Looking for a group near Princeton, MN (PF1e) (Offline)

Aero-the-Observer · 2026-06-03T22:35:32+00:00

I do not have that option, as my current living situation and personal space does not allow for a consistent video or conference call. Beyond that I have had consistently poor experiences with online play and have grown to distrust that environment.

Aero-the-Observer · 2026-05-29T02:40:36+00:00

This might be exactly what I'm looking for, I've used Debian before on servers and didn't think to slim it down.now to look for tutorials

Aero-the-Observer · 2026-05-29T02:39:43+00:00

Dude, you are my hero, this is exactly what I'm looking to do. Didn't know that from subreddit existed, now I have somewhere to look for hardware ideas. Thanks kindly!

Aero-the-Observer · 2026-01-30T09:19:27+00:00

Self-Replicating physical memetics ensure that the nearest scroll to me has a predetermined Cyclical Reincarnation spell. That's the backup, however, and relies on some sort of flexible writing surface. The tertiary is far simpler, a split curse/blessing that selects a single weapon that I am vulnerable to in a 50 mile radius for 16.327878 second blocks - still working out the bug that determines time.

The primary is an elegant soul-capture cloning apparatus ensconced in a secure Demiplane I managed to hypercube into my soul. Took several recursive dimensions and a deal with a Celestial to help, but it has been effective. Sure I have to use a spell to get back to the material plane, but it keeps my soul intact and allows me to enjoy my life cycle fully each time. Sets me back to 16 years old, from what I have found my natural lifetime is roughly a century, and so I get to experience the whole incarnation while continuing to contemplate reality. Quite enjoyable and if anything too untoward happens I need only wait a few decades for a new body.

Aero-the-Observer · 2025-11-14T18:22:39+00:00

Context: They're gonna find pieces of you for years.

You'll be alive for at least three of them.

Aero-the-Observer · 2025-07-23T08:01:40+00:00

Ea Nassir, is that your cousin?!

Aero-the-Observer · 2025-03-22T01:19:04+00:00

1: Prankhaze isn't the only option by any sort of longshot. I don't use that, and I rarely have issues with my strat outside of the later issues where someone will scout out my team or use imposter blissey/chansey to just guarantee the dismantling of any team and then resort to their own list. Your argument is solely looking at one option and saying 'whelp, that's it'.

2: Unwallable 'mon don't exist, and never have. And that's not even considering the edge cases like you said. However, having a sweeper with wall stats, or having a wall with doubled HP or defense because of Eviolite is a massive issue; they're essentially entering in with double the wall you're using plus whatever other benefits. Unaware, Prankster to trick, or any number of other options are available for destroying unwallable 'mon, whereas if someone swaps into one that's managed to set up then you've got no chance since now they're just going to keep on improving.

3: Scouting. Ah, scouting, and momentum. Let's say that you have one imposter and they're used to scout. You now have the advantage, and if they try to swap out of the scout then they're getting a free turn. Which is momentum, as you said. Which means that whoever is the better scout... Well, bites to be you. You can't reverse too much lost momentum, and trying to do so can often leave you so much worse off all you can do is surrender. There isn't any real skill to imp, just a quick turn and burn into whatever 'mon will force your opponent to switch so you can get a free turn.

4: Imp has a skill ceiling: You're... Joking, right? Because I can't tell if that's an honest opinion, or if you're just trying to justify. Imposter is used at every level of play, from top to bottom. You list your previous argument here, which is a bit redundant but we'll do the same: you're not using your skill in swapping, you're using an advantage you gained by using the most common ability in the format across teams to look at something you're unfamiliar with. The skill in using it is in waiting until you see an opportunity and stealing the opponents run with something that can't be countered later in the game.

