remember the mirage island shit in pokemon r/s/e how fucked was that nonsense
you had to talk to an old man once per day. then the game would generate 2 random number bytes. those bytes would have to both match the also random and unseeable personality values of one of your party pokemon. assuming you had a full party of 6 that was roughly a 1/10000 chance. thats rarer than finding a shiny. and this wasn’t once per random encounter this was once per day. this was the only way to find liechi berries and get gold pokeblocks
this literally sounds like some fake forum post from 2004 but it was 100% real they really put this in the game un fucking believable
between this, feebas, and the regis im beginning to think the fucking riddler played a part in the development of r/s/e
For those who are unaware, Feebas could only be found in one location by fishing in a pool of water. However there are 400 tiles of water, and only 6 random tiles will allow you to fish up a Feebas. These tiles are randomly generated when you begin the game so they differ between all other players.
The Regi’s, (Regirock, Regice and Registeel), all had a puzzle to unlock their domain. Written in Brallie, in some hidden caves. The puzzles required you to:
Find the Pokemon Relicanth and Wailord and have them in the first and last slots of your party. (In Emerald version these instructions were reversed, Wailord first, Relicanth last.) This unlocks the other 3 puzzles.
For Regice: Wait 2 minutes with the game on without moving your player. (In Emerald the instructions had you run a lap of the room while touching the outer wall.)
For Regirock: The instructions had you move right twice, then down twice, then have a pokemon use the move Strength. (In Emerald it was left twice, down twice and then Rock Smash instead.)
For Registeel: Walk to the center of the room and have a Pokemon use the move Fly, which is a move that would usually let you fast travel around the map, and doesn’t work indoors except for this one single puzzle room. (In Emerald Version, they had you use the move Flash instead.)
Footnote: There was also a misprint in the original Ruby Sapphire Guidebook which showed the Pokemon Trapinch as having no evolutions, making the Vibrava and Flygon unobtainable to those who didn’t accidentally levelup Trapinch until it evolved seemingly for no reason.
You forgot a bit that makes the whole Feebas thing even crazier – there was a way to ‘reshuffle’ the Feebas spots on Route 119 … by changing a trendy saying on a small island town on the other end of the region, when nothing in the game ever told you this. But hey, never change the saying, never change the Feebas tiles. right?
Well, Feebas was worse in DPPt, if you can believe it
It was only found in underground lake under Mt Coronet (bad) that is perpetually foggy (worse) on 4 random tiles in the whole room (oh come on) that can have other Pokemon in (seriously?!) of 528 fishable tiles (you’re having a laugh, right?)
And unlike RSE, where the tiles only reshuffle when you change the trendy saying, in DPPt? They randomise daily.
Every. Single. Day.
The only consolation was that the game was rigged that there would be a guaranteed Feebas tile every 132 tiles in the room, as categorised from left-to-right, then top-to-bottom. But then, nothing in-game tells you that.
More gems from RSE!
What’s that weird space after Ninjask in the Pokedex? I can’t find it anywhere, and no-one uses it. Turns out it’s Shedinja, a secret bonus Pokemon. You can only get it by evolving a Nincada with a spare space in your party (and, from Gen IV onwards, a spare Pokeball in your bag). Good luck figuring that out by yourself, or alternatively, figuring out where that weird cicada angel with 1HP came from.
Why won’t Feebas evolve?! I’ve tried the Water Stone, max happiness, day, night, levelling, nothing’s happening! … yeeaahh turns out you need to max out its Beauty stat. A CONTEST STAT. FROM AN OPTIONAL SIDE CHALLENGE. So even if you found the useless, ugly fish only marginally better than Magikarp, good luck realising that’s how it evolves. Also, Pokemon can only eat so many Pokeblocks in this game, so they’d better all be good ones.Say goodbye to all your good berries!
