Jess (fka Dinru) | Late 20s | it/he/they [tme] | white, nonbinary, neurodivergent | USA
I like computers and magical girls and trying to make this hellworld a better place | Blog content is around PG-13 most of the time and might be poorly tagged
The United States has always been a terrible place to be sick and disabled. Ableism is baked into our myths of bootstrapping and self-reliance, in which health is virtue and illness is degeneracy. It is long past time for a bedrock shift, for all of us.
Because it is not mentioned by name in the article!:
If any of you develop “violent new food allergies” after having covid — even allergies that present as migraines, malaise, nausea, irritability rather than swelling and itching — you need to get checked for mast cell activation syndrome. It is staggeringly common to develop from long covid and is often treatable.
Going back and playing Pokémon games from before the physical special split just fucks me up a little. What do you mean Thunderpunch exists in a game where all electric moves are special? What’s the point of it?
It makes Abra EXTREMELY good
Generally, I think the physical/special split is when Pokemon becomes much more enjoyable to play, but there are quirks to the old system that are interesting in their own way. Its such a love/hate relationship for me because it gives some pokemon FANTASTIC options for coverage and raw damage output in some cases, but in most others it just makes a large portion of the roster very difficult to use effectively.
Physical hyperbeam feels really good to use on a pokemon like Slaking, and Alakazam getting full access to all of the elemental punches using it’s incredible special attack stat is SO satisfying… but then you also have pokemon like Gyarados, who completely lack physical STAB outside of awful moves like bounce (which im not even sure it got until gen 4), or Gamefreak’s titular punching bag - Flareon -being doomed to near uselessness due to it’s stat spread + it’s typing… (Editor’s note: they still haven’t given Flareon a break LMAO).
I dunno where I was going with this. I think it just creates such a weird split between pokemon generations that most people don’t think about at all. The only region(s) that you can’t visit in a modern era with all the modern mechanics is Kanto, (if you don’t count HGSS’s truncated postgame visit or Let’s Go!’s lack of abilities and standard catching mechanics), or Orre - though Orre’s status as “Canon” to the mainline franchise is shaky at best. Kanto’s been done enough as-is, but I’m hoping some day, every region is featured with all the mainstay, modern mechanics and typings. Pipe dream, I know.
It’s so strange in retrospect because you’ve got Pokémon with high attack and miserable sp attack like Hitmonchan who end up having all their thematically appropriate coverage moves scale with their worst stat
In Gen 1-3 Hitmonchan has moved with “punch” in the name that don’t do any damage because of how the split works. It’s honestly kinda ridiculous.
And physical hyper beam felt great for a lot of pokemon in Gen 1, but once they removed the accidental-but-really-cool mechanic of removing the recharge turn if hyper beam kills, it became a lot worse. Which is a shame because the introduction of Giga Impact as the physical Hyper Beam replacement never actually saw use due to said recharge turn being detrimental. I know the meta would become significantly worse if they have some of the power creeped special sweepers of today access to 150 power moves that don’t punish you if you kill in the form of Hyper Beam, Giga Impact, Blast Burn, Frenzy Plant, and Hydro Cannon, but I still love the idea of that mechanic even if it was a total accident. Well whatever, at least Slaking can use it without issue. Okay I’m gonna stop typing here because I have jumped to a completely different topic at this point. Physical Special pre split is weird though
I don’t think a single pokemon suffered from the pre-split more than sneasel. Back in gen 2, both dark AND ice were special types, but sneasel is a physical attacker. Not only that, but its pool of coverage moves was extremely limited, so one of its best options was fucking slash.
It’s so weird that dark moves were special originally considering that there aren’t really that many special dark moves today
Not every day has to count. Some days are for repairing, resting, mourning. You don’t have to perform every day. Some days are for doing nothing. For sleeping all day or being on your phone. Relaxing is ok, allowed and encouraged. Do what you need to do.
