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BoomBoy
Trainerlevel: 77
Trainerpoints: 3,460/17,863
Trainerlevel: 77
Trainerpoints: 3,460/17,863
Party
| Pkmn | Name | Level | EXP/EHP |
|---|---|---|---|
 | The Chespinking (Chespin) SHINY  | 5,694 | 29,916,229 / 116,567,655 |
 | Chester (Quilladin) SHINY | 169 | 88,485 / 98,445 |
 | Chestnut (Chesnaught) SHINY | 169 | 66,693 / 98,445 |
 | roasting on open fire (Carkol) | 98 | 4,097 / 32,073 |
 | EGG | --- | 4,489/5,355 |
 | EGG | --- | 4,744/5,355 |
tools (mostly outa date)
Use this Hangman Helper. (this link is now broken.... does anyone have a working one?)
Use this Price Check only for very large/very infrequently sold things. use a combination of stonks, logic and intuition for whatever you can
Use this Map. pay attention because some links are actually the same link, and it's very out of date, but it has all the historic links.
Use this bag valuator to figure out what is worth selling.
Use this Royal Tunnel Helper - probably also out of date but idk
Use this Help Subforum to see the FAQs and search help threads
Use this Royal Tunnel Simulator to practise the noobtrap (out of date and no longer live).
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 hangman chain that makes me go "woah". i'm thinking like CatLady levels of woah
annual goals have been suspended due to vague inactivity. whatever i'm working atm on is in the "progress" tab
ima probably add more here as they are thought of
Contact
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Plushies
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Exocomet | 1 Day ago |
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Ravenswing | 1 Day ago |
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LuckyLady | 1 Day ago |
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-Morningstar | 3 Days ago |
Game Records
Trainer ID: #762650682Registration: 10/02/2019 (5 Years ago)
Premium member until 01/Jan/2025
Game Time: 2971:42 Hours
Total interactions: 5,731,824
Money: 148,551
Starter Pokémon:
Dewott
Feeds
#1415: a vole clock is a way of measuring really large amounts of time. the vole evolved so rapidly over the past few million years, and we have such a good idea of precisely how it evolved, that finding teeth of a vole at an archaeological site is enough to accurately date the site to extents that carbon-14 can't. it dated Boxgrove Man, a Sussex residency site and the first record of humans in England that long ago, to 500,000 years give or take only 25,000. however, it's not perfect: because evolution isn't linear, some argue that statistically speaking it's not any better than other methods of biochronology and palaeontology and gives a lot of false precision.
0#1414: this fact will be very sad if you don't read it! object personification is a symptom of autism that some call counter-intuitive (less socially capable people making social artifices) but it's been remarked in historical literature of autistic authors as “object-oriented empathy”. autistic people are likelier to attribute human qualities to objects, or to do things for the sake of the object’s feelings. (interestingly, about a third of all adults, regardless of neurotype, say objects have gender.) when people are rejected by a group, they're likelier to reach out to a different group - some say that autistic people are isolated from most of society and thus befriend objects. actually, anthropomorphising objects promotes sociability and helps you connect with other people. it may help alleviate anxiety by creating a conversation that you can actually control - in that way some say it's a “bridge” to help autistic people in real social situations.
#1413: the penduline tit abandons around a third of its young, even if they're perfectly healthy, because of "sexual conflict". it's evolutionarily advantageous for any one individual to mate multiple times, because they spread their genes more widely, but if the male and female both do it at the same time then it becomes a problem because nobody's left to look after the chicks. after building the nest for the female, the male has to carefully time his French exit by making sure he fertilises all the eggs and they're all healthy, but not waiting so long that he won't be able to find a second mate. the female will do her best to stop the male knowing what's going on, by getting very aggressive and stopping him getting near the eggs, occasionally killing him in the process. it only sometimes has any effect - the male usually gets away and the female has to weigh up abandoning this clutch of eggs or going and getting more.
