#williammdalton

[aroaceconfessions]

I wish Tumblr would normalize the words "alloace" and "alloaro." The amount of times I have talked about my experience as an asexual only to be told I *need* to identify as aroace is disgusting. Alloromantic asexuals are valid as hell but the Split Attraction Model isn't compulsory. Asexual has meant attraction to no one for much longer than it just meant little to no sexual attraction. And yes I know asexuality is a spectrum but this has nothing to do with others forcing labels.

[eternalchant]

@williammdalton​ replied to your post: “hey do any of you pokemon gamers have any of the lotad evo line,...”:

If you somehow don't get help with those in the next ten or so hours I have everything but a Drampa from your list.

oh! i forgot to respond to this earlier but i got a turtonator and sableye from a friend but i could still use any of the lotad line!

[returnerofthesky]

I have played three Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games and no matter how simple the story I always end up crying. Weird how attached one can get to characters. But it seems to be more so when they aren't human.

I could get so attached to the characters because I use hacks to play as whatever I want. Never anything overpowered, I just use it to play as Pokémon from my team from the main RPGs.

I feel you. I feel like Mystery Dungeon especially benefited from coming out around the time that both Pokemon and the translations of Nintendo’s games started getting pretty fun (the SomethingAwful member that was on the localization team, etc). The Gamecube and GBA/DS era in general was a time when things really tended to get creative, even if it didn’t always work out, and PMD was definitely one of those times where it worked out.

It wouldn’t surprise me if PMD’s simplicity (sort of) is its greatest strength storywise, though. It might not delve into a lot of complex themes and whatnot (it’s not like Tales of which might go into human vs elf racism or fantasy world politics or the effects of war and the like), but the relentless focus (ideally) on you and your partner is always what I feel the game did strongest.

I’ve said this before, I think, but I remember a survey once done in both Japan and the US where people were asked what they thought of when they heard Pokemon, and while JP mostly answered Pikachu, US answered “Ash and Pikachu”, which made someone (Tajiri, I think?) feel that the US understood the teamwork theme of the franchise a bit better. I’m not even sure if that was really a thing that happened since my memory’s fuzzy, but I think PMD has something similar going on. Since it’s you and your partner, the focus is entirely on the two of you supporting each other and getting through all sorts of adventures, which makes for a very strong emotional investment.

Also this is unrelated but I’m rather curious to hear about the PMD hacking scene again! Last I heard the custom portraits thing took a zillion years to get right because the games are pretty fragile code-wise, heheh.

[semi-sem]

I ask from a place of genuine confusion and curiosity. What is this about "anti" and "anti-anti" discourse?

I knew this was coming *sigh* (I’m not mad at you, just the person that got me involved in this)     I’m not all that proficient in this topic since i rarely get into it cause it brings back past traumas. (if you want better info I suggest asking @tooqueerforhere cause they’re very smart and know more about this then I do)     From what I understand antis believe that shipping problematic ships automatically makes you a bad person (i.e: if you ship an abusive ship that means you’re an abuser or an abuse apologist)     Anti-antis are against that, and pretty much their motto being “ship and let ship” even if the ship is problematic in some way.      The reason I don’t want to get into it or want to get labeled as an anti-anti is because the whole discourse is very toxic to me, people start demanding that you tell them about all your abuse in vivid detail to deem whether you have a say in the argument or not, people also deny that your abuse is real if you refuse to let out that information, some antis have been obnoxious enough to try and kill an artist and justify that it was appropriate because the artist’s ship was “bad”, and I’ve seen anti-antis say that if you can’t handle triggers online then you won’t be able to handle real life.       Its just a lot of buzzwords thrown around to make people look worse then they really are, and also lots and lots of death threats. Its just a whole mess tbh.So yeah I try not to get involved unless I see something very out of line.I have ships I like and I have ships I don’t like and I leave it at that.

[usagi-zakura]

williammdalton replied to your post: Pros and cons for Sword and Shield

Semi-spoilers. You unlock the ability to check IVs after clearing level three of the battle tower. And I am at least pretty sure you can train EVs with the Pokémon Jobs accessible from the PC, though I am not sure how that works. Like how many EVs an hour. But Mismagius not being in the game is a total deal breaker. 7.8 out of 10.

Oh yeah I forgot about those jobs...take forever to do though XD Thanks for the info on the IV-judge though!

[eternalchant]

@williammdalton replied to your photoset “i was having a fun time but then i got to the zorah magdaros fight and...”

What is that outfit? If you are modding the game mod out the Handler. You will have more fun that way.

it’s the spring event armor! uhhh i think it’s just called blossom armor?? tbh this is my first time playing a monster hunter game so i’m gonna run through it w/o mods for now but i’ll def look into some mods to add later

[prettypaeonia]

williammdalton replied to your post: Elnea Kingdom is great but half the time no one...

There is a good chance I am also in that Discord server.

If you are I’m TaemintTriskelion in there aha

[prettypaeonia]

Elnea Kingdom is great but half the time no one really knows what is going on.

I’ve been given a discord group where people at least kinda know whats going on thankfully :’3 We’ll all learn together at least!