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Woof. I wasn't paying attention and accidentally triggered the fight with my rival without healing up.
First opponent was Smeargle, though lol. After a failed sketch it just struggled. I used that opportunity to heal up Nincada with some leech lifes, then swapped in Shellgon to use Rage and build up some rage for whatever came after. It was a Horsea and luckily two bites took it out.

Route 2 Pokemon:

Rash Nincada with Clear Body that I named Toenail. I've never used a Nincada - but this Clear Body ability is pretty great ngl and leech life is putting in a little work.

Just fought a Scyther that was CONSIDERABLY easier.

The other random encounter on Route 1 was a Vanilluxe and I just got my dick rocked
I made him flinch a few times with bite, then he used icicle spear and took my Shellgon down to 1 HP -- so I swapped in my Tynamo and got rocked by uproar taking damn near half my HP per hit. I barely scraped by without either dying.

Panthera posted...

I remember when I did a randomized run of one of the gen 5 games (I think it was White 2) and on the first or second route I caught a Regigigas whose ability had conveniently been randomized away to something non-shit. That was rather fun.

Eelektross is great but man the wait for it is going to suck, Tynamo doesn't evolve until a level that is painfully high when it's your starter.

True about the high evolution level. I'd say that a naughty Shellgon was a great first catch, though lol
I just didn't want to risk not getting Ancient Power for Mammoswine, and I just don't like Horsea

Proto_Spark posted...

Tynamo is a rough starter. It literally doesn't learn anything until it evolves.

Neat-O, I'm intrigued to see where your adventure goes.

I put randomized starting movesets based on typing -- so he started with a few moves. I know Horsea may have been a better choice if I literally had nothing randomized other than the encounters, though.
He also has an ability that makes skills that hit multiple times stronger? Literally don't even think that's going to matter for Eelektross? Aren't most of the multi-hit moves like, normal or bug type?

Also my Shellgon got Water Veil. lol

Literally my first legit attempt at a nuzlocke, not counting when I was doing one on Platinum and got pissed and quit.

My three starter choices were:
Swinub, Horsea, and Tynamo.

I picked Tynamo because I randomized the HMs/TMs and I'm afraid I wouldn't get Ancient Power. I also know it'd be tough to use a Pokemon with so many weaknesses.

My Tynamo is called "Spurmese" cause I like cats, there are Burmese cats, and he looks like a sperm.

He's Naive and started with tackle, thunder wave, spark, and charge beam.

Route 1 I just caught my first Pokemon! I set the catch rate to easy so I didn't have to dick around too much with certain Pokemon being harder to catch for the nuzlocke.

I got a Shellgon that I named Scrote. He's naughty by nature, and has rage, bite, leer, and headbutt.

I'm doing a nuzlocke rn.

First catch is a Shelgon!

I picked Tynamo because I randomized TMs/HMs and I was scared I wouldn't get Ancient Power at some point. lol

I want to use Swinub, but he ice.

IShall_Run_Amok posted...

Spirited Away is definitely a top ten anime movie, but I assume TC wants shows.

not even a top 10 Ghibli

I don't watch anime - but I'm glad this is 7 pages and no disphit has said SpIRiTeD AwAY

Spark
Voltage
Baja Blast
Major Melon
Livewire
Classic
Ultra Violet
Code Red
Gingerbread
Gamer Fuel
Pitch Black

Never played. Too popular. Looked dum

Any Tourettes Guy video

PSO film

Gigabooma

there was nothing wrong with it.

DB_Insider posted...

I dont think Harpie will endorse this kind of topic

I'll go harder goth than Harpie, daddy.

haloiscoolisbak posted...

Don't even know what to say to this. For starters weight alone doesn't indicate much without height to go by.

If you truly prefer women who are in the overweight category(using BMI metrics) rather than average or below average weight, good for you though I'm very sceptical. And you must realise you're in the minority

I dunno if you have many male friends or what but I'm basing it on that

The issue about how incels consider 10 pounds overweight to be fat is hardly relevant to the thread where it assumes the girl is objectively overweight.

You know damn well that height isn't even going to matter to most incels with those numbers I gave
Even if a woman is nearing 6' tall they'd still think anything over 150# would be too heavy. IBW for a 6' tall woman would be exactly 150# +/- 5#.

Also the way that incels talk about weight they act as though I'm in a seeeeevere minority. I don't know man - there are dozens upon dozens of Reddit groups and whatnot for bbw that have hundreds of thousands of followers. I'm sure you could look at porn streaming sites and it'd be more than a dozen people looking up bbw.
Also just -- life experience? Most of my friends and most people I work with have "overweight" wives. I don't know what normie-ass utopia people live in where everyone supposedly makes six figures and is underweight? Even working in healthcare - in an area with relatively decent health indicators - I can say not every single person I work with or know is a "healthy" weight.
I'm sure preferring bigger women is the minority - but it's still a pretty sizable minority, pun not intended.

haloiscoolisbak posted...

