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a lot of people in some smogon forums, generally moreso the competitive ones i think have no fucking respect for fanart or shit like that, or crediting art in general
RMTs also all the time use them in their attempt to look super fuckin serious and official when its just your pokemon team
i also dont like that now we have PMD portraits on smogon forums using fanart especially when I think a lot of them could have just used the 3ds portraits (which are also good) rather than fanart in its entirety and you know that mfers are not going to look up the artists or anything, because you'd have to find the announcement post from months ago that announces that they are using the sprites now
the source btw: PMD Sprite Repository (pmdcollab.org) (site/general), what am I doing (tumblr.com) (audino artist social)
to me ideally whenever you'd hover over the fanart sprite it'd display the source and credit, but I'm not sure how hard or easy that'd be to implement
RMTs also all the time use them in their attempt to look super fuckin serious and official when its just your pokemon team
i also dont like that now we have PMD portraits on smogon forums using fanart especially when I think a lot of them could have just used the 3ds portraits (which are also good) rather than fanart in its entirety and you know that mfers are not going to look up the artists or anything, because you'd have to find the announcement post from months ago that announces that they are using the sprites now
the source btw: PMD Sprite Repository (pmdcollab.org) (site/general), what am I doing (tumblr.com) (audino artist social)
to me ideally whenever you'd hover over the fanart sprite it'd display the source and credit, but I'm not sure how hard or easy that'd be to implement
I agree wholeheartedly. That said, where's your avatar from?a lot of people in some smogon forums, generally moreso the competitive ones i think have no fucking respect for fanart or shit like that, or crediting art in general
RMTs also all the time use them in their attempt to look super fuckin serious and official when its just your pokemon team
i also dont like that now we have PMD portraits on smogon forums using fanart especially when I think a lot of them could have just used the 3ds portraits (which are also good) rather than fanart in its entirety and you know that mfers are not going to look up the artists or anything, because you'd have to find the announcement post from months ago that announces that they are using the sprites now
the source btw: PMD Sprite Repository (pmdcollab.org) (site/general), what am I doing (tumblr.com) (audino artist social)
to me ideally whenever you'd hover over the fanart sprite it'd display the source and credit, but I'm not sure how hard or easy that'd be to implement
It's actually art I commissioned
The artist was canceled (for really fucking good reason) so I don't tend to credit them, but when I commissioned them they went by "eevwui"
I think they're still active but changed their name / priv'd twitter over it
Fair enough. I was just curious.
Cheesecake is mid
Strike 4
I find that it really depends on the cheesecake. I've had homemade cheesecake that was positively divine, but the cheaper stuff at the store is often all of the feeling of sickness with none of the feeling of luxury.
dont worry we have a thread in is where we talk about how much we love our artists. that's more than enough if you ask me...a lot of people in some smogon forums, generally moreso the competitive ones i think have no fucking respect for fanart or shit like that, or crediting art in general
RMTs also all the time use them in their attempt to look super fuckin serious and official when its just your pokemon team
i also dont like that now we have PMD portraits on smogon forums using fanart especially when I think a lot of them could have just used the 3ds portraits (which are also good) rather than fanart in its entirety and you know that mfers are not going to look up the artists or anything, because you'd have to find the announcement post from months ago that announces that they are using the sprites now
the source btw: PMD Sprite Repository (pmdcollab.org) (site/general), what am I doing (tumblr.com) (audino artist social)
to me ideally whenever you'd hover over the fanart sprite it'd display the source and credit, but I'm not sure how hard or easy that'd be to implement
Tbh some German cheesecakes are made with heavy cream and are superior but they aren't really cheesecakes in my opinion cause u mostly taste the cream
My personal ranking is Euphoria > Not Like Us > 6:16 > Meet the Grahams, and yet I still cannot say you're wrong
They're all so good tbh
Agreed. Telling off Drake's dad for raising him wrong also goes extremely hard.
