Titan Arum

I've toiled for many years to become a Savant! Not just any Savant, but an Aluminum Gnat Savant. My mother would not be proud. 

2 hours ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

 

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someone inventing TV and making Yazad the Mister Rogers of Medieval Europe. 

Seriously, that guy is awesome. 

 

Today is my first day back on the 17th shard since...2017. And what do I see? TwiLyght still active AND referencing Mister Rogers...after I called my colleague "Mister Rogers" today because of the random cardigan sweater he's wearing. Love it. 

52 minutes ago, Did Someone Say Kill Evil? said:

I've heard Sanderson say it, he says vinn

You're correct. He does say Vinn. However, there's a WoB where he admits that it's pronounced "Vahn" and that he always says it incorrectly because he uses an American English accent instead of a French accent. 

4 minutes ago, Kaymyth said:

Yeah, they've defaulted the Pokemon to being closer to you than before.  It's going to take some recalibration.

Also!  If you catch higher evolution Pokemon, you get more candy!  This needed to be in the game from the beginning, IMO.

I LOVE the higher candy amounts as well. I also love pinap berries. They should've had those all along too! I've been using them frequently for Gen 2 mon I haven't gotten evolved forms for yet.

I've also noticed you get way more candy for 10k egg hatches. I recently hatched two dratini that sent me from barely enough to evolve my dratini once to being able to evolve straight to Dragonite with candy to spare! Unfortunately my 97.8% IV Dragonite got a horrible moveset. Sigh, RNG. How I hate you! 

2 minutes ago, Kaymyth said:

So far, I think I've just caught fairly common Gen 2s, but It's fun to see new things skulking around out there.  And some of the other updates are really nice - that XP bonus for catching on the first throw, for instance.  Verra nice.

My second Gen 2 Pokemon that I caught was a Feraligatr. I had no idea what it was or that it was the third evolution of a Gen 2 starter. Hahaha. Other than that, it's mostly the Gen 2 equivalent to pidgey and rattata. 

I think my least favorite new update is that my muscle memory no longer works to get Nice/Great/Excellent throws every time. Every throw is slightly too high. I know that all I need to do is move my finger slower and it'll land correctly...but muscle memory is all like "Aww heck no! No bonus XP for you!"

On 2/9/2017 at 0:48 PM, Kaymyth said:

Oh, @Titan Arum, later the same day I met you, I caught my first Snorlax!  I feel like you're good luck for Pokemon catches now.

It's been a while since I've logged on to the 17th...but it was great meeting you and playing board games recently! And congrats on getting that Snorlax!

Have you caught anything good yet from Gen 2? Cheers!

A friend of mine recently ordered a personalized copy of Warbreaker from Brandon's site with the following question:

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Could a typical Awakener give Breaths to Nigthblood? Could it use those Breaths to Awaken?

Simply, yes, an Awakener can give Breaths to Nightblood, but Nightblood cannot use those Breaths to Awaken. 

On 12/22/2016 at 8:53 AM, WeeDunadan said:

Congrats! Mine arrived on Monday this week. Really happy with it, although my deliberations over which shipping to choose meant I only got #1038... that extra 3-4 minutes makes a lot of difference!

Ha! I placed my order right before you with #1037. I wasted 3-4 minutes trying to get my question down to 90 characters. Here it is in all of it's glory:

Reviving/Necro-ing this post from the dead because I now have a direct WoB about this for both Steel and Iron lines. Yes, both can be used to identify specific metals, and it is not limited to only savants. This seems to be something any misting or mistborn could do with enough practice.

They did indeed increase Pikachu spawns for Xmas hats. I'm liking it but I hope we get an XP boost the week of Xmas too. 

I harched an Igglybuff last night, so my Gen 2 hunt begins!

Oh, and nests change every two weeks now. Check the Silphroad for nests in your area. It's a website where trainers upload information in a crowd sourced manner about nests without breaking the TOS. 

Isn't it?! The baby Pokemon are all so cute! Someone already caught a Cleffa too. Here's the official announcement from Niantic.

PSA: Baby Pokemon can now be hatched (probably from 2k eggs, as seen by a hatched Igglybuff on Reddit) and Pikachu in the wild now have Santa Hats!

36 minutes ago, WeeDunadan said:

$223.29 for shipping to the uk.. ouch. Totally worth it though! Seems like a lot shifted, saw people on Reddit stating they ordered 4 mins after opening and had order numbers ~21000... I was 6-7 mins and #~21800..

I'm not sure if Brandon's Store Order number means anything for your book number. My order for the release of AU was 21853. My order for Mistborn is 20920. Does the store recycle order numbers? Maybe. (Why they would seems odd to me.) Was I the 920th person to order the Mistborn book once it became available? I doubt it.

