For everyone panicking, it has NOT become a law. It has passed its first round and has been put into a markup stage

For more information on who to contact and what exactly the process is for something to pass into law, go HERE^

OH OH I have a bit more info for this! I got this from a discord that I'm in, to give resources and to help folks with phone anxieties there's a full resource sheet with numbers to call and scripts to follow. These bills have been stopped before and its SO SO important to keep the phones off the damn hooks

I can't do all that much from Canada but I thought the wider audience of yall could use this resource, so spread if you can!!!

The final chapter is done, thus completing the entire book! Thank you everyone who stuck with me this long and for all the people who have helped me along the way.

I'll upload the pictures here as soon as I am able, since I also have to go back and fix the mess with the imgur links anyhow, but first here is the link so you can download it yourself. It is HEAVY at 1gb so watch out.

A few ground rules.

•Repost it wherever you would like. DO NOT SELL IT. DO NOT GAIN MONEY FROM THIS. DO NOT PLACE THIS IN A WEBSITE THAT RUNS ADS.

• DO NOT CREDIT ME OUTSIDE OF TUMBLR. IF you're uploading outside of tumblr, mentioning it outside of tumblr, Do not link back to this blog. If asked about the origin, say the original scanner has asked not to be credited. If they ask to read the manga, give them the zip file.

•If I get a cease and desist I am going to be so fucking mad I swear. Behave. Don't talk about it on twitter or instagram or whatever the hell the youths use nowadays. You wouldn't tell a cop who your illegal spring knives dealer is, so don't go on twitter posting pannels from the scanlation. The raws should be fine, but use common sense.

•Feel free to retranslate, redraw, use for edits, amvs, fancams, icons, whatever you'd please. Feel free to pay a proper translator to give this a look. Just upload it somewhere I can see afterwards, so I can know once and for all what the hell a sarumatango is.

• I will re-scan the first few chapters myself and re-typeset them since I now have not-ugly fonts. This means there WILL be a second file eventually. Keep an eye out.

The link is only up for 14 days. Download it and distribute it among your friends. Have fun. Send me more persona 2 4koma manga raws. Love ya.

Hi all,

I know I've been absent (more or less) on this website for quite a while & honestly I miss making stuff more regularly but I have been really drained with all the prices and interest rates going up, it's been hell for a lot of people, including myself. I've been thinking a lot if I should try freelancing or doing comissions or anything like that but I always feel insecure & think my work isn't good enough...

For the time being, I'd like to share my ko-fi for anybody who'd like to help me out & if you do leave me a tip or anything, please don't hesitate to let me know (or even contact me beforehand) if you'd like me to make anything for you in return (icons, headers, gifs, etc. or if you just want to see more edits from a game I made gifs before), I'd be happy to do so! I really appreciate it, thank you! 💕

#395. In Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, Kanto Elite Four member Lorelie has a house on Four Island in the Sevii Islands.

Inside the house contains 6 Pokémon Dolls, but every time the Player defeats the Elite Four and enters the Hall of Fame 25 times, an extra Pokémon Doll will appear in the house. This continues until the Player has entered the Hall of Fame 200 times and a total of 14 Pokémon Dolls reside in Lorelie’s house. (X)

local woman buys plushies to cope with child beating her ass 200 times consecutively

Hey does anyone have advice on interacting with creators? Everyone’s so cool but I’m so nervous I’ll come off weirdly DX

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Shows you should save physically immediately

and most importantly

We now know that at any moment's notice, streaming services can and will just nuke their catalogue without hesitation. If it's digital, it can be removed and there's a likely chance you'll never see it again.

So, please take some time to save anything you love on an external device. It could be a box set (it can be official or fan-made one), a USB, or anything.

If you have a physical copy of something, it's yours forever and no one can take that away from you.

web 2.0 companies that try to frame people using adblockers as greedy freedloaders always conveniently turn their heads when those same “greedy freeloaders” tell them that advertisers are paying to put malicious and predatory ads on their playforms and adblock users are, by in large, using adblockers to protect themselves

the first time i ever saw an adblocker recommended was for people with photosensitive epilepsy getting barraged with “congrats! you won!” style popups nonstop

the first time i ever personally used an adblocker was when deviantart’s excessive ad placement slowed down my household’s shared computer to the point it was unusable and my mom told me to stop using deviantart. so instead i installed an adblocker

and nowadays on Youtube and Facebook you get ads for casinos and alcohol targeted toward addicts and people with bipolar disorder, quack medicine targeted to people with chronic medical conditions, hate speech targeted toward the victims of said hate speech, and horror movie ads with flashing lights targeted toward…everyone.

and of course Google, who serves a majority of these ads, doesn’t actually care to remove any of the dangerous bullshit it shoves in your eyes but will expect you to pay them for it. sorry, i’d just rather not use youtube at that point. you had your chance.

