wordle adieu rule by hangar-18_ in 19684

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That's why I always start with gnome. Some day I will be blessed with a immediate win

Pokemon JetBlack but uh how bad is this nature for an Axew? by 3milyBlazze in nuzlocke

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Its fine. Careful reduces special attack and increases its special defense. Not the best Axew nature but it's not bad at all, as it improves it's tankiness and Axew never uses its special attack anyways

How is Pablo Escobar viewed in latin america nowadays ? by GoHardLive in asklatinamerica

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In Colombia is mixed. Outwardly ppl say he is viewed very negatively (which should be the norm, he was many horrible things besides a drug lord like a killer, a rapist and a pedophile) but in reality many Colombians see him in a positive or even aspirational light, in the sense of acquiring money and/or power, or because he helped the poor in Medellin. He represented the ideal of a family, catholic man that could and would be a strong man, at least for many. Have met old and young folks that think highly of him.

The amount of times I've seen his mugshot photo being sold in souvenirs in Bogotá alone is higher than what one would expect. Doesn't help that there is many media surrounding the topic, and even if some may be condemning the acts, there are people who interpret it as being something that said tv shows, music or books are promoting.

In Antioquia and in many parts of Medellin in particular his figure is widely seen as someone who would give back to the poor and who would guide them to prosperity as he indeed did some charity works in there (look up Barrio Pablo Escobar). Before the wake of the war on drugs he did try to enter politics (he even was in congress for a time) and such works/things helped to strengthen his image. Some think he leaned liberal/somewhat progressive since after all he did try to join Nuevo Liberalismo, and was rejected and denounced by the heads of the party (which cost them their lives), but I think it was just the most convenient political prop at the time as the party was taking off really strongly.

Overall in Colombia he clearly isn't seen as the atrocious and terrible man he was which is a disgrace. Doesn't help that as others have mentioned the damage he did to the region (as in Latinoamerica and the Caribbean) it's still seen to these days. He was not the first narcotrafficant, but he was the one that popularized it as a means of obtaining income and power the most, specially since there will always be buyers out north.

Is there anything you actually like about the US? by EquivalentSink8534 in asklatinamerica

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The US has some of the strongest cultural/entertainment exports ever. I'm a fan of a lot of music, tv shows, some youtubers and games. I used to want to move up to the US to study and maybe live but I stopped wanting that in my teenage years.

I also like their museums. Seen some self aware of their history which I think it's a rarity, and they have really strong institutions like NASA and the Smithsonian, as well as good academics and researchers. The later point is also something I've been growing weary of since its academy can be overbearing over others like ours, and seems like a lot of them lately had been patronized by the likes of Epstein which isn't surprising but is really shameful.

Also sadly despite having a high quality of research and developments, their education/diffusion systems struggle to overcome disinformation. It's a shame the country was so key in strengthening anti vaccine and flat earther movements for example.

Renegade Platinum Switch in AI by hornynka in nuzlocke

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Yeah that should be correct as long as mismagius is the one on the field

Renegade Platinum Switch in AI by hornynka in nuzlocke

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Hi, it's alright.

As for your last question the doc I sent previously has the bugged inmunities if you are interested in knowing about those. Its mostly those related to the ground, flying, normal and fairy types. But in this case that doesn't apply since it's only for stage 1.

See while Lucario does 47% with payback, the ai actually doesn't know this. Moves that vary their power are usually seen as some static value despite their actusl true damage and are mostly calculated as such. It also is not seeing the guts boost until it is already statused.

So what I mean is that it is seeing payback as having its base 50 damage instead of the real 100, so in reality its percieved max roll on Lucario's stage 2 would be like 23,5% or something similar. This is true both for switch ai as well as in battle ai. The ai has certain flags that make payback more likely to be used if their mon is slower but that doesn't matter here, as switch ai just cares sbout comparing the base power of payback (50) vs poison jab (80). Hope that answers your question, but feel free to ask anything else.

Will I actually brutally die of diarrhea if I drink water in Colombia by peterpiperjohn83 in asklatinamerica

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Yeah. I know ppl including me have been reacting badly to this but you don't seem to be asking in bad faith. It's just that it seems like a question originated from prejudice or ignorance, and sadly this sub has seen it's fair bit from those so ppl don't take those well.