To me, honestly, the biggest thing Tumblr has going for itself is the fact that no one uses it.
Originally I was thinking, in terms of “why do I use Tumblr and not other sites?” that the thing going for it is that it’s a Post Anonymous Bullshit site. And this is true, and important, but also Tumblr isn’t the only Post Anonymous Bullshit site.
I think the key power that Tumblr holds over me is that it’s the Post Anonymous Bullshit site that no one uses.
And the reason that’s so clutch is because of how much safety it adds. No matter what kind of office or acquaintance small-talk spirals into the direction of social media, which, perhaps in an unthinking moment, causes you to mention you use Tumblr. Even if your conversation partner acts interested in this detail, they won’t follow you. Twitter? Tiktok? Fuck man, the person could whip out their phone on the spot and look you up. Tumblr? No way in hell. They’d have to download an app. Make an account. Check it regularly? Just to see you posting “happy fuck him flat friday”? No.
And on the absolute off chance this person does have a Tumblr, and does follow you, well they probably have all the same problems you do that’s led them to be active on this site in 2023 so you should be pretty safe in a very girl what are YOU doing at the devil’s sacrament kind of way.
We are in the era after it caused SO MUCH, and caused so many sites to put in blocks and other restrictions to stop it from scraping everything
If they are forced to wipe their entire dataset then they won’t be able to get even a fraction of it back!
Not only that, but they would be forced to get permission of the owners for everything they use. Which would IMO, actually kill most of the issues with AI and actually make the technology into something actually useful.
Ok so I’ve been playing for 18 years and i’m a string teacher. Can i just say how IMPORTANT it is for young kids to see a BLACK, MALE-PRESENTING PERSON playing, nae, SHREDDING on a violin? I’ve know maybe 5 black people who played stringed instruments throughout my schooling and teaching (predumably because i’m an upper middle class white woman). In districts where the population is predominantly black, funding is always low, so the instruments are crappy. Kids quit, or the program is dismantled. I’ve seen very few professional string players who are black.
Obviously there are black string players. We just don’t see them because they “don’t look like” string players.
This person is the real deal. They were clearly classically trained, and seems to have some fiddle training as well. How cool is that?
I’ve seen a few ~aesthetic~ photos of rock stacks in rivers recently and this is just a reminder that you are destroying habitat when you move rocks around in rivers and streams.
In addition to dragonfly nymphs, rocky river beds are home to lots of other larval invertebrates like damselflies, mayflies, water beetles, caddisflies, stoneflies, and a bunch of dipterans. Not to mention lots of fish and amphibians!
Plus large scale rock stacking can change the flow of a stream and lead to increased erosion.
Everything is something’s habitat. You might as well not go outside for fear of stepping on some larval beetle.
This is hugely missing the point. The idea is to enjoy what’s left of our natural spaces while having as little an impact as possible. It’s not difficult to avoid intentionally destroying habitat. I recommend looking into the Leave No Trace principle which is very important for conservation. Cynicism doesn’t help anything.
I just want to add that it’s actually not rare or unusual for a single seemingly ordinary creek to be the only known habitat of an entire species. Sometimes just one little bend or one waterfall in that whole creek. In fact this was possibly the norm at one time, but we just didn’t notice before settlers caused most of those species to go extinct.
It’s not something that only persists in far off exotic locales; there’s a stream near me that runs right through a parking lot for a developed park, and there are THREE invertebrate species that have never been documented anywhere in the world but that creek. Last collected from under the train tracks a little ways down from the parking. Last time I went, there were McDonald’s soda cups in it. The unique invertebrates have also been seen higher up the mountain where that creek begins, but those McDonald’s sodas alone could have decimated a major population for all I know. The last published report on those species is over a decade old.
sometimes i agree with a post but not the tone it was written in yknow. like yes you’re right but also maybe have you considered it from this angle. maybe you should just be a little kinder to everyone