Do not ever listen to a word of shame from a corporation. Their goal is only and always to extract maximum value from consumers.

Piracy, adblocking, data encryption, third-party repair, literally all of these things are, bottom-line, only bad for the corporations' record-breaking profit line. They are inherently good for the working person.

If they only care about their bottom line, you might as well only care about yours.

Patreon done goofed.

If you haven't been made aware, Patreon shat the bed at the start of this billing cycle:

I had quite a few Patrons knocked off the roll this time around. If you got declined or a fraud warning or something, please be patient and try to stay on top of it.

Considering Grady's health issues, this comes at a really bad time. Pitching in would be appreciated.

An update:

For some reason, Patreon appears to have moved its payment processor to Ireland. This is causing some American banks to see payments routed internationally and they're flagging the charges as fraudulent.

Just a giant damn mess.

I've lost about 1/5 of my Patreon income due to this mess, and I've gotten of WAY easier than most artists. Please check your subscriptions and transactions!!

remember the mirage island shit in pokemon r/s/e how fucked was that nonsense

you had to talk to an old man once per day. then the game would generate 2 random number bytes. those bytes would have to both match the also random and unseeable personality values of one of your party pokemon. assuming you had a full party of 6 that was roughly a 1/10000 chance. thats rarer than finding a shiny. and this wasn’t once per random encounter this was once per day. this was the only way to find liechi berries and get gold pokeblocks

this literally sounds like some fake forum post from 2004 but it was 100% real they really put this in the game un fucking believable

between this, feebas, and the regis im beginning to think the fucking riddler played a part in the development of r/s/e

For those who are unaware, Feebas could only be found in one location by fishing in a pool of water. However there are 400 tiles of water, and only 6 random tiles will allow you to fish up a Feebas. These tiles are randomly generated when you begin the game so they differ between all other players. The Regi’s, (Regirock, Regice and Registeel), all had a puzzle to unlock their domain. Written in Brallie, in some hidden caves. The puzzles required you to: Find the Pokemon Relicanth and Wailord and have them in the first and last slots of your party. (In Emerald version these instructions were reversed, Wailord first, Relicanth last.) This unlocks the other 3 puzzles. For Regice: Wait 2 minutes with the game on without moving your player. (In Emerald the instructions had you run a lap of the room while touching the outer wall.) For Regirock: The instructions had you move right twice, then down twice, then have a pokemon use the move Strength. (In Emerald it was left twice, down twice and then Rock Smash instead.) For Registeel: Walk to the center of the room and have a Pokemon use the move Fly, which is a move that would usually let you fast travel around the map, and doesn’t work indoors except for this one single puzzle room. (In Emerald Version, they had you use the move Flash instead.) Footnote: There was also a misprint in the original Ruby Sapphire Guidebook which showed the Pokemon Trapinch as having no evolutions, making the Vibrava and Flygon unobtainable to those who didn’t accidentally levelup Trapinch until it evolved seemingly for no reason.

R/S/E were scarier than most creepypasta.

That comment about The Riddler having a hand in making these games, the puzzle ridiculousness didn’t stop there. Because there WAS a Riddler IN GAME.

On Route 110, on the end closest to Slateport, there was a house to the left of Cycling Road called the Trick House. Inside this house, an older man lived, who called himself the Trick Master.

This guy, upon walking in, seems invisible, but is just hiding. There are several random locations he can be hiding in, although these locations were set for everyone, but changed every time you returned. If you manage to find the man, he’ll then disappear into the deep pits of his hell house and say “COME FIND ME AT THE END” and then you had to traverse through eight different puzzles, each one unlocking after a new badge was obtained.

Now here’s where it gets crazier because three out of eight of these will require HMs. Puzzle #1 requires Cut. Puzzle #2 required Rock Smash, and #3 required Strength. But to make this WORSE, Rock Smash isn’t given to you by any significant character. It was given to you by an npc inside of a house in Mauville City on the southeast corner of the city. If you didn’t find him, you could never progress because Rock Smash is required to reach the next city, as well as many other locations, including Mirage Tower on Route 111.

And speaking of that neat but fucked up place! Another puzzle would be the return to Sky Pillar, and the visit to Mirage Tower. Mirage tower was Emerald only, but acted as training for Sky Pillar. Sky Pillar was a location in R/S/E where you could go to find Rayquaza at level 70 either post game (R/S) or after the Sootopolis Incident with Kyogre and Groudon (Emerald). Mirage Tower was a tower located on Route 111 that appeared only once in the game, the first time you visit it after getting the Goggles from your rival and friend. 