Speaking of Berries, how to get the super-rare Berries from the Berry Master’s wife? Well, the passwords are GREAT BATTLE for the best Spicy Berry, CHALLENGE CONTEST for Dry, OVERWHELMING LATIAS for Sweet, COOL LATIOS for Bitter, and SUPER HUSTLE for Sour. LATIAS and LATIOS can only be unlocked after seeing them, and surprise! you can only get one of them in each game (even in Emerald, though at least you get a choice) and SUPER and CONTEST are only attained after beating the Elite Four. Also, you can only get one of each from the old lady – you want more, you’ll have to grow them damn things the hard way, and they take 72 in-game hours to fruit, and this is a GBA, so no internal clock.
What’s that? Another missing space in the Pokedex? Between Tropius and Absol? Well, it might be a Tropius evolution … but it’s not. Regrettably.. It’s Chimecho, the Wind Chime Pokemon. It’s about as useful as one too. Its moveset is support almost entirely, its stats are such garbage even basic Starters can take it on with no worries (such that it got a whole 30-point boost in Gen VII … and it’s still awful!), and pure-Psychic is no longer a game-winning trump card. It’s only found in one location, the summit of Mt Pyre (where you were for all of about 5 minutes dealing with the villainous team), with a 2% encounter rate. And as with Shedinja, no other trainer in the game owns one, so to only way to see it is to hunt it down yourself. Mercifully, later games starting with DPPt made it possible to see every Pokemon in the Pokedex just with Trainers, scripted encounters, and other sources like pictures in books, with the exception of Legendary Pokemon.
BONUS ROUND! ORAS VERSION!!
Wanna get Regigigas? Well, today’s your lucky day, sunshine! All you gotta do is:
a) navigate a long and confusing maze of one-way currents b) pack a Pokemon with Dive (preferably Wailord and/or Relicanth) c) deal with the aforementioned Braille puzzles d) catch 3 powerful Legendary Pokemon, add to party e) Go back to the Sealed Cavern, with your shiny new Regis in tow, ready to reveal a way to Regigigas!
Seems logical, right? Wait, why is nothing happening?
Oh, right. So despite all logic, you don’t get Regigigas at the hub cave of the whole mystery. Scratch that last, hang on …
e) Go back to the Island Cave … where you caught … Regice … seems legit f) Catch Regigi- huh?!
What d’you mean it’s not there?! Oh, I see! You missed a step, hang on …
f) Make sure your Regice in particular is nicknamed! (don’t ask me I don’t know) g) Now we can catch wait no no we can’t
Yeah no Regigigas still ain’t here. Are we missing another step?
g) Give Regice a cold-related item to hold (e.g.: Snowball, Never-Melt Ice, Icy Rock, or Casteliacone) h) Now we can deal with this big bastard, but to be honest no reward is worth this
Hear that? That is the sound of thousands of 3DS systems being propelled at high velocity across rooms
I honestly think this is all a big part of why Hoenn is my favorite region. Remember all the wild Gen I rumors about Mewthree or Bill’s secret garden or Pokegods or whatever? See, this was the 90s, when the internet was new and sites like GameFAQs didn’t exist, and ROM hacking wasn’t a thing at all. Long story short, rumors spread easily and were hard to disprove. After all, we were young and had no idea how video games actually worked, so it was pretty much like magic to us. Anything could theoretically be possible, no matter how fucking ridiculous it sounded.
So you have a bunch of gullible but extremely enthusiastic children, no fact-checking, and the tiniest grain of truth (Missingno) to lend fuel to the rumors. The rumor mill was an enormous pillar of the Pokemon fandom. Even if you knew it was all bullshit, you’d still participate in it by making up parody rumors that followed the same general formula.
Flash forward to 2003, and Pokemon wasn’t cool anymore. I knew by now that none of the childhood tall tales were true, but I was still young and naive enough to trust a lot of what I read on the internet, and the fandom was still pretty far off from being able to hack into the games and drag all their secrets into the open. So when Ruby and Sapphire came out, rumors started swirling around on the internet again, but this time some of them were true. And since none of my peers played (at least not openly), the only way to prove or disprove anything was to uncover the truth myself. It felt magical, for lack of a better word. And I was always so proud of myself when I got to the bottom of a particular mystery.