#1412: the notoriously difficult Imperial Examination for the Chinese Civil Service was the ultimate goal for many high school students who wanted a prestigious and prosperous job there. for almost 1500 years until its abolition in 1905, students were tested on Confuscianism, literacy and literature. it was considered so successful because it was one of the first meritocratic systems, pretty much ever, and was a unifying knowledgebase over such a large empire. of course with such a long-running exam cheating became pretty successful - you might've seen the incredibly small books with almost illegible writing, or the vests that had texts written incredibly finely into the lining. they used to rent out undergarments made of paper covered in notes. because the exam sometimes lasted upwards of three days straight, participants brought their own chamberpot and packed lunch and sometimes they'd hide notes in there.
#1411: Kermit is quite a common name, i didn't realise. it was originally popularised by Theodore Roosevelt's son, born 1889, who was himself named after a great-uncle, Robert Kermit. Robert Kermit owned a shipping line called the Robert Kermit Red Star Line, or Kermit Line for short. the Kermit Line is the real London Overground name we need... "Kermit" derives from a Manx surname "Kermode" which is thought to be analogous with "MacDermot" (son of Dermot). the related Irish house of Diarmada is 900 years old and ruled the Kingdom of Magh Luirg for about 450 years. and Kermit the Frog was originally a generic lizard; it wasn't until over a decade after his creation that he was specified as a frog (which...isn't even a lizard).
#1410: coffeehouses, the fuel behind the Enlightenment, first sprung up in Damascus then Mecca in the 15th century. they spread through the Ottoman Empire, in spite of attempts to ban them in the early 16th century because they encouraged political discussions. they were brought over by Jewish merchants in the 17th century, reaching Oxford by 1650. by 1675, there were more than 3000 in England. they became a social leveller, sometimes nicknamed "Penny Universities" because you could get printed newspapers for just an entry fee of a penny. Charles II and Mary II also tried to curb them because they were an alleged source of anti-governmental sentiment.
#1409: George Washington Carver had a list of hundreds of different uses of peanuts. they were mostly food (including some of those alternative meats vegans annoy you with, like Mock Chicken, Mock Veal and Mock Oyster. a century before it was cool) but there were some curveballs, like soap, laxatives, axel grease, fuel and temporary walls. he spent a lot of time developing ways to protect soil from depletion, and he incentivised farmers to introduce rotations with things like sweet potatoes, pecans, and - you guessed it - peanuts. i think he made similar lists for other things too, and compiled recipes and things to help farmers get more from their land and improve their work and quality of life.
#1408: "immersion diuresis", aka skinny-dipping syndrome, is when you jump into the sea and need to go to the loo. this is thought to be because when exposed to cold, your surface blood vessels constrict, sending blood to your internal organs. this causes more fluid near your bladder and brain, so they begin to filter it out to relieve perceived hypertension (by inhibiting ADH, antidiuretic hormone). but it's also thought that immersion diuresis is a slightly different thing to cold-induced diuresis, which has been shown to be independent of hypertension. cold-induced diuresis is posited to be a purely hormone thing: the hormone axis controlling your bladder is suppressed and slowed by the cold, probably perhaps possibly...
#1407: Zheng He took his navy on seven voyages across the globe in the 15th century, commanding upwards of 250 ships, and around a hundred "treasure ships" which were massive junks 70-140m in length, manned by 600 people and with seven masts. they went all over, leaving a folkloric footprint: for example, when they were travelling through Malacca they were hit with a storm and Zheng's boat almost sank, but a fish plugged the hole. he picked up the fish (which must've been a divine intervention) and where he touched it, he left five fingerprints on its body. the queenfish, which has five blotches on its side, is said to descend therefrom and is sometimes known as "boat-jumping fish", and the locals vowed never to eat it. obviously by its nature, it's impossible to verify this happened, but the practice of not eating it is continued. not just because it's highly poisonous and a pain to catch.
