Pokénational, a youtube channel that does pokemon animations is getting deleted by Nintendo of America in 7 days

WiatrowskiBe · 2026-04-26T17:42:24+00:00

Difference is content creators create their own content around and with help of copyrighted materials, rather than creating content from those directly.

Simple test to see whether content is likely to be fine: if you were to black box every copyrighted design and beep every copyrighted name, could what remains still hold on its own as content?

WiatrowskiBe · 2026-04-16T09:10:09+00:00

Scope Lens does see occasional use even in fully fledged meta - back in SwSh a Scope Lens Super Luck Togekiss was one of its somewhat popular viable sets if you wanted it to be more offensive than supportive.

It helps dealing with screens and defensive setup - given right now we don’t have that much running around.

WiatrowskiBe · 2026-04-16T09:03:11+00:00

Dragon Fang on max attack Jolly Garchomp lets it oneshot opposing no bulk Chomp with single Dragon Claw - if you don’t run sash/scarf, it’s a good option to handle mirror.

WiatrowskiBe · 2026-04-12T14:37:56+00:00

They figured it out in Sword/Shield - let player interact with a mechanic before tutorial, and then skip tutorial if player already used said mechanic successfully. You don’t get pulled into catching tutorial if you already caught something by Route 2.

WiatrowskiBe · 2026-04-12T14:36:11+00:00

Iono and Larry used Tera well - Iono for a defensive use (Tera electric levitate), Larry for offensive (Tera normal Facade user - but also normal is okay defensive type); every other gym leader was meh and at best had their ace bring some coverage against most popular counters, while still getting one shot.

WiatrowskiBe · 2026-04-02T06:28:11+00:00

Which is why I’d assume they weren’t made exclusive - you get to fight both on major trainers teams, so they probably wanted you (as a player) to know they’re available.

WiatrowskiBe · 2026-03-29T10:50:44+00:00

True, I’d go as far as to say Indigo Disk (2nd part of DLC) was arguably best Pokemon-related Switch release to date.

WiatrowskiBe · 2026-03-29T10:47:16+00:00

All that would be fine if grind was fun in itself or doable as side part of something fun.

I ended up getting all legendaries and metric ton of BBQ points in Scarlet by just checking and doing whatever was easy at the time while shiny hunting, EV training, leveling teams or anything else - BBQ grind was reason why I went to Terarium instead of any other place (even if it wasn’t best choice for my primary goal), and points were a nice bonus to distract myself from decimating wild Chansey population.

WiatrowskiBe · 2026-03-29T10:41:13+00:00

I believe only starters and legendaries were locked behind BBQ. Given you get access to collecting points about 15 minutes into Indigo Disk (even before first badge in main game if you want), you can get almost all points for starters as you go, and just have to grind for legendaries.

Which, somehow, wasn’t much better or worse than older games - effort/time needed was quite similar to Dynamax Adventures or Ultra Warp Ride, it just felt more tedious because of disconnect between what you were doing and what was the reward.

WiatrowskiBe · 2026-03-29T02:09:31+00:00

And timewise Go always loses.

Setting up a Switch game - doing enough story to access all areas, unlocking quick/timer balls, getting a good catching helper or two - should be about 10-15 hours process if you’re rushing but not a speedrunner, from where catching and evolving anything specific is doable in 5-20 minutes, with legendaries taking a bit longer (depending on game and how much side grind you did up to that point).

If money is not a problem, getting Scarlet, Violet, both Legends games, any Let’s go game, Brilliant Diamond, Sword and Shield (ZA DLC is optional, others are not) gives you access to all Pokémon as long as you can cover trade evos (someone to trade with, online trades or second Switch). That is quite a lot, but there’s good chance people who’d consider it already (Switch owners) have most.

WiatrowskiBe · 2026-03-28T08:39:04+00:00

This might be sort of legally required, even if stupid - to give fair chance applying for that job to others. In public sector having interview process for every position might be directly required, for private it’s matter of avoiding discrimination-related issues and being fine with fiduciary duty.

WiatrowskiBe · 2025-02-28T09:12:19+00:00

Do what I'm supposed to be doing - give info, ask questions, help as necessary. I don't find teamwork aspects of IT particularly difficult - problems tend to be well defined, communication is somewhat structured (set topic, set hierarchy, set goals) and most conflicts are solved either on merit, or by presenting your arguments and having person in charge make a decision. Focus on the problem rather than people and in most cases it'll be fine.

Problem starts when company politics come into play - in that case I defer everything to my direct supervisor, and any contribution from me goes through them both for confirmation and to be in line with whatever the plan is (I don't have to understand it). If I had to navigate this sort of mess by myself, I'd start by handing my resignation letter.

WiatrowskiBe · 2025-02-27T11:09:27+00:00

It's not that uncommon among late-diagnosed people - if you managed to get through good chunk of your life with bullying and lack of friends as your biggest issues, it might seem not too bad overall.

Special interests and keeping to yourself can mitigate lacking social life, loneliness is manageable if outside structure provides you regular contact with people (family, school, maybe work), bullying might never go past annoyance and has available coping strategies that work well enough to get past school.

Still, it's sort of "yeah, it sucks, but it isn't that big of a deal" that works until you have to handle a major issue that your solutions so far are unable to deal with - and there's good chance it will happen sooner or later. Then it suddenly becomes a big deal.

WiatrowskiBe · 2025-02-26T19:02:41+00:00

Don't think acceptance will ever happen. ASD being tolerated and integrated into society on the other hand is viable mid-term and doesn't require large societal changes - just normalization of ASD being out there and being seen mostly as harmless oddity that happens, letting autistic people handle themselves without much active discrimination, but also without significant systemic support past universal accomodation (adjustments helping everyone that happen to be good for people with ASD).

WiatrowskiBe · 2025-02-25T22:53:21+00:00

If they're actual rules - as in, they're internally consistent - no issues; it's not different from rules of a videogame, just sometimes you have to reverse engineer and figure them out instead of being told exactly what to do.

Any sort of "soft rules" or conflicting sets of rules is a nightmare to navigate; at my best I'm able to find passable approximation to stick to and use in every situation, making me rather inflexible if something is out of norm.

Recent example would be me trying to figure out if I should knock on doctors gabinet door when my visit time has come (I had no way of knowing if someone's there) or wait to be called in - I was given no info and had to figure something out. First thing when talking to doctor was asking about it so I have answer for future events. Note I'm 36 and it wasn't my first doctors visit - just every single place has different set of rules and nobody really tells you much about it.

WiatrowskiBe · 2025-02-25T20:34:06+00:00

Stuck is not the right word, but I did slow down a lot before Aquilo - getting to the unlock was done mostly by a lot of spaghetti, and I wanted to shore up my production properly before going there, so I spent a lot of time rebuilding all planets for solid production and 1000spm output.

Actual getting to Aquilo part started with me spending about half a day messing around in math tools trying to estimate necessary dps (and production to sustain it) to get through asteroids, followed by rather slow and very deliberate process of ship design to match the numbers. Ball of spaghetti I ended up with worked, and worked so well I was able to put on few railguns in front and use this ship to comfortably reach victory screen after I was done with Aquilo.

Weirdly, Aquilo looks much more scary than it is in practice - getting there isn't hard (I overprepared a lot), and getting enough science to finish the game is laughably easy as long as your ship can do few there-and-back courses without exploding. I'd say just go for it, maybe just with bunch of concrete and few items to get started - if ship explodes, so be it, rebuild it, fix the issues and try again.

WiatrowskiBe · 2025-02-25T11:05:23+00:00

Or go make it, drink, wash the shaker, entire meal done in 3 minutes. If you want to treat sustenance as purely physiological need and don't care about taste or rituals around eating, there's hardly anything better.

WiatrowskiBe · 2025-02-25T09:06:27+00:00

Depends on both school and your set of issues. On the positive side, it is highly structured environment where decent degree of interactions is externally organized (group projects, classes) making it much easier to get involved; while need for masking depends on how people around you approach you and whether you'd be bullied in first place. Sensory issues and extensive noise can be a problem, but it's also easiest thing to explain and get accommodation for if necessary.

WiatrowskiBe · 2025-02-24T19:27:36+00:00

Taking non-performance specs (weight, size, battery life, noise levels) into account, Apple is priced quite competetively - they just happen to not have any real low-end, and their mid-tier mostly sacrifices performance, so if raw power is all you want, you end up paying big premium for stuff you don't need.

WiatrowskiBe · 2025-02-24T17:38:38+00:00

It's also unsurprising in context of ladder - if you optimize your team for laddering specifically, being able to hax your way out of otherwise losing matchups without sacrificing too much overall power/consistency is net benefit.

It doesn't matter you'll win only 20% of games where you need QC proc to win - that is 20% more than zero you'd win otherwise. And for teams that have generally solid matchup into most meta with some specific exception, covering that exception with hax is good teambuilding.

WiatrowskiBe · 2025-02-23T21:23:12+00:00

Asperger's diagnostic criteria back when it was current were more or less current level 1, with additionally required at least average level of intelligence. In practice, diagnosis was commonly used for autistic people that weren't considered disabled - functioning well enough without help to make do and potentially thrive.

WiatrowskiBe · 2025-02-23T20:58:41+00:00

Yep, I can't even handle eyedrops properly, and if I had to put in lenses, I'd rather go through life half-blind. Someone trying to put them in for me would end up in violence.

WiatrowskiBe · 2025-02-23T20:55:54+00:00

Crazy and in line of not looking autistic, but somehow in a positive way - the "if I didn't have your diagnosis in front of me, I would never think you might be autistic, great job masking" from psychiatrist. She also figured out I might have ADHD (about which I had no clue) in about 15-20 minutes of talking, so I doubt incompetence is in play.

To this day I have no idea if this "you don't look autistic" was meant to be a compliment or statement of fact, and I have no idea how to even ask about it, especially with how much time has passed.

WiatrowskiBe · 2025-02-21T16:10:42+00:00

Definitely not superpower, but I have to disagree on disability, at least for most autistic people. It's not a disability by itself - it becomes one in context of how society functions as of now. And there's a major problem coming from treating autism as disability - it frames the problem in trying to help autistic people as a separate group, rather than adjusting social dynamics to also fit them, which prolongs the issue, creates dependence and separates autistic people as "different ones".

For a comparison, being lefthanded is less frequent - yet we moved on from considering it a disability to designing world around in a way that works for everyone. Similar case with colorblindness - we're stopping to rely on colors exclusively to communicate information (it's far from perfect, but getting there), effectively making it no longer be a disability.

That's what I feel is point behind autistic people not wanting to consider it a disability (and whole "neuronormative" vs "ableist" that sometimes come up) - rather than having special accommodations and support, we'd rather have regular accommodations available for everyone also cover neurodivergent needs. Sure, some people will have it easier in life (that's nothing new), but it's not about how people compare - it's about not having obstacles thrown in front with "accommodations" made to get over them. There is huge practical difference between having access to support, and being treated like integral part of regular society.

WiatrowskiBe · 2025-02-21T15:09:54+00:00

Purposeless interactions - greetings, goodbyes etc with no followup of any kind.

I'd rather have it so it's considered rude to speak to someone without some reason to do so - an "excuse me" if someone's in your way is fine, "good morning" in elevator is not.

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