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BoomBoy
Trainerlevel: 78
Trainerpoints: 7,600/18,329
Trainerlevel: 78
Trainerpoints: 7,600/18,329
Party
| Pkmn | Name | Level | EXP/EHP |
|---|---|---|---|
 | The Chespinking (Chespin) SHINY  | 5,990 | 34,219,009 / 129,010,310 |
 | Mini scule (Zygarde (Cell Forme)) SHINY | 536 | 617,742 / 1,079,371 |
 | Kenver (Zygarde (10% Forme)) SHINY | 972 | 2,961,874 / 3,546,586 |
 | Zygarde (50% Forme) SHINY | 177 | 12,120 / 118,149 |
 | EGG | --- | 4,730/6,630 |
| EGG | --- | 4,507/6,630 |
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 pay attention because some links are actually the same link, and it's very out of date, but it has all the historic links.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Use this Royal Tunnel Simulator to practise the noobtrap (out of date and no longer live).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 Diancie.
Hunt started: 05/05/2025
Chain: 25
Hunt started: 05/05/2025
Chain: 25
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[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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Summer-Blizzard | 8 Days ago |
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Professor Rowan | 12 Days ago |
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BoomBoy | 19 Days ago |
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Juuzou- | 23 Days ago |
Game Records
Trainer ID: #762650682Registration: 10/02/2019 (6 Years ago)
Premium member until 10/Jan/2026
Time Played: 3036:41 Hours
Total interactions: 5,786,723
Money: 204,147
Starter Pokémon:
Dewott
Feeds
T for Turtle-oises
#1595: turtle racing (with tortoises) is a popular sport - or was, at least, during the 20th century. time and time again it's been under scrutiny for animal welfare, because most of the tortoises are caught in the wild. the Wikipedia section on controversy is longer than the rest of the article. events have had to be cancelled, closed down, etc, for various animal welfare violations, or IUCN Redlist violations, or over"farming", or spread of disease... the list goes on. most of them took place in America, but there was a popular Canadian turtle derby (with tortoises) that now has a giant 28-foot statue in its honour. there was one race in London that drew in competitors from around the world, but had to be cancelled because...... one of the tortoises had a toy car taped to the bottom of its shell...... at least there's a fun scandal too
1S for Natural Selection
#1594: sorry... another un-fact... there is not a lot of agreement in the dinosaur fanbase. the Species Recognition Hypothesis for example (#1592) received criticism because it jumped to a lot of conclusions. it seems that no matter what conclusion you reach, you have to jump, because there's so little evidence. for example, people rejected sexual selection for a lot of dinosaurian developments, because there's no sexual dimorphism. however, there're so few fossils to even tell that, and even without sexual dimorphism, there could be "mutual sexual selection" where sexiness is a two-way road. and of course, nothing is mutually exclusive. of course it helps to identify your species with whacky headgear, but that may not be the primary driving factor - rather, whacky headgear looks cool or helps you ward off predators or whatever.
S for Sexual Selection
#1593: as we were always told in primary school, sauropods grew long necks to reach the higher food, doing better than all the competition. but there's a new selection hypothesis on the block: sexual - that could either be making yourself look better to the other sex (intersexual) (as in birds) or competition with the same sex (intrasexual) (as in giraffes). there are certain expectations we'd have if one hypothesis was more true than the other: the easiest predictions to test involve other species. for example, if they were trying to reach the higher branches, you'd expect the whole body to grow proportionately to the neck (ie. legs) but short-necked dinos had similar (proportionate) leg length to the long-necked. you'd expect a sort of "stratification" where some species take the top layers and then some species fit in between, etc, but that's not been fully attested either.
