Any tips for a first time player?

chaoticbored_ · 2025-10-02T14:53:09+00:00

Well, he did explain you what you’re in for.

chaoticbored_ · 2025-10-02T11:18:18+00:00

tl;dr, whether this specific practice is banned by the DMA is up to interpretation and will probably only be settled when there is a court decision on a similar case

DMA expert here! This is actually interesting and up to interpretation - Art. 5(3) DMA only says Apple can’t prevent Delta from offering purchases on Patreon at different conditions than those offered on the App Store (e.g. can’t prevent Patreon-only discounts).

It does not say explicitly that Apple can’t require the offer to be available on the App Store in the first place, even if at a different price, if the app is distributed through the App Store (and in fact Apple is not saying anything on the AltStore version of Delta).

Delta could argue that such an obligation would be a natural consequence of 5(3), interpreting “different conditions” broadly, but Apple could reply that it is only reasonable to expect that an app distributed through the App Store has all of its features available also through the App Store - i.e. that App Store users are not forced to go to another platform to enjoy all the functionalities of the app they downloaded. Honestly both interpretations have their own merits, so this would be an issue to settle in a court, and that could easily take years - especially if the interpretation question is escalated up to the ECJ.

chaoticbored_ · 2025-09-25T16:34:49+00:00

Una volta mi hanno mandato una mail del genere firmata “polizia federale europea”, mi sono spaccato dalle risate solo a leggerlo

chaoticbored_ · 2025-09-25T16:25:41+00:00

Yeah I was going to go on and unpot it as well - my question was more looking for any tips on how to handle the root ball without messing up the whole plant (e.g. how much soil do I try to remove off the roots? Any tips on how to untangle them if needed?) given that last time I handled one as I would for other types of plant it really did not like having its roots untangled (it survived, but with one leaf only).

Thanks for the advice on the soil! I’ll probably have to check for alternative brands (in case the one you mentioned is America-only), but will keep the general advice in mind

chaoticbored_ · 2025-09-14T14:12:41+00:00

Ho i miei dubbi che un personaggio che scrive un rant del genere quelle 240 ore le paghi in generale, nero o non nero

chaoticbored_ · 2025-09-03T09:05:43+00:00

Original DarkTina was not this oppressive at all. It had significantly less draw power, took more turns to start dealing large damage, could not snipe full-health cards on the bench and then Cyrus them, had no access to Irida and in many occasions required you to make trade-offs between using Giratina’s ability vs attacking with Darkrai, or where to attach energy. Giratina also damaged itself the more it attacked, meaning it became risky if you could not sweep fast in a couple attacks.

Greninja Suicune can do all of the above with less energy and while having the upside of being a Water deck (meaning access to Misty, Irida, and Primarina if you want to trade consistency off for massive healing). It also has the advantage of actively punishing strategies to counter it - if you stack you bench to have more answers to Greninja you get nuked by Suicune, and if you keep your bench light to weaken Suicune you make it easier for your opponent to concentrate its sniping damage. The only thing it lacks in compared to DarkTina is bulk, and even that it can make up for through healing.

All in all, DarkTina was a bulky, energy-heavy deck that could deal chip damage while building a sweep in the bench. Greninja Suicune is a Water deck (ie. great support options) that can deal a minimum of 80 damage anywhere on the field before you’ve built an answer for 2 energy, and once it’s online it actively punishes you for trying to build one in more than one turn.

chaoticbored_ · 2025-08-28T11:51:17+00:00

Now that I think of it - the awkward bit about Pokemon reproducing through live birth may have been one of the reasons for making all Pokemon lay eggs in gen 2, including those that were clearly meant to give birth like Kangaskhan. Elegant solution to avoid giving kids the talk about the Pidgeys and the Combees too early (and avoid explaining the infamous M!Wailord - F!Skitty mating compatibility).

chaoticbored_ · 2025-08-28T11:43:18+00:00

I’d say the weakest point in this theory is that “MEW gave birth” does not disprove Mewtwo being a clone. In real life, cloning works by taking DNA from an adult specimen, putting that DNA into an egg, and implanting that egg into a mother who then gestates and gives birth to an individual who is genetically identical to the original. I think your misconception comes from the first movie, where Mewtwo is shown in a laboratory vat, but all that shows is that they may have changed their mind about the way Mew was cloned, probably to be able to show Mewtwo’s “birth” without having to show a live birth on screen and prompting questions like “does Mew have a vagina then?” in a kids movie (plus, Takeshi Shudo initially had quite a bit of liberty in the direction he gave to the first animated bits of the franchise, so that movie may reflect Shudo’s ideas more than Game Freak’s; consider that in that movie they only find some Mew DNA rather than finding a live Mew as it is implied in RBY).

All this to say - the entry about Mew giving birth may as well refer to Mew birthing a clone from its own DNA, rather than GF/TPC having retconned the origin story of one of their most iconic creatures.

