#so help me god if this turns into a game of Spot the Tankie in the notes i'm gonna start knifing people

[nientedal]

Usually I just save stuff like this to my drafts until I calm down but you know what, fuck it, I'm done.

Any so-called leftist who refuses to recognize that our options right now are "genocide abroad, progress at home" and "genocide abroad AND genocide at home" and that there is a significant difference between those two options is cordially invited to eat shit and die. We do not have time to entertain your anti-voting hopeless nonsense. A future in which we are able to move towards less death will always be preferable to the one in which we can't, and if you smug, sneering little clowns sacrifice that future on the altar of your own self-righteousness because you're too high on your own farts to realize how far up your own ass you are, I genuinely hope you fucking drown. Specifically, I hope you drown in the blood of the people who will die all over the world as a result of your bizarre refusal to work towards a future that doesn't include ethnic cleansing.

This is the United States. We sell war, here. I don't know how so many of you are only just now figuring that out, but you better get over your shock like yesterday because we are out of fucking time. We ran out of time when Reagan took office if not long before. You think not voting will improve any of this?

Keep calling, keep writing, keep screaming. Governments everywhere are (slowly) beginning to listen. Democrats are (slowly) beginning to listen. But Republicans never will, and if they seize power again next year (which they will absolutely do their damned to attempt), everything will be so, so much worse for everyone, everywhere. The work is slow and painful and imperfect but it will only get done if we show up and do the work, so keep calling, keep writing, keep screaming-- and when the time comes, you show up and vote for the future that lets us build a better tomorrow instead of just choking to death in the steaming shitpile of today.

[ravenmacduff]

My personal review of Pokemon Sword and Shield

I am by no means a professional reviewer, its more things I feel about the game, both good and bad, 

So, on the good side first. I honestly like a lot of the new Pokemon, and I used a whole team of new Pokemon to take on the league. And by god, Corviknight is a beast. For a route one bird, with OK stats, her typing and moveset just could probably sweep a lot of gyms. I was also surprised by Drednaw, I usually don’t use rock water pokemon, but again for a route two pokemon, my Drednaw lasted me the game, and was my primary catcher in post game. He’s just so tanky. Also the bike? DEFINITELY IMPORTANT, since the wild area is huge, and walking across it actually takes forever. And the dynamic weather really makes finding pokemon harder, but like I eventually cheated a little, by switching the date on my system in order to quickly finish my dex (when like I had 10 pokemon left)

The bike makes travel all that much easier. Kinda wish I got surf a little earlier tho. The gym leaders all have fun personalities, and I rather like Hop. He’s a better friend rival than the ones in previous generations. (Although I have a soft spot of Hau, I just feel bad for continuously kicking his butt) And Leon is actually a Himbo. 

 I don’t mind dynamax battles, thought I would hate them more, but the actual battles aren;t bad. 

But, finding a team to actually do one? Thats really hard. Most of the time I don’t get any one joining, and at what I have mostly now 5 star raids, I just can’t do them by myself. Speaking of online, the trading system is atrocious. I frequently wished they kept the GTS, and the ability to just trade with friends. The code system JUST DOESN’T WORK. It was bad in Lets Go, and its bad here. I hope they don’t continue with it in the future. Also, I know they say “oh just have one pokemon in your team if you “want to turn the exp share off”” but thats just bad design. I personally like the grind, and I don’t mind shifting between pokemon or having a backup if my main pokemon gets knocked out. So, I wish they kept the ability to turn the exp share off, I was frequently waaay overlevelled. 

And tbh most of the gym battles were not difficult for me. I had the most fun in facing Raihan and Leon, because with Raihan I wasn’t ready for double battles, and Leon? Man his team was actually difficult, and his charizard swept half my team before I finally took it down. Like that was really fun! I wish I had that much challenge in the rest of the game tho. 

Although the battletower is more difficult, they give you rental teams which do help educate you on proper team and moveset composition. Like I was able to take down Leon on my first try using the rain dance team. His charizard made the mistake in attacking Ferrothorn and not my dynamaxed Ludicolo. That cost him. Although again I wish there was more than just a battle tower. A battle frontier would have been nice to see return. 

And for storywise? Personally the post game story was more engaging for me, but it was closer to a classic pokemon game story, than the sports driven story of the main game. Where I wish like they had more of a deeper plot that I had to uncover, rather than every time something interesting happened, Leon would just take care of it. 

And lack of all the pokemon? I didn;t mind that at all, since again I used a team of all new pokemon, and at least some of my favourite made it in, like Gardevoir. 

Theres probably other stuff I could talk about but this is what came to mind so far.

Overall despite its flaws I really enjoyed my two weeks with the game. Shame it didn’t have more post game things to do outside of shiny hunting and the battle tower.