I come back to XY every couple years to see if I enjoy it, but every play through I do is so miserable. I want to like it, but I can't help but see this game as the origin of many of the worst decisions GameFreak never walked back from.
Ultimately, I think its mostly that going full 3D was a complete mistake that just revealed how often they cut corners, and things have only gotten lazier and buggier since.
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oh absolutely, and i think this extends heavily to things like the battle animations, too. it didnt matter that the pokemon didnt move with attacks or that some animations were so vague, nothing else was very literal.
Stylistically its so nothing now.
i really hated XY but Sun/Moon is one of the best modern entries even though it carries over a lot of the issues that started to get solidified in The Template in XY
>>3mqnnolj64z2u
yeah it sucks. heard through the grapevine some years back that the 3d direction was pushed onto the team at game freak (who largely weren't experienced 3d artists) and unfortunately it sold better than ruby/sapphire/emerald, black/white (sequels also) and firered/ leafgreen sort of setting the trajectory from that point onwards given the unfortunate consumer demands. i do think they managed to fix a lot of the problems with sun and moon but they were still expected to chase the current console fidelity from then on.
this is the best pokemon game because i can pet and feed any pokemon i want...i remember that being my favorite thing about the game
i promised myself that i would stop arguing/complaining about nu-pokemon on the internet because i didnt like that i was being lumped in with the annoying dexit guys. but i still think xy onwards sucks booty... artstyle down the gutter. respect to the team cranking these games out but god i cannot bring myself to care
Incidentally, I think anyone who is looking for an opponent could benefit from a thread that does this but my friend Tamago is a tournament-level player and has been looking for an opponent, but is kind of shy about the idea of using an imageboard.
I'd asked him if he'd be comfortable with me putting up a little flier, and he said he'd appreciate that.
He plays Guilty Gear Xrd and Accent Core +R, but also Melty Blood.
You can hit him up at "tamagogangan" on BlueSky or Discord.
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>>3mrbvig5qlc23
check this out
it could be us
>>3mrdmklflib2y
I did not know you were simply looking for a dance-partner, so to speak.
I'mb sowwy.
You gan kill me.
kicking rocks
>>3mrdmklflib2y
ig "play" is a stretch too cus I have not played much of either in a year and have played alot more strive lol but I will add you anyway
>>3msa7u226hj2z
didn't realize who "noni" was until just now
hopefully we'll actually play instead of just talking about playing :-)
atchan has an irc channel where you can chat, report issues (if posting here is broken) or whine at admin
we use the milkmedicine irc network: ircs://irc.milkmedicine.net:6697
the channel to join is #atchan
for more information on how to work the network see this website:
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Noob here. Going to start self-hosting a Matrix instance for game stream video calls with screen share and audio pass-through.
Will be hosting either a Synapse stack or Continuwuity with livekit for calls
Apparently this is possible with a Sable client (Tauri build).
Wanted to talk Matrix 2.0 servers and clients!
what cool movies have you been watching recently? i'll start.
les abysses, aka the depths, by nikos papatakis. based on the IRL case of the papin sisters in france. utterly bleak and immiserating movie. some of the grimiest and yuckiest sets i've ever seen in a 60s film. more of the dialogue is screamed than it's actually spoken. easily one of my fav first watches of the year. was very cathartic to attend a screening immediately after a nightmare retail shift.
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>>3mrjc5kr6gj25
yeah its a letdown i appreciate with hypercube and such the wackiness kind of makes up for any disappointment
>>3mr4nxo3pcy2o
>the northman (first watch, eggers is hit or miss for me and i didnt like this one. i appreciate the attention to detail but it just felt totally unsuited to film as a medium)
i feel like the northman is kind of a reddit history memes movie but i don't want to make anyone feel bad for liking it smiles
when i watched it for the second time i just couldn't get it out of my head that it felt so chuddy, and it made me start thinking that eggers makes kind of conservative stories even though he's probably some type of liberal. i rly like the vvitch but it kind of plays a good vs evil story with corruption horror pretty straight, like the forces of corruptive evil do win in the end but to me that comes off even more conservative in some ways haha. i think the vvitch is a good conservative story though.
recently i saw a pedro costa short i'd never seen, tarrafal (2007), in preparation for a local screening of his incredible, haunted/haunting feature colossal youth (2006) at the end of august, and my friend kelley dong showed me his new short, letter to sirius, which was gorgeous and inspiring. i'm also still intermittently poking at my essay on mizoguchi's genroku chushingura/the 47 ronin (1941) which i watched at the beginning of the month, i'm trying to tease out how its style fosters a non-cathartic critical reflexivity that runs counter to its dictated role as wartime propaganda.
