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BoomBoy
Trainerlevel: 77
Trainerpoints: 3,344/17,863
Trainerlevel: 77
Trainerpoints: 3,344/17,863
Party
| Pkmn | Name | Level | EXP/EHP |
|---|---|---|---|
 | The Chespinking (Chespin) SHINY  | 5,666 | 112,879,897 / 115,423,305 |
 | ~Rose~ (Xerneas) SHINY | 968 | 1,202,602 / 3,517,471 |
 | Kenver (Zygarde (10% Forme)) SHINY | 888 | 995,974 / 2,960,371 |
 | Maggie (Tapu Lele) SHINY | 468 | 561,338 / 823,096 |
 | Gary (Victini) SHINY | 875 | 691,063 / 2,874,376 |
 | Markus (Dewott) | 673 | 864,099 / 1,612,863 |
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 pay attention because some links are actually the same link, and it's very out of date, but it has all the historic links.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Use this Royal Tunnel Helper - probably also out of date but idk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Use this Royal Tunnel Simulator to practise the noobtrap (out of date and no longer live).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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kytten | 5 Days ago |
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~Hummus~ | 11 Days ago |
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LuckyLady | 12 Days ago |
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LuckyLady | 19 Days ago |
Game Records
Trainer ID: #762650682Registration: 10/02/2019 (5 Years ago)
Game Time: 2962:09 Hours
Total interactions: 5,729,350
Money: 12,989
Starter Pokémon:
Dewott
Feeds
#1356: cockroaches have a bendy exoskeleton that can flex and withstand high forces of up to 900 times their bodyweight. this helps them creep around in holes less than a third of their height, moving at up to 20 body lengths per second, while feeling pressures of 300 times their bodyweight - but it also makes them very very hard to squish with your shoe. they have a special "body-friction crawl" which lets them use the massive frictions to their advantage and locomote at similar speeds as in the open. elastic proteins let the exoskeletal plates overlap, and the spine distributes all the weight to the legs even when they're splayed out to the sides, so they can squish easily. this bend-not-break strategy has inspired robotmakers to design origami-style robots that can squish into hard gaps like post-disaster rubble.
0#1355: George Witt was a doctor who rose to mayor of Bedford. when he moved to Australia in 1849, he gave his collection to a Bedford museum. he then earned a fortune in just 5 years, banking in Sydney, and built a house in London. he began to collect a large amount of artefacts, both contemporary and from all the biggest ancient civilisation, and in 1865 he gave his collection to the British Museum. unfortunately, a large portion of his stock hinged around Priapus, the Greek god of fertility and male genitalia (and after whom priapism is named). because so much of his hoard was obscene, the Museum had to start a special collection called the Secretum, which kept all the items too rude for public display. the Secretum was disbanded slowly between 1912 and 2005, with the last entry being an 18th-century condom someone had used as a bookmark for a book from 1783.
#1354: a "washout" is one of those idioms that nobody's certain where it comes from. some say it comes from natural disasters that would "wash out" a field, rendering it unusable (waterlogged). perhaps because washing out was also used to refer to crossing something out in ink (i can't tell if this implies with water or not because that would be weird), a washout was a cancellation or obliteration. Susie Dent reckons it dates to a time when messages in the Navy would be written on a slate to be taken to the comms quarters, and once they were transmitted they'd be wiped off: to disregard the message (mark it as sent/read), it'd be washed out. this is one of those facts that isn't really a fact....... at least it's linguistically interesting that everyone agrees that it comes from the verb. which nobody agrees on the meaning of lol
#1353: the penduline tit weaves elaborate nests hanging from trees out of plants, hairs, and webs. the nest has a larger, obvious hole that predators see and go into, but it's a trap! they get led to a smaller, uninhabited chamber so they lose interest and slink away. the real nest entrance is found above this one, inside a flap that you can only really get into if you know about it. the secret entrance is usually cleverly sealed with some sticky spider web.
#1352: Grace Kelly and Alec Guinness both acted in 1955 The Swan, which involved a tomahawk as a prop. and it was a real tomahawk, a heavy axe, so nobody wanted to take it home afterwards. so, as a prank, Alec had a porter slip it into Grace's bed. a few years later, Alec found it in his own bed after doing a tour in London - i can't even find out how Grace got it there. Alec waited years for Grace to visit America, then gave it to someone to give to a poet who was touring with her, such that it could be slipped into her bed; apparently, she asked if he knew Alec Guinness and he said no, because he didn't. it wasn't until 1980 that Guinness next found it in his bed, after receiving an Oscar. he managed one more swap in 1982 before Kelly died. neither acknowledged it, mentioned it or wrote about it until therefater.
