Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

fear of* persecution, pardon

This is a long shot, but if anyone here knows how to seek expedited immigration or asylum from Brazil into the EU, that information is urgently needed by friends of mine.

Capsule version: they have credible fear or persecution and harm under Bolsonaro, and any information that can get them out of harms way as they try to flee would be incredibly valuable right now.

Apparently the pipe bomb guy had a Twitter presence, and he regularly spammed threats at people before sending his (thankfully intercepted) packages. Twitter took zero action until he made the news, and have only now suspended his account.

Remind me again what the point of their guidelines are if they only use them to perform damage control?

I’m glad no one got hurt, and at this point, I want to get as many people off of Twitter and onto Masto as possible.

Update: I need to build better missiles. The current design is hilarious, but it has trouble with anything with high mass or momentum.

Also, I lost the finals of a simulated tournament because... someone uploaded a blatantly illegal weapons bot? I’m guessing the game has a few bugs to sort out in its validator, but everything else has been okay so far.

@Rosemary Yeah. And it looks like veekun’s location database is currently not up, so maybe someone needs to scrape the older game data again.

@Rosemary I don’t see a conclusive way to check, but it seems Serebii lists known trainers for all Pokemon.

It seems they don’t separate original GS from HGSS however:
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-dp/trainers/227.shtml

@Rosemary Yeah, double checking the posted lists, it seems like there were indeed no exclusives introduced in that game: https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/list-of-released-dream-world-pokemon-and-attacks.80928/

@Rosemary Gotcha. Many ultra beasts in regular Sun/Moon definitely qualify then, though they’re less likely to be “missable” since they appear as wild Pokemon in story.

I can’t think of any other immediate examples of not being introduced through trainers in the game the Pokemon first appears in. Though I’m thinking some of the dream Pokemon from B2W2 likely also qualify (I never played through or tried those).

@Rosemary They aren’t, no. They’re a different classification altogether, while being rare(ish) on trainers because of the story of Sun/Moon.

I haven’t tested to see if that rarity applies to the postgame of USUM though, so they may still be on trainers.

@Rosemary MissingNo.

As for numbered Pokemon, the games usually ensure full coverage (if not main game, in postgame and Battle Tests, etc). Newer Ultra Beasts, for example, may qualify.

... and then I took it to its logical extreme:

I like how Nimbatus’ sumo mode, like most robot dueling games, has a rock-paper-scissors structure to its bot designs.

Paper: boost infinitely to push the other bot off the arena.
Scissors: Step to the left or right, causing pushbots to miss and fly off the arena.
Rock: do absolutely nothing, other than stay in the arena as it shrinks.

There’s also shotgun: craft missiles and chaff with any strategy.

So I wrote a bot that runs scissors, fires paper missiles, then turns into a rock.

@sashahamilton @orrery Which I guess is all a way of saying that instead of hoping, I’ve been recommending working with people who organize and exercising every civil right still available to remove this regime from power.

@sashahamilton @orrery This is the same throughline explaining why they want to go after Roe v Wade, access to health care, and LGBT rights generally as well. Any avenue that allows class fluidity and consolidation of power threatens kleptocrats.

I mean no hyperbole when I say they must be removed from power for the survival of us all.

@sashahamilton @orrery Relatedly, some folks on other feeds have pointed out the US lags behind other developed countries in measures of class mobility. Example: https://www.epi.org/publication/usa-lags-peer-countries-mobility/

Kleptocrats support cutting off all avenues of growth and self-determinism while fighting a rear guard against consolidation and rebellion. Which is why they’re dangerous and must be dethroned.

@mawr Noted! It looks really good from your toots, and is on my list of games to try!