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Update: She looks awesome in the incoming new Marvel fighting game, good on her!
Another brag here from the Scrabble world… just broke 500 points against BetterBot for the first time! 520 to be exact. Here’s the GIF of the game (I’m in yellow)
I was (literally) off to a BAD start, but managed to draw the right letters to get a bunch of high scoring words outside of my bingos (which included PUSSIes lmao), with ZAXE(S) being the highlight there. Very happy with my rate of improvement this year, and we’re not even halfway done yet! BetterBot still beats me a good chunk of the time, but I have to run the numbers… I think in the past few weeks I might have a positive record. Hopefully by year’s end I’ll be able to say that for sure!
how does it feel to have gotten gorped on?
@gorp is this real?
The fuck is @gorp? Smogon's version of "Grok"????
Nah, don't tell me that it is true!
Nah, don't tell me that it is true!
I think my biggest edgelord Pokemon take is that I would unironically love to read a book envisioning a modern war fought with Pokemon. I don't mean a shouty gritty drama, I mean a big tome of speculative fiction carefully examining the logistics of such a thing, answering questions such as:
-Which Pokemon would be the best for sneaking supplies in during a blockade?
-Would blockades even be viable in this setting, alongside other common real-life tactics?
-Which flying Pokemon would be the preferred choices of air forces around the globe? Which aquatic Pokemon would see the most use by navies?
-What purpose, if any, would human troops serve aside from giving the Pokemon orders? What would a high-ranking commander look like and what would their skillset be?
-If this was set in the world of the mainline games, which regions would be the easiest & hardest to invade? How would local Pokemon variety advantage or disadvantage them?
-How would Legendaries factor into all this? Would there be military expeditions to try and find them or would their rarity and difficulty of capture make their use in the war impractical?
Get Max Brooks or someone like him on this, it'd be kino
-Which Pokemon would be the best for sneaking supplies in during a blockade?
-Would blockades even be viable in this setting, alongside other common real-life tactics?
-Which flying Pokemon would be the preferred choices of air forces around the globe? Which aquatic Pokemon would see the most use by navies?
-What purpose, if any, would human troops serve aside from giving the Pokemon orders? What would a high-ranking commander look like and what would their skillset be?
-If this was set in the world of the mainline games, which regions would be the easiest & hardest to invade? How would local Pokemon variety advantage or disadvantage them?
-How would Legendaries factor into all this? Would there be military expeditions to try and find them or would their rarity and difficulty of capture make their use in the war impractical?
Get Max Brooks or someone like him on this, it'd be kino
Hoenn would probably one of the hardest to invade because of all their harsh environments. There's the desert rt. 110, the volcanic jagged pass, and sootopolis city itself. The hoenn army can just camp there. No one goes in or out unless they have fortree's or mossdeeps badge.
Oh and the shit ton of water routes. The Hoenn navy must be stacked with how much of the region is water. Same goes for Alola.
What I would like to see in pokemon is the world leaders. I'm sure this has come up as a question to some of y'all. Surprised we haven't gotten any glimpses in the political figures of the pokemon region. Who's the prime minister of the Galar Region? Who's the president of the Unova Region? Where was he when Ghetsis tried to overthrow the region twice??
Also how would these important people be protected by assassinators. Obviously humans on the pokemon world operate on toon logic so they could tank one thunderbolt. But what do they do if some evildoer uses a psychic pokemon to throw the president around like a GMOD ragdoll? Do they have secret service agents? If so what mons do they use?
These are some questions that came up to me today.
Also how would these important people be protected by assassinators. Obviously humans on the pokemon world operate on toon logic so they could tank one thunderbolt. But what do they do if some evildoer uses a psychic pokemon to throw the president around like a GMOD ragdoll? Do they have secret service agents? If so what mons do they use?
These are some questions that came up to me today.
This is making me cringe lmao.
Just why go there bro
“If you don’t have anything nice (or constructive) to say” and all that
I’d be down to see what Pokemon Secret Service looks like, sounds kinda fun lol
Hm ig I see your point. sry Abt that.
