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howstrangethemusicsoundstome

It’s true and you should say it.

millebon

relientk

okay let's bake a cake 🎂

butter

sugar

eggs

flour

milk

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vanilla extract

Voting ended onFeb 10, 2023

dianapocalypse

kafus

please let me introduce you to NeverHappy, my most beloved pokemon ever.

i found her as a budew on someone else’s save file after buying a used copy of pokemon platinum. the name “NeverHappy” was a pretty obvious joke about how budew evolves from happiness, and since the previous owner was going to keep her in a box forever, never use her, and never evolve her, she would never be happy. this activated some feral response in my brain and i decided no. she WOULD be happy. i was still replaying through all my old gen 4 games at the time but i traded her off to my other gen 4 files for safekeeping until i could do stuff with her.

oh trust me game. i would.

so you might have thought my plans were to simply evolve her and beat the game with her, get her to level 100, maybe even EV train her - but i had much bigger plans. i was going to ribbon master her. the ribbon master challenge, or the process of “ribbon mastering” a pokemon, is getting every single ribbon possible on a pokemon from the game it was caught in to the most recent game it can be transferred to. if you weren’t aware, that’s a LOT of ribbons. there are 40 in gen 4 alone. i had a lot to do.

(the above clean screenshot was taken by backing up my cartridge save and screenshotting a battle video in emulator. however, i did all of this on my actual DS! i don’t like playing on emulator. not as fun)

i had to beat every contest (normal-master rank in all 5 categories) and do a bunch of other random stuff but my favorite part of the process was defeating the battle tower… 6 times. the battle frontier contains the most challenging battles in gen 4 by far, as opponents have good stats and competitive movesets. there’s 6 battle tower ribbons in gen 4 - two for singles at different points in the win streak, one for doubles, one for multis /w NPCs, one for multis /w another player (i just played with myself on two dses), and one for ranking up in the wi-fi room, which is now accessible again due to fan servers restoring internet functionality for gens 4 and 5.

NeverHappy was randomly caught in the wild and did not have a competitive nature or stats, so i figured that she would just be tagging along in the back while i took out all the win streaks with 2 good pokemon, but she ended up clutching out wins in times of dire need… multiple times. she even ended up being necessary in the wi-fi room to stall out prevalent hacked pokemon like no guard sheer cold machamp, which hits 1 hit KO moves every time, with a gimmicky and convoluted leech seed + substitute strategy.

i could go into all of my team members and the excessive lengths i went to get them all (don’t even get me started on my shiny competitive latias from pokemon emerald) but that’s a story for another day.

by the end of gen 4 i was extremely emotionally attached and she was already becoming one of my favorite pokemon, now with 40 whole ribbons after days and weeks of effort.

i have ribbon mastered pokemon before, so all of my save files in gens 6, 7, and 8 were already set up to transfer neverhappy into and grab all of the ribbons. i had a lot more battling and little tasks ahead of me. it’s really cool how ribbon mastering forces you to interact with pretty much every feature of every pokemon game.

and so i transferred her! gen 5 doesn’t have any ribbons, so it was just an intermediary to transfer into gen 6. at this point, i had also acquired a shiny luxray from pokeradar chaining in platinum named Nightlight, and i was ribbon mastering them together, but once again, a story for another day.

first into gen 6… getting the super training ribbon was really annoying but the battle maison was pretty easy. i had a team in multis with terrakion and a whimsicott with beat up that could 1 hit KO all of the boss battle’s legendaries in one hit LOL

then gen 7… this one went by pretty quickly but i opted to get the best friends ribbon here instead of in XY or ORAS because it was really simple to get with rainbow pokebeans, since all you have to do is max out affection and it only takes a couple rainbow beans to do that in USUM.

and gen 8! you can see nightlight to the left in this picture. by far the hardest part of gen 8 was getting the ribbon awarded for winning a battle in master rank in online VGC against other players. i definitely had to grind that one for a while.

then, she even got an award in BDSP for being a pokemon originating from the original diamond/pearl/platinum games, which was really cool.

oh, and since i had cloned neverhappy back in gen 4 with a glitch so that i would always have a copy of her in her origin games, i was able to take this neat picture! how the times have changed LMAO

luckily she was even a part of PLA’s roster and i was able to take a picture with her there, too… which actually might end up being important since there’s an invisible flag somewhere in the game’s code that gets turned on when you take a picture with your pokemon in the photo studio, which could potentially become a ribbon in the future in another game.

so, trainer Platina from 2016, you were wrong! NeverHappy is in fact happy now and has done more than most people’s pokemon have seen in their entire lifetime. she is my most cherished pokemon and i love her more than i love myself. i think i would die for her

i abbreviated this story a lot because i didn’t want to make this post longer than it already was but i was randomly inspired to talk about this today since SV is coming out soon and there will be more ribbons to collect for any of my ribbon masters that can be transferred into SV, which got me thinking about her. my journey with ribbon mastering has taught me more about pokemon games than any normal person should ever know and if you were interested in any details i left out or how i accomplished certain ribbons (including battle frontier strategies) feel free to shoot me an ask! :D i love talking about pokemon at any time any day of the week.

