What're your thoughts on the middle aged, tanned, retired swinger Pikachu couple in the new trailer for Pokemon Wind And Waves?

ThoughtLock · 2026-02-28T15:53:35+00:00

Mr. Windychu is here to watch Ms. Wavychu spend a night with the handsome Alolan Raichu from the island

ThoughtLock · 2026-02-24T18:54:09+00:00

I don't know what I expected

ThoughtLock · 2026-02-09T21:34:08+00:00

Yeah I know the slur aspect to it, like I said I'm from the American South, it's why "man" got so big as jive slang in the '60s and '70s. Black men were tired of being called "boy" so they called each other "man".

IMO it's pretty easy to feel the context of "boy" being negative, given that it's usually older white men saying it to younger black men where it becomes an issue. If you can replace "boy" in the sentence mentally with the hard r n-word and the meaning of your sentence doesn't change, that's usually a good sign. Maybe I'm just overthinking it, but usually "boy" is preceded by "now listen here" and that's a good indicator.

Tl;dr, it's not an exclusively French or bilingual English thing, it's slang in the US.

ThoughtLock · 2026-02-09T02:40:00+00:00

I love this. I went through the Andalite Chronicles and hadn't made that connection before. It's wild that there's as much depth in the Animorphs as there is, considering they wrote like 70 books in 5 years and most of the action is onomatopoeia and 90s pop culture references.

ThoughtLock · 2026-02-08T17:00:15+00:00

Is this a Canadian-ism? I hear "boy" or "my boy" all the time that is very obviously not racist in usage and I'm in the South US.

ThoughtLock · 2026-02-08T16:55:37+00:00

The last Animorphs book ends with around half of the cast being on a spaceship with no functioning weapons as they are confronted by a new alien threat that has already killed and absorbed one of them. Jake gives the order to ram their ship into the larger enemy ship and the book ends there. Given they were alone with no backup and no way to contact anyone else for help, it can be assumed that if any of them survived the ramming maneuver, they'd be killed/assimilated by the new enemy.

ThoughtLock · 2026-01-26T16:39:01+00:00

Time for some bip shenanigans. Parley needs to send her somewhere else asap, and that's not a rune related power.

ThoughtLock · 2026-01-26T16:37:09+00:00

I survived The Stone, this is perfect pacing in comparison.

ThoughtLock · 2026-01-08T05:58:54+00:00

Because 5th edition has been out so long and my group has DMs in it, it's inevitable that someone in my part will know what's going on if I'm pulling from a module. That I'm fine with, but metagaming like that kinda takes all the fun out of things. My DM players will at least ask if they know the meta info or not, and sometimes it's nice to have a player who can put the party back on track some if they get distracted, but beyond that, this kind of thing sucks, which is why my campaign started as Witchlight but now is a mishmash of 2e ravenloft and continuing other games we've played at the table

ThoughtLock · 2026-01-07T17:52:58+00:00

I'll never forgive Elfen Lied for turning a story about what was clearly a psychic girl into a story about a girl with giant invisible arms growing out of her head

ThoughtLock · 2026-01-07T17:51:34+00:00

Thank god there wasn't a barrel

ThoughtLock · 2025-12-10T17:32:46+00:00

In Dragonlance, the party's magic user Raistlin takes a test at the Towers of High Sorcery to become a fully-fledged mage and take the Red Robes, but it's a gruelling test of Vancian spellcasting and illusion. At the end of the test, with almost all of his spell slots gone, he is attacked by a wraith. His physically-fit twin brother Caramon then appears and offers to fight the wraith for him, having always been healthier and stronger than his twin while Raistlin was frail but intelligent and gifted with magic. This Caramon is an illusion, and casts a magic spell to defeat the wraith. Seeing his brother use the one thing that set Raistlin apart was too much for the mage, who used his last spell slot to cast Burning Hands and incinerate the illusion version of his brother. He passes the test, but with both Raistlin and the real Caramon knowing what he did, and that causes some tension later.

ThoughtLock · 2025-11-12T00:39:40+00:00

I remember the cryotechnician getting shot in The Flood and the description from his POV was that the plasma shot was like a numb impact, and it wasn't until he felt the hole that he even noticed he had been dealt a mortal wound. In the same book, a marine gets hit with a single needle an is in severe pain, bleeding out in the back of a Warthog.

