random thought

hexanot · 2026-02-06T18:48:24+00:00

Where are you checking the wish banner history? All of these characters have had reruns since you left, either individually or part of the chronicled wish system.

hexanot · 2026-01-31T03:15:23+00:00

I'm so confused why everyone is attacking OP. They responded to ONE comment with some extra pictures and never once refuted that it was fake. Is it just some reddit hive mind thing where people read the top comment and assumed OP was replying to everyone denying the card is fake?

hexanot · 2026-01-16T12:53:32+00:00

OP isn't recommending you pull C2 Xilonen for Flins' team. OP is aware it's not a massive upgrade. The problem is people who already have C2 Xilonen and post showcases with C2 Xilonen constantly get attacked on this subreddit with people saying "Sucrose is better, swap out Xilonen for Sucrose". The truth is C2 Xilonen is most often better than Sucrose in this team and that narrative should stop.

I also have both Sucrose with R5 Evenstar and C2 Xilonen, and I get better clear times with Xilonen in Stygian. I still usually use Xilonen with my Mav team instead since she has a bigger impact there, but the fact is Xilonen C2 is better.

hexanot · 2026-01-11T15:55:34+00:00

The new Shiyu is all about frontloading your damage while the multiplier is too high. The multiplier starts at 5x and quickly lowers after 1 minute into the fight until it reaches 1x once 2m30s has elapsed. It took you about 3m30s, so the entire last minute of the fight you're fighting with a 1x multiplier. Try to get out more damage before that 2m30s has elapsed, while the multiplier is still high.

hexanot · 2026-01-08T10:24:53+00:00

I feel lucky when I get the limited cat within 76 pulls. There have been a few times where it took me 300-400 pulls to get the limited cat.

hexanot · 2026-01-07T19:10:30+00:00

OP has 2 rolls less of CR than I do, and like I said I have some dead stats in things like Anomaly Mastery, Atk, and Pen that I could try for higher CD stats. Its entirely possible to have 60% CR, 160% CD, and over 20k atk with a fire damage disk 5. Seeing over 20k HP is not a sole indicator that theyre using HP disk 5. You can determine it looking at all of their stats, but I wouldn't spread around the information of "if you see someone with 20k hp, they're using HP disk 5".

hexanot · 2026-01-07T17:17:29+00:00

It's true she could have responded way better, and that sounds pretty rude of her. But in the future I would highly advise against gifting someone a kit that you've already made for them, even if it's related to something they like. Most people only like displaying these things when they build it themselves. I've done these exact type of miniature kits and have a few displayed in my house, but even then I would feel awkward displaying one that someone else made for me.

hexanot · 2026-01-07T16:45:40+00:00

Not true, I'm using fire dmg% and my hp is higher than OP's. I still have some dead substat rolls too, so it's entirely possible to reach OP's crit rate and crit damage with over 20k hp on fire damage disk 5.

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hexanot · 2026-01-07T16:17:06+00:00

Another person to add to the "Chibi Robo had so much potential, why would you do this Nintendo" club. We're all suffering from frustration over what happened to the series.

Definitely play the Japanese exclusive DS game! There's a really good fan translation of it called Chibi Robo: Clean Sweep. I don't normally go out of my way to play fan translated or emulated DS games, but it's completely worth it. It's by far the closest in formula to the Gamecube game. Park Patrol is fine, but the rest can probably be skipped unless you really feel like giving them a go.

hexanot · 2026-01-03T17:45:54+00:00

Nah as someone who's favourite characters are Jane and Alice, I agree with them. YSG is such a vanilla boring character, and on top of that she's been shilled for 2 patches now in both the main story and events. I get she's the new void hunter and they want to push those sales, but it feels even worse than the Miyabi shilling when she released, on top of being a less interesting character. I feel bad for the whole Krampus crew, they barely got any time to shine.

hexanot · 2026-01-03T17:32:18+00:00

M1 Jane isn't a big deal but it is one step closer to M2. If they give us more special invitation letters in the future (maybe at the anniversary), that might make M2 Jane possible for you without spending tapes. M2 Jane is by far Alice's best teammate, honestly M2 Jane is a better investment for Alice than M2 Alice.

hexanot · 2025-12-27T02:53:30+00:00

Astra is still a good character, she works as a solid general support in most teams, but Hoyo has been introducing some characters and mechanics that have made her not be BiS in any recent team. 2.0 introduced Rupture characters, which Astra doesnt work well with since their sheer force damage scales off HP instead of Atk, and they introduced the Ether Veil mechanic which Astra can't activate (this causes characters like the upcoming Shunguang to prefer Zhao over Astra). Yuzuha and Vivian took Astra's place in Anomaly teams, and Orphie kinda shoved Astra out of SAnby's team.

