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Pokemon Redesign #1005 - Roaring Moon

Descendant

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the problem with meeting people after you graduate from school is that it's no longer 'do you like me enough after our first conversation that you'd hang out in the cafeteria a 5 min walk away with me again sometime' it's 'do you like me enough after our first conversation that you'd bus out for 1 hour into the salty sludgy grime streets bitterly cold btw and skeletal trees ghastly backdrop of winter that point their gnarled accusatory fingers down into

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i think the reason everyone in fate/zero was either cheating on their significant other, attempting to cheat on their significant other, or trying to cuff someone else’s significant other was because bill clinton was president at the time

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I love Golisopod. Bye

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wish i were fictional so i could read people's theories on my motivations because brother i have no clue

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There's definitely a conversation to be had about self-labelled monsterfuckers whose hear-me-outs consist exclusively of characters who are basically photogenic humans from the collarbones down with weird heads stuck on top, but it's also very funny to respond to those conversations with "did you just say 'conventionally attractive rat'?"

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my pet peeve is people who say "oh this will be easy for me, i already don't buy anything from [BDS target]". BDS isn't, like, a religious dietary prohibition, it's a plan of action for a mass movement -- if you had no history or intention of buying something from that company, you're not 'boycotting it', the call to action is very literally not for you -- you're just patting yourself on the back for doing nothing!

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I was gonna make a post wondering why people bother with locks in fantasy worlds when there’s spells that can unlock things but then I remembered that I live in a world where you can learn how to pick locks online and I still use locks so maybe my observation wasn’t very well thought out

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aminals

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ITS OUGI DAY! THE ONLY DAY OF THE YEAR! EVERYONE BOW DOWN TO OUR GOAT!

i am in hell right now so unfortunately its hard to do things from here, but later i will be compiling and posting my favorite arts and things i see people doing today into a big post (mostly from twitter)

happy ougi day :)

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Things strangers on the Internet have randomly recogised me from:

TV Tropes pull quotes

AI-voiced readings of Tumblr posts on TikTok

The author's notes of the earliest known Tony the Tiger/The Grinch fanfic

The "analysis" section of Wikipedia's article on Goncharov

Things I have literally never been recognised for:

My actual, published work

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Family Business

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Metroidvania cheese: If you stand in this one specific spot and crouch the boss can’t hit you so you can spam weak projectiles until it dies

Fighting game cheese: There’s actually a way to beat this setup but it’s unintuitive so players who haven’t seen it before don’t know how, you can just do it over and over and unless they figure it out you win

MOBA cheese: This build and strategy is terrible at teamfighting and provides basically no utility for your team, but it makes you automatically win against a specific opponent and/or lets you one-shot squishy targets for your YouTube montage

Soulslike cheese: This is a mechanic the devs intentionally put in the game for you to use to make things easier and/or more fun, if you use it that clearly makes you a scrub

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Pokemon draft battles really give me the full anime-style experience. Seeing my opponents with their powerful teams, being like "damn how did they get such strong mons, how am I supposed to win this?" And then turning to my own team, ready to come up with strategies to try and overcome the walls in our way. I have to imagine that this is what trainers in the pokemon universe feel like as they research their opponents before a big match.

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on the other hand, when it happens to me, it's of course a sign of a fundamentally flawed game;

Winning a pokemon match due to random chance is like. I feel bad for the other players because I know how much it sucks to be on the other side. but on the other hand the sense of hype to win due to a literal coin flip is unparalleled.