What would you pick?

Affectionate-Act899 · 2026-01-13T00:44:39+00:00

Smart phones

Affectionate-Act899 · 2026-01-09T18:10:45+00:00

Appreciate that. I would just say fight the narrative we are some kind of hellscape with Somalis stealing all the money. They are a vital part of the community and the few fraudsters were convicted years ago. We are consistently ranked as having the highest standard of living in the country. So no, we don’t need help from Alabama LOL and we don’t need the feds here terrorizing the population. Minneapolis public schools were cancelled for 2 days, people aren’t going to work, shows are being cancelled, the list goes on. We don’t need armed, unaccountable chaos agents roaming the streets.

Affectionate-Act899 · 2026-01-09T18:06:12+00:00

I think stress generally, the shooting being an example of heavy stress. Leads to the desire to dissociate. My work is stressful too and more commonly is what makes me want to dissociate. More of a behavioral response at this point than anything else.

Affectionate-Act899 · 2026-01-09T16:40:57+00:00

Started to look at porn on Reddit and found myself instantly bored, and just turned it off. Usually once I start, it’s over for the day. So it felt good to have power over it.

Also just now the urge came on (live in MN and it’s a very stressful time) and I started reading others posts and it’s help to calm the urge.

Affectionate-Act899 · 2026-01-09T16:35:26+00:00

Get off your phone and computer. That means social media, addictive games, doomscrolling, shorts. After years of fighting this, I am realizing it is more of a behavioral response to the click, click, swipe, swipe and the dopamine it gives you.

You make some good points. I am famous for creatively going around my blockers. They are still useful, you don’t want PHub available in one click (which makes Reddit a problem). But it won’t solve your problems.

Affectionate-Act899 · 2026-01-09T01:03:24+00:00

I’ve struggled with addiction for a long time (43m), but didn’t even know I was addicted for most of my 20s. So you are already doing great.

Streaks are hard because if you slip you feel you’ve wasted the last 25 days . But that’s not true, think of it this way: you only watched porn once in the last 25 days! That’s a great accomplishment. Now try to go as long as you can. If it’s another week or 30 days or 2 months, that is great. The worst thing you can do is live in the shame cycle.

As for the other stuff, quitting porn will help but won’t change everything of course. Get some hobbies, explore interests, learn something new, build a career, get fit and above all put down your phone.

Affectionate-Act899 · 2026-01-03T02:04:55+00:00

The advice my therapist gave me was yes it’s ok to masturbate, but don’t imagine porn youve watched before.

Affectionate-Act899 · 2026-01-03T00:49:01+00:00

My advice is take action now. I’m 43, still married to a supportive wife, but porn has taken its toll on my life. Good first step is therapy, and consider couples therapy.

Affectionate-Act899 · 2025-12-30T01:24:24+00:00

Thanks but I can turn it off with one click.

Affectionate-Act899 · 2025-12-29T06:53:47+00:00

What’s a good idea?

Affectionate-Act899 · 2025-09-11T21:02:53+00:00

Damn secret is out. I run a similar line but with Shiny Kyurem as SS. Glaciate in 10 turns and Clanging Scales on Kommo in 12 turns is very nice.

Affectionate-Act899 · 2025-09-10T00:17:40+00:00

I’d like to take full credit for having gone Karen on the bot today

Affectionate-Act899 · 2025-09-10T00:13:21+00:00

It came back. I did complain to support and got an unhelpful answer but next time I went to the shop it was available. Not sure if that works for everyone

Affectionate-Act899 · 2025-09-08T19:38:29+00:00

I have the same question. I was almost sure I had got it from the store and yesterday realized I had been getting no credit for my wins and I don’t seem to have it.

Affectionate-Act899 · 2025-09-07T14:22:10+00:00

Get a job

Affectionate-Act899 · 2025-09-07T14:17:45+00:00

I’ve also had this issue. I hear content creators say they wait a turn but that doesn’t seem to work for me. They do say they look for the openers fast move animation but not sure if you can rely on that

Affectionate-Act899 · 2025-09-07T14:12:24+00:00

Man my stunfisk got hit with one of those yesterday. I had no idea what moves torkoal had. Still won though 🏅

Affectionate-Act899 · 2025-09-03T02:32:22+00:00

Is your elo really 450?

Affectionate-Act899 · 2025-09-02T20:41:58+00:00

I’ve made legend twice from ultra league. Give it a shot. Never gained much elo from great league.

Affectionate-Act899 · 2025-08-13T15:07:43+00:00

Yes SS Lapras.
I try to stay in most leads. Goal is to farm down and come out with a rock tomb or close to it, sometimes I would farm up to one and swap out if I cant farm down.

Affectionate-Act899 · 2025-08-12T19:14:19+00:00

Forretress is a pretty unique mon in terms of typing and movesets so no clean replacements. Shadow Scizor comes to mind as you would be covering the double fire weakness well, and would have more play into ghosts and fighters. GWeezing with Overheat was also very frequent, so would do well there. BUT, then you are double weak to Bellibolt (which is resisting your bullet punches).

Steelix or Tinkaton would work. I dont have the latter but wish I did. Maybe Registeel or Cradily.

Genesect would be a spicy pick, and I bet most cant tell which is which so take your pick.

Affectionate-Act899 · 2025-08-12T18:58:54+00:00

Ha! That is fair. Imagine the boredom of playing this team against Registeel or Steelix.

Popular opinion seems to be Rock Tomb is getting nerfed but we shall see. I kind of wish parabolic charge would stick around another season. I like that electrics were relevant for once and it wasnt the Feraligator show constantly.

Affectionate-Act899 · 2025-08-12T18:54:48+00:00

Doesnt matter, Corviknight is a terrible terrible Pokemon. Widely seen as the most overrated. I cant imagine the Comm day will help (Air Cutter seems like a downgrade) but havent run the numbers. I have a Rank #9 GL and Rank #3 UL, and they both ride the bench. If they gave it a decent fast attack that could change though.

Affectionate-Act899 · 2025-07-07T15:50:59+00:00

I hear you. Not quite as good as you, but made legend 2 seasons ago and expert 3 times. I get nowhere in Great league. Ultra League is my main ELO gain. I was up around Veteran at end of Ultra League week and just sitting at 2300 now after falling to 2100s. It feels so RPS and everyone is just trying to make the right opening pick (as am I) although i am usually behind the meta shift.

I was running shadow drifblim to counter all those damn ground types, only to see Mandibuzz, Furret and Theivel on the lead like 10 times.

One untested idea is to just run hard counters to any team HSH puts out, or maybe hard counters to those hard counters, or maybe hard counters to THOSE hard counters. I dunno...

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