#1406: more divorce stories! (see #1347): Gabriel Villa got a divorce with his wife Christina Carta (who's 31 years younger) in the Domincan Republic in 1994 to protect his assets - without her knowing. in the Dominican Republic you can get a divorce without your partner being present, and on much more broad grounds (he claimed he was unhappily married, which i think counts as irreconcilable difference?). she only found out nearly 22 years later in 2015, when a tax bill arrived in the post without her name on it. she was furious, and filed for an un-divorce. after equal divorce rights in 1923, the Brighton Quickie (now a helicopter ride) was a method of divorce in the 20s and 30s where a husband would go down to Brighton on the train and sleep in a hotel with another woman. they didn't commit adultery in any way - [ctd in comments]
#1405: ploughing has been an important part of many cultures for millenia. but people are realising that just because we've always done it doesn't mean it's any good. "ploughless tillage" is gaining traction and the further you look the more benefits you find: it combats wind and rain erosion and protects the soil from the sun; it reduces loss of matter and leaves residue evenly distributed through the topsoil; it reduces your plants contracting diseases early in life; it reduces crusting, increases porosity and helps buffer the pH. this is how they used to do it in some of precolonial South America, and it forms a big part of "regenerative agriculture" which is about leaving the soil be and letting nature do the work. minimising disturbances, by not ploughing but also by not fertilising, pesticiding etc, maintains the existing ecosystem, for example keeping micro- and mesofauna (small and smallish animals) and living plant roots alive and happy.
#1404: Brightline, the only completely private rail operator in the USA, has ten trains, each comprising four passenger cars and two locomotives. the coaches claim to hold 1,487,556 oranges, which almost makes it sound like they tested this, but some geezer probably divided two numbers in Excel. which means that, if i could be bothered to find the Siemens Ventura specs, i could find the volume of oranges in Florida. the cars each take 6000 hours to build and involve 2100 workers, doing things like welding 50,000 times, moving 136 metric tonnes of metal and loading one and a half million oranges. the locomotives are SCB-40, which have 40(00 horsepower) and a max speed of (1)40(mph) (if you do some dubious rounding). the SC-44 has 4400hp so i'm sure they continued this trend and made every train have a unique power output so they could give them unique names. i mean that's actually not that far off the truth.
#1403: the prefix "un-" is annoyingly interesting because really it has two meanings. on an adjective, it means that something is impossible or has not been yet done, whereas on a verb it means that something is being reversed. because, as i'm painfully aware, all verbs can be adjectives if you believe, this can lead to fun clashes: an unmade bed could be a bed that isn't yet made (un+made) or a bed that someone's messed up (unmake+past). in the case of a bed, it doesn't really matter whether it was ever made; but an "unpicked lock" could be a lock that someone's unpicked, or it remains unpicked - that is, you have no idea whether the lock is still locked. there's also a sorta hidden meaning of intensifying a divestment, like how "to unskin" means the same as "to skin". which means that "unshelled" and "unshelled" could mean completely opposite things. don't get me started on "unputdownable" and "uncalledfor" (yes, one word).
#1402: catnip is famously an "olfactory enrichment" (pronounced: recreational drug) for cats, but around one in three cats don't really care for it. in fact, four-fifths of cats get euphoria from silver vine (aka cat powder and related to kiwis), and usually more intensely than with catnip. most cats that aren't bothered by catnip respond instead to silver vine, so you can use that to get your pets high if you want. tatarian honeysuckle and valerian root are other alternatives should you fancy branching out, although they're slightly less popular among domesticated cats. funnily enough, tigers seem to be a little divided on their catnip opinions but were unanimously insulted by the silver vine. we're not entirely sure of which chemical in which is exactly causing what but there's a family of attractants called iridoids that may be the ticket, including nepetalacetone, nepetalactol and actinidine.
