main series title, right? So it just was an extension to that generation. And that's why we saw the VG kind of format go into those games. Whereas, because it's developed by a different developer, second party, you know, Ilka, they're not going to stray. It's not classed as a main series. When your flagship kind of game is going to be like... Well, it was Sword and Shield then, unfortunately, because it was so much like kind of heat for Dynamax and people not enjoying it and people want to change. And I think it would have been... I think it would have been refreshing, but you know, you've got to really think back to the baseline that, you know, it is an advertising tool for Pokemon using and then they want to use their main game to advertise their product with. So... It would be wild getting it. I think my brain would explode getting X and Y remake because I remember when it come out. Like, I know it obviously, it makes sense. I do remember when getting to Gen 4 games as a thing, but like, that's when I really got into Pokemon. So to think, you know, I never could have thought we'd be getting an X and Y remake in the future at any point. And the thing that is, you know, potentially in the next, you know, three or four years, we could be getting one. It will be, yeah. Although it's not actually that long away, is it? Because Gen 10 will be like, what, two years away now? And then a year after that, you're looking at probably the remake. On the kind of same timeline that we work off at the minute, that's kind of what we look at. Because Black and White's the next remake if they stick to the remake, you know. So interesting. Exciting though. That one as well. Megas bring them back. Bring them back. Another news we've already mentioned. EUIC will be happening this week. That's European Championships for the Play Pokemon. It'll be happening in London at the XL Arena in London. I will be there. Scott will be there playing. I will be there casting, commenting on the VG team just to reiterate that. I'll be on Dream every round. It's going to be a great event. Make sure you're watching. Oh, yeah. Make sure you tune in. It'll be a very good event. And there is going to also be a pop-up shop there as well. And I just had it. Yeah, pop-up shop. Pop-up Pokemon Centre. Yeah. They had one at Worlds and it was insane. It was so good. And they're having another one at EUIC. Mate, this is just another way of sucking the money from your wallet. I spent £160, mate. Mate, I went round the first time because we got like, because we were casting, so we got like to go in before it opened to the general public. I've still got my receipt. I kept it because I spent so much money in the shop. Oh, my God. You can't see it. I spent, oh, God, £180 in the shop. And I was like, I need to keep that to remind myself of how stupid I was. Not to do it again. Hopefully I won't be doing that again. You definitely will, though. We know. We know. Yeah, so you can actually go on and reserve a place to go into the shop now. They've got a bunch of time slots over the entire weekend running from the Friday until the Sunday. And you can reserve a spot. It's free to reserve. You just need to get a spot and then turn up. And you'll be able to go in and grab yourself some Pokemon-centre exclusive merchandise and some Pokemon goodies. Some of the stuff I had for a while was amazing. Oh, it was incredible, mate. Yeah. The jersey they made was really sick. I've got the jersey and then a couple of the other like T-shirts designs they had was awesome. I don't know this jacket. I don't know why it's down on the floor here, but this jacket was what I got on. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's awesome. I love this jacket. This is like a reversible jacket with... I have the pink T-shirt. That stuff, yeah, I have that. And the socks, the match of it. Yeah, it's a really nice jacket. So yeah, they probably have some really cool stuff there. I went because we got round the first time and it was weird. You got to see it before everyone else, didn't you? Yeah. And we went in with like Leigh and Hart, another big, you know, big, big content creators. It was really cool. And I remember being at the TCG desk where they got the counters. And I was like, look, and I was like, which one should I get? I was really keen on the Marnie one. I thought, I'll just get the Marnie one. Because it was like one per person. And Leigh and Hart, it was standing right next to me. And I was like, turn to go away. And I was like, oh, Leigh and Hart. And I was like a bit like, wow. And he was like, which one should I get? And I was like, definitely the Marnie one. But he was shooting a video and I've never seen the video. So I don't know if I was in that bit and I want to find out, yeah. Yeah, I put myself up some of that as well. Because you couldn't, they only picked up one a day, didn't they? Yeah, one per person. Yeah. But you'd have to go in each day. Yeah. But I remember going around the first time and I got to the end where the check out was and I was like looking at my bag and I was like, I have to go back and put stuff back. I was like, I cannot justify spending this much money. And I literally went back and I put so much back. But I still spent like over 200 quid easy. I don't know how much it came to. It's brutal. I raised it for my brain. But I thought it was like a once in a, you know, lifetime at London. Did you say like, a lot of the Pogman centres, because obviously they have the main Pogman centres in Japan. And then obviously they have the online ones. We have one now in the UK and they have one in the US. But apparently the four part ones at Worlds haven't been that great. And so the fact that we're actually getting like I'm hoping this one will