#ardenposting

[saintrots]

there are many evils in the world (new pope is a centrist american guy)

[the-fluffiest-trainer]

I've been watching a lot of battles online lately, since I can't really fight myself for a while – battles from all sorts of different universes out there, just whatever I find on the internet – and for the most part, it tends to go basically the same way no matter where you are. Except for one thing: moves. In all my watching, this has been what's confused me most about other universes.

Here, it's simple. There's no authority on what's a move and what's not. A move is just whatever you can consistently pull off in a battle, and there's no biological or even legal limit to four. It's just that about four per pokemon, on a standard league team of six, gets to the limit of what a trainer can remember when strategizing. I can do plenty more than four things, but I don't expect Fluttershy to give me that much detailed direction mid fight, especially when we haven't even come up with a nice shorthand name for every last move.

But then, in a lot of other universes, it seems so rigid! Some worlds' moves really do seem like they're externally standardized, and the pokemon do them exactly the same way each time... I've even heard of some universes where learning some new technique means you're not allowed to use an older one anymore! If I try to hit someone with an exploding fireball, is that the same move as if I intentionally "miss" with it and explode the fireball into their back? To me, that's just a clever variation that takes one extra word at most for Fluttershy to suggest it to me, which is a low mental load for my trainer and I'd probably call it the same move, but in some universes that might be a full 50% of what I'm allowed to do in a battle. I mean, I'm sure it works fine if that's the format you're used to in your local league, but also I'm glad I live here and not there.

Anyone else have something different? I expect there's a whole spectrum out there across the multiverse, and now I'm curious if anyone has a setup notably different from anything I've seen.

[saintrots]

the amount of liberals and leftists i've seen online celebrating and laughing at the violent flash flooding in central texas that has killed 20+ people with 20+ missing, including multiple young girls at a summer camp, is genuinely so fucking appalling. congrats on "sticking it to the republicans" by commenting "getting what they voted for!! 🤭" on a tiktok telling you that multiple people are dead because our government failed us. you're a vile human being!

other people on this site have already said this far more eloquently than i ever could, but even if texas were the most die hard red state without a single blue vote, this tragedy would not be deserved. civilians do not deserve to suffer, drown, and wonder about the fates of their missing children because of the actions of their government. if you cheer and clap at mass human suffering because some (or any) of those who are suffering voted red, you are no better than the legislators who made the budget cuts and are murdering my people to begin with. texas is a "red" state because of voter suppression, gerrymandering, and other forms of political violence, but even if that weren't the case, if you ask who someone voted for before you'll pull them out of floodwaters, YOU ARE THE MONSTER.

if your empathy is conditional, it is not empathy. you cannot claim to care about political justice, environmental justice, or climate change and you certainly cannot claim to be better than the right if you CHEER AND FUCKING CLAP at the deaths of my people and don't think texas deserves help in this tragedy because of the way some people here voted. you have the mindset of a violent ultraconservative with your ire simply aimed in the other direction. you are the worst of conservative vindication and moral posturing in blue paint.

[saintrots]

"'keep it straight guys' said no one ever at eurovision" thank you hazel you're so right

[saintrots]

i just finished my first conversion class after four years of being too afraid to start. we are so back

[saintrots]

you'd think me saying "it's wrong to laugh when kids die" wouldn't be controversial but the comments of my 13 note post about that beg to differ ig. everyone point and laugh

[saintrots]

im 21 now. go my birthday #mybirthday

[saintrots]

i just found a pdf about cannibalism and corpse medicine in hamlet

i have a video essay about cannibalism in early modern english drama playing on the tv

im a little bit high

this is the best day of my life