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BoomBoy
Trainerlevel: 77
Trainerpoints: 17,231/17,863
Trainerlevel: 77
Trainerpoints: 17,231/17,863
Party
| Pkmn | Name | Level | EXP/EHP |
|---|---|---|---|
 | The Chespinking (Chespin) SHINY  | 5,807 | 30,019,172 / 121,243,278 |
 | EGG | --- | 2,171/5,355 |
 | EGG | --- | 1,941/5,355 |
 | EGG | --- | 7,021/30,855 |
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 pay attention because some links are actually the same link, and it's very out of date, but it has all the historic links.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Use this Royal Tunnel Helper - probably also out of date but idk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Use this Royal Tunnel Simulator to practise the noobtrap (out of date and no longer live).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
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
Badge Showcase
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Plushies
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Orca~ | 5 Days ago |
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Cloudfairy | 7 Days ago |
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Soffia | 13 Days ago |
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Soffia | 13 Days ago |
Game Records
Trainer ID: #762650682Registration: 10/02/2019 (6 Years ago)
Premium member until 10/Jan/2026
Time Played: 3000:29 Hours
Total interactions: 5,762,286
Money: 2,162,796
Starter Pokémon:
Dewott
Feeds
H for Hypothermia
#1514: victims of hypothermia have some strange last-minute symptoms: when you're seconds away from death, you suddenly exhibit "paradoxical undressing". you take all your clothes off! this is followed immediately by "terminal burrowing" where you climb underneath furniture. this means a lot of hypothermia cases initially look like abuse cases, because you're found hidden underneath something covered in scratches, and completely naked. paradoxical undressing happens in about a quarter of hypothermia deaths, whereas terminal digging happens in most cases. as you get cold, the muscles in your skin contract your blood vessels to help direct blood towards your core and to reduce heat loss, but if you're really cold for a long time, then your muscles just give up and suddenly your skin begins warming up again. this feels like a sudden heat, and you're already not thinking straight, so you instinctively just... strip down.
2H for Hairy Horns
#1513: a rhino doesn't have horns. if you want to be annoying and pedantic. they're entirely keratinous - made up of the same stuff as your fingernails and your hair, whereas horns ought to be made of bone. it is in fact attached to the skull, but it's made up of nothing fancier than one thick strand of hair. similar horns aren't that rare on other animals - like humans. there are some interesting cases from the days of witch-hunting (i doubt that was a fun time to walk around looking like the devil) where people spontaneously grew horns like that of a rhino. including one nun, who reportedly banged her head against her prison cell so much that she sprouted a horn on her forehead that grew around in a curl and almost poked her in the eye.
H for Hair
#1512: hair is mostly made up of keratins, which is actually quite a big family of proteins (there are over fifty different keratine genes in humans, and some animals have much more than that still), but it also comprises "Keratin Associated Proteins" (KRTAPs), which is an even more diverse group. these bundle together the different keratin fibres into strands and things like that. there are 122 genes of these in humans, but other animals have even more. the KRTAPs give the hair its structure and strength, so animals like the sloth and mouse, with much tougher hair, have upwards of 180 genes encoding differnet KRTAPs. even dolphins have 35 of these genes - for the tiny little sensitive hair they get on their upper lip as babies. KRTAPs make up less than 3% of human hair by weight though - whereas mouse hair is about 18% KRTAPs, and echidna quills are 30-40% KRTAPs to make them reeeaally stiff.
H for Hay
#1511: square hay bales are ideal for stacking, but they come in lots of different sizes. the standard small one is a two-string bale called the "flat 8" because they're stacked in flat rows of 8. they're about a metre long and 20kg, and tied with two strings (hence the classification between two- and three-string bales). people have competitions at rodeos and things to stack these by hand. the big rectangles (called squares even tho they're not) are called Hesstons and weigh half a metric ton - a 3/4 Heston has 3/4 the height (who could've guessed) and both of these need 6 strings. a "Mini Hesston", which has around half the volume of a full Heston, only needs 4 strings I think. bigger bales are obviously more efficient, but the littl'uns are still popular - among others, it's argued they're better when they get contaminated with roadkill or something because you need to throw less out.