The internet and the fandom have both advanced to a point where there can’t ever be anything like that again.
“Get in the godamned ship! Everythings on a cob! The whole planet’s on a cob!”
ok i’m fucking screaming my friend found this on amazon and apparently it’s like a whole niche and
@sommerrev You and Caitlin need all of these for the kitchen
holy shit
I want to collect Foodimals
They’re called “Home Grown” figurines and I used to admire them all the time in whatever stores carried them. You’re all missing some of the very coolest:
accepting that nobody will ever be perfect, educating the people who are willing to listen, and encouraging them to grow and learn from their mistakes, is IN
WHY ARE PEOPLE LINKING FIDGET SPINNERS IN THE NOTES
anyway what i was going to say before that is that i don’t trust people who make these kinds of posts, like at all, because even if it sounds pretty reasonable, ops of posts like “stop black and white morality/callout culture/witch hunts/being mean/whatever” has almost always done something
anyone who wants to look for dirt on me is welcome to try. i have nothing to hide.
The fidget spinner commenters are probably bots which comment on popular posts or posts with the word “trend” in so they can sell spinners.
But anyway: people being pro-black-and-white morality are the ones I don’t trust because they believe that they’re somehow more morally superior than everyone else.
Morality isn’t a one-sided thing, it’s an individual set of beliefs that are the result of our cultures, religions, education, and experiences. That’s why there’s so much discussion about the ethics involved in so many things: people on each side of the argument believe that they’re the ones who’re most ethical.
Think of it like this: most of us believe hurting people/animals is wrong overall. However, if needed, many of us would use violence to protect ourselves. Many others might never raise a hand to defend themselves, even if their lives were in danger.
Neither groups are more ethically correct than the other, but each
chooses to act the way they do because of their individual beliefs.
Black and white morality says that either violence is always okay when necessary, or that violence is always wrong, and therefore it’s a refusal to acknowledge the individual’s beliefs in the matter. Morality doesn’t have a single correct side, it has correct sides on a case by case basis, so understanding that things like this aren’t always going to be black and white is the best way of talking about morality/ethics. (if you want a more thorough example, the Heinz Dilemma is a good breakdown of some different stages of moral reasoning; i also used ethics and morals interchangeably though in some contexts they’re different things)
We all have the ability to progress in our understanding of right from wrong, so maybe if you honestly believe someone’s doing something wrong, try educating them on what they’re done wrong so that they actually stop doing those ‘somethings’… you know, kinda like what the OP was trying to say in the first place?
U gotta understand that SPECIFICALLY the phrase “black and white morality” or “black and white thinking” is hugely loaded with ableism in this context, and that’s no accident esp taking into account what @normanbates said – what better way to reprimand victims/supporters of victims than essentially call them crazy??
There are ways to encourage learning and compassion to those still learning without pushing this nasty ableist shit. Use a different word. If you aren’t specifically attacking ppl who view things in “black and white” (I.e. ppl w/ PDs), then you can use another word.
First of all I wanna apologize to my followers, because I know y’all didn’t sign up for a bunch of fuckening discourse. But I’m getting real sick and tired of this.
I’ve had a lot of people accuse me of being ableist for this post, specifically against autistics and people with BPD. I’m autistic and have BPD. This is something I struggle with myself. But I also recognize that it’s a problem, and that I am capable of doing something about it. I’m working on it in therapy. I’m not saying it’s fucking easy, because it’s not, but it also isn’t something where I can just say “this is the way I am and we all gotta deal with it”. If you have a personality disorder or neurotype that predisposes you to this way of thinking, it just means you have to work harder at it than others.
