Lurker > Grimlyn

I actually really like Selh'teus! He's part of the Chains of Promathia expansion with Prishe.

For any actual XI players he should be one of the more knowable ones since CoP is the first like major expansion! (okay technically Zilart is the first expansion but it very much feels like finishing off what story the base game started)

Rikku never made it

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the last few characters to be added (right-to-left) - GL stopped at Leonora

DFFOO shut down in feb so I have no more propaganda to give

Gogo

Celes
Prishe

Jessie
Layle

it's been great but definitely killing my body and mind lolllllllll

(waking up 8am and walking all over the place)

but it's been pretty neat they moved gaming events out of the Sheraton hotel and now use the full TTC North building, which they also put registration in, leaving a whooooole lot more room for TTC South to have the artist alley / dealers rooms

I've never had such an easy time wandering as I please!

Cloud votes include Kingdom Hearts Cloud

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coconut milk

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he refereed the beach butt battle in Crystal Bearers so

support

ten moogle mailmen

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(but led by Artemicion)

crystal bearers bahamut when

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seems the login cookies expired and the attempt to login via script doesn't work anymore so I had to fetch cookies manually and switch them out

next scan should work, don't really want to manually kick start because the first run back should take a while

script login not working anymore is an issue I've run into before with other bots since so yeah seems like I'll just have to use manual logins (which should take moooonths to reset, but I have to mark it down)

I could make a bot on my local computer via playwright that more reliably fetches login credentials and uploads it to the database monthly to use, but for now things should be fine a while

what would the weirdest XI name even be

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if Inviso's not joining on the hot furry train

remove: Lehko Habhoka (FFXI)
add: Selh'teus (FFXI)

remove Ajido-Marujido

FFDragon posted...

I'm too lazy this year to get cheeky

Trading three for ultimecia auto

Ultimecia

for Prishe

Lilisette - FF11
Prishe - FF11
Arciela - FF11
Iroha - FF11
Ajido-Marujido - FF11
Lehko Habhoka - FF11

oh no

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It's something the original English translation didn't touch on at all. Like Birdo, the localization just referred her with feminine terms and it's only when you look at the original Japanese that you found out, with 2000s sensibilities on trans people, that Vivian is "a boy" that likes to present female.

yuuuup reviews coming in and yeah Vivian's unambiguously trans in the remakeeeeee

shit I also didn't realize we're literally a couple days away from it

like obviously Vivian isn't a new character, this just wasn't something they didn't know how to handle in the original release but it's astounding me that we have a MARIO game now with unabashed, fully-confirmed trans character that isn't just left to the wink nudge anymore gag anymore

holy fuck they're actually doing it

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omg yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

Vivian in Smash now plz

Fuck the

at least I've stocked up on some new PokeStops for GTM that isn't just the once place accessible from my bedroom lmao

definitely a bit awkward, took me a sec trying to read the name before realizing...

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.... yeahhh it just keeps going

it was like +60 accounts so if I didn't turn off the overlay it would keep popping these up the rest of the hour. then knowing someone was watching also made it feel a bit unsafe to do some more promoting on the new discord lest the attacks continue over there which I wouldn't at all be prepared for with that freshly set-up with just me about to go to bed.

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Made my discord public todayyy and had a surprising number of regs pop in to join wheee

Anyone wants to join I can PM it but rn tired, I also received my first transphobic follow bot attack so I haven't been so publicly post it around since

manny just popped in time to watch "lol".... I hear Twitch gradually removes them in batches so there's not really much to do, but also whoop I didn't realize forgot to set Sery_Bot's followban command so I figure chuck that on and do at least 1 report with time stamp of the attack

only realizing the other day that animating my existing L2D works perfectly fine for emotes

https://streamable.com/8irogl

not that I can use it for everything but heyyyy easy animated emotes!

mrehehe thanks lensyyyy

going online for some FFXI Returners Campaign in a bit!

Mega_Mana posted...

Congratulated an old coworker on a graduation snap she took.

"Thank you my little sister!! So proud lol"

And those two seconds where I didn't realize she was talking about who was actually graduating.....