What happened to the Parshmen that Lift sees when she's on the roof of the orphanage? It's clear that they probably started changing forms because their eyes were red. After the storm passes by it seems that there isn't a mention of them again. You'd think that they'd do something or be a part of the aftermath given they're supposedly Voidbringers and the Everstorm (which is rather weak, if you ask me) had just hit. 

I was perturbed by the 90 character limit in the personalization box. I really had to get creative in editing my question to make it super succinct. 

But in the end, super stoked by this book! Who cares that my question may not be clear now. Yay for new, collector's editions of Brandon Sanderson books for my shelf!

I binged watched all four episodes with my girlfriend this past weekend...and was severely disappointed. A lot of the actions that most characters take seem out of character. The only two characters for me that seemed sincere to the original series were Paris and Taylor. I also feel that the entire premise is 5-7 years too late. Everything Rory does seems like it should be something that a 25 year old does, not a 32 year old. The references to the 30-something gang espouse this for me: it's not 30-somethings that are living at home with their parents now, it's the 20-somethings, recently graduated from college who are. 

Tomorrow can't come soon enough! I want to order this now! I guess I can use the remaining few hours to try and come up with a great, un-RAFO-able question. Only to ultimately still get a RAFO!. 

Glad to know that the Sleepless are Dysian Aimians! As I was reading that scene with Arclo, it seems to me that his race is purely of Cultivation. They breed and grow their hordelings to shape them for their needs. They're ancient friends of the KR according to Arclo, but his wording seems like his kind were not exactly of honor like the KR: 

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Your war is my war, and has been for millennia. Ancient Radiants named me friend and ally before everything went wrong. What wonderful days those were, before the Last Desolation. Days of...honor. Now gone, long gone.

That pause before "honor" seems telling to me. As if he wanted use a big H. And knows Honor is dead. 

3 minutes ago, Ookla the Mythical said:

....oh, you were in college.  And I'm back to feeling old. 

Back in the mid-oughts, I dated a guy for a bit who was super in Homestar with his roomies.  I remember finding it a bit odd, but amusing in proper doses.  And Trogdor kind of stuck, because duh, it's Trogdor.

Ha. Sorry about that. There are a lot of younger people on this forum.

But, for those who may see this but have no idea what we're talking about: have a little bit of Trogdor in your life. With a beefy arm for good measure.

4 minutes ago, Ookla the Mythical said:

Thank goodness SOMEONE around here is old enough to get my jokes.

Homestar Runner was my jam back in the day! My roommates and I in college always eagerly anticipated the newest segment every week. We still randomly quote it when we see each other on rare occasions ("You're going to make it, Li'l Brudder!"). Sigh. Such great years! We even carved our pumpkins one year in the likeness of Strong Sad, Strong Bad, and The Cheat. 

Trogdor!!!! Trogdor!!! Trogdor was a 'mon. I mean, he was a fire 'mon. Or maybe he was just a Flareon! But he was still Trgodor!!!!!!!!!!! Burninating the Venusaur! Burninating the Oddish! Burninating all the Victreebels!

35 minutes ago, Ookla the Mythical said:

I am one of those obsessive types who can stick with a thing long past the point of reason, so I'll at least keep up my daily catch and spin through the winter.  I have enough coworkers still playing that at the end of the day, there's always a cluster of spawn outside the building.  And there's a park on my way home that I can stop at and spin without leaving the warmth of my car.

Suburban, though there really are a lot of good places to go if I feel so inclined; Kansas City is an oddly sprawling metro area with weird islands of urbanity hiding amongst swaths of forest.  WorldCon was kind of awesome; it was downtown amongst a sea of Pokestops with a PoGo meetup every day.  I caught a ton of Zubats and Clefairies.  Right now, there's a local park that's a Pinsir spawning ground (though I think they change up the nests every so often, so it's liable to change soon).  I'm sure I'll get a Pikachu eventually, but I don't get very many 2k eggs.  Tons of 5k, only ever one 10k.

I do some gym battling, but I've been chronically low on Revives lately and am kind of trying to build them back up again before I go on another gym spree.  I'm Team Instinct, so my gym takeovers never stick for long.   I do probably need to start hoarding Stardust again, but at the time I really needed my high-IV Flareon and Jolteon to level up enough to be gymworthy.  But I have noticed that hatched 'mon tend to have a lot stronger stats than most wild-caught.  I was lucky enough to hatch a Machop that's around the 97th percentile, so he's going to be well worth cultivating.  In keeping with my habit of giving my keepers silly names, I call him Squeezy.

Heh.  I appreciate the thought.  Though I'm going to be in D.C. in a couple of months, so I should be getting my own crack at exploring what the Pokehunting there has to offer.  Just watch.  I'll be that one idiot showing up early to the political protest so I can get in some Pokestop spins before things get started.

