I'm knocking on the door of level 38, and so it occurred to me that I should consider where to put my stardust/candy/time from this point. Generally speaking, I've been one to boost only up to breakpoints around level 30-32, to save stardust while still being relevant for doing raids with inconsistent help. I do have some leveled more, but My over arching question is which is the best? Mewtwo/Dragonite come to mind immediately, then something like machamp, the other legendaries and then specialists (sceptile/lapras/aggron/scizor/etc).
I'm limited by my stardust due to the hubris of my youth ("why wouldn't i power up 10 snorlaxes? they'll be useful FOREVER") as I have only 500k, but I'm ready to max where I need to. I would still like to be efficient and have a plan for which pokemon I should focus on. Thanks.
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(Part 001)
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With Mephisto's arrival, demonkind's inevitable defeat suddenly reverses, sparking a glimmer of hope in the eyes of every Emperor present. Crow, having lost one of her arms, Yumagi, having long since stopped treating the battle as a game, and Kristoff, having reluctantly accepted his imminent death, all stare in shock at the newcomers.
Mephisto's gigantic Brute roars at the Cherubiim before charging toward it with stiff, jerky motions. As an amalgamation of thousands of lesser human, demon, and monster bodies and souls, the mashed-together undead goliath lacks any sort of concentrated brain matter, but it makes up for the deficit with a body sturdy enough to even withstand the Cherubiim's holy magic.
Michael's head gazes at the incoming attacker with a hint of scorn. "How pathetic. One last hurrah for the bloodskins. I will end this."
All six of the Cherubiim's arms lift into the air and summon building-sized greatswords in their palms. The Cherubiim and its primordial monsters charge into the incoming Brute and engage it in yet another planet-shattering battle, one that sends frightening shockwaves in all directions, constantly battering the Hidden Emperors as they try to withstand the storm.
Not content to merely sit back and watch, Fae joins the fray, flying into the sky to hurl explosive mana-bombs at any primordial summon that gets in her way. At the same time, Mephisto's revived Emperor minions follow along to his tune, running along the ground or flying
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Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
The milkweeds are well known for their cardenolides, which make them unpalatable to most animals besides the specialist insects that seek out these chemicals for self defense, such as the monarch butterfly and milkweed tussock moth. Cardenolides are found in almost all parts of the plant, including the nectar. This makes it dangerous for pollinators to consume too much milkweed nectar, since a large enough dose would contain enough cardenolides to poison and kill them. This study discusses how some bumblebee species have evolved adaptations in order to regulate how much milkweed nectar they can safely consume, while other species simply choose to avoid these flowers in order to avoid poisoning themselves. Milkweeds are self-incompatible and predominantly rely on bees for pollination, so killing the insects they rely on for reproduction seems counter productive.
Asclepias tuberosa contains some of the lowest levels of cardenolides among its genus. In fact, it contains so little that monarch butterflies will avoid laying their eggs on this plant if there are other milkweed species available, since the caterpillars would need to consume a huge amount of A. tuberosa leaves in order to sequester enough cardenolides. A. tuberosa's leaves are also rough and thinner than most of its congeners. A. tuberosa is common in eastern North America, but it also has populations in the southwestern part of the continent. It thrives in the arid regions of the continent, where it is sympatric with many other milkweeds that possess a similar morphology, but it is quite unique in the east, where it finds itself among species more suited for wetter and shadier areas.
According to a study from Rutgers University, Asclepias tuberosa and A. fascicularis attract more pollinators than other species, but are not as attractive to cardenolide specialist insects. This makes sense when considering that lower cardenolide levels make it safer for bees to feed on their flowers. According to the same study, the swamp milkweed (A. incarnata), which is known for having high cardenolide levels, attracted plenty of monarchs but was less desirable to bees.
It appears that milkweeds are forced to make a choice on what they want to do in order to guarantee their survival and repr
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I was thinking earlier about how for all its quibbles, the ADC (or more broadly, Marksman) roster seemed to be pretty balanced in terms of having a high number of both male and female champions, as well as characters from most of the regions in Runeterra with some alternate species in there too, so I did a look into it and found that indeed the character origins and demographics for this class are quite well balanced.