Fatphobic... Most men probably can't even get hard for a girl who's too fat.

I have a few friends who like to consider themselves woke and would say they'd date girls of all sizes, but when push comes to shove they definitely don't want a fat girl.

I just think girls, who yes also have physical preferences, are far more likely to look past them and evaluate a person with way more weighting on personality

So my issue with the topic is implying it's only incels who reject/don't like fat girls. It's all guys. Luckily weight can be changed so this situation isn't as dire as it sounds

This is sooo short-sighted. It's MOSTLY incels who don't like "fat" girls, because they're calling any woman bigger than a 10 year old boy fat.
And my preference is women who are around 150-200lbs. Am I not all guys or something, then?

This thread devolved so quickly. I wasn't even talking about the dating world for men vs. women or anything like that -- I was just saying the gamer nerd would turn down the overweight mom before the reverse, because the gamer is probably fatphobic as you can see all over here and Reddit.

Gladius isn't saying anything that's wrong, and the other posters have slight points although there's some exaggeration. There's a really good Counterpoints video about dating from both sides that sums up everything nicely.

TheDurinator posted...

If the woman has a pulse she will be able to find someone on Tinder unless she's like 500 lbs. And even then there are probably still guys who are into that.

I didn't deny that. I'm saying in this potential match OP is suggesting that it's probably the guy who'd be turning down the girl.

Most nerds are fatphobic. I'm sure it's on the dudes' end more than the women.

Neither are destroyed.

Gooniebird posted...

This isn't for the benefit of them. This is for the benefit of trans people the world over.

Using the correct pronouns only when the person behaves "correctly" says to us - "You're not a person unless you behave."

I never got that "denying you're a person" thing. It's such exaggerated semantics. Not treating someone with respect isn't the same as denying they're a person? There are plenty of people I don't respect but I still think they're humans.
It's not like transphobic people are saying, "ew, you let your trans lay on your couch?," "we don't accommodate trans in the store unless they're emotional support trans or ADA approved seeing-eye trans," "we're all out of wet food -- we gotta go to Pet Smart to pick up some trans food," "oh, I'm not a vegetarian -- I just avoid red meat. I still eat trans."

IfGodCouldDie posted...

https://youtu.be/OYws8biwOYc

This just feels like a worse version of Jon LaJoie.

CaptainStrong posted...

Yellow Magic Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGE4tUlX3yI

This simultaneously sounds funky and like videogame music. I don't want to like it, but I'm kind of swerving a bit.

AldousIsDead posted...

All right, fair enough. Now let's try something a bit different. Astronoid are one of my favorite bands ever. They call themselves "Dream Thrash".

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FLZ0SHY3Ya8

I kind of liked the music itself, but the vocals remind me of like, a post-hardcore band or pop punk band that would've called themselves emo and played warped tour in 2005 -- like I was waiting for some rawry, contrived screams around every corner. After Snowing it may be my second favorite thing posted in this thread? But I wouldn't go out of my way to listen to it.

SF_Okami posted...

100 Gecs

I don't like it.

AldousIsDead posted...

Ok, how about:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LVfp5z0DV3Q

If the opener to this one doesn't do anything for you, I'm afraid you may be terminally lame.

I'm terminally lame because I didn't enjoy the opener. The rest of the song is fine - I just wish it was faster. Most metal I like is more on the thrashier side of things. I'm fine with black metal in general - I just want it sped up a bit. Most of my favorite metal bands are like the proto-black metal stuff that's a bit faster like Hellhammer and Venom.

dj1200 posted...

Old Kanye
"Ye"

I was never a big fan. I felt he was talented and there's no denying that -- but I feel like you could even tell a bit from the lyrics back then that he was going to be end up being a race traitor. I also had a dorm mate who was this rich white kid from Albany who wore backwards visors and sandals -- and he was obsessed with Kanye, so I kind of associated Kanye with rich white kids.

BuckVanHammer posted...

randy newman

The first thing that comes to mind is Toy Story; I was never a fan of Toy Story, even when I saw it in theaters as a kid. His voice is silly, and I love the Mad Tv skits with Will Sasso making fun of him.

TheHoldSteady posted...

Craig Finn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfZt4JRKtN0

I like the piano accompaniment. It reminds me of like, if you took that cheese-and-whine spoken word stuff and mixed it with like, Sam Hunt. It's not like the worst thing - it's just very strange to me.

Despised posted...