G for Galen
#1510: a formulation is a combination of different things - like chemicals in a tablet. Galen, the 2nd-century physician, wrote about how to formulate different chemicals together, and today galenic formulations are used to aid the effectiveness of drugs. for example, combining a drug with certain different structural drugs that enhance the absorption, or release it slowly or something. although it's been going on for millennia, the development of better formulations is ever ongoing, and some argue it's more important for the betterment of modern medicine than the active drug itself. recent galenic formulations that require you to take them a tenth as often, or for less long, mean people are up to twice as likely to stick to the prescribed regimes and for up to twice as long. it makes the medicine much more effective simply by making it easier to take.
G for Gefre
#1509: Rosalind Gefre, aka Sister Roz, is a nun with a very good massage business. she once incidentally had a massage and thereafter had the best night's sleep ever, apparently, and trained as a masseuse. she offers massages, hugs and prayers at sporting events, and by 2006 she had given over 7000 at games of the minor league baseball team, St Paul Saints. she worked hard to take down the stigma around massages (why's there so much stigma in society???) because when she started there were associations between massages and sex work. at the age of 95, she's still going strong!
G for Gaston
#1508: the main baddie from Disney's 1991 Beauty and the Beast was an addition to the classic fairy tale: the first time the story appeared in paper was in Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve's 1740 Canterbury Tales-style book. although this was probably inspired by certain Roman and Greek plays, it doesn't really have any folkloric basis, unlike most fairy tales. the villains in this first iteration were mainly jealous women. but Disney cite a different inspiration: the 1756 remake of the tale, which got rid of a whole load of frills. here the older women were exaggerated to the point that they tried to kill the protagonist. Disney took multiple attempts at storyboarding it throughout the 20th century, and the character of Gaston was inspired by a 1946 film by Cocteau.
G for Gait
#1507: Eadweard Muybridge was born Edward Muggeridge and changed his name various times, eventually landing on that spelling, which is an Old English version of his birthname. unsurprisingly, having had half a dozen different names, people always spelt it wrong - including on his gravestone (where it's Eadweard Maybridge). when he was working in Guatemala, he added in Santiago to the mix. this is the guy who took the photos of the horses and put them inside a spinning circle, the zoopraxiscope, to analyse how they walk, trot, canter and gallop. he did similar things with humans and various other animals, and took hundreds of thousands of photos. which is impressive for the 19th century i think. he also shot his wife's secret lover in cold blood - he allegedly tracked him down, said "I have a message for you from my wife" and shot him point-blank, and that was that.
anyway uh happy arospec awareness week!!
G for Graphology
#1506: you can get an accredited BA or MA in graphology at various universities, in Barcelona, Urbino or Buenos Aries. obviously it's quite a complicated set of codswallop, but i'll take a stab anyway. it's quite hard particularly because the vocabulary changes from system to system. anyway, apparently my handwriting shows ambition because of the large capitals, t-bars that rise upwards, and very tall ascending/descending strokes. because i flourish my signature and i do my capital "i" very large, i'm evidently egotistical too. because my letters form a "crumble" and the descenders are really far down, that points to depression. and eroticism i think. i'm not really sure what's going on to be honest.
G for Graphology and Bender-Gestalt
#1505: graphology (handwriting analysis for personality assessment) is the most discredited form of psychoanalysis - beaten only by the Bender-Gestalt test in proportion of experts that think it's a load of flim-flam. the Bender-Gestalt test (a test of psychological impairment by getting you to copy out drawings) was what the most experts agreed was a pile of pipsqueak (lowest standard deviation in polls) and graphology was close behind. unsurprisingly, profiling based on graphology is illegal in various countries, but i can't find anywhere where the Bender-Gestalt test is illegal. it was a mainstream method of assessment for about half a century, and it's been developed with various different scoring systems and expanded to interpret emotions and so on.
N for- i mean, G for Gnome
#1504: garden gnomes were first invented in Germany in the 1840s, although by whom is contested. they were brought over by Charles Isham to the UK, and the first gnome in the UK, called Lampy, is insured at a million pounds. similar things had been around a while before, though - the ancient Romans had fertility statues and Renaissance folks had grotesques (like gargoyle sorta shabang). the gnomes were initially introduced to the garden as a medium to commune with actual gnomes. i think. they wear red hats because they're miners - like the dwarves of Snow White.
