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[imunbreakabledude]

a truly shocking number of people on the singles ladder willingly decide to switch in their hippowdon on my meganium. I do not know why. I have considered this many times because it has happened many times. I don't know what is going through their heads when they choose to bring in their slow ground type that never carries (or even learns?) any moves that can do meaningful damage to my faster grass-type which pretty obviously is also gonna be a mega because why would anyone have meganium if it's not gonna mega evolve.

[imunbreakabledude]

i've been doing very mediocrely on the singles ladder but on the monthly challenge i just went 11-4 on the 15 allotted battles. lol. like. idk if i just got lucky with weak matchups... definitely i think playing at a time of night when it's just started and not lots of people are on and maybe some of the people on were just experimenting with battles bc it just started and they don't actually know what they're doing in singles? (i did see one that looked like a default team, maybe that person did what i did last month and accidentally signed up and locked in their monthly challenge team when they first opened champions)

[gleafer]

*pokes tumblr with a stick*

Is this thing even alive?

Almost 20,000 followers yet hardly any likes.

Weird.

Anywho!

Have another Resident Alien!

[imunbreakabledude]

yknow how some people are like "oh OSRS seems maybe fun but I just could never play it because the graphics are so ugly" i shake my head at it like wow what a shame you're missing out but yknow what? i'm a hypocrite because that's exactly how i feel about minecraft

[imunbreakabledude]

one thing that bugs me so much about LLM-generated (or heavily assisted, whatever) text (in addition to the many other things like the ethical implications, environmental impact, disrespect to the reader...) is that it actually is fucking HARDER for me as a reader to discern any useful information from it.

I genuinely think the majority of AI (generated/assisted) writing I encounter is WORSE for communication purposes than if the person wrote something themselves.

like. there's the obvious factor of you don't know if there are any factual errors the AI added. but it also often changes what it EMPHASIZES compared to what a human would do. i've seen AI note taking things take things that in context of the human discussion it's "summarizing" were obviously minor or irrelevant and place them as if they're main points in the summary.

plus, the way it adds the fucking bold and headings and shit feels so goddamn arbitrary and makes it way harder to isolate what actually matters. if every topic has its own header and sub-headers like "Key takeaways" "action items" "maximum synergy" or whatever thefuck buzzwords the AI uses - and it is very fucking obvious the chatbot did that with minimal input from the human, IF ANY - THAT JUST MAKES IT HARDER TO TELL WHAT ACTUALLY MATTERS!

it's not only distracting filler that serves little purpose, it OBSCURES the actual communication

I would so much rather a human write me an email that says something like "can you follow up with John about XYZ" even if it's "poorly written" (aka brief, informal, maybe not following 'proper grammar') than an email that uses 200 words and some unnecessary bold and bullet points to make me wade through to figure out that what they actually want me to do is follow up with john about XYZ.

WE NEED TO PUSH BACK AGAINST THIS BECAUSE NOT ONLY IS IT WRONG IN SO MANY OTHER WAYS, IT IS ACTUALLY LESS EFFICIENT TIME-WISE BECAUSE ANY TIME SAVED FOR THE WRITER IS LOST BY THE READER WHO ACTUALLY WANTS TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS MEANT TO BE COMMUNICATED!!!!

(but of course the ppl pushing this don't care about that. because they don't actually care about clear communication. they just care about the illusion of 'efficiency'. they think people sending AI-generated emails for other people to ignore because they're pointless AI-generated fluff represents a gain in productivity because wow look how many more emails we sent while spending less time reading and writing them!!! forgetting that SENDING EMAILS IS NOT AN ACTUAL END GOAL, IT IS A MEANS TO AN END OF COMMUNICATING SOMETHING BETWEEN TWO HUMANS, AND IF IT FAILS AT THAT, IT DOESNT MATTER IF IT ONLY TOOK YOU 2 SECONDS TO GENERATE IT AND SOMEONE ELSE 2 SECONDS TO IGNORE IT AND DELETE, THAT IS 4 SECONDS WASTED WITH NOTHING ACCOMPLISHED!!!!)

[imunbreakabledude]

been playing some pretty mindless singles tonight trying not to care about winrate but just work towards some win badges with various mons and i've noticed something that's like very starkly clear

if i lose a couple battles and drop to lower ranks then i know with absolute certainty that if i see a meowscarada on the team preview, the person is gonna lead with it and it will be a free KO if i lead with talonflame because the person will also not know about gale wings

if I win a couple games and get out of the lowest dregs, that never happens anymore

it's so funny how stark of a knowledge line there is just based on if i've won the last couple or lost lol

[anxietyproblem]

[glorious-spoon]

spent forty-five minutes today helping an 87yo woman who does not own a computer or a cell phone try to set up an email account so that she could then set up a second account in order to access benefits. went with protonmail, because they don't require 2fa, but it turns out that while you can still make a protonmail account without authentication you can no longer use it to create OTHER accounts without it, and the benefits page she needed to get to required both an email and a cell phone to create an account anyway. asked if she wanted to try going in person to see if someone there could help her, and she said that she had, and they'd directed her to the website. she tried signing up with her landline, but of course that didn't work because you can't do SMS authentication that way. finally ended up writing up detailed instructions for how to log in and authenticate her account so she can drive to her severely disabled daughter's house forty minutes away because that's the only person she knows and trusts who has both a cell phone and a computer.

anyway i fucking hate mandatory 2fa and i think the people responsible for it should have to spend a year navigating their lives with no cell phone and no internet access beyond the public library pcs. fuck.