Jack White

I think his music as the White Stripes was innocuous. Like it wasn't something I'd go out of my way to listen to - but not something that would prompt me to change the station. I'm fine with garagey stuff, and far as garagey stuff and indie rock stuff in the mainstream - it was probably on the better end of the spectrum.
But that new song, "Taking Me Back," bugs me so so much. He also seems a bit wienery in real life -- like him commenting on records being the next "big thing." Like records never lost popularity? He just seems like he's trying too hard to be hip and intellectual -- and he's just like the old creeper dude who picks up wannabe hipster girls in their twenties at Dennys after Brian Jonestown Massacre shows.

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So this is an interesting one to ask me - because I haven't really followed newer music in like a decade, but post-emo stuff is the stuff I have the strongest personal attachment with. Literally could listen to stuff like Penfold, Mineral, Compound Red, Boys Life, Cyan, etc. nonstop.
I know around the early '10s there was a lot of Kinsella worship -- and I was never a big fan of Kinsella bands. Like I enjoyed one or two Owls songs, and I liked Cap'n Jazz - but they were far, far, far from my favorite band in the genre. Most of the noodley stuff did nothing for me aside from maybe Algernon Cadwallader.
This still sounds somewhat noodley, and the vocal inflections -- the modern midwestmo stuff -- are kind of grating. But overall I enjoy the music, and it sounds like it traded some noodles for some twinkles -- which is always welcome to me.

Suolevram posted...

I can respect that. ISO isn't for everyone. Some like music with a message/content and some like mumble raps and beats. I feel like he's one of the best. Super articulate and well thought out/complex bars.

I think there's a super fine line to be drawn there, and not a lot of artists walk across it perfectly. I feel like A Tribe Called Quest and Outkast both kind of balanced it well.

Robot2600 posted...

you have a problem with a woman sounding defiant? something about that just rubs you the wrong way, huh?

Taking that the wrong way. It doesn't seem defiant in a powerful way like Siouxsie Sioux or X-Ray Spex or something -- but more like bratty.

Robot2600 posted...

liz phair:
https://youtu.be/znF6o0ME0-o

It feels super K records to me - but more garage-y. It also has that really childish quality like Kimya Dawson or Kiwi or something -- I'm not a huge fan of that. It may just be that particular song and its lyrics, and partially her snotty inflections -- but I'm totally cool with the background music, and she seems to have personality. If the music was a little faster and she was a little more aggressive I could see this being like Heavy Cream or something and liking it.

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He's very talented, and I've seen creative writing majors and literary analysts show how complex some of his rhyme structures are -- with lots of internal rhyme, approximate rhyme, assonance, etc. I can appreciate that.
But I think his aesthetic is beyond lame. The whole "I'm a white boy from the trailer parks and I want to kill my mom and baby momma" schtick he got famous off of was coooorn-eee. He's also way too hyped up from the "I don't like rap, but I like _____" crowd -- which is always a red flag to me; I'm not into rap or hip hop per se, but I know in something like horror films, board gaming, video games, etc. I usually avoid stuff that people who claim to not be hobbyists love despite hating the hobby.
I also think it was weird how he was a heartthrob when he was younger - but he's kind of an attractive dude nowadays, though.

Suolevram posted...

King ISO:

https://youtu.be/U3HJdS9thEs

I'm not going to pretend I have good opinions on rap music -- but I guess that fits my whole hot cakes for some hot takes. I think he seems incredibly talented. I like his flow and his lyrics. I am not a fan of that chorus whatsoever, though -- and the goofiness of the singing aside, I think the beat in the chorus is strange because it sounds super Bone Thugs or like G-Funk or something to me. I'm also not a huge fan of how serious and well articulated he sounds, if that makes sense? That's just a personal preference thing -- but I'd rather listen to someone who sounds blas like 21 Savage or someone who sounds cool and laid back like Notorious BIG.

Scintillant posted...

Kesha

I absolutely hate her music. I hate the cadence she has in her voice that sounds kind of snotty and defiant. I hate that she collaborated with other awful artists like LMFAO. I hated the content of the songs that felt like an amplification of the drinking and party anthems of the noughties.
But I feel bad for the abuse she endured, and she does seem to be a genuinely okay person -- her music aside.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/1/3/AAR5BmAADG55.jpg
Hot takes abound. Post a Youtube link with a song to base my opinion on incase I haven't heard of them/I'm unfamiliar.

we already joined Hoodmart

polyamorous relationships and infertility

People from California overrate everything from California. I was vegetarian when I lived out west, but What-A-Burger looked way better than In n Out -- and I'm sure something like Swenson's crushes either.

Starting times ranking:
5am > 6am > 7am > 9pm > 3pm > 2pm > 4am > 5pm > 3am > 6pm > 7pm > 8pm >12pm > 4pm > 8am > 1pm > 12am > 10pm > 11pm > 9am > 10am > 11am > 1am > 2am

n/t

itachi15243 posted...

What is your favorite outdoors activity

lol I don't like outdoor activities. I guess biking? But it's been a few years due to the roads being so bad here. I also only ride fixed-gear.