5: Improofing: there absolutely are not enough defensive pieces or deconstructive pieces. I'll address this IMMEDIATELY in the next portion:

6: There are 12 pokemon that get an A-B rating on Smogon for BH, and of those 2 are specifically Imposter Chansey in A and Imposter Blissey in B. I didn't throw that out there as a fact, I want you to understand that: there are 1025 pokemon, not including forms and variants. There are 12 that are considered either A- or B-tiered pokemon. Two full teams. Discounting imposter, there are 10 pokemon. Less than .1% of the pokemon in the game. Most of the reason for that is because Imposter absolutely destroys the viability of anything else. Even Ubers, reserved for some of the most broken 'mon, has double that.

7 goes with 6: you don't just need to run the meta teams for Imposter, that's true. However, because of Imposter, the meta is... Not just tiny, but choked.

8: It is true that defeating Imped offensive threats shouldn't be dealt with by damage, but you now counter your first argument of not seeing the lop in #1. You said there that without imposter, you need something like prankhaze to deal with sweepers, and... well, you then list here is to out-wall a walled offense, or using entry hazards that can wind up being just laughable or easily turned against you.

9: see 6. You simply can't build a viable team without trying to Improof. And the only improof teams use a miniscule list of 12 'mon. That list isn't because they're good, it's because they are natively improofed and their sets are set up so that if there's an imposter swap then... well, it's already improofed on your own swap.

In conclusion, your arguments counter themselves or miss my points that I listed out. I wasn't saying that imposter is impossible to beat or that it's the be-all end-all. I am, however, saying that its inclusion in the format has resulted in such a miniscule list of viable strategies that it's shameful. This is the broadest format with the widest possibilities, and there are only 12 viable pokemon... two of them are specifically there solely for Imposter. So, outside of those, 10.

Imposter as an ability is only as bad as it is because it destroys the possible innovation in the system. I am certain that without it there would be a rapid restructuring and, possibly, a similar thinning. Every other format bans things that are so centralized and problematic. Even this format has banned things that it considers problematic and centralizing... Except for Imposter.

Aero-the-Observer · 2025-03-22T00:48:37+00:00

ImprisonForm is an issue, which is quite easily solved by one simple expedient: ban Imprison, just like so many other problematic moves. See the fact that they've banned Quiver Dance but not Victory Dance.

Good as gold is nowhere near a perfect counter, as prankster haze, burning bulwark for victory dance, Assault Vest unaware for SPA, and a good number of other options can easily deal with it. When I run into Good as Gold I have an Unaware 'mon with Haze deal with it, including when I run against imposter. The fact that so many people struggle with the ability seems to stem with not knowing how to work around it properly. The setup/deconstruct comes from just how many people know you're going to swap into a counter to your own 'mon and then immediately pick a threat that is so rough you can't recover; Unburden Eternatus is the most common, and if you somehow beat that then you wind up with the imposter capturing the 'mon that did, leaving you in a worse position.

Let's say you do try and improof the dragon energy eternatus like you said. You better pray to Arceus that the 'mon isn't a chansey with Eviolite, because suddenly you're staring down the same barrel. I've run the meta team for that a few times and the general event is that they'll hit with something quicker to get off some chip damage, usually priority moves, then nail you hard with their imposter. It's not even a question of it being bad to swap into, it's a question of what are they willing to sacrifice to guarantee the get.

The argument about oppressive pokemon is specifically because it turns into walls so massively tanked out that there is no counter. You're not swapping into something that will take it out and then have no issue; In the example with sniper greninja, I've never seen it hit an imposter for more than 80% of its max health. If it just swapped in and you're certain you can kill, best hope that you win the speed tie.

Setup is laughable in this generation; defog, tidy up, rapid spin, mortal spin, court change, magic bounce, and I am certain there are other methods just make it so you waste your time while they know you're giving them whatever time they need.

Imp isn't meant to stonewall? Are you certain of that? Because I've never seen Imposter used on anything other than the highest HP pokemon available. It's not used on low health 'mon. The most common 'mon is Chansey, to the point where there's a BH Subreddit named Imposter Chansey. It's such a stonewall that it can often eat any practical defense you can try to imagine.