>>3ms2w4w7z7a2z
would love to read that essay if/when u finish it, i need to get around to the 47 ronin at some point
we rewatched the phantom menace last night. i probably havent seen in it about 20 years and honestly was sort of expecting to enjoy it (perhaps im too susceptible to critical re-evaluations). anyway it was dogshit. pretty much every decision the film makes (from line-reads to blocking to pacing) is totally baffling, but theres way too much tie-in merchandise pandering for it to feel intentionally alienating, its just two hours of bad acting and windows vista screensavers
>>3ms2svivt572c
yeah wrt the northman i think that the point of the film's narrative is basically "death and disaster are the natural consequences of a culture that prizes honor above all else" whereas the visual language the movie uses to depict amleth's subconcious is like "epic credit card commerical for the white birth rates rewards program," and the ending taps into the latter not the former
editing posts sometimes does not reflect- does nothing. seeing it reflect after a bit - sometimes feels like you're not getting the feedback -maybe its if you try to edit too many times in the same few mins lol (frantic posting complain)
uh oh.. i will look into it. i think its just feedback thats missing - its erroring for some reason
in the future please use >>3mqnmukf7jc23 for bug reports - its pinned at the top
tried tweakin some things - let me know if you are still met with the unexpected
I take it anyone using this site is somewhat computer oriented, and if you're like me and have been that way since you were very young you might have had to deal with the horrors of HAVING FILES...
Program files are easy enough... when you install something, it goes into the program files directory.
But what about the files you create yourself? Important documents? Lease agreements? Receipts & warranties? Downloaded movies, TV, music and pictures? Journal entries? Sketches? Finished artwork? Photos?
Where do you put them?! And why?!
I have tried to create a system for myself by incorporating the https://johnnydecimal.com/ method into Obsidian (https://obsidian.md/)
The main things I've stuck to: Shallow folder hierarchies (three folders deep at most), an "inbox" folder, where I put files before I know where to sort them, and trying to assign IDs to everything I produce.
But maintaining the system is hard, and time consuming, and revisions require modifying several dozens of folders!! Ack!!
How do you all go about organising files? Are you precise with some things and loose with others? Do you have any advice?
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probably not the ideal solution but Google Photos' search function is pretty good at image recognition.
Sintel's image atlas application (https://github.com/Sin-tel/image_atlas/) is really good at grouping images with visual similarities, but it doesn't have any text search functionality...
i'm looking for a way to visualize my movie file hoard as a grid of movie posters without having to use streaming apps like plex or jellyfin.... if anyone has any pointers let me know
>>3mqsjqzebx22v
i use "everything"; you can search entire hard drive(s) very quickly with it
im curious how you guys keep samples (likke music samples) organized, struggling so bad because i cant figure out a way thats intuitive to me... messy messy messy >,>
>>3mqx47wkzye2x
everything changed my life lol. it's hard to remember suffering through window search for so long
im gnna post on b a bit so i dont hog A with my random shit.
"lets goo!"
"so hard!"
"nice lets goo! amazing !"
"so close so close!"
"this is supposed to be the last thing u fight but its the first for this run"
speedruns oot/SM64 tas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPZ9WBPq8s4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JhYbnx_h0w
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>>3mrbcdqkytk2d
poppin in to say this is boppin
Got my copy of The Tick, looking forward to Arthur getting his own figure. Still need to watch the 2001 series with Patrick Warburton.
I wish I was good at puyo
>>3mrjjjxpyep2n
I should get a Comfey keychain...
Gloomy Bear from crane game
ｷﾀ━━━(・∀・)━━━!!
wazamonogatari set to start release for this winter
trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P2QF7ReJQE
site: https://www.monogatari-series.com/oms/
i think i got it wrong on the op? this is the new key visual. its a continuation to off and monster season - wazamonogatari: karen ogre arc
just the one arc...? i saw some ppl online say one episode.
dug up a translated press release that has some more details:
>Aniplex revealed a new visual and the winter 2026 broadcast for the upcoming "Wazamonogatari: Karen Ogre" episode of the MONOGATARI Series: OFF & MONSTER Season anime on Thursday.
