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BoomBoy
Trainerlevel: 78
Trainerpoints: 2,838/18,329
Trainerlevel: 78
Trainerpoints: 2,838/18,329
Party
| Pkmn | Name | Level | EXP/EHP |
|---|---|---|---|
 | The Chespinking (Chespin) SHINY  | 5,889 | 50,334,383 / 124,693,773 |
 | EGG | --- | 10,442/30,855 |
| EGG | --- | 10,627/30,855 |
| EGG | --- | 10,589/30,855 |
| EGG | --- | 11,047/30,855 |
| EGG | --- | 5,796/30,855 |
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 pay attention because some links are actually the same link, and it's very out of date, but it has all the historic links.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 now with Paldea!
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Use this Royal Tunnel Simulator to practise the noobtrap (out of date and no longer live).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 Zygarde (50% Forme).
Hunt started: 16/03/2025
Chain: 46
Hunt started: 16/03/2025
Chain: 46
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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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Game Records
Trainer ID: #762650682Registration: 10/02/2019 (6 Years ago)
Premium member until 10/Jan/2026
Time Played: 3016:40 Hours
Total interactions: 5,785,064
Money: 241,602
Starter Pokémon:
Dewott
Feeds
M for Mail
#1548: the first US Air Mail flew in August 1859 on a hot air balloon - a famous aeronaut, John Wise, attempted to fly from Lafyette, Indiana to New York. first, he had to delay it a day due to a faulty valve. when he did get moving, it wasn't very windy so it was slow going; so after just 30 miles the balloon stopped and landed, and the post was taken to its destination by train. only one envelope still exists from the 146 that flew (then rode) this way (and it's marked with the wrong year!). every envelope had to be labelled "For Balloon Jupiter". there was however a commemorative stamp on the centenary.
0M for Mayfair
#1547: in the Westminster district of Mayfair, there was an annual eponymous fair for the first two weeks of May. it happened every year from the 13th Century to 1764, except for 1603, and towards the 18th Century it became very popular, taking up most of the lower half of what Mayfair is today. they had things like gingerbread stalls, gambling, running-racing, toys, puppetry, juggling, theatre, swings, fighting, even semolina-eating contests. it attracted a bit of disrepute, for gamblers, beggars, gaudy music and even a bit of lewdness, so all the posho locals banded together, led by 6th Earl of Coventry, to get rid of it. shame, it sounded like a right lark. there was one act where a woman picked up an anvil by the hair on her head, and then lay down and had a horshoe forged and wrought upon her breasts.
M for Mountains
#1546: the Mountains of Kong and the Mountains of the Moon are both mountain ranges that were thought to exist for years but are in fact utter pipsqueak. the MotM were "discovered" by Diogenes (not THE Diogenes! very different...) who found the source of the White Nile there, and perpetuated by Ptolemy. while that confusion was going on, a guy called Mungo Park was checking out the Niger and saw some big mountains off in the Kingdom of Kong (Ivory Coast) so they got onto maps for a while too. every Western map of Africa i can find since their "discovery" had them on - people reportedly checked, too. combined (they apparently merged together in 1805...) they stretched in a formidable band the whole width of the Sahara, and no explorer dared tackle them. it took the Europeans until the end of the 19th century to realise that neither range exists at all.
L for Lizard
#1545: lots of lizards can't breathe and walk at the same time, called Carrier's constraint (discovered by David R Carrier). they wiggle around so much when they're running that one lung compresses as the other expands, so air just gets passed between the two lungs. lizards have to run a little, then take a breather, then carry on - not very efficient, as you can imagine, so there was a bit of an "arms race" in the Triassic era to work out ways around it. for example by only having one lung, or wiggling a little less. apparently some 100m-sprinters don't breathe when they run?
L for Lonely
#1544: 52 hertz is equivalent to the note G#1, about an octave above the lowest note on a standard piano. it's also the name of the "world's loneliest whale" - a whale with an unusually high voice. it was initially thought that it had such a high voice that no other whale could even hear it, so its cries went unrequited, but that might not be true. we can never know, because we've never even seen it, only heard it with Soviet-era hydrophones. there might even be multiple! it's been heard all over the eastern Pacific, as far as Alaska and Mexico, every year between 1989 and 2015. we don't even know its species, but blue whale is our best guess. here's one of the recordings on Wikimedia :)
L for Lavatory
#1543: a commode is a stand or chair that has a place to keep a chamber pot and often a seat to do your business on. there's a couple of fantastic ones made by the French in the 18th century, which are disguised as a stack of English classic literature. if they can't defeat us in a war, they can poo in our books! and there are multiple different designs of these! i also found one that's disguised with Dürer books - i guess the French love to hate all their neighbours. there's also the "Gotta Go Briefcase", which is a commode disguised as a suitcase, with all the necessary addons too (newspaper, loo roll, cupholder, hand sanitiser, vanity mirror). all the images i can find of it are the exact same image though so it may or may not actually exist. apparently the warranty is voided if the tank exceeds 80kg. i think you gotta have a pretty big vindaloo to get to that point.