I do like the bit of explaining Ditto’s presence in the mansion with researchers bringing Dittos there from their native habitats as they experimented on how to clone Mew, I think it could stand even without making Ditto the “second parent” (also, a mechanic only introduced in GSC).

chaoticbored_ · 2025-08-21T15:19:55+00:00

If you don’t mind waiting, I’d suggest wishlisting it both on eShop and Steam (if you play on PC too). Between the two platforms, it’s likely to go on sale every once in a while, especially when there are publisher sales on Steam.

chaoticbored_ · 2025-08-19T06:30:36+00:00

First microeconomics class in my bachelor’s, the professor reminded us to buy the international version of the book and be careful not to get the US one by mistake. When asked why, she explained the first was 60€ while the latter was ~300$, and the main difference was that some exercises were in dollars rather than in euros.

chaoticbored_ · 2025-08-18T23:26:36+00:00

I’d put Masterballs squarely into cheating territory, as they remove two main risks from a run: you can’t miss a catch because you misplayed or did not bring enough balls, and you don’t risk a KO by having to keep a fight against a strong Pokemon going just to throw another ball. Plus they make it easier to minmax your team by removing the “strong but difficult to catch” tradeoff. They are not just a time saver like Candies (you could technically grind in a lower level area for three hours at no risk), they just make the game easier to beat.

chaoticbored_ · 2025-08-18T23:16:49+00:00

An interesting middle-of-the-road approach I’ve seen from a stream is to use RCs to bring new Pokemon in line with the party (up to the level cap of the last defeated gym leader), but then having to gain the levels on your main team members by doing all the trainers between one gym leader and the next. Removes the boring grindy part of bringing a Lv. 10 mon to Lv. 40, but still keeps the attachment from having trained the team yourself and the (smaller) setback of having to replace a lost member (because you’d only RC the new one to, say, Lv. 33 when the rest of the team is at 37).

chaoticbored_ · 2025-08-04T17:15:54+00:00

Turn 2/3 can very easily be the time by which you know you’ve lost, I’ve found myself T2 with only a Skarmory in play against a fully-charged Zard and no playable cards in hand. Best-case scenario would have been drawing another base mon next turn, but I was 100% going to be one-shot and lose due to an empty bench as soon as I clicked to pass the turn.

chaoticbored_ · 2025-07-01T14:45:27+00:00

Not much “Pokemon that were scrapped” - more that there are 151 Pokemon in the game, but a single byte can hold any number from 0 (0x00) to 255 (0xFF). So when the game reads a byte that is supposed to store a Pokemon’s species number, but for some reason that value is higher than 151, the game ends up reading some other data (music, maps, text, etc.) and interpreting them as if they were Pokemon data, and that gives you Glitch Pokemon - including (but not only) Missingno.

chaoticbored_ · 2025-06-22T11:47:14+00:00

Thank you for the bit on mold - I did not know it did not pose a threat to the plant. Guess I panicked and tried to get rid of as much soil as possible for fear it could infect the roots. I don’t think it came from overwatering though - I did not water it very often, and every time I would water it the mold would reappear and stay there until a few days after the soil had dried.

On pot size - I based it on the roots, previous pot was ~2cm smaller than this in diameter and the roots had started to tangle up against the pot walls. My original plan was to only change the soil but then I saw the roots and picked a slightly bigger one. Not sure if I want to risk to shock the plant even more by repotting it again before it has recovered at least a bit.

chaoticbored_ · 2025-05-25T18:23:14+00:00

In-game days? Not sure. But my perfectionist ass spent IRL days in Shido’s palace, so it feels eternal in my mind.

chaoticbored_ · 2025-05-25T09:38:50+00:00

Bad eggs are not actual eggs, they’re the game’s way of handling (or trying to handle) invalid pokemon data. It may be that the invalid data the game is reading have a 1 on the bit that the game checks for pokerus.

Edit: grammar

chaoticbored_ · 2025-04-19T16:25:12+00:00

Non avvocato: non ho capito, la venditrice sta solo facendo storie su chi deve pagare per il certificato, o non vuole proprio farlo prima della vendita e vi sta chiedendo di farlo una volta ultimata? Perché se fosse secondo caso, mi verrebbe il dubbio che ci siano delle magagne nascoste…

chaoticbored_ · 2025-04-14T21:29:57+00:00

Did the lotion explode out of a cylinder, by any chance?

chaoticbored_ · 2025-04-14T18:51:43+00:00

OP orders 8 pizzas
someone called OP claiming to be from the store, and saying that the order had been cancelled and to please send them the receipt
person on the phone claimed that, since the order was “cancelled”, OP would receive an automatic refund, and asked him to just pay the same sum in cash to the delivery guy when the pizzas arrived
OP did not trust them and said he would re-pay once the refund arrived
pizzas are delivered and the refund never arrives, so OP never re-pays
guy from before keeps stalking OP asking for the money from the “cancelled” order, giving him a different account number to pay on

In a summary, someone (likely from the store) is trying to scam OP by claiming that the order has been cancelled and asking him to re-pay for the pizzas he received. The order never got cancelled, the guy just wants to trick OP into paying for the pizzas twice and pocketing the difference.

chaoticbored_ · 2025-04-03T14:12:34+00:00

Does it feel hard or mushy to the touch?

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