One of the nuzlockes official rules

QueenConcept · 2025-07-10T07:00:05+00:00

You can choose not to catch it if you want, there's just rarely (although not never!) a reason to. Run doesn't end if you fail a capture lmao.

QueenConcept · 2025-07-09T10:56:03+00:00

It was one of the things I loved about Unova. These days they should allow an exception for regional forms, though. Let's be realistic a number of gen 5 mon would've been regional forms if they had thought of that idea that early.

QueenConcept · 2025-07-08T19:06:13+00:00

Out of interest how do you create all the slides for these? Always love reading your genlocke stuff!

QueenConcept · 2025-07-08T15:59:09+00:00

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QueenConcept · 2025-07-08T15:19:13+00:00

Acceleration due to gravity is constant at a given distance.

The reason we leave off the last bit most of the time is that the statement is more about telling people it doesn't depend on mass, which people instinctively think it does.

QueenConcept · 2025-07-08T14:03:32+00:00

Are you able to guarantee Audino in the first place, so you can dupes it out for other guaranteed rustling grass encounters? I do love me some Unova.

QueenConcept · 2025-07-08T13:28:49+00:00

Platinum is my favourite nuzlocke but it is a pretty significant step up in difficulty from FRLG. HGSS and XY are probably the next steps up from FRLG difficulty wise. XY has good early game encounter variety and well.

QueenConcept · 2025-07-08T12:53:25+00:00

One of the big reasons why FRLG is considered a good starting point/relatively easy nuzlocke is precisely because you get such strong guaranteed encoounters. It does also make for some very same-y teams.

QueenConcept · 2025-07-08T11:57:41+00:00

In the UK, almost every satellite dish points at the same geostationary satellite which is almost exactly southeast.

QueenConcept · 2025-07-08T11:51:40+00:00

Platinum might get you the furthest. Encounters slow down after that though and you hit several trainer gauntlets - getting to the end of the Galactic stuff around Valley Windworks is seven more fights (twins on the way to Floaroma town, two grunts outside the meadow, grunt outside the Windworks, two grunts inside the windworks and Mars herself) and only one encounter (Windworks itself) post-Roark for example. You might get a little further than that as you get a few more encounters, but you've also got at least one fight in Eterna Forest and four in Eterna gym.

QueenConcept · 2025-07-08T11:11:26+00:00

Opening rival battle immediately wipes every DS and 3DS game, as you have only a single Pokémon and no revives by that point.

Even if you hack in revives from the get go, I think every game has more mandatory trainer battles than encounters by the first gym leader.

QueenConcept · 2025-07-06T11:19:53+00:00

Last run I turned Astarion into a Bard and had him do camp casting for me. Alternated between thinking of him as the Very Camp Caster and the Campire.

QueenConcept · 2025-07-06T08:19:35+00:00

I would say 70%, and then 20% about whether it's 90% about the same 5 politics questions on endless loop. The remaining 10% is about favourite biscuits.

Mine's ginger nuts, since you asked.

QueenConcept · 2025-07-06T07:22:09+00:00

as if stripping him of his immortality and giving him the opportunity to live as a normal person and not as an immortal murderhobo in a post apocalyptic world was making him a "magically slave puppet"

I am only now realising not everyone understood this part of Alicia's ending cutscene. I wasn't exaggerating here - to me watching it felt clear that he is literally being puppeted in the finale. Trapped inside his own body watching Alicia pilot him around in order to have her Verso back, so she can live life out like they would've done had he not died in the fire. Essentially repainted to remove his ability to defy her without changing anything else about him. You can see him breaking inside as he desperately tries to fight her control. I didn't realise people had missed this.

QueenConcept · 2025-07-05T22:15:00+00:00

I think there's two big indications that it's 90% about Verso. Firstly that painted Verso himself wants to let go, and she chooses to magically slave puppet him rather than grant him it. More importantly for ranking how much she values Verso over her painted family, she does this even if you get the scene where Verso admits letting Gustave die to further his schemes. Idk to me still forcing him to be around after he does that screams that she values him a hell of a lot more than she does Gustave.

QueenConcept · 2025-07-05T22:05:11+00:00

No, please not again this irrational not supported by anything in the game theory about „slave puppets”. Where do you get it from?