Now what is so upsetting about these places? The fucking floors. At many segments throughout the towers’ floors have cracks in them. To get over them, you had to ride your Mach Bike at max speed and if you stopped, slowed down, or hit a wall while still on a cracked tile, you fell to the first (or previous) floor. The patterns and difficulty of each cracked floor increases as you go up. One example of this is the 2nd floor for Mirage Tower, which forces you to go through the whole room at max speed without stopping or else you failed, and requires sharp turns.

For Sky Pillar, well… look at this and tell me this isn’t the devil’s work.

YET ANOTHER PUZZLE! Was Shoal Cave. At predetermined times a day, every six hours (YES THIS STOPPED WORKING IF YOUR INTERNAL BATTERY STOPPED WORKING), the tide will shift. Because of this, half of the cave is unavailable during either time of this. If your schedule didn’t match up with the time frame, you’re SOL.

The entrance room at the different times.

AND FINALLY, FOR MY LAST INPUT! Remember how you needed both Relicanth and Wailord to get the Regis? Well that isn’t the whole of it. Routes 132, 133, and 134, where you go to GET to that place, were almost totally covered in tide tiles. Long story short, you had to Surf going west from Pacifilog and had to follow a very specific path which took several tries to remember. And if you failed to get the right path? YOU ENDED UP IN SLATEPORT! WHERE YOU HAD TO FLY ALL THE WAY BACK AND TRY AGAIN! Look at THIS shit and say that isn’t some Riddler shit.

Ok so RSE was actually the one game where I actually attempted to complete a lot of the puzzles BUT one of the ones missing from this list is the dive based puzzles if you’re hunting for all the items in the map. And let me tell you it is bloody easy to get lost when all you have is a top down view of where you are and no identifying landmarks near by.

Similarly, it is very very easy to go through Meteor Falls without ever finding the Bagon room in RS, and this has a bit more to do with how outside of the Magma/Aqua confrontation, there were no other events that took place there. This was changed for both Emerald and ORAS, with Emerald altering the location for the Steven battle to a new room in Meteor Falls, and ORAS increasing the area’s prominence in the Delta episode.

Speaking of passwords, remember how evolving Feebas was a pain in RSE? Now. Did you know of the password berries? In the past the Five Contest Berries (i.e. the best berries to make single color pokeblocks) were locked behind passwords you had to give to the old couple on the berry farm. It wasn’t as difficult to deal with as most others on the list, since you could find said passwords online but these are single use passwords. You only get one of the berries. Once you use them up? That’s it. No more rare berries for you. So planting them immediately was essential.

Now on a related note: Shoal Cave. As stated above this is a time related event. What’s not stated is why it is so important - Shoal Shells and Shoal Salt are found scattered through out the cave. And you need fucking 4 of each to create a Shell Bell. If you fail to collect the required 4 before your 6 hour time frame is up, tough luck, you’re gonna have to wait for the next time the tide changes and retrace your steps again.

In addition, the Ice Room is only accessible at low tide hours, and is the only place you can find Snorunt in game.

There are a tonne of things in RSE to do, to figure out. Timing bike jumps, making sure not to fall down a cracked floor, moving tide tiles, the blood Trick Master. Its one of those games that just has content for you, even if you put it down a while ago.

remember the mirage island shit in pokemon r/s/e how fucked was that nonsense

you had to talk to an old man once per day. then the game would generate 2 random number bytes. those bytes would have to both match the also random and unseeable personality values of one of your party pokemon. assuming you had a full party of 6 that was roughly a 1/10000 chance. thats rarer than finding a shiny. and this wasn’t once per random encounter this was once per day. this was the only way to find liechi berries and get gold pokeblocks

this literally sounds like some fake forum post from 2004 but it was 100% real they really put this in the game un fucking believable

between this, feebas, and the regis im beginning to think the fucking riddler played a part in the development of r/s/e

