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The slow replacement of actual websites with real content written by humans with slop optimized for advertising the skeeviest industries is deeply depressing.

v6.2.2 release! Very tiny patch, just bugfixes and minor rebalance but I wanted it done since it had a crash fix.

Fixed issues with the Battleground, rebalanced fishing stuff, documented water encounters.

I got Four Swords when it was free and played the hell out of that, never managed to beat the superboss trial thing but I did Tier 3 Vaati and the retro level and all that.

it’s not hopeless

the majority of people in this country actually support trans rights

but the loud bigoted minority is in power

and we need those people who support us having rights to finally stand up and DEMAND WE GET THEM

current events are awful, and the ones targeting trans people fill me with anxiety and dread. but at the same time, thanks to transitioning, I have this rising baseline of happiness that hasn't abated at all. I can feel contentment. I never had this before hrt, and I will never give it up.

A screenshot of three consecutive Discord messages from me that say: wait cookbook but it's a 2000s GameFAQs walkthrough complete with ascii art

Does this imply Tropius's bananas are leftover husks of their childhood shell

Eisenhower

Looks like some kind of stinkhorn?

How long do I have now

After all, it's a Pokemon game. The journey is the destination in a big mobius loop, kids will keep playing no matter what reason they have. No one actually cares about the treadmill, so why bother thinking about it?

We did not have the resources as children to achieve anything in the Battle Tower, and now we have those resources but the tower is gone forever because of "a lack of interest".
A catch-22 of their own design that hinges on the assumption that anything not built for the target audience is a waste.

The G6 postgame involves fighting the same trainer like 12 times with a 2 mon team each time, and easily the lowest effort Battle Facility thus far. Literally no new routes to explore and catch stuff
If no one cares about that, and the Battle Frontier is "also postgame", no one cared about it either

The idea of a "postgame" evaporates in the 3DS era, while it exists in G7 it's clear that G6, G8, and G9 the game essentially just keeps going it doesn't have an endgame that anyone should care about.
I can't help but feel like GF's disdain for the Battle Tower is that logic applied retroactively.

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LLMs hallucinate, & they hallucinate WORSE on topics we don't already know/write a lot about. This creates a huge accuracy gap.

This week I tested ChatGPT on Beethoven & Smyth to show how big this gap is & why it matters. It made up a LOT.

leahbroad.substack.com/p/chatgpts-a...

It'll get even cheaper as we put more money into solar, and the infrastructure built will be energy produced constantly for ages whereas gas has to be competitive while extracting new gas constantly

Here's what players have made with the drawing tools in Find Matt's Cats. Art by Mintie, Purple Hat of Awesome, guy, smokszyvverstar, and undo.

Fossil fuel giant wins $370 million tax break for burning gas as an ‘alternative fuel’ The IRS ruling appears to allow one of the world’s largest exporters of natural gas to claim its heavily polluting tankers are low-emissions “motorboats.”

I cannot ever stop tearing my hair out about climate activists being labelled 'unrealistic' when the fossil fuel business bros persistently do shit like this

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Alternate timeline where the guy in Cianwood hands you a Sneasel because Silver's running around looking all menacing so you end up battling Silver with his trump card, the second Pokemon he vilely stole,
Shuckle.

Orange/Purple is essentially a Red/Blue color scheme despite the slight variation thereof. Same reason Scarlet/Violet isn't not Red/Blue despite technically being Red/Purple

I try sleeping with braided hair tho still kinda messy

Anyone interpreting this in one of many ways should take a minute and read BACK, which is by the same guy (and his buddy!) as the comic this is from.

www.backcomic.com

happy birthday to my thing

Wait this is going to be the first Pokemon game that doesn't have Red/Blue or Blue/Red color schemes in... how long???
It's green and blue that's weird
Minimum since BW???

Looks like a nibbler to me

Honestly I'm fine with Pombon being Fire/Fighting so long as it stays on four legs

A crude MS paint sketch of Pombon from Pokemon Winds and Waves drawn with an extremely long body and many legs.

multiple friends have expressed to me how much they don't want pombon to become bipedal

so i propose to you: pombonbonbonbonbonbonbon

Why does Gecqua look like a Littlest Pet Shop toy

Enamored by this bird that Browt could evolve into

I don’t know enough about UK politics but the result from Gorton and Denton suggests that Reform’s policy of being horrible people may have backfired.