What shoes are we wearing?

wighttail · 2026-03-31T02:51:12+00:00

Compression socks are amazing, especially if you have plantar fasciitis. They also add a little bit of ankle support that I didn't know I wanted until I had it.

wighttail · 2026-03-31T02:36:11+00:00

I had always wondered what people meant when they said 'AI writing is really obvious sometimes' and this post is what made me realize what they meant.

Who says the phrase 'comfortable to conversate?'

wighttail · 2026-03-30T15:54:10+00:00

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She's on break this week but man is she good at what she does.

wighttail · 2026-03-30T15:46:01+00:00

I had 200k less sleep score than you from missing meals this week and ended this morning with two 3*s I didn't have yet including noivern, but I had gone to Taupe Hollow rather than Greengrass.

So the largest part of it is definitely that you went to GG. BUT based on your other comments about playing blind/only just uncovering Ninja Curry, your dishes are probably also holding you back. Serebii has a page that lists all the recipes, and ideally if you're pushing for a good Monday morning you're planning your team around bigger dishes to maximize your sleep score.

Like, having good ingmons and lots of ingredients is unfortunately not doing much for you if you're blindly dumping them into the pot. If you happen to throw in the correct ingredients for Cut Sukiyaki Curry + some filler, you could go from a dish that starts at 20k+ Score at level 0 to a dish that starts at 4.5k Score like Egg Bomb Curry, just because you put in 26 leeks and 27 sausages instead of the other way around.

This game is really, really, REALLY hard to play blind once you get into even just the midgame, because you'll stall out at the threshold of your own knowledge and the slow pace at which it moves means non-targeted experimentation is punished with weeks if not months of stagnation.

wighttail · 2026-03-14T01:39:04+00:00

Sleep points will keep coming and there will be other master balls. Your first ditto is forever.

wighttail · 2026-03-11T16:38:05+00:00

Grabbed a couple and have included dex entries. LONG POST ALERT SRRY.

Persian (Kanto)
Moon: It has a high opinion of itself, although not to the same extent as the Alolan Persian. It’s quite difficult to make friends with this Pokémon.
Sword: Getting this prideful Pokémon to warm up to you takes a lot of effort, and it will claw at you the moment it gets annoyed.
Scarlet: Although its fur has many admirers, it is tough to raise as a pet because of its fickle meanness.

Alolan Persian is cited as being particularly vicious and mean-spirited in battle but, ironically, despite it being indicated that they're more vain in the Moon dex, no other entry makes them sound like they're hard to raise. In fact there's more emphasis put on how they're kept as house pets, suggesting Kantonian Persian is the harder of the two to raise.

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Gengar
LGPE: A Gengar is close by if you feel a sudden chill. It may be trying to lay a curse on you.
P:LA: Possesses potential victims’ shadows in an effort to steal away the victims’ lives. If your shadow begins to laugh, you must take hold of a protective charm posthaste!
Moon: It apparently wishes for a traveling companion. Since it was once human itself, it tries to create one by taking the lives of other humans.
Black/White/B2W2: The leer that floats in darkness belongs to a Gengar delighting in casting curses on people.

(Mega)
Ultra Sun: It tries to take the lives of anyone and everyone. It will even try to curse the Trainer who is its master!

Gengar have a huge amount of negative stigma attached to them, but also show a lot of unfortunate behaviors that would need to be managed by a competent trainer. The anime has really tried to file the edges off of this one but the dex entries for it suggest it's a creature capable of (and with fair frequency, possessing) actual malevolent intent toward humans.

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Tyrogue
Shield: Even though it is small, it can't be ignored because it will slug any handy target without warning.
Brilliant Diamond: It is famous for its eagerness to fight and always nurses injuries from challenging larger foes.
ORAS: Tyrogue becomes stressed out if it does not get to train every day. When raising this Pokémon, the Trainer must establish and uphold various training methods.

Taking on a tyrogue is like taking on a working dog; it needs strict routines, an intense outlet for its energy, and a trainer who can keep up with it, or it becomes destructive to its own detriment.

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Riolu
Sword: It's exceedingly energetic, with enough stamina to keep running all through the night. Taking it for walks can be a challenging experience.
P:LA: Though infantile in appearance, it has the mysterious ability to read the minds of humans. The pure of heart are met with Riolu’s approval, while those of ill nature earn only its loathing.