I've always imagined that, as the region's strongest trainer, the Champion is kind of the region's leader by default. We see a lot of them act as a kind of police force, investigating the operations of evil teams and helping us thwart them, and a lot of them are celebrities in their regions (though it's always been funny to me that Cheren, a kid so singularly obsessed with becoming the Champion, has no clue who Alder is at first). They're also often the ones called on to do something in times of severe crisis, like the awakening of Groudon/Kyogre.
The world of Pokémon, at least as it's presented to us while we play as its young people, is much more idyllic and peaceful than our own. We never see any bigotry or resource scarcity; most people fit into its societies just fine; any war or large-scale conflict in the lore is always made to feel like history we're pretty removed from; and a given region's biggest criminal enterprises and most existential threats are only ever one prodigious child trainer away from falling to pieces with no lasting consequences for the general population. Assuming that we can take all this at face value (i.e. that there isn't some element of badness to the world that we're not shown due to who we play as in these games), there probably isn't as much of a need to do politics as there is in our world. Just get one strong, virtuous trainer to handle the very few problems you have.
I have another crossover fighter roster for you, this time a hypothetical new Shonen Jump game
There really isn't a big vision behind this unlike my Smash 6 roster, but I nonetheless have some notes on my thought process
-One priority I had was getting more female characters in. Obviously only so much you can do given the genre, but I looked for openings where I could even if it occasionally meant prioritizing relatively less popular characters (e.g. Nico Robin over Sanji & Usopp, Jolyne over other Jojo protags)
-I also weighted recurrence within one's series quite heavily. This is why Krillin and Gohan replace Future Trunks and Cell from Jump Force, they simply have more to do across the totality of the original manga. Also why I picked Buggy over any other One Piece villain
-I'm very much unconvinced by my Chainsaw Man selection, definitely feels like there should be more than two but I'm just not familiar enough with the series to say who. Same with Demon Slayer
-Continuing from the above note I'm also just now realizing I completely forgot to put in anyone from Bleach. Oops! I guess it'd be Ichigo, Aizen and one or two others cuz again no familiarity
-Does anyone in [current year] still care about Rurouni Kenshin? I kinda avoided that one given... uh....
-A good deal of choices were in response to Jump Force being unbelievably lame. Why did they nuke all the gag characters. Why was Deku the only base game MHA character. Why was there zero trace of One Punch Man. Why are Jotaro and Dio still the only Jojo guys. Why did they remove Raoh. Stupid-ass game
-Also WHY IS THE DS GAME THE ONLY JUMP CROSSOVER THIS CENTURY WITH KINNIKUMAN
There really isn't a big vision behind this unlike my Smash 6 roster, but I nonetheless have some notes on my thought process
-One priority I had was getting more female characters in. Obviously only so much you can do given the genre, but I looked for openings where I could even if it occasionally meant prioritizing relatively less popular characters (e.g. Nico Robin over Sanji & Usopp, Jolyne over other Jojo protags)
-I also weighted recurrence within one's series quite heavily. This is why Krillin and Gohan replace Future Trunks and Cell from Jump Force, they simply have more to do across the totality of the original manga. Also why I picked Buggy over any other One Piece villain
-I'm very much unconvinced by my Chainsaw Man selection, definitely feels like there should be more than two but I'm just not familiar enough with the series to say who. Same with Demon Slayer
-Continuing from the above note I'm also just now realizing I completely forgot to put in anyone from Bleach. Oops! I guess it'd be Ichigo, Aizen and one or two others cuz again no familiarity
-Does anyone in [current year] still care about Rurouni Kenshin? I kinda avoided that one given... uh....
