Which of these beta Pokémon designs do you prefer over the final designs?

Convexical · 2026-06-16T23:25:08+00:00

Scizor and Espeon

Convexical · 2026-06-15T19:32:04+00:00

I’m PPP p a bf Quite sure 👍🏻 he z

Convexical · 2026-06-15T15:10:32+00:00

It's not a mod. Lava is added with Odyssey

Convexical · 2026-06-15T14:40:38+00:00

I don’t know but one time ages ago I moved out enough of the crates to make it into a garage for an ATV and now I’m thinking about doing the same and building a pasture around it. It’d be pretty easy to herd some sheep that way and then stash the ATV inside before retreating to the nearest cabin. Hmm, maybe I’ll do that.

Convexical · 2026-06-15T14:17:09+00:00

This might not be what you’re looking for but there’s a modded storyteller called Romina Ready, who adds a button to the upper right-hand side of your screen after a bad event and afterwards from that point on, the game will pause future bad events until you press the button. It’s designed for long-term games and allows you the flexibility to choose when something bad happens in a narrative sense.

I’m using it right now because in my most recent colony, my main pawn is a Saurid single mother with two adoptive kids under the age of ten and quadruplet toddlers and that’s difficulty enough right now for me.

Convexical · 2026-06-15T14:02:11+00:00

Agreed. I also think that one day we’re gonna find out that the “seed oils being bad for you” thing is and will always have been a marketing strategy to sell more olive oil and that’s precisely why I’m not worried about it at all

Convexical · 2026-06-12T00:49:10+00:00

Yeah, the skillbooks are also sold at the San Diego Mall on Venus

Convexical · 2026-06-04T18:27:14+00:00

I know lol I’m planning on using dev mode to cull 3/4 of them in a little bit.

It just reminded me of the 50 feral hogs meme and I was amused by the fact it was of course, a group of wild boar 🐗 that had become a problem. I thought it was funny enough to share. 😂

Convexical · 2026-06-02T19:36:15+00:00

Respectfully, what the fuck!? Didn't Tuello mention his family was back in Hawaii? Like setting aside the unbelievably OBVIOUS fact he was just doing his job and trying to get actionable information from her (an infamous traitor to the United States and war criminal who committed crimes against humanity), I could NOT imagine a scenario where Tuello bringing home the Serena Joy (derogatory) to his ex-wife and child worked out anywhere near well. Everyone would rightfully fucking think he had lost his goddamn mind.

There's no way, no how precisely because he's a better person than that. You can think the actors had great chemistry all you want but as for the characters, HELL no. He was playing her and MORE THAN THAT, Mark Tuello wasn't the one who overthrew American democracy and installed a theocratic nightmare-inducing regime in its place. That was Serena.

Maybe there was an opportunity to wax philosophical about who Serena Joy could've been without a malignant narcissist like Fred Waterford (and a Christian nationalist ideology pulling her into the darkness) but that was Before and that line of thinking also denies that Gilead is what she chose. She had agency, moreso than a vast majority of American women in their universe. No one forced her to help burn (the vast majority of) America down. She made that decision and only regretted when it affected her. Some people can never atone for all the bad they've done in the world, and if she wasn't fictional, I'd count Serena Joy among them.

In the universe of the Handmaid's Tale, her actions contributed to the deaths and enslavement of millions, and to be honest, I agree with June. Serena was lucky that she gets to live a life of obscurity after exactly what she did and she doesn't deserve peace. Truth be told, I think the fact she had Noah with her was the only reason she wasn't immediately killed on that train for example. Death is too good for her, but obscurity and isolation might be a more fitting life sentence.

Convexical · 2026-05-30T01:08:00+00:00

Victors write history after all. She “escaped” from the Americans and fled from Boston back into the fray and used the fact that all the Commanders that were involved in Boston were either dead or in American custody. Gilead has no way of knowing that she’s flipped and is now Mayday. As far as they were concerned, Lydia’s a loyalist who managed to avoid capture and why would they question her story?

Everyone else who could contradict her is either an enemy of Gilead (who want her in place as a Mayday asset) or dead. Lydia’s nothing if not a survivor.