be decent. I would imagine it'd be similar to the one we had with Worlds this year. But previously they were like super small and now we're getting these like a lot larger, larger pop-up shops. Mate, the ones back in the day were... Had two things. There was not really any, well, I mean they had... The plushies were the only like explicit thing you could get. They always had big plushies. They had like t-shirts, maybe a hoodie. But not very much Worlds. Like when we have our studio, we've got to get like one of the massive plushies to put in the studio for the pod. We've got to get some of them. Some of the ones they had, they were wild. Some of the ones that I think... I have a picture of me with an arcanic, like laying next to an arcanine. I was about to say that. It was huge. I was like, wow. I saw so many people walking out of those as well. I saw a man, you guys are crazy. Yeah. I like the whale all over. It's not like what an expensive. It wasn't like they were cheap pipe. Nah. They were fishing out like hundreds of pounds of these massive plushies. Sure, they were getting upwards of 300. I remember in... I have a picture when I went to the Pokemon Seller in Osaka or something, I have a picture of me with this massive B-ware. I picked it up. I was like hugging it. I was really sick. That is cool. Yeah. I just bought a lot of small plushies. I got the scissor, which was like, you know, they sit on plushie. That's really cool. I'd imagine they'll have lots of stuff. Let's get something special and do a giveaway when we come back after the next one of a special plushie that we find there. We'll do a giveaway for it. That would be nice for our views. Excellent idea. For our view as... We had some really nice comments again recently. I had a text from a friend saying they really loved the pod. A new friend as well. I was like, yeah. I really enjoyed listening to it. Keep it up. We really appreciate anyone that is still watching. We do. Yeah, we do. This is something that we're both really excited about as a podcast because it's just great. We just get to hang out and talk about Pokemon. And we both love Pokemon so much. And it's a great way to connect with people as well. So much. There's just so much Pokemon stuff that I have all the time. A mesh card. Yeah. No, it's just quality. And we do appreciate all of you. Yeah. So the next thing that I've got on the list, mate, for this week is something that I'm just going to let you lead on. And I'll just chip in when needed. It's about an energy drink. I'm going to throw it up on the screen. Oh, yes. Here we go. You sent this over. So Monster have been a bit cheeky recently. So they've been coming after some companies. They basically claimed they owned the copyright for the word monster for everything, basically. And I can't remember the company. They come, I think they come after, I think it says it in here. They come after a small game company that used the word monster in their game title or something. And obviously this sparked up loads of controversy because they're like screw Pokemon. And apparently they have tried to come after Pokemon to claim because obviously Pokemon is short for pocket monsters, right? So they've tried to claim that Pokemon have stepped on their infringement, infringement copyright, which is just absolutely insane. This isn't like an April of Fools. No, this is real. So it happened recently because they did it to a small Indie strike. Indie get, yeah. And so obviously that sparked all this discussion and apparently they have come after Pokemon in the past to claim that they have the name, the rights to the name monster, which is insane. Like you can't copyright. Like that's like me saying I'm going to copyright the word A. No one else is ever allowed to use it. Otherwise I'm going to charge you money. Like copyright works for like the naming of things. Not, you know, but like you can't, it's like that. It's like trying to someone trying to copyright the word there. It's just water now. Yeah, yeah, everything belongs to me. That is and going after Pokemon. That is a brave move. No, they lost. They obviously did go anyway. So do you reckon it's just a PR spin? Just to get my name out there. X, Y and sun and moon. They complained about the name. Just seems so weird. What are you trying your luck with? You just going to lose. It feels like a PR spin though, doesn't it? Just to get your name out there. But it's a very, a very weird way to do it. A very weird way and just seems so ridiculous. You know, monster beverage corporation argue that the company's brand presentation in Japan. The series uses both the full title pocket monsters and the abbreviation Pokemon could cause people to mistakenly believe that the product was related to one set energy drinks. I mean, come on. Really? Pretty stupid to get like that mixed up. It's actually insane. The drink they must have made again. Oh, yes. Yes. They must be collaboration. Yeah. I mean, no similarities with the branding or coloration on the branding. It's all just that one word. Monster Munch. I don't know of any of you for viewers. That might as a deep car. That's a UK deep car, ladies. Yeah. That is a UK brand of crisps or chips. Chips. Yes. And yeah, that could be another one. They've been around since forever though. I don't mind what they're so strong. They're horrible. Yes. They taste nice, but they stink like hell, man. They did this. No, the flamin' hot ones are good, man. But I don't really eat crisps. No, they taste good. They just smell like the pickled onion ones. They taste so nice. They stink. Stink, man. Nasty, mate. They put in those flavorants. Mate, probably acid. Just fill up. Straight up acid. Straight up monster acid. Monster acid, baby. Crazy. Monster are a