For those who are unaware, Feebas could only be found in one location by fishing in a pool of water. However there are 400 tiles of water, and only 6 random tiles will allow you to fish up a Feebas. These tiles are randomly generated when you begin the game so they differ between all other players. The Regi’s, (Regirock, Regice and Registeel), all had a puzzle to unlock their domain. Written in Brallie, in some hidden caves. The puzzles required you to: Find the Pokemon Relicanth and Wailord and have them in the first and last slots of your party. (In Emerald version these instructions were reversed, Wailord first, Relicanth last.) This unlocks the other 3 puzzles. For Regice: Wait 2 minutes with the game on without moving your player. (In Emerald the instructions had you run a lap of the room while touching the outer wall.) For Regirock: The instructions had you move right twice, then down twice, then have a pokemon use the move Strength. (In Emerald it was left twice, down twice and then Rock Smash instead.) For Registeel: Walk to the center of the room and have a Pokemon use the move Fly, which is a move that would usually let you fast travel around the map, and doesn’t work indoors except for this one single puzzle room. (In Emerald Version, they had you use the move Flash instead.) Footnote: There was also a misprint in the original Ruby Sapphire Guidebook which showed the Pokemon Trapinch as having no evolutions, making the Vibrava and Flygon unobtainable to those who didn’t accidentally levelup Trapinch until it evolved seemingly for no reason.

R/S/E were scarier than most creepypasta.

That comment about The Riddler having a hand in making these games, the puzzle ridiculousness didn’t stop there. Because there WAS a Riddler IN GAME.

On Route 110, on the end closest to Slateport, there was a house to the left of Cycling Road called the Trick House. Inside this house, an older man lived, who called himself the Trick Master.

This guy, upon walking in, seems invisible, but is just hiding. There are several random locations he can be hiding in, although these locations were set for everyone, but changed every time you returned. If you manage to find the man, he’ll then disappear into the deep pits of his hell house and say “COME FIND ME AT THE END” and then you had to traverse through eight different puzzles, each one unlocking after a new badge was obtained.

Now here’s where it gets crazier because three out of eight of these will require HMs. Puzzle #1 requires Cut. Puzzle #2 required Rock Smash, and #3 required Strength. But to make this WORSE, Rock Smash isn’t given to you by any significant character. It was given to you by an npc inside of a house in Mauville City on the southeast corner of the city. If you didn’t find him, you could never progress because Rock Smash is required to reach the next city, as well as many other locations, including Mirage Tower on Route 111.

And speaking of that neat but fucked up place! Another puzzle would be the return to Sky Pillar, and the visit to Mirage Tower. Mirage tower was Emerald only, but acted as training for Sky Pillar. Sky Pillar was a location in R/S/E where you could go to find Rayquaza at level 70 either post game (R/S) or after the Sootopolis Incident with Kyogre and Groudon (Emerald). Mirage Tower was a tower located on Route 111 that appeared only once in the game, the first time you visit it after getting the Goggles from your rival and friend. 

Now what is so upsetting about these places? The fucking floors. At many segments throughout the towers’ floors have cracks in them. To get over them, you had to ride your Mach Bike at max speed and if you stopped, slowed down, or hit a wall while still on a cracked tile, you fell to the first (or previous) floor. The patterns and difficulty of each cracked floor increases as you go up. One example of this is the 2nd floor for Mirage Tower, which forces you to go through the whole room at max speed without stopping or else you failed, and requires sharp turns.

For Sky Pillar, well… look at this and tell me this isn’t the devil’s work.

YET ANOTHER PUZZLE! Was Shoal Cave. At predetermined times a day, every six hours (YES THIS STOPPED WORKING IF YOUR INTERNAL BATTERY STOPPED WORKING), the tide will shift. Because of this, half of the cave is unavailable during either time of this. If your schedule didn’t match up with the time frame, you’re SOL.

The entrance room at the different times.

AND FINALLY, FOR MY LAST INPUT! Remember how you needed both Relicanth and Wailord to get the Regis? Well that isn’t the whole of it. Routes 132, 133, and 134, where you go to GET to that place, were almost totally covered in tide tiles. Long story short, you had to Surf going west from Pacifilog and had to follow a very specific path which took several tries to remember. And if you failed to get the right path? YOU ENDED UP IN SLATEPORT! WHERE YOU HAD TO FLY ALL THE WAY BACK AND TRY AGAIN! Look at THIS shit and say that isn’t some Riddler shit.

And just adding onto the Feebas bit, to actually EVOLVE your so-called ugliest Pokemon, you had to max out it’s Beauty stat and then level it up. Now, this is an extremely unique evolution condition, specific to the Feebas line, and only in Generations 3 and 4, when Contests and the Beauty stat were a thing. Now, NOWHERE in the game is this explained to be the evolve condition of a Feebas.

And of course, you had to have maxed out your Feebas’ Beauty with 12 or less Pokeblocks, because that was the maximum amount you could ever feed to any one Pokemon. If your Feebas was even just a little bit under max after 12 Pokeblocks, it could never evolve, and you had to play the Fishing Lottery on Route 119 all over again.