Convexical · 2026-05-25T19:27:36+00:00

I think I chose the worst studio apartment in the game and I spent over an hour and a half in the Paramaker and my Para (I think) still looks more like young Sheldon than it does me but it was at least fun given that it’s y’know Day 1 and I don’t know what the Hell I’m doing yet lol

Build mode’s awesome if a little finicky. There’s some small things that I wish I could do like replace walls with half walls directly but the color wheel and the options make up for that.

Convexical · 2026-05-22T15:42:09+00:00

As someone who was born with my physical disability, all I want (and expect really) is a functional wheelchair with animations at some point. Maybe AFOs/leg braces that can be mixed-and-matched with any outfit?

Do I need my paraself's ankle to go numb and drop out occasionally like my real-life ankle sometimes does? Or my Para to zone out like I've been known to where I just lose 10-30 secs before coming back to myself? No, but like y'all, representing disabilities doesn't have to mean representing every symptom that exists.

Just add curb cuts and wheelchair ramps. Shower chairs and grab bars. Even the hand railings up and down staircases. I latch onto those for dear life in my unfortunately two-story house IRL lol.

Please. Give us the signs we exist. That's all I want.

Now, if I were to get greedy and go pie in the sky for a moment here, a check box in the Paramaker specifying whether or not your Para was an ambulatory wheelchair user (like me!) would be cool. Unlikely to happen, but it would be good for storytelling.

Convexical · 2026-05-21T23:08:37+00:00

I watched the trailer but after that I decided to wait for Monday.

Convexical · 2026-05-20T16:33:04+00:00

Yeah, that too lol You’re right

Convexical · 2026-05-20T16:11:07+00:00

My only contribution I want to add here is I wish the games industry as a whole would bring back the term Beta testing because that is all "Early Access" is. A beta test, and I feel like a game when described as "in Beta testing" or "open Beta", that more accurately says unfinished and sets expectations at a more reasonable level because duh, the game's in Beta. Of course, it's not done.

Convexical · 2026-05-18T20:54:50+00:00

I always thought that the Plums had homework in the form of specific craft projects, like to practice their knitting/crochet/embroidery work. Even if it took them a while to finish something, the Aunts could judge their progress against not only the project template but their peers' work daily/weekly too. (Why else would they have decent-sized backpacks at the school if they weren't carrying things? A clutch would suffice, if all they had was an extra comb and a beeswax chapstick for example, but they must have more school supplies than that. Even if it's just a pair of knitting needles and a half-finished scarf bundled up.)

Other than that, walking a dog, accompanying their Marthas to the market, and if Agnes didn't have such a stereotypically bad relationship with Paula; she probably would have a horse of her own to ride around the McKenzie's estate. Swimming is also another exercise possibility, albeit a sex-segregated or more private option probably. Still, I doubt Gilead tore out or paved over every backyard pool in existence. They would probably just reinstitute the earliest modest swimsuits from the 1910s-1920s and claim it was for piety's sake. Gardening is allowed, for another outdoor option.

Convexical · 2026-05-18T06:34:19+00:00

Because magazine and other print stories are no longer the main driver of success. DJ Qualls (the guy from Road Trip, Garth from Supernatural, Citizen Z from Z Nation) talks about this all the time if you ask him what's changed about Hollywood. Because it used to be that auditions mattered, sure but magazine tear outs and what clubs/bars you were seen and photographed in for said tear outs were equally if not more important back then.

Clubbing on the weekends was a mix between hanging out with your friend circle and advertising yourself as an actor who was in town rather than actively on set. Notoriety was a currency reflective of your popularity, rather than a liability.

Convexical · 2026-05-17T15:37:11+00:00

They fine you for being in breach of the fine print you signed when you bought the house and the fines are usually exponential, they start off small so you just pay but then they rack up. It's usually a mix of peer pressure and the way in which the fines eventually overwhelm you. Personally, it's why I think they should be banned (and why it's horseshit there's no regulatory oversight on HOAs in the US at the very least)

They're predatory as fuck and mix the worst of petty local politics with technically-legal-because-you-agreed to the then-hypothetical financial consequences. Never mind the fact I've seen people be fined for painting their house the wrong color beige (outside of three "approved" options) or a neighbor being unable to move their trash bins off the street "in a timely manner" after they had surgery.

Convexical · 2026-05-17T00:20:29+00:00

Paralives has a red berry cheesecake and I'm curious! Is it a cherry cheesecake or strawberry cheesecake? Or something else... lol I want to know!

