dungeonmereshi
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Post by dungeonmereshi on Apr 1, 2024 23:36:00 GMT
you know that thing where you've gone so deep down the path of comedy that you just have to keep going for the sake of the bit?
...yeah. this forum has Infected me with shiny hunting it's dire. at first it was only like, hey what if i did a little gen 6 shiny hunt & ribbon master quest for the new forum. maybe that could be fun. but then it's all ohhh, if i get a mon with a "double encounter rate outside battle" ability at the right level to do a repel trick, it would make that hunt so much easier. hey what if i shiny hunted this guy too? ...which is cool and all, but what if the shiny has the wrong ability once you finally get it? what're you gonna do, go find another? suffer through the maison early to get enough bp for a capsule? (which thankfully were introduced in this gen!) but THEN Wulfric went and told me about Bank's passive PokéMile gain feature for every full box you have in it. bank, which i have never used before, because well 1- it was paid lol and 2- i never had the urge to transfer anyone out of their base games. and like...  ...so i went to check my old saves that'd be ready to hatch stuff, and remembered i used to hatch a ton of phiones from my one event manaphy just to wonder trade them. and then the thought of just filling bank with hundreds of phiones was too funny i just had to do it (help me) FORTUNATELY i already had an egg hatcher in my old completed moon save, because otherwise my brain was very much ready to add a fourth hunt to the list lmfao. (who knows, maybe i'll do it at some point anyway, i like SOS...) so since i already had a foreign ditto as well, because i already knew about that trick back then (so this would be masuda even if i wasn't trying), i only had to transfer one of my leftover phiones from X into moon. i named her Panthalassa after the huge sea that had all the seas back when the earth only had the Pangaea. because she's going to be the original phione that all the other phiones will come from ^_^
i didn't want to have to make the decision of sorting through my nostalgically old boxes, so i just rearranged a few things and gathered all the empty ones for phione-keeping. turns out i have 12, so i'll be transferring the (non-shiny) phiones by batches of 360. which means uhhh... omg, 8 batches + 4 boxes, just like eight and agent four splatoon.......! my meepsies 🥰
"moth are you always going to be this talkative you haven't even added a counter to the thread yet" yes. get used to it <3 i have a problem
 batches sent over: 8/8
extra 4 boxes: [x]
 shiny phiones total: 3
∘₊𓆩 1 • Dot • 140 eggs 𓆪₊∘
∘₊𓆩 2 • Line • 2,392 eggs 𓆪₊∘
∘₊𓆩 3 • Triangle • 2,958 eggs 𓆪₊∘
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Post by Fishwhiskerz on Apr 2, 2024 5:57:11 GMT
You are insane (affectionate). Your coding is also off the walls. I wish you luck with this endeavor! I'm glad to see someone exploring Phione's potential.
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dungeonmereshi
Fresh Fisher
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Post by dungeonmereshi on Apr 2, 2024 6:58:27 GMT
You are insane (affectionate). Your coding is also off the walls. I wish you luck with this endeavor! I'm glad to see someone exploring Phione's potential. phione's potential to be primordial soup <3 also thank you🥰🥰🥰
note btw: all the little f2u decoration thingies link to their source if you click on them ^_^
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dungeonmereshi
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Post by dungeonmereshi on Apr 2, 2024 9:38:44 GMT
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dungeonmereshi
Fresh Fisher
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Post by dungeonmereshi on Apr 14, 2024 21:43:59 GMT
lil update because i sent over batch 2 today! :D no other shiny so far though. really channeling the "well now i am not doing it" energies here lel
the bank lady said i had 244 pokémiles, so if you remove the free 100 you get at the start, that's a pretty nice 144 miles already! ...aka 14 BP x')
i did note that it seems you can only transfer all your miles at once or do nothing, so i'll see if i bother checking in semi-regularly to get the miles somewhere before i have a humongous pile waiting in there xD
also, realizing we're at half of the month already... maybe i'll see if i can go a lil faster, because otherwise i have a feeling i'll only get another shiny right after april ends lmfao. i've been mostly just doing it in ride/drives home or to school/other places, or while watching videos/streams, so that i have something else to do and i'm not just mindlessly rotating my circle pad around on its own... i actually finished the first batch's like, four last boxes during a big talk there was in class LOL it was a bit more relaxed so i just had my 3ds in my hands while i was watching them x)
i'll probably post the next update at batch 4 or earlier if i get a shiny or if something crazy happens(??)