Of the champions officially classified as Marksman by Riot:
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Male (10): Akshan, Aphelios, Corki, Draven, Ezreal, Jhin, Kog'Maw, Lucian, Twitch, Varus
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Female (12): Ashe, Caitlyn, Jinx, Kai'sa, Kalista, Miss Fortune, Samira, Senna, Sivir, Tristana, Vayne, Xayah
Kindred is also classified as a Marksman but given they are two characters I won't list them as either.
These champions hail (with a pretty balanced distribution) from every single region in Runeterra except Ixtal:
- Bandle City (2): Tristana, Corki
- Bilgewater (1): Miss Fortune
- Demacia (2): Lucian, Vayne
- Ionia (3): Jhin, Varus, Xayah
- Noxus (2): Draven, Samira
- Piltover (2): Caitlyn, Ezreal
- Shadow Isles (2): Kalista, Senna
- Shurima (2): Akshan, Sivir
- Mt Targon (1): Aphelios
- The Freljord (1): Ashe
- The Void (2): Kog'maw, Kai'sa
- Zaun (2): Jinx, Twitch
Again the odd one out, Kindred isn't associated with any specific region instead listed on Universe as having "Runeterra" as their origin. But in this sense the class also has a champion from this generalist origin on top of most of the individual regions.
Of these, we also have 2 "Monster" champions (Kog'maw, Twitch), 2 Yordles (Tristana, Corki), a Vastaya (Xayah) and Darkin (Varus).
Note, since I know people will mention it: I haven't included champions who were previously classified as Marksmen but changed to "Specialist" following Riot's latest class overhaul, which include Graves (Bilgewater), Quinn (Demacia), Teemo (Bandle City)...and Azir (Shurima) but these had quite the range of backgrounds too.
This all said, I believe the next champion to be released after Vex is teased to be a male bot lane Marksman from Zaun. If this is indeed the case, then all Riot need to do is make the next release for the class a male Ixtali champ, and this class will have a perfectly even gender ratio of champions coming from every single region in Runeterra!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
Time claims all...
...and her time ended a few million years ago.
The rest of the series can be found here
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Somewhen long ago, a tired old plath in a wheelchair was sitting at a table with a number of translucent gelatinous beings in a room dimly lit by candles.
Another group of Tol were all fussing over some device at the far end of the room.
“Ok!” one of them said nervously, “I guezz itz about as good as itz going to get.”
“Let do diz!” a tollop exclaimed.
“So what is this great mystery?” the plath asked with curiosity.
In the long years she had been with the Tol, their progress from a fractured, early iron age and gunpowder for lack of a better word “civilization” to a thriving truly global civilization had been a joy to behold. All of it, all of it… wasn’t due to her venomous manipulations. It was due to the single greatest being she had ever known, Ol’ Fatty, the first king of every Tol on the planet.
She sighed at the thought of him. She truly missed that fat fuk.
“Hit it!” one of the Tol in the group shouted and a filament surrounded by a glass orb at the top of the box started to glow, first dimly, and then with a growing brightness that filled the room with a light so strong that it seemed to be midday.
“Marvelous!” the old plath exclaimed as she started to weakly wheel from the table. A Tol quickly rushed to her and pushed her over to the glowing machine.
“You’ve converted basic electric current directly to illumination with only what you have now?” she gasped. “How?”
“The electric makes shit get hot, right?” a Tol asked proudly. “An’ when shit gets hot enough it glows.”
“And then it burns… Wait!” the old plath excliamed, “There’s no oxygen in there!”
“Ain’t nothing in there!” a Tollop exclaimed. “We scooted all the scoot out of the jug!”
“Electric resistance to heat to incandescence!” the plath exclaimed in amazement. It was something that they quite simply never had to worry with. All of their knowledge and technology had been basically handed to them, built into their very being.
What her kind knew, the Tol were beginning to understand.
“I wish he could have seen this,” she sighed as a single tear ran down her face.
“You think he would have been pleased?” one of the Tol asked happily.