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-07-02/monogatari-off-and-monster-season-anime-new-episode-debuts-in-winter/.239215
>>3mrnu4nhk7722
we are locked tf in
This is a test message to confirm the operational status of your equipment. Future correspondence will be through the encryption method outlined in this message. The content of this message does not carry any significant information and only serves to outline the method of encryption. You will be given time to study this test pattern before your first task arrives. Thank you, and good luck.
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Something like this?
I'm speculating still that the small dots might be numbers; if they are, small dots in the center of the Semaphore Position might denote "Number" too - I've noticed that, at least in this transmission, the dot is only in letters 1-9 and 0.
Unfortunately, that doesn't explain what the struck circles are, so maybe I'm wrong here.
Notably, "Bravo-Zulu" or BZ is usually semaphore for "Congratulations" or "Good Job".
Potential for one of the bottom bullets, which seems to just be "BZ" to essentially be "Congrats".
I doubt it will be relevant, but the other half of Semaphore was Pennant Code - just in case we need it, it's here for reference.
... I was puzzling about this in bed this morning realized the file is named "Basic Arithmetic" and so, I've probably got this inside out, and this is a set of small math-problems.
I think I've got it inside out, and these letters are predominantly their semaphore number equivalents.
It occurs to me I misidentified 'Golf' as 'Zulu'.
Is that 5 A 5 with "A" as a shorthand for 'Addition'?
5+5?
7 D 3 with "D" (or maybe zero?) as a shorthand for 'Division'?
7 / 3?
7 0 3 ?
I haven't figured out the branching mid-link dots; if it's mirroring the semaphore position, the linking dots might be '12' and '3'
3 (some sort of branching operation symbol involving '12' and '3') = 9 ?
Maybe it is appending extra numbers to a lead number, and it's 312 or 33?
I think the bottom row is:
2 7 6 4 or perhaps 2 7 6 0 .
1 (some sort of branching operation symbol involving '18' (?) and '2'(?) ) concluding in an arrow?
The last symbol, 'H'/'8' with three terminating branches leads me to believe the 'x's may represent a zero value or something.
Maybe that's 8,000?
Post your favorite dogs
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cat invasion!!!!!!!!!
here's one of mine:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.02989 CSS Minification via Constraint Solving
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classic paper by elizabeth brown abt the myth of feudalism:
https://sci-hub.jp/10.2307/1869563
ill join in. I was deeply moved by this one.
https://www.apanarcheo.nl/aurora%20jadeiet/PerattZpinch%20plasmaexperimenten.pdf
more or less arguing primitive folks across the earth witnessed plasma phenomena in the sky and carved in order to draw similar/same designs. why the squatter can be found all over. There's only so much you can do with simple lines, circles, and squares if one experimented youd prob arivve at many of these geometries - but I still love the plasma renders to show the shapes it could make...
abt teh process by which a relationship between 2 things tht was once taken as mere resemblance comes 2 b understood as a causal connexion. talks abt "Aboriginal Australian iconography, Medieval Japanese asceticism, Homeric and Freudian psychologies of rage, and traps and primitivism in African and modern art"
Ball, Christopher. “On Dicentization.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 24, no. 2 (2014): 151–73. https://doi.org/10.1111/jola.12046
>>3mqo3lo3l5c23
this one is really fascinating, ive been looking at it all day. thank you for sharing
Trailing the Dovetail Shuffle to Its Lair, ie the proof that a 52-card deck becomes pretty well-shuffled after 7 shuffles https:/www.stat.berkeley.edu~aldous/157/Papers/bayer_diaconis.pdf
This game has 3 parameters: capacity "c" (of each vial), number of colors "m", and number of empty vials "e". So total number of vials is m+e. Usually e=2 so that's what I've been thinking about. I'm interested in which (c, m) parameter values can yield unsolvable boards. An example unsolvable board for c=3, m=7 (notation is bottom-to-top):
[4 1 5] [2 1 4] [5 6 6] [2 0 0] [2 6 3] [5 0 3] [4 1 3]
A few results that aren't hard to figure out:
- if (c, m) has an unsolvable board, then (c+1, m) has an unsolvable board
- if (c, m) has an unsolvable board, then (c, m+1) has an unsolvable board
- c=2 is always solvable
- m=2 is always solvable
- there are unsolvable boards
These combined imply that there's an interface in (c, m) space between always-solvable parameters (low-cm) and not-always-solvable parameters (roughly, high-cm).
