CoderKat

Wow, that's awful lol. I explored a little and very quickly encountered a shrine where I figured out there must have been a paraglider cause it needed it (that might have been purposefully placed?).

But also, no paraglider means no map. I can't imagine going for too long without progressing the story till you can reveal the map!

Heck, it felt like it was taking too long to give me the photo mode feature. I knew it had to be there, but I was expecting to get it much sooner and didn't like missing opportunities to take photos for the compendium.

Honestly, most status moves aren't worth it in normal, AI battles because the pokemon AI is so bad.

Sword dance and nasty plot are the exception. Use that once or twice and you can usually sweep the entire opponent team with one hits. They're also fantastic in the raid features that the last 2 generations have had. A big meta in SV raids was belly drum + drain punch (which would easily heal the damage belly drum dealt). It's practically impossible to win 6+ star raids without status moves. Some of them are so brutally hard that you have to go for cheese strategies.

Sure, there was hard work. A lot of time spent getting good at what I do, studying, and what not. But I'm going to be blunt: it was a lot of luck. Anyone who says otherwise is probably lacking insight.

Luck in having the circumstances where I was able to focus enough efforts and have the energy to do so. Luck in encountering the right opportunity and people along the way.

Not trying to downplay effort, but a lot of comments make it seem like all you have to do is work hard and you'll get rewarded. Sometimes you totally will. And other times you'll crash and burn or be taken advantage of.

They're rarely enforceable elsewhere, anyway. They usually depend on intimidating people, since they're not likely to win in court for the vast majority of cases (which is why they should be straight up illegal).

The transphobes were reported as saying, "the cakes have cooties!"

Just a heads up, I think the word you're looking for is empathize.

Hell yeah! Geometrically the strongest shape. Nothing's sexier than a strong, independent shape that can make all other shapes (even a circle is just triangles with the number of triangles approaching infinite).

Mmm, strawberry saliva. It's sweet and moist!

...I'm sorry? Seven. Fucking. Inches???????????

I don't even know how to respond to that. Do I want a source?

Look at them just living in the moment 😎

I mean, look at the face of the woman on the bottom left. She's just really having a wild time enjoying the sights and sounds and smells of life!

Well, it does mean that you could be doxxed if a leak or attack happens. It's up to you to decide how much you care about that risk.

Though also bear in mind that you can be doxxed no matter what if you share enough details online, so unless you're planning to be extremely careful with every shred of information you reveal, it probably honestly doesn't matter.

I wouldn't say don't post personal information at all. But rather don't post information that you're not comfortable with everyone knowing, while being identified and never being able to delete it.

IMO it's best to assume that if you post enough online, someone dedicated enough will be able to identify you, especially people who already know you in real life. It's difficult to post without revealing small details about yourself that can be combined to piece together who you are. Eg, you might never say where you work, but your city, field, an offhand comment about a coworker, a mention of a conference, and such might let someone narrow it down. Similarly, you might never mention what city you're in, but it might be narrowed down from mentions of things like traffic, weather, events near you, remarks of things being close by, etc. And that's not even getting into devious things like trying to trick someone into clicking a link to a domain you control so that you can get their IP.

I'm of the opinion you should generally act as if you're talking to people face to face with a name tag saying your full name and address. I think that approach also just plain makes the internet a better place. Anonymity seems to make a lot of people more comfortable being aggressive assholes.

I say "generally" because there's plenty of valid reasons to want to post things you would want to post things that you'd never say if identified. But in that case, you should strongly consider using an absolutely minimal throwaway account, while being extremely careful with details. And even then, you should at least consider that you might still get identified. In particular, I think a lot of users of throwaways only consider strangers not being able to identify them. Sometimes that's all you care about, but your family, friends, and coworkers are going to have a lot easier time identifying you.