“It would have blown his fukkin mind!” the plath laughed, “An’ then he would have tried to eat it!”
The room broke into laughter.
“Now,” she said as
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I’ve noticed a lot of the time when people complain about certain aspects of this game, finance is a big part of the problem. So I thought I’d share some key considerations when it comes to the finance system in JWE 2 compared to JWE.
- Pick your Scientists carefully and sparingly. Getting 4 quality scientists that have sensible salaries is a good start - and in my experience it’s better to go for specialists than generalists. Having a scientist that offers cheaper research, and cheaper incubation - can save a fortune in the long run. The temptation to hire more scientists to speed things along in the short term can end up seriously slowing you down financially.
- Power management. Power is a HUGE outlay, and efficient power management is king. Your fences use power on a per section basis, which means you can end up wasting a huge amount of power if you aren’t maximising the length of each fence section. Getting the top Heavy fence also reduces power usage significantly. The large power stations exclusively save space, they cost the same amount to run. And power that isn’t being used is being wasted. So check your usage, and deactivate a power station if you aren’t using it.
- Dinosaur population. Unlike in JWE1, it’s generally not advisable to fill your paddocks with dense populations of dinosaurs. Your habitat requirements grow as you increase the number of dinosaurs of the same species, but different species can share habitat requirements - which means you can get a higher rating and more guests (and more money) with a smaller number of more varied dinosaurs. Cohabitation also works better this way. The more dinosaurs you have, the more time you’ll spend healing injuries, which takes capacity out of your scientists to research and incubate new dinosaurs.
- double up your gates. Gates are far more likely to fail due to damage and sabotage. Having a double gate stops a crisis before it starts.
- Don’t open your shelters. Embrace the Jurassic World experience. It’ll cost you more to save lives. So keep your shops making money!
Hey all.
I'm back again with another installment of One Move Away, where I analyze the currently unviable Pokémon in PvP that can become meta-relevant with no more, no less, than one move. Since there are a lot more Pokémon that rely on changes to existing moves as opposed to just being given one to their movepool, I decided to cover two regions at a time. This time, we have Hoenn and Sinnoh, with a few interesting move update candidates.
Let us begin!
Torkoal: Weather Ball (Fire)
A secret favorite of mine, and one of Ash's more memorable Pokémon from the Advanced Battle saga of the anime, Torkoal is currently a region-locked species exclusive to South Asia. Niantic has done events in the past that make region-locked species easier for everyone to acquire without trades, so it's not impossible for Torkoal to get the very same treatment as did Heracross, which gained access to Rock Blast soon after it was temporarily made available to the entire world (even though as a Raid exclusive). Can't wait for Pokémon GO Tour 2023: Hoenn!
The Coal Pokémon has a decent Fast Attack in Fire Spin, along with fantastic durability, but its Charged Attacks leave much to be desired in the way of energy costs. Thus, this Pokémon has struggled to make a name for itself when there are better Fire-types available in Great League like Alolan Marowak, Talonflame and Magcargo.
Eagle-eyed trainers may notice that most Weather Ball users have an ability in the main series games that lets them instantly summon weather, like harsh sunlight (Drought), rainstorms (Drizzle), hailstorms (Snow Warning), and sandstorms (Sand Stream). The type of weather they are able to summon corresponds to their respective Weather Ball type. Politoed and Pelipper, with the ability Drizzle, have the Water Weather Ball, while things like Alolan Ninetales, Abomasnow and the unreleased Aurorus, with Snow Warning, can use the Ice variant instead.
That brings us back to Torkoal. In Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon, it got access to the ability Drought, making it able to summon the harsh sunlight and, in Pokémon GO, become a perfect candidate for the Fire Weather Ball. This no
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Because she wanted to see the task manager.
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
They’re on standbi
I have always loved speculative evolution in worldbuilding and as an anthropologist, I’ve especially loved when creators spend the time to flesh out sapient species’ cultures. Specifically, I like it when said cultures are varied and complex like those found in real life. Conversely, one of my pet peeves are speculative sophonts that have a monolithic or homogeneous culture.
