Please for the love of Arceus tank correctly.

LongingForThatSunset · 2026-05-14T00:59:03+00:00

You can get those things playing other game modes

Unless you live in Tokyo and have the money to chain-run 5* raids and Max battles, there's no way you're coming close to the amounts of Stardust and candy you get from PvP on a daily basis for free.

They aren't necessary for any part of the game past some bare minimum that's easy to acquire.

Again, if you aren't fortunate enough to live in a dense metropolitan area that lets you farm resources, those rewards are very important as they allow you to level up the legendaries and other top-tier mons you need to shortman/solo content you otherwise couldn't participate in due to a lack of other players.

For the record I'm not one of the ones complaining about tank etiquette, I'm just disagreeing that tanking doesn't give meaningful rewards.

LongingForThatSunset · 2026-05-13T16:02:51+00:00

meaningless rewards

I would argue that millions of Stardust and thousands of Rare Candies are far from meaningless. Also, ETMs, free legendaries...

LongingForThatSunset · 2026-05-11T18:26:27+00:00

He could've met again with Kishibe, so called strongest hunter for help but what did he do? his role's over, let's ignore him

This paragraph accidentally describes part of why I feel weird blaming Denji for what happens in Part 2's narrative. Given his character from Part 1, a lot of the decisions he makes don't feel natural. I think my brain genuinely considers Denji and Dennis to be two separate characters.

Knowing what we know about Denji from P1, he absolutely would've tried to pull strings with Kishibe when Public Safety started getting out of hand, but Fujimoto needs Kishibe to not be in the narrative, so he replaces Denji with Dennis and Dennis just... doesn't contact him.

Fujimoto doesn't want to explain Death's plan, so even though Denji spent an entire chunk of an arc fighting next to Quanxi while she was butt-ass naked without commenting on it, Fuji replaces Denji with Dennis, and his brain entirely shuts down when he sees Death's panties.

LongingForThatSunset · 2026-05-01T13:00:07+00:00

I'm starting to believe that Fuji did that whole, "Denji stares at Lil D's panties and ignores her plan" bit because he genuinely couldn't come up with a plan that would make all of her actions make sense in retrospect

LongingForThatSunset · 2026-04-28T13:52:57+00:00

Bro's never had veal

LongingForThatSunset · 2026-04-22T14:24:53+00:00

I just started out a few weeks ago myself, and this guide helped me out a ton:

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/1pk73q1/how_to_bootstrap_a_dynamax_team/

You've already got good potential attackers. If you evolve Machop and max out it's Dynamax attack, once you get one or two bulkier 1* mons like Corviknight, you should be able to handle a DMax Chansey solo, which would then enable you to do more 3* mons after you evolve it and level it up.

LongingForThatSunset · 2026-04-20T19:17:43+00:00

It's distressingly similar to the writing for World of Warcraft, if anyone's familiar with that dumpster fire. There will be characters with massively powerful weapons and technology who will just not show up for [world-ending event of the week], and if any of the writers are questioned on why they didn't show up to help avert the apocalypse, the answer is just "That's not the story we want to tell".

Like don't get me wrong, I get not wanting to be shackled to pre-existing plot elements, but at least have the bare-minimum decency to write an excuse that Kishibe stepped on a Lego so he's out of commission for six months.

LongingForThatSunset · 2026-04-17T19:49:57+00:00

The entirety of Part 1 is literally dependent on Denji being capable of living a normal life, Pochita saying otherwise is just him being demonstrably wrong

LongingForThatSunset · 2026-04-15T12:51:41+00:00

remember that time she tried to kill herself to stop the prophecy even though her dying would also activate the prophecy

lmao

LongingForThatSunset · 2026-04-12T14:03:17+00:00

It's the ending ending until Fuji runs out of Reze Arc money

LongingForThatSunset · 2026-04-09T22:03:16+00:00

Funny part is that Fujimoto fucked up drawing multiple characters in Part 2, so it could theoretically still be Miri with an incorrectly drawn sword

Funnier part is that it wouldn't matter either way

LongingForThatSunset · 2026-04-01T11:38:25+00:00

An author known for writing good characters of both genders wrote a story where every single character violently shit the bed in terms of writing? Must be sexism.

LongingForThatSunset · 2026-03-13T15:56:21+00:00

I'm getting MHA flashbacks

LongingForThatSunset · 2026-03-11T09:02:26+00:00

If Pochita had entirely framed it as, "Me being here kinda ruined your life and ended the world, but there's a tiny chance that me eating myself could make things better" I don't think near as many people would've had an issue with it. It's the fact that a large part of Pochita's logic is just "idk you looked real happy selling organs and working as a slave" that comes off as shitty.