#1351: the word "coffee" is thought to come through Dutch and Turkish from Arabic qahwah, which may in turn come from a region in Ethiopia where the beans were grown. the Ethiopian word itself, būno, was also loaned into Arabic to mean raw coffee, but didn't make it beyond that. the word "coffee" was first attested around 1600, almost a century after it found its way into Europe: it was also called "cahve", "kahui" and others, which are related to the Turkish and Arabic more closely.
#1350: psychological development is fascinating. a "magical stage" has been described - the age range, about 2-6, when children believe something can be true just by thinking about it. Jean Piaget explained this as a confusion between thoughts that come from perception and those they just made up. however recent experiments suggest children only believe because they can - when told to imagine a box with a monster in it, they'd act scared, and when told to imagine a rabbit in a box they'd be curious. but if they imagined a pencil, and then if someone says they need a pencil, they wouldn't hand it over. perhaps because it becomes higher-stakes, they exercise rationality.
#1349: Franz Reichelt, aka the Flying Tailor, tried to invent a suit that would turn into a parachute. he threw a bunch of test dummies out of his window but they barely worked; he tried a few tests himself, somehow getting only one bone break. he was convinced he just wasn't trying high enough, so he tried to get the Eiffel Tower to let him jump off. eventually in 1912 he did, and he died. he called all the newspapers and some cinematographers, but only told people that he actually intended on jumping himself once he got there. he hesitated for about 40 seconds on the edge, but apparently when he jumped he was smiling. i don't think he was smiling when he hit the ground - apparently an autopsy found that he had a heart attack on the way down (doesn't quite check out...). the sad thing is that the knapsack parachute had been invented a year earlier, and people had been jumping out of planes with wearable parachutes for several years.
#1348: the snallygaster is a terrifying chimaera that terrorises Maryland with a ghoulish face and steel claws. or used to, perhaps - every report since the 19th century has been one way or another a hoax. around 1909 there was a big apparent resurfacing but it turned out to be mostly made up by media outlets to boost readers. it's perhaps related, even if only by appearance, to the Jersey Devil, a wyvern with hooves and a goat's head that roams southern New Jersey, born as the cursed 13th child to Mother Leeds. snallygaster probably comes from German schnelle Geister (fast spirits) - it was initially German immigrants who spotted it, and related it to European folklore. perhaps related is snollygoster - a word used a lot in America about the same time as the snallygaster was being spotted; referring to someone who isn't guided by principles.
#1347: Sarah and Adnan Klaric were unhappily married and each started cheating on the other. they went into online dating, and Adnan found someone who was in a similar situation to him - he described it as "suddenly in love again". when he first met this person in real life..... it was his wife. they had each been cheating, but with each other. they claimed this as adultery (how??) and got a divorce (despite everyone on the internet telling them to rethink...). Richard Batista was a surgeon who gave his wifa Dawnell a kidney in 2001, and filed for a divorce in 2005. he claimed the kidney as marital property and demanded it back, but a court ruled that it wasn't and he could actually be liable for criminal prosecution.
#1346: boys of the Sateré-Mawé tribe have quite the ordeal to become men: the rite of passage ceremony involves holding your hand in a glove of pain (like the book/film Dune). usually for about 5-10 minutes. up to 20 times. dozens bullet ants are collected and sedated so they can be woven into mitts, made from weaves or leaves. once the ants are awake enough to sting, the man-to-be puts one hand in each glove. usually the subject writhes in pain for several days afterwards, suffering from hallucinations and paralysis and the likes. Sataré means something like "fireworm" and i think that's deserved.
#1345: funnily enough, nobody knows why the street Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate in York (yeah, really) is called... that. the gate bit is easy - it means street (gates into the city are called bars). the rest... could be to do with whipping posts, a place where people would be tied to be publicly corporally punished. historical names suggest otherwise: in 1505 it was recorded as Whitnourwhatnourgate, meaning something like "neither this nor that". a plaque on the street itself thinks it means "what a street". the funny thing about it is that it's about 24m long. the buildings on it are numbered 1, 1b, 1½, 1-4 and 3. here's 1½
#1344: in 1974, tens of thousands of swallows migrated by train and plane. it was too cold to fly over the Alps so they had to resort to other means. an early, particularly cold winter meant that there was strong turbulence and no insects, so all the swallows were literally dropping out of the sky from exhaustion and cold. the people of Switzerland were instructed to collect them and nourish them with small bits of meat, and they were put en masse on planes to Nice, Marseilles and Barcelona, and on trains to Ticino. birds often take boats - flying across oceans is difficult but it's easier when you're stowing away, so they rest for a short while, sometimes several days. particularly so in the Mediterranean, where there are lots of boats and lots of birds: it's been estimated that four million birds stopover on such vessels.
#1343: the first recognisably Battenberg cake was baked in 1884 to celebrate the marriage between the British royal family and the house of Battenberg (anglicised to Mountbatten) - but the Domino Cake also appeared around this time. the pink-and-yellow pastel colours were a staple of the German Rococo style (i think...) so it was a variation of a relatively modern structure. the use of apricot jam was intended as a traditionally German ingredient that the Brits would also like. it's also known as church window cake - perhaps even before it was known as Battenberg. the first instance listed in Google books appears in 1903, but a recipe dubiously from five years earlier may have also called it this.
#1342: cock-eyed squid have one eye at least twice as big as the other. the big, yellow eye peers upwards to look at the sunlight and shadows of other animals above, while the small, blue eye ogles into the depths to scout out bioluminescence. (some species of this genus are themselves bioluminescent). the way they figured this out, apparently, was just by watching the squid: they swirl around vertically, with their head pointing downwards, pirouetting like a pole, and drifting around vaguely; one eye always points up and the other always down. the colours also help filter out the types of light, because the water is so blue in the twilight zone.
#1341: not a fan of English, but occasionally it comes out with a fun word. like hanky-panky: nobody's certain where the word comes from, but it could be from a Romani phrase hakk'ni panki meaning a trick. or it could be related to "hokey-pokey" and "hocus-pocus" - whose etymology we also don't know for sure! it's probably nonsense, perhaps inspired by the Latin sacramental blessing "Hoc est corpus meum" (this is my body). skullduggery and jiggerypokery are also fun little words (meaning similar things to hanky-panky.... perhaps there's something inherently fun about the words we use for tricksters and adultery...?) both from Scots. Mumbo-jumbo is also of doubtful origin: possibly from "mumble jumble" or from Mandika meaning a masked dancer. The source of hoochy-coochy, also a dance, is completely unknown. It might've been influenced by hurdy-gurdy or honka-tonk, both probably onomatopoeic.
#1340: hornet larvae make a little "rasping" call to let the worker hornets know when they're hungry. they whack their mandibles on the sides of the cells they grow in to attract the attention of the adults, who come over and give them a bit of protein-rich gloop. the larvae make this disconcerting noise day and night, stopping for mastication - fancy biologyspeak for chewing. they do this even when workers aren't around...
#1339: Paul Erdős was the mathematician who wrote the most papers - nearly twice as many as Euler. he spent most of his life living with just a suitcase at other mathematicians' houses, collabbing on papers. apparently he'd just rock up unannounced to work together on solving some unsolved problem and they'd write a paper, and he'd ask them who he should visit next. he earnt just about enough doing guest lectures in unis to travel around, and most of the awards he won he gave on as cash prizes to his own set of problems. his friend Rényi said "a mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems", and Erdős definitely drank a lot of coffee and wrote a lot of theorems. in later life, he also took a lot of amphetamine; he won a bet that he could go for a month without it, but said that he was a "normal person" for that whole period and that maths had been "set back a month".
#1338: in 1942 everyone in Britain was asked to send in photos they'd taken on holiday in northern France. they collected more than ten million, and used them as recon and scrutinised over the details. officers and infantry used them to orient themselves before they dropped. but they weren't very helpful at first: they could be misleading, especially because most were over 20 years old and people didn't tend to take holiday pics of military bases. for the D-day preparations, they used Combined Ops Assault Pilotage Parties - secret divers who'd go in on tiny submarines in the winter of 1943/44 and pop their heads up to survey the shore at night. in combination, they had a pretty good idea of the five beaches as they went in. shortly before the landings themselves, the first people to approach France were "frogmen" - Landing Craft Obstacle Clearance Units (LCOCUs, pron. "lock-youse") swam in advance and manually disarmed underwater obstacles. they removed ~2,500.
and of course, the role call: i'm always looking for someone who wants to help out! you can do opinion pieces, news articles, regular columns, games, RP reports, art, investigations, or anything! get in touch by PP/PM anytime, and get paid by the article/issue!!
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 1,433 Dragon
1,160 Fairy
1,432 Ground
1,452 Normal
1,466 Poison
1,291 Ice
1,280 Electric
878 Steel
785 Fire
1,313 Bug
881 Darkgoing for roughly 1000 each i guess?
KALOS SHINIES:
clicklist:
i have 95 of 117 Kalos Shinies