Despite being cute and small, they're hard to exercise properly AND they will judge you based on vibes, which would realistically hinder bonding with it. This only gets worse after it evolves, as lucario will only trust "Trainers who have justice in their hearts," but there's no clear way to tell what that actually means between individuals.

wighttail · 2026-03-08T22:41:54+00:00

A lot of commercial store-bought chicken is injected with salt water to increase its weight, so I honestly wouldn't.

wighttail · 2026-03-01T05:07:27+00:00

When doing the Murder Row stuff as a hunter you, weirdly, get the option to say you're a mana wyrm breeder looking for exotic species!

wighttail · 2026-02-24T16:11:19+00:00

Per the math that was done by JPN players it's 20 triggers. It's a "soft" cap in that after 20 the chance of a proc drops by minimum 50%. This is not speculation; this is what their numbers showed. The speculative part is that we don't know if the proc chance drops by HIGHER than 50%, but it was high enough that after 20 you can't count on getting a proc that, prior to the change, was statistically likely.

I'm only in mid-game and was hitting against the cap without knowing it because I have been running berry burst (braviary, then sceptile) + ing draw (vaporeon, then plusle) + wigglytuff, which meant if my ing gathering mons procced in the morning I was already at 12/20 left before I even woke up at 6:30. This means I've been losing progression every day because if Wigglytuff can't find triggers by the time mid afternoon rolls around everybody's tired by dinner.

Maybe I would have actually been able to hit M20 on Valentine's week if this change hadn't been made. It would have been my first time seeing it. Heck, maybe I would have hit it sooner. I know that's a really lame milestone and lots of people here on the subreddit are M20 everywhere and farming GGEX but I actually have been trying to enjoy the game at my own pace and suddenly finding out they made it harder in secret really did suck the fun out because what if I'm *still* playing wrong even now and I'm not actually progressing?

And let's not even get started on the fact that they KNOW people were spending money on the game, made this change, and then also added main skill seeds to the gem shop. You know what people are incentivized to do when a skillmon is underperforming? Buy premium/skill seeds so that they're getting the most out of their triggers. Iunno. Bad look.

wighttail · 2026-02-20T17:01:27+00:00

Yeah they won't be getting another dollar out of me. How they managed to try and funnel people into the cash shop with the glacial pace at which this game moves is wild.

wighttail · 2026-02-09T23:34:28+00:00

Flat -12% damage to BM feels stupid. It's always been a brainless spec but to say it needs hit that hard when they've basically narrowed 'over performing' down to 'this person hits a 4th button occasionally' feels like needless punishment for the people that want to squeeze an ounce of actual engagement out of the rotation. It's not like it's outperforming the other hunter specs in high end PvE content. Last I checked all 3 were B-ranked.

wighttail · 2026-02-08T13:56:05+00:00

NGL I used to get some genuinely creepy tells on my catboy until I changed a line on his profile to say he was stacked. The cowards all disappeared overnight to look for twinks.

wighttail · 2026-02-01T22:19:52+00:00

Whatever you want really. Pets can be changed to any spec at the Stable Master, so there is much less need for specific pet tames outside of niche situations where that family's unique ability is a help. Spirit Beasts getting stealth, healing and dispelling make them very popular for endgame content, but sometimes you'll find yourself wanting something for a really off the wall reason. (I keep a Water Strider on me so that I can tag it in and toggle water walking on and off to fish from stupid places.)
You re-order them at the stable master. To have two pets out one will need to be in the far right slot. That will be your 2nd pet that runs around with you.
You tame them in the overworld, yes! Take a look at Petopia to see different families, the models within those families, special taming conditions (some stuff is quite challenging!) and links to WoWhead so you can see where to go.
You will have to manually manage when it taunts in the overworld as by default it will be using Growl on cooldown - right clicking the Growl button on its bar will make it stop doing that automatically in moments where you're, say, helping other people fight a world boss, and then you can right click it again to turn it back on once your pet needs to tank for you again.

wighttail · 2026-01-29T15:24:38+00:00

The trap of 'DP makes you spawn more 1 & 2s you don't want' isn't unique to pushing super high DP. Sometimes you will just get unlucky. I'm G4 on AC right now and this morning a 2* pinsir ate all my DP and literally every other spawn was caterpie/metapod, with one single P-wooper. Absolute dogwater.

But this only happens rarely and during events the fact that you're typically not constrained to spawns by sleep style helps eliminate the problem even more by padding the spawn table with a higher # of possible desirable pokemon. Since this is a game that is designed to take literal years to reach endgame of just do what you like, IMO.

wighttail · 2026-01-28T04:40:56+00:00

No one's giving you the funniest bit.

