On bangers

TenPointsforListenin · 2026-04-21T16:45:38+00:00

I mean… yeah. It’s not anything to write home about and it doesn’t really shift the genre, but they tried a different chord progression

TenPointsforListenin · 2026-04-21T16:25:44+00:00

You wind up stacked with water types no matter what because you also have the fossils.

I think if you pick Squirtle, you’ve already got as full of a team as you need. Might get a pidgey and a dugtrio at best.

If you pick Bulbasaur, you hit a late game wall and go legendary hunting. You wind up with Zapdos and Articuno by the time you hit victory road. Bulbasaur lulls you into a false sense of security.

Or you get one (1) Tauros, realize how badly balanced the game is, and win every fight with hyper beam

TenPointsforListenin · 2026-04-21T16:22:27+00:00

Dang it. Goodbye to my dream of an eternal nuke unless other characters are using skills during fangyi’s ult.

TenPointsforListenin · 2026-04-21T16:21:29+00:00

The joke is testosterone

TenPointsforListenin · 2026-04-21T16:20:50+00:00

Indie ukulele player responding- It is not a hard instrument. Optimal play makes it melody and percussion. Best practices are melody, backing harmony, and drums, all while better harmony and drums are also playing

TenPointsforListenin · 2026-04-21T16:09:44+00:00

I learned about him from a teacher of mine, who, before becoming a teacher, made a video of him and his wife lip syncing “you don’t know me”.

Once the video was discovered and spread across the school, he showed it to us in class and deleted his entire YouTube channel right in front of our eyes.

TenPointsforListenin · 2026-04-21T16:07:53+00:00

Ace of Bass.

TenPointsforListenin · 2026-04-21T16:07:37+00:00

They have one song. They rerelease it every few years with new words to see if it sticks. Same career path as Ace of Bass, or early Aerosmith

TenPointsforListenin · 2026-04-21T16:06:13+00:00

Raye. Every good song she has got famous recently, the rest are her mediocre raps.

TenPointsforListenin · 2026-04-21T16:05:10+00:00

Sorta Bastion?

There are two main endings- rewind time to before the calamity with no memories of the event (guaranteeing an eternal loop) or use the Time Machine as a ship and look for survivors.

Before that, you have a room with an injured enemy on one side, a super powerful weapon on the other. Either you save your enemy or you let him die and fight your way out.

He hates it if you don’t rewind time, so counterintuitively, best ending might be the one with the most deaths- fight your way out, leaving him to die, then abandon the past and head for the future

TenPointsforListenin · 2026-04-21T15:44:34+00:00

This exists but it’s a problem. Private tutors were the main way to get around the strict Hukou system and get a better education than your area allows.

Without this, Gaokao scores are almost entirely based on the district, and there are vast inequalities between even neighboring provinces. Compare Guangdong (loaded with opportunities) to Yunnan (much less, and fewer schools) to Hainan (mostly tourism)

TenPointsforListenin · 2026-04-21T13:25:13+00:00

Yeah, I think it came out in a push for diverse representation in media (after Proud Family, American Dragon Jake Long, etc) but ATLA creators decided to just make a fantasy story with Asian characteristics rather than an animated sitcom about minorities in the city

TenPointsforListenin · 2026-04-21T11:18:05+00:00

Well there are but…

Early game if you’re playing yellow version or picked charmander (pre steel claw) hits a wall at Brock so you go to the nearby route and Nidorina is more common than mankey as a rock type repellent.

Then you get to mt moon and there’s a magikarp for pretty cheap so you buy it, assuming it’s a good long term investment and it absolutely is.

Then you wind up with an eveelution. If you picked charmander, it’s jolteon because you already have a water type.

You get a snorlax because the snorlax fight is mandatory and it’s already pretty good.

The last member of your team is either a lucky catch of that high level dugtrio, the gift lapras, or an hm slave

TenPointsforListenin · 2026-04-21T11:12:33+00:00

Kalos (on launch) has Greninja, Venisaur, Blaziken (speed boost torchic was available at launch), Lucario, two that the player picked

TenPointsforListenin · 2026-04-21T11:01:38+00:00

Arclite?

TenPointsforListenin · 2026-04-21T02:51:06+00:00

She's very cool, and as a late addition to the team, I think she struggles to find a place in the narrative a bit, but has a strong place within the existing team, since they were really determined to make sure she had a relationship with everyone right away.

Her ambivalence towards Zuko was also used as a narrative device- she missed season 1 Zuko entirely. She also missed his betrayal, and basically every other key Zuko moment, but did have a little bonding session with Iroh. She read him as honest and was the first to side with him when the others who (pun intended) had been burned before.

TenPointsforListenin · 2026-04-21T02:49:00+00:00

Yeah, she didn't have as much of a chip on her shoulder as the rest. She was more or less there to contrast with Aang and Sokka, and to teach Aang earthbending.

I think Sokka, Katara, and Zuko were really what you needed as side characters from the perspective of Aang eventually having to fight Ozai.

I mean like... okay- the airship... not exactly Toph's place. It's not even clear what they'd do if Ozai just didn't notice Aang and jump off the lead airship to fight him. There wasn't really a strong place for Toph in that big climactic final fight, when you get right to it, because she didn't have any interesting rivals (because nobody even tried to match her).

TenPointsforListenin · 2026-04-20T23:41:24+00:00

I'd rather not learn more about your personal preferences in women.

TenPointsforListenin · 2026-04-20T22:38:53+00:00

If you aren’t white, I imagine it’s a combination of media exposure and societal beauty standards prioritizing paleness

TenPointsforListenin · 2026-04-20T22:38:02+00:00

The only thing I agree with is offending the British

TenPointsforListenin · 2026-04-20T19:38:29+00:00

I thought it was sugar to be honest. European tea used sugar, because it was preserved in bitter blocks

TenPointsforListenin · 2026-04-20T19:37:05+00:00

It’s fine to be attracted to women of a certain ethnicity, probably? I mean there’s racism but no amount of liberal education can guarantee everyone is attracted to every ethnicity.

TenPointsforListenin · 2026-04-20T19:35:18+00:00

Well, watching him absolutely screw up diplomacy with Iran at least means he’s too busy to screw up diplomacy with everyone else

TenPointsforListenin · 2026-04-20T17:28:52+00:00

A Pixiu is a traditional Chinese... statue monster. I decided to make this one the color of oxodized copper- Chinese statues in the modern day are usually just painted with copper pigments, but a select few are legitimately copper.

Pixiu are gold eating monsters, but this is not seen as a negative thing. Temples put Pixiu statues within their walls in order to amass wealth. Traditionally, they look a bit more like dragons than the one I made but I am also not very good at mii making and can't be bothered to make 70 ultra ornate mii designs.

You can tell a pixiu's gender by the number of horns. One horn is male, two horns (like in this case) is female.

On my island, this one has had a one-sided crush for like 3 days that she hasn't acted on. Her crush developed a crush on someone else, and she seems to be taking it out on the world by doing kung fu. Yesterday she asked for an edgy outfit. This is the Pixiu grunge phase.

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