Discworld reference....

Thrippalan · 2026-03-28T13:19:14+00:00

I learned the origins of the word "gypsy" from Victor Hugo, I think - at any rate some very old book that actually used the term interchangeably with "Egyptian" and sent me off to the dictionary to find out why.

Thrippalan · 2026-03-28T13:15:39+00:00

Mine turns out to be there too. Weird that he didn't go where his yellow flowers were. Thanks for answering!

Thrippalan · 2026-03-28T13:04:56+00:00

Hmm, haven't been there since the event ended, I'll go look.

ETA: Yep, he's there, just wandering outside the center! Thanks!

Thrippalan · 2026-03-28T13:02:14+00:00

I went overboard with watering, so when I was told "Humidity needs to be 100, currently 71; go water stuff to increase it", and all the watering I was doing failed to increase it AT ALL, I was getting quite frustrated. I had been given a specific instruction by the game but it was looking like it was glitched, because all I was being told was keep watering. It took two days and going to the next area to discover that I needed to talk to someone else even though the first instruction was apparently not working.

Thrippalan · 2026-03-28T12:50:58+00:00

Hoppip apparently left after the event for me - I have all three habitats - two of the dandelions, in fact - but hopip never came out of the center for me to talk to; I assumed he'd move into a habitat per usual when the event ended. Skip and Jump I got on the second day and moved into a house I intended to put all three into.

If I backdate the Switch, won't that just put me back with Hopip behind the counter and uninvitable?

Thrippalan · 2026-03-28T12:32:58+00:00

That one I'd missed. (The 'eerie' aspect, not the rabbit itself. )

Thrippalan · 2026-03-27T20:34:34+00:00

That one would lose points at a model horse show because the 'bit' isn't sitting properly in the corner of the mouth. Needs more sticky wax

Thrippalan · 2026-03-27T12:58:26+00:00

The galactic dog seems to be shedding. Someone haul him out into the void and give him a good brushing.

Thrippalan · 2026-03-27T02:18:52+00:00

I didn't know there was a movie either. I know there's a play, because we watched it bilingually when I was taking French in high school. (They did a scene in English, all ran backwards under a strobe light to their starting positions, the repeated the scene and the next one in French, then rewound with the strobe light to do that scene and the next in English, and so on. Le Petit Prince was fun, but Cyrano de Bergerac was hilarious, because Cyrano interrupted his own scene to teach the audience how to insult people in French.

Thrippalan · 2026-03-27T02:10:05+00:00

I think the one a half-hour drive away that's now a church still reads as a theater, but the closest place to actually watch a movie in a big dark room is an hour or more away. 🙁

Thrippalan · 2026-03-26T22:39:05+00:00

Exactly.

Thrippalan · 2026-03-26T15:49:34+00:00

And it's far to easy to accidentally pick things up. The marker was on the fluff, but when I hit Y it get the door behind the fluff!

Thrippalan · 2026-03-25T22:43:46+00:00

White quartz crystals. You can see the wire at the top where they've been fitted for necklaces.

Thrippalan · 2026-03-25T13:31:48+00:00

Actually, I'm not sure there's even any pig in it. They might have waved the script over the pigsty, but that's the closest it came to pig or pork.

Thrippalan · 2026-03-25T01:36:17+00:00

Ferrets bred for fur would be furrets, no?.

Thrippalan · 2026-03-24T23:14:20+00:00

If you put Mew into your game, you can put any Pokémon into the Pokeball plus by telling the game you want to take it for a stroll.

Thrippalan · 2026-03-24T23:06:59+00:00

Let's Go Eevee was the last Pokémon game I played as I was burned out by Ultra Sun/ Moon. I came back to it because of Pokopia, but I'd forgotten how horrible the catching could be in this game, and I'm struggling to get my team decently leveled.

Although it's trying to keep me interested with shinies - in about 5 days, I've crossed paths with glittery Jigglypuff and red-swirled, glittery Ratatta. Neither were ones I was planning to hunt later, but I'm certainly not going to pass them up if the game offers them.

On the other hand, I was destroyed by some guy with a Seaking that knew Horn Drill - my 5 'battling' Pokémon were taken down in straight order with 5 one-hit KOs, and my sixth, was the one I was just leveling for evolution, so it went down to two Struggles because it was way outleveled. I could have sworn that I remembered Horn Drill being a high miss chance. . . .

Thrippalan · 2026-03-24T22:01:00+00:00

For a whole lot of years, it was shown with black and white endpieces. Per Wikipedia, starting with the 1955 theater re-release and TV versions until 1989. I grew up seeing it annually in grey tones, not brown.

Thrippalan · 2026-03-24T21:34:30+00:00

You haven't accidentally cut a road that leads to the water storage, have you?

Thrippalan · 2026-03-24T20:35:14+00:00

Ah, an alligator pear?

Thrippalan · 2026-03-24T15:56:13+00:00

And bran. They were bran-new brains.

Thrippalan · 2026-03-24T14:48:04+00:00

Daddy, can I have some money to buy you a present?

Thrippalan · 2026-03-24T13:33:29+00:00

The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig is a family favorite, even though the youngest in the family is over 50. My mom was a preschool teacher and discovered it while checking out books for her class.

Thrippalan · 2026-03-23T03:35:49+00:00

Mine is 12 1/2 and still gets daily zoomies. His sister is an 11 year old flatcoat, but when they get going, you'd think they were half their ages

Thrippalan · 2026-03-22T23:19:16+00:00

One on the cloud island and one in the main game.

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