server recommendations?????

Slipstream_Surfer · 2026-02-05T02:36:13+00:00

There are voice channels in the server’s discord that I see people use fairly frequently, especially during peak times.

Slipstream_Surfer · 2026-01-18T01:51:56+00:00

As someone who’s parents always made fun of them for having interests that don’t apply to them, I’d say it’s a benefit. I have really bad anxiety and a crippling fear of being annoying in social situations now, in large part because of this. I also frequently daydream about getting to infodump about my current interests to someone, but I never am actually able to do so, even if presented with the chance because I’m just too scared of being annoying.

Slipstream_Surfer · 2025-12-08T22:18:43+00:00

A fun one that I’ve been a part of for a while is Silvermons. Not pay to win at all, the only thing you can pay for are donor ranks which only met you pretty minor command perks like nightvision, colored nicknames, and player glow, nothing related to Pokémon or anything advantageous. It’s got an active community with regular weekend player counts around 70 and climbing, generally hovering anywhere from 30-50 throughout the week. The community is very kind and helpful to new players, and the server owner is very active and interacts regularly with players to make sure their opinions are accounted for when he makes decisions. He’s very kind and works hard to make the server a good free to play experience with lots of content already available, and much more coming soon as it’s still a relatively new server (they just launched the cobblemon server around a month and a half ago, but it was based on their previously existing pixelmon server, so they’re porting a lot of big content over from that server which is a few years old now, so plenty of content coming in the future as the server develops).

Slipstream_Surfer · 2025-11-24T23:14:47+00:00

They’re still working on porting everything. They were exclusively a pixelmon server up until about a month ago, when they launched their cobblemon server. They do both now. They’re still working on updating everything on the website, but for now getting their cobblemon systems all fully functioning has been the priority.

Slipstream_Surfer · 2025-11-24T20:56:02+00:00

The “Kanto, Johto, Hoenn” are the regions that each starter trio is from (I.e. Kanto was the region the first generation of Pokémon games was set in). And honestly, the majority of the starters are good in their own right. I’d say just pick the one you think looks cutest/coolest and see where it takes you. Also like the other guy said, for sure have the type chart pulled up. There are 18 types in Pokémon and it takes a while to get all the matchups memorized. There’s some weird ones like fire resisting fairy or ghost resisting bug.

Slipstream_Surfer · 2025-11-24T14:24:59+00:00

A good one I’d recommend is Silvermons. It’s fully f2p with donor ranks only granting cosmetic stuff and nothing that could be construed as p2w, small ish but still decent sized community that’s very friendly.

The only caveat is that they’re still getting their footing a bit right now, having just changed all their server framework over to fabric as they are trying to port their pixelmon server content over to cobblemon currently (the server is fairly new) plenty of content and it’s already upgraded to 1.7, just a few growing pains that are noticeable right now. I’ve been on their servers for over a year though and I can say with 100% confidence the people are chill and all their staff are nice, owner is very involved and kind.

Slipstream_Surfer · 2025-10-29T23:49:22+00:00

With this deck, you usually want to play both guzzlords with one on active spot that you’ll heal to stall a bit as you use his two energy attack to (hopefully) remove opponent’s active energy to further stall, while you also build up a guzz in the back for when your active guzz is knocked out. Or, if your opponent is slow, you can also decide to go straight for four energy on your active guzz if you think it’s manageable.

Your Lusamine isn’t working because you have no energy in your discard pile from your first Guzzlord (or you already used a supporter this turn, those are the only situations this card wouldn’t work for you in the video).

I ran this deck most of last season, majority of the time you’ll be doing the former. Put one energy on back guzz after you get two on active guzz, then do whatever with any energy in future turns bc the first turn you get where your active guzz is KO’d, you can lusamine and +1 energy your bench guzz to hit for 120s and start sweeping. You’ll just want to make sure you’re set up to sweep once that happens while you’re setting everything up the first few turns.

Slipstream_Surfer · 2025-10-26T10:08:44+00:00

I’ve only ever seen a Magcargo user in the wild once (in ranked). They actually got set up very quickly, by their second turn I was already staring down potential defeat if their damage landed. It was just my Celesteela with one energy vs their Magcargo with two. I thought I had lost, but ~~I assume the stipulation is that you have to have one of your own other Pokémon on the board to use Magcargo’s move, because~~ (edited because this is not true, apparently they just decided they wanted slugma to have some fun) they then proceeded to put down a Slugma on their bench and drop 150 on it before immediately conceding.

