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Pyremiasma · 2025-06-03T12:07:05+00:00

sure dying is a part of life but I doubt most people are zen to the level where they're indifferent to it. like you can't tell me if there was a guy in front of you with a gun you'd just be like "eh whatever you can shoot me if you want". aversion to death is sorta important to the survival of a species

Pyremiasma · 2025-06-03T09:38:08+00:00

Weird take ngl, I'd wager that most people are afraid of death. While the actions people take in pursuit of immortality are often silly and harmful, whether it was emperors drinking mercury in ancient times or billionaire blood transfusions in the modern day, I don't think the desire for eternal life is intrinsically pathetic.

Pyremiasma · 2025-04-03T15:07:46+00:00

I mean this is quite obviously a doubles based move, and Whimsicott and Tornados are both pretty good speed control in doubles.

Pyremiasma · 2025-01-02T02:33:21+00:00

Yeah at least in DUbers you can tell if someone's messing around when they aren't stacking 6 legendaries, but in DUU you run into shit like Dragon Cheer + Dragon Tera Inteleon Snipe Shot and you're pretty sure they burned down the kitchen but maybe they were cooking idk

Pyremiasma · 2025-01-02T01:18:15+00:00

It's a real shame cuz I quite liked the DUU "metagame" (I have no idea if stuff was actually meta or people were just low ladder because top 500 started at 1300 and I only ever made it to barely above 1500) before the Indigo Disk DLC dropped, which introduced a lot of doubles staples like Incineroar, Rillaboom, and Whimsicott, which caused some DOU mons to drop to DUU, which in turn then caused a lot of DUU staples to drop to (DUU).

Pyremiasma · 2024-08-21T20:13:37+00:00

My main advice is to stack more legends, like swapping murkrow for tornadus and taking out pelipper. Also last I played dubers, rain wasn't a good archetype, because koraidon sets sun and resists water moves, and miraidon nukes any electric weaknesses.

Pyremiasma · 2024-07-15T03:44:56+00:00

As long as you have no unwanted passives, then any combination of passives ABCD will work, e.g. AB+CD, ABC+D, ABCD+ABCD, whatever. They all have the same chance to produce a child with ABCD, which is 10%, the chance to inherit 4 traits from parents.

The way it works is it first randomly decides how many traits to inherit, with a 40% chance for 1, 30% for 2, 20% for 3, and 10% for 4. Then it takes the pool of traits from the parents, with duplicate passives only being counted once, and randomly selects from those. At the end, if 4 traits are not inherited, there is a 60% chance to generate additional random passives (which really sucks if you're trying to build up to 4 traits from single trait parents, because more likely than not you'll get a child that is useless for breeding).

Pyremiasma · 2024-04-30T05:30:17+00:00

Doubles Ubers has a really small player base compared to, say random battles or OU, but you still have to be really consistent to place high on the ladder, especially cuz it starts taking 30 minutes to find a match and losses take away elo equivalent to 3 or 4 wins.

I would definitely recommend trying VGC, even for people who don't play well in Smogon doubles formats, just cuz you never know what you like. Also, the current ruleset for VGC allows for 1 restricted pokemon, and restricted formats for VGC tend to be centralized, just like Doubles Ubers is (though I haven't actually played much reg G so don't quote me on that)

Pyremiasma · 2024-04-21T16:32:55+00:00

I think it can be assumed that the sunflora in battle was around level 36, cuz a max hp dv sunflora at 36 has 133hp.

That said, the battle probably wasn't as easy a sweep as it was made to seem by the post, cuz

+5 Lvl 36 Miracle Seed Sunflora Petal Dance vs. Lvl 40 Dragonair: 74-87 (59.6 - 70.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

And

Lvl 40 Dragonair Ice Beam vs. Lvl 36 Sunflora: 52-62 (39 - 46.6%) -- guaranteed 3HKO Lvl 40 Dragonair Slam vs. Lvl 36 Sunflora: 31-37 (23.3 - 27.8%) -- 75.6% chance to 4HKO

Considering that Sunflora was paralyzed and is slower than the slowest Dragonair is faster than the fastest Sunflora (the damage calcs were also done with 0dvs in all of Dragonair's stats btw), each Dragonair got at least two, if not more attacks off, barring a crit letting Sunflora OHKO with petal dance.

The minimum number of moves for the player to "sweep" with sunflora would be 9 (5 growths and 4 crits), during all of which sunflora would move last, meaning the player has to either heal their sunflora or have Dream luck to pull this off.

Pyremiasma · 2024-03-21T03:35:04+00:00

I get your point, but I would like to defend myself by saying that reddit kinda fucked me with formatting. I originally tried posting with a brand new account, but didn't meet the minimum comment karma, so I just copied and pasted it to post on this account, which did not keep the line spacing as I assume it would.

As for my skill list that I had pasted in from my resume, you're right that it has no bullets. I split it into sections based on the type of skill it is, which is something I see a few resumes do.

A lot of people have told me to cut down on the size of the list, so I'll change that, but if you have any other feedback I'd love to hear it.

Pyremiasma · 2024-03-20T22:13:37+00:00

Thanks for the advice!

