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BoomBoy
Trainerlevel: 77
Trainerpoints: 3,346/17,863
Trainerlevel: 77
Trainerpoints: 3,346/17,863
Party
| Pkmn | Name | Level | EXP/EHP |
|---|---|---|---|
 | The Chespinking (Chespin) SHINY  | 5,670 | 110,413,923 / 115,586,438 |
 | ~Rose~ (Xerneas) SHINY | 974 | 3,108,563 / 3,561,189 |
 | Kenver (Zygarde (10% Forme)) SHINY | 895 | 751,952 / 3,007,201 |
 | Maggie (Tapu Lele) SHINY | 478 | 410,472 / 858,609 |
 | Gary (Victini) SHINY | 882 | 465,351 / 2,920,524 |
 | Markus (Dewott) | 682 | 1,246,359 / 1,656,528 |
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 pay attention because some links are actually the same link, and it's very out of date, but it has all the historic links.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Use this Royal Tunnel Helper - probably also out of date but idk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Use this Royal Tunnel Simulator to practise the noobtrap (out of date and no longer live).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
Shiny Hunt
BoomBoy is currently hunting Milcery.
Hunt started: 17/08/2023
Chain: 1,558
Hunt started: 17/08/2023
Chain: 1,558
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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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Ace~ | 3 Days ago |
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Vixie | 7 Days ago |
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kytten | 16 Days ago |
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~Hummus~ | 23 Days ago |
Game Records
Trainer ID: #762650682Registration: 10/02/2019 (5 Years ago)
Game Time: 2963:16 Hours
Total interactions: 5,729,398
Money: 103,078
Starter Pokémon:
Dewott
Feeds
#1364: Imogen is one of the many words created by Shakespeare, in his play Cymbeline. Innogen or Ignogen was recorded previously, possibly deriving from "innocentia". hence it's thought that the M was a misprint of what should've been two Ns - eyewitness reports of early performances refer to "Innogen", and "Imogen" didn't appear in a published work until the First Folio, over a decade after the play was first performed. around the turn of the 17th century, Innogen fell out of its already low use, and Imogen replaced it - possibly entirely due to Shakespeare even a century after his death. alternatively, it just comes from Greek.
0#1363: attempts to summit Mount Everest have been increasing, and the success rate has been increasing too: 2 out of 3 first-timers made it to the top in the 2010s, double the rate in the 90s. this is partly because of better forecasting and planning, and the paths that Nepal and China build with the 20-grand permit costs. but it's also become a big industry with experienced companies who'll hold your hands all the way, making it more attractive and more successful. this boom applies particularly to older people: half of all attempters are over 40, and the first septuagenarian attempts are all this century, with a 1 in 5 success rate. people over 60 have also tripled in success rate in the past two decades, and is now comparable to the success rate of 40-year-olds 20 years ago - ie, 60 is the new 40. deathrates have stayed flat across the board at around a percent.
#1362: the Cayman Islands were first discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1503. like, actually - there is no evidence of anyone having ever noticed it before him. obviously this is a bit dubious coming from a European speaking in European language based on other Europeans' research, but the consensus is that the islands are so small and angled unhelpfully at nearby lands that they were simply never encountered until by Europeans. which i find surprising because they're now the most populous British Overseas Territory at 88k. there's a possibility that they were used as migration stopovers for people first immigrating across the Carribean, and nobody stayed; but their European discovery has been enshrined on their coat of arms and flag with "He hath founded it upon the seas" (oddly messianic).
#1361: voles urinate constantly. or at least they don't really hold it up and go all at once - they leave trails wherever they go. they can be quite territorial, but it also means they're very easy to track: kestrels and owls can spot them quite easily because the urine is really bright in the UV range (i think owls are tetrachromatic, so some cones in their eyes extend to (ultra)violet light). i don't know how voles survive because they can be quite fearless: they'll defend their territory but they'll also be really curious, without really hiding from known threats, at least not as much as you'd expect. they do demonstrate empathy to one another though: voles that were unfairly treated or harmed were groomed more by other voles, which were found to have equally high stress hormones.
#1360: knocking on wood is one of those things with cloudy roots because it's so common. in ancient Germanic culture, three gods would send fate to the world through a tree, so you knock thrice to get on each of their good sides - probably the German "Dreimal Holz" (wood thrice). the English "touch wood" might be because of children's games where anything wooden acts as a safehouse. other explanations i've seen include knocking under tables where it's hidden and safe; or how monks might be called to pray by knocking on a wooden instrument; or referencing how Jesus was bound to the wooden cross. it's probably all of these influencing one another around the world. often it's accompanied by other things like pulling on your ear, or spitting* thrice, or saying other superstitious things (like numbers).
