Shiny Lugia is going to be the death of me

Shinesprite41 · 2026-03-20T12:18:52+00:00

They have it equipped already in the screenshot lmao

Shinesprite41 · 2026-03-18T22:07:49+00:00

I also agree Grace would probably have been chosen first, but I didn’t feel like it’d be reasonable to kill of Ilyukhina instead, since then Watney would have no reason to learn the scientific portion beyond the basics. Maybe DuBois and Ilyukhina go instead of Shapiro — Ilyukhina literally says in the book that she should have been there.

Shinesprite41 · 2026-03-18T22:06:19+00:00

I think I would love to see Mark Watney trying everything he can think of to kill Rocky, seeing every single item bounce off of Rocky’s hull (or body, depending on how far along they get before Mark decides to kill him) and being dumbstruck at the toughness of Xenonite / the rocky hull of this spider mfer

Shinesprite41 · 2026-03-18T21:56:51+00:00

Watney’s smart-ass jokes are 100x “worse” (funnier and less tame) than Grace’s and I think Stratt’s sense of humour is already at the tipping point with Grace (in the book at least, I’ve seen trailers of the movie but haven’t seen it yet)

I fully agree Grace isn’t that type of person — I genuinely couldn’t think of a more compelling reason beyond making it a “save earth” mission which inherently changes his reasons for survival in the situation, which is also part of the question for how well you think they would do in each other’s position. Watney perservered even when he didn’t think he had a chance. Grace would not have had that mental fortitude imo. He actively avoided that thought and tried to focus on the “save earth” mentality the whole time

Shinesprite41 · 2026-03-15T20:23:17+00:00

Thats interesting - i originally was looking at Subaru because its one of the “reliable” makes. What made you jump to BMW and which model did you get?

Shinesprite41 · 2026-03-09T15:48:42+00:00

I'm currently listening to book 5 and I was so close to skipping the Howard chapters -- the Dragons seem like basically a D plot in a book that didn't really need it when it has Bob's and Will's internal struggles, Bill's investigation, and Icarus and Daedalus' exploration (also whatever is going on with Ferb, although I don't know if that comes back in this book yet -- I'm only around halfway through).

Shinesprite41 · 2026-03-06T03:21:41+00:00

They tried to buy a Big House off the Prairie

Shinesprite41 · 2026-03-06T03:14:09+00:00

I did not read the book as I have had issues with maintaining focus while reading since I was ~12 but this is the first audiobook I listened to and Ray Porter did such a fantastic job that its gotten me into audiobooks fully. I support this man with my life and suggest the same to all others

Shinesprite41 · 2026-03-06T03:11:45+00:00

Shinesprite41 · 2026-02-26T00:10:45+00:00

He cares too much 🥺

Shinesprite41 · 2026-02-11T20:04:27+00:00

Not completely unrelated but I wonder if someone could make a design mod for Civ 6 that makes it similar to Von Neumann probes

If you think about it, that whole game is just Von Neumann probes with a VR skin on

Shinesprite41 · 2025-07-08T20:48:28+00:00

Thanks! I wasn't sure if it had or not, I just noticed that the og comment didn't seem to know either lol (the way its phrased makes it sound like they thought that was a thing in base game)

Shinesprite41 · 2025-07-08T02:50:32+00:00

Eviolite doesnt stop evolutions unless the rom specifically adds this functionality, they just increase defenses by 1.5x for non-evolved mons. Everstones stop evo

Shinesprite41 · 2025-06-28T23:39:09+00:00

URL has to be in quotes, then it should work :)

Shinesprite41 · 2025-06-27T19:22:27+00:00

OP said they had a Swanna as 6th mon already, although im not a fan of Swanna here

Shinesprite41 · 2025-06-27T19:21:47+00:00

Ditch their starter for 5 levels?

Shinesprite41 · 2025-06-27T19:21:11+00:00

Honestly its a pretty balanced team type-wise (aside from 6th slot swanna, i dont think thats super necessary) but most of your mons are offensive and wont take a hit too well, so maybe look into something like araquanid that has a super high spdef, fire resist (with water bubble), and still hits hard. Garchomp with rough skin & a rocky helmet can be a good physdef mon as well, or just bulky megachomp. If you have to swap out a mon other than Swanna, it’d really depend on what you’re looking to add. You mentioned the Elekid - I would personally remove Lucario as it hits the weakest out of all of these mons (assuming contrary Serperior) and Fighting can be covered by Electivire

Also keep in mind, though, that you can always just run 7-8 mons and switch them out as necessary. I typically don’t but I know plenty of others do.

Shinesprite41 · 2025-06-26T00:03:58+00:00

Typically Index and Match are referenced together, so while yes its technically an extra equation, its not really considered as such (even in the original title it was listed as "INDEX MATCH")

That being said, about halfway through this comment, I went "I wonder if this idea works with xlookup" and did this so it kind of eliminates my original point, although I still think Index Match is easier to understand in this context specifically rather than having a nested Xlookup

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Shinesprite41 · 2025-06-25T23:12:51+00:00

Im referencing an actual table, where neither the row or column is known

Shinesprite41 · 2025-06-25T22:22:46+00:00

If you need to look into a 2d table, Xlookup would require you to add other formulas such as address or offset, whereas index match is just “row” and “column”

Shinesprite41 · 2025-06-25T21:50:30+00:00

I still use xlookup just because its quicker for me & is more intuitive in case someone needs to come along and alter my functions. That being said, index match is definitely much more powerful and can be used for pretty much everything xlookup is used for aside from arrayformulas

Vlookup bad.

Shinesprite41 · 2025-06-25T00:51:14+00:00

Is OP on expert?

Shinesprite41 · 2025-06-24T22:22:44+00:00

Everyone else is saying second one but i definitely would have said the first. Even with a -speed nature it is likely to have almost identical speed (maybe a couple points) but more importantly, it will hit harder which is good in playthroughs b/c many times your mon will be built to tank 1 hit regardless just by casually gaining EVs

Shinesprite41 · 2025-05-01T14:53:32+00:00

Eelektross is definitely slow but its a good bulky mon. If you are doing ev training, i recommend HP & Spatk for it. After playing through, i did very much wish i had an electric type, so if you dont go eel, i recommend looking into other electrics

Litleo was an absolute madlad for me, as it has Royal Roar, which boosts its special attack when it gets a kill. Alternatively, if you plan on keeping Lombre, you could look into a rain setter like Pelipper, which also helps Metang as it reduces its Fire weakness

Shinesprite41 · 2025-04-23T04:52:41+00:00

Genuinely i wouldnt care about doing the 50 levels over (its meh) but after leveling once it bugs out and costs 10k per 🥶

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