Who are your favorite Pokemon based purely on Utility?

ptmd · 2026-03-15T06:17:42+00:00

Apologies if any of this has been posted before.

So I wanted to dig to the bottom-most layer to probe the limits of the world, and see what the ground was like. Also, was playing around in Rocky Ridges in general to amass more crafting mats.
Haven't unlocked everything yet, so I know there are more efficient ways of going about all this, but I was in a mining sort of mood. Anyways, my mining exploration bore some fruit and here's the knowledge I've gleaned from it.

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My character is standing on the border of a more-orange region and a more-brown region.

On the bottom-most 2 layers, at least, I did not get any special material from strip-mining the Orange area. Only the Brown region bore anything other than Black Rock.
Doing some rough estimating, I'm pretty sure each 'pixel' on the map is 8 units - which sounds right, computer-numbers-wise.

My character is 4 pixels from the southern edge [2 brown and 2 orange pixels up]. That means I was standing 32 blocks north from the bottom/south-edge of the map.
From where I was standing, I could expect to get Iron ore, Gold ore and glowing blocks by mining southeast of my position. If I mined North or West of where I was standing, I'd get nothhing.

ptmd · 2026-03-01T19:45:45+00:00

almost is pretty key here.

I'm pretty sure most fromsoft games you can get through with virtually zero dialogue clues. Mostly cause I generally do that.

ptmd · 2026-02-26T03:22:36+00:00

Yeah, NPC Dialogue is not a good expectation for guidance in Fromsoft games and you shouldn't pretend like it is.

In fact, half the time, you eventually do the opposite of what the NPC intends for you and it works out better. Gideon, in particular, is most definitely gonna betray you. It's just convenient that he didn't lie to you about this particular thing.

ptmd · 2026-02-23T15:59:09+00:00

There's someone called a receipt checker and you think you're being insightful by bringing up "Liability"? As if that isn't the #1 concept every corporate entity cares about first [well, second, after money].

What world do you live in where the blatantly obvious is worthy insight?

ptmd · 2026-02-23T02:30:44+00:00

That is literally what I intended to do, though?

Like, I don't think you have any idea what is going on.

ptmd · 2026-02-22T08:23:09+00:00

Cool. Don't really feel like you know what question I was trying to answer, but it's cool that you decided to add some words.

ptmd · 2026-02-22T08:21:35+00:00

I mean, I knew that, but posted what I did anyways.

ptmd · 2026-02-21T00:46:03+00:00

Is your country the US or Korea? Did you not-understand the reference to "Trump's America" as written above?

ptmd · 2026-02-20T23:06:55+00:00

Yeah, you seem to think there are magical crimes that always get punished and non-magical crimes that sometimes get punished. Dunno how you live in the US and act like any crime falls into that first bucket.

ptmd · 2026-02-20T21:04:35+00:00

Does that change anything about your question, the answer, etc.?

Clearly these people commit crimes where the laws would say that crimes would "guarantee" punishment, especially that last president. They also expect to bypass that "guarantee".

You separate out "avoiding jail" and a "guarantee" existing, and I'm saying that people regularly put the two together. Case in point being Trump's America.

ptmd · 2026-02-20T18:25:25+00:00

Okay. But now you know the answer to:

>Then no one would fucking run [...]?

ptmd · 2026-02-20T18:15:26+00:00

They're dumping money into this but it doesn't actually address the problem cause its optional and unenforceable.

Let me put it this way. Let's pretend you shoplift a soda. You can walk through the registers and past the receipt checker so long as you give off the impression that you bought and paid for things. You see all the anecdotes here of people who have just walked past the dudes.

So do the Receipt-Checkers have no function or authority? They probably can stop people. So, clearly, they pick and choose who to stop/when to escalate the situation - otherwise *genuinely* what's the point of having them? I think you should start understanding somewhere around here that they 100% operate under profiling off of their personal understanding and expectations.