Picture is what I've figured out about this interface. Here are unsolvable boards for c=3, 4, 5:
[4 1 5] [2 1 4] [5 6 6] [2 0 0] [2 6 3] [5 0 3] [4 1 3]
[4 1 5 1] [2 3 3 5] [2 0 0 5] [2 0 0 4] [2 1 1 5] [4 4 3 3]
[1 3 4 2 2] [3 2 0 0 4] [0 3 4 4 1] [3 2 0 0 1] [1 3 4 2 1]
(I'm omitting the 2 empty vials when I report these btw)
I've validated by exhaustive search that (c=3, m=6) is always solvable, and likewise for (c=4, m=5) and (c=5, m=4). And finally I've validated that (c=6, m=4) is always solvable. All these results are just heavy computational searching.
I also have a construction of an unsolvable board for m=3 using very large capacity (c=27): 3 identical vials of
[1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 1]
The open questions are thus:
- what is the minimal capacity at which unsolvable boards exist for m=3?
- what is the minimal capacity at which unsolvable boards exist for m=4?
can you share the algorithm you've used for the exhaustive search?
>>3mqurbmqxa72l
- Best-first search with heuristic “sum over colors ( number of vials containing color)”, ie how spread out the colors are. The heuristic can be updated for cheap as you discover the state space.
- isometry group is “permutation of colors x permutation of vials.” Quotient by both when enumerating initial boards to check, quotient only by vial permutations when checking an individual board
- skip moves involving completed vials
- represent vials as ints, the board as a tuple, numba-fy and parallelize.
All told, each core ends up determining whether a board is solvable in about 100us on average
i'm tired of how hard it is to find things online. google has completely gone to shite with its ai slop integration, and regular search engines as a whole are somewhat ruined by SEO putting commercial sites above things useful to humans. large parts of the internet–uncrawled pages, chatrooms, p2p files–aren't possible to find in them. search features on individual sites and chats still work but the problem is finding these places to begin with.
so i want to have a new kind of net directory, more human curated, and with more things covered. that is a very old idea, and it did exist before modern search engines overtook it, but i think a modern version of it could work. maybe something more like a wiki, with pages for and about anything on the human net, organised with tags or categories (of course it should have a search function too). i want the internet to really be an extremely interconnected global "information superhighway"
does anything like this exist already?
wiby.me is kind of like this already since all the sites are human vetted but i wish this kind of stuff existed more broadly...
these two sites have partially filled that void for me
https://marginalia-search.com/explore
https://susam.net/wander/
marginalia search especially is fantastic. although that hole in my heart can't really be fully filled, the entirety of the internet being that way was what made it so special for me as a child, but we'll forever be relegated to relative obscurity now.
i use kagi for search. its a paid search engine. i find its marginally better than any free one. not sold on those small web search engines but it's a nice idea
collaborative directories
human-curated & organized by topic
https://www.webjamboree.net/ - 10k+ sites (open submissions, searchable)
https://url.town/ - 800+ sites (submissions limited to a specific community, searchable)
https://ooh.directory/ - 2k+ blogs (open submissions, searchable)
https://neato.directory/ - new & pretty barren (open submissions)
tiny search engines
smaller engines don't have the resources to crawl as much of the net as google, so they stuggle as direct competitors. i think they're at their best when they embrace their limited scope and focus on serving really specific communities or needs
https://lieu.cblgh.org/about - searches sites that are members of a particular webring
https://fee.cool/code/mold-net/ - searches sites from lists of bookmarks
https://neocities.org/search - searches sites hosted on neocities.org
directories by individuals
these are my favorite. can be hit or miss, but finding one curated by someone with similar tastes & interests hits so hard
https://bukmark.club/ - directory of personal sites with link directory pages
https://waywardweb.org/ - same as above but linked together by a webring
>>3mrfxrij6n323
i think you should absolutely make your net directory! it's worth it to start with whatever you have. you can make a webpage that's just a list of all the links in your browser bookmarks, put it online, and go from there. make it more complicated later, if you want. for a personal wiki-style site, look into https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/ or for a multi-user wiki, look into https://www.dokuwiki.org/
i read https://thoughts.melonking.net/thoughts/every-site-needs-a-links-page-why-linking-matters back when it was published, and following that advice changed my relationship to the internet for the better. it's easier to ignore all the bullshit when i have a nice collection of stuff i actually like to look at online. the net feels more connected when you make yourself a part of that network
>>3mriafz57h42t
i have my own directory https:/toxxy.neocities.org/directory i think it's important for each site to link to lots of other sites to keep the web interconnected