F for Finland
#1503: the Järvenpään Kirkko not far from Helsinki is Finland's ugliest church, as voted by readers of Kotimaa magazine. perhaps it deserves it but it does have a nicely carved fir altar and the belfry is pretty cool imo. the residents are fine with this, i think - being known as the ugliest church gets tourists i guess. there was an article about it where all the residents were like "if i ever get married i'll have to move so i don't have to get married in that church". although it was a landslide victory, the runners up were in Alava and Kaleva. i think people just have it out for 60s betonbrutalism because that last one is actually really nice....
F for Freelance
#1502: the word freelance was originally a mercenary warrior - one whose lance is free to stab where it pleases. i think it's a cute word because it's the merger of a Germanic-origin word and a Latin-origin word. although, there's the possibility that "lance" is ultimately of Celtic origin. the word first appeared in Walter Scott's Ivanhoe (1820), a medieval-set novel that is probably the origin of a fair bit of Robin Hood and Richard Lionheart mythology.
F for Fish inFected with Fluke
#1501: Euhaplorchis is a type of fluke, which is a rather gross-looking flatworm. it's a "trophically transmitted parasite" which means that it gets around by being eaten. it infects a killifish by entering its central nervous system through its gills, and then it takes over the fish's mind by making it flap around and "flash" its belly up to the sky. it makes it swim closer to the surface and makes it much more noticeable, so it gets eaten by birds. then it reproduces inside the nutrient-rich intestinal tract of the bird, and then it gets excreted out and spread far and wide across the ocean. it then gets eaten up by snails and then continues the life cycle in another fish's gills.
F for Further Fish (it's Fact number Fifteen-hundred!)
#1500: killifish, to which pupfish (fotd#1108) and rivuluses (fotd#1498) belong, can evolve very quickly. they appear in large populations and have the highest genetic diversity of any vertebrate*, so they're a token example of "evolutionary rescue". they're known to fare well in the many many toxic sites of the US, and particularly famously so in the oily waters after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill off Louisiana. to battle the odds, the killifish "already carry the winning cards in their deck:" they have such wide genetic diversity that it only takes a couple dozen generations for an entire local population to become immune to pretty much any toxin. they're found in Superfund sites with mercury, E-waste and dioxins, and the genetic mechanisms are mostly well-understood behind these, although less so with oil.
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F for French Fighters
#1499: French soldiers are, evidently, just the best. France (and its many predecessors - see fotd#735) has waged the most wars of any nation (known to our westernised historians - grains of salt may be in order) and also had the best win-rate. Niall Ferguson compiles a list of "the most important" battles of the last half-millennium and argues that France's participation in 40% of them and its win-rate of 65% makes it the most powerful. it's been argued that France's natural frontiers - the Alps, the Pyrenees and the Rhine - were important assets to their success, but also as something worth fighting over. the Frankish Empire that grew to become France originates from a much smaller area, so most of the hexagon of France is much less "France" than some of it - as late as 1880, only a fifth of France spoke French.
F for Fish
#1498: if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, the mangrove rivulus wins (a type of killifish native to the tropical Americas). they live in mangrove swamps and when the water level goes down they climb up into the tangly roots and up into the trunk of mangrove trees, which insects hollow out. they can survive up to two months on land - breathing through their skin and "flipping" to get around. they're also mostly self-fertilising hermaphrodites - one of few species that primarily reproduces sexually with itself. there are also some males (mostly in Belize?) - not sure how they compete. in Florida, the vaaaaaast majority of all mangrove rivuluses are all more or less genetic clones of one another and have been pretty much genetically identical for hundreds of years. it's often studied as a token example for this reason, and also because it has an ideal lifespan of a year or two.
i expected it to be more ceremonious. next on the agenda is zygarde 50% i think. i might do something small in the meantime but i do wanna get cracking. if anyone wants to double up on that with me (or book a zygarde/shiny zygarde for a sensible price?) let me know!!
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 #aFactADay2025 on a daily basis (for backlog: 2021 - 2022 - 2023 - 2024 - 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 1,637 Dragon
1,518 Fairy
1,619 Ground
1,662 Normal
1,659 Poison
1,431 Ice
1,481 Electric
1,043 Steel
1,016 Fire
1,551 Bug
1,025 Darkgoing for roughly 1000 each i guess?
KALOS SHINIES:
clicklist:
i have 95 of 117 Kalos Shinies
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