Also, what the fuck do you mean by saying “black and white” is ableist phrasing? It’s not used specifically to attack neurodivergent people. It’s literally what this kind of thinking is called, no matter who’s doing it. If I wanted to attack people who split, I would have specifically said splitting. But that wasn’t what I set out to do. I made the original post because there’s a disturbing trend on social media sites, especially left-leaning ones like Tumblr, of attacking people who say anything that’s even the slightest bit problematic (or something that can be misconstrued as such), without taking any sort of context or personal circumstances into consideration. Kind of like you just did with me. It’s a culture of no mercy, no forgiveness, guilty-until-proven-innocent that kills a lot of productive discussions before they can even start and often just punishes people for literally not knowing better.
I didn’t even want this post to become popular. I was venting my frustrations and for some reason people kept reblogging it.
hey so protip if you have abusive parents and need to get around the house as quietly as possible, stay close to furniture and other heavy stuff because the floor is settled there and it’s less likely to creak
socks are quieter than bare feet on tile/wood and for the love of god don’t wear slippers/shoes if you can help it
climbing ON the furniture will disrupt the pattern of your footsteps and make it harder to hear where you are in the house
crawling will do the same and if you get caught crawling you can pretend you fell
the floor near the wall can be really loud if the floorboards/carpet is old and not completely flush to the wall
do NOT attempt to use a rolling chair to travel without footsteps. they are extremely loud and hard to steer
Also. Breath with your mouth and not your nose. Your nose will whistle. Trust me. If you need to get into your fridge, jab your finger into the rubber part that seals the door closed and create a tiny airway. This will prevent the suction noise when you open the door. When drinking liquids (juice mostly), pour out your glass (or chug from the jug) and replace what you drank with water. If it was full enough in the beginning, no one will notice. DO NOT STEAL ALCOHOL. THEY WILL NOTICE IF IT’S WATERED DOWN. Bring a pillowcase for dried foods like cereal and granola. It helps to muffle the sound it makes when it pours.
If your house has snack packs (like gummy bears or crackers or chips), count them every day until you know the rhythm that they get consumed. (This took me a week and a half with my twin brother and sister). Then join the rhythm when you make your nightly visits. It will be that much harder to figure out it was you.
KEEP A TRASH BAG UNDER YOUR BED FOR WRAPPERS AND STUFF BUT DONT FORGET TO THROW IT OUT WHENEVER YOU CAN. BUGS YKNOW. Hope this helped.
The floor near the wall may creak on a regular floor but not on the stairs. If you need to walk up and down stairs, walk as close to the edge of the stair near the wall/railing as possible
Are there really parents who deny their kids food…?
There’s a book about “how to train your kid” or something like that which even recommends denying food as a way of punishment
What the fuck??? This is literally denying your kid basic human rights. How can parents be so cruel?
The world is a fucked up place
I hope none of my followers need these tips, but here they are. It’s a fucked up world and you might as well know some tricks.
the beatles wouldnt even fucking exist if big time rush hadnt paved the path for them so shut the fuck up
Do you even…?
Know the history of music?
The fuck?
yeah music was invented in 2009 by Big Time Rush
…I honestly can’t tell if your being sarcastic, or you really are this stupid.
I seriously hope it’s sarcasm
i being 100% serious my guy
The Beatles are older than big time rush
well yeah but that doesnt change the fact that the beetles didnt start making music until after BTR released their hit album Elevate and then the beetles decided to make music, only after they got permission from Kanye West
One of The Beatles died before BTR made music. AND THEIR CARRER ENDED IN 1970
yeah ur right the Bettles careers ended before it even began. thats how bad theyre music is.
The Beatles are the most revolutionary bands of all time. They had many fans when they first made music, and still do today. If it weren’t for them, BTR would not exist. And neither would many other pop and rock bands
I think you have it mixed up, it should be the other way around
besides:
That is easily photoshopped and also easily to disprove. Also, I’m mostly just trying to give you a lesson on HISTORY and how years work.
Beatles: 1960-1970 A.K.A. Before 2009
BTR: 2009-2013 A.K.A. AFTER THE BEATLES
Yeah the Beatles werent around until the year 1960 A.B.T.R. (After Big Time Rush)
That-that’s not a thing
of course it is, all years are either BBTR (before big time rush) or ABTR (after big time rush)
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