a logistically difficult but culturally beloved tradition

important rules from "The Homestar Runner OC Wiki"

Llama 4.5 Scout is not so good by my benchmark.

Apparently ACE in SMB2j (lost levels) was just found??? incredible

Wait, you can just... walk through this wall in the Unknown Dungeon basement? (Red/Blue) Surely this must be well-known, yet I had no idea.

Do you ever think about the fact that the designers of General Midi were tasked with coming up with the 128 most important instruments in the world, and one of the answers they came up with was "Goblins"

After 77 hours of getting lost, Claude has finally reached the final Rocket in Mt Moon before the fossils and the exit with a healthy party, this is not a drill: www.twitch.tv/claudeplaysp...

An odd thing about being Everywhere on the internet for 10+ years is that I keep seeing my actions butterfly effect in the most unpredictable ways

Now we're talking my kind of benchmark: https://www.twitch.tv/claudeplayspokemon

The strange era of models that are aligned with humanity, even but whose creators are not.

This is pretty good https://youtu.be/SYWrxZ-D8v4

SV/Home source has leaked. First interesting thing I spotted: A commented-out unit test asserting that you can evolve into Overqwil or Wyrdeer using the "Powerful Stone" and "Technical Stone" respectively. But it says the items were "added for testing purposes", so who knows if that means anything.

keikaku means competition

HAPPY APRIL 13TH, 2009 EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is our duty and pleasure to bully anyone who posts "almost christmas" prior to Dec 24th, after sunset (in their own timezone).

U+1FAEA DISTORTED FACE will be in Unicode soon, amazing https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2024/24226r-esr-report-q4-2024.pdf

[politics, homestuck, trump] 🖼

Mildly amusing question from a bugtester about the actions high-level Pokemon take when disobeying.

The reason Cosmog/Solgaleo/Lunala are not considered Ultra Beasts: they have a hybrid lifecycle and actually reproduce in Alola!

The fact that Zygarde's original form is "50%" was already decided, even when they still planned on making Pokemon Z.

Mastodon didn't handle that video federation all that well, so here's the full @pokemon journey video on my blog for anyone that wasn't able to see it. @fediplayspokemon https://tomcasavant.com/10-201-frames-fediverse-plays-pokemon-2nd-update/

Team Rainbow Rocket was originally planned for Sun and Moon itself! The reason Red, Blue and Colress are in the game was to act as supporting characters for that event. The event would have intertwined with another cut feature: recruiting people to serve as Gym Leaders for the new Pokemon league.

Not my discovery, but this is the funniest possible resolution to the "Is Phione a mythical?" bulbapedia debate

finally, actual pokemon evolution

An earlier proposal for Super Training. Notably, in this one they acknowledge the importance of 0IV attack and speed.

Scifi setting: a planet whose spin is almost perfectly in sync with its movement around the sun, resulting in a "day side" and a "dark side". All energy is solar, and cities gradually drift west over the decades to stay in the light. But now, a crisis looms: they have reached the west coast.

you may not rest now, there are uncompleted tasks nearby

Further developments on the Pokemon Z front