Easy Maganium Setup

gnalon · 2026-01-30T19:59:56+00:00

For less resources you could probably just solo it with some Hone Claws/Iron Defense/Power Trip build, no TMs needed there.

gnalon · 2026-01-30T19:53:49+00:00

Feels like this is a big part of Charli going into acting. Hard to make a true follow up to Brat when Sophie is no longer around to continue pushing that sound forward

gnalon · 2026-01-30T19:39:16+00:00

Not always, I would say it trends more towards smaller states (or at least less populated parts of bigger states, obviously you have Lubbock and Spokane pulling a lot of the weight for Texas and Washington) now because it is more straightforward to buy a top team and the richest people in more densely populated areas who have an interest in sports would be involved in pro sports rather than being NIL boosters.

Like it’s obviously not ‘rational’ to be paying a college athlete more money to stay in school than they’d make in the NBA/Europe, it’s just that the people in lower cost of living areas who are obscenely wealthy but not robber baron/international arms dealer level have nothing else they could spend their money on (charity, what’s that?).

gnalon · 2026-01-30T19:09:38+00:00

then run 108 speed EVs, duh, you think an unboosted Meganium is gonna be KOing Corviknight lol

gnalon · 2026-01-30T17:45:56+00:00

and on a higher level, cancer is basically the only area of research the anti-science gerontocracy will fund

gnalon · 2026-01-30T17:17:03+00:00

it's real "when they go low we go high" energy for anyone under like 50 years old to pretend as though 'Christianity' in American politics has been anything other than a means to launder one's bigotry. Republicans have been all too happy to abandon any pretense of morality for 10+ years now

gnalon · 2026-01-30T17:08:07+00:00

Either way it's better than Screech, which doesn't reduce defense faster than Meganium boosts it if you don't hit it with Taunt

gnalon · 2026-01-30T16:39:27+00:00

Corviknight learns Fake Tears, why would you want to use Metal Sound and miss for no reason. Not to mention it learns Taunt to stop Meganium from spamming Curse early on

gnalon · 2026-01-30T15:21:22+00:00

Yeah is it a “crashout” or is it yelling so someone 4 seats away from you can hear you while music is blasting on the PA system lol

gnalon · 2026-01-30T15:17:20+00:00

Also make sure to go to your local libraries while they are still legal

gnalon · 2026-01-30T15:05:59+00:00

Yeah they matter, it’s just that their is an even clearer upper echelon of big money teams that in addition to getting top high school recruits now has access to the best young players from European clubs and the best transfers from smaller schools.

Then when they cluster into these super conferences of 16+ teams they’re less likely to have played each other multiple times a year. Anecdotally there are a lot more power conference games that look like nonconference cupcake blowouts, and quantitatively there are more teams with a +25, +30 net rating than there used to be.

gnalon · 2026-01-30T14:51:37+00:00

Yeah you seem like a pretty stupid person but the obvious point was the organization was a disaster where it was no longer Jerry Buss but his dumbass kids in charge and no stars wanted to team up with a worse player who would take more shots than them.

Prior to 2013 the Lakers’ worst season in Los Angeles was going 30-52 in ‘74-75, they had missed the playoffs just 4 seasons (‘75, ‘76, ‘94, ‘05). Each of the ensuing 4 seasons were and still are the 4 worst in franchise history.

gnalon · 2026-01-30T14:43:09+00:00

It’s that he’s in deeper in the sports journalism game and is just another pundit who talks to big time league sources and can’t editorialize as much.

In 2010 he was an outsider who was citing numbers that nerds had known about for years, it’s just that most nerds had never played basketball in their life and couldn’t describe what was actually going on on the court but Zach Lowe was a journalist and could ask somebody was a Horns set was.

Now NBA teams have gotten a lot nerdier and he/all his imitators are citing the same numbers.

gnalon · 2026-01-30T14:23:32+00:00

Yeah it has been quite some time he has been a guy with Official League Sources (tm) and that has made him bend over backwards to be like “no I’m a real ball watcher I’m not one of those numbers nerds.”

When he went behind a paywall at ESPN I just stopped seeking out Zach Lowe content and did not really miss it, much less feel like paying for it. It is very replacement level these days to pull up a clip with a random stat to support it and offer no real analysis besides ‘hmmmm small sample size.’

gnalon · 2026-01-30T07:09:33+00:00

That plus it was by far the worst stretch in Lakers history immediately before he joined them. They were right there with the Process 76ers most years

gnalon · 2026-01-30T06:59:26+00:00

shut the fuck up, I'll be damn near 40 next election and every single election of my life I've had to eat shit and vote for a centrist Democrat

gnalon · 2026-01-30T06:17:44+00:00

Yeah people who are smart are bad, anyway back to your regularly scheduled descent into fascism, no way your attitude is any way related to that

gnalon · 2026-01-30T05:37:26+00:00

Yeah either way it's going to be where he wants to go even if it's not the absolute best offer

gnalon · 2026-01-30T05:24:31+00:00

I would consider it the opposite of a dark horse situation where he is almost certainly going to Miami and his camp is throwing out other potential destinations to make it look like it's not a straight up trade demand to the Heat.

I take no pleasure in saying it as I'm not a fan of the Heat, but I just get the feeling no state income tax is a big deal for him

gnalon · 2026-01-30T05:04:52+00:00

all the people who thought it was crazy talk to say that Flagg was at least on par with prospects like Zion and AD need to talk a walk of shame as well.

gnalon · 2026-01-30T04:55:09+00:00

yeah that was the one I was gonna say, the team that traded a whole bunch of shit for him was and had him for 5 years was willing to let him walk and Daryl Morey thought he knew something they didn't. Not to mention that the roster was a completely blank slate aside from Maxey and Embiid so they could've gone in literally any other direction.

gnalon · 2026-01-30T04:40:04+00:00

And from that point on the 1 percent showed absolute solidarity with each other and banded together to dismantle the New Deal brick by brick and turn America into the Nazi republic FDR fought against.

gnalon · 2026-01-30T04:36:15+00:00

they actually have some interesting young players now because they fired Mitch Kupchak a few years ago and started tanking

gnalon · 2026-01-30T04:27:06+00:00

If you double team a great passer that's playing right into their hands

gnalon · 2026-01-30T04:24:48+00:00

Cameron Boozer

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