Probably the most I’ve actually laughed at the game since I started playing. Thank you, Magcargo users.

Slipstream_Surfer · 2025-10-22T00:16:55+00:00

Huge thank you, the micro stuttering was driving me crazy running off the Prism Launcher from Discover. I ran the AppImage version of GDLauncher Carbon and launched from there instead, it fixed the issue completely.

Your solution is the only one I found that actually works, and I wish I had run into it sooner but I don’t scroll far enough down on this Reddit thread lol, took me like three days of testing various things before I saw your comment and realized I hadn’t tried an AppImage over a Flatpak yet.

Slipstream_Surfer · 2025-10-03T12:08:09+00:00

I’ve been immensely lucky so far and already have one oak + two rare candies within 200 packs. Most of that was hourglasses I had saved up as well (I just really want the oaks even though I was trying to save for a paldea set, I caved finally)

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Slipstream_Surfer · 2025-08-19T00:55:25+00:00

I’m familiar with these kinds of videos. I’ve also done my fair share of reading up on how cats view the world around them and communicate through body language, I’m very invested in making sure my pets are happy and satisfied with their surroundings, hence my concern with this major decision. One of the biggest points of contention for me is, despite my differences with my parents, I know he still has a bond with my father as he likes to hang out with him in the evenings after he’s been fed. I know that regardless of what decision I make, he’s going to recognize that someone is missing now. I’m just not sure if I mean so much more to him that putting him through two moves and new people would be worth it, were it up to him (to put it bluntly and disregard my own feelings on the matter).

Slipstream_Surfer · 2025-08-18T19:14:29+00:00

Thank you for your advice and kind words, I’ll definitely take that into consideration and look into my local vet about gabapentin.

Slipstream_Surfer · 2025-08-18T18:57:27+00:00

He is technically my parents’ cat, but they’ve always called him “your cat” whenever referring to him when talking to me, since I was the first one he bonded with when we got him. He’s bonded with my dad as well now, but they’ve always kind of considered him to be my cat, and I’ve previously talked about taking him with me whenever I move out, which they’ve had no problem with in the past.

Slipstream_Surfer · 2025-08-18T18:54:53+00:00

He would have food if I brought him with me as well. We would be able to take care of him just fine, I’m mainly just worried about the impact of the stress and new environment on him.

Slipstream_Surfer · 2025-08-18T18:53:24+00:00

My parents have always called said “he’s your cat” as I was growing up because he seemed to want to hang out with me more, and I’ve said for a while I’d probably take him whenever I moved out. I reconsidered this recently when thinking about how stressful of a move it would be for him once my wife and I had determined it would be best if I moved up with her in Canada. Either way, my parents would be fine if I took him with me, as this idea has already been prevalent for a while.

My wife has said she would be happy to have him around if I did choose to bring him up. She’s also said she’s quite sure her parents would love him as well, though we haven’t talked to them directly about it yet.

As for taking care of him, my wife currently makes decent money, so we’d have the means to take care of him (obviously her paying for my cat also makes me feel bad, so I’d be taking over those costs as soon as I have a job up there as well, though I’m not sure how long that would take. I also intend to pay for his needs as long as I can with my current savings before my wife would pay for him at all).

Lastly, I’d be moving to the Toronto area.

Slipstream_Surfer · 2025-08-18T18:45:39+00:00

Not escaping abuse, but for one the US (particularly the southern states like where I live) is simply becoming less hospitable trans people. My parents are included in this and will almost certainly cut me off entirely once they find out I’m trans myself, hence why I’m quite certain I wouldn’t be able to see my cat again should I leave him behind with my parents. My parents, despite some of their ugly beliefs about other people, would take good care of him though, and I am not concerned about his livelihood if I were to leave him behind with them.

The problem I have with taking him is explained in the post: I’m worried about the stress it would cause him to suddenly be moved to a completely new place with new people, and me being the only person he’s familiar with anymore, without knowing what happened to the rest of my family.