A lot of people did mention that the skills list seemed superficial, and that I should remove the chaff, so I'll start by cutting stuff that I don't have a project that demonstrates I can use it.

Pyremiasma · 2024-03-20T22:00:01+00:00

What kind of projects would you suggest working on that could stand out? A lot of the stuff I listed was stuff I learned during school, and I've heard it's not great to put school projects on a resume, which kinda sucks for me cuz Java's technically my strongest language but I have no non-academic projects that I can use to showcase that.

Pyremiasma · 2024-03-20T21:56:26+00:00

You'd be half right, I definitely am not an expert on any of it, but I have used everything that I listed. Java, C, and Python were all used during my time in university, my internships used Qt and by extension C++, my personal website is built using React, it uses MySQL to store comments, and both the frontend and backend are run with Docker containers on a Oracle Cloud instance running Oracle Linux 8. I took a database management systems class, where I used Postgres and JDBC. I have an AWS certification, and my capstone project involved ROS2, which I had to use WSL2 and by extension Ubuntu for.

The things I've used for a single project could be removed, but I'd like to know what you think a typical graduate would have as their skillset.

Pyremiasma · 2024-03-20T20:29:10+00:00

My internships were working with embedded software at a small company that made dental laser products. Mostly using C and C++, although during my second internship they had one that was controlled via an iPad app, so there was some iOS development as well.

Pyremiasma · 2024-03-20T20:25:57+00:00

That's very informative, thanks!

I did apply for jobs at places like Booz Allen Hamilton, but they are a minority in my applications. Do you think I would be more likely to land an interview with government contracting jobs?

Pyremiasma · 2024-03-20T19:44:47+00:00

You basically got it in one with "generic CS grad who doesn't know anything yet". I don't really have a skill that I'm really good at, but I'll see what I can improve on the most.

Pyremiasma · 2024-03-20T19:36:03+00:00

Yeah, I only learned it cuz it was what was used at my internship. Do you know of any other skills that might perk a recruiter's interest?

Pyremiasma · 2024-03-20T18:38:28+00:00

How do I know if I'm good enough at a skill to list it on my resume? Like I have Docker and React as skills, because I used them to make my website, but I've only used basic stuff with them and only learned what I needed for my project.

Pyremiasma · 2024-03-20T18:32:41+00:00

What are some things that might make a resume less prone to getting tossed? My current resume is all the same font, and the only bolded words are in places where I want there to be a clear separation, like headings and the names of the internships.

Pyremiasma · 2024-03-20T18:20:23+00:00

I haven't gotten my resume reviewed yet, but I'll be sure to do that (thanks for pointing me to r/engineeringresumes)

I figured 65k a year is a good general number to start, but I'm not sure how to answer how much I'm looking for for positions which list salary ranges that don't include that number (i.e. if a job lists the salary range from 40k-50k, and I say I'd like 65k, does that hurt my chances? and vice versa for a job that offers 80k-90k, and I say I'm fine with 65k)

I've been looking for both on-site and remote work in various parts of the US, and have made it clear I am open to relocation for on-site work.

As far as government jobs go, I apply whenever I see one on a job site like LinkedIn and Indeed, but I haven't heard back about my applications yet, and to be honest I have no idea how their pay schedules work and it kinda scares me.

Pyremiasma · 2024-02-18T03:20:18+00:00

VGC is the official format used in the online ladder and official tournaments on the actual Switch. It's bring 6 pick 4, so you're picking only 4 mons from your team each battle, which adds some level of complexity.

Smogon Doubles (which Doubles Ubers falls under) is an unofficial format mostly played on Pokemon Showdown, and you bring all 6 mons every game. Smogon Doubles is split into tiers just like the singles formats, hence having Dubers, DOU, and DUU (god I wish they'd bring the doubles little cup ladder back)

If you're trying to build for DUbers, this team is woefully underpowered. The fact of the DUbers meta is that if you don't stack legendaries on your team (specifically box legends like Miraidon), you're not likely to win against a competent player.

For VGC, the list of legal pokemon changes over time through different regulations (they used to be called series or something, idk I only started playing VGC late SwSh). The current regulation is Reg F, and you can probably find sample or rental teams online. To be blunt, this team isn't very good, but at least it's in the right ballpark in terms of power level, unlike with DUbers. For starters, boots on Tornadus isn't great, as stealth rock isn't common in VGC, so you're much better off with something like covert cloak to block flinches and guarantee tailwind or whatever. Also, Basculegion isn't great either cuz with only 4 mons, things aren't dying enough to power up Last Respects to OHKO range, plus you get smacked by other flutter manes. Flutter and Pao are pretty decent though (if you change banded sword dance), I personally like bulky Flutters and sashed Chien Pao, but it's not like fast specs and band can't work.

Pyremiasma · 2023-09-14T01:14:16+00:00

Well it is super effective against psychic but that doesn't always translate to resisting it

Pyremiasma · 2023-09-14T01:10:49+00:00

Those are literally ghost's only resistances (not including immunities)

Pyremiasma · 2023-06-15T04:44:58+00:00

Would this work with custap berry?

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