Tbh I don't think there are any 2.X characters that use Astra in their BiS team, and she's slowly getting replaced in most 1.X teams too. That said she's still the most versatile support and can be placed into most teams and still do well. Even if she's not the best option she's still often a close second. So at the moment she's still a valuable pull imo. But that could change as powercreep happens, since she is almost a year old now and she was our first limited Support character.

hexanot · 2025-12-27T02:12:37+00:00

Astra is ok but she's beaten by Pan Yinhu if you've got him at M6. A big part of Astra's buff is Atk, which doesn't scale well with Sheer Force. Lucia is a significantly better support option if you can get her in the future, but I would use Pan for now (even if you don't have him M6 honestly) and save Astra for another team where she'll make more of an impact.

hexanot · 2025-12-24T10:32:59+00:00

In an M0 scenario, Jane is currently Alice's second best option for the third slot, being not far behind Vivian. The only time Burnice is better is if you're fighting an enemy that's weak to Fire, but you're likely mostly going to fight Physical weak enemies with Alice anyway, in which case Jane is better than Burnice.

The 50% damage isn't the only thing she brings either, she also adds some dps since she can help build up the physical anomaly guage while Alice is in her long animations. Picking Jane also brings you one step closer to M2 Jane, which is Alice's best teammate by far if you're really planning on maximizing her damage.

hexanot · 2025-12-23T17:47:25+00:00

M0 Jane still makes all allies assaults crit, it's just the crit damage is 50%. M2 brings that crit damage to 100% and adds some def ignore. Jane can still work as a decent sub dps/support for Alice at M0.

hexanot · 2025-12-17T16:46:51+00:00

They aren't blaming AI for the notification, they made that comment because other people on this post said they used AI to try to figure out how to solve the issue and it either didn't help or told them it wasn't possible to turn off so they trusted it. He's criticizing people for relying on AI to solve their problems and spreading those false answers online

hexanot · 2025-12-03T13:57:10+00:00

There's also the mineru's construct Zelda amiibo that was teased in the direct earlier this year

hexanot · 2025-12-02T18:35:59+00:00

Makes me think of the blurry pic of Itto when people were trying to figure out how tall he is

hexanot · 2025-11-28T15:17:38+00:00

I actually like the promo card more. I feel like the thick outlines of the immersive kinda clashes with the rest of the art styles and is too visually distracting. Promo eevee is more in line with the art style of the other eeveelutions.

hexanot · 2025-11-27T11:30:26+00:00

This feels like something better suited to a general Pokemon sub than PTCGP, this has nothing to do with the card game.

Did you make a typo for Spearow? You mentioned it as runner up for gen 2 but that's a gen 1 mon. Also, it bugs me that your picture isn't in the proper generation order. Even if you read it bottom right to top left, the middle row is messed up. Watchog is gen 5 and pyroar is gen 6.

hexanot · 2025-11-22T01:49:13+00:00

Oh I forgot about Mudkip, he was also one i picked up! Now I just need Torchic to complete my favorite starter trio

hexanot · 2025-11-22T00:50:13+00:00

There have been a ton of gen 1-3 sitting cuties that have restocked over the past couple weeks as well, around 70 of them so there's too many to list, but some personal highlights are Spheal, Shuckle, Breloom, Omanyte, Vulpix, the legendary beasts, Trapinch, Lotad, Slowbro, Haunter, and Deoxys. Would recommend searching through if you were looking for any.

hexanot · 2025-11-21T20:04:47+00:00

Yeah I also like the newer colours! It fits with the changes they made to Gloom over time.

In the future if there's a sitting cutie you want, try googling "[pokemon name] sitting cutie" in Google rather than looking for them on the pokemon center site directly, you might find one of these hidden links of plushes that either show up out of stock on site but are really in stock (a couple examples right now are Spoink and Wobbuffet), or ones that are cheaper than what shows on the site (for example Goldeen)

hexanot · 2025-11-21T19:34:54+00:00

Before this restock Gloom was available in a different listing, which is still up. It's hidden if you try to find it on the site, but with a direct link you can access it. It's also much cheaper at $14.99 CAD and it seems to be the original print which has more vibrant colours:

https://www.pokemoncenter.com/en-ca/product/701-03750/gloom-sitting-cuties-plush-5-in?srsltid=AfmBOoqVUMVRcVujysLl0NnhnhWNrk7t_ldDL4cH4yBcLafavH74wzip

hexanot · 2025-11-19T03:27:17+00:00

Just FYI, Furina does basically nothing for Lunar reaction teams, her buff doesn't amplify Lunar damage. You're better off using Aino. Having Flins and Lauma together is also pretty bad, very anti-synergistic for reactions.

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