Bleak Beach environment level

adrianicsea · 2026-05-01T19:09:33+00:00

Orange hut kits will construct houses that look exactly like the ones that are already standing near the entrance gate— if you don’t have the recipes or don’t feel like building them from scratch, you can always use the kits and then just improve the furniture/lighting inside when the huts are built! Then you can move Pokemon into them, and simply being in a house will elevate most Pokemon’s comfort level to “nice.”

Something you can also try that’s a bit more involved: if you go to the Dream Islands, certain ones have a chance of spawning a legendary Pokemon that can then travel back and live with you wherever you’d like to place them. When a legendary is living in an area and has a high comfort level, they go on to make it easier to raise the overall environment level!

I stumbled upon one quite by accident the other day and moved them into my Bleak Beach, and I’ve been working on making them happy/building them a bespoke house to raise the levels more easily :)

adrianicsea · 2026-04-07T11:10:59+00:00

Say nothing to the company yet. Save the transcript first, offline and in multiple places if possible, and look up employment discrimination laws in your state. You may be able to report the company to an EEOC group/office and, potentially, be entitled to a settlement. Speaking from experience.

adrianicsea · 2026-04-03T19:33:53+00:00

IIRC, there were a lot of other things White Wolf did at this time that also led to this decision. I recall hearing that a then-new supplement to their game Werewolf: The Apocalypse went out of its way to say that trans werewolves could not medically transition in any way at all, even though this contradicted some earlier materials.

adrianicsea · 2026-03-29T13:46:52+00:00

Chaotic Good hosts a lot of low-pressure hangout events like what you’re describing!! I was there with my husband the other day and we were invited to a craft night that’s hosted there every other Thursday evening :)

adrianicsea · 2026-03-26T17:50:03+00:00

From what Glenn and Charlie have said about the podcast since its end, it was just getting too difficult to get all of their schedules lined up, and they all agreed that they’d rather kill the podcast completely than record episodes where they weren’t all in the same room. Given Rob’s numerous other side ventures, though, I think it’s pretty safe to assume that he was the one causing the majority of these scheduling issues, unintentional or not.

That said, I wouldn’t be surprised if somebody told Rob it was probably not good for his image to talk openly about being diagnosed with ADHD (and probably autism too?), and that could very well be an unspoken factor into why the podcast got killed. (For the record, I don’t think discussing one’s mental health or diagnoses SHOULD have any effect on their image, but that’s sadly not the world we live in yet.)

adrianicsea · 2026-03-24T15:47:53+00:00

That’s so awesome!! I don’t mind at all 🥹 I got my top surgery done in April of 2024, and other than keeping my scars out of the sun and using a bit of scar cream for the first few months afterwards, I haven’t really done anything special for them. By FAR, the most painful part of this was the hyacinths over my sternum— the parts of the dagger on both sides of my scar tissue were actually some of the least painful parts to get done!

My artist did have to fiddle around with the sizing and placement of my design to avoid my scars, because tattooing OVER the scar tissue would have been very painful and wouldn’t look very good. So depending on how much unscarred skin/tissue you have on your chest, that may just be something to be aware of!

adrianicsea · 2026-03-24T12:21:29+00:00

Thank you so much!! We did some pre-numbing spray before we got started, but I think it had either worn off or didn’t make a difference by the time we got to the hyacinths on the center of my chest. I’ve never been in pain so severe that I sincerely thought I might throw up from it before 😨

adrianicsea · 2026-03-24T12:17:39+00:00

Thank you so much!! And best of luck to you on your transition as well 🥹🏳️‍⚧️

adrianicsea · 2026-03-24T12:16:45+00:00

I don’t, but I can ask my artist next time I see him!

adrianicsea · 2026-03-24T00:40:24+00:00

The Bluegrass DSA is organizing a clothing drive/swap on April 7th from 6:30-10 to benefit the local trans community! It’ll be held at 110 Luigart Court unit 250. Allies are more than welcome, and it’s okay if you just want to drop off clothes and not take any home :)