#1359: orcas are social animals - you might have heard of the salmon hat trend, where one orca just started wearing a dead salmon on its head and within weeks, everyone in the pod was doing it, and even in other pods. this is an example of a horizontal trend, because it moved between individuals of similar class/age/gender. "kelping" is another cultural behaviour, but not really a trend per se, because it's transmitted vertically: a mother leaves her calf to play in some kelp while she goes hunting. a similar activity in just one pod near Vancouver supports this: orcas roll around on a "rubbing beach" to massage themselves against the pebbles.
#1358: as part of their model to predict COVID-19 hospitalisation, the Economist cross-calculated mortality from the disease with age: the chance of dying roughly doubles every 8 years older you are. for countries like Japan, the median age is 48 so there was an estimated Infection Fatality Ratio (IFR) of 1.3%. Uganda, on the other end of the scale, has a median age of 17 so the IFR in 2020 was estimated to be less than 0.1%. most African countries were below 0.2%, whereas Europe as a whole was 0.9%. and this model mirrors what happened: the pandemic hit richer nations worse because the people are older. of course there are so many other factors, like healthcare, lockdown procedures and comorbidities; but age was the most affecting single factor, as far as i can tell.
#1357: "lens" comes from Latin for "lentil" because a convex lens is shaped like a lentil... lenses are really old, at least as old as Pliny the Elder, who remarked on Emperor Nero using an emerald ("smaragdus") to see the gladiators. he says that the magical convergent powers of an emerald (that "reunite .. the powers of vision") mean you shouldn't try to engrave on it (but it's tricky to anyway). the Nimrud lens is an 8th-century Assyrian stone that may or may not have been used as a burning glass or something similar, with a focal length of around 12cm. its focus isn't the best because it was a naturally-occurring crystal.
#1356: cockroaches have a bendy exoskeleton that can flex and withstand high forces of up to 900 times their bodyweight. this helps them creep around in holes less than a third of their height, moving at up to 20 body lengths per second, while feeling pressures of 300 times their bodyweight - but it also makes them very very hard to squish with your shoe. they have a special "body-friction crawl" which lets them use the massive frictions to their advantage and locomote at similar speeds as in the open. elastic proteins let the exoskeletal plates overlap, and the spine distributes all the weight to the legs even when they're splayed out to the sides, so they can squish easily. this bend-not-break strategy has inspired robotmakers to design origami-style robots that can squish into hard gaps like post-disaster rubble.
#1355: George Witt was a doctor who rose to mayor of Bedford. when he moved to Australia in 1849, he gave his collection to a Bedford museum. he then earned a fortune in just 5 years, banking in Sydney, and built a house in London. he began to collect a large amount of artefacts, both contemporary and from all the biggest ancient civilisation, and in 1865 he gave his collection to the British Museum. unfortunately, a large portion of his stock hinged around Priapus, the Greek god of fertility and male genitalia (and after whom priapism is named). because so much of his hoard was obscene, the Museum had to start a special collection called the Secretum, which kept all the items too rude for public display. the Secretum was disbanded slowly between 1912 and 2005, with the last entry being an 18th-century condom someone had used as a bookmark for a book from 1783.
#1354: a "washout" is one of those idioms that nobody's certain where it comes from. some say it comes from natural disasters that would "wash out" a field, rendering it unusable (waterlogged). perhaps because washing out was also used to refer to crossing something out in ink (i can't tell if this implies with water or not because that would be weird), a washout was a cancellation or obliteration. Susie Dent reckons it dates to a time when messages in the Navy would be written on a slate to be taken to the comms quarters, and once they were transmitted they'd be wiped off: to disregard the message (mark it as sent/read), it'd be washed out. this is one of those facts that isn't really a fact....... at least it's linguistically interesting that everyone agrees that it comes from the verb. which nobody agrees on the meaning of lol
#1353: the penduline tit weaves elaborate nests hanging from trees out of plants, hairs, and webs. the nest has a larger, obvious hole that predators see and go into, but it's a trap! they get led to a smaller, uninhabited chamber so they lose interest and slink away. the real nest entrance is found above this one, inside a flap that you can only really get into if you know about it. the secret entrance is usually cleverly sealed with some sticky spider web.
#1352: Grace Kelly and Alec Guinness both acted in 1955 The Swan, which involved a tomahawk as a prop. and it was a real tomahawk, a heavy axe, so nobody wanted to take it home afterwards. so, as a prank, Alec had a porter slip it into Grace's bed. a few years later, Alec found it in his own bed after doing a tour in London - i can't even find out how Grace got it there. Alec waited years for Grace to visit America, then gave it to someone to give to a poet who was touring with her, such that it could be slipped into her bed; apparently, she asked if he knew Alec Guinness and he said no, because he didn't. it wasn't until 1980 that Guinness next found it in his bed, after receiving an Oscar. he managed one more swap in 1982 before Kelly died. neither acknowledged it, mentioned it or wrote about it until therefater.
