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The people that seethe about the competitive scene's blatant pkhex usage seethe because they cannot differentiate competitive from casual. Within the realm of competitive play, injecting is not cheating because competitive, online game play is a realm mutually exclusive with casual offline game play. GF recognizes this and have streamlined the process of IV/EV training to placate purists and will continue to do so to make it easier for comp players to practice their craft rather than, for example, creating an "always online" system that virtually completely prohibits injections. This debate is between competitive players who understand what GF has designed in terms of their competitive system and casual players that want the entire game to feel like a shounen animal in which they, through their hard work and dedication, actually become the very best when in reality they're too focused on shiny hunting and offline EV/IV training to actually get good. GF basically jokingly conveyed the information that you have to figuratively sodomize yourself to be good at competitive gameplay and casual purists actually DID sodomize themselves by wasting time on bullshit, trivial, and childish mechanics (that GF is literally doing away with as we speak) and then comp players come along and are like "bro that was just a joke you don't actually have to face yourself to play comp" but casual purists, with tears in their eyes and a scowl on their face, force a smile and tell the comp players that they like the sensation and that it is, in fact, the comp players that are retarded.
Also the steroid analogy is the textbook definition of sophistry because the product of steroid usage is strength and a physique that the wholly and obviously unobtainable naturally