#1401: "flash fiction" is that sort of really really short story that tries to still offer character development and plot narratives. you've probably heard of the six-word story that Hemmingway didn't write, "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." and you've probably also heard of the 100-word challenge, which is also known as a "drabble" (originating from Monty Python). obviously, half a drabble is a dribble (exactly 50 words); but it can also be called a minisaga, which sometimes means more specifically a 50-worder that tells a longer story, contains a complete narrative, or something like that. fiftywordstories.com is a fun place to waste a couple of minutes. there are also character count restrictions (eg "twitterature") and time-based limits (eg one-minute stories).
#1400: the snub-nosed monkey lives in the highest altitude of any primate (except humans), in the eastern Himalayas up to 4,500m high. their boneless turned-up noses might be to help them breathe better because there's less air up there, or maybe so they don't get frostbite. they eat lichen, which takes ages to regrow so they move around a lot and live in large groups. all species are endangered or critically endangered, with just a few thousand left - considering they live in groups of up to 600, that's barely any. they have a surprisingly small gene pool and a lot of common mutations, for example helping them against hypoxia in the high altitudes. but it also points to a relatively recent population bottleneck - possibly due to glacial movements and the raising of the Tibetan Plateau.
#1399: the Riot Act was a 1715 act against the riots that were going on in the wake of the coronation of George I. it basically said that if more than 12 people were in a riot, magistrates were allowed to tell them to buzz off - basically an ASBO before it was cool. in fact, "reading the riot act" is when someone gives a stern telling off to a bunch of rowdy folks, or when someone reminds you that actions have consequences. anyone who continued to riot for an hour after being told otherwise has automatically committed a felony - but until that hour i think you're completely free to keep throwing tomatoes or whatever. i mean this law was depracated sixty years ago, but should you ever find yourself in some sort of time travelling disestablishmentarianism...
#1398: this feels like a slightly obvious result, but being scared increases your chance of seeing faces. a study that showed people a short clip from a horror film found that these people were much likelier to see human-ish things (faces, mostly) in random doodles. this form of fear-driven pareidolia (see #1321) is probably an evolutionary vestige, and is perhaps a special case of the basis behind the Rorschach tests.
#1398: when you put two cheerios in a bowl of milk, they'll attract - this is called the "cheerio effect". cheerios will also be attracted to the edge of the bowl under the same effect, and if you manage to get some pins floating on the surface of the water, they'll also attract each other - but the pins will actually repel the cheerios. this is because the pins make a small downward dent in the milk because they're denser than it, but they float due to surface tension. another pin coming along will roll into it under gravity, as if it were a solid surface. but the cheerios feel more bouyant force than gravity, so they want to roll uphill: around each cheerio is an upwards meniscus (bend in the surface tension), so another cheerio will come along and want to float upwards, rolling up the hill into the cheerio. they'll roll away from the downward dents caused by the pins, and towards the edge of the bowl if the meniscus there is upwards as well.
about me :D
(yes that's a challenge)
they/them • chespin fan • nerd • aro/acespec • completely socially oblivious
currently studying maths, physics and engineering. also a wannabe polyglot - learning German (~B2), Russian (~A2) and Turkish (quite a beginner lol) so feel free to talk to me in non-English ^^ i've got a conlang on the roll and one day i might set up a blog for that or something.
i run #aFactADay2024 on a daily basis (for backlog: 2021 - 2022 - 2023 - tumblr blog).
if you have any qualms or points of discussion, my PP and PMs are always open, so i can gloat about how little i care, or about how much i care. i don't really do anything in between lol. feel free to contact me about anything at all :)) i'm pretty insensitive lol
i used to have my fave mons here but there are just too many >u< just check out whatever's in my party at the mo haha
Polls
Progress and stuff
Zygarde 
Snek Forme 1,474 Dragon
1,342 Fairy
1,527 Ground
1,547 Normal
1,539 Poison
1,358 Ice
1,380 Electric
944 Steel
844 Fire
1,416 Bug
936 Darkgoing for roughly 1000 each i guess?
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