L for Llama
#1542: llamas are very docile creatures, so they're being used as therapy friends! some llamas are particularly good at helping people with developmental conditions, or some are particularly friendly with anxious people, and so on. apparently they're a particularly big hit with dementia patients. alpacas too - both are very strokable and fluffy animals, but also very receptive and can detect how you're feeling and respond appropriately to set you at rest, or have fun with you, or whatever. but any llama can't just become a therapy llama - you have to undergo training and sit an exam, which involves demonstrating calmness in the face of an argument, among other things. it's been evidenced that llama therapy is more effective than standard behavioural therapy, perhaps because of the novelty value, but it's also not without its sceptics.
L for Lange Kerle
#1541: the Potsdam Giants were a battalion of the Prussian Army of particularly tall soldiers. Friedrich Wilhelm I was a huge fan of them - he went all over collecting these soldiers, sometimes even kidnapping them, to form his Potsdamer Riesengarde. they were nicknamed the Lange Kerle ("long dudes"). they never actually went to war, but Fritz had a lot of fun with them i think. when he was feeling down, he'd have them parade through his bedroom. he spent a lot of time with them personally, sometimes drawing their portraits from memory. by his death there were about 3,200 but Der Alte Fritz (his son) had them mostly disbanded when he came to power. FWI traded for them as tokens though: the Austrian emperor, Ottoman sultan and Russian tsar sent him their tallest soldiers as tokens of friendship.
L for Lethal injection (a content warning might be in order for this one)
#1540: Dr Nitschke, or Dr Death as he goes, invented a euthanasia laptop when the first euthanasia legalisation happened in 1995 in the Northern Territory. it's an odd little thing: you have to answer three questions to prove you're of sound mind and that you're still going through with it. the first is something along the lines of "are you aware that if you press 'yes' to the last question, you will die?". the second "are you aware that if you press 'yes' to the next question, you will die?" and finally "are you aware that if you press 'yes', you will die?". how blunt. the laptop, called the Deliverance Machine, was used by four people before being retired to the Wellcome collection. Dr Death hasn't stopped since the euthanisation law was overturned though: he invented the "Sarco", a 3D-printable euthanasia chamber designed such that anyone can make it.
L for Lard
#1539: shin-kicking is an "English martial art" that involves... kicking your opponent's shins. often it was done stark naked. if you wanna cheat, you can lather yourself in lard. it's pretty tough - you wear "British clogs" which are usually steel-capped or steel-soled shoes, and sometimes they have nails or horseshoe-like things put in too. and you just grab your opponent's shoulders and take turn kicking each other's shins. as hard as you can. when you concede a fight, you shout "Sufficient!" nowadays they make you stuff your trousers with straw which is no fun... sometimes people even died: in one case, Queen Victoria made someone exile to Australia for killing their opponent.
K for Knucklebone (yeah i somehow went the whole week with silent Ks?)
#1538: knucklebones is another names for the game i call scatterjacks. it's also called tali - the name of the bone it used to be played with, from the ankle of a hooved animal. these bones, aka astragali, were a sort of ancient precursor to dice; they had four sides that they could land on, but not perfectly evenly between them. the game knucklebones goes back a good 7000 years in some form or other, and probably came about several times independently. the Ancient Greeks and Egyptians ascribed the game as being taught to them by one god or another. cultures all over he world play something like it in one form or another, from the foot of Argentina to Morocco to Somalia to Mongolia to Korea.
K for Knives out
#1537: the "wheel of knives" is the centrepiece of the Knives Out (2019) set design - or as the director, Rian Johnson, calls it, the "knife donut". there's one point in the film where someone monologues about how the plot is a bit like a donut, and it seems like a genius bit of foreshadowing (i won't spoil any further) but Johnson said that was a complete coincidence and "i don’t know; i just thought a big ring of knives would look cool." it definitely does. it's apparently meant to be reminiscent of a halo. Johnson said he really wanted to keep it but he couldn't because most of the knives were rented: "yeah, we had to rent knives. it’s a crazy world. maybe my wife paid them off to have them tell me they were rentals."