-A good deal of choices were in response to Jump Force being unbelievably lame. Why did they nuke all the gag characters. Why was Deku the only base game MHA character. Why was there zero trace of One Punch Man. Why are Jotaro and Dio still the only Jojo guys. Why did they remove Raoh. Stupid-ass game
-Also WHY IS THE DS GAME THE ONLY JUMP CROSSOVER THIS CENTURY WITH KINNIKUMAN
I have nowhere else to post this on smogon but I have to share it, my simisear keychains came in and my simisear bag is complete :) plush and Vcard next to it for show
Something peculiar happened to me
So I made my mega man video, but I got struck by copyright! The fucking John Cena Entrance video is claimed. Luckily, it doesn't affect my channel at all, and I'm not monetized anyways. But still, YT fair use screws over even the most harmless of creators... I feel that it is a bad omen for what's to come...
It's also blocked in Russia for some reason. Don't ask
You can check out my channel here (Don't know if this is even allowed)
So I made my mega man video, but I got struck by copyright! The fucking John Cena Entrance video is claimed. Luckily, it doesn't affect my channel at all, and I'm not monetized anyways. But still, YT fair use screws over even the most harmless of creators... I feel that it is a bad omen for what's to come...
It's also blocked in Russia for some reason. Don't ask
You can check out my channel here (Don't know if this is even allowed)
I think its funny how therapy in America is based around fixing one's mental or emotional trauma in order to achieve some semblance of normalcy or happiness.
I've tried therapy a handful of times and it just feels like chiropractics. Some bullshit where they prescribe you some medicine and shove puzzle pieces in your face so you figure out the root of your own problems. I'm a self proclaimed excellent intrapersonal communicator. I think perhaps this may also contribute to my belief that therapy has been fairly useless. Granted this is just me. I'm not saying therapy as a whole is garbage its just not something that does any good for me. So No I will not ever be trying therapy again.
One thing I've realized in life is that you should never try and avoid unhappiness. I think a lot of folks avoid unhappiness and thus paradoxically avoid their own happiness. Complex problems are not able to be solved, they are experienced. For example, you go to a baseball game to experience it. It can't truly be simulated or solved with all of the variables. Marriage for example, you can't solve marriage or simulate it. It's something you experience. Unhappiness and by extension happiness is the same. You need to experience those feelings in order to truly appreciate them.
I've tried therapy a handful of times and it just feels like chiropractics. Some bullshit where they prescribe you some medicine and shove puzzle pieces in your face so you figure out the root of your own problems. I'm a self proclaimed excellent intrapersonal communicator. I think perhaps this may also contribute to my belief that therapy has been fairly useless. Granted this is just me. I'm not saying therapy as a whole is garbage its just not something that does any good for me. So No I will not ever be trying therapy again.
One thing I've realized in life is that you should never try and avoid unhappiness. I think a lot of folks avoid unhappiness and thus paradoxically avoid their own happiness. Complex problems are not able to be solved, they are experienced. For example, you go to a baseball game to experience it. It can't truly be simulated or solved with all of the variables. Marriage for example, you can't solve marriage or simulate it. It's something you experience. Unhappiness and by extension happiness is the same. You need to experience those feelings in order to truly appreciate them.
To me, how you talk about 'avoiding unhappiness' is a bit unclear. I agree it is healthy to be unhappy sometimes, and it is unwise to seek out an existence where one is never unhappy ever. That never-ever-unhappiness is a state I agree we should not try to avoid.
However, it also sounds like you're saying that we should never try and avoid each individual instance of unhappiness from every situation. If so, this is dangerous advice. Sometimes, our environments provide us with enough unhappy stimuli that if we experience unhappiness for each stimulus, we are experiencing unhappiness more quickly than is healthy. Unhealthy rates of unhappiness can prevent us from feeling and expressing other parts of ourselves, and can contribute to unhappiness becoming a part of our identity we struggle to deviate from, leading to even more unhealthy unhappiness in a trapping cycle.
If we are experiencing unhealthy levels of unhappiness, if it is possible and reasonable to do so, we should change our environment or our experience of feelings to decrease our unhappiness to a healthy rate. For example, if someone is doomscrolling constantly, taking in constant negative stimulus and experiencing constant unhappiness, they should not continue in this complex experience. Instead, they should solve a flaw in their environment, they should stop doomscrolling, instead of taking on each individual feeling of unhappiness.
