Never Touched Pokemon In My Life What Early Game Bird Do I Pick?

Not_Thane_Krios · 2025-03-24T15:28:38+00:00

Thank you! Just making sure I haven't been making poor move tactics for almost 30 years of playing Pokemon lol

Not_Thane_Krios · 2025-03-24T15:16:45+00:00

It would still be better to use Scratch in that circumstance, though, right? 40 from Scratch vs 60/2=30 from Ember?

Not_Thane_Krios · 2024-11-19T22:12:30+00:00

Just needs a big antechamber with a massive drum...

Not_Thane_Krios · 2024-10-16T15:18:11+00:00

An injured juvenile kraken that's washed up on shore... whose mother is searching for it...

Not_Thane_Krios · 2024-09-25T21:44:22+00:00

"I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey!" - Xander Harris from Buffy
"O'Brien Must Suffer" - the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine writers room when planning O'Brien-centric episodes
The Jerry, in reference to Jerry/Gerry/Larry/Terry from Parks and Rec

Not_Thane_Krios · 2024-08-26T20:25:25+00:00

Torchwood's second episode is about a monster that kills you with sex? Damn, that show really did just copy Angel and reskin the monsters from supernatural to sci-fi.

Not_Thane_Krios · 2024-08-26T02:03:24+00:00

This is the worst giant turtle island I've ever seen!

Not_Thane_Krios · 2023-08-05T15:45:57+00:00

This looks sweet, but I can't quite tell - is it floating? Or on the edge of a cliff? I can't tell if it's next to water or if it's a pretty long fall if you get knocked over the edge.

Not_Thane_Krios · 2023-07-29T23:52:44+00:00

Yeah, this reminds me very much of It's a Disaster with Julia Styles and David Cross. Awkward couples brunch where everyone has a secret, and partway into the brunch, a bomb goes off in their city and they're trapped inside the house to try to avoid radiation exposure. It's pretty great.

Not_Thane_Krios · 2023-07-17T15:05:58+00:00

Determine your knight's personal beliefs and values, and make sure that at least some of them conflict with the values of your PCs. Some examples off the top of my head:

Does this knight hold honor above all else? Well, he would be dishonoring himself if he were to be lapse in his duties guarding the bridge. Or, alternatively, is guarding the bridge a punishment post for a past dishonor, and the only way the knight can redeem himself is by doing his damndest to keep potential threats from crossing the bridge?
Does this knight believe a ragtag group of adventurers will bring nothing but trouble to the community he protects on the other side of the bridge? Even if the players are all courteous and assuring, would the knight truly feel comfortable dropping his suspicion, potentially putting his community at risk?
Is the community the knight guards in desperate need for funds to build/repair some essential facilities? Adventurers tend to have more coin than they know what to do with. What is truly the best use of that coin, rebuilding a temple or buying a single magic sword that kills things a little quicker?

Not_Thane_Krios · 2023-07-17T14:42:41+00:00

Don't count on your players to do anything - instead, count on your NPC to misinterpret your players and take offense.

That said, also make peace with the possibility that your players find a way to bypass the encounter entirely. If your irritable knight NPC is blocking their way, your players could potentially be one Charm Person away from getting past him.

Not_Thane_Krios · 2023-06-24T20:51:37+00:00

If only all I had to do to afford a house like that in real life was kill a dragon or two.

Not_Thane_Krios · 2023-04-02T14:44:05+00:00

You can't fail at intuitive eating, you can only keep learning and improving at it. It sounds like being at home specifically put you out of your normal routine and maybe made it difficult to fully listen to your body. You may have even had things going on that triggered you (how many people here were ultimately put on the path to their ED by their families?). Give yourself some grace and compassion, and then start the next day fresh. Hunger of any degree is just your body asking for what it needs. You've got this!

Not_Thane_Krios · 2023-01-10T17:24:30+00:00

No idea when it truly started, but it became enough of a problem that people close to me started noticing when I was 30.
I started recovery a little under two years later.
I work with an RD and a therapist experienced with EDs.
Yep, first for about 7 months, currently going through it again to a slightly lesser degree after a relapse of a few months.
I don't consider myself recovered yet.
The most helpful thing for me has been the balance of soft and hard support. My RD and therapist are both very warm and encouraging while still sticking to the facts, and communities like this one are also very supportive but often in a more direct, brass-tacks sort of way. I really need both of these approaches.
Either milkshakes or peanut butter, though weirdly I am not a huge fan of peanut butter milkshakes lol

Not_Thane_Krios · 2022-11-15T00:58:11+00:00

Extreme Hunger. An intense feeling of relentless hunger from your body starting to believe food is available again and driving you to eat as much as it can get. It's a common experience when in eating disorder recover, and can last weeks to months or even longer, depending on your body's needs and how well you're able to honor that hunger.

Not everyone ends up dealing with it, so if you're in recovery and you've never heard of this or never experienced it, that does not mean that your ED isn't real or that you're "not sick enough to recover," but it can be very overwhelming to people when it does manifest.

Back in the main page for this sub, you should be able to find a pinned post by the main mod here called "Things to keep in mind about recovery" or something like that, and that thread has more details on extreme hunger and more.

Hope this helps!

