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BoomBoy
Trainerlevel: 77
Trainerpoints: 3,362/17,863
Trainerlevel: 77
Trainerpoints: 3,362/17,863
Party
| Pkmn | Name | Level | EXP/EHP |
|---|---|---|---|
 | The Chespinking (Chespin) SHINY  | 5,688 | 110,802,414 / 116,321,961 |
 | ~Rose~ (Xerneas) SHINY | 1,004 | 223,058 / 3,783,826 |
 | Kenver (Zygarde (10% Forme)) SHINY | 925 | 541,215 / 3,212,064 |
 | Prince Herbert (Mega Absol) SHINY | 93 | 23,046 / 28,767 |
 | Gary (Victini) SHINY | 912 | 682,381 / 3,122,461 |
 | Markus (Dewott) | 721 | 1,704,070 / 1,852,479 |
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 pay attention because some links are actually the same link, and it's very out of date, but it has all the historic links.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Use this Royal Tunnel Helper - probably also out of date but idk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Use this Royal Tunnel Simulator to practise the noobtrap (out of date and no longer live).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
Badge Showcase
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Plushies
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Ravenswing | 1 Day ago |
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~Hummus~ | 3 Days ago |
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hinayanachan | 7 Days ago |
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Cloudfairy | 10 Days ago |
Game Records
Trainer ID: #762650682Registration: 10/02/2019 (5 Years ago)
Game Time: 2969:30 Hours
Total interactions: 5,729,690
Money: 11,667
Starter Pokémon:
Dewott
Feeds
#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.
0#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.
#1397: in December 2006, Wikipedia user Platypus222 added a line to the Trivia section of the Pringles page, saying that the mascot is called Julius Pringle. this was completely made up, but throughout the years it slowly grew in the media (citogenesis) and in 2013, Pringles' new owner Kellogg's formally claimed the name. what was once false now came true simply because it was claimed to be true..... deep? this similarly happened to Mike Trout, a baseball player who was given the nickname Millville Meteor by a Wikipedian, and he started signing autographs with it. someone put their own name, Patrick Parker, onto the Wiki-page for the Riddler from Batman; in 2022 it appeared as a canon alias in a film. it's not just Wikipedians going around making stuff up though: Michelle "MJ" from the recent Marvel Spiderman films was given the surname Jones by fan-fiction writers, and in the third film of the series, she was confirmed to be called Jones-Watson.
#1396: a hornbook was a paddle about the size of a book that had the alphabet on it and then shielded with a thin layer of translucent horn so it could be used by students as a quick reference and learning tool during roughly the 14th to 18th centuries. they were so common that nobody thought to preserve many, but they did make it into common language as a synonym for children's education, and (with the help of Shakespeare, of course) as an insult, to mean poorly-educated. that's not the only remnant of hornbooks though: each started with Christ's cross, which would be recited before the alphabet ("Christ cross me speed; a, b, c, [...]"). the alphabet was thus known as the "criss-cross row", and this is thought to be the origin of the phrase "criss-cross".
#1395: canine transmissible venereal tumour (CTVT) is a horrible disease that dogs get on their genitalia (please don't google it....), but it's also quite interesting. it's a type of cancer, but it's genetically unrelated to the infected canid. it's thought that all cases of this worldwide stem from a single "founder" dog around 2-11 thousand years ago. which means it's technically also a parasite and a pathogen, as well as a cancer. it's one of the few vertebrate endoparasites, although only on technicality really because it doesn't actually have a backbone or spinal cord or anything really. it's also an STI, making it one of few cancers that can be transmitted.
#1394: the loincloth a sumo wrestler (rikishi) wears is called a mawashi and tends to be around 9m long and 4kg heavy. the really high-end ones are hand-weaved and can cost upwards of a million yen (~£5100). you don't wash you mawashi - you can remove caked mud and stains and stuff, but if it gets smelly most rikishi will just get a new one. different ranks of rikishi will fold their mawashi slightly differently, and sekotori (highly ranked wrestlers) will have a separate, silken mawashi for competitions called shimekomi. also during competitions, a sagari will be added, which is a stiff band with silk strings that hang down. some people say the colour of the mawashi brings good or bad luck, but i think most people seem to wear whatever for the larks.
#1393: the Swadesh list is a list of supposedly universal concepts. there are actually various lists and they're all flawed in one way or another, but the idea is that it's a list of the most "stable" words, ie the words that exist in all languages and tend to stick around in those languages for a while. it's meant to be used for things like statistics and glottochronology (big fancy word for language evolution), but it's also kind of interesting in its own right. some of them make sense, like "say", "water", "person"; some of them might become dubious when some languages have weird grammar, like "I" and "who?"; there's a couple of oddballs like "grease", "louse" and "vomit". but i'm sort of convinced that they didn't really look very far, because "mountain (not hill)" is on this list and according to fotd#1388 they had to use "hill" in place of "mountain" in the Gilbertese Bible. personally i think the true Swadesh list is empty, but what do i know.
#1392: the standard of proof is the level to which you have to prove something in court. you've probably heard of "beyond all reasonable doubt" - that's the highest standard. in the USA there are several underneath, mostly using fancy words like "preponderance" and "suspicion", and going down as far as "some evidence" (yes, all you need to have your prison behaviour credit taken away is "some evidence"). in the UK there are only two levels - civil and criminal standard. criminal standard is equivalent to "beyond reasonable doubt" but it's put as "so that you are sure". but there are still some criminal cases that use the civil standard, stating "more likely than not" - this led to the misconception among judges (yeah even judges didn't know this until they cleared it up in the 2000s) that there was a third layer in between, because it seems a bit dumb that there can be such a low threshold for serious cases like suicide or lawsuits of billions.
#1391: "cretin" comes from French crestin (dialectal chrétien), referring to families in the Alps who had congenital thyroidal deficiencies. many say this originally comes from "Christian" because in Vulgar Latin, everyone was a Christian so it came to mean specifically a poor fellow with whom you had sympathy. if this is true, it makes "cretin" a doublet of "Christian" because they both come from the same Latin word but through different routes. doublets are often really unexpected - like "guest" and "host" both stem from the same root meaning "stranger" (*ghosti - actually unrelated to ghosts), or "charity" and "whore" (both from *ka meaning "to like"). doublets can tell us a lot about how and when language changed - for example ward(en)/guard(ian) and zealous/jealous tell us how Old French changed gu->w and z->j, and yard/garden tells us how Old English changed g->y.
#1390: metamorphosis occurs in all sorts of corners of the animal kingdom, and the incredibly complicated mechnisms are, probably expectedly, mediated by hormones. for example, all metamorphising chordata (frogs and so on) is characterised by iodothyronine (which does indicate something about evolution that i don't quite get). prothoracicotropic hormone (described by Vincent Wigglesworth - fantastic name for an entomologist) aka PTTH is in charge of moulting the exoskeleton of arthropods - this happens usually several times before the final metamorphosis, so there are several ecdyses (sheddings) and the stage between each is called an instar. once there have been enough instars, the juvenile hormone dies down so the final instar is the adult form. of course, since these are hormones, weird stuff can happen if you know where to look.
#1389: the entire globe has massive prevailing winds across the oceans stretching east-west, creatively named the "easterlies" and the "westerlies" (also called the trade and anti-trade winds resp.). they're responsible for a lot - eg where they clash is where a lot of hurricanes and (anti-)cyclones start; they cause the big cells of circulating winds that divide the planet into six bands. during the Age of Discovery when the Europeans were sailing round colonising left, right and centre, and they were riding where the trade winds took them. even though the word initially came from the "path" meaning of "trade", they did significantly influence international trade for centuries. it caused Europeans to build up certain areas more than others, eg in Manila because it could be sailed to easily and it became a centre of Latin Pacific trade for three centuries. there's even an argument to be made that the direction of the slave trade was influenced by these.
#1388: the name of Kiribati, the Pacific island nation, is just a Gilbertisation of "Gilbert". (the <t> can sometimes refer to /t/ or /s/ - here it sounds like "kiribas". Christmas Island was Gilbertised as "kiritimati", for example.) Gilbert was the name of a British captain who bumped into the island while taking convicts to Australia. i can't find any endonym specifically for the Gilbertese language (there are many translations for the word "language") but please show me wrong. the Bible was translated into Gilbertese but quite a lot of words obviously didn't exist prior to Anglic engagement - "pig", "cat", "rice", "ice" among others were loaned (beeki, katamwa, raiti and aiti resp.). my favourite is that they didn't really know what a mountain was, so they settled on hills, which the locals had apparently heard about through some Samoan myths.
#1387: Ōkunoshima is a bizarre island, about a kilometre long, inhabited by a very large rabbit population and a disused chemical factory. after signing the 1925 Geneva Convention banning chemical weaponry, they chose this discrete island in the "inland sea" to manufacture kilotons of tear gas and mustard gas. it's hard to tell because all the documents were destroyed; they tested on bunnies, but its current resident rabbits are thought to be unrelated. visitors are encouraged to feed the rabbits, but they're still kinda feral so they'll chase after you apparently. in the 80s they opened a museum to educate about the chemical factory, because before then even the residents didn't know what it was.
#1386: "cravatte" comes from "Croat"/"Hrvat" because the Croats (an independent cavalry force formed in now-Croatia and the Habsburg empire) wore neckties. it was part of their uniform from the start, but when they were hired by France in 1660, the Parisian court made it trendy. as they became longer and thinner, it became a trend to personalise the manner in which you tie it - hence "tie". the older style is still called a cravat(te), although it's a little different to what the Croats or the Parisians wore. the American name, "ascot", unsurprisingly comes from the Royal Ascot Racecourse in Berkshire.
#1385: before the days of fridges, Russian rural dwellers would pop a live frog in their milk to "cool" it. the folkloric idea is that they're inherently cold creatures so it's like a permanent ice cube, i believe. you might think, wow how gross and barbaric and nonsensical! (that's what people even in modern Russia would say, i think.) but western scientists discovered in 2012 that the Siberian frogs secrete dozens of different antimicrobial substances from their skin - which the Russians had figured out for centuries. it's actually perfect timing because some of these proteins are turning out to be commercially viable as antibacterials, in face of the superbug crisis. there might be a lesson here.... if you wanna put frogs in your tea, go ahead
#1384: Germany's word of the year is always interesting to follow, but the spin-offs are often more fun. Jugendwort des Jahres (youth word otY) i heard about because Tagesschau's presenter, Susanne Daubner, stepped down and had to come back due to popular demand this year. those are mostly slang from a few years ago tho, kinda like the Oxford WotY. more apt is the Unwort des Jahres (un-word otY): these are often words that package or hide infringements of human rights recently popularised and applied wrongly in the news. 2020 was Corona-Diktatur, 2021 was Pushback (as in what you do to refugees at the border...), then Klimaterroristen (climate terrorists) and Remigration. on a lighter note, there's also the Anglizismus des Jahres: eg, 2021 had boostern (to get a (COVID) booster) with runner-ups of Long Covid, QR-Code, cringe, and woke. these are all the German btw - i'm not translating. my favourite was 2019 "OK Boomer", implying that's one word. kinda is
#1383: cacti have nectaries (nectar glands) out of their flowers - these are to attract ants. desert ants need sugar, and more importantly water, and in exchange they offer their protection. they defend it from potential herbivores too small to be deterred by the spines, and clean it of potentially harmful microbes. the cacti sometimes have a preference of ant: some ant species are too aggressive, and prevent pollinators getting through - which is becoming a problem with invasive species. cacti have developed extrafloral nectaries in at least four locations (spines, leaves, modified spines and stem), implying this is really the way forward evolutionarily for them.
#1382: a nightmare has nothing to do with a female horse. Henry Fuseli's famous depiction The Nightmare contains both a horse and a demon haunting the sleeping woman - the demon is the mare in nightmare. it sits on the supine chest of sleepers, and one source says that "nightmare" originally referred to the feeling of having something weighing your chest down. a mare is an incubus, unrelated to the equestrian mare, although Fuseli probably didn't help that. the German equivalent, Albtraum, comes from Alb, cognate with "elf" and also meaning incubus. these demons are also called "night hags", and are variously the souls of men or women depending on which flavour of folklore you're using (so not necessarily incubi or succubi). it's also called witch-riding, because the soul of a witch is quite literally riding you, causing "sleep paralysis" (conscious paralysis when you wake up).
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 1,469 Dragon
1,332 Fairy
1,504 Ground
1,525 Normal
1,518 Poison
1,342 Ice
1,356 Electric
933 Steel
834 Fire
1,391 Bug
925 Darkgoing for roughly 1000 each i guess?
KALOS SHINIES:
clicklist:
i have 95 of 117 Kalos Shinies
Last Visitors
| Visitors | ||
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 | Pokemon1626 | Tue, 19/Nov/2024, 12:45 |
 | Espy2015 | Mon, 18/Nov/2024, 09:29 |
 | ~Hummus~ | Sun, 17/Nov/2024, 14:08 |
 | Dogga | Sun, 17/Nov/2024, 07:54 |
 | ETREV | Sat, 16/Nov/2024, 10:04 |