But that totally means nothing st sll :p

much like the ex, they're all in the same absolutely abhorrent circle tied together

he's also in hatemonger discord groups I've definitely glanced the n-word on

I do wish he'd just get his own place again and everything can be his own problem but he blows all his money on his friends and has no concept of paying bills, which is why our mom was on the hook for much of his rent in the last place until she had enough. and now he hasn't been paying any rent to our dad since like january

pokemon progress woah I totally did not remember Poison is weak to Bug in gen 1 (and apparently vice-versa here too oops)

currently going through Route 3 to Cerulean marking ever dialogue so I can convert it to sim

gbro update

you might remember a few nights ago he came back after like a 5-6 night stay in toronto that ended up with a hospital visit as he came back bloodied & beaten

4 days later, this thursday night, he leaves again lol despite having an appointment with our family doctor tomorrow we're expecting a call for in the morning

literally just left ~11:15 (note yes he's still under curfew bail conditions to be here by 11) so gdad's a nervous wreck about it now realizing what he just did. he's apparently back with his ex, who literally has multiple ongoing charges against him (one of which being a breach of bail condition not to see her anymore that she reported him on last year, a bail condition for a different charge she put on him late 2022) so yeah gdad is furious - not just as a dad who doesn't wanna see their son go to jail, but also on the hook as gbro's surety who is actually supposed to report lest he forfeit I think it was a 10k bond to keep him from jail during the court process

also yeah as much as I say gbro is a horrible horrible person, he very much picks his girls to match because this "ex" has some sorta stabbing fetish, she's a russian white nationalist afraid of CRT infecting Russia. gbro's been stabbed numerous times from her already, even learning how to stitch himself up for it, so it's very much likely his recent bloody incident over the weekend was from her, and yeah she actually has charged him starting this whole situation and she already did the thing where she says it's okay and forgives him and then calls the cops that he broke his no-contact agreement so like uh obviously that'll just happen again and this time gbro would be entirely out of rope to keep himself from prison

meanwhile me and gsis are of course just of the feeling like yeah he's gonna do what he wants to do, our parents should understand it's already a foregone conclusion. there is absolutely no scenario in which he reigns himself in from this shit

*edit* lmao minutes after I hit post he's back?? I couldn't hear what he went out to do but he was gone for an hour and it's not like there's anything to do around here

sigh

*edit* .... after I post that update gdad comes in and asks if I heard any of that, then informs that uh he just left again. the fuck? I asked if he knows what he left for or why he had to leave again and gdad doesn't know

all I could hear in the short period he was back was gbro saying "I just got the time wrong"

... partnership? lmao

definitely relate to just wanting to use later movepools because that's what I did lmao, the original games are just so lacking in the options - like I said holy wow that Mankey's only fighting move is Seismic Toss which only does set damage

trainer & partner editing all set now! lmao okay yes I added partner changing to anyone in your party because it's so funny how I have it - if your Partner is changed, the old one fades away and the new one drops in, running until it catches up to their trainer (within 75 pixels difference)

!pkmn sprite check
!pkmn sprite list
!pkmn sprite list 2
!pkmn sprite set rocket_lyra
!pkmn partner check
!pkmn partner set 2

Brock's gym is wild for Charmander trainers, particularly in Red/Blue since like the only thing you can catch that isn't resisted is Butterfree's Confusion

Yellow at least gives the Nidos Double Kick muuuch sooner (from lv43 down to lv12) and puts Mankey in Route 22 (... also uh giving it a Fighting move, because in R/B it only learns Seismic Toss lv33 lol).

at least tho Let's Go games Rattata learns Bite which is now Dark as well so that's another. FRLG Charmander getting Metal Claw at 13 is also crazy.

my poke command I'm using the HGSS movepools, so you get the Double Kicks lv9 + Rattata Bite lv10

... tonight I gotta finally add content past Pewter City because omg this region of Pokemon is burned in my skull rn

you can pick from currently 37 sprites

red blue gold silver crystal ruby sapphire leaf diamond pearl platinum lyra black white blake whitley, retro red, retro gold, retro silver, rocket gold, rocket lyra, then all the multiplayer avatars from DP (ace m, karate guy, psychic guy, schoolboy, roughian, maniac, bug catcher, rich boy, ace f, battle girl, beauty, lass, cowgirl, idol, socialite, lady)

partners can only be your starters, pika/raichu, eevee/lutiuons, legendary birds, or mew(two)... although I have a back-up that if your partner somehow isn't one of them, it's the RBY rhyodon sprite

next up tho I still gotta input a command to select your sprite, and set it so your starter choice becomes your partner (not concerned about choosing your partner pokemon atm, although I guess pikachus could be used if I did)

pokemon commands update - players popping up with partner pokemon when using the command, will stop and idle when their battles pop up

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the players should last 5 minutes from spawn, reset every time a command is used

technically only the overlay programming is done I still gotta actually send the responses from the python script