Cut to me, as a kid, whose Feebas had actually won the Master Beauty Contest but somehow wasn’t quite at max Beauty. Even with it being one of the most beautiful fish in the world by the judges’ standards, it could never evolve… It just wasn’t beautiful enough.

remember the mirage island shit in pokemon r/s/e how fucked was that nonsense

you had to talk to an old man once per day. then the game would generate 2 random number bytes. those bytes would have to both match the also random and unseeable personality values of one of your party pokemon. assuming you had a full party of 6 that was roughly a 1/10000 chance. thats rarer than finding a shiny. and this wasn’t once per random encounter this was once per day. this was the only way to find liechi berries and get gold pokeblocks

this literally sounds like some fake forum post from 2004 but it was 100% real they really put this in the game un fucking believable

between this, feebas, and the regis im beginning to think the fucking riddler played a part in the development of r/s/e

For those who are unaware, Feebas could only be found in one location by fishing in a pool of water. However there are 400 tiles of water, and only 6 random tiles will allow you to fish up a Feebas. These tiles are randomly generated when you begin the game so they differ between all other players. The Regi’s, (Regirock, Regice and Registeel), all had a puzzle to unlock their domain. Written in Brallie, in some hidden caves. The puzzles required you to: Find the Pokemon Relicanth and Wailord and have them in the first and last slots of your party. (In Emerald version these instructions were reversed, Wailord first, Relicanth last.) This unlocks the other 3 puzzles. For Regice: Wait 2 minutes with the game on without moving your player. (In Emerald the instructions had you run a lap of the room while touching the outer wall.) For Regirock: The instructions had you move right twice, then down twice, then have a pokemon use the move Strength. (In Emerald it was left twice, down twice and then Rock Smash instead.) For Registeel: Walk to the center of the room and have a Pokemon use the move Fly, which is a move that would usually let you fast travel around the map, and doesn’t work indoors except for this one single puzzle room. (In Emerald Version, they had you use the move Flash instead.) Footnote: There was also a misprint in the original Ruby Sapphire Guidebook which showed the Pokemon Trapinch as having no evolutions, making the Vibrava and Flygon unobtainable to those who didn’t accidentally levelup Trapinch until it evolved seemingly for no reason.

R/S/E were scarier than most creepypasta.

That comment about The Riddler having a hand in making these games, the puzzle ridiculousness didn’t stop there. Because there WAS a Riddler IN GAME.

On Route 110, on the end closest to Slateport, there was a house to the left of Cycling Road called the Trick House. Inside this house, an older man lived, who called himself the Trick Master.

This guy, upon walking in, seems invisible, but is just hiding. There are several random locations he can be hiding in, although these locations were set for everyone, but changed every time you returned. If you manage to find the man, he’ll then disappear into the deep pits of his hell house and say “COME FIND ME AT THE END” and then you had to traverse through eight different puzzles, each one unlocking after a new badge was obtained.

Now here’s where it gets crazier because three out of eight of these will require HMs. Puzzle #1 requires Cut. Puzzle #2 required Rock Smash, and #3 required Strength. But to make this WORSE, Rock Smash isn’t given to you by any significant character. It was given to you by an npc inside of a house in Mauville City on the southeast corner of the city. If you didn’t find him, you could never progress because Rock Smash is required to reach the next city, as well as many other locations, including Mirage Tower on Route 111.

And speaking of that neat but fucked up place! Another puzzle would be the return to Sky Pillar, and the visit to Mirage Tower. Mirage tower was Emerald only, but acted as training for Sky Pillar. Sky Pillar was a location in R/S/E where you could go to find Rayquaza at level 70 either post game (R/S) or after the Sootopolis Incident with Kyogre and Groudon (Emerald). Mirage Tower was a tower located on Route 111 that appeared only once in the game, the first time you visit it after getting the Goggles from your rival and friend. 

Now what is so upsetting about these places? The fucking floors. At many segments throughout the towers’ floors have cracks in them. To get over them, you had to ride your Mach Bike at max speed and if you stopped, slowed down, or hit a wall while still on a cracked tile, you fell to the first (or previous) floor. The patterns and difficulty of each cracked floor increases as you go up. One example of this is the 2nd floor for Mirage Tower, which forces you to go through the whole room at max speed without stopping or else you failed, and requires sharp turns.

For Sky Pillar, well… look at this and tell me this isn’t the devil’s work.

YET ANOTHER PUZZLE! Was Shoal Cave. At predetermined times a day, every six hours (YES THIS STOPPED WORKING IF YOUR INTERNAL BATTERY STOPPED WORKING), the tide will shift. Because of this, half of the cave is unavailable during either time of this. If your schedule didn’t match up with the time frame, you’re SOL.

The entrance room at the different times.

