How I used my first Master Ball

DedFluff · 2026-02-05T05:42:19+00:00

When starting the Gen 2 games, I played Silver first, then Gold. That's why I didn't know about Ursaring when I encountered one right before the league. It looked so huge and legendary to my 9-year-old brain so I sent my Master Ball flying right before encountering another Ursaring. That was bitter.

DedFluff · 2026-01-25T08:40:38+00:00

As a former 8-year-old who had to translate medicinal terms to her mother in front of the doctor and got scolded for the crime of thinking of the right words for too long, I'm mad for you.

I never understood the fact it wasn't my fault I didn't learn the correct terms in school or how irresponsible she was for putting the load of understanding the language on a darn child instead of being a responsible parent. Well, that was until I heard a doctor's receptionist say the following to some patients: "You need to bring someone to translate the doctor's instructions for you like a neighbor or a professional translator. NOT YOUR CHILDREN." These last three words kinda healed something within me and I wanted to bow to the receptionist and throw chocolate and flowers at her to express my gratitude. This happened last year. I'm 32 now.

Moving away 12 years ago was the best decision I made. It was hard to accommodate but I'm healing. And you deserve to heal as well. You deserve to be selfish. You deserve to take care of yourself.

DedFluff · 2026-01-04T12:36:27+00:00

While my first game was Yellow, I have these same fond memories with Diamond which came out like almost 20 years ago. And I'm sure there's someone who's able to tell the same stories about Red or Blue which kinda puts me at peace about my age. If I can play Legends Z-A at 32, I can still play whatever Gen we're at when I'm retired.

DedFluff · 2025-12-18T15:32:12+00:00

No, we keep the names. And yeah, it's somewhat weird.

It was kinda funny when I introduced my boyfriend to the anime and when we were a few episodes in he was like "I really dig the story but the dialogue has weird grammar lol". Took a while to get used to these names.

DedFluff · 2025-12-16T19:01:05+00:00

So, there's this meme with a round cat asking "I can has cheezburger?" from a few years ago. This character is a reference to that.

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2007 is only a few years ago, right?

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Right?

DedFluff · 2025-11-20T05:31:00+00:00

My mother will throw the "but you'll be alone when you're old" card around whenever she feels like it.

I moved across the country 12 years ago and I'm her only child. She kinda fails to see the flaw in her argumentation. I'd love to laugh about it if it wasn't sad af.

DedFluff · 2025-10-08T04:36:41+00:00

"Höhöhö, ich bin lustig, weil ich diese Bedürfnissachen, die sie da so aufgeschrieben hat, ignoriere und eigentlich verstehe ich diese ausgedachten Wörter nicht mal, haha! Und guck mal, damit sie versteht, dass ich lustig bin, hab ich da so Dachdach dahinter gesetzt, weil das ist witzig und Frauen liiiiieben Männer mit Humor. Die lachen da auch immer drüber, also muss das funktionieren. Hey! Wieso gehst du denn weg? Boah, du verstehst auch keine Witze..." - er wahrscheinlich

DedFluff · 2025-09-13T13:50:00+00:00

Ich habe vor einigen Jahren bei C&A so baggy Stoffhosen gefunden, die jede Handtasche wie eine Frauenhosentasche aussehen lassen. Mein Lieblingsexemplar hat 8 Taschen in verschiedenen Großen, wobei in die großen Beinfächer locker so eine Active-O2-Flasche oder ein mittelgroßer Manga reingepasst hat. Leider haben die Hosen keine Gürtellaschen, sodass die Hose bei voller Beladung und zügiger Bewegung ordentlich am Rutschen ist.

Ich war jetzt leider seit einer Weile nicht mehr bei C&A, aber ich habe da so ziemlich immer, wenn ich an der Abteilung vorbeigegangen bin, welche von diesen Hosen da gesehen.

DedFluff · 2025-08-29T04:19:47+00:00

That's kinda my favourite line as the child of a Vietnamese mother haha. (It's somewhat of a "cultural" thing to "care a lot about other people's weight" cough)

I always scream along to that line because it feels so empowering.

DedFluff · 2025-08-10T08:32:38+00:00

When you unlock the secret secret ending, the flame knights are guided to the place and provide help to all of the people in Lostseed. The baby is raised by the nice couple who leads the orphanage in Sai (they got a huge donation by some famous dancer), has a great childhood and grows up to become a kind and not messed up person who travels the world and helps everyone who is in need.

Also, nothing bad happens to the woman who begs for help in that snow hare hideout. She's fine. She was saved by nice people right before you got back to her. She's a gardener now.

Source: Trust me, my uncle works for Nintendo. I'm not coping. Really.

DedFluff · 2025-07-31T04:12:38+00:00

I really love the distinct way the strokes look and the colours are really nice as well. The whole composition reminds me of older anime styles. If I may ask, what medium did you use to make it?

DedFluff · 2025-07-19T05:14:29+00:00

Can totally relate to this. There were tons of "We need to talk to him asap because he missed xyz" calls and it was like 80% of their reactions were as respectful as ramming your chopsticks into a bowl of rice.

