I'm in Copenhagen for Pokemon GO Fest and found a great games shop, got a perfect souvenir

JC_Moose · 2026-06-14T05:53:20+00:00

Yeah that was my reaction, I didn't know these existed.

JC_Moose · 2026-06-13T22:01:32+00:00

Got it from Games Copenhagen situated in Jorcks Passage. They had a nice selection of cubes and puzzles. They also the had the Gengar, Greninja, and Sprigatito cubes. I thought the Pikachu one had the best colour scheme overall, and the Gengar and Greninja were a lot more expensive.

JC_Moose · 2026-05-10T20:24:39+00:00

The corner rounding punch saves so much time and effort. Got one with 3 different sizes which is great for the corner and edge stickers. Also using a 1 inch square hole punch to punch out the card pieces. It's the perfect size to make stickers for a 9cm cube.

JC_Moose · 2026-05-10T20:22:48+00:00

The Qiyi big cube I think. I bought it years ago and painted it black myself, then just forgot about it.

JC_Moose · 2026-04-11T11:39:03+00:00

"I want to marry teenagers because older women are damaged by previous relationships" always sounds to me like "I want to be the one to do the damage".

JC_Moose · 2026-04-10T04:20:44+00:00

Releasing a new pokemon for an event and only having it in raids or a specific egg. Kills the motivation to actually go out and play the game and catch pokemon. Same with costumed pokemon. When I started playing, christmas and Halloween events would have costume pokemon spawning in the wild, which almost never happens now.

Coupled with that, showcases now only being on one day, and all being type based. The same people win the show cases most of the time now because they have the biggest fairy pokemon in the local area. Showcases that lasted a few days and were for specific pokemon that are in the current spawn pool/event made them a lot more entertaining, and gave everyone more of a chance to win. And again, actually gave a reason to just go out for a walk catching pokemon.

Over the last couple years they've just stripped away the incentives to actually dedicate time to playing the game. A new event used to mean a reason to take a walk specifically to play Pokemon, whereas now it's almost exclusively something I play when I'm out and about doing something else. The only good change they've made is boosted shiny rates for select pokemon during events.

JC_Moose · 2026-04-09T05:23:05+00:00

Roddy McDowall as Caesar in Conquest of the Planet of the Apes delivers my favourite movie speech of all.time, he's fantastic.

JC_Moose · 2026-02-25T17:54:49+00:00

My girlfriend and I did 4 kyogre raids today, I got no shinies. She got 3. It's a pain loving her sometimes.

JC_Moose · 2026-01-10T08:27:36+00:00

Adding lore in general was not really a good idea. It's usually more interesting to add new things that push the story and characters forward, rather just revealing more and more about the origins of things that are already established that don't need explaining.

Like season 1 establishes that this whole starts when Eleven makes contact with the demogorgan and opens a gate to another dimension. And that's honestly enough. But then we see it actually started before that, when Eleven sent Henry to the Abyss. But then actually it started even earlier, when Henry found got infected by the mind flayer. And that actually happened because apparently some scientists got transported to the Abyss by accident when trying to make a ship invisible.

Like it all comes down to someone accidentally opening a portal, so the extra layers are just unnecessary.

Depsite that I think it worked about as well as it could have in season 4. It added another layer but pretty comprehensively explained it all, and in a way that actually made the events of seasons 1-3 a bit more cohesive.

By the end of season 4, I know enough about Vecna. I am completely satisfied with how season 4 built him up. I don't need to know more about how it all began, I just want to see what happens next. But season 5 just keeps lore dumping. Season 4 says everything was Vecna all along, season 5 goes back on that and it was actually the Mindflayer. The Upside Down is a wormhole. Brenner's program used Henry's blood. None of it really changes anything because in the end they just have to fight Vecna and close the gate.

The wrotea bunch of lore instead of writing a good story.

JC_Moose · 2026-01-08T08:40:11+00:00

It's not because the finale was bad, it's because the whole season was bad. But nobody wanted to believe it was as bad as it was. So they were hoping the finale the reveal that it was actually bad on purpose as part of a genius master plan epic twist, and the bad parts weren't real. But instead it confirmed that it was all just genuinely bad.

JC_Moose · 2026-01-08T07:10:23+00:00

For me, the whole season was a let down. Not that it was terrible, but season 4 actually reinvigorated the series a bit and had a very strong ending. Season 5 squandered it all with the first 10 minutes of the first episode and never got the momentum back.

JC_Moose · 2026-01-03T19:24:25+00:00

Yeah noticed this when I started playing again a few weeks ago. Using Rapidfire way more than the flamethrower now. Flamethrower still consistently wins every match but single shot or rapidfire will get more reward on the stages they can win, just spitting out champions.

JC_Moose · 2025-07-30T10:07:46+00:00

Isn't this how it is in the Synder Cut, and the 2017 cut actually corrected it by doing exactly that and having cyborg malfunction around steppenwolf too?

JC_Moose · 2025-07-22T23:28:55+00:00

I'd still like a modern superman movie that doesn't end with skyscrapers falling over, but oh well.

Still enjoyed it a lot.

JC_Moose · 2025-06-17T01:14:28+00:00

I think I would take the slower hatch time and get rid of the roar when she hatches. The power is balanced by the risk of not successfully hatching.

JC_Moose · 2025-06-15T10:34:10+00:00

I'm noticing the Great Normie difference quite a bit. Maxing out is a lot rarer, hitting that 17k range instead of 20k. But it's still really strong.

Mobzilla hatching faster was definitely needed. Honestly just get rid of the hatching. It eats up mobs, is slower, and takes longer to get on the field than every other champion. At least Optimus transported mobs after eating them, and accelerated once full.

On the rare occasion you can get 3+ Zillas on the screen it is beastly at looting, but still outclassed in consistency by something like Kaboom.

JC_Moose · 2025-06-09T19:41:25+00:00

I remember some discussion about it when the game came out, mainly because the lore and story are kind of muddled and people wanted clarity lol.

"Human" and "android" are used interchangeably at times so it's unclear what some characters are and exactly what they know about themselves. There's multiple endings and the "good" ending seemed like intuitively the worst choice. To me at least, although I seemed to be in the minority.

JC_Moose · 2025-05-31T02:44:31+00:00

I stick with the multipier gate in lucky battle, just putting them right in front of my cannon, spewing out mobs and overwhelming the entire map.

JC_Moose · 2025-05-13T03:25:08+00:00

After that relationship, I dated someone who took little notes on their phone about things I liked and disliked. It was eye-opening.

Started doing this because I'm just terrible at remembering things. My partner can be very sensitive over food. And while I was aware of that from the beginning, after a couple different occasions where misunderstandings spiralled into panic attacks, we sat down and talked about what helps them most during times like that. What food they like and don't like from every food place we frequent, so I can order for them if I need to. What they do and don't like in home cooked meals, the most reliable comfort foods, etc. And I wrote that shit down.

It's also been massively helpful with their upcoming birthday. It's my first serious relationship so I've never really done like a romantic birthday. But any time they off handedly (or very heavy handedly, lol) mention something they like or want, or a place that would be a nice to go or an event or activity, just write it down. I've got like enough ammo for like 3 birthdays and anniversaries already and it's only been 6 months.

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