AND FINALLY, FOR MY LAST INPUT! Remember how you needed both Relicanth and Wailord to get the Regis? Well that isn’t the whole of it. Routes 132, 133, and 134, where you go to GET to that place, were almost totally covered in tide tiles. Long story short, you had to Surf going west from Pacifilog and had to follow a very specific path which took several tries to remember. And if you failed to get the right path? YOU ENDED UP IN SLATEPORT! WHERE YOU HAD TO FLY ALL THE WAY BACK AND TRY AGAIN! Look at THIS shit and say that isn’t some Riddler shit.

Something I’ve noted in the past was another gen III oddity: the Altering Cave

Found on Route 103 in Emerald (did not exist in R/S) and Outcast Island in FRLG (off Six Island), this is a cave with nothing but Zubat in it. No explanation is ever given as to why it’s there, it’s just…THERE.

Here’s the thing with it: it was originally intended to have its wild encounters change when using the Mystery Gift feature at a Wonder Spot, hosted by Nintendo. Only problem is, no country ever held such an event to make use of that feature.

Had it been used, it would have been possible to catch a Shuckle holding a Berry Juice there, making this the only legitimate way to get that item in Gen III (while you CAN catch a Shuckle in Emerald’s Safari Zone, giving it a Berry doesn’t work as it did in Gen II, and a Shuckle caught this way will never be holding one as in later games). Thus, Berry Juice could never be legitimately obtained in Gen III, and there was still the matter of this weird ass cave full of Zubats that never gets explained anywhere.

remember the mirage island shit in pokemon r/s/e how fucked was that nonsense

you had to talk to an old man once per day. then the game would generate 2 random number bytes. those bytes would have to both match the also random and unseeable personality values of one of your party pokemon. assuming you had a full party of 6 that was roughly a 1/10000 chance. thats rarer than finding a shiny. and this wasn’t once per random encounter this was once per day. this was the only way to find liechi berries and get gold pokeblocks

this literally sounds like some fake forum post from 2004 but it was 100% real they really put this in the game un fucking believable

between this, feebas, and the regis im beginning to think the fucking riddler played a part in the development of r/s/e

For those who are unaware, Feebas could only be found in one location by fishing in a pool of water. However there are 400 tiles of water, and only 6 random tiles will allow you to fish up a Feebas. These tiles are randomly generated when you begin the game so they differ between all other players. The Regi’s, (Regirock, Regice and Registeel), all had a puzzle to unlock their domain. Written in Brallie, in some hidden caves. The puzzles required you to: Find the Pokemon Relicanth and Wailord and have them in the first and last slots of your party. (In Emerald version these instructions were reversed, Wailord first, Relicanth last.) This unlocks the other 3 puzzles. For Regice: Wait 2 minutes with the game on without moving your player. (In Emerald the instructions had you run a lap of the room while touching the outer wall.) For Regirock: The instructions had you move right twice, then down twice, then have a pokemon use the move Strength. (In Emerald it was left twice, down twice and then Rock Smash instead.) For Registeel: Walk to the center of the room and have a Pokemon use the move Fly, which is a move that would usually let you fast travel around the map, and doesn’t work indoors except for this one single puzzle room. (In Emerald Version, they had you use the move Flash instead.) Footnote: There was also a misprint in the original Ruby Sapphire Guidebook which showed the Pokemon Trapinch as having no evolutions, making the Vibrava and Flygon unobtainable to those who didn’t accidentally levelup Trapinch until it evolved seemingly for no reason.

R/S/E were scarier than most creepypasta.

That comment about The Riddler having a hand in making these games, the puzzle ridiculousness didn’t stop there. Because there WAS a Riddler IN GAME.

On Route 110, on the end closest to Slateport, there was a house to the left of Cycling Road called the Trick House. Inside this house, an older man lived, who called himself the Trick Master.

This guy, upon walking in, seems invisible, but is just hiding. There are several random locations he can be hiding in, although these locations were set for everyone, but changed every time you returned. If you manage to find the man, he’ll then disappear into the deep pits of his hell house and say “COME FIND ME AT THE END” and then you had to traverse through eight different puzzles, each one unlocking after a new badge was obtained.

Now here’s where it gets crazier because three out of eight of these will require HMs. Puzzle #1 requires Cut. Puzzle #2 required Rock Smash, and #3 required Strength. But to make this WORSE, Rock Smash isn’t given to you by any significant character. It was given to you by an npc inside of a house in Mauville City on the southeast corner of the city. If you didn’t find him, you could never progress because Rock Smash is required to reach the next city, as well as many other locations, including Mirage Tower on Route 111.

