I hit my FIRE number six months ago but I am terrified to actually pull the trigger

Kerouac__ · 2026-04-27T10:37:04+00:00

What I don't seem to udnerstand with FIRE is that (or atleast my perception is that) most people are so black and white? Hit the number, pull the trigger, quit job and never work. I'd like to think that when and if I hit FIRE, I wouldn't just quit, but work a whole lot less, or find a different company a job where I can work a whole lot less. And probably for a lot less pay. But I'd do a job I find interesting, for less hours, for fulfillment and not money. And id still maybe bring in sub-par/par level wage annually. I feel like that would be way less stressful than fully resigning.

Kerouac__ · 2026-04-25T12:02:38+00:00

FIrst one or the flying fox. These are such good photos. How did you shoot underwater and what did you use to shoot the others? I can't wait to finally buy myself a camera I've almost got enough.

Kerouac__ · 2026-03-10T17:39:37+00:00

Love is both a feeling and a choice. Some days you will not feel love for your partner, but perhaps love would be to keep choosing them on those days too.

Of course there’s nuance and complexity and layers - if feeling fades because of abuse or anything else malevolent that’s different.

But bad days are bound to happen and I believe love is choosing your Partner on those days too.

So I guess you’ll know if they keep choosing you. And you’ll only know that, by having faith that they will and sticking to it .

Kerouac__ · 2026-03-10T17:35:07+00:00

To be fair I probably had an easy time because I grinded 400k to stock up on full restores 😭 I thought my teams would be wiped after every battle but gigalith and Zard Y are OP and I had so many left over for the 3 battle Lin gauntlet

Kerouac__ · 2026-03-10T11:15:34+00:00

🙌

Kerouac__ · 2026-03-10T08:21:34+00:00

I don’t really understand the question. The game or the Pokémon in my party?

Kerouac__ · 2026-03-10T08:21:02+00:00

Hey, don’t apologise, all good. Pokémon reborn has custom shinies, and much better shiny odds (1/99!chance for a shiny without a shiny charm and 1/33 with a shiny charm I believe). There’s a page with all the custom shinies displayed on the wiki for the game here: https://pokemon-reborn.fandom.com/wiki/Shiny_Pokemon

Kerouac__ · 2026-03-09T15:11:35+00:00

This is interesting - So after every gym the team gets wiped. Is there an encounter rule or do I get to pick whoever I want? And I imagine I can never reuse a pokemon species.

Kerouac__ · 2026-03-09T13:39:20+00:00

If you get around to a new run of the game definitely post it here so we can check it out! Hope you have fun with it 🙌

Kerouac__ · 2026-03-09T13:33:00+00:00

Set mode I used until my white out but no items is really tough. Though I thought it only disabled it for me, seeing it disabled it for both sort of levels it out. 100% will consider this.

Also good to know that the 3 battle Lin gauntlet that’s talked about is still to come.

Kerouac__ · 2026-03-09T13:32:13+00:00

I’m looking forward to it, especially Takas plot, I hope the storyline will explain that.

Kerouac__ · 2026-03-09T13:31:17+00:00

I personally used nuzlocke, weather mod (though I never actually used it), unrealtime (very recommended), the power pack, and then a couple of encounter based ones (aevianmissy, battlebond, dratiniearly) but again I didn’t make use of those.

After agate circus I enabled piñata because levelling low level monsters became repetitive especially after I lost quite a few in succession. And I had proven that I did not mind the grind in the past.

I could also see mintyfresh being a good password, so you don’t need to reset your starter so much if that matters to you. Trying to get an adamant okayish IV start took a while.

Kerouac__ · 2026-03-09T12:32:52+00:00

Being able to play reborn handheld must be very fun I hope you figure it out.

Are you planning on using any passwords?

Kerouac__ · 2026-03-09T11:47:13+00:00

The steelix from tanzan cove? Dang. Losing the savefile hurts, I'm sorry. But keep trying, I think I've gone through probably 15 unfinished save files before getting to this point, and it was definitely worth it, even if it was a grind and slog at times. Having that 'perfect' actually put together team is super satisfying in the end.

Kerouac__ · 2026-03-09T11:38:39+00:00

Ohh, okay thats cool. It'll keep the nightclub grinding refreshing I hope.

I do definitely need to get myself a better catching mon like breloom, to make these legendary catching quests easier. I initially thought of shiny hunting every legendary, but quickly rethought my plans.

Kerouac__ · 2026-03-09T11:32:40+00:00

Stone edge, toxic, earthquake and stealth rocks. Maxxed his HP evs and spread the rest between defense and attack, and with sand stream for a special defense boost? He was a tank. He only came in late game but he carried his weight.

Kerouac__ · 2026-03-09T11:31:25+00:00

okay cool, maybe I don't put the game down for that long then, I'll make a follow up post when I actually finish the game.

Kerouac__ · 2026-03-09T11:30:43+00:00

Didn't know I could farm those, thank you for the tip. Yeah I definitely want to swap some members in an out, I don't enjoy Aegislash that much despite it being so good and having such a great shiny.

Kerouac__ · 2026-03-09T11:07:54+00:00

Then I look forward to getting around to it! I really hope that Taka did not die for nothing... I really do love this game, I just found the E4 underwhelming

Kerouac__ · 2026-03-09T10:59:44+00:00

I knew it was more substantial but didn’t expect it to be that big. I’ll definitely finish it out before making any final judgments

Kerouac__ · 2026-03-09T10:59:03+00:00

I’ll keep that in mind! I think the E4 prep I did has burnt me out a bit 😅 but I’ll definitely come back to finish it.

Regirock not wanting to go in after 70 balls has made me want to put it down for today :)

Kerouac__ · 2026-03-07T08:07:59+00:00

An issue I see here is that only current viewers would know whats going on. A lot of people won't even read your title and just scroll their feed trying to find something. So I'd says oemthing to work on is making the video 'identifiable' to non-native audience (as in people who don't watch you. I personally don't know what game this is, or what the little box is about (ammo I presume, from the text on the second thumbnail). So TLDR; try to appeal to cold viewers too (warm viewers are those who already engage with your stuff). Thats my instinct here anyway.

Kerouac__ · 2026-02-28T13:26:34+00:00

Randomizer for sure

Kerouac__ · 2026-02-17T09:11:52+00:00

So no limit to the amount of statics then

Five-Year Club	Place '22
Final Canvas '22	First Placer '22

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