[storybookprincess]

one of the best ways i’ve found to combat that inherent depressive pessimism without veering into toxic positivity territory is simply the phrase “i’m open to the possibility”

this particularly works with anything negative i’ve forecasted. “i woke up feeling like shit today, so my day is gonna suck” isn’t a particularly helpful thought, but “it’s a great day to be alive!!!!!” feels hollow and insincere when i have a pounding headache & am running on three hours of sleep

instead i’ll tell myself, “i really don’t feel good right now, but i’m open to the possibility that coffee and breakfast might perk me up a bit.” or “i’m in a lot of pain today, but i’m open to the possibility that my workday might still have fun parts despite that”

sometimes, when your impulse is to slam the door on anything good, but you’re not exactly up to going out & hunting it down yourself, leaving the door open just a crack makes all the difference

[imunbreakabledude]

>Gardevoir's Trace

>it traced the opposing Whimsicott's Chlorophyll!

i cannot describe how stunned i was I like couldn't figure out what moves to pick turn 1 because i was so shaken by that

[imunbreakabledude]

incredibly baffling match I just had at ~1600s elo (so fairly low, but not the absolute lowest dregs where i've sometimes been)

on their team preview, i see they have a farig but overall a fairly fast team with things like garchomp, charizard, gliscor... so I assume not trick room, i bring my own trick room setter

turn 1 my gardevoir uses trick room, their farig ALSO uses it, undoing it. I am not sure if they wanted it up or were reading me and denying it to me. but my gardevoir's focus sash is still active so I shrug and click it again

turn 2, WE BOTH TRICK ROOM AGAIN. meanwhile i took out their other mon.

turn 3 they send out gliscor which is a big threat as i have 2/4 mons weak to ground so I realize i need to double target it (and hey, if they set trick room again, that's fine with me) and hope to get it out of the way and i manage to do so and they do set up the trick room.

i wait with bated breath for why they wanted TR up so badly - the slowest mon on their team was Sylveon, so I'm probably in for some helping hand hyper voice spam, right? (and that could legitimately be an issue for me)

who comes out?

Charizard.

wait for it.

Charizard X.

[imunbreakabledude]

there is an evil voice in my head suggesting starting up a new nuzlocke of pokemon lucid which i haven't touched in well over a year, which would be very bad for my current state of "depression" and "not feeling in command of my life"

[imunbreakabledude]

imagine maeve getting blisters for the first time

[imunbreakabledude]

i had obviously heard "wolfey con perish" as a meme around plenty of times in the last couple years but it wasn't until now I saw the actual clip from marco silva that originated it and like. i get it now. like i thought it was just a funny like 'haha wolfe is famous for perish song and one time an italian player referred to that', but the delivery is so fucking funny

[dyk-this-musical-song]

Do you know this TV Show Song? #42

I know the song and the show

I know the song but not the show

I know the show but not the song

I may know this

I have never heard this

Remaining time: 2 days 2 minutes

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

getting older can be so amazing? you get more familiar with yourself. learn tips & tricks for troubleshooting your own brain. trial & error helps you build routines that minimize discomfort, maximize reward. your preferences/interests don't get set in stone, but you do find out which ones are going to stay with you in the long-term, and which ones are fun but transient joys to appreciate in the moment.

you learn that the world is so much more complex than you were taught, and that that's okay, and that there's an endless supply of things you can learn or watch or experience or think about if you want to. if you're lucky, you loosen up, stop putting so much pressure on yourself. if you're lucky, you learn to recognize that negative inner voice, and whack it with a baseball bat until it hushes up. if you're lucky, you learn to treat yourself gently, not because you are fragile but because you are worthy of gentleness. (i hope you are lucky.)

and some things will change. some things will get better. some things will get good. and maybe you start to recover from the dehumanizing stress of childhood/education. maybe you learn the power of your own autonomy. maybe you learn how to walk away from bad situations (which is a superpower even if you don't realize it yet). and you get to choose your own clothes. and your own food. and which relationships to pursue! and what you do with your free time. and with your life (but don't worry you get to choose that gradually). and that's crazy! and sometimes scary. and extraordinarily, indescribably precious.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

bitches needed to hear this huh ♥ (you're bitches)

[imunbreakabledude]

actually cant tell if playing too much pokemon is making me more depressed or if i'm just depressed regardless