And speaking of that neat but fucked up place! Another puzzle would be the return to Sky Pillar, and the visit to Mirage Tower. Mirage tower was Emerald only, but acted as training for Sky Pillar. Sky Pillar was a location in R/S/E where you could go to find Rayquaza at level 70 either post game (R/S) or after the Sootopolis Incident with Kyogre and Groudon (Emerald). Mirage Tower was a tower located on Route 111 that appeared only once in the game, the first time you visit it after getting the Goggles from your rival and friend. 

Now what is so upsetting about these places? The fucking floors. At many segments throughout the towers’ floors have cracks in them. To get over them, you had to ride your Mach Bike at max speed and if you stopped, slowed down, or hit a wall while still on a cracked tile, you fell to the first (or previous) floor. The patterns and difficulty of each cracked floor increases as you go up. One example of this is the 2nd floor for Mirage Tower, which forces you to go through the whole room at max speed without stopping or else you failed, and requires sharp turns.

For Sky Pillar, well… look at this and tell me this isn’t the devil’s work.

YET ANOTHER PUZZLE! Was Shoal Cave. At predetermined times a day, every six hours (YES THIS STOPPED WORKING IF YOUR INTERNAL BATTERY STOPPED WORKING), the tide will shift. Because of this, half of the cave is unavailable during either time of this. If your schedule didn’t match up with the time frame, you’re SOL.

The entrance room at the different times.

AND FINALLY, FOR MY LAST INPUT! Remember how you needed both Relicanth and Wailord to get the Regis? Well that isn’t the whole of it. Routes 132, 133, and 134, where you go to GET to that place, were almost totally covered in tide tiles. Long story short, you had to Surf going west from Pacifilog and had to follow a very specific path which took several tries to remember. And if you failed to get the right path? YOU ENDED UP IN SLATEPORT! WHERE YOU HAD TO FLY ALL THE WAY BACK AND TRY AGAIN! Look at THIS shit and say that isn’t some Riddler shit.

Because of all these things R/S/E felt so mysterious and it had the strongest feeling of exploration to me. Everyone makes fun of the “too much water” but I felt amazing to randomly stumble upon an island I hadn’t visited before, and finding the abandoned ship with its ominous music. And finding all the possible secret base locations! So good.

gen 3 felt like such a MYTHICAL world because there was so much GENUINE DISCOVERY.  not just things the player Has To discover to beat the game, things that every player will find, always sort of contrived, discovered at the same point in the plotline every time, because youre Supposed To find it  

but like ACTUAL MYSTERIES, things you have to figure out entirely on your own because youre the one who thought to look there, the game didn’t send you there, its because YOU were curious and engaged with the world, i absolutely loved that.  this game was cryptic beyond all reason and for a kid that can feel downright magical 

and its important that almost all of these  (everything but sky pillar in specifically emerald, i THINK)  you didnt actually HAVE TO do, these were challenges you sought out completely on your own  (if these puzzles were part of the main plot, id be much less forgiving lmao).  the shoal cave tides and pacifidlog currents are cool and clever, and as a really watery map they really feel like they belong in hoenn specifically. 

finding the regis especially felt like ACTYUALLY solving ancient riddles to unlock these mysterious, inorganic-looking and honestly kinda creepy pkmn.  it felt legendary in the actual sense 

yes i’ll concede that it’s arbitrarily hard and obscure, but ime i think the game gave you enough hints to figure them out?  like, the regi puzzles are unguessable, sure, but the braille messages tell you what weird shit to do, and there was a braille cipher in the manual, so i honestly would not call it unfair.  

and i think most kids playing it at the time, had enough free time on their hands and enough patience/curiosity to chip away at mysteries like this and eventually succeed.  it’s why we look back on frankly bad game design from older games and be like, “how did i ever figure this out as a kid?”  

i think as i’ve gotten older, it’s become so much more appealing to give up and look up the answers than to allow myself to get stuck for even just a half hour.  and that makes me feel sort of sad. 

and i LOVED the ocean.  there were entire screens of just wide open sea, and it was so easy to get lost without any landmarks in view, especially in the diving segments.  the feeling of vastness and exploration was worth it.

