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BoomBoy
Trainerlevel: 77
Trainerpoints: 2,646/17,863
Trainerlevel: 77
Trainerpoints: 2,646/17,863
Party
| Pkmn | Name | Level | EXP/EHP |
|---|---|---|---|
 | The Chespinking (Chespin) SHINY  | 5,574 | 42,033,698 / 111,703,047 |
 | Markus (Dewott) | 446 | 328,356 / 704,409 |
 | Vincent (Volcanion) SHINY | 769 | 939,903 / 2,220,489 |
 | Mini scule (Zygarde (Cell Forme)) SHINY | 473 | 774,481 / 840,759 |
 | Señor Fernando (Hawlucha) SHINY | 960 | 2,169,413 / 2,767,681 |
 | Ella (Hawlucha) SHINY | 983 | 1,123,997 / 2,901,817 |
links, notes and handy tools
Use this Hangman Helper. (the other one closed lol coz..... reasons)
Use this Price Check. remember about inflation and item market changes... actually just use stonks lol
Use this Map. some of the thingymabobs have the same location on the site, so pay attention.
Use this magic bagvalue Tool Thingy to figure out what is worth selling.
Use this Royal Tunnel Helper
Use this Help Subforum to see the FAQs and search help threads
Use this Royal Tunnel Simulator to practise the noobtrap.
The Wiki is here and also under the community tab
Check this Evo Guide for how to evolve mons
Shiny Hunt
BoomBoy is currently hunting Milcery.
Hunt started: 17/08/2023
Chain: 1,558
Hunt started: 17/08/2023
Chain: 1,558
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GOALS :D
[X] #1 - 1 year premium paid for without RL money
[X] #2 - Kalos Certificate to get that Mega Diancie :)
[..] #3 - full Kalos shiny dex inc. legends somewhere on my profile there should be a progress for this
[..] #4 -
[..] #4.5 - SM Emeran Diancie
[X] #5 - officially become a not-noob (get all the badges)
[X] #6 - get something 1OS! check out Gary in my about me!
[..] #7 - get Chespinking onto the ranklist its a long long way to go.... why dont you click him now :')
[..] #8 - get a CatLady-worthy hangman chain. this is intentionally phrased vaguely :P
(basically for next July 1st - I try to set these every summer)
[partially indefinitely suspended due to inactivity]
[..] #1 - chain 1000 on hangman.
[X] #2 - another set of 8k nuggies for another year of premium.
[..] #3 - shiny zygarde snake. i think Hamper is collabbing on this one :)
ima probably add more here as they are thought of
Contact
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Game Records
Trainer ID: #762650682Registration: 10/02/2019 (5 Years ago)
Game Time: 2920:14 Hours
Total interactions: 5,726,162
Money: 3,729
Starter Pokémon:
Dewott
Feeds
#1212: Crush, Texas was the temporary town set up for the publicity stunt of crashing two full trains head-on at high speed into each other. as a one-day event in 1896, it beckoned over 40k visitors who were offered reduced travel fares and free entry, making it the second-largest settlement in the state at the time. Crush wasn't actually named that because of the railroading shenanegans, though: it was named after William Crush (nominative determinism!!!), the passenger relations guy at the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad (MKT). the Katy, as they were known, had a bunch of recently obsolete locomotives to get rid of, so, um, boom!
1happy international penguin day!!! truly the holiest of occasions.
#1211: the word penguin originally referred to the great auk, a white and black bird of Northern Atlantic coastlines (it went extinct in 1852 - always saddening when they give you that much precision). it's thought to come from Welsh "pen gwyn" (white head), either referring to the white patterning on the auk's head or the island in Newfoundland on which they were found. alternatively, it could come from Latin pinguis "fat" but that's a lot less cool. penguins were simply called penguins because they look like an auk (convergent evolution!), even though they're hardly related. penguins eat small rocks, partially to help them grind up harder food (they don't have teeth, but they do have spines on their beak and even tongue) and to let them dive deeper, reducing buoyancy. they don't have swim bladders, yet the emperor penguin can go as deep as 550m below the surface.
#1210: if you're reading this, chances are that the screw head you're most familiar with is the Phillips, with a cruciform hole and a 57-degree driver, (actually invented by Not Phillips (fotd#165)) - but in Canada, you're probably a Robertson head user, with a square taper (aka Scrulox, and also created by Not Robertson). both of these were intended (the latter before the former) as a replacement to the slotted screws. these days, the Robertson is in many ways simply better than the Phillips, to the point that it's slowly been escaping the Great White North and is appearing in shops elsewhere - but why do we use such an awful standard everywhere else? when the Robertson was dreamed up (by Not Robertson), it left the head of the screw much weaker because of the stamping process. by the time this had been ironed out (by Yes Robertson), the Great War had broken out and the industries, focused on the fighting, didn't want to shop from a Canadian.
