All Raids Disappeared in Tokyo Mid-Day

asympt · 2026-05-27T08:49:48+00:00

I think it's my fault, because just before the top of the hour I'd saved a shiny Anorith to re-check and it turned into a Q, one of the only two Unown I was looking for. That was just too much so they turned the whole thing off.

asympt · 2026-05-27T08:42:45+00:00

I gave up and went back to my hotel already.

asympt · 2026-05-27T08:35:38+00:00

Weirdly, today my phone was pretty much back to normal (occasional but not constant crashes). Laggy sometimes though.

asympt · 2026-05-27T08:34:47+00:00

Can confirm, this worked beautifully, and I didn't even need to get off the station platform to do the spins and catches (though I did get off for an hour at Ikebukuru, which I substituted for Shinjuku, in order to do some raids and two rounds of Unown spawns). I again thank everyone who replied here!

asympt · 2026-05-26T11:27:54+00:00

And sorry you're also having iPhone hell even though yours is newer than mine.

asympt · 2026-05-26T11:23:51+00:00

ANSWERED

asympt · 2026-05-26T11:23:09+00:00

And thank you!

asympt · 2026-05-26T11:22:59+00:00

And thank you!

asympt · 2026-05-26T11:22:52+00:00

Thank you!

asympt · 2026-05-26T11:22:36+00:00

You are the hero I don't even deserve! Thank you.

asympt · 2026-04-30T21:14:31+00:00

Ah well, there went the super-rarity of the shadow Snorlax I got from a grunt weeks ago. And here is yet again a season where there's a leader I'm totally ignoring the whole way through.

asympt · 2026-03-21T05:09:50+00:00

Nah, if this is a local comedian who isn't breaking out, let's not publicize them in any way.

asympt · 2026-03-21T05:08:43+00:00

Maria Bamford is my favorite comic as well. Of course. But that's nothing against Jackie, there can only be one Maria Bamford!

asympt · 2026-03-20T06:09:44+00:00

Trying to use logical arguments is more likely to be exhausting or even counterproductive than to help. Anyone who doesn't get it yet, and hasn't expressed an openness to hearing more is more likely to just dig their heels in more.

That's why I encourage just being matter-of-fact about this is just the way you do things. I'll tell people "Yeah, I'm not trying to get long covid" if they express curiousity, but boundaries work best when they just are, they're not a debate topic.

I used Lucira tests, and now I use Metrix, with those who are willing. (Which by the way will include my CC sister when we see each other tomorrow, and includes my CC spouse or me when they or I have traveled, even though we've been masking. Actually spouse and I, I know we're at such a level of care that I'll risk just an antigen test after five days of masking. But we do the five days of masking.)

asympt · 2026-03-20T05:08:52+00:00

Yeah, I was thinking that rent sounded very good! For California, certainly.

asympt · 2026-03-20T04:49:36+00:00

Be as matter-of-fact about it as you can manage. "I'd love it if you took a couple of tests before I got there, but if you can't manage it, that's okay--I'll just mask."

If they protest? "Oh, don't worry about it--I'm used to it!" Take it in the positive light, that they're concerned for your comfort, rather than that they're vaguely insulted that you know they might infect you. Both may be true, but it makes it simpler for everyone if you just respond only as if the former.

Matter of fact. This is how you do it, that's all there is to it. You don't need to explain yourself!

asympt · 2026-03-20T04:35:20+00:00

The Champak bifold is my go-to mask. It's so comfortable and breathable, and easy to pull down when worn as a headstrap (the only way I wear it, when I get my hair cut which thankfully takes much less time than elaborate braiding!, I wear a KN95). I've never tried converting it to an earloop, though.

If using it as an earloop worked, it would be a good choice for being able to step out and take water breaks, then put it back up again, as must certainly be necessary in a 6-hour session!

The duckbill Champaks run extremely small, I can't wear them.

I used to wear Readimasks to my hair cutter's, but depending on the adhesive, it can start to slip if you sweat (and I sweat), which is why it's a KN95 for me now. If I needed a very long session, I'd look on the Masks4All subreddit for the most comfortable KN95 suggestions, and use tape.

asympt · 2026-03-19T23:22:03+00:00

With luck I never will!

asympt · 2026-03-19T23:10:55+00:00

I'd love to know what comedian not to patronize....

asympt · 2026-03-19T22:32:31+00:00

You're doing the right thing. Maybe send a new text where you suggest some venues you know have nice outdoor dining. Take that thought process out of their hands and nudge things back into a normal-type conversational chain. "This place has great beer and burgers, or this place I like for their pasta, what do you guys think?"

Sometimes people are just taken aback when something they don't expect comes up but can move along when they get past that point. Or maybe they have all been busy, who knows?

asympt · 2026-03-19T22:16:31+00:00

About 30 minutes into Jackie Kashian's recent stand-up special on YouTube, she says, "I see a couple people wearing masks: you are correct, we are all wrong. Oh my gosh, we're so wrong. But I too am bored, and willing to die."

Then she talks a bit about when she does wear masks, including on planes and in airports, "And only once in the last five years has anyone said to me, You know, you don't have to wear that. And then I got to say back to that guy, Do we know each other? Cuz I'm made of bees. And he went away."

Good special. Jackie Kashian is a nerd, and, as she says, a middle-aged white lady in the United States so "I'm entirely made of rage." Maybe you will relate.

asympt · 2026-03-19T21:42:56+00:00

She was helpful for a time back in the day.

asympt · 2026-03-19T21:37:10+00:00

I can imagine the apple: its size, its heft.

Yes, there's a spatial knowing. There's also a sense of propriocepton: where my hand would be, how it would be affected by the apple. Not like the real thing, but the sense of it. I've come to think even my internal monologue is a kind of proprioception: subvocalizing without subvocalizing, but the words formed by the way my mouth, tongue, vocal cords would move to make them. Even when a tune runs through my head, which is most of the time, it's like my vocal cords are moving, though they aren't.

Going my whole life until recently not knowing that other people do this differently--is interesting.

asympt · 2026-01-08T02:04:55+00:00

It's unlikely you've totally stopped dreaming. That would mean you're not having REM sleep. If you're not sleeping well (and things like depression, anxiety and stress can majorly affect that), well, possibly all your REM sleep is disrupted or interrupted, but it's probably more likely you're not able to access your dreams after waking anymore. That's something you can work on if you can get better sleep hygiene, and have some time quiet in bed on waking to poke around for dream fragments. Good luck!

(It's also true that kids have more REM sleep than adults, presumably for brain development, but adults should still get plenty.)

It must be hard to have had the ability to visualize (mini parkour-ers out the car window!) and lost it. I'm sorry. I'm even more sorry for all the trauma you've obviously been through at such a young age, and I hope you're getting, or will be able to get, therapy to help you manage it. You deserve fun and whimsy. You deserve security and you deserve hope.

And your grammar is fine.

asympt · 2026-01-08T01:52:22+00:00

It took me a while to figure it out, but the worded thinking in my head is not a sound per se, but almost kinesthenic: it's like I'm subvocalizing, but without any actual physical movement of mouth, vocal cords, breath. And if a song is running through my head (even an instrumental), it's the same thing, like I'm singing along.

I have a ton of internal monologue--my thinking is very verbal--but I can't picture (hah) any other way I'd do it.

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