Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

Tomorrow’s gonna suck. We are taking one of our cows to the butcher. I don’t really get attached to the cows we have, but it was really hard feeding them tonight knowing that it was gonna be her last meal. The last time i felt like this for it was when I had to go with my dad to deliver a bull we had. Luckily I don’t have to deliver the cow this time, but I still feel like crap when I think about it. Probably the only thing I truly hate about raising cows is this.

Thought I'd get into the Christmas spirit like a lot of other people on here already with probably the most Christmas-sy Pokemon of all! Plus Iron Bundle is absolutely cracked competitively so Delibird been in discussion a lot more than usual

@Fizza Nice that you didn't just put a Santa hat on some random thing, Delibird is rather cute and actually Christmassy.

@TeaCatherine I'm actually aiming to get a shiny one on either Christmas Eve or Day now that I finally have the Shiny Charm in Scarlet (already managed to snag a shiny Noibat with it). I'm heading on a long car trip in a few days so that should be the perfect time!

Good evening.
I was watching gameplay video of Ben 10 Power Trip PS4 before picking the game. 😊

@blindsquarel Think of it like cow will be continuing its existence in a burger form That is what I call a higher purpose!

@Fizza Oh, any idea what the shiny form looks like? I'm not really into Pokémon any more but I'm still partial to an occasional shiny hunt, although so far my collection only has two proper shinies (Golduck and Rookidee and I'm on the hunt for a shiny Galarian Zigzagoon.)

@TeaCatherine This lovely shade of purple (which kind of makes them look like an Anti-Santa if I'm honest XD):

@Fizza Okay, that meets my basic requirement for shinies. (I ask you, is there anything worse than a shiny that is just a slightly shade of the same colour?)

The new Iron Bundle (a relative of Delibird) has a cool looking shiny too.

@TeaCatherine Absolutely not. I find value in even the most garish of colour palette swaps (Kantonian Tauros, Espeon, Dragonite, etc.) since they are at the very least immediately recognisable as being different. Subtle changes though? I mean they can definitely work don't get me wrong (the only change on Umbreon is that the rings change from yellow to blue and that's one of the best shinies ever created) but more often than not they are almost indistinguishable from they're base counterparts and, when the entire point of a shiny is to flex that you have have a much rarer variant of the same Pokemon? Having them be the exact goddamn same is infuriating.

Gen 9 especially is a terrible offender of this with examples such as:


(these two especially hurt me on a spiritual level)



The shinies that are good in Gen 9 are amazing but the ones that aren't are downright atrocious.

@Fizza Yup, I completely agree with this, also yeah shiny Umbreon does work despite only changing the colour of one small bit because it changes that small bit dramatically.

I am alive. And I must leave again. Be back in an hour or so.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika This is gonna be my January profile picture. His name is Nagisa, and he's from Assassination Classroom.

@EllaTheKawaiiNeko Okay, why's he dressed like that?

@TeaCatherine As a disguise to assassinate? 🤪

@TeaCatherine Because I'm making Eagly go as Astolfo in a wedding dress.
@EaglyTheKawaiiShika I agree, he is a cute waifu.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika Agreed, more waifus the better. Everyone will be questioning us, and I can't wait. I'm gonna say my vows when I set it on January 3rd.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika Ever heard of the trope Suspiciously Specific Denial?

@Fizza
I like that Ceruledge.