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dungeonmereshi
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Post by dungeonmereshi on May 12, 2024 10:35:33 GMT
OKAY. SO. first off: sadge. phiones decided to troll me and 0 shinies showed up for the whole rain-themed month. its fineee. swagever. can't wait to get like two more now that's the month's ended. anyway. second. off?: this little thing i forgot to post last time — i was checking the poké pelago for a few days at some point and managed to find Dot there amidst all the random phiones lol. and also when i sent off batch 3 it ended at Bank Box 36 and since i named my phione boxes after how many phiones they have to the batch total for convenience it was bank box 36 and moon save box 360 phione and i thought that was neat
NOW. i am at batch Five currently (sent it like half an hour ago). i... have to admit that i think the april theme coinciding with this dumb little thing had me burn out on it a bit . yknow the whole "the actual goal of this "hunt" turning the main disadvantage of the method (filling your goddamn boxes with eggs) into a positive (since it's the whole point) has made this pretty nice so far" thing? well DUH, when it becomes an actual shiny hunt and a limited in time one at that, of course it throws that entire positive outta the window. lel. it did cause something kinda funny because yknow when you have something you "gotta" do but to procrastinate on it you do something else that you've been kinda procrastinating on instead? the sheer "ehhhhhhh i dont wanna do eggssss" made me reopen the unfinished chapter of my storylocke i hadn't looked at in months and read it over again and edit it. which. okay brain. aight not sure how far i'll get with that, especially since doing some SOS for a day for this month's theme ended up actually being kind of a refreshing break that then made me finish like 3/4 of batch five in one day, but hey! at least there's some kind of progress being made, uh. somewhere. i guess. see you whenever the fuck i gather enough energy to make a post again probablyWAIT NO GODDAMIT i was forgetting something Again, i wanted to keep posting the silly little "how many miles do i have each time i check in to send a batch" stats for fun: | batch | total miles
| miles gained
| | 3 | 434 | 190 | | 4 | 665
| 231 | | 5 | 1,297 | 632 |
i like how you can see how close batch 4-5 mustve been from each other to manage a lower mile gain with more phiones compared to 3-4 lol. and you can see the ✨ little break ✨ i had to take after 4 from The Tireds |
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fourdollaremo
Odd Egg Hatchling
back after shiny hunting hiatus!
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Favorite Pokémon: Ledian
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Post by fourdollaremo on May 14, 2024 21:21:37 GMT
this is such an interesting premise!!! this hunt is insane in the best way, i love that it's not just "oh i want this one thing" it's "how many can i get in 3000." i don't really understand much how the poké pelago works as i'm only just playing through sun for the first time but holy shit, i will definitely be keeping up with this
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dungeonmereshi
Fresh Fisher
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Posts: 89
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Post by dungeonmereshi on May 15, 2024 6:02:09 GMT
this is such an interesting premise!!! this hunt is insane in the best way, i love that it's not just "oh i want this one thing" it's "how many can i get in 3000." i don't really understand much how the poké pelago works as i'm only just playing through sun for the first time but holy shit, i will definitely be keeping up with this 🥰 well thank you!! i live sprouting the most hyperspecific nonsense insano style <3 the pelago doesn't have to do with the actual "hunt" dw, i just thought it was fun to spot dot there because it picks random mons from your boxes to choose who shows up, and the miniatures don't have shiny versions so i had to click every phione to see if it was her or not haha |
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dungeonmereshi
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Post by dungeonmereshi on Aug 6, 2024 21:15:50 GMT
shiny phione count: 2
Name: Line
Egg number: 2,392 |
inhales . okay so. um. this technically happened, uhhhhh (checks notes) exactly two weeks ago (oh, hey, thought it had been longer, honestly), but. well. my motivation to post kinda went outta the window lmao. but hey!! i'm writing this now!!! yippie!!! (and now that i've Actually Gotten a Second Shiny, 2,252 eggs after the first: yes there is a naming theme. yes i thought of it before i even started actually hatching eggs. if you can guess what i will/would name the third shiny phione you get a cookie)
here's the fun little pokémile stats, to get them out of the way: | batch | total miles
| miles gained
| 6
| 2,824 | 1,527
| 7
| 4,369
| 1,545 |
oh hey, the miles gained are around the same number, neat! so batch 7 was closer to 6 than 6 was to 5. can't wait to see the humongous pile we'll have by the time i make it to the end of batch 8 lmao
i've always been pretty slow at things, and my day-to-day motivation constantly fluctuating seemingly out of my control certainly hasn't helped. but recently, i've also been trying more and more to, like, go with the flow of it? it's a bit maddening, cause it both feels like i can't fathom what makes my brain decides it doesn't feel like [thing] today but maybe [other thing] is fine for some godforsaken reason; but at the same time i've started noticing a common denominator between quite a few cases, where there's been some sort of external trigger that's made it go from "ehhhhh" to "oh sure we can try that again"...