K for Knights
#1536: you could get your coat of arms modified based on your success - a really good knight could win certain charges (an emblem of some sorts) to add to his shield. you could also get an abatement added for poor behaviour: for example, if you revoke a challenge you get a "delf tenné" added, which is a big orange square to the middle of your shield. it's basically like points on your driver's licence but for medieval knights. adultery would get you a "gusset" in one direction (dexter) whereas drunkard would get it pointing in the other direction (sinister). sometimes it's a bit more subtle; in France, you could have your lion become a "couard" with its tail between its legs, or even become emasculated. sometimes your entire shield could get flipped, indicating treason. a lot of these abatements haven't actually been attested in examples, we're just running off the rules that've been variously listed by various randos.
K for Knights and Knaves
#1535: a knave was originally a servant, like a kitchen boy or something similar. the name "Jack" was used to refer to any old boy, as in "jack-in-the-box" or "jack-of-all-trades" so the knave of a deck of cards got renamed to jack - it also saved the annoyance of having two ranks with the same initial. in some decks of Southern Europe, they represent the generic knave even more generically, as androgynous, or as a woman, and call it "maid" or equivalent. there are also knights, which in some decks replace the rank of queen. often the knave is depicted as a servant/soldier belonging to the knight, and the knight as a servant/soldier fighting for the king. the knight is also sometimes androgynous!
K for Knickerbocker
#1534: all the various meanings of "knickerbocker" come from a book about New York written by Washington Irving. it was a satirical history book that's also the reason why some of the modern Christmas traditions are the way they are - and it was published under a big ruse by the pseudonym of Diedrich Knickerbocker, a fictional historian invented by Irving. as a name, it probably comes ultimately from Knackerbakker "cracker baker". Mr Knickerbocker wore big baggy breeches, lending his name to them - eventually shortened to "knickers" and applied to ladies' undergarments in general. he also lent his name as a nickname for Manhattan, and there's a small handful of various places in NYC called Knickerbocker this or that. including a hotel, which invented the Knickerbocker Glory. crazy.
K for Knitting
#1533: the Uros/Uru people of Lake Titicaca live on floating islands. they're made from layers of bundled, woven and matted totora reeds (weaving is kinda knitting right? i've seen it described as the largest knitted object which is a bit dubious...) - a base layer called the khili is a couple metres thick and then the surface layers get replenished on a regular basis. it's supposed that they originally moved onto the lake and started floating around out of defense - as the Incan Empire started spreading into the area around 500 years ago. lots of the islands have watchtowers. in 1986 there was a storm so bad that the school floated to the other side of the lake.
K for Knitting
#1532: during both world wars, people would hide secret codes in their knitting. knitters (mostly women) would put knobbles into the wool spaced apart such that when it unravelled it could be measured as words, or they'd swap between types of stitches to write in morse code, or they'd intentionally muck up a stitch. as an example, Phyllis Latour Doyle parachuted into occupied Normandy and chatted up the German soldiers then knitted the intel into codified jumpers. at one point, it was forbidden to send patterns abroad because that would be too blatant i guess?
J for Jacob
#1531: Jacob, the forefather of the Israelites, takes his name from the word for "heel" according to Genesis, because he was born clutching his twin's heel. his name is really really old, that's for sure - a cuneiform transcription from 1800BC reads ya-ah-qu-ub-el, probably meaning literally something like "may El (God) protect", although that far back it's very difficult to say anything for sure. Jacob is also the root of James, Jack and even Diego. in Akkadian and Amorite, nearby languages to Hebrew, a similar phrase is found, ia-ah-qu-ub-dingir. dingir is a single cuneiform logogram meaning "God", which depicts an eight-pointed star. it originally represented the Sumerian word for "sky" and kinda looks like a sky...? ish?
J for Java
#1530: Krakatoa, the supervolcano that erupted in 1883 and was heard by the ear 3,000 miles away, is an interesting case for ecologists because the island was more or less completely wiped clean. (it's not actually East of Java, as per the film, rather to the West.) when the first people arrived 9 months later, the only sign of life they found was a single spider in the entire now-archipelago. within a year, grass had colonised it, and there's now a range of vegetation, albeit still quite vulnerable to the volcanoes that still have the occasional hissy-fit. in the 1910s, Johann Handl rented half of one of the islands, intending to collect pumice - he left after four years, but he's blamed for introducing the black rat, which has been kinda invasive and taken over. but i guess most of the species are technically invasive.
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 #aFactADay2025 on a daily basis (for backlog: 2021 - 2022 - 2023 - 2024 - 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 1,134 Dragon
1,040 Fairy
1,136 Ground
1,171 Normal
1,205 Poison
897 Ice
999 Electric
586 Steel
559 Fire
1,115 Bug
551 Darkgoing for roughly 1000 each i guess?
KALOS SHINIES:
clicklist:
i have 95 of 117 Kalos Shinies
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