#1209: when the Australian quiz show Spicks and Specks played Men at Work's Down Under (you'll recognise it if you look it up), the band lost money. they got the royalties ofc, but they still became poorer as a result. the game was to identify nursery rhymes inside other tunes, and the panel spotted a flute solo that had been directly lifted from the popular children's number Kookaburra. turns out that the original composer of it died in 1988 and it was still under copyright. after a lawsuit, they settled for 5% of the total historical profits.
#1208: patternmakers use rulers that are 1-3% longer. it's quite weird because you look at one of these and you wouldn't be able to tell until you put it next to a normal one that's a few millimetres shorter. patternmaking is when you make a positive model of what you want to cast in metal (often for structural/mechanical things) so they make everything slightly larger to account for shrinkage when it cools. they also have to work out how the end product gets removed and factor in distortion.
#1207: only one American has been inducted into the Hall of Fame for speed skating, figure skating and hockey, and not someone with the bulk of a defender and the grace of a dancer: it's Frank Zamboni! in 1947 he built an ice resurfacer to reduce downtime on his California rink by mounting basically a huge razor on an army jeep chassis. now they're just referred to by the genericised trademark of Zamboni. it shaves, washes, wets, then squeegees the ice, which is apparently a proper word. in fact, "to squeege" has been around for over 200 years. i would like to know where window cleaners get their squeegees because apparently they're special.
#1206: Boktai: the Sun is in Your Hand is a Game Boy Advance game with a photometer on the cartridge. you can charge your in-game solar weaponry by standing outside in daylight. it was received well by parents, who liked that it encouraged their kids to touch grass while playing and made it less fun to play at night. there are lots of other sun-based mechanics for which you have to input the current time and zone, and then the 24-hourly cycle mirrors the real-life sky.
#1205: any orchestral musician knows the pains of transposition, where instruments have a "written" and a "concert" pitch that sounds different (eg a D on the viola and a C on the clarinet sound the same), but, uh,,, why?? one of the reasons is for instrument families that have variants that vary by irregular intervals, but have common fingering. for example, a "written A" on a French double horn in F is played similarly to the same written note on a horn in Bb, allowed by transposition. also, there were many historical reasons for various instruments to transpose (like, before valves were invented you could only use a certain key without switching out parts; also there were a bunch of different standards for what A was back in the baroque days) and it was just easier to leave it like that than to rewrite every piece ever and retrain every artist ever.
#1204: rudimentary can describe both the understanding you have of something ("my grasp is rudimentary"), or the basicness of that thing that you have the comprehension of ("i speak rudimentary english"). it comes from "rudiment", which means a fundamental principle (and is a word that i intend on using). this comes from Latin rudis which is also the root of rude, both meaning simple or untrained. an erudite is someone who is well-learned or accomplished and is an assimilated form of this plus ex "out". your education is your erudition and you could also call scholarship or any body of book-origin knowledge this too.
#1203: on the Moscow metro (of which most of the lines are radial), the PSA voices are male as you head towards the city centre, and female as you head towards the suburbs. it was initially introduced as a measure to help the blind (or even non-Russian speakers, i guess), according to one random unreliable news article. the same page said that the ring route has a female reader going clockwise and male when anti-. the mnemonic is "your boss calls you to work, and your wife calls you home". just try to look over that i guess. the network also apparently extremely well-signed with lots of information and maps everywhere. and of course the famous deco. but it's also unique for having large gaps between stations - an average of 1800m - which means it can run at around 40km/h.
#1202: at the end of Queen Elizabeth I's reign, there was a grand total of zero dukes. there weren't any royal dukes (because she never married or had kids) and she managed to get most of the other dukes killed. there were also very few other peers: 1 marquis, 18 earls and 37 something or others. then when James VI ascended and the crowns were (kinda) united, all the dukes of Scotland became dukes of England. there was one.
#1201: although it may seem like one of historical preservation things (like London's famous views), the reason that all the buildings in Washington DC are shorter than the monument has nothing to do with that: in 1894, the Cairo Hotel was constructed at 164ft and people hated it so much that in 1899 (amended 1910), all buildings' heights were restricted to the width of the road they stood on (plus 20ft), and there was a hard cap on 130ft. buildings already above this limit were grandfathered in and many exceptions were made throughout the past century, but it still makes the city stand out among the other American metropoleis. Mayor Bowser (yeah, really) is trying to change it, but it'll need congressional approval which seems unlikely rn.
#1200: frogs' voices don't change in helium. their ribbits sound identical. frequency distribution analysis on five species showed no difference under different gases. this is actually quite cool because it means the vocal sacs (those big ballooning throats) don't have "cavity resonance", ie they don't make noise with the air inside them (like our larynx does). they're simply just wobbly bits of skin that vibrate. humans and dinosaurs, however, would of course be affected (see fotd#641) by heliox.
