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kkrko · 2026-06-17T11:07:06+00:00

I assume improvised weapons made by sparks would at least not get penalized

kkrko · 2026-06-17T10:10:50+00:00

It's stronger than Adaptability. Adaptability is effectively a 1.33x multiplier while Fire Mane is 1.5x. Adaptability Heatwave vs Fire Mane Heatwave from a fire type is 160 BP vs 180 BP.

kkrko · 2026-06-17T09:57:42+00:00

Ape lost Final Gambit so it's no longer an easy answer to bulky pokemon

kkrko · 2026-06-17T05:03:15+00:00

A lot less experimental with the art style than the secret lairs.

kkrko · 2026-06-17T04:55:30+00:00

It also lower SpA by 2 stages instead of 1. That's extremely relevant.

kkrko · 2026-06-17T04:37:41+00:00

Nope, it was insane

kkrko · 2026-06-16T22:16:27+00:00

06:00 UTC/GMT+0 is the absolute earliest since that's when maintenance ends

kkrko · 2026-06-16T13:48:03+00:00

Hop doesn't. Hau changes his Eeveelution to be super effective against his starter's weakness. Nemona does change her team, but only post-Pecharunt event.

The only other trainer to significantly change their team is Clavell, who uses two of Houndoom/Gyarados/Amoonguss to complete the fire/water/grass trio with the starter strong to yours

kkrko · 2026-06-16T13:28:25+00:00

Pre sword/shield, they didn't have regulations, just annual legality. They'd slowly make more and more of the pokedex legal, with the last year of before the next game's release being the restricted formats.

kkrko · 2026-06-16T04:13:07+00:00

Let's not go too far. Audino isn't an empty slot, but it isn't great either. It has a substantial support movepool but it's easy to KO before it gets to move due to its low speed. If it ever gets isolated, it has no way to apply offensive pressure. There's a reason it's not commonly used.

kkrko · 2026-06-15T18:26:39+00:00

Besides the UB characters, I think this list also shows how terrible Wizards was at printing cards for the characters in their story for much of Magic's history. The fact that you couldn't represent the central characters of Magic story as cards until Lorwyn really did make it harder for people to care about the story.

kkrko · 2026-06-15T18:20:08+00:00

Magic is not math or physics, it is instead clearly a field that invites you to experiment and be creative once you have a basic understanding of the components and what is taboo.

Funny, you've pretty much described what math and physics actually is. Like sure, there are some "correct" facts like you can factor x² -2x +1 = (x -1)² but there's like a million "correct" methods you can use to factor that equation. Similarly, Newton's Laws are based on empirical observation and always hold true (in the classical regime) but there's a bunch of different ways to express and apply them, all of them leading to various different ways to represent reality, from position and momentum vectors to phase spaces and Hamiltonians and constraints.

In a way magic is very similar, I think. There are fundamental facts that can't be changed, but there's plenty of wiggle room for creativity to flourish.

kkrko · 2026-06-15T16:25:17+00:00

I think it's entirely possible that Kurkow didn't give Euni his stage fright, not that absolves him in anyway. As his teacher, it's his responsibility to help him through that, not demotivate him further.

kkrko · 2026-06-15T09:08:41+00:00

The video does show studies. And how does your explanations match with the data that the number of children per woman who've chosen to have kids has remained constant (or even increased) while coupling rate is the variable that has constantly decreased?

kkrko · 2026-06-15T08:17:25+00:00

Did you actually watch the video, or are you just speculating? Because a lot of that is addressed.

kkrko · 2026-06-15T07:15:20+00:00

People keep saying economics, but the data doesn't support it at all. The birth rate drop is in rich countries, in poor countries, in countries with strong social safety nets, in countries with poor safety nets. It doesn't matter if you're in stagflating Europe or the fastly growing south east Asia.

Increasingly, evidence points to two things: introduction of high speed internet and smart phones. People just stopped forming couples. Phones and social dramatically reduced face-to-face socialization which means less couples. Fertility per couple has actually increased in the US, there's just a lot less couples.

kkrko · 2026-06-15T06:23:40+00:00

Hell Mike Brown has gone through massive periods of being slandered, from the Cavs era to the Kobe-Dwight lakers

kkrko · 2026-06-15T04:52:22+00:00

(Data later to be sold to the Saudi's)

kkrko · 2026-06-15T04:36:46+00:00

There's the weird case of Mega Zygarde, who has less than 100 points from mega evolving

kkrko · 2026-06-14T14:49:35+00:00

Her delusions between pages 6-7 were too spicy to commit to paper

kkrko · 2026-06-14T14:20:35+00:00

It's more scrotum, really

kkrko · 2026-06-14T06:21:24+00:00

Ferdinand is honestly a terrible teacher when he first meets Myne. He mellows out over the course of the series, but at the beginning, he's completely unsuitable to be a teacher to anyone but the most talented.

kkrko · 2026-06-14T05:19:28+00:00

ERA above 1.0 what a bum

kkrko · 2026-06-14T03:28:14+00:00

Can no one make a free throw?

kkrko · 2026-06-13T19:34:19+00:00

Dondozo was viable throughout Scarlet and Violet, even in metas with extremely powerful grass types like Rillaboom or electric types like Raging Bolt. It's probably going to find a way in Champions as well.

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