“fanfiction,” as a concept, only exists because of intellectual property. at the end of the day, it’s just fiction. some of it is great, some of it sucks ass. sometimes, it can reveal something damning about the author—prejudices, biases, whether or not they think cats should be left indoors, how they feel about offshore tax evasion, whatever. that’s the nature of fiction. this is not news to anyone who’s ever opened a book

what’s truly unique about fanfiction is that it’s anonymous and free with a barrier to entry that ants wouldn’t notice climbing. also, it’s amateur by necessity; barring a few notable exceptions, nobody expects their gaudy slash fiction to win them an award or make them a million dollars. this crock pot of internet fuckery lends itself to two things—a monumental diversity of skill level and buck wild nasty behavior

fanfiction is neither god’s gift to all man kind nor an incurable blight. it’s just a thing. that exists. it’s neither defenseless nor indefensible. it can be harmful, helpful, or benign. more importantly, it’s not going anywhere, so i wish we’d stop arguing about whether or not it’s “legitimate” and talk about what’s actually happening with it instead

Kain Highwind and Cecil Harvey | Final Fantasy IV

when the youtuber’s content stays the same but their thumbnails get progressively more and more cringe until you subconsciously stop clicking on their videos

Ew… I didn’t know that.

I’ll be more sympathetic in the future— doesn’t mean it doesn’t suck, though

I can also say it could even just be a symptom of someone floundering against the algorithm.

Click-Through Rate - or what percentage of people who see your video on their feed and actually click on it - is the number one thing YouTube judges you on. No lie.

Your video getting a smaller percentage of clicks than the average last few videos? Your video is just outright not getting recommended anymore, sorry!

On the other hand, as long as the video's good enough to get people to watch at least the first 30 seconds and the preroll ads, it doesn't matter how shit the video is, if they clicked on it, then YouTube shows it to even more people.

These are the things we're stuck staring at every time we log into YouTube. It eats at your soul.

If someone's still making the same kind of content you liked, and just trying out different thumbnails? That is them doing their best to not sell out while also surviving. That is trying to get people in to see their stuff to begin with.

And it effects smaller creators all the more.

Not mad at you, OP - and no one else should be either, because there is basically no way for anyone who's not a YouTuber to know that this is why most people do it, not out of laziness or anything.

That doesn't mean you need to feel guilty and start clicking on bad thumbnails either... though also please, don't be afraid to comment on videos telling someone that their thumbnails are starting to scare you off! Most of us will be glad for the feedback, and care more about the people who are already watching our content than the theoretical new people.

not to be all “think of the children” but the fact that companies can openly admit to using methods to intentionally form addictions in children and we’re not killing their ceos in the streets yet is astounding

when I say “kids now don’t know how to disconnect” or “kids don’t know how to be bored anymore” i don’t mean “kids should sit in a white room in a solitary chair eating saltines and never touch technology” i mean “kids are losing the essential ability to imagine and create their own play because they have a constant 24/7 stream of more overstimulating material than they could ever watch at their fingertips, and when this stimulation is removed they literally don’t know what to do with themselves”

when I say “kids are addicted to video games” I don’t mean “ah these darn kids and their dag-blasted Ataris” I mean “video games are being purposefully designed to squeeze as much money/ad engagement out of the individual consumer as possible and mechanisms like lootboxes and season passes are intentionally engineered to create addiction”

i know it’s purely anecdotal but every time i think about that toddler who told his dad “don’t forget to like and subscribe” at bedtime because he thought it was how you said goodbye to people i feel sick

One time, I decided to conduct an extremely scientific study of which Pokémon was the dumbest, as measured by how long they would stick around and let me keep throwing rocks at them in the safari zone. I would wander around and exclusively throw rocks at every wild Pokémon that appeared until they left, and then tally up my findings. I would use the dumbest representative for each Pokémon that I encountered, as I didn't really have a good way of gathering a good sample size for the rarer ones. While Slowpoke secured an early lead (9 rocks), I eventually found a really dumb Psyduck (11 rocks) that was the reigning champion for most of the experiment. Pretty much everyone was leaving after two or three good hits, so I was pleasantly surprised to crack double-digits with a particularly stubborn Exeggcute. My surprise soon turned into stupefied disbelief as the little clutch of eggs proceeded to take rock after rock unflinchingly to the face. After 12 throws I began to fear that I would kill the test subject before it fled. Finally, after 15 rocks, the world's dumbest Exeggcute realized it could end this nightmare and left me, troubled and sore-armed, to contemplate my life choices.

I thought that would be the end of it, but then I remembered that I hadn't yet used a fishing rod and proceeded to hook a Magikarp. Reader, words cannot describe the horror and elation I experienced as I proceeded to throw 23 rocks directly into that poor bastard's stupid face. At around the 20 rock mark I became extremely worried that Magikarp couldn't physically escape, and that the two of us would be stuck there forever. After that final excruciating ordeal I called off the experiment on ethical grounds and declared Magikarp the dumbest Pokémon.

PSA: never discuss private affairs in your DMs, especially contraception and abortion. Social media moguls will absolutely sell you out to the government. There are already cases of people being charged based on evidence in their DMs.

Pirate all your favorite shows, movies, and games while you still have the chance.