>>40799274I'M FUCKING MAD BECAUSE THIS ISN'T REAL! This is the one and only thing that had to be real to convince me to buy one of these games, but no, reality wouldn't bend to my wishes this one time.
Every starter leak since Gen 5 I've been able to tell on a gut level which ones were and weren't real, and even if I didn't like any of them, even if I thought they were stupid and shit and utterly awful, I still defended them.
The ONE AND ONLY TIME there's a starter leak that I actually really wanted to be true, and instead we get Cinderace, the single most boring Pokemon ever created. And, to add insult to injury, neither of the other starters are any good either.
There is no 'least bad' option this time, it's just all shit, and it was delivered right out of Gamefreak's asshole all over my hopes and dreams.
Afterwards I was hoping for the November 3rd Seattle happening to be real just to distract me, but WHOOPS, I HOPED FOR IT, HAPPENING CANCELLED!