Team Instinct for the win! We are a rare breed, unless you're in Portland, ME. They rule that city; or at least they did when I visited in October. 

You went to WorldCon?!?! I'm super jealous. That must have been awesome on so many levels, even forgetting about the daily PoGo meetups! 

Squeezy! That's brilliant for a Machop. Now I hear Dory saying "I shall call him Squeezy. And he shall be mine. And he shall be my Squeezy. Come here Squeezy!" Hahahaha. I don't name mine because I'm not very creative. Mine end up "Victreebell97.8" or something like that to let me know their IVs. Very, very original! 

I can tell you that downtown DC is a Mecca for good Pokemon. The FDR and MLK memorials (within five minutes walking of each other) always have a ton of rare spawns and it's the regional hotspot that's lured 100% of the time. The FDR memorial alone has roughly 10 PokeStops clustered together. The reflecting pool is a great place to catch Dratini too and the entire length of the Mall has various species nests throughout. I work very close to the Capitol building and take lunch breaks walking around catching things on occasion. Currently, 5 minutes away from me at work, there is a large Abra nest and smaller Seel, Electabuzz, and Mankey nests. 

16 hours ago, Ookla the Mythical said:

Would you believe I have yet to catch a Pikachu?  Haven't even seen one spawn.  It's distressing, I tells ya.

Yeah, I'm a bit iffy on Gen 2 coming out quite that quickly.  I would think that something that big would involve a lot of hype on their part to get people interested.

I'm torn on candy hoarding right now, because my Jolteon and Flareon need upgrading some more, and I have yet to get a Vaporeon worth keeping.  I'd like to have my first gen set before I start looking at new Eeveelutions.  Still haven't found an Onix, nor enough Horseas to even get my Gen 1 evolution in.

The big CP shift they did a couple weeks ago really shook things up.  On the one hand, I got a few BIG jumps in Pokemon power for a few of my key 'mon.  On the other...well, it rendered the IV calculator spreadsheet that Mac sent me ages ago completely unusable.  I had to go out and find a new calculator, and it took a couple of days before they started getting updated with the new values.

I'm torn about a Gen 2 release coming sooner than later. On one hand, I feel like they should hold off on Gen 2 until spring because too many people in the Northern hemisphere will not go out hunting for Pokemon during the winter. With the majority of their user base living in northern latitudes, there will be a sharp drop off no matter what they do. But, if they do release Gen 2 right as winter starts they may retain their more hardcore players. It may end up being very difficult to get more casual players to come back come spring, no matter what they do. 

Are you a rural or suburban player? I feel like I'm totally lucky with my Pokemon diversity because I live in a big city. That's tough about not having a Pikachu yet! Your best bet for a Pikachu is probably hatching 2k eggs if you have any. I've gotten several Pikachu from that method. I am also very lucky because early on in the game I had a Pikachu that showed up every hour on the hour two blocks from where I lived. 

I've noticed with some of the most recent updates to the game that wild high-IV Pokemon seem to be rarer than they used to me. It's been annoying me. Now I usually just catch things and transfer them to the Professor. Do you use your Pokemon to battle or do you just want to power all of your good ones up? If I were you, I'd wait on powering up Pokemon until around level 30 or so, because you'll eventually find high-IV level 25+ Pokemon that will need less candy to power up. 

If trading were a thing, I'd totally give you what you need. I swim in Horsea and recently found an Onix next half a mile away that spits out 5 at a time! 

4 minutes ago, Ookla the Mythical said:

I do!  Though I'm considerably behind you; only level 22, and still a ton of critters in my dex still sitting in sad chalk outlines.  With winter setting in, I'm not likely to get out and about nearly as often as I had been.

I keep hearing rumors about Gen 2 lurking around the corner.  Some people think it's going to be next week, while others figure it'll be after the the first of the year in the spring when it starts to warm up again.  That might revitalize things.

Out of all the pokemon you're still missing, which is highest on your wishlist? I'm only missing a Hitmonchan. 

I also have heard about Gen 2 supposedly coming out on Dec. 7th, but to me it's only a rumor until Niantic says something. In the mean time, I've been hoarding a ton of candy for mon in Gen1 that can be evolved further in Gen2 while also trying to find high IV versions of them:

1. Eevee
2. Onix
3. Slowpoke
4. Oddish
5. Zubat
6. Poliwag
7. Horsea

How many people still play Pokemon Go? I'm now level 30 and only need one more mon to complete my North America pokedex. My desire to grind for XP has been severely diminished, despite the current XP boost. Nonetheless, I still open the ap at least twice a day while walking my dog.