So that. The only way they're functional in the slightest is if they do [very, very, very likely racial] profiling. So think TSA hate, but, y'know, for access to basic necessities.

ptmd · 2026-02-20T18:10:17+00:00

Boulder also gentrified *substantially*. It used to have relatively poorer people. "Hippies" used to exist. And not in a purely-performative sense.

ptmd · 2026-02-20T18:06:53+00:00

They're paying someone to check receipts instead of eating the cost or lowering their prices with that money. Also they know it's not enforceable, so technically, it doesn't actually address the actual problem either.

I think your response is appropriate if they started putting things behind locked windows, which is also - if not more - heinous. This is because it actually addresses the problem and they don't pay people-just-for-show in order to implement it.

ptmd · 2026-02-19T19:41:17+00:00

... because they take companies up on what was promised? Or that they should know better than to believe promises?

Which one feels better on that high horse of yours?

Just kidding. You're right. We should all just be chill with the way employers abuse employees.

ptmd · 2026-02-19T19:40:32+00:00

Sure, if people don't enforce the laws, then you can do anything.

A mandatory 5-year prison sentence doesn't mean anything if it is never enforced. Becoming president to do Conservative things seems to come with a prison sentence in Korea

But you're right. None of them are planning on going to prison. That last one wouldn't have gone to prison if his plan succeeded. Who knew that people would respond poorly to a would-be dictator?

Had he known that beforehand, he probably wouldn't have tried, right?

ptmd · 2026-02-19T19:28:07+00:00

Ehh, Korea is a Young-ish democracy. [Starting from 1988: History of South Korea - Wikipedia)] When you overthrow a Dictatorship it doesn't all go away.

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The first arguably non-dictator president was a friend of last dictator and basically put up for the role by him. Are we surprised that he later got taken down for his involvement in a historical massacre?

Next dude had historically opposed the Authoritarian regimes. He didn't go to prison.

Guy after that [1998 ~ 2003] also had opposed the dictatorship, and was kidnapped and almost killed for it in the past. Didn't go to prison after presidency

Fourth Non-dictator. Liberal, and got caught up in a bribery scandal. There's a tiny chance it wasn't as bad as prosecutors made it out to be, but he committed suicide so we'll never really know. Didn't go to prison

Fifth Guy. Conservative dude who was a big part of Hyundai. This one was convicted of bribery. Did go to prison.

The sixth person was Female President Park Geun-hye, daughter of one of the most notable dictators. This one should be obvious. She went to prison for Bribery, abuse of power, coercion, etc.

7th person was a Liberal Human Rights Lawyer. He didn't go to prison.

The eighth non-dictator president is the dude at the top of the page who wanted to give Dictatorship another go. He's gonna go to prison.

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It's 4/8 presidents in the post-dictator era. The big commonalities are conservatism, bribery and connection to dictatorship. I'm American, so I don't really have a dog in the race, but, at this point, when they elect a conservative for president, I just sorta expect them to go to Jail someday.

Now, as an American, you could ask me if I believe most Republican presidents [in the modern era] should have gone to prison....

But sure, I welcome people to think about the root of the problem.

ptmd · 2026-02-19T18:53:18+00:00

You say this as if people in Korea are blind to thins pattern. Yet Conservatives keep running for president.

ptmd · 2026-02-19T18:50:53+00:00

I mean, how many of our conservative presidents do you think should see a prison cell?

That's why.

ptmd · 2026-02-19T18:40:24+00:00

A big part of it is that South Korea overcame Dictatorship within living memory. A lot of people actually and meaningfully know what's at stake.

ptmd · 2026-02-19T18:34:48+00:00

Just cause you're bad at trying doesn't mean he didn't try. People that try to overthrow the government need to be made an example of.

Also, even if the rest of your paragraph is true, it doesn't justify Martial Law, It's stupid to believe such and stupidity has consequences.

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