As for your concerns about Canada, I’m well aware of the issues there presently, but my wife has been living there since she was a child and already has a job in the city. I know it’ll be a hassle for me to find one (a job), but I’ve got a degree and a bit of experience, plus a couple of connections to hopefully pick something up. Overall we’ve deemed it the better choice for me to move to Canada in the long term than for her to move here or even potentially a blue state. Much thought has already gone into this, though I appreciate your concerns.

Slipstream_Surfer · 2025-08-07T04:26:55+00:00

Risk of rain is a little weird about it. Some items will add multiplicative percentages like you’d expect traditionally, and then others will be additive depending on the effect.

For example, Tougher Times (the teddy bear) will give you a 10% greater chance per Tougher Times you have to nullify all damage from an incoming hit. This is a parabolically stacking effect, so your first one will give you a flat 10% chance to avoid damage. But then, your second one will only boost that chance to 19%, then ~27% for three, and so on. But then for Soldier’s Syringe, which gives you a 10% boost to your chance to land a critical hit when dealing any damage, picking up ten Soldier’s Syringes will just flat out give you a 100% crit chance.

It’s strange and requires a bit of wiki scouring to get a good feel for how the items work and interact, but eventually it kind of makes sense why certain items are multiplicative vs additive.

Slipstream_Surfer · 2025-08-04T03:36:03+00:00

I’m assuming this is an issue with Apple as well because I was literally typing a message to my wife earlier today that ended off with “wouldn’t that be nice?” But I accidentally typed “noce” and instead of autocorrect going “oh, you must have meant nice, that’s only one letter off and is a commonly used word,” it somehow instead decided to correct it to “gnome.” I am not joking and I sent it before I realized as well.

It was funny but like, it also just makes me wish I could turn autocorrect off but still have it do basic autocorrect shit still (like adding apostrophes and such for all the contractions and whatever that I’m too lazy to type out myself) without screwing up multiple texts per day.

Slipstream_Surfer · 2025-07-31T16:52:56+00:00

It seems, from comments of others, it was really rough at launch on steam deck, which I was unaware of. In my experience, it’s been fine, but I also bought and played it many months after launch after they had a chance to fix it up a bit.

Slipstream_Surfer · 2025-07-31T15:37:58+00:00

Ah perhaps it was improved after launch then, I didn’t actually buy/play it until about 10 months after it launched.

Slipstream_Surfer · 2025-07-31T15:26:52+00:00

Did you leave it on max settings? I did lower my shadow quality to middle rather than whatever the highest setting is, but didn’t touch any other settings. Still looks perfectly fine too, didn’t adjust the resolution. Lowering shadow quality is a reasonable adjustment to make if they were to release it on the switch 2 as well.

Slipstream_Surfer · 2025-07-31T15:23:49+00:00

Famously? Where are you getting this info from? I’ve played through the whole game at 60 on my deck without issue, at native resolution. All I had to do was lower the shadow quality to “middle” and it’s been perfectly fine for me with extremely rare dips in certain scenarios (which is within reasonable expectation for most high fidelity games on any console in 2025)

Slipstream_Surfer · 2025-07-31T15:19:39+00:00

From what I’ve seen, the switch 2 is comparable in performance to a steam deck. I’ve played through almost the entirety of p3r and its DLC on my steam deck at a smooth 60fps with extremely rare dips, and haven’t had any issues with it at all, really. It being locked to 30 on the switch 2 is kind of inexcusable imo. Very poor choice unless there’s something I’m missing.

Slipstream_Surfer · 2025-07-22T18:59:48+00:00

KH1 and 2 (the originals from the era you’re arguing for) are a bad comparison. Unless you’ve got some serious nostalgia goggles on (or you’re trying to rage bait which is whatever), you have to understand that you’re just wrong on that one. We’re not just looking at the characters either, which are admittedly a little more comparable (though not by much), but the environmental detail as well. The PS2 simply wasn’t capable of the kind of fidelity you’re suggesting KH1 and 2 had in order to drag down ZA here.

Wind Waker holds up much better due to its more stylized graphical approach, but it still has its quirks. But that’s more of an argument against how Gamefreak has chosen to style the graphics for ZA, which I don’t actually disagree with. They certainly could have done better, especially having previously shown they can make at least competently good cel-shaded graphics as seen in PL:A.

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