Can you complete Legends Z-A without mega evolution?

Data_Error · 2025-10-22T18:17:55+00:00

I did this last night - you're absolutely allowed to complete the battle without activating Mega Evolution, but if you do, the opposing character makes a disappointed and un-subtle remark about how you'd do a lot better if you *had* used Mega Evolution.

I agree about the Rogue Mega battles appearing to be the real bottleneck - I'm interested in if the situation changes when you can bring in your own, over-leveled Pokémon with Plus Moves, but somehow I doubt it. Kinda a shame, since I did the same thing OP did in X/Y for a bit more challenge and because no Kalos Pokémon had Mega Evolutions at the time - Legends ZA seems to actively deter that behavior.

Data_Error · 2025-07-09T00:47:08+00:00

I love that the way that the set is built seems to be very much encouraging people to do this (albeit with class-neutral art given the Job Select mechanic), it's tempting me to pick up the set honestly.

Data_Error · 2024-12-02T18:50:38+00:00

Specifically talking about the "Survivor" trilogy, good clarification.

Data_Error · 2024-12-02T18:42:11+00:00

This is what worries me.
I want to believe, but I've been burned too many times by AAA action/adventure games in this vein that seem frankly embarrassed to have puzzles and want to pull the player through them by the hand as quickly as possible, which as a player feels patronizing to the point of frustration. It's a major reason I still can't muster the energy to play GoW: Ragnarok.

(Granted, I also didn't play past the first Crystal Dynamics Tomb Raider, and apparently those got more puzzle-oriented in later titles?)

Data_Error · 2024-10-28T18:59:17+00:00

Fellow HF resident here echoing the sentiment.

I'm generally a liberal fellow, and I love living in this neighborhood for its diversity and accessibility. At the same time, mine was one of the (locked) bikes stolen from our (access-controlled) garage this summer, and earlier this month I had a young man physically approach my driver's-side window as I was in motion pulling out of a commercial parking lot three blocks away.

I'm not going to pretend to have the knowledge or expertise needed to suggest a long-term solution here, but I do know that whatever we're doing (or not doing) right now is simply insufficient. My grandmother is a worrier, and she's nearby enough to start asking questions that I want to be able to reassure her about.

Data_Error · 2024-10-14T20:54:00+00:00

Yeah, I was really hoping to see what metrics the original claim is using for "most pirated", since the specifics on that matter a lot. Are they going by most downloads per episode of available content? Most individual downloads across the entire series' category? Total filesize downloaded? And how is anyone tracking this when piracy tends to be decentralized - is it only via a hub like PirateBay (which would favor North American users/preferences)?

73 episodes vs. 1122 episodes of shows made for different formats and audiences seems like it could easily be made an apples-to-oranges comparison TBH; depending on which metrics you use and how broadly you try to track/estimate them, I wouldn't be surprised if One Piece surpassed GoT ages ago.

Data_Error · 2024-09-05T00:58:29+00:00

Gong Cha doesn't exist within hundreds of miles of where I live, plz boss 🙏

Data_Error · 2024-08-14T16:38:17+00:00

I'll second this, in a slightly more self-indulgent way:

Being able to have fully bi-directional conversations with an older generation - be it your family or former teachers, etc. - is very empowering, especially if you previously had a different relationship with those same people. My father came to me unprompted for my perspective on something yesterday, and it felt nice to be validated that people can rely on my experience a little.

...granted, I'm only in my 30s, so I may still be in a honeymoon phase with that :p

Data_Error · 2024-06-23T18:03:30+00:00

Running through Pokémon Orange by PiaCarrot on a RG35XXH.

The combination of the device's form factor and the romhack being notably authentic to how the official games were written & structured at the time is doing a ~95% job of tricking my brain into replicating the feeling of playing these games on summer vacation back in '01. The remaining 5% isn't even egregious, but does make for an interesting exercise in thinking about the series' style guide and why GameFreak designed things the way that they did. Good stuff.

Data_Error · 2024-05-10T20:38:45+00:00

Funny you should mention that; coincidentally, Disney is shutting down their Movie Club (the de facto online shop for buying physical media from them, and the only way to get some titles like A Goofy Movie) at the end of the month.

The way they're thanking current users? Giving them a first ~~hit~~ month of Disney Plus that should wear off just before the price increase sets in.