#1351: the word "coffee" is thought to come through Dutch and Turkish from Arabic qahwah, which may in turn come from a region in Ethiopia where the beans were grown. the Ethiopian word itself, būno, was also loaned into Arabic to mean raw coffee, but didn't make it beyond that. the word "coffee" was first attested around 1600, almost a century after it found its way into Europe: it was also called "cahve", "kahui" and others, which are related to the Turkish and Arabic more closely.
#1350: psychological development is fascinating. a "magical stage" has been described - the age range, about 2-6, when children believe something can be true just by thinking about it. Jean Piaget explained this as a confusion between thoughts that come from perception and those they just made up. however recent experiments suggest children only believe because they can - when told to imagine a box with a monster in it, they'd act scared, and when told to imagine a rabbit in a box they'd be curious. but if they imagined a pencil, and then if someone says they need a pencil, they wouldn't hand it over. perhaps because it becomes higher-stakes, they exercise rationality.
#1349: Franz Reichelt, aka the Flying Tailor, tried to invent a suit that would turn into a parachute. he threw a bunch of test dummies out of his window but they barely worked; he tried a few tests himself, somehow getting only one bone break. he was convinced he just wasn't trying high enough, so he tried to get the Eiffel Tower to let him jump off. eventually in 1912 he did, and he died. he called all the newspapers and some cinematographers, but only told people that he actually intended on jumping himself once he got there. he hesitated for about 40 seconds on the edge, but apparently when he jumped he was smiling. i don't think he was smiling when he hit the ground - apparently an autopsy found that he had a heart attack on the way down (doesn't quite check out...). the sad thing is that the knapsack parachute had been invented a year earlier, and people had been jumping out of planes with wearable parachutes for several years.
#1348: the snallygaster is a terrifying chimaera that terrorises Maryland with a ghoulish face and steel claws. or used to, perhaps - every report since the 19th century has been one way or another a hoax. around 1909 there was a big apparent resurfacing but it turned out to be mostly made up by media outlets to boost readers. it's perhaps related, even if only by appearance, to the Jersey Devil, a wyvern with hooves and a goat's head that roams southern New Jersey, born as the cursed 13th child to Mother Leeds. snallygaster probably comes from German schnelle Geister (fast spirits) - it was initially German immigrants who spotted it, and related it to European folklore. perhaps related is snollygoster - a word used a lot in America about the same time as the snallygaster was being spotted; referring to someone who isn't guided by principles.
#1347: Sarah and Adnan Klaric were unhappily married and each started cheating on the other. they went into online dating, and Adnan found someone who was in a similar situation to him - he described it as "suddenly in love again". when he first met this person in real life..... it was his wife. they had each been cheating, but with each other. they claimed this as adultery (how??) and got a divorce (despite everyone on the internet telling them to rethink...). Richard Batista was a surgeon who gave his wifa Dawnell a kidney in 2001, and filed for a divorce in 2005. he claimed the kidney as marital property and demanded it back, but a court ruled that it wasn't and he could actually be liable for criminal prosecution.
#1346: boys of the Sateré-Mawé tribe have quite the ordeal to become men: the rite of passage ceremony involves holding your hand in a glove of pain (like the book/film Dune). usually for about 5-10 minutes. up to 20 times. dozens bullet ants are collected and sedated so they can be woven into mitts, made from weaves or leaves. once the ants are awake enough to sting, the man-to-be puts one hand in each glove. usually the subject writhes in pain for several days afterwards, suffering from hallucinations and paralysis and the likes. Sataré means something like "fireworm" and i think that's deserved.
#1345: funnily enough, nobody knows why the street Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate in York (yeah, really) is called... that. the gate bit is easy - it means street (gates into the city are called bars). the rest... could be to do with whipping posts, a place where people would be tied to be publicly corporally punished. historical names suggest otherwise: in 1505 it was recorded as Whitnourwhatnourgate, meaning something like "neither this nor that". a plaque on the street itself thinks it means "what a street". the funny thing about it is that it's about 24m long. the buildings on it are numbered 1, 1b, 1½, 1-4 and 3. here's 1½
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 #aFactADay2024 on a daily basis (for backlog: 2021 - 2022 - 2023 - 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 1,437 Dragon
1,164 Fairy
1,446 Ground
1,461 Normal
1,473 Poison
1,298 Ice
1,299 Electric
891 Steel
798 Fire
1,332 Bug
889 Darkgoing for roughly 1000 each i guess?
KALOS SHINIES:
clicklist:
i have 95 of 117 Kalos Shinies
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