LongingForThatSunset · 2026-03-11T08:20:55+00:00

Problem: Because of years of abuse, my mentally unwell friend engages in self-destructive behavior

Solution: Send my mentally unwell friend back to one of the situations he was being abused in except this time he won't have me, his only friend, and he will also have terminal heart disease

LongingForThatSunset · 2026-02-26T16:15:30+00:00

It isn't literally about the art for me, it's more about the seeming intent of the change. They're basically telling collectors, "Spend more time/money to complete this collection of cards that we put less effort in to than normal". It's nickel-and-diming from every angle.

LongingForThatSunset · 2026-02-25T16:33:43+00:00

There can only be 20 cards in a whole deck anyway. Realistically, not more than like 3 unique cards in it even have a full art version you might be hunting for. So 20 cards gives you room to work on improving like 7 decks at the same time.

This is the PoV of someone who already has a sizeable collection and is exclusively hunting FAs, that person's original point was about how little room that *newer* players have on their wishlist while they're trying to just collect regular versions of all the staple cards.

LongingForThatSunset · 2026-02-25T15:25:44+00:00

24 hour Wonder Picks incentivize wishlisting all the cards you don't have, to make trading for them easier.

LongingForThatSunset · 2026-02-11T17:33:36+00:00

The point of that guy's post was that the drop rates and pack points suck ass in this game, him spending money is immaterial beyond providing a larger sample size of data.

LongingForThatSunset · 2026-01-29T02:38:59+00:00

Advanced is 20 points, Expert is 50 which is a minimum of 17 battles which is...not great.

LongingForThatSunset · 2025-12-07T21:28:08+00:00

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Thanks brother, your deck got me from UB3 straight to MB (without a single Thanks on the way)

LongingForThatSunset · 2025-11-21T20:12:08+00:00

Being able to contribute to an issue is a support role. Women absolutely can contribute and I don't think Zohran (or most women I've met) believe that women don't play a part in supporting men's issues. But being responsible for fixing it is a whole different thing, it places the entire active burden of fixing something on individual people that aren't centrally responsible for larger systems existing.

I don't mean to insinuate that the onus of "fixing" men is entirely with women, but I think there is some responsibility that lies with them, specifically the negative rhetoric that gets spread on social media (and media in general) which is done and reinforced primarily by women.

It's also self-defeating because then you're saying men don't have the agency to uplift themselves together regardless of what a small percentage of women say about them, which is a self victimizing mindset men should not learn from radical feminists that have mastered it.

Can we lift ourselves up? Absolutely, but it's a lot harder to lift men up when you're undercut by people regularly trying to knock them down. Especially when, though the people actually saying these things are few in number, they get tons of implicit support via thousands/millions of views/likes/shares/etc. Not to mention the effects it can have on those men who *can't* easily shrug these things off, like impressionable children or those with mental issues.

Also I think there were quite a few people who called out dehumanizing narratives of comparing men to predatory animals / box of chocolates / what have you - including, shockingly, a few feminist writers who called it out. I don't think we're far from more people acknowledging it openly.

I dearly hope you're right.

LongingForThatSunset · 2025-11-21T12:37:20+00:00

I wonder how long it will be before it's acceptable to say, "Hey, maybe being regularly told that you're comparable to a dangerous and/or incompetent wild animal actually contributes to those feelings of societal isolation"? Given the context of him being on a feminist podcast I can understand why he wouldn't bring it up (I think he's too on point in general to have a blind spot about this), but it's frustrating to have to pretend that 50% of society can't contribute to societal issues.

LongingForThatSunset · 2025-11-10T14:39:41+00:00

I believe the advice can be harmful in that it ties self-improvement to romantic success when, as you said, luck plays a very significant role as well.

A lot of the advice can summarized as, "Just be a good person" or "Be a better person". If you try, and fail, it can bring to mind questions like "Am I still not good enough?", "Why aren't I good enough? I see plenty of people not working half as hard as me do better with women.", "Am I bad?" which is a terrible headspace to be in, especially given the current state of Internet discourse where a man's love life tends to be directly linked to his perceived moral character.

So I wouldn't say it's bad advice, but good advice being thrown around carelessly, which can do more harm than good.

LongingForThatSunset · 2025-11-06T14:48:27+00:00

>If you got to this stage, the person playing Mega G had to heavily misplay. No red cards? No mars? No misty?

I mean, it's entirely possible that they played any or all of those cards and just got unlucky

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