weird company, aren't they? Yeah. So, I mean, just ridiculous. Just another thing quickly. I got confused here, but it's a bit of a, it's not massively important, but there was, so Japan, so Japan circuit, as we've discussed in the past, is super, super different. Or just the Asian circuit is super different for competitive play. So they have their own stuff. They have, it's the only, Asia is like the only place where they still have national events. And so, Japan's Nats is coming up and they've released this artwork. I've just sent it to you on Twitter. And it looks insane. Absolutely gorgeous. I thought it was worlds stuff, and I was like, about to go mental, but this is, I hope we get similar artwork like this for worlds, because this is gorgeous, man. It's very cool. It's so nice. I think we've got the artwork for worlds, haven't we? Have we? Probably. I think this stuff, I think this stuff done, yeah. That is very cool, isn't it? Yeah. Just the colors. Love it so much. It's cool. Like the Japanese circuit is very cool. I do like it because they have the online course. So the next, so there'll be, I think, four online tournaments, and they all act as qualifiers for... Are they still best of one? They are until, I think, top cut, and then I think it goes to a best of three. So I think all the preliminary rounds are, I think, but yeah, it's a cool circuit, and you have to get in the top percentile of players in the ICs to get a place at the National Champion. Really hard to qualify. That's what you know. The Japanese people that are any Asian players, they're at the events, they couldn't the game. They're just a different gravy. They're a different gravy when it comes to Pokemon. Yeah, and it's... They're format is super different as well, right? Because in terms of the way, obviously, at the moment, Flutter Main is very common and all this, Palafin, Tinglu, all these things, but they'll just have completely different... They definitely have different friends and stuff. Yeah, and if you keep an eye on that, they still have quite a... They have a really strong grassroots scene as well. Yeah, that's awesome. But you can keep an eye on some of their grassroots scenes that are published on Twitter and certain accounts, publish the results from those. So you can keep track of where things are going in relation to those. And it is very different, but it does influence the West meta game a lot. And it still does. I mean, a lot of the teams that we saw in Series 2 were built by Japanese players, and they influenced a lot of those top-performing teams in Series 2. Just doesn't really get talked about too much. But yeah, it's still... Yeah, I mean, unfortunately, because of the language barrier, there's not much crossover between... Obviously, quite a few Asian players can speak English, so June can speak very good English and stuff like that. But there's just the numbers. I think we just outnumber them. So there's not much crossover. Obviously, loads of Japanese content creators speaking Japanese, so it's a lot harder for like... But even people like myself to just go and listen to them and enjoy their content. So you don't really get that insight from them as prevalent as you do from the West. Yeah, and they're still very heavy on blogs, like blog posting, things like that. It's where they kind of put out... I mean, what was the team that Rinnia put out with Suika? They put a team out, and that was one of the top-performing teams in series two for us over here in our regional scenes. I can't remember the team off the top of my head, but yeah, you've still got that heavy influence, but a lot of... It's just not on the right places to go, I guess, if you want to be inspired by the Japanese players, but they're very good. There's systems, like you say, extremely hard to qualify from. So the players that are always going to be in the World Championships are always going to be very good. It'll be interesting. This year's World Championships, they're going to be desperate to win. To win. Yeah. They are not going to want anyone else coming in and winning the tournament in their hometown. And when was the last time a Japanese player won? Was it 2019? Yeah. 2019, I think, wasn't it? Yes. It was. You didn't have one in play. Was it Ryusuke versus someone? Was that one Ryusuke? My Japanese knowledge of players is bad. I can't remember the name of the top of my head, I should know. It's not but you're it, but... It was Lunala Groudon though. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. But yeah, extremely hard circuit. I'd love to... I'd love the opportunity to live out in Japan for a year when I was like playing, like really hardcore playing and just play their circuit for an entire year, like play all the grassroots scenes and then play their national... Fully immerse yourself. Yeah, it would be such a great experience. Can't do it now, but I mean, it would have been the dream. Dream come true, baby. Anybody with VGC players out there, you know, get your bags packed, tell your mum you're off to Japan for a year, go do it. Bye bye. Just like in the Pokemon games. Yeah, bye mum. Bye. But yeah, no. It'd be great if we have any Japanese views as well. Tell us more about the circuit. Yeah, I did. It really interests me, it really does. It's... Yeah, so we'll see. We'll see what happens at EUIC. I'm sure there's going to be a lot of different nationalities representing their countries this weekend. So it'll be good to see what comes out, who wins, who does well, what teams come out. Because there's going to be some spice, I think, this weekend. Yeah, I've got a bit of spice to myself. So a little bit of spice. So... Old spice. Old spice, yeah. So... Sorry. I was dousing myself before the tournament. You could be