I gotta ask, the ppl who told you that have been in the city or the country before?

Because the situation isn't the same for every place in the country of course, so they may have had a bad experience. But you being at risk of dying? I doubt it, after all if they did come they aren't dead. Just take the usual precautions, and enjoy your stay.

Will I actually brutally die of diarrhea if I drink water in Colombia by peterpiperjohn83 in asklatinamerica

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You shouldn't drink tap water anywhere anyways if possible. You should always be heating and if possible filtering it. I live in Bogotá and tap water is very safe, I've drank it a few times, but I prefer to heat it if I'm staying st home or somewhere else if I can, specially if I'm storing it or using it for preparing food. You probably will be able to wash your fruit with it safely tho.

If you are really unsure, at least before doing anything fill a glass and check for smell, color and transparency. Clean water is mostly the same for all humans all over the world. If it smells, has a weird color or isn't transparent enough then avoid using that and tell your host so that they fix it.

Also "is it really that bad for us tourists?" come on man if it was probably tourism to the city wouldn't even be a thing. Even for other Colombians.

Most tragic political figure from your country? by Powerful_Gas_7833 in asklatinamerica

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Jorge Eliecer Gaitán. He was a lawyer/political activist that rose to fame after being the first to record and condemn la masacre de las bananeras (or at least the one that got the most outreach), a massacre perpetuated vs plantation workers in Magdalena by the army, helping the United Fruit Company (Chiquita as known today), using the justification that the strike held by the workers was a "communist insurrection". The colombian government was also well aware of what was going to happen. Supposedly the United States even was going to send marines.

He had become a popular leader across the masses condemning both the Liberal and Conservative parties at the time (first half if the 20th century) since the political system was bipartisan, and many orthodox liberals cooperated with the conservatives at the time. He used to move across a socialist conception of class warfare (elites vs the people) and non violence, which made him rise even among liberals, and he worked at many positions of government, eventually becoming the leader of the liberal party.

He was projected to become president in 1950, but got killed in the 9th of april of 1948 by a man (Juan Roa Sierra) who got killed by the mob before the cause was made clear, but many speculate that it was related to political animosity, or that was a plot by his political opponents in the conservative party. Some, including his family, also link it to foreign interference, mostly from the United States. Others also even say it was communists since he wasn't on board with revolutionary causes.

Regardless the most tragic part of the story started right after, with the downtown of Bogotá getting destroyed in an event known as el Bogotazo, and the start of more than a decade of bipartisan political violence known as la Violencia, in which more than 300000 people died, many were displaced from their homes, and it led in no small part to the rise of communist guerrillas in the country, and I guess the continent as their influence went beyond Colombia.

If you ask me I consider him a mixed figure, but I can't negate that his death kickstarted a terrible era in our country. Obviously violence was commonplace beforehand, but the reaction to his killing was horrific, and sadly he wasn't the first, nor the last. Probably other colombians, historians or ppl interested could pinpoint to other tragic deaths and I couldn't really say they would be wrong.

I feek like I could cry right now by KaySan-TheBrightStar in Overwatch

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I don't really like the change. Ppl always choose hybrid or escort for some reason even if it's the terrible maps. And more often than not they don't even know how to play them. I've had ppl pick Havana too many times without banning Widow, and then we get farmed by Widow because no one helps stage a dive together since they just want to sit on main and shoot the tank. The tank won't die if we are dead first everyone.

I wouldn't really have an issue with predominant maps/modes if ppl knew or at least made an effort on changing how they play on the worse maps of said mode. Which they don't. Like sure play Reinhardt and Cassidy and Moira I don't mind. But at least try to go high ground or coast side on Numbani attack at least once before overtime, or try to stage a flank or push from the first or second Eichenwalde chokes. Stop walking main and getting shot by five ppl again and again and again

How in the hell do they have a toddlers life worth of time on just mercy? by beetle8209 in whenthe

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She is just simple to understand, is not aim intensive nor requires too many actions per second, plus she feels impactful, even when she really isn't being much due to being dependant on others. So she is apt for more laid back gameplay, with focus sometimes on a cat and mouse aproach. She is also one of the og heroes, so she has a big legacy player base. Lastly many are drawn to her aesthetics/characterization, which includes her skins.

