Recent content by Tasellus

^This. Mind blown. It's so perfect, so annoyed that it's not a thing now haha. Most niggling of niggles, but I just got burned by Alolan Meowth having a different evolution method. I like to try to fill out the Pokedex in a regular playthrough - definitely slows me down but just makes me feel...

Over the summer I read Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. It's about the reign of King Henry VIII in Tudor England. Loved it. And I don't think you need to be interested in English history to love it. I was delighted at how much of a page-turner it was. Mantel brought the historical figures to life and...

Any other Scorsese fans see Silence and just not get it? I feel bad. I wanted to love it. Critics loved it. It's his baby and he's been working on it for 20 years. I love everything else he does. Its premise sounded amazing. But somewhere in the three-hour execution, he lost me. I thought it...

Love this thread! :') Particularly reading about how a healthy diet and lifestyle has been improving quality of life for so many people. It sounds so simple and it's always easier said than done, but the positive impact of eating well and exercising, especially on mental health, is incredible...

Taking genwunning to a bit of an extreme here - purely from a design perspective, I think Pokemon generations should have stopped after Gen II :/ I think Gens I and II set the perfect tone with the design of their Pokemon - gritty, sinister, sort of spooky - they were monsters. It's a difficult...

After a long but miserable hiatus from anime I'm about to dive back in and have decided to start with Death Note. I know real anime fans would have gobbled it up and digested it years ago so I hope I'm not inducing too much eye-rolling. For a series to get me back into anime I thought it would...

Anyone interested in helping me get the bottom of the moves Lovely Kiss and Sweet Kiss? Pretty unremarkable at first glance, but the thing that tipped me off to something weird going on was the animation for these moves way back in GSC. For Lovely Kiss, a little demon sprite appears, and for...

I don't think that what the OP had in mind wasn't a pro-versus-anti-Trump debate, but more along the lines of, what is Trump doing as POTUS that is unprecedented, and how might this change the very nature of presidency in the US? For me that's where the interest lies - it would be putting it...

Myzozoa That's fair, thanks for clarifying. I think I get where you're coming from now. Happy to concede that: 1. Dangerous ideas that prey on a marketplace of ideas are capable of being adopted by a regime, and 2. When that happens, there is a power imbalance. And if I understand correctly...

From a quick look, it seems there's a handful of Pokemon, particularly Psychic-types, that get Thunder Wave and Charge Beam but not the full set of Electric TMs. Alazakam, Celebi, Grumpig and Chimecho are a few I've found, there could be others. It would be cool if there was actually some GF...

So a major point of tension is between the 'marketplace of ideas' leaving all speech to be filtered and sorted on its merits by a democratic society, versus the reality that this freedom allows some false ideas to be introduced into the marketplace, many of which are dangerous and yet will sell...

Don't know why but I get such a disproportionately huge kick out of going behind the meaning of a move, or the origin of a Pokemon concept - and finding something that got lost in translation but that makes the move fit once you know it. So satisfying haha. For a long time I didn't understand...

This has bugged me for a long time too. I read somewhere that its Flying type is probably a reference to 'koinobori', a Chinese carp-shaped wind sock. I think this is an example of where GF draws upon the Flying type to cover both Pokemon in the 'Bird' category, as well as an answer for the...

^ I'd also say that I agree with almost all of this and I think it was well put. A democratic society must always find a way to facilitate a free-flowing exchange of ideas, as painful as that might be. It is an absolutely essential function. If ideas are expressed that are controversial and...

I absolutely agree that Trump's advantage so far lies in his candid attitude and determination to say what he thinks, not what he ought to say. He approaches politics like a businessman, and I think there is definitely an appeal to that attitude that shouldn't be underrated. I wouldn't be...