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Biome Bundle: A Minecraft terrain generator

2015.12.19 17:35 MC_Pitman Biome Bundle: A Minecraft terrain generator

Biome Bundle is a completely custom world generator containing a huge pack of over 400 original biomes with over 2000 structures including custom trees, rocks, caves, dungeons, villages and much more.
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2015.04.09 05:22 GhengopelALPHA BIOME: a programmable cellular automata simulator.

BIOME is an OpenGL, multi-layer cellular automata simulator, built as a prototype for Spore™ on Windows machines. It is provided to the public for historical and educational interest and is not supported by Electronic Arts or Maxis or anyone at all.
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2011.02.22 20:25 Minecraft Seeds

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2024.05.13 15:45 Nice_Tradition_3090 [Gen9] Shiny-Lock Completed. 141 hours.

[Gen9] Shiny-Lock Completed. 141 hours.
Completed Violet Shiny-Lock: 141 hours
So, last summer I started a Shiny Lock based on Nokimon’s shiny lock series, but with a twist. I started a new game. Meaning I could only progress to new areas once I found a shiny, but also meant I had no access to the Shiny Charm.
Furthermore, I didnt use their exact specifications of what counted as an area. This mostly came up in the Teal Mask DLC. Basically, if an area was subtitled as a different main area, it didnt count as it’s own area to me. That was because I noticed all the little caves in Paldea had a name but were subtitled as the General Area anyway. This mattered only in South Area 6 in the main game but also cut out 2 areas from Kitakami (Both Infernal Pass and Oni’s Maw are just Oni Mountain).
I kept their own restrictions of no Shiny Sandwich boosts, no doubles, and no Outbreaks as well. (I only got one double anyway. An Oinkolonge but it was like 5 minutes into my West Area 3 hunt so I didnt mind)
It was… a lot of fun. Very relaxing and made me think up the best ways to reset mons while keeping in mind I still wanted a rounded team to beat the game.
My final team for the main game ended up being my Flamigo, Ampharos, Gogoat, Gyarados, Lycanroc, and Volcarona. Mostly pokemon from the first few areas I went to.
For Kitakami, I decided to find a whole new team before tackling the storyline and ended up with Victreebell, Ninetales, Meinshao, Indeedee, Mamoswine, and Weezing.
For the Terrarium, by using my own area specifications technically every area was the Terrarium. But that isnt fun. And by using the Biomes and the two caverns, I was able to lock myself and make a new team exactly: Farigiraf, Slowbro, Golurk, Graveller, Rotom, and Magmar.
This ruled and I already miss it and plan on starting again when the summer comes around.
Here’s my list of mons and the areas that they were caught:
Oinkolonge (Lumpi)- Poco Path Flamigo (Natalia)- South Area 1 Ampharos (Candy Floss)- South Area 2 Gogoat (Sarajevo)- South Area 3 Pawmi (Julip)- South Area 4 Chewtle (Boxer)- South Area 5 Salandit (Toady)- South Area 6 (Alfornada Cavern)
Gyarados (Francine)- East Area 1 Sqwakabilly (Betty)- East Area 2 Carcoal (Roz)- East Area 3 Passimian (Hoffman)- Tagtree Thicket
Lycanroc (Blue Moon)- West Area 1 Murkrow (Duchess)- West Area 2 Volcarona (Smooshie)- Asado Desert Scyther (Ada)- West Area 3
Gallade (Bedi)- Glaseado Mountain Scovillain (Cappy)- North Area 1 Noibat (Dubs)- North Area 2 Kilowattrell (Wilbur)- North Area 3 Amoongus (Agroopa)- Socarrat Trail
Iron Bundle (Prinze)- Area Zero
Spinarak (Scuttles)- Kitakami Road Victribell (Pitchoulli)- Apple Hills Ninetails (Demure)- Reveler’s Road Seedot (Popcorn)- Mossfell Confluence Meinfoo