Horizons dub (ep28), aka all of Pokemon, all caught up. It's getting kinda better, still frustrating how crowded it is, the protagonists aren't getting much progression (at least Liko finally caught her first, Hatenna

Just now went back to dug up the last Journeys special tho, Distant Blue Sky... and oh wow it's an incredibly heartwarming episode. Like this is probably my favourite Special? Man, jI feel like I'm being too down on Horizons maybe from watching so much but then I see this and I'm just like nah this here is a good episode.

also has a tease of Ash seeing his dad lol, and a nice gag about a Mankey stealing a hat again. But overall this ep's a tearjerker, Ash even really nails the emotions which is pretty rare with him kinda being an aloof Goku all the time. This is such a better send-off to Ash than the Journeys finale was, even nudged his design juuuust a bit closer to his original which I wasn't expecting for a one-off special

still gotta watch Twilight Wings, Hisuian Snow, Paldean Winds, then I guess Concierge tho

my twitter account was almost entirely Switch uploads but yeah I've phased off if it long ago so I'm ready

wifi transfer is frustrating tho

bit confused, Bulbapedia says eps 13+ aren't dub broadcast yet but I've finished that and now see there's at least 28 episodes dubbed *shrug* googling I guess the issue is Bulbapedia specifically lists it as "US broadcast" and I guess that's specifically meaning Netflix batches? if so wow Netflix sucks why is it so far behind, even the next batch in a couple days won't catch up to what's actually broadcast in English

as for the show ehhhhhh disappointed so far tbh. it really doesn't feel like much of a Pokemon show, I DESPERATELY miss journeys with a goal and this many episodes in there really isn't any. I didn't expect the show to be so spread out across a bunch of characters, not even just Roy but a whole ass team of the Rising Volt Tacklers, 6 whole ass people with varied levels of engagement, but Friede is certainly a big player and it's like wtf you're an adult

I wish they'd just cut it to the trio of starter kids - Liko, Roy & Dot

and yeah so far I don't really get anyone's goal. what are the Rising Volt Tacklers... for? there's a few mysteries about the Ancient Pokeballs and Liko's pendant but it doesn't seem to be what they're actually about, Liko & Roy are stumbling more into it on their own like oh Liko's dad made an art book of a black Rayquaza he heard in tales and that's what came out of Roy's mysterious Ancient Pokeball or whatever

seriously tho fuck off Friede why are you so prominent oh right because you have a Pikachu & Charizard, of course

also Roy is just an Ash clone, while the Evil Team is uh bizarrely serious, it's like a staggering contrast of Team Rocket actually being fun/likeable

when the ending of an episode completely wins me over the rest of it - 2nd last episode of Journeys, the Latias that's been following Ash/Misty/Brock during this mini-arc comes out and saved him last episode, and this episode shows a Latios in trouble the gang go save

anyways, the ending, the Latias & Latios fly away somewhere and Ash & the game talk about it, "I wonder where they're going", "somewhere safe", then we get a scene of the Latis flying away to their home in Pokemon Movie 5 (Heroes), with the girl that Latias likes to transform into, Bianca, is waiting there

soooo this Latias was the Latias that kissed Ash in the movie, wish Ash recognized her earlier! always happy to get movie connections, which the show has definitely given up for forever by now lol

annnd held off on posting til I watched the final ep as well - I'M DONE! Jan 13th to May 8th to watch Ash's entire journeyyy. actually I may be able to finish what's available of Horizons too brb

but finale episode itself eh it's fine, doesn't really feel like a big fanfare. Team Rocket snags Pikachu, Ash doesn't have anyone else with him, Pidgeot returns to save the day which oh hey buddy nice. Gary asks Ash what he needs to do to become a Pokemon Master now that he's become Champion and Ash wonders the same thing. Episode ends with Ash's mom going to wake him up and he's already left for an unknown new journey.

furious that Serena only had ONE episode in Journeys (they showered her one other time cheering for Ash's championship match with no lines). just that one episode I mentioned earlier where they don't even meet up until the very end as Ash goes. BULLSHIT. Every other partner across Ash's journey has had an episode with him but Serena's the one they skimp out on? booooooo. When I saw that episode I thought okay there's many more to come surely they'll bring Serena back for more but NOPE and I hate it

okay one last xiv stream for a while for manny to sleep to but that should be it til the end of the month!