#1199: the first computer ever to discover a shape starred in the 1980 sitcom Laverne & Shirley. it was trying to look for the biggest shape (don't worry, it's not as stupid as it sounds) and i guess to fund itself, it had a side-hustle as an actor. it also featured in the Land of the Giants multiple times. it was a 1957 Burroughs 220, and ran on vacuum tubes; even though transistors had already been invented, it had quite a good stage career because it looked properly sci-fi. the B205, of the same series, trumps that by far, appearing in dozens and dozens of shows and films, from Batman to Transformers to Austin Powers. there's a website that's basically the IMDB of computers, and people scour the screen to figure out what model of computer everything is.
#1198: an inherently funny word is one which is humorous without context. for example, Vaudeville theatre made comedy from the sound /k/, like in "car keys", "cucumber" and "Alka Seltzer". according to "the world's funniest joke" (not to be confused with fotd#91), an experiment by Richard Wiseman, quips rated most comical were ones with "k" sounds, like "two ducks were sitting in a pond. one of them said 'quack'. the other said 'i was going to say that!'" or "what's brown and sticky? a stick". other words that tend to be inherently funny are those that sound similar to rudeness because they invert your expectations, leaving you with "a sense of relief - of getting away with it". for example, "focky" or "whong". other theories involve Shannon entropy, positing that these words are funny because of their unlikeliness - "skritz", for example, is a very improbable string of letters.
#1197: King John of Bohemia went blind, but still insisted on fighting in battle. he absolutely loved war, so he got together with France and tried to take a stab at England. this was during the 100 Years' War, so the French were absolutely up to the job. it led to the battle of Crécy, with 15-30 thousand deaths on the Romanic side and around 200 on our side. a complete whitewash. John rode into battle with his horse strapped between two of his attendants'. he wafted his sword around vaguely and i don't think anybody will be surprised to hear that he didn't last long. alongside him, nine princes, ten counts, a duke, a bishop, an arch one of those, and roughly 1500 noblemen were slain.
#1196: the reverse Tinkerbell effect (see fotd#1167) is when believing in something causes it to be less true. for example, if you believe driving is safe, you're likelier to get in a car, resulting in more people on the roads, making it more dangerous. another one is the belief that your vote matters: if you believe so, and you go and vote on this premise, then you've just made your ballot and everybody else's slightly less important.
#1195: Friz Frelang, creator of Looney Tunes, wanted someone with a stutter for the character of Porky Pig, to distinguish him: Joe Dougherty was hired. the sound editor, Treg Brown, had to edit together some lines by Count Cutillo (that's an actor, not a cartoon) when the stutter went on too long. after only two years, the role was recast to the one and only Mel Blanc. he obviously had to put on his stutter, but it meant he could control when and where it happened. the famous catchphrase "that's all folks" (which is on Mel's grave - those were his last words, what a guy) was coined by Joe when he couldn't get the word "end" out.
#1194: shambles comes from the Old English word scomul "stool" (see also: German schemel), ultimately from Latin meaning "little bench". the meaning of the word evolved over time from a footrest to a table, to a stall, to a vendor's display stand, to a meat shop, to a slaughterhouse, to a "place of butchery", to eventually a "mess" which gives us the sense of confusion we know and love today. throughout its 700-year journey, it only became plural in the past century or so. along its slow semantic saunter, it stopped off at a few places: for example, the Shambles is the road where food was sold (ie. the marketplace), most famously in York. it has nothing to do with the shambolic look of the crooked, narrow street, although the coincidence does go to show how good the worldbuilding is in this AU. shambolic, btw, dates to 1961, and is just based on shambles (according to Etymonline, possibly on the model of symbolic).
#1193: Glasgow's city chambers has more marble than the Vatican (or so it claims) with over 1.5 million tiles and the largest marble staircase in Western Europe (which feels like a slightly arbitrary prize but i guess you gotta give it to them). it's built from Carrera marble imported from Italy, alongside 10 million-odd bricks and 10,000 cubic metres of stone. the Scottish city is also home to the world's first ultrasound, the remains of Saint Valentine, and chicken tikka*.
about me :D
Awesome - Jedi knight - Chespin lover - Pro - Absolute idiot - the biggest Nerd™ you will ever encounter
I like Pokémon (well, duh), Star Wars, Lego, Chespin, Spriting, Coding, Trains, music, and nerding out about junk (the more useless the better) (and any combination of the above :P)
the world
is at peace when you have a banana
missing ones also appreciated for my dex
Avatar credits: Absbor <3
HRH Chespinking
kenver :D
First shiny, Sylvie
my starter, markus
first shiny leggy, Vincent
first 1OS mon, Gary
Polls
Progress and stuff
Zygarde 
Snek Forme 1,342
1,168(ill worry about the others at a later date)
KALOS SHINIES:
clicklist:
i have 86 of 117 Kalos Shinies
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