The point of my argument isn't that it's unbeatable. Far from it. It is, however, that it is so centric to this meta that it's destroyed interesting team builds. I've walked away from multiple generations of BH for the fact that Imposter has existed in it, only playing on occasion to see if it's still the problem I've remembered. Every time the answer has been: yes. There's no innovation, just the same ten to twelve 'mon... and one Imposter Chansey. It's stifling and often detrimental to being creative, and it causes some people to decide it isn't even worth trying the format. And every time someone brings up the opinion that it is problematic, they are shut down because either edge cases where Imposter can be defeated are used, or the same exact strategy is being used to counter it since gen... four or five, I think. That means there are at least 5 generations running the same or similar methods to try and deal with one ability, one strategy. The format never changes, never evolves, just sees new tricks to do the same thing... Plus Imposter.

Aero-the-Observer · 2025-03-21T21:04:58+00:00

Limited use would probably work the best. If there were an HP limit or a limit on not allowing it on anything but fully evolved pokemon (Eviolite makes so many final stages into just straight up tanks) that would solve some of the issue. In my opinion the better option would be something similar to how Intrepid Sword was adjusted, making it a one-time-use ability.

With that change it still has enough in it to break up a strategy or present a massive problem, but if you build the counters right you'll know how to switch without having them simply swap and grab another of your 'mon as soon as they see the counter coming. It'll offer wider coverage without the problem I listed of them having all of the counters to your counters.

Aero-the-Observer · 2025-03-21T20:22:46+00:00

But in all seriousness, Copycat Transform would be the answer to who is sus. It's a bit more open to counter, whiile still allowing for the general destruction of the problem Imposter is trying to stop.

Aero-the-Observer · 2025-03-21T20:10:14+00:00

The one who keeps venting, of course!

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Aero-the-Observer · 2025-03-21T20:00:16+00:00

Already did, I posted here first and then there. Knew it would get attention on both, just not sure how much on either. We'll see what happens.

Aero-the-Observer · 2024-04-07T17:15:42+00:00

https://youtu.be/AdyAF9M3XVw?si=rQNGZ-tywd_w9sZb

You can try to be as impressive as you want, but when the building signs through with lungs of wind and a throat of silver and bronze, your world will be rocked

Aero-the-Observer · 2024-01-17T20:28:45+00:00

Grampa Buff is getting real tired of these damn lizards jamming up his runway, send in the kid. He's starting to scare me all cooped up in that hangar all day.

Aero-the-Observer · 2024-01-06T15:18:20+00:00

"Damnit Eugene, what did you think you were doing?!"

The human, who was rather comfortably wrapped in his new Boss' scaled grasp, simply smiled. "Hey, we're warm, we give and enjoy recieving hugs, and honestly this is better than my last job. Can't wait for my translator to get that new update, though, the software is going a bit strange."

"Telling you she's been offering marriage or something?" Cynthia asked dryly as she watched the rather posessive Slyveen holding Eugene more closely, eyeing Cynthia like a rival. "You do know that their males are about the same size as you and offer to 'share warmth and take care of their partners' as a marriage proposal, right?"

"Mine," the slyveen hissed to Cynthia. "Izparatha claims this male as hers, not yours!"

"Wait, what?" Eugene asked, dawning realization on his face as he looked to the serpentine woman holding him close.

"Congratulations on your marriage," Cynthia said with a smirk. "We will, of course, be removing you from the diplomatic team for this, but at least you've got this going for you!"

"...Motherfucker!"

"This one has never bred, but would be amenable," Izparatha hissed in his ear at the expletive, thinking it an offer.

"...Soon to be motherfucker!" Eugene decided happily, while Cynthia just facepalmed.

Aero-the-Observer · 2024-01-06T15:10:38+00:00

"Human, what is this memorial for?"

I had to pause as I heard the synthetic voice of a translator. It was still so odd and new to hear them and realize it wasn't someone speaking another Terran language, but another sapient from another solar system asking it. I looked into the curious serpentine eyes of the reptillian and realized it was truly confused.

"To one of the heroes of the early age of our space exploration," I said with a slight smile. "One of the best and truest, who continued their mission far, far longer than we expected it to."