like, to take the most recent example, Celeste (the game) has been in my generic "welp, gotta finish that sometime" backlog ever since i beat the "main story" — but then, a few days ago a friend gifts me a wired controller, so i download celeste (that i owned on itchio from charity bundles) to see if it works, suddenly realize wait that means i can download MODS now, proceed to get a fuckin bunch of them and have some fun with CelesteNet, and (you can probably guess where this is going) that's what makes me reopen my original switch save and (among other stuff) complete my first two b-sides?? or, for another one that really affected me (cause it was the first time i really noticed it happening), BotW had been in that same "backlog" for a good while (and kind of still is, even though i'm very close to finally finishing it and starting TotK) — and then one day back in 2021, i tried downloading the AoC demo to see if it was worth getting the game for the character moments, and i subsequently got 1- so mad at the bullshithuge ugly text watermark it puts on screenshots (that also partially hides the dialogue box!! i really really enjoy taking screenshots, and what's the point when you can't even see what you took the screenshot for??), and 2- so sad when i saw that basically everything i loved most about BotW, aka all the sidequests and general exploration/goofing around, were just three-clicks menu interactions in this game (which makes sense given what genre the game is, but. yknow), that it actually made me reopen BotW by spite for the first time in ages, and make a bunch of progress in it!
so, all that to say that trying to balance "giving in" more to the flow of my brain's nebulous motivation for things, while still having a ton of stuff you have to or would really want to do, is, not a walk in the parc  figuring out how your brain works sure is a fuckin piece of work!!but hey, i got a clicky for my birthday too, and it's been another motivation to get this egg business running again so that i can actually use my new shiny thing in a hunt lmao — i felt my motivation for eggs slightly perking up again these last few days, AND i have a bunch of visits to things lined up, which means public transport/trip time!!, so maybe i'll finally make it to three grand this month :)
as for, um. the OTHER things i had noted down for this post lmfao,
- did you know that the egg hatching cutscene (in gen 7 at least) is hardcoded to last a specific amount of time? you've probably noticed it before if you were, like me, pressing every button to see if that would speed it up lel. but i found out that, while pausing with the rosalina menu does freeze the screen like it always does, the cutscene also keeps playing in the background somehow — and so it "jumps" to where it's supposed to be at when you exit said menu, instead of resuming from where you paused! makes me wonder if that's the case for all "hardcoded" time limits on things, because while i've never tried pausing in the middle of the healing jingle at the pokécenter or the like, the game did exhibit the same behavior when i was trying to take screenshots of the pokémon trade cutscene back on the final days on online... thought that was because of the "being online with another console" part, but who knows! (i found this out because i was trying to take a picture of phione's eyes mid-closing to see if they looked the same mildly comedic way as in an old PLA screenshot i have lol)
- a funny thing i've noticed with the way i have my boxes set up is that unless i specifically remind myself of the contrary, every time i get to the box named "300xPhione" (aka i will be at 300 phiones once the box is full), i think i only have one box left-- but no, there's still 330 and 360 after it?? kinda annoying lmao, especially when it really does always happens at that box. maybe it has to do with how "300 phione" feels like you got to 300 phiones when you get to this box, when you're actually at 270, since the boxes go 30, 60, etc. but oh well, it sure ain't worth renaming them by now LMAO
- ever since the may hunt had me start putting my false swiping starter in the poké pelago with level up juice every time i remember to, i've been keeping it up, because it only gives him 1 or 2 levels even if i input the longest amount of time available lel. my notes say he was level 83 when i wrote them... i'll get him to 100 eventually xD i also got two more pelago mons from the bean island, a mismagius (Twi) and a klefki (Linux), which i apparently already had but whatevs lol. |
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dungeonmereshi
Fresh Fisher
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Post by dungeonmereshi on Sept 8, 2024 12:59:38 GMT
shiny phione count: 3
Name: Triangle
Egg number: 2,958 |
SO. GUESS WHAT HAPPENED A FEW DAYS (just pretend this was still a few days and not over two weeks) AGO?