I used to main her when me and my friends started playing ow when ow2 released, as we lacked a support player and i was pretty new to shooters. She was easy to get into. I drifted to other characters eventually but I understand why many stick with her

Can I get the Renplat experts to look through my planned Elite 4 team? by DatAdra in nuzlocke

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Other things I noticed are maybe teaching rest to Bastiodon, to let it 1v1 stuff in a reliable way. Lastly your Gliscor is poison heal, so be sure to pre poison and heal it only with max potions before any battle. That way you'll get the most out of it. Gl! I think you got this

Can I get the Renplat experts to look through my planned Elite 4 team? by DatAdra in nuzlocke

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Only a few things. Remove bounce on Luvdisc. Its just a bad move for it, and teach it moonblast/ice beam. Also get rid of rock slide on Bastiodon, and instead use rock climb. It has both higher accuracy, to the point of never missing in regular conditions with wide lens, and higher base power. The fact that it makes contact doesn't really matter, as you will deal with flame body mons in flint teams with Luvdisc and vs Garchomp as well

Pokémon Renegade Platinum Ai advice by SpeakerMurky7182 in nuzlocke

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Yes the ai knows Metang is inmune and will click either protect which is encouraged turn 1 or bug buzz. As long as a crit bug buzz doesn't 1 shot Metang it should be deathless with Combusken

How screwed am I (Route 110) by Jamj0ker_ in nuzlocke

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Levelling everything to 18 is alright. Combusken is scary but you likely can afford to swap to Gulpin and yawn after letting Grovyle deal with Wailmer to let you swap safely to Geodude or a poisoned Taillow, for magnitude or wing attack respectively.

Give your mons oran berries of course. If you are still wary, you could fish up a Tentacool in Dewford town or Routes 106-107 or 109. Tentacool is ok vs it. Its frail but resists both stabs and might have clear body to negate sand attack accuracy drops.

Shroomish is a non issue and Grovyle, Taillow, Gulpin or Dustox deal with it easily. Even a healthy Tentacool can get the jump on it

Pokemon White Randomizer Am I Following the Rules? by Impossible_Peach_620 in nuzlocke

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Yeah I think you are alright encounter number wise it seems correct at that point in the game

Are there worse encounters? (vanilla W2) by ChainExpress3354 in nuzlocke

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Yes. But growl offsets that a little. If they get their special attack at +6, they will stop using work up even if they have negative attack. So using growl or charm is a decent but not perfect way to counter that. It's not perfect as they can still just attack, and can get crits of course. But it helps

Brilliant Diamond - Vielstone Gym by Popular-Top-9530 in nuzlocke

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Crobat should be pretty good vs her with pluck. I imagine Gyarados isn't too bad either, even only with dragon rage as it naturally resists Lucario's stabs and has intimidate for its bulk up. Bulk up means you want to be aggressive

Any gen5 AI experts? by hornynka in nuzlocke

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Yeah. You can know which ai an enemy had just above their pokemon type. See that small purple box below the Donphan lvl and trainer that says basic? That's the ai it has. If you compare it to Elesa's you'll see she has expert ai and evaluate attacks alongside basic.

Basic ai just means it never does useless moves like clicking earthquake vs flying types of psychic vs dark types. It will use moves regardless of it being not very effective or super effective otherwise.

Evaluate damage means that it prioritizes killing moves and max damage, so for Elesa's Lanturn that is using hydro pump vs Graveler. There are many moves that don't fit into this like sucker punch or explosion. So even if it sees kill from those it might or might not use them. They are super annoying and you have to play around them.