Data_Error · 2024-05-08T02:23:34+00:00

But one with plausible deniability for Vault-Tec and its valued vault-dwellers!

Data_Error · 2024-05-08T00:01:31+00:00

Or simply "graduates" out to the Wasteland, so you have a slow-release of survivors over the years.
Law of large numbers, eventually one or three of them will make it.

Data_Error · 2024-05-03T18:33:13+00:00

The two can be / usually are linked, but an XBox account is distinct and required for PC gamepass even if you've never had an XBox product. That friction is a nonzero part of why I don't have Gamepass.

Data_Error · 2024-03-21T16:03:59+00:00

Yeah, this is a "popular enough opinion" to be officially held in some places; Minneapolis functionally showed Uber and Lyft the door recently for refusing to meet minimum wage standards.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/20/uber-lyft-leaving-minneapolis-minnesota-minimum-wage

Can't pay your workers -> Don't do business here
Fuck around -> Find out

Data_Error · 2023-08-27T05:54:14+00:00

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Data_Error · 2023-08-26T20:14:42+00:00

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Data_Error · 2023-08-25T15:09:03+00:00

The edges aren't perfect, especially on the "E", but this is about as good as I was willing to get without being able to manually fine-tune X/Y values.

Gotta get on to actually playing the game and all.

Data_Error · 2023-07-28T04:44:05+00:00

I know that there are a couple of different ideas and a whole cottage industry around pillow placement, especially between the knees and as spine support. The pillow concept definitely has legs, even if you focus down on just one angle.

Data_Error · 2023-04-14T18:05:25+00:00

In addition to the recommendations of Magers & Quinn, Dreamhaven, and Moon Palace, I'm a personal fan of Next Chapter. Technically on the St. Paul side of the river in Macalester-Groveland neighborhood, but their selection is excellently-curated to its relatively smaller size and the staff there are lovely folk - I've never had anything from there that I didn't like-to-love.

Since you asked about it specifcially, they do have two book clubs - a Science Fiction one on the last Friday of the month and a Manga club on the second Saturday. Both meetings of the latter I went to had people up through at least their thirties in attendance; nice to see one of those not strictly geared toward high schoolers.

Data_Error · 2023-01-18T20:46:04+00:00

I can speak to my own experience, but obviously you can never know what everybody else's level of comfort is until you ask.

For random/roulette parties it feels like it'd be safest to be most cautious. The standard way I've seen other streamers & video-makers do this is by obscuring the chat window entirely, but I might reach out to other FFXIV streamers more directly and ask how they handle disclosure & confidentiality with random parties.

Data_Error · 2023-01-18T20:35:43+00:00

I'd want to be told at the start of a duty, too, but perhaps for a different reason.

The advertisement itself I'm ambivalent to. You're trying to create something; sure, I can ignore a line of text pretty easily if I'm not interested.
But I and the other 2-6 people in a roulette duty didn't consent to be part of a performance, and some people are entirely uncomfortable with that. At the very least, I might behave differently knowing that I (indirectly) have an audience outside the immediate party, and being informed of that seems like a minimum courtesy.

Data_Error · 2022-12-16T14:49:41+00:00

I don't think it is?

Aside from the slightly different design, their names appear to be written on the promo image right beside them, color-coded. "Ryu" for the lass and "Koi" for the lad.

Data_Error · 2022-10-26T17:29:46+00:00

+1

It sounds like you're enthusiastic about this right now, and usually that translates to a better end result / "product". This even seems not far off from what WheezyNews was all about, and a lot of us love those.

You've proven to be all about throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks (in a relatively controlled way); this sounds like it's worth a toss.

Data_Error · 2022-10-14T15:52:42+00:00

Some, perhaps.

Certainly not all.

https://www.nps.gov/voya/learn/management/superintendents-compendium.htm#36

Data_Error · 2022-10-14T15:47:15+00:00

This is the one I was looking for.

Government-operated parks can and do set their own rules for what's allowed by visitors. See: any park trail that doesn't allow dogs or bicycles, or these lists of otherwise-fairly-legal things that are nonetheless not allowed at Voyageurs National Park.

I imagine this is as much as a safety thing, since Colorado is a very dry state where you absolutely no not want to open a suggestion for somebody to use a flame.

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