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[atherea]

happy pride love loses <3

[drfirsnogayny]

Have you noticed that Monstermon cards have anything to do with the way they are received?

Celestial Slug: When Monty lost his wheelchair, he could only crawl slowly. He compares himself to this Monstermon.

Hard Boogar: Considering that the card was glued to the wall, some adhesive material was probably used for this

Bucket O Water: It's in a bucket.

Pale Tuna: The description of this card is "A great white fish for those who have trouble catching whales", which is a reference to the proverb "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush". According to the plot, we should become a friend of Nugget, but the Protagonist gives him the nuggets he needs in exchange for a cat. Nugget refuses friendship, but gives the card to the Monster.

Ultralodon: The card is given by Danner in exchange for the leg. The legs belonged to a swimmer who suffered from a shark attack. Ultralodon is a type of shark.

Carnivorous Nimbus: Like all clouds, he consists of water, and according to the description, he is very voracious. Buggs gives the card if you help him quench his thirst.

Tiny Squid: To get a card, you need to examine squid under a microscope.

Hermit Frog: Hermits prefer dark and quiet places. Cubes in Kindergarten may well be such a place.

Castle of Sand: Located on top of a cliff on a playground.

Man on Fire: Monty gives the card after we helped mix the chemicals. If you make a mistake, Monty and the Protagonist will burn.

Chair of Spikes: It lies between the cushions of the sofa.

Cigaretmon: Gives Hall Monitor if you give him a lighter when he was going to smoke.

Dune Worm: It is similar to a Nugget, because he also likes to dig holes and, if you believe the description, eat ground.

Stressed Llama: According to Ted, he looks like Ozzy.

Cyclops Duckling: You can get it if you solve Jerome's riddle with a swing. This puzzle is similar to the duck puzzle in the previous game.

Lonely Dragon: it is given by Hall Monitor in exchange for the cat. He probably didn't have any close friends before.

Dab Hero: a gesture indicating victory in something. In our case, Jerome's victory in the battle with Carla.

Monstrous Flytrap: he looks like Diana, and gives a Danner card for completing the Flowers for Diana quest.

The Tallest Tree: It lies in a beehive hanging on a tree

Chill Stump: According to the description, he is constantly invited to parties. When Danner gives the card, he says that the Protagonist is probably invited to scientific conferences.

Gnome of Garden: You can get a card after solving the flower puzzle.

Ofaka Tornado: According to Carla, she was amazed.

Literally Grass: A synonym for the word weed, if you know what I mean.

Doodoo Bug: When Ozzy gives this card, he was in the toilet. Without details.

Mystical Tomato: It's on Margaret's counter, where some food is stored.

Legendary Sword: It is located at the end of the maze, which is typical of legendary items.

Zen Octopus: Yoga helps to relax and relieve stress. Anti-stress toys like a spinner serve the same purpose.

Forbidden Book: It lies inside the book.

Pot of Grease: It is an additive in food, as well as gravy. They also have similar names.

Lamb With Cleaver: The janitor says he looks like him. I also want to point out that lambs are generally considered cute, although this lamb is ready to kill. This is similar to the Janitor himself: if you pay attention, then when crossing with the Protagonist, he can behave friendly.

Treasure Chest: It is connected with Felix's words that the real treasure is friends buried alive.

Mr. Nice Guy: just remember who gives you this card.

The Slurper: It's in the lab. He looks like a lump of green slime, which abounds in the laboratory.

Onion: It's in a bag of Ozzie's food, along with onion sandwiches. By the way, it was originally planned that the card could be found in the garden near the ramp.

Killer Eye: Buggs compares him to Penny, who could have killed them at every turn.

Purple Plush: It's in a toy box.

Monster Ghost: To be honest, I didn't quite understand the connection, it's probably due to the fact that ghosts like to take revenge. Monty gives the card after we help him get revenge on the Janitor. You can also recall Jerome's words in the first game, that he would haunt the Protagonist in the form of a ghost if he died through his fault.

Knight Who Turned Evil: Ted compares him to himself: being a cute kid, he became a evil in this quest (let me remind you that, in addition to killing Felix, he insulted Buggs and let Nugget die).

Mysterious Package: It's in a box.

Oglebop Ogre: Janitor compares him to his son. By the way, do you remember the theory that Buggs is the Janitor's son? Buggs looks like this Monster, doesn't he?

Dank Magician... Okay, I didn't find any similarities here. Maybe the fact that he is a powerful wizard and can only be obtained in the final game?

I have not listed some of the cards because they are given out for winning Monstermon. Although it is quite possible that they are related to the characters who give these cards.