S for Species Recognition
#1592: dinosaurs had some really "bizarre" things going on (their word not mine) - strange arrangements of horns, frills, crests, spines, hair, etc.. obviously lots of these had "functions", but the Species Recognition Hypothesis posits that they were so bizarre simply because they need to be different: one species needs to recognise another member of its own, just like you're able to instantly tell a human from a vaguely human-looking ape. the argument goes, because the only evolutionary requirement is to be different between species, they end up evolving completely wildly. the coiners of the theory themselves don't think it's a catch-all, but it could explain a lot. for example, a lot of theories about sexual attraction are moot because there's very little structural sexual dimorphism (ie only size etc. differences between male and female) in the dinosaurs. collecting evidence on these sorts of things is a nightmare, obviously.
S for Catching Spies
#1591: in 2017 and 2018, Strava published a bunch of heatmap data that accidentally publicised the locations and habits of military bases around the world that used FitBits and the likes. in some cases, random Twitter users could track individual soldiers across the world. someone called Nathan Ruser was one of the first people, who traced the outline of US bases in Afghanistan just by looking at Strava's heatmaps. French, Italian and and CIA sites were also blatant. in the wake of this, the US Army had to enact "leave-at-home policies" on mobile devices which basically means "don't carry a GPS tracker around with you, you idiots". prior to this, the Army had encouraged FitBits, etc. to promote fitness in the soldiers, but i guess the attitude of technofeudalist surveillance finally bit them in the bum.
S for Catching Spies
#1590: the American spies in the USSR were caught time and time again - an ex-KGB officer tells us this is because the staples Americans used to forge passports were made of stainless steel, whereas proper Soviet staples should be cheaply made and beginning to rust, so guards looked for brown stains in the seams. some people say it's unlikely that this actually caught anyone - they say the American spies rarely got that far.
S for Sand and Shingle
#1589: the Jurassic Coast gets a lot of erosion damage (which also helps the famous fossils) so they did a big coastal protection programme on the touristy town of Lyme Regis, spending dozens of millions on a new sea wall. they drove nails up to 19m long into the cliffs to hold them in place, and built rock armour around the harbour, extending the harbour wall. the sand on the beach didn't have quite the right particle size, so they imported 30,000 tonnes of sand from France, and 70,000 tonnes of shingle from the Isle of Wight. which means the closest you can be to French soil in the UK is... Dorset...
S for Seahorse
#1588: as any Attenborough fans know, a lot of the big hunters of the land miss a lot of the time. a lion only makes one in three catches, and a tiger only makes one in ten. the most successful hitrate of any animal, as far as i can tell, is instead the dragonfly - one study found they have a 97% catch rate. they mostly eat mozzies, and they can fly really quickly and precisely. they only ever engage in a pursuit of small things, or faraway things - they were found to just... not notice, if something big flew by nearby, greater than 4 degrees of their field of view. one of the other top winners of the hunting competition is the seahorse. some stats give a 90% catchrate, but i can't find anything more precise. they have a very specific headshape (and they hunt with their head at precisely 124 degrees) which lets water slow right down around them so the prey has no idea they're coming, because they don't send any vibrations or turbulence.
R for Riding
#1587: back in the days of stagecoaches, there were two seats up front: one for the driver and one for someone to sit in and protect the driver with a shotgun, to ward off any trouble in the ol' wild west. this role was called "riding shotgun", hence the phrase. even without a shotgun, people would still be called "riding shotgun" if they were up front just chilling. this dictionary definition for shotgun is pretty funny: "Typically used for hunting small animals, etc. Included in 'etc' is the image in shotgun wedding", that image being, a man. a shotgun wedding is a sudden wedding between a pregnant woman and her partner to prevent the birth of an illegitimate child - called so because the bride's family threatens the groom with a shotgun. in Japan that's called a "Dekichatta kekkon", translated as "oops-we-did-it marriage".
R for Riding
#1586: the three Ridings of Yorkshire are just the three thirds of Yorkshire: the "th-" got absorbed into the end of "North", "South", "East", etc, leaving just "rid(ing)". the word was originally þriðjungr -> þriðing -> trithing. the -ing bit just means "part" - as a farthing is a fourth part of a penny, or a shilling is a piece of skill. York is also interesting and seems to have gone on quitea journey: from about 1800 years ago, Eborakon -> Eoforwic -> Õork, ultimately from Brettonic "Eβrọg", a yew tree. the name is thus related to Évora in Portugal, but not really to our word for "yew", other than indirectly, even though it sounds the same.
R for Racehorse
#1585: thoroughbred racehorses are more than half muscle by weight - so much that their muscles' maximum theoretical energy output is much greater, but the limiting factor is how much oxygen they can distribute, hence why the circulatory system is so important. the spleen is also much more important to a horse than to a human: in humans, it stores around a cupful of blood and releases it only in dire need, like hypoxia. in horses, it stores a third of all red blood cells in the horse's body, and a racehorse will release it whenever they race. horses also have a "frog" which is a bit like a fingertip on their soles, which help push blood back up the leg when they stand on it.
R for Racehorse
#1584: the biggest predictor for a racehorse's success is not its lineage, or lung capacity, or muscle mass, but its heart size. the fastest horses ever were powered from within, as Audi put it in an advert. the average horse has a heart weighing about 3.6kg, and thoroughbreds average slightly higher than that. one of the fastest horses ever, Secretariat, competing in the 70s, had a heart more than double that - estimated around 10kg. Phar Lap, competing in the 30s, also had a mahoosive heart that's now preserved and on display in the National Museum of Australia. it's been speculated, not without evidence, that big hearts are genetic, handed down through the X chromosome. using this logic, people have traced back the "X factor" in a lineage of famous horses as far back as the early 19th century.
R for Really fast wind
#1583: the Fujita scale for assessing the intensity of a tornado was invented in 1971, but it wasn't really properly grounded in physics - all the numbers were more or less wild guesses, and you based on consensus. they upgraded the system to the Enhanced Fujita scale, which runs very similarly, but more standardised: there are a list of 26-odd "Damage Indicators" (Canada uses 31) which are basically types of structures (bungalow, shed, fence, stuff like that) and the windspeeds at which they fall over. the main difference between the two scales is that now all these structures are standardised: a wooden fence is made of panels with posts sunk into concrete post holes in the ground, for example. measuring the amount of roof lost on a heritage churche, for example, will point towards particular wind speeds to help categorise a tornado. the first tornado to get an EF5 on the new system was the Greensburg tornado in 2007.
R for Raven
#1582: why is a raven like a writing desk? that's what the Mad Hatter riddles. so many people wondered what the answer was, but there simply was none. so Lewis Carroll dreamed up quite a good answer and put it alongside an exasperated note in a later edition of the book: "it can never put the wrong end in front!" but that didn't help the situation because... i still don't get it. what had happened was he'd written "nevar", which is "raven" backwards (wrong end in front) but the publishers had corrected it as if it'd been a typo! nobody discovered the error until years later, leaving other people to create their own answers, better in any case:
- Because the notes for which they are noted are not noted for being musical notes. (Sam Loyd, 1914)
- Because there is a B in both and an N in neither. (Aldous Huxley, 1928)
- Because it slopes with a flap. (Cyril Pearson, undated)
R for Repulsion
#1581: elephants are absolutely terrified of bees. farmers in East Africa who don't want elephants trampling on their crops and eating their seeds make "bee fences", a row of beehives surrounding a field. they sometimes have wires to trigger the swarming behaviour, because that's what really gets the elephants going. they often alternate between actual hives and empty boxes that look like hives, because then it looks like there are twice as many hives! elephants hate bees sooo much that they have a specific warning call against bees. people have identified small, specific features in the nature of these bee warnings that look a lot like vowels, which is fascinating. playing the warning call got elephants running away, but using the warning call as a direct repellant might not be a good idea (boy who cried wolf, anyone?) but they could be using the sound of a swarm of bees to deter elephants.
Q for Avannaata Qimussersua
#1580: is Greenland's biggest dogsled race. it happens every year in a different place north of the Arctic Circle - only Greenland Dogs are allowed in this area, so only Greenland Dogs can partake in the race. i can't quite tell how long it is - in some places it says 40km, some places just 10km. but the winners get really close, just a couple of seconds apart. each team is limited to twelve dogs, and only limited kit. amid the whole US-Greenland thing that went down recently, and also the whole US foreign aid thing, the US has actually funded costs for mushers to attend the race. not quite sure why. the US Second Lady was planning on visiting this year's but didn't in the end.
Q for Qin
#1579: the Qin dynasty was the first imperial state in China to rule over most of the region, in the 3rd century BCE. the Terracotta Army was built for the funeral of the Qin's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, but the state collapsed only three years thereafter because his successor was a bit of an idiot. although the dynasty's reign lasted about 15 years, its legacy sticks around, giving China its name (Qin is pronounced "chin"). there was a famous assassination attempt on Qin Shi Huang by a youxia called Jing Ke. the youxia were roaming knights who may or may not have actually existed and lived for chivalry; comparable to the English folkloric knight-errant. after this assassination attempt, Qin Shi Huang tried to find an elixir of mortality on an island guarded by a sea monster, dying in the process. it's hard to tell what actually happened because the only people who were there were the same people who changed his will behind his back.
Q for QI
#1578: QI is a game show featuring a panel who get quiz quesitons wrong (QI=quite interesting). thus, nobody cares who wins. Stephen Fry, the host for 12 years, said to this "I think we all agree that nobody in this universe understands QI's scoring system", and the show's creator, John Lloyd, agreed that even he didn't know how the scores work. however, they did confirm that there's someone paid to check that all the scores make sense (they don't), although I can't find that listed in the credits.... apparently there's a rule that any panellist can appeal if their score is wrong, but nobody has (at the time of writing...) because they don't know how. apparently only 20% of the material researched for the show ever makes it to the show, and a further half of that never reaches the television sets at home. imagine all those facts that the researchers have sitting at home, going unread.....
Q for Qualifications
#1577: the American Cheese Society offers a Certified Cheese Professional® exam (ACS CCP®), a qualification for being a really good cheeser. the exam is an 150-question paper testing "all domains of the cheese industry". it's quite hard apparently, with only 961 people (at the time of writing) ever having attained it. there's also the Certified Cheese Sensory Evaluator® (CCSE®) which is a rather different exam - you have to sit the TASTE Test (Technical, Aesthetic, Sensory, Tasting Evaluation Test, of course!) which involves being thrown into a room with 12 cheeses and 10 unidentified "single attributes" that you have 3 hours to identify and evaluate. there are 51 different possible single attributes you could be tested on, like "catty", "sweaty", "yeasty", "mouldy", "meaty" and "rancid". only 85 people have ever achieved the CCSE®.
Q for Q
#1576: the letter Q doesn't really bring anything to the table - it was a thing in Latin for who knows what reason and became a flag for the "cw" sound. Early English occasionally used "qu" or "qw" in Latin-origin words, but mostly reverted to "cw". at this point, anyone who could write was already a scribe and a nerd. it fully returned by around the 14th century, replacing "cw" everywhere. to the point that it started replacing "wh" in some words, as in "quhy" for "why". why? i guess the more important part of the "qu" combo isn't even the q. we have other glottal plosive letters, so it's just a slightly spicy "w" at this point. the famous q-without-u scrabble list is almost entirely loanwords, mostly from Semitic languages, with a few exceptions, like "qhy" for "why", as above.....
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 
Full Forme 679 Dragon
657 Fairy
694 Ground
740 Normal
1,445 Fighting
780 Poison
440 Ice
562 Electric
116 Steel
6,437 Flying
90 Fire
684 Bug
85 Dark
798 Rock
551 Ghost
699 PsychicKALOS SHINIES:
clicklist:
i have 95 of 117 Kalos Shinies
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