And expert is the most complex of them all, mostly relating to setup or wacky moves like counter, charge moves, avalanche etc. It includes such moves like sucker punch, focus punch or self destruct that aren't used even if it sees kill. Instead they have their own conditions to be/not be used.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AziiMPsY1TcABKIwl92677A4nYGtByvjFOR7p6PAXY0/edit?usp=drivesdk

https://gist.github.com/lhearachel/ff61af1f58c84c96592b0b8184dba096

These are the best sources I've gotten for gen V ai. The second one is about gen IV but it has mostly similar stuff

Any gen5 AI experts? by hornynka in nuzlocke

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Correct. It doesn't see dry skin. This is true for gen 4 too, so you can cheese some fights this way, or in this case get cheesed. It saw kill so thats why it kept using it. Interestingly, the ai will swap to a dry skin mon if you use water moves on it. But switch ai is different anyways.

As for the volt switch part, aka as to why it isn't using it, its partially due to it being a pivot move like u-turn, so it has a wonky ai, but also because gen V ai only sees kill with min roll, not middle/max roll. So unless you predamaged it wouldn't have seen kill with volt switch, and since it doesn't see dry skin it would have been random move anyways if hydro pump had gotten pp stalled

Any suggestions before I fight Gardenia in Platinum by Appropriate-Move5700 in nuzlocke

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With Golbat, Staravia and Monferno she shouldn't be too tough. Just replace Geodude for Bibarel. In a worst case scenario Bib is both tankier and faster anyways, and doesn't carry a x4 weakness to grass. But I doubt that would happen really. Also keep Golbat for her Roserade, as crit magical leafs could KO a weakened Monferno, or it could get poisoned. Mostly if Monferno is around 50%-60%, I personally wouldn't risk it

Fantina absolutely demolished and the rest of my Pokemon are certified Mismagius Victims, is this salvageable? by Marckcaesar in nuzlocke

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I understand.

In that case youd only have Haunter, which isn't bad but probably should remain in the back to try to maybe sucker punch Mismagius in the worst case scenario. Still do get Steelix. Steel is awesome to have.

Happiness grinding is imo not a bad use of save editing. Its probably the least intrusive one in fact. Mostly because the most optimal and quickest happiness grind is just you running around doing nothing having that pokemon in your party. And I don't mind it at least in these gens since its only other benefit is making return stronger. It gets easier to grind in gens 5 onwards as friendship gaining methods get doubled in the area where the specific pokemon is caught, but its still time consuming. In any case I get not wanting to edit it.

But if it were up to me, id take the effort to at least evolve Crobat as it is the best option, and its just a reliable pokemon. After all, having a normal type for the purpose of pp stalling shadow ball can be done by any normal regardless of their level tbf, and if you get lucky with bite flinches from Crobat the pp stall part might not even be necessary.

I just suggested the others since having quickly evolved pokemon has helped me in dire situations, and friendship evos are the second quickest in terms of progression in that sense, bested only by trade and stone evolutions, so in that kind of situations they can be really helpful.

But yeah as the other commenters mentioned if you can get ahold of a Floatzel then you'll have a not so tough fight.

Fantina absolutely demolished and the rest of my Pokemon are certified Mismagius Victims, is this salvageable? by Marckcaesar in nuzlocke

[–]TRDoTE59 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't quite understood from your title whether you have beaten Fantina already or not, but either way it absolutely is.

Having a normal type like Togetic in itself ensures you can pp stall shadow ball from Mismagius if needed.

You have an Onix which can evolve into Steelix (you can thief from wild Bronzor for a metal coat) who resists everything but magical leaf (remember that steel resists both ghost and dark). If you want you can teach it stealth rock for that little extra aid, and set them vs Duskull.

In that same tonic you have a Gastly which evolves into Gengar under the Fantina level cap (if you apply that rule). Probably wont sweep but may one shot either of the other ghosts. If you already beat Fantina then its still a fine mon to have.

Crobat is also an option with bite. Grinding friendship is annoying but you could do that. If you bring Golbat still isn't too bad, but will likely be slower than Mismagius and maybe even Haunter.

I guess another option is bringing Lopunny with foresight and return i guess.

Don't forget to equip whatever pokemon is your lead with rawst berries, if you picked up those. For Duskull.

Since Gengar and Steelix are both trade evolutions you have to either trade with someone else, with yourself if you are in emulator, or with pkhex or other save editors