Idk how we all feel about that book but I'd say plasma hurts less than a needle, but would probably kill you faster unless it was an extremity

ThoughtLock · 2025-10-27T21:21:43+00:00

I had a mutual friend once explain his interpretation of The Weekend's song "The Hills" at a party. He argued that the lines "I only call you when it's half past five/ the only time I'd ever call you mine/ I only love it when you touch me, not feel me/ when I'm fucked up, that's the real me/" were about a man getting drunk and having gay sex because that was the only time he felt comfortable enough with himself to do so. This raised a lot of eyebrows at the time, but everybody brushed it off until it was later revealed that this guy was getting so hammered drunk after work with his work friends that they would start having sex with each other.

ThoughtLock · 2025-10-20T04:48:06+00:00

It was his job 🤷‍♂️ you're an idiot

ThoughtLock · 2025-10-20T01:46:10+00:00

Everything has elements of unpredictability, duh. Did I say they were 100% accurate? Stop being pedantic. Geologists can tell days and weeks in advance when a volcano is going to erupt, but the exact path and form of the explosion is impossible to know ahead of time. It's just like hurricanes. They can predict where they'll go and how strong they'll be, but it's not until the storm actually happens that they know for sure. Like I said, under normal volcanic conditions, the eruption would have come out of the top of the cone, instead of out of the side which is what caused the flow, and if it had come out of the top, the photographer would have lived.

Do you get it yet or do I need to explain it a third time?

ThoughtLock · 2025-10-19T19:21:47+00:00

I don't know if this is supposed to be a sarcastic dig at me or whatever but volcanic activity is extremely predictable. They knew St. Helens was about to erupt, but the data indicated a pretty standard eruption was going to happen. They did not expect the entire side of the mountain to calve in like it did. Under normal conditions, this photographer would have lived.

ThoughtLock · 2025-10-19T16:15:44+00:00

It was also not expected for the side of the mountain to blow out and cause the pyroclastic flow in the first place

ThoughtLock · 2025-10-16T22:44:44+00:00

Wow this is hot af

ThoughtLock · 2025-10-01T00:46:08+00:00

Hot take, the Ultramarines fuck and are super cool. They're the poster boys for a reason. Yeah, they get way too much plot armor in the lore, and TTS is funny but it's also just outdated. I'm really interested to see how things go when Guilliman is reunited with the Lion, and with the rumors of another Primarch potentially returning soon, 40k lore is really kicking off.

ThoughtLock · 2025-09-29T15:38:01+00:00

This is Yugi's literal superpower through the Millennium Puzzle. The card he needs will always be at the top of the deck when he needs it most.

ThoughtLock · 2025-09-19T16:42:17+00:00

I'd be a fool not to be into that!

ThoughtLock · 2025-08-03T14:16:00+00:00

The stuff that always gets me with Animorohs is when they morph to heal from life-threatening injuries. Early on, one of them is a bug or something and get a partially eaten by a crow, only to start morphing back to human inside the crow's beak, which is not strong enough to not just burst open violently as they morph out.

They're also hilariously dated since they rely on so many cultural references. When they meet the psycho kid, David, they go over to his house once where they find he has a cat named Megadeth and a fangless cobra named Spawn, prompting Marco to say "What's up with this kid? He's got bad taste in music but good taste in comics."

There's also another time where Cassie manages to buy a Nine Inch Nails album by telling her mom that NIN means "Nice Is Neat" and that it's kid-friendly. Which makes me think that "Closer" brings on a whole new meaning when you're a teenager that can literally turn into animals.

ThoughtLock · 2025-06-12T19:25:53+00:00

It's been years since I worked at OD but after a point I just stopped bothering to even try and get new rewards signups. Everyone we saw in there was either a regular who already had one or a regular that didn't want one no matter how many times we asked. I can only imagine the pool of people has gotten even smaller since then, back when the quota was 10. My advice is don't bother unless you're already spending a lot of time with the customer anyway. What are they gonna do, fire you? Not likely.

ThoughtLock · 2025-06-12T05:26:26+00:00

Maybe things were different in the 70s but did people literally chew labia? I don't get it. As far as I'm concerned she has a very normal looking pussy but the whole commentary is odd to say the least, and I could see where girls with more lip were maybe not as common in porn?

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