the best smelling player there. I don't know what's that smell. It's just Scott. That's the smell. Be like those old spice idols. That dude with the towel. Yeah. Excellent. I don't know where we're going after this though, mate. I think that's pretty much everything that we were going to cover this week. We are going to try and do a live podcast, not a live podcast. We're going to do a podcast at EUIC. So that should be hopefully next week's podcast, which is going to be really exciting. And we'll try and do, in the hall, we'll try and do different locations for it all throughout the weekend. So yeah, we'll see how that goes. And that should be a lot of fun. I did get some, you know, Fasters have special pins. This is an exclusive for you. I did get myself some new pins. Let's take them out. Shall I take them out of the packet so you can see them properly? What pug one, aren't they? Oh, mate. Do you normally have to wear them on the suit, right? Yeah. It's going to be a hot... It's a bit of a homage to last week. Last week's episode. Oh, Lechonk. Oh, that's got my laptop on. It's so cool. This one. Yeah, I love it. I had to get them. I was like, yes. Yes, this will be. Yes. So that'll be like one for each day then. Excellent. So be good. Sneak peek. Wow. Well, we didn't get any game breaking. We were DLC news, which we thought we might get this week. That's been a lot of rumor leaks and stuff like that, but maybe we leave that for another week. We might have a good guest for talking about leak stuff. Oh, yeah. We spoke about. So maybe in a couple of weeks, we'll go over it. I want to have a bit more. I feel like once Homer's out, I feel like that will lead. There's a lot of scope for the DLC, at least for the rumors, because you can get an idea of what Nintendo wants to do then. Especially with the Raidpug one and stuff. So I agree. Yeah. Especially if the Raidpug one are linked to the DLC, as we pointed out last week possibly. So yeah, that's masks. That is pretty much it for the week. Did you want to pull any of these out? Did you want me to pull anything? When I was at my parents, I found my childhood treasure box and found all my old Pokemons. Give them a quick view in. I managed to find all the stuff, all my original stuff. My very first Pokemon game ever, Pokemon Red. And I now have it in my possession. I'm going to actually, I don't know. No, I won't start a new playthrough or keep the one there. But these stickers on the front, some people are going to be like, you've ruined the box, but I'm not ever going to sell this. This is like mine. So that's actually the team that I used to run if I can get it to focus in on that box there. I was at Alakazam, Chenzi, Ride On, Execute, Zapdos, and Slowbro. Yeah, yeah. Excellent. That was the team. So there's that. Pokemon Yellow. Oh, mate, this is quality. Pokemon Silver. And did we talk about it on that? Did we talk about it on that? Save that for the different episode. Do you reckon? Do we talk about it? I don't know if we talked about the Celebi. We did. I'm sure we did. This is a copy of Crystal. This is the copy of Crystal that I got from that tournament with the Celebi's on, on the cart itself. And I have, I also found, which I've shown Scott before the pod. This is just a nice little way to end it out. Nice little way to end out. Also found the certificate. This is just a little touch of history. The certificate of authenticity of the Celebi on the actual card as well. My nice thing is to confess. Special certificate. Love to see it. I can't believe I kept it. Your Celebi ID number 020164. Now, I don't know whether that's the ID of the actual Pokemon or not. I don't know. I have to have to check. But there's some, there's some history for you. And I did, I want to show you guys this. I don't know if anyone's ever seen this before. This is weird. I thought when I pulled it out of the box, I really didn't read it as a kid. I don't think at all. Or I did and I give up. But it's, it's kind of like a walkthrough guide, but it's written as a novel. So the whole thing is like a novel of golden silver. But it's like playing through the game, but it gives you all the, how, how the game is actually played in a novel. It's weird. Maybe read it one week. It's quality. We've got the live performance to do. And then I saw, I saw, I found another upload of that. No, I, no, I found someone. I think I sent it to you. That made a documentary about the live performance as that's wild. We need to do a special live. We'll do a stream. We'll do a stream. I said down the rabbit hole with that. Excellent. Well, that's about, that's about it. May I think is it? Yeah. Thank you very much for listening guys. I'm really excited for next week's episode. Recording it at EUIC, I think will be really cool. If any of you are attending EUIC as well and you see us at the venue, please come up and say hello. Don't be shy. And if you'd like to get in the pod and maybe answer a few questions, let us know about your weekend experiences while you're there. Then we would love to, we'd love to have you on and get your perspective of how you're enjoying the event and stuff like that. Yeah, pretty much. So, do you want to call it there? It's not very comfortable. I mean, yeah. I mean, we're normally really bad for trying to, well gone a lot of other tangents and everything and I'm doing it right now. All right. It's end of stream. Goodbye everyone. Thank you very much for watching. We'll see you at EUIC if you're there. And yes, that is all for this week's episode. That is everything. Thank you so much. Scott, good luck at EUIC mate and everyone else. Thank you so much for tuning in. See you later. We'll see you on next week's episode. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.