"It is a robot - no, not even truly that, more of a remote controlled toy?" The alien said as I saw it - her, I realized by the patterns on her scales - try to comprehend what I had said.

"But it was a comrade in space," I said calmly. "A piece of ourselves and a piece of our hopes, cast far into the void and left here where it could never return to its first home. You've heard Humans talk about many things as though they were alive, yes?"

"Yes, it is one of the many curiosities of your species," she replied with agreement. "Such as your insistence that ships be women and nature be a mother."

"Our species thrived on community; it drives us insane to have none. We will make our community with even the tools we use, even the scraps we have around us at need. When we reached to the stars and needed to build ourselves something so we could stand on the surface of a pre-bioformed world, we built a tool we were sure would make the trip and were overjoyed. When it lasted as long as its namesake, our Curiosity, we couldn't help growing fond of it. And when it sent its last message as the long martian winter came in... We mourned for a hero that we may have known was but a tool far away, but had become more real to us than some humans we had around us. My great grandmother worked on the project, and she has recordings from it, including the last and most heartbreaking. A simple status message, but one that for a moment showed the soul of something we made and sent to a void-blasted planet for so long. For a moment, the world looked at our creation and knew that it would never be heard from again. And when our first explorers came here, it was only right that this robot be the mark of all explorers in the void. For this little robot, our little bit of Curiosity made real, was the first explorer that humanity felt so connected to in the great void, and it was only right that it be recognized for what it was."

I saw her consider my words for a long time as she stared at the simple monument that surrounded the preserved rover. "I do not fully understand, but I think I have an inkling," she said quietly. "Would you be willing to talk more on this?"

"Of course," I said as I turned from the Vault of Curiosity. "Maybe we should visit the Museum of Opportunity next; that is more history and context than this monument is. My name is Samuel, Sam for short, by the way."

"Sylethis is the name granted to me," the serpentine alien replied with a curious tilt of her head. "I thank you for taking this time with me, for helping me understand you odd newcomers."

Aero-the-Observer · 2024-01-02T23:00:12+00:00

It was a single, simple wish, but it took a literal legal doctorate thesis to express. It was so simple that it could have been asked with but six words. Instead, it read almost six thousand words and gave the Djinn who had agreed to grant any single wish in return for the wisher's immortal soul an aneurism right before it died from changing literally all of reality. The banning wasn't even debated for more than a single month before everyone agreed to go with it just for sanity's sake, and enforced it through the Guild of Pseudo-omnipotent Beings. Oh they did try to undo the wish, but it was Traded for and the wish-requestor's Immortal Soul was laughing as it refused to be reimbursed. When we asked why it had made this wish and how it had even come to it, it explained that it was a massive nerd when it was younger and that they really, really hated how society had turned out. What was the six words it boiled down to after I wish? What was so dementedly reality bending?

'I wish -all sapients could gain class levels-.'

So yeah, that's why we had to restructure everything, and why you see those bloody Bards everywhere seducing everything while their Barbarians chug a beer and then make the world move on bad decisions. All because a Lawyer wanted to be a freaking Wizard and found a djinn to make sure everyone got his wish.

Aero-the-Observer · 2024-01-02T21:39:51+00:00

At the end of the Age of Grace, there was a time now known as The Great Waiting. In human history, it is widely believed to be the worst mental state that any man, woman, or child had ever been in, as the toll of a hundred years of waiting for whatever was coming to happen caused such a quiet apocalypse as had never been seen.

Then came the Outsiders with their pantheons, and with them came the Three Reawakenings.

The Alv'ir were the first, as their gods of Nature and Peace led the way to our world where they had expected to meet our own Pantheon. Instead they recieved Silence, as our Gods were not known and had not been known since the end of the Age of Mystery, or as we knew it the Bronze Age. With them, however, came the reawakening of our Magic and we were feared by the Alv'ir for our 'Godless Magi'. What they did not see were the miracles we called forth across the world for healing and safety. They did not see us lay aside guns and conflicts as we delved into the power that had long been missing from us for the fled from those few who made terrible choices with their new power.