Coral That Looks Like Hand: Carla

Teenage Mutant Ninja Zombie: Nugget

Million-Head Hydra: Ozzy

Hissing Fauna: Monty

Golden Dewdrop: Jerome

Marshmallow: Cindy

Rare Jewel: Felix

Spiky Flim Flam: Buggs

Evil Thwarter: Agnes

[gelato444]

Is tilapia a decent fish to eat? It's the cheapest fish at my grocery store and it's a bottom feeder that literally eats doodoo feces

Personally I avoid all bottom feeder fish as well as filter feeders like shrimp mussels etc. when I say fish I don’t even mean seafood I mean fish, and I try to stick with fish that aren’t bottom feeder. again it’s about weighing pros and cons. the pros of fish usually outweigh the cons of eating fish, but there is a reason things like tilapia and basa (pangasius, catfish) are cheap fish - cause what they eat is garbage (literally) and that directly affects their growth. you are what u eat and this applies to the meat we eat too

if you want some cheaper fish (I know tuna, salmon, trout) can be pricy, try sardines, anchovies, and mackerel

[starkcanvas]

All 71 Monstermon Cards

Kindergarten 1 (Original 25)

1. Shroom Turtle - Grass/Water

2. Cactus Outlaw - Grass/Dark

3. Freezy Guy Jim - Normal/Ice

4. King Tower Beetle - Rock/Bug

5. Martian Orb Man - Psychic

6. Really Bright Star - Fire/Psychic

7. Ofaka Tornado - Flying

8. Literally Grass - Grass xD

9. Giraffe Serpent - Normal/Poison

10. Doom Jelly - Dark/Normal

12. Blue Eyes Gold Dragon - Dragon/Rock

14. Faptain Calcon - Fighting/Flying

16. Holy Knight - Fairy/Steel

18. Magical Airship - Psychic/Flying

20. Wall of Castle - Rock/Ground

22. Uneaten Cake - Normal/Fairy

24. Spiky Flim Flam - Fighting

26. Man With Long Arm - Normal/Fighting

28. Eye of the Buttholder - Psychic/Poison

30. Evil Thwarter - Dark/Fighting

32. Cyclops Duckling - Water/Fighting

34. Oglebop Golem - Dark/Ground

36. Sneaky Snake - Dark/Poison

38. Tornado Fly - Bug/Flying

39. Wizard Worm - Psychic/Fairy

Kindergarten 2 (additional 45 new)

26. Celestial Slug - Psychic

27. Hard Boogar - Poison

28. Bucket O Water - Steel/Water

29. Ultralodon - Dragon/Water

30. Pale Tuna - Water

31. Carnivorous Nimbus - Dragon/Flying

32. Tiny Squid - Water/Poison

33. Coral that looks like Hand - Water/Rock

34. Hermit Frog - Water/Ground

35. Castle of Sand - Ground

36. Man on Fire - Normal/Fire

37. Chair of Spikes - Normal

38. Cigaretmon - Dark/Fire

39. Dune Worm - Dragon/Ground

40. Stressed Llama - Normal

41. Teenage Mutant Zombie - Fighting/Poison

42. Lonely Dragon - Dark/Dragon

43. Million-Head Hydra - Dragon

44. Dab Hero - Normal/Fairy

45. Monstrous Flytrap - Dragon/Bug

46. The Tallest Tree - Grass

47. Chill Stump - Grass/Ground

48. Gnome of Garden - Grass/Rock

49. Doodoo Bug - Poison/Bug

50. Mystical Tomato - Psychic/Grass

51. Hissing Fauna - Normal

52. Legendary Sword - Psychic/Steel

53. Golden Dewdrop - Water

54. Zen Octopus - Water/Psychic

55. Forbidden Book - Psychic/Ghost

56. Marshmallow - Normal

57. Pot of Grease - Normal/Steel

58. Lamb with Cleaver - Normal/Steel

59. Treasure Chest - Ghost/Steel

60. Mr. Nice Guy - Normal/Fairy

61. The Slurper - Water/Poison

62. Rare Jewel - Psychic/Rock

63. Onion - Normal/Grass

64. Killer Eye - Normal/Psychic

65. Purple Plush - Ghost/Poison

66. Monster Ghost - Ghost/Dark

67. Knight Who Turned Evil - Dark/Steel

68. Mysterious Package - Normal/Ghost

69. Oglebop Ogre - Dark/Fighting

70. Dank Magician - Dark/Fairy

71. Mythical Card: Hallowed Knight - Ghost/Fighting

[junker-town]

The Knicks blew their best chance to acquire Gordon Hayward when he was 13 years old

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Trading draft picks in the far future sometimes goes very very wrong

The New York Knicks reportedly had some interest in signing free agent Gordon Hayward during 2020 NBA free agency, but he opted to join the Charlotte Hornets instead. Part of the reason this happened is that the Knicks were not willing to pay as much as Charlotte. Another reason is that unrestricted free agency allows players a great degree of choice. Hayward chose not to play for the Knicks. NBA players often choose not to play for the Knicks, but Hayward’s particular case interests me because 16(!) years ago, the Knicks squandered an opportunity to make Gordon’s choice for him.

Even though NBA players comprise a pretty solid union, bad and disreputable NBA teams still have a few avenues through which they can force players to come work for them. One is trades. Unless a player has the contractual leverage to ward off certain teams, he could be traded and made to play anywhere. Like, even to the Knicks! The second and most team-friendly avenue for player conscription is the draft. The draft is actually structured to reward teams who suck ass. If you are the New York Knicks and have sucked ass pretty consistently for two decades and counting, the NBA draft is a godsend.

