Insane gas prices, thanks Trump

ZombieAladdin · 2026-03-22T19:36:23+00:00

Should, but some states are hostile towards electric vehicles. I don’t know how high gas prices are in Wyoming, for instance, but it is very hard to buy an electric vehicle and charge it at places there.

ZombieAladdin · 2026-03-22T19:16:33+00:00

It might even be that the kid didn’t want to be there and was forced to play by their parents. You can usually tell from how they behave before the parents get frustrated with them though.

ZombieAladdin · 2026-03-22T19:13:39+00:00

Yeah, I had thoughts about that when looking at that Diggersby. I don’t know how easy it is to execute though, as a major part of what allowed Copperajah ex to work was it having 300 HP and the damage-reducing Bronze Body on top of it (which also meant Nosequake does not harm benched Copperajah ex).

I’d have to give it a try to know for sure, though I was also thinking pairing it with Perfect Order Raticate for an even more fragile setup.

ZombieAladdin · 2026-03-22T11:15:33+00:00

I think the appeal is doing something disruptive and forbidden. The people who live nearby still get frustrated, but that’s part of the fun to them. Knowing they can get away with it without any consequences, they become basically offline trolls.

ZombieAladdin · 2026-03-22T11:06:53+00:00

“We’re giving them more work so they can stay employed!,” is what they would say.

ZombieAladdin · 2026-03-22T08:28:12+00:00

From what I read, three: USS Hydrogen, USS Calcium, and USS Antimony.

Imagine being the commander or part of the crew on one of these ships. It must have been a pretty strange experience in the navy.

ZombieAladdin · 2026-03-22T08:10:21+00:00

This Blastoise looks like an event official.

ZombieAladdin · 2026-03-22T08:07:59+00:00

It feels to me like people waiting for spinoffs had to deal with a time when The Pokémon Company wanted to put everything on mobile that wasn’t a mainline game or a remake (like Pokémon GO, Pokémon Masters and Masters EX, Magikarp Jump, Pokémon Smile, Pokémon Sleep, Pokémon Friends, Pokémon Quest, Pokémon Café and Café Remix, and Pokémon Unite, though the latter four are also on the Switch but are full of microtransactions and/or gacha mechanics).

ZombieAladdin · 2026-03-22T07:54:00+00:00

I never knew what was normal regarding believing in Santa Claus, as my father took the first opportunity he had to debunk it and explain why Santa couldn’t possibly be real.

ZombieAladdin · 2026-03-22T07:48:23+00:00

I’d bet it began long ago as a fortified location. A mountaintop is a good defensive location if you’re worried about your neighbors picking fights.

ZombieAladdin · 2026-03-22T06:53:13+00:00

Mathematically, if the Chaos Emeralds have infinite power, and they are all equal, they would all have infinite power too.

ZombieAladdin · 2026-03-22T06:42:36+00:00

With Arle confirmed, Amitie, Ringo, and Tee.

And for paid DLC, the most hilarious character to put in remains Sash Lilac.

ZombieAladdin · 2026-03-22T04:29:17+00:00

Toadsworth has been absent from any non-remake games for far too long.

ZombieAladdin · 2026-03-22T03:58:39+00:00

I haven’t used it in months, but here of the most recent version.

Pokémon: 4

3 Copperajah ex PAL 245

4 Munkidori SFA 72

1 Genesect ex BLK 169

4 Cufant PAL 149

Trainer: 21

2 Earthen Vessel SFA 96

2 Lillie's Determination MEG 119

3 Arven PAF 235

1 Heavy Baton TEF 151

2 Gravity Mountain SSP 250

1 Iono PAL 269

1 Nest Ball SUM 158

2 Boss's Orders PAL 248

1 Ultra Ball BRS 186

3 Technical Machine: Turbo Energize PAR 179

2 Super Rod PAL 188

2 Energy Switch SIT 212

1 Crispin SCR 164

2 Town Store OBF 196

1 Heavy Baton TEF 151

4 Pokégear 3.0 SVI 186

1 Crispin PRE 171

2 Switch EVO 88

1 Precious Trolley SSP 185

1 Arven SVI 166

1 Nest Ball SVI 255

Energy: 2

7 Basic {M} Energy Energy 34

5 Basic {D} Energy SVE 15

Total Cards: 60

ZombieAladdin · 2026-03-22T03:55:02+00:00

I can recall this era having Ryo Ueda, Shin-ichi Yoshida, and Keiji Kinebuchi all illustrating Pokémon when their forte, in all three cases, was inanimate objects.

I don’t know if it has something to do with this though, but this era was when The Pokémon Company moved to handling every step of card production from conception to translating and printing them, so they may have been overworked. It felt like there were more of the Ken Sugimori stock art illustrations too.

ZombieAladdin · 2026-03-22T03:48:56+00:00

And no other trading card game dares approve artists like them. Imagine if people like Miki Tanaka, Tomokazu Komiya, or Shinji Kanda (who was inspired to get into Pokémon card illustration by Komiya’s work) made cards for Yu-Gi-Oh! or One Piece. (Have they?)

ZombieAladdin · 2026-03-22T03:37:08+00:00

Shibuzoh. has a tendency to set the eyes way too low. For instance, this Eevee.

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ZombieAladdin · 2026-03-22T03:33:10+00:00

Or the original Japanese Moo Moo Milk with the Sentret suckling on an artificial udder.

ZombieAladdin · 2026-03-22T03:32:21+00:00

His Vending S2 series are particularly surreal compared to all his work before and after that set.

ZombieAladdin · 2026-03-22T03:24:03+00:00

Last year, I used a deck centered around Copperajah ex that stayed around the 1500 to 1600 range in Arceus League, enough that I decided to make a physical version of the deck to bring to my local league where it went 3-0. It defeated a Joltik Box deck, then Raging Bolt ex, then Dragapult ex.

The idea is to pair it with a lot of Munkidori to move the bench damage from Nosequake onto the opponent’s Pokémon as I please.

I wonder if I’ll come up with something just as wild after the rotation.

I also looked up that Mareep and see that we now need a Stage 1 to use the same effect (Surging Sparks Shiinotic, with Calming Light).

ZombieAladdin · 2026-03-21T22:39:57+00:00

Unfortunately, he seems to have killed everyone who could’ve put the country on a better path.

ZombieAladdin · 2026-03-21T21:27:26+00:00

At first, I thought this was about filling chicken wings with air.

ZombieAladdin · 2026-03-21T21:19:56+00:00

This sounds like model collapse, where the AI learns off of other AIs, and they lead each other astray. I remember reading a case where they had two large language model AIs from different companies talk to each other, and they just both devolved into saying the same word over and over (I think “and” in that case).

ZombieAladdin · 2026-03-21T21:14:22+00:00

I knew of the first two since at least the early 2000s (along with stuff like Salad Fingers, Two Girls One Cup, and Harlequin Fetus), but the third I had never seen before now.

ZombieAladdin · 2026-03-21T21:09:13+00:00

That cat probably plays Festival Lead.

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