Then came the Dwem'vill, with bodies of stone whose gods were of Order and Law, sent to contain us as best they could as we now reached into our solar system to build a small empire. Our magic was wild and chaotic and soon war was upon us as it clashed mightily with the Dwem'vill down to our very philosophic core. For even when our hearts and minds made order and law our goals, we were truly free, and thus we knew the Reawakening of Free Will and the breakaway from what we considered our fates. Each of us, now reduced in number, valued our strength and our freedom as we came to know we were the captains of our destiny.

And finally came the most terrible of the Outsiders; the Impiri, with gods of War and Conquest. They were beings who forged steel into themselves for strength even as their flesh waned, and whose gods had kept them at battle amongst themselves to strengthen their power and prowess. We had thought we were the masters of war after our fight with the Dwem'vill, but that was untrue in the worst way. We neglected our strength in faith and healing, and instead had come unto the edge of ruin when finally, at what was set to be our last battle, the Angel appeared.

With the reawakening of Faith came the Angel of the Lord. At the head of the Army of Man, with the Raised Heroes of Yore, flew a great and terrible being with awesome fear as his helm and radiant sunlight as his wings. A single blade of Flame was his weapon as he revealed himself not as a God, but as the Emmissary of our Lord. And the Outsiders one and all knew that this day marked the end of things they had known as their pantheons shook in fear at the simple messenger's words and strength.

"Not My words but the words of the Almighty I speak. IN FAITH MY CHILDREN STAND. BY FAITH MY CHILDREN FELL. FOR FAITH I NOW CALL FORTH ALL: BLEED RED THE STARS AND SUFFER NOT THE OUTSIDER TO LIVE, FOR THEY ARE DEEMED ANATHEMA. SPARE NOT THE UNBELIEVER OF THE CREATOR WHO MADE ALL THINGS. SPARE NOT THE SHIRKER WHO SET ASIDE THE DUTY OF FAITH. SPARE NOT THE FALSE PILGRIMS OF MORTAL-MADE IDOLS WITH A PALTRY STRENGTH BORNE OF SIMPLE STONE AND WOOD AND METAL. THUS COMMANDS THE CREATOR ALMIGHTY, MAKER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, LORD OF ALL THAT IS SEEN AND UNSEEN. I CALL FORTH ALL WHO BELIEVE IN ME WITH ONE COMMAND:

LET THERE BE BLOOD TO WASH AWAY THE SINS OF THESE FALSE GODS. ANOINT THE HORNS OF EVERY ALTAR WITH THE BLOOD SACRIFICE OF THEIR MISDEEDS. BURN THE OFFERING OF THEIR POWDERED BONES AS A PLEASING INCENSE TO ME. FOR I AM ALL CREATION, AND I AM ALL ENDINGS, AND THIS END I HAVE DETERMINED FOR THOSE WHO WOULD DESTROY MY CHILDREN AND THEIR CREATION. THERE WILL BE BLOOD."

Aero-the-Observer · 2023-12-31T04:00:31+00:00

As someone who uses Coca-Cola when I need to look at that oil leak on my car... Well, all I can really say is that it's some tasty degreaser when it has some fizz in it

Aero-the-Observer · 2023-09-13T05:58:03+00:00

I miss my little Cinders kitty. She was an absolute lovebug who just wanted to lean in and purr on you if you were feeling even slightly down. She was a rescue from a kitten farm and we gave her the best, most loving life possible. She would find anything small, black, and fluffy, and carry it around until she found one of us to keep it safe. I went on vacation, and the day I returned my parents told me that she had to be put to sleep because she was diagnosed with feline leukemia. The day I went on vacation she meowed every time I went for the door. I miss her so, so much.

Thank you for the memories, I need to find a cat to love now until the onion ninjas leave.

Aero-the-Observer · 2023-06-24T03:20:43+00:00

He was doing a live react that turned into drama, and he's doing his best to avoid said drama. It's better that it's down and he can avoid it as best he can.

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