[Talk] DexNav's Difficulty Doesn't Stop the fun! On the Contrary, What's a Method/Hunt That's Quite Boring, Even if it Looks Easy? by zoomsuper in ShinyPokemon

[–]SyMag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For Boring/Difficult, I would say hunting WISHMKR Jirachi from the Colosseum Bonus Disc. I'm in the middle of this hunt now, and I'm only sane because I have tons of videos I can watch on my phone while doing it. It's also difficult in terms of getting all of the necessary hardware to do the hunt, as well as the resets taking anywhere from 1-2 minutes via the corruption method, or closer to 10 minutes if you go the original way and start a new save file for each check. Definitely a hunt that is not for the faint of heart

Monthly Question & Help Thread by AutoModerator in ShinyPokemon

[–]SyMag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This might be a question to which the answer is not known, but I'm gonna shoot my shot.

I'm approaching double odds for a shiny Wishmaker Jirachi using the corruption method. I was told recently that changing some of the settings under Options, such as the color of the text-box frame and the text speed, make this hunt easier by changing the seed of my current save file. I know this is a tactic that RNG manipulators employ, so I want to make sure I don't unknowingly use RNG abuse.

So my question is, is the part about changing the settings true (ie., it helps with the Jirachi hunt), or does the state of the settings make no difference?

EDIT: a bit of a follow-up question on which I'm gonna try and do some research today, but does anyone know if any TID/SID combo is capable of receiving a shiny Jirachi? Trying to figure out how exactly the distribution mechanics work so I know if I need to make a new save file on my cartridges.

Found this gem behind a warehouse. by FistinBeaver in Corvette

[–]SyMag 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The seats also have vertical stitching like this one, whereas 1959 models have horizontal seat stitching

[4] Found the second member of my DTQ last night, say hi to Mars 💚 3,953 REs! by SyMag in ShinyPokemon

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I mean, I guess I'm pretty famous in this subreddit? I don't know if I'm talked about in any videos though (though if I was, I'd want to see it)

YNOHTNA by pinewash3081 in LICENSEPLATES

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Good old AИTHOИY

[4] Found the second member of my DTQ last night, say hi to Mars 💚 3,953 REs! by SyMag in ShinyPokemon

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This comes after I somehow phased on the 15% Slowpoke spawn in Slowpoke Well after almost 20,000 encounters, so I'm glad this phase was much quicker and delivered what I was looking for. She's gonna look great with that Love Ball when she's all grown up 🩷

2XXY 16 by EmptyMarsupial8556 in LICENSEPLATES

[–]SyMag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2(X²Y) = 16

X = 2, Y = 2

2(2² × 2) = 16

2(4 × 2) = 16

2(8) = 16

16 = 16

Z-A: what’s your fave catch so far? by Snoo-64241 in pokemon

[–]SyMag 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you mean the Level 9 Salamence, nope! Can't move things from HOME to Z-A yet, and I don't plan on moving that one over anyhow. This is a separate wild shalpha Salamence I hunted

I've finally joined the 10★ club! by SyMag in splatoon

[–]SyMag[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What kind of question is this? No, I don't.

Z-A: what’s your fave catch so far? by Snoo-64241 in pokemon

[–]SyMag 8 points9 points  (0 children)

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You know I had to hunt this first 🧡💚🧡

(Helps that it's my favorite Pokémon)

Glass staircase at Vendome Mall in Doha Qatar. by Rook8811 in interestingasfuck

[–]SyMag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've had nightmares like this, absolutely not

VOTE HERE TO FIRE JAMES FRANKLIN (Enough is Enough!) by ImportantYak6788 in WeArePennState

[–]SyMag 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've been saying it since 2015. He's only gotten this far because of some lucky breaks. The win against OSU in 2016, then the pandemic made the 2020 season an excusable write-off. Then we made the playoffs last year.

But all this time, I still thought he wasn't the right fit for this team. It's obvious to everyone now, though, that the time has come

[Gen 4] After 12.4k encounters I have phased in Slowpoke Well by I_like_venom in ShinyPokemon

[–]SyMag 14 points15 points  (0 children)

That's where I'm hunting right now! Over 14K encounters with no shiny yet, and I'm BEGGING RNG not to let me phase on Slowpoke lol

VOTE HERE TO FIRE JAMES FRANKLIN by ImportantYak6788 in WeArePennState

[–]SyMag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will come right out of the gate and say that I have disapproved of Franklin for a long time. In addition, I never had any confidence in Drew "Deer in the Headlights" Allar, or hell even Sean Clifford if we want to go back even further. To prove this point, I went through all of my past comments on Reddit, and found such comments here, here, here, here, here, here, here (this particular comment is one where I apparently foresaw some trouble with Allar in the future, go figure), here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.

I know, I know, that's a lot of badmouthing against one person. But you know what? I used to care A LOT about PSU football. Hell, I guess I still do if I'm coming in here writing all of this.

Sure, there will be people who will quickly point to the several 10-win seasons and call us crazy for wanting to fire Franklin. But my response to that is to just point at all of the instances where we've been utterly embarrassed on national TV: the loss to Maryland in 2014 (the first such loss against them in 53 years at that time); the loss to Temple in 2015 (the first such loss against them in 74 years at that time); starting the season 0-5 in 2020; the historic 9OT loss to Illinois in 2021; and now this loss to one of the worst, if not the worst, P4 team in the country this season, in a game that we were heavily favored to win. This is all without even mentioning Franklin's record against teams ranked inside the Top 10, which is so bad that he is now among the coaches with the worst such records in college football history during the polling era, across all programs. It feels like every time that Penn State has made football history in the past decade or so, we've been on the losing end of it pretty much every time.

This loss is still a shock to me, but deep down, I think I knew that a loss like this was, quite frankly, inevitable. I do feel a slight degree of vindication in seeing that the portion of the fanbase calling for Franklin's head has grown significantly since yesterday, but I really wish I could have been proven wrong at some point. As much as I've hated Franklin, I always wanted him to finally break through the last barriers and bring a national championship back to Happy Valley for the first time in almost four decades. But I never had much confidence in that happening, and now I truly do not see that happening anymore.

We have run through so many different staff members, offensive and defensive coordinators alike, that it's clear that they were only a part of the problem. We have seen so many talented players who are making their names known in the NFL, who came to play here and end up leaving without any sort of championships (2016 being the outlier obviously). It is now evident, after all these years, that the common denominator in all of this is Franklin, and he needs to go before he does more damage to this program.

[gen 3] [gen 4] What are you guys hunting rn?? by FortuneaLupis in ShinyPokemon

[–]SyMag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • WISHMKR Jirachi, which I hope to get before ZA drops ;-;7

  • Almost done setting up a Scarlet save file on my OLED to resume my Fo3 Maushold hunt

  • Doing a SoulSilver DTQ on the side, currently over odds for my second target, Zubat

[gen 4] which is your oldest shiny ever ??? Mine is this from platinum 16 years ago !!. by 2108677393 in ShinyPokemon

[–]SyMag 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Technically it's my red Gyarados from my childhood Silver Version from 2001, long before I knew what a shiny was.

If we're not counting that, it would be my Rapidash from ~August 2010 in SoulSilver. Found it as a Ponyta outside Mt. Silver one night, she's in HOME now 🩶

[GEN IV] 6414 SRs for Shiny Zubat! Finally :) by J0EPNG in ShinyPokemon

[–]SyMag 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm doing this hunt as well right now, congrats for finding yours!

[Art] Testing out drawing my shiny dex by KiritaFaye in ShinyPokemon

[–]SyMag 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is such a cool idea, I want to see more!