yep. you've already seen the picture hanging literally right above this paragraph. i got a fecking THIRD ONE. i don't know if i have anybody to give a cookie to, but if you're reading this in the future and you paused between the previous post and this one and managed to guess the naming theme right (in case you're unsure: yes, the fourth one would have been named "square"), imagine i am giving you a cookie anyway x)
(i needed to have something that would work for any possible number of phiones, and i liked how shapes kept some sort of numbering without having me straight up name them "one two three etc" or anything. plus gave me until a sixth one 'til the names would start repeating lol) now that i have all da numbers, i made a quick little spreadsheet to try and see if the dates of each batch can be calculated by number of phiones = number of miles per day = number of days (for fun), but given that the resulting dates ended up being off by five days across the board from the dates i did have from this thread, that when i reopened bank shortly after the last transfer it said i had 50 miles despite the fact that “Poké Miles are earned at a rate of 1 Poké Mile per 30 Pokemon per day, with the fractional remainder carried over to the next day” means 100 miles and not 50, and that trying to look it up yielded a post talking hourly(???) rates which implies they're not just generated every day at midnight utc or something, i am presently giving up on trying to figure out the actual math going on here  ...but anyway!!! batch eight was at 8,593 miles jesus fucking christ lmao (oh hey, that's +4,224 miles, neat)
we had the most horrendous public transport train experience on the day where i finished it that wasted most of our entire day — but since i just had my 3ds with me like i always do, it allowed to make a fuckton of phione egg progress and is the biggest reason i did finish it that day x') we were still struggling out there when i was done with the batch, but since my 3ds has only had two of her three internet connections set in stone (remember how you were only allowed three of those back in the day??), i finally bit the bullet and tried setting up the third one to be my phone's shared connection thing (which apparently you english speakers call a hotspot?). and... it worked perfectly!! poggers! i can now technically access the internet on me 3ds from anywhere!! (i do have to be careful cause i don't have a lotta monthly data, since i survive well enough by leeching onto every wifi i see, but the pokébank connection didn't use much at all so i'm probably fine lol) got to finishing the extra four boxes over the following few days, so after feckin triangle up there showed up — which, for the record, i didn't notice was shiny until i was already pressing B on the nickname screen, so i had to go visit the name rater guy —, the final total mile count ended up being... 9,149! (+556)
......which is well over what i would need for One 200 BP item by now, considering it equals to 914 BP, lol. i transferred it all to my post-nuz now-for-hunting Y save, for a symbolic fresh start on the phione soup profits — for however long bank keeps being up after this, at least!!
other misc notes: - rip in pepperoni, my poor circle pad and B button :( may they be remembered for their loyal services through the years - i was still getting pikzo his level up juice at island whichever-one-it-is on the side, and in the few times i checked the bean island i got another kelfki lel. that's at least three now but it's swagever named it Marine after the museum we were going to that day (managed to go to a few places, and this one specifically actually ended up being pretty mid lmao rip but it's ok pretty much all the other ones were fun) - also actually ended his juice vacation a little early, because i wasn't 100% sure when the extra 4 boxes would be done — and i wanted to make sure he'd be available to punch some August seafood!! (post about that coming soon, i swear) overall... man, it feels SO weird now to not have to hatch a billion eggs anymore. that was like, a very straightforward grindy background task that i knew i could always make progress on if i had some public transport time to kill, and now i just... don't have anything else to fill that spot with lmao. though there's always the monthly themes (and, in fact, september's is going to have me have a hunt to do again since i can pick back up a previous month's for it, but back in august i just had Nothing else fill this spot), and my. um. well,, i DO have quite a few nuzlockes i need to finish, but i've been trying so hard to finish the one in the list that's on my switch first,, buuut yep haha i should probably get back to those... ...and technically i could also just start Phase Two of the ridiculous domino chain that i mentioned back in the OP. which... i have also technically started lmao, since i've been leisurely getting XY's entire berry mutation family tree done on my post-nuz now-for-hunting save, which has filled the "chill background task slot" forrrr probably at least a week and half now i didn't count lol, but which is also rapidly nearing its end since i optimized it quite cleanly with the stock i had... more on that later as well for real (although, if you're observant and take a peek at my signature, you can probably guess where this is going... >_>) |
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fourdollaremo
Odd Egg Hatchling
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Favorite Pokémon: Ledian
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Post by fourdollaremo on Sept 20, 2024 18:34:39 GMT
i've been doing the berry mutation tree a little bit as well!! i'm excited that you're still posting, i had a very suddenly hectic summer but i'm so glad to be back :-)
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dungeonmereshi
Fresh Fisher
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Posts: 89
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Post by dungeonmereshi on Sept 21, 2024 8:16:38 GMT
i've been doing the berry mutation tree a little bit as well!! i'm excited that you're still posting, i had a very suddenly hectic summer but i'm so glad to be back :-) yippie!! <3 i'm glad you're glad i'm still posting because dear god, no matter how much my chronic text-wall agent loves being activated by "i get to talk about this hyper specific thing i've been doing in as much intricate detail as i want", my motivation to get down and actually start writing LOVES randomly going out to get milk — plus, i notably have one very important deadline that's been approaching rapidly — and i have posts from a month ago now still waiting to be made 😭 but i'll get there!!!!!! (i'm also so so glad you came back to see my reply in your chikorita thread, lol! LV used to be my main forum before the nuzforums, so the INSTANT i read the part where you were like "well sadly [LV member i know the username of and i have encountered before] will never see this" i was like "BET")
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