pokerogue is not good and nobody is gonna play it in 2 weeks stop telling me to play it
ngl bro I said this 3 weeks ago and now I'm in the 1400s in endless with my Kyurem-White/Primal Kyogre fusion, this shit is a DRUG no way it's dying anytime soon
I've sunk 30 hours in it and I've beaten Classic Mode like 10 times
I have been playing DQ11s instead rn but any time there is an event I'm absolutely getting onto rogue and dumping more hours
Pandas aren't as bad as Sloths and Koalas
Like sure it'd be cool if Pandas ate more nutritious plant matter than bamboo like their brown cousins, but
- their mating behavior is a lot more effective in nature compared to captivity
- they manage to gain enough strength and size from their nutrition to not be threatened by predators
- they have some traits that may gain great use this in the future. Like their pseudo thumb looks promising, their digestive system is complex, their patterns can gain camouflage and sun related uses
Sloths and Koalas meanwhile only exist because they aren't worth predators' time. Koalas have developed smooth brains from their nutrition for crying out loud, good brains are like a key advantage for mammals and they threw it away for eating a poisonous, anti-nutritious plant
Sloths aren't as bad and using moss for camo is at least cool, but they still suck and only aren't eaten because they give almost no nutrients
So yeah pandas aren't great and they should start eating more nutritious plants (I don't wanna force em to eat meat because they lost their umami sense), but they're miles above sloths and leagues above koalas
Like sure it'd be cool if Pandas ate more nutritious plant matter than bamboo like their brown cousins, but
- their mating behavior is a lot more effective in nature compared to captivity
- they manage to gain enough strength and size from their nutrition to not be threatened by predators
- they have some traits that may gain great use this in the future. Like their pseudo thumb looks promising, their digestive system is complex, their patterns can gain camouflage and sun related uses
Sloths and Koalas meanwhile only exist because they aren't worth predators' time. Koalas have developed smooth brains from their nutrition for crying out loud, good brains are like a key advantage for mammals and they threw it away for eating a poisonous, anti-nutritious plant
Sloths aren't as bad and using moss for camo is at least cool, but they still suck and only aren't eaten because they give almost no nutrients
So yeah pandas aren't great and they should start eating more nutritious plants (I don't wanna force em to eat meat because they lost their umami sense), but they're miles above sloths and leagues above koalas
They are still adorable. Pls pm me if u know if there is an adorable animals thread.
yeah, but panda life is not sustainable. bamboo is a terrible source of nutrition, and they are giant, so they have to be constantly eating it. probobly because of this, they only look after one cub, even though they usually have twins. they just leave the other one to die. yeah, sloths and koalas are bad, but they can at least take care of offspring.
yeah because they usually only have one baby
plus, Koalas are marsupians. When you have a pouch that does a lot of your childrearing for you, raising a baby becomes a lot easier. Sloth babies also just cling at their mothers. When your baby just clings to you and drinks some milk then and again, well that becomes quite easy
I still don't get why Pandas only eat bamboo. Like I get it, you lost your sense of umami, you don't like meat, but brown bears eat grass and other plant matter that's nutritious. Some brown bears have a diet of over 90% plant matter, yet they are super active, strong and smart. Why don't Pandas do that?
Other hot take:
natural selection by sexual preference can be very beneficial to a species. Example:
Female giraffes prefering male giraffes with longer necks have lead to one of the most dominant species in Africa. The long necks wouldn't have developed otherwise, if a giraffe just has a slighter longer neck, it wouldn't have much of a difference in their lifestyle. It needed generations upon generations for giraffes to gain the neck lenght to profit from otherwise unreachable foliage, immunity to ambushes and access to a massively powerful swipe with huge range
If such traits become too disadvantegous, the species will go extinct, but if not, it could evolve in a similar path to giraffes
I don't much care for roguelikes. Deliberate level design is more satisfying than procedural generation in almost all cases, and losing because of a bad seed is horrible. Infinite replay value doesn't mean anything if the game's not worth playing in the first place.
the nature of humanity is such that every so often a smogoffite rediscovers darwin's theory of evolution
youre literally on a competitive pokemon forum
Roguelikes aren't built around their procedural generation. They're built around a certain unique game mechanic. Procedural generation is the medium by which the mechanic is enjoyed. Any given roguelike game would be an objectively worse experience if you were playing through a set map, and the skill you have through your experience in a roguelike is rarely going to reach a point where your runs are based 100% on luck. Early on, luck doesn't matter because you've bad at the game and are bound to die anyways. Once you've cleared the game a few times, you'll have the skill where you can consistently make good runs/clear the game regardless of whether the items you get are good or not.
Take for example Noita. The game features 2 prominent mechanics: The wand system and environmental interactions. If the game had been built around a set map, there would be a 100% consistent way to beat the game every single time, and it would get really boring really fast. However, because your spells/wands and the environment is random, the game will provide a slightly new experience every time you play, and due to the nature of the game being that you kill everything fast (including yourself) the only thing stopping you from winning is your own skill. You can't blame anything on luck.