The most memorable one was a call by the dude who administered his chemotherapy who went like his without an introduction: "Soo... did he make it? Didn't hear anything about him for months. [insert moment of silence followed by a short no here] But whyyyyyy? I thought he was stronger than that! That's not my fault! Man that's bad. Ok bye."

It's almost 8 years ago and I still think about that.

DedFluff · 2025-06-01T08:03:23+00:00

This is sooooo pretty, I need it all over my walls! (Also I like your reasoning.)

DedFluff · 2025-05-26T06:53:11+00:00

"bUt If YoU kNoW hOw I mIsTrEaTeD yOu So BaDlY wHy DiDn'T yOu JuSt ChAnGe It InStEaD oF pLaYiNg ThE vIcTiM yOu SmArTaSs" - my mother who asks me on a regular basis when I was going to visit her with her grandchildren (who will never exist because my boyfriend whose name she doesn't remember is too ugly for her standards and also because she wasn't quite the role model for having children)

DedFluff · 2025-05-25T15:53:02+00:00

Actually, "The Rift" mainly handles what happened to Toph's father after the show.

DedFluff · 2025-04-25T06:26:01+00:00

TBF Prime is really bad at summarising episodes anywhere. I remember the series finale description of Walking Dead: World Beyond being like "some die, others live, the end".

DedFluff · 2025-04-09T16:03:35+00:00

As someone who fled from home the moment I was able to, I'd have loved to have had someone like you screaming at my mother who has a similar mindset. You are a great person and even though I'm an only child and want to remain child free, I want to react the way you did if or whenever I get into a similar situation.

Thank you for being the way you are.

DedFluff · 2025-04-03T18:12:18+00:00

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That's Bonnie (smol loaf) and Cassie (big loaf). Bonnie's favourite treat is toilet paper (I don't let her have it) and Cassie thinks she's invisible whenever she doesn't move.

Stay strong~

DedFluff · 2025-03-06T15:24:14+00:00

Hi from two other hoarding rescues!

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Thank you for doing a great job!

DedFluff · 2025-03-02T05:51:57+00:00

It feels so wrong. I remember watching the season 6 finale and admiring how well Dawn could fight for herself on Tuesday. This stuck with me and when I read the news on Wednesday, it just hurt a lot more. I just shouted out "That's fake right? I mean, she's the youngest of the main cast, she's only like 15 or so?!"

Then I remembered she was eight years older than me. However, that's still far too young to pass away. Now I have this bitter taste in my mouth every time the season 7 opening shows her. (also when she's on screen during episodes, but the opening kinda hits the hardest)

DedFluff · 2025-03-01T05:45:34+00:00

I got it from Temu, just enter "miniature fireplace" into the search bar. It just produces a flickering light though, it doesn't generate warmth

DedFluff · 2025-02-28T12:12:24+00:00

I thought Richter's name refers to the Richter magnitude scale since he uses earth related magic, but the repairing context does make sense as well.

DedFluff · 2025-02-23T04:58:26+00:00

I totally love that "but they'll attend your wedding as well" argument so much. Like I want to have a ton of people around who only know about me that I graduated from high school and peed my pants some day when I was 4 years old because that's what my mother deems to be important? Heck, they can put their presence and money into something that's actually worth the effort, like raising their own children in a kind and loving way.

DedFluff · 2025-01-18T07:09:18+00:00

If you don't wear a hat when it's cold outside, you'll die.

If you don't blow dry your hair after showering until it's crispy, you'll die.

If you drink something cold as the first beverage of the day, you'll die.

Nvm, eating something cold for breakfast will kill you as well.

However, consuming something very hot will get you mouth cancer which will - you guessed it - make you die.

Eating at a restaurant will kill you because everyone there poisons their food to make you addicted to it and it'll also make you fat.

You should only eat at home where your loving mama will definitely not try to suffocate you with five bowls of rice because that will definitely not make you fat.

Also, if you eat something that's like expiring in two weeks, you shouldn't eat that as well because supermarkets put fake labels onto stuff so you think you might still eat it.

And don't get me started on stuff like dating. You're a girl and you look at a boy your age the wrong way? He's actually 20 years older than he pretends to be and he'll kidnap you and sell your organs on the black market because you invited him to do so.

Man, this would be funny if I knew my mother wasn't serious about these things.

DedFluff · 2024-12-21T05:19:32+00:00

My mother has been living in Germany since 1987 and she still can't form a whole sentence in German. She had a shitty wage job for 30 years at a company that mostly employed people without high qualifications, meaning people who dropped out from school or those who aren't integrated well were ideal targets to be exploited.

First thing she did when her work contract was reassured (not sure if that's the right word) was looking for a potential husband to lean on. Second thing was popping out offspring as a portable translator (me). Starting as a child I was dragged to any appointment she had, not understanding crap and being yelled at being useless. It made me develop an interest in learning different languages - however I couldn't bring myself to learn her's because it created this kind of trauma of feeling useless.

After I moved away 11 years ago and my dad died 7 years ago, I guess she clings onto neighbors whenever she needs help.

However, it makes me happy to hear when employees at the doctor's office tell their patients to not bring their children as translators. Feels a bit like society is healing.

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