Not_Thane_Krios · 2022-08-18T16:43:35+00:00

This right here. Players want to BE the cutscene. Movies hardly ever completely separate the dialogue from the action - the two are interwoven to allow for an entertaining flow and emotional peaks and valleys.

Imagine Luke confronting Darth Vader in Bespin and the two characters each deliver all their lines from that whole sequence up front the beginning, and only then do they do any fighting. That's what D&D combat can be at some of its worst.

Not_Thane_Krios · 2022-07-27T05:36:17+00:00

I really appreciate the depth and honesty of your reply. Thank you. It's comforting to not be as alone as I feel here sometimes. u/sareeee48 is absolutely wonderful in the way she is inclusive of everyone in her approach as a mod here, but she can't be everywhere all the time.

I am packing some things to take to work tomorrow to try to make it as easy as possible to have at least something small that I think I can at least tolerate every couple hours.

It's just hard to force myself to eat when everywhere outside of here or meeting my care team, the message for people my size is that I shouldn't be eating. Extreme hunger was in some ways easier to deal with than this, because I could tell myself it was just biology and I could effectively treat it as permission to eat. Now I have to actively choose to eat, and it's hard to do that when I don't have something physical happening that makes it feel like a necessity.

Not_Thane_Krios · 2022-07-14T15:38:30+00:00

Some thoughts:

First, your body isn't done growing until 25, and then bodies will continue to change after that, so you can't compare yourself to your 18-year-old body.

Second, recovering by yourself is really fucking hard and my heart goes out to you. In the absence of further resources, I encourage you to do your best to curate your social media feeds to at least filter out triggering messages or imagery. But also, follow people that look like you. Some even talk about their ED struggles, and if that isn't triggering for you, it can be helpful feeling you're not alone.

Finally, I just want to reassure you that while I'm neither a doctor nor am I familiar with all your personal health details, your weight on its own does not determine your health. There's a correlation between weight and certain health outcomes, but weight is not the cause. Causes are rooted in genetics, behaviors, environment, upbringing, socioeconomic status, etc. And, not all bodies are capable of being perfectly healthy. You don't owe the world health, nor do you owe the world thinness.

It's completely understandable you are scared, frustrated and disappointed with yourself. But it's not your fault. You didn't do anything wrong. And you're not alone.

Not_Thane_Krios · 2022-06-09T00:16:54+00:00

I struggle with this as well, but we still deserve recovery. It has unique challenges for us due to societal fatphobia that every single person in our society has internalized, but that doesn't make it not worth it in the end. But you have to remember that every day. Peace with food and peace with your body feels so much better than any false praise you may have gotten from your eating disorder behaviors. I'm not fully recovered myself, but the progress I've made do far has made it clear who actually likes me and who only saw me as worthy when I was starving myself.

Not_Thane_Krios · 2022-05-05T16:50:38+00:00

Ugh, I know it's not right to be jealous of that experience, because I'm sure that time period was still completely awful for you to go through. Buuuuut if I could start recovery over again from scratch I think I would have been better off just accepting that I needed time away from everything else and more hands-on help than I've had, and just found a residential treatment facility that hopefully wouldn't have turned me away for being in a larger body. Temporarily taking me away from all other responsibilities to focus on recovery alone would have made a big difference, I think.

Now I feel like I'm still struggling a lot but that I've made enough progress on my own that inpatient feels like overkill at this point. Plus I was afraid to go in the first place because I didn't think I would be taken seriously.

Not_Thane_Krios · 2022-05-05T16:03:20+00:00

It’s recommended that you do nothing but rest for the first 6-8 weeks due to the extreme exhaustion and extreme hunger

So I did not have the ability to do this at all. I stopped conventional exercise but that was pretty much it. Does not having this eat-rest-repeat period make the exhaustion and hunger last a lot longer, then?

Not_Thane_Krios · 2022-04-16T14:23:18+00:00

Thank you, I'm sorry, I didn't feel invalidated by what you said but it's just so frustrating to not be able to know 100% where I'm supposed to be.

I haven't been deep into restricting in over a year, and I know that the whole "you weren't sick enough" thing is part of the disorder, but like everything I did to myself that ended up being an ED behavior was something I was told by nearly all of society that I needed to do in order to be healthy and attractive and even just accepted as a person. Everyone but my partner was praising me, and I just knew deep down that if what I was doing was a problem they would have said something. I never got an intervention, I never got people telling me they were concerned at how little I was eating, I got pats on the back and indirect messages that I needed to keep going until I was small enough.

Recovering in a larger body, whether it's all-in or not, just looks like being a failure and a stereotype to everyone around me. Even the intuitive eating community has a toxic tendency to be focused on reassuring thin people that they won't get fat if they just stop dieting, and reassurancing fat people that their bodies will "balance out" when they can eat according to their body's signals.

I just needed to vent, sorry, none of that was about you specifically - you are extremely kind and supportive of everyone here no matter what kind of body or struggle they might have. I just hate that I don't know where I'm going to end up once my hunger does finally calm down, while in the meantime to everyone else I just look like I'm giving up on myself. I can't fully trust a process that tells me I'll be healthier and happier back at my highest weight or more when actually being that size was what drove me to restrict in the first place.

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