depsidase

pkmnprofloblolly

yewsoup

You have no idea how hard this pummelled into my brain. Because It's not just Froslass and Yamask that support this. There's several ghosts that are human souls departed and become ghost types specifically!! And they can be divided into two types:

Type 1: Amalgams Combinations of many souls, bits of souls, or the emotions of the departed. Such as Grudges. These bits of Souls may include fragments stolen from victim's Souls.

Amalgams Include, but are not limited to: Sandyghast, Spiritomb, and Drifloon.

Conclusion: Unless contained by something, a collection of souls generally becomes an unidentifyable mass, swirling shape, or an orb. This often reflects in vessels somewhat as well.

Type 2: Single Souls Some ghost pokemon are one soul turned into a pokemon. These pokemon often have some kind of vessel their soul is anchored to, but what forms they take can still provide insight into the appearance of the human Soul.

Single Souls Include, but are not limited to: Froslass, Yamask, Hondege, and Phantump.

Conclusion: Human Souls are likely a shape similar to Figure A. Though it is likely they have head protrusions and vary in visual features, due to everyone being Different. (Figure B.) It is debated whether or not human Souls would have eyes (Figure B.) due to the fact humans have eyes already.

Figure A (relatively interchangable with the image at the top of this post):

The most barebones shape of a theoretical human soul. It looks like a stripped down yamask- missing the head spike on top, and it's arms are more like fins. It is not holding a mask.

Figure B:

The theoretical soul of a person- including eyes. It looks like a Yamask, but with a pair of horns on the top of it's head, and a cloth-like appendage replacing the "tail" that would normally hold a Yamask's mask. It does not, of course, possess a mask.

Honorary mentions for both types of ghosts bc they didn't fit on the images and may not be as fitting include:

The Gastly line in Amalgams but especially Gastly.

Pumpkaboo and Gourgeist in Single Souls because supposedly they contain A spirit (unknown if it's human or not as the pokedex entries do not mention it) that isn't one they spirit off to the afterlife- supposedly it's THEIR spirit. And. Look at Gourgeist.

It fits the trend in the way it has arms coming from it's head and that sort of triad shape. Pumpkaboo does as well, but it's less obvious. Oddities to their shape can be excused by the fact they seem to be using pumpkins as vessels.

Usually evolution pulls pokemon away from the baseline, it seems. As they are pulled more into being pokemon and less... raw. But this is not a hard rule- especially as evidenced by froslass.

Though that could be due to a human Soul latching onto a snorunt after passing. Leading to Froslass' ghost type that isn't shared by any other members of it's line. The Hisuian pokedex specifically calls Froslass inhabited by the spirit of a deceased woman. Lending credit to this theory.

But it is still something to think about in general. How Evolution effects these things. Especially since one could argue human/humanoid features appearing in evolutions due to pokemon being exposed to or collecting fragments of human souls. At least- In ghost types :)

doubleca5t

“BDSM is sex for autistic people” post is funny to me because me and my bf realized that we’re both lapsed Catholics and to us it’s more like “BDSM is catholicism for gay people”

Oh the Catholicism/BDSM overlap might be even stronger than the autism/BDSM overlap

doubleca5t

divine-rights-of-king

How dare you satanists involve the Catholic faith in your rituals. You won’t be turned on when the devil puts you to the lash for your crimes against God.

cryptotheism

Hey now, you don't know that for sure

brightlotusmoon

thebuffyfiles

dormouseking

This is what being over 25 on this website feels like

I've been told so often that I'm a good GM, or even someone's favorite GM that I've become convinced that I don't actually have friends and everyone is just dealing with me for good dnd.

it doesn't help that a friend of mine joked about this the other day

fremulon

when someone asks my political views

minkhole

whitepeopletwitter

injuries-in-dust

Fun Fact, thats, more or less, something that wealthy people in China and Japan did, they were called “musical floorboards.” Designed to squeak when stood upon. A person could make noise all the way down a corridor.

The residents and servants knew which floorboards made a sound and avoided them. But a burglar, or assassin didn’t. If you heard the creaking of floorboards, you knew danger was coming.

Even better, despite what movies may show, a lot of the old west was founded by Chinese immigrants, so there could have been carpenters around who knew how to make the musical floorboards!

apocalypticvalraven

They were also called Nightingale Floors, and looking up to make sure I had the right term, I found they were super clever! They were more than just ill-fit boards or whatever makes floors creak normally, they actually used little metal bars under the boards placed into small holes in the boards to cause the creak.