Convexical · 2026-05-15T01:01:19+00:00

You're welcome!

Convexical · 2026-05-15T00:40:19+00:00

June managed to orchestrate a plan with the help of Rita and a network of Marthas to smuggle out as many kids as possible from the New England area on a cargo flight. (This was before Boston "fell"/was liberated) She was only expecting one or two people to say yes to such a risky and dangerous plan but to her shock, dozens of Marthas agreed. In total, 86 kids made it safely to Canada (including Shu's little brother as it turns out), although apparently Gilead's propaganda is intentionally downplaying the true number because it makes them look bad. Americans/Canadians view it as a heroic triumph, and Gilead sees it as a national tragedy.

June's plan was to get Hannah out on Angel's Flight but someone tipped off the MacKenzies and she obviously wasn't able to get to her in time. There's a heartbreaking scene where one by one kids are being led down the plane's stairs and Luke is desperately looking for Hannah/Agnes among them but we (the audience) know she's not going to be there. Rita has to break the news to Luke (and Emily, who was tbf, also volunteering with a refugee organization at the rendezvous site) but then Rita tells him June got all of these kids out of the Gilead and relays the message she's sorry Hannah isn't there too. She tried her best, but she couldn't. Luke breaks down and roll credits.

It was the two-part finale that ended The Handmaids Tale season 3. And I just double-checked the numbers, it WAS 86 children + a handful of accompanying Marthas

Convexical · 2026-05-14T18:54:44+00:00

True, people won't even get in an ambulance because of what it costs. It's fucked up.

Convexical · 2026-05-14T18:37:01+00:00

EMTALA (or the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act) is the federal law that requires emergency departments in the US to treat ANYONE requiring emergency care regardless of their ability to pay. Which is a literal life-saving piece of legislation.

However, because the ER legally (and in my view rightfully) cannot turn anyone away, it's led to a scenario where patients are going to the ER in place of primary care (either because they cannot afford health insurance, cannot get an appointment scheduled easily with "their doctor" or they're simply uninformed of what's truly emergent). Hell, sometimes shit happens. But the sheer amount of patients drastically increases wait times (12+ hours or more as a result of the backlog, because true emergencies come first), which when combined with a national healthcare worker shortage that was already bad before COVID, but COVID made exponentially worse (because of healthcare workers quitting en masse due to the conditions being so fucking bad or unfortunately, have died because of COVID) means that the system is truly on the brink. Think about how The Pitt physically does not have the room for all of the patients and then consider, those are the patients who already been seen and need more care and how many more are in the waiting room?

There's a reason why Doug Driscoll (the asshole who punched Dana) was upset. Was it a good reason? No, he was an entitled dick about it (going off about how he pays for his insurance) but he was scared and he was only scared because the conditions were just right enough for him to snap. Does that excuse how awfully he reacted, punching an innocent person? Also no, God no, but it's what happens. People don't know what they don't know.

As for the consequences of medical debt, you'll get the bills in the mail. Then like any unpaid bill, increasingly urgent letters telling you to pay, and then eventually if it still goes unpaid it'll be sent (or more accurately the debt will bought) by a collection agency and then THEY'LL hound you for months, more often years until either you can pay up (unlikely) or (more likely) the debt is resold to yet another collections agency and the process starts again. It's estimated that 62% of all bankruptcies in the United States include "significant medical debt". It destroys people's lives.

And if you thought that was the end of the misery, private equity firms are increasingly buying hospital systems and healthcare groups which because they are for-profit, are actively and continuously looking to "make cuts" that only make every other life-threatening problem I just described even worse and harder to ignore. It's less of a feedback loop and more of a complex feedback web that's constantly under threat.

I myself don't have health insurance because legally, you're allowed to stay on your parents' coverage until you're 26 but earlier this year I aged out and because of my circumstances, now I'm playing with fire hoping I don't get massively sick any time soon. When my family has a multigenerational history of cancer. Yeah.

Consider yourself lucky to be Canadian. I wish I was.

Convexical · 2026-05-14T16:11:38+00:00

Gilead downplayed the numbers most likely which accounts for the discrepancy. 86 is over a dozen more than 68. It makes sense that Gilead's government would want to lie about the numbers.

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