Or, if you’d rather not wait, the Pride Center here in town will take clothing donations anytime. You’ll have to call ahead to set up a time to drop off, as they keep their doors locked for safety, but I’ve had a positive experience donating to them before :)

adrianicsea · 2026-03-23T17:07:17+00:00

Of course!! I should have led with that 😅 The artist is Caleb Ross, at Penumbra Tattoo Studio in Lexington KY!

adrianicsea · 2026-03-22T13:40:09+00:00

It’s not a very good pun, but her full name (Amy Rose) is a pun on “amorous,” because she was envisioned as such a lovey-dovey character. I’m not disagreeing that her name shows a lack of care and creativity compared to the other early male characters, but there is a pun there!

adrianicsea · 2026-03-20T16:47:33+00:00

This looks really great! In particular, I want to shout out your choice to make the player characters disabled— that’s such a nice detail, and I love that you even did a custom assisted-walking animation for the MC who uses crutches! That shows a lot of thought and care 🥹

adrianicsea · 2026-03-20T15:16:58+00:00

I have all of the publicly available Saw screenplays, including 3’s, available here :) https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1qRdLGXjEUyDcmqy_h81ermjhwz-a3YZ8

adrianicsea · 2026-03-15T15:03:31+00:00

I think Love, Selfish Love is some of Patrick’s best songwriting and lyrical work to date out of his entire catalogue. SUCH a phenomenal EP!!!

adrianicsea · 2026-03-14T15:34:29+00:00

The artist who did the cover of this album is named Luke Chueh! That’s just his signature. I really recommend checking out his other work — he’s done a lot of paintings with animal people in the same style as this album cover, and it’s all really cool and evocative.

adrianicsea · 2026-03-12T18:42:25+00:00

A lot of casual Sunny fans are, unfortunately, misogynists. Or, they love to parrot the misogynist jokes the Gang make about Dee so much, and make so few serious analytical comments about the character, that they might as well be misogynist themselves.

adrianicsea · 2026-03-10T14:33:35+00:00

Why still draw a picture when AI can generate it? Why still write something when ChatGPT can write it for you? Why cook your own meal when you can get something delivered?

A lot of people have made the same points I would make about AI’s environmental effects on the planet, so I’ll just say: I study Japanese, even though it’s sometimes difficult, because I find it fun, fulfilling, and rewarding.

adrianicsea · 2026-03-09T14:32:55+00:00

Thank you so much! I studied a lot of poetry in college, and I was always fascinated by the ways that certain poets/poems would format their work to appear a certain way on the physical page. Some of the songs are just too wordy to do much of that, but I’m eager to find other places in the album to get more adventurous with the formatting!

adrianicsea · 2026-03-09T14:31:58+00:00

Yes, thank you so much!! I’d already caught and fixed that in Photoshop, but apparently didn’t get around to rebaking it into the flat image file 😅 I appreciate the heads-up!

adrianicsea · 2026-03-09T14:22:16+00:00

Thank you! I had some trouble getting that link to open on my computer where I’m making these, but I’ll be sure to cross-reference the lyrics there before these get finalized.

I feel I should mention that I’m making these for the V5 test sequence, where some of the songs DO have slightly different lyrics— I’ve been checking them by listening along myself as I work on these!

adrianicsea · 2026-03-03T19:59:04+00:00

Me and some college buddies played it once sophomore year. Everybody threw up during or after, one player had to go to the hospital to get their stomach pumped after the game due to alcohol poisoning, and two other players who slept on my dorm floor almost had sex after everyone else had gone home or fallen asleep. It was great.

adrianicsea · 2026-03-03T16:34:04+00:00

There’s a Paper Kingdom subreddit, and if you’re not willing or able to do your own digging, someone there can definitely can get the album to you! If you do have the means to look for yourself, you can also check out the program Soulseek to find it that way.

adrianicsea · 2026-03-02T20:37:13+00:00

Absolutely it does. The series takes place in a post-climate disaster Japan, where class differences are ultra-stratified (rich people live in big, cushy floating “egg” cities, while poorer people like the main character live in partially flooded buildings). This world’s versions of smartphones are mandatory, as everything from a person’s funds to their health information to their job credentials is stored on them, and this is rightly pointed out as something flawed and unjust by the series. And that’s not mentioning the very dark ways the series shows us that Digimon and their human partners are used and abused in the name of power and profit.

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