XI free returners campaign starts on the 10th and I'm definitely gonna wanna return that for the first time since before I went on hiatus (same with TotK I gotta come back to oop). After that it'll soon be Anime North time, maybe fit in one stream between then for something else.................... glaring back at TotK rn

but um i'll have to refresh my memories on what I did on my XI stream account, I know I left off in Bastok, I think still doing Windurst ambassador missions

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the right was just a base I made to then use as a reference for the left

since I have the space to put it up too why not, for now

tournament beated

overall I prefer Ash vs Cynthia, but the final attack is definitely epic af - preceded by Pikachu getting knocked down, having like a dream of all the Pokemon Ash caught over the journey cheering him on (grouped by series they were caught in), and then up comes the final face-off Ash's Pikachu vs Leon's Charizard with the original Pokmon Theme playing to build-up

A++ end

fight yeah eh, Cynthia brought more strategy that kept me engaged with. kinda um "odd" that Ash's final champ battle bends the rules - the announcer is saying okay trainers have a choice of 1 Mega, Z-Move, or Dynamax to use and Leon's just like laaaame let's have it all!

which like yeah cool to do one of each of the final battle.... but Leon is only capable of Dynamaxing. Go in thinking hey maybe he can use multiple Dynmaxes... and he does, technically. Two. Eternatus comes and lets everyone Dynamax a 2nd time...... so uh so does Ash, a second time. It just feels like Ash's big win is with a handicap - Gigantamax Gengar, Mega Lucario, 10 Million Volt Thunderbolt, and Gigantamax Pikachu vs Gigantamax Charizard & Gigantamax Cinderace

ftr Ash's other pokemon were Dracovish, Dragonite, & Sirfetch'd, all Pokemon he caught this series only. Leon: Cinderace, Inteleon, Mr. Rhyme, Dragapult, Rillaboom, Charizard

honestly could not give a rat's ass about Dracovish

also also - the battle started Pikachu vs Cinderace, with Leon using a Ground attack then mentioning Cinderace's ability Libero turning its typing into Ground with that attack. Ash switches out, so does Leon, so you kinda right away figure it's gonna come down to Pikachu vs Cinderace in the end with that in effect.

It kinda does, Ash's Pikachu is last standing against Charizard & Cinderace. Cinderace comes out and... doesn't do it again. y'know that dangerous anti-Pikachu technique that forced him to switch out at the start. it really feels like Leon handed this match to Ash

oh god how many full streams of people dedicated to farming in chat would that take to find one shiny

I've implemented shiny pokemon in the simulator

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to see it on stream I've also personally edited every r/b sprite to have a basic hue of their shiny colours. and it works!

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... so far I just have shiny odds at the original 1/4096 but uh that is probably insane for something like this. I could add a shiny charm item somewhere, definitely would have to think about where (gambling prize?). Could make a Shiny Sandwich channel points redeem. Outbreaks / Encounter chains would be way more work than I'm interested in. Masuda Method for sure but honestly just any trade not specifically foreign trades

but still I feel like I should definitely bump the base rate up. for the record so far there's been 555 Pokemon spawned out of all on-stream gameplay or personal bug testing gameplay

(1) Leon vs (6) Alain
(4) Lance vs (5) Diantha
(2) Cynthia vs (7) Iris
(3) Steven vs (8) Ash

Leon vs Diantha
Cynthia vs Ash

Leon vs Ash

it is technically the Galara series after all, Leon was cemented as the leader to beat pretty early in

would've made seed sense if they just swapped Ash & Alain... after all, Ash already beat Iris who's #7. Alain hasn't really been shown in this series until the tournament

also yes not only did Lance lose round 1 but before the tournament not only did he lose his Top Champ status to Leon in the beginning of the series, but apparently Steven & Cynthia both overtook him since then

on the 3rd ep of Cyntha vs Ash rn and man they make Cynthia strategic as hell it's awesome

lmao Iris first fight is against Cynthia, RIP poor girl ain't get any chance to shine oof

also Lance started out as the top champ at the beginning of the series until Leon beat him, and now his round 1 was another loss against Diantha

oh wow JN111 ep, Lusamine family finds the father

this is pretty twisted

he opens his door to Lillie & Gladion, not recognizing either of them as his children, nor Lusamine coming in behind them. He's confused the kids call him dad and Lusamine calls him by his name (that he recognizes).

he invites them in, they say they're looking for their father, he goes huh that's neat I have a daughter named Lillie myself! he brings them to her bedroom and there is another Lillie playing the piano - but the rest of the family can see this is a Nihilego, as Lusamine quickly revolts having previously been abducted by one.