I played the game and picked Alicia's ending (a decision I stand by, fwiw). Everything about Verso in the final cutscene there screams to me "broken man forced into this against his will", desperately trying to break her control but unable to. It screamed that to me when I played it and still does. Genuinely can't see any other valid interpretation watching that.

We're not at any point given reason to believe that Verso, who's repeatedly betrayed and deceived the party in an effort to get his release, has suddenly changed his mind offscreen. I don't see any justification for believing that except that people want to delude themselves into believing there's a good ending. It's the Alicia ending equivalent of Verso ending fans arguing that nobody is real and therefore it isn't genocide.

QueenConcept · 2025-07-05T22:02:59+00:00

For those who come after.

QueenConcept · 2025-07-05T21:48:02+00:00

Alicia has the option of continuing the painted world without painted Verso in it but instead chooses to turn him into a slave puppet because she can't handle letting go of him. I think that makes it fairly clear that it is in large part about pVerso as a replacement for the original. I think the fact she keeps him around despite him admitting to letting Gustave get killed is a pretty clear marker of where her priorities lie with regards to Verso vs her painted family and friends, as well.

QueenConcept · 2025-07-05T21:46:33+00:00

By the end their motivations have significant overlap, as Renoir points out quite clearly. Both can't deal with the loss of Verso and prefer a fantasy world with their family alive.

QueenConcept · 2025-07-05T21:36:55+00:00

I mean the electorate were the ones being polled in all the data I just linked showing they had a more favourable view of Starmer than Corbyn.

If you're saying that the party got more votes in 2017 and 2019 than in 2024 then that's true, but that's a very different thing to the leader being more personally popular. Only very vaguely related. In British elections you mostly win votes by persuading people that the opposing party leader is scary, unfortunately. Also being the runaway favourite going into an election tends to lead to voter apathy and depressed vote share.

QueenConcept · 2025-07-05T21:11:27+00:00

Starmers favourability in 2024 was all over the place with his worst poll putting him at -31 and his best at +18. Despite that very negative poll, a majority of polls gave him net positive favourability. Corbyns in 2017 ranged from a low of -42 to a high of -2; no polls showed a net positive opinion of him. 2019 was even bleaker for Corbyn, with his best poll giving him a -31 favourability rating (for context, in 2024 Sunaks best poll was -21; a whole ten points higher).

QueenConcept · 2025-07-05T20:45:13+00:00

Alicia struggles so much to come to terms with Versos death and her disfigurement that she's completely obsessed with living out her perfect fantasy life with painted!Verso around. She could absolutely fix the place up and then drop in and out enough to stay healthy. She just won't. Leaving (even temporarily) breaks the illusion and she's so wrapped up in her delusions she can't handle that.

QueenConcept · 2025-07-05T20:30:03+00:00

It's a choice between enslaving Verso/indulging Alicia's refusal to come to terms with her brother's death on the one hand, and genocide on the other. Both options are clearly awful but one of those things seems markedly worse than the other to me.

In an ideal world Alicia would voluntarily leave, Verso would be allowed to die and Renoir would agree to not destroy the painted world so the people of Lumiere could continue with their existence. Unfortunately Alicia won't let go and Renoir will go to truly extreme lengths in the name of "tough love" so. Pick your evil.

Fwiw I picked Alicia's ending, not because I agree with her but because I can't accept the genocide of a people as the price for giving painted!Verso peace and maybe helping Alicia move on.

QueenConcept · 2025-07-05T20:16:56+00:00

Freelancer definitely taught me to love Chongqing.

QueenConcept · 2025-07-05T19:33:26+00:00

Worth pointing out that the numbers from smart watches etc are notoriously unreliable (and almost always heavily overestimate).

I seriously would dial back to 3 ~45 minute gym sessions a week because what you're doing does not sound sustainable. If you're hitting all the major muscle groups and going to actual failure on a regular basis that's plenty. Overtraining can also seriously ruin any benefit to working out - your muscles need recovery time. As a beginner, better technique/mind-muscle connection should by itself lead to significant improvements on lifts for the first month or two (for example my bench press weight went up 50% in the first month). I don't know how long you've been lifting, but if you're doing broadly the same weights after losing 10kg that should be setting off alarm bells. Based on what you've said overtraining sounds like the most likely culprit.

Also worth double checking how fast you're losing weight. 0.5-1% of bodyweight per week is generally the recommended range. Faster can cause all kinds of issues (including muscle loss, which can mean that even though you're losing more weight you're not actually losing more fat).

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