While I agree with some of your points, and also did not get much help from attempting therapy, I think your post is also missing a bigger-scale point. Happiness / solving problems and experiencing situations aren't alternatives that we choose between, they are complements we can do together and which make the other better. A baseball game is something to be experienced, not solved, but if you figure out why your car keeps breaking down on the highway and fix that before you drive out to the stadium, you're probably going to have a richer experience.
Finding the root of our problems can also help us better understand them, making our experience of unhappiness more complete and richer. For example, if one newly understands that they are insecure about their body because they were bullied for it in the past, they can add compassion for their past self into these experiences of insecurity. Not necessarily preventing these experiences or removing them altogether, but adding a valuable dimension of complexity to them.
This role, where patients are better able to have richer experiences, as opposed to shutting out all unhappiness, is what competent therapy should strive for.
I've talked a bit about solving problems improving our experiences, but I'll also note some specific benefits of happiness, besides the obvious note that happy experiences are often desirable experiences. Happiness increases our confidence, our acceptance of risk, and our initiative to take actions of our own accord versus just reactivity and passivity. For example, a study in a reputable academic journal found that happier participants, versus sadder participants, trusted their own thoughts more and cared more about an argument's quality before adopting it, being less susceptible to manipulation from weak arguments. (Source. I also provide a graph from the full article below.)
However, it also sounds like you're saying that we should never try and avoid each individual instance of unhappiness from every situation. If so, this is dangerous advice. Sometimes, our environments provide us with enough unhappy stimuli that if we experience unhappiness for each stimulus, we are experiencing unhappiness more quickly than is healthy. Unhealthy rates of unhappiness can prevent us from feeling and expressing other parts of ourselves, and can contribute to unhappiness becoming a part of our identity we struggle to deviate from, leading to even more unhealthy unhappiness in a trapping cycle.
If we are experiencing unhealthy levels of unhappiness, if it is possible and reasonable to do so, we should change our environment or our experience of feelings to decrease our unhappiness to a healthy rate. For example, if someone is doomscrolling constantly, taking in constant negative stimulus and experiencing constant unhappiness, they should not continue in this complex experience. Instead, they should solve a flaw in their environment, they should stop doomscrolling, instead of taking on each individual feeling of unhappiness.
While I agree with some of your points, and also did not get much help from attempting therapy, I think your post is also missing a bigger-scale point. Happiness / solving problems and experiencing situations aren't alternatives that we choose between, they are complements we can do together and which make the other better. A baseball game is something to be experienced, not solved, but if you figure out why your car keeps breaking down on the highway and fix that before you drive out to the stadium, you're probably going to have a richer experience.
Finding the root of our problems can also help us better understand them, making our experience of unhappiness more complete and richer. For example, if one newly understands that they are insecure about their body because they were bullied for it in the past, they can add compassion for their past self into these experiences of insecurity. Not necessarily preventing these experiences or removing them altogether, but adding a valuable dimension of complexity to them.
This role, where patients are better able to have richer experiences, as opposed to shutting out all unhappiness, is what competent therapy should strive for.
I've talked a bit about solving problems improving our experiences, but I'll also note some specific benefits of happiness, besides the obvious note that happy experiences are often desirable experiences. Happiness increases our confidence, our acceptance of risk, and our initiative to take actions of our own accord versus just reactivity and passivity. For example, a study in a reputable academic journal found that happier participants, versus sadder participants, trusted their own thoughts more and cared more about an argument's quality before adopting it, being less susceptible to manipulation from weak arguments. (Source. I also provide a graph from the full article below.)
One should not seek misery for the sake of misery, but sometimes things can only happen if you do things that make you a bit miserable. And you must learn how much of that misery is just the normal part of being a living thing that experiences both negative and positive things, and how much it'd be more than you can chew