One of the defining characteristics of humanity is our behavioral plasticity. Since we have slow sexual maturation, high infant mortality, and relatively low “litter” sizes, humans are incredibly slow to evolve. However, our outstandingly flexible brains allow us to create behaviors that are learned rather than evolved. Consequently, humans can adapt to radical changes in environment within few generations instead of waiting millennia for natural selection to occur. This is why humans had reached every major inhabitable landmass thousands of years before any permanent settlements or agriculture. There is no “standard” human diet, religion, dwelling, habitat, or any cultural behavior.
One of my favorite examples of cultural diversity comes from the Daydreamer and Gravedigger species from Dylan Bajada’s Serina. Despite living in the same marine environment, Daydreamer pods have multiple cultures spread across Serina’s oceans each with different behaviors and beliefs. This is similar to Earth’s orca whales, a near sapient species that varies in diet, habitat, and hunting behaviors across the globe.
Gravediggers inhabit nearly every conceivable ecosystem including tundra, forest, and coastline, with each population being unique in culture. They adjust their behavior to adapt to their ever changing world. The social Gravediggers have abandoned their origins as lone predators and turned to civilization and the sea to survive the coming Ice Age. Meanwhile, tundra dwellers maintain their predatory behavior by forming a symbiotic relationship with predator species.
In contrast, one example of poorly executed cultural world building would be in C.M. Koseman’s All Tomorrows. I’d like to preface this by acknowledging that I throughly enjoy Koseman’s work but have critical thoughts on his lackluster anthropological details. He falls into the “Star Trek” fallacy of having each of his unique cultures stereotyped into neat uniform cultural niches. There is little to no diversity other than the occasional “the species was divided in groups A and B: they warred.” All Snake People are agoraph
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but then I remembered it was ground this morning.
Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me my jokes aren't stale
Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments
Nothing, he was gladiator.
Or would that be too forward thinking?
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
With Mephisto's arrival, demonkind's inevitable defeat suddenly reverses, sparking a glimmer of hope in the eyes of every Emperor present. Crow, having lost one of her arms, Yumagi, having long since stopped treating the battle as a game, and Kristoff, having reluctantly accepted his imminent death, all stare in shock at the newcomers.
Mephisto's gigantic Brute roars at the Cherubiim before charging toward it with stiff, jerky motions. As an amalgamation of thousands of lesser human, demon, and monster bodies and souls, the mashed-together undead goliath lacks any sort of concentrated brain matter, but it makes up for the deficit with a body sturdy enough to even withstand the Cherubiim's holy magic.
Michael's head gazes at the incoming attacker with a hint of scorn. "How pathetic. One last hurrah for the bloodskins. I will end this."
All six of the Cherubiim's arms lift into the air and summon building-sized greatswords in their palms. The Cherubiim and its primordial monsters charge into the incoming Brute and engage it in yet another planet-shattering battle, one that sends frightening shockwaves in all directions, constantly battering the Hidden Emperors as they try to withstand the storm.
Not content to merely sit back and watch, Fae joins the fray, flying into the sky to hurl explosive mana-bombs at any primordial summon that gets in her way. At the same time, Mephisto's revived Emperor minions follow along to his tune, running along the ground or flying into the air to assist the Brute as it dull-headedly hammers against the Archangel's defenses.
"Kekeke!" Mephisto cackles. "Behold! The rissse of the next great Necromancer! The future Firssst Emperor of the Ssseven Hellsss!"
Mephisto does not join in on the battle. He hangs back, which only makes sense, given his poor fighting abilities. Unlike the ancient Emperor, Valac, who possessed a soul-reaping scythe and a surprisingly powerful body, Mephisto's talents lay in the finer aspects of the necromantic arts.
Michael's six swords spin like buzzsaws, whirling around the Cherubiim's body at five times the speed of sound. Unlike a physical body, with its limited joint movements, the Cherubiim's 'core' and its summoned limbs act as almost disconnected weapons, able to move freely around the Cherubiim's 'main body' as they please. Without the tendons, bones, and other intricacies of a fleshly body to slow him down, Michael's blindingly fast attacking and reaction speed completely dwarfs that of
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