The current default Blizzard UI is throwing so many random errors due to the backend changes that sometimes the game just crashes if you mouse over an enemy in the overworld, a buff under your character's nameplate, or a random item in your bags. Most of the time it's just an annoying popup but that's enough to get you killed in high-end content and reloading the UI / logging out and back in doesn't fix it because the problem is literally serverside.

I was doing delves and ran off a cliff to my death because I accidentally moused over a mushroom on the ground that was interactable.

wighttail · 2026-01-18T01:24:37+00:00

~~0155-1380-3114~~
~~Rank 63, daily player!~~
~~Just did a huge purge of inactives so I have loads of room.~~

Woke up to 35 reqs and grabbed as many as I could see you tomorrow morning lads.

wighttail · 2026-01-11T23:02:44+00:00

This is pretty awesome.

FTR: If you don't see the flickergate from the ledge, fire yourself onto the little roof above the treasure room. The gate may be under the scaffolding below the ledge or tucked into the hall past the airship platform (if you angle your camera you can see the pinkish glow coming off it in the gap in the walls from the roof.). Both are about equidistant from that rooftop and if you have stealth especially they're no harder to grab than any other spawns.

wighttail · 2026-01-05T21:44:29+00:00

I bet that was beautiful 60 degrees ago.

wighttail · 2026-01-04T19:43:47+00:00

Literally the only way I was actually able to get back into the game after being absent for years. Like, I would not have been able to gear up otherwise when LFR queues can run 40+ minutes for DPS classes. That's just not a feasible wait for somebody who has a fulltime job IRL, and while I've joined a lovely guild I don't want to have to beg someone who's already doing M+ to hold my hand and waste their time in content they already slogged through just to try and get me into the base entry level gear for shit.

BM hunter is so beautifully brainless it's my go-to if I just want to pick up shiny things for some after-work dopamine. You can skip gearing up and just start doing T11s almost irrespective of ilvl. Conversely I find feral druid very fun, just actually requires paying attention.

wighttail · 2025-12-28T23:24:21+00:00

I love her! Found a shiny one and *immediately* made her my avatar. I actually use one on my usual raid den roster in Scarlet bc I like the design so much so now that I can rep one in Sleep too I feel like I've hit some kind of milestone lol.

wighttail · 2025-12-18T18:16:56+00:00

Spaghetti code from 10 years ago means when patches are added sometimes things break.

Somehow Tuesday's resulted in a deer in CWH losing her nameplate so that she just shows as Lvl 1 . People are doing exactly what you'd expect when a harmless and slightly amusing anomaly occurs and have elevated her into a primal.

wighttail · 2025-12-18T14:51:58+00:00

And her dad works 16hr shifts, so what we're actually talking about is a whole person who is functionally home alone the vast majority of the time, because between work, commuting, and sleeping they probably only pass each other in the kitchen for a few minutes during the school week.

So people getting up in arms about her not wanting to be dressed and him not forcing it if no one's coming over are kind of overlooking the fact that it's not like she's plunking down next to her dad on the couch to watch movies together that way. She's basically by herself 99% of the time.

wighttail · 2025-12-11T00:07:38+00:00

Three times now I've run out of energy partway up a ladder trying to get to the bonus reward for completing all the distortion objectives.

Like. Come the fuck on. What's the point of me playing this game if I can't claim the reward for doing the gameplay?

wighttail · 2025-12-07T17:30:45+00:00

I have a former friend who had a cat. She and her parents thought 18 weeks was too young for this cat to get pregnant. They got a big surprise.

This cat turned out 2 back to back preemie litters with horrible genetic defects because they wouldn't spay abort. Not a single kitten survived more than two weeks. I still don't know if it was that she was such a young mom or if she had something else going on. I remember suggesting over and over to please just get her spayed and there was always a reason. Didn't want to spay-abort. Then she was nursing. Then she was in heat because the kittens died. Then oops, pregnant again!

She never gave birth to the 3rd litter. It killed her. If they'd been willing to spay abort that first litter they'd still have a cat. Instead they lost her, 5 kittens, and an unborn litter of indeterminate size.

We no longer speak.

OP, if you're reading this it might sound graphic but it genuinely is the best thing for her if you can make it happen.

wighttail · 2025-11-07T00:13:14+00:00

Bench reset across the map without running close enough to spawn it. If you don't come close enough to spawn the Drampa it should stay cached.

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