The thing about forcing players to join your doodoo team is that it helps if you’re a good judge of talent. Isiah Thomas took over as Knicks general manager midway through the 2003-2004 season, which is to say a couple years into the ass-sucking. Thomas proved to be a pretty good judge of draft talent, but pretty bad at building his team via trades for existing NBA players. This is a shame, because Thomas spent his career as a Knicks executive trading future draft picks for players.

To trade a future pick is to gamble on your current roster. It’s saying: “We think our record will be good enough when this draft happens that this pick will be low and we won’t regret missing it.” Thomas made that gamble repeatedly, and he always lost.

It’s bad enough on its own to trade a future pick then realize you could have used it on a great player. It’s worse when your old trade partner (or whomever ends up receiving the draft rights) actually chooses such a player. The Knicks’ most famous awful trade falls into the latter category. In 2005, to acquire Eddy Curry, Antonio Davis, and a future first-rounder (that became Wilson Chandler! Isiah was good at drafting when he gave himself the opportunity!), the Knicks surrendered future first-round picks that became ...

... gonna do a paragraph break for this one to really rub it in ...

... LaMarcus Aldridge in 2006 and Joakim Noah in 2007. That’s two of the best big men of their era. The 2007 and 2008 Knicks really could have used both, but the 2005 Knicks had dumped the right to draft them because Isiah Thomas determined Eddy Curry’s skills would help the Knicks enough that they needn’t care about future draft lotteries. Isiah was mistaken!

That’s the most notorious instance of the Knicks punting their future, but there was another sneaky one baked into Isiah’s first huge move as Knicks GM. In January 2004, the Knicks acquired Stephon Marbury, a very good player who is ... [checks watch] ... still the only star point guard they’ve had this century. To get Marbury (and others) from the Phoenix Suns, the Knicks surrendered a couple players, their first-round pick that summer, and their first-round pick in 2010.

Losing the ‘04 pick didn’t hurt that badly. With Marbury, that season’s Knicks managed to slime their way into the playoffs, so the pick landed outside the lottery— number 16 in the first round. It also didn’t hurt that badly long-term, because the eventual owners of the pick (Utah) used it on Kirk Snyder, who didn’t have much of an NBA career. Look a little closer and you’ll notice the pick could have been used on any of several quality NBA players, some of whom are still in the league: Josh Smith, JR Smith, Jameer Nelson, Tony Allen ... it was a decent back half of the first round, but such is life.

The 2010 pick was another story. At the time of the trade in 2004, that draft felt like such a distant event that it hardly mattered, at least for me. I was 14 years old and smelled weird. By the time a 2010 draft pick rolled around, I’d be in college, cars would fly, and we’d acquire all our groceries via special plumbing systems that fed sausages and juice and tuna salad directly into our homes. I’d never heard of Gordon Hayward because he was 13 years old. He probably looked exactly like he does now.

Six years later ... shit! I was indeed in college and smelled fine, but cars didn’t fly, tuna fish pipes didn’t exist, and the Knicks still sucked ass. The lottery delivered them the ninth pick in the 2010 draft, but thanks to Isiah Thomas, a guy who no longer worked for the team (at least in an official capacity, lmao), the Knicks didn’t own that pick. Utah did. And this time they took Gordon Hayward, who had since become one of the best players in college basketball while I’d merely become one of the second-best players in college basketball. He got me there, and now he’s played in several more All-Star games than I have.

2010, though, was an offseason in which the doodoo Knicks hoped to become non-doodoo by convincing free agent LeBron James to choose them in unrestricted free agency. LeBron instead chose the considerably-less-doodoo Miami Heat, who went on to win some championships while the Knicks remained mostly doodoo and/or suck-ass. The 2010 Knicks didn’t get chosen, and the 2004 Knicks had sacrificed their best chance to choose.

None of this is to express any opinion about what went down here in 2020. All I mean to say is bad NBA teams should think very hard before sacrificing draft picks, even in the distant future. Because when the players themselves get to choose, they might not choose you on account of your suck-ass-ness, and you might be left without good players. Good luck to Gordon Hayward in Charlotte. Didn’t really want him anyway.

[atherea]

the pacman ghost with feet would be such a funny matching tattoo, i doodled the seacaster-faeth stepsiblings lol

[atherea]

9 more to go and then its the rest of the village 🥹👍

[atherea]

trying out a new artstyle and i think i hit seb with the bishounen beam

(edit: making the portrait mod as we speak!!)

[atherea]

yknow what. fanonises your skirk

[atherea]

been workshopping their portraits recently

[atherea]

yet another portrait sketch, we're very slowly inching to something lol

[atherea]

this post but make it moondae and cheongryeo

[atherea]

I'm so stressed man I'm busting out the watercolours

[atherea]

someone take my tablet away from me pls

[atherea]

ooeeoo

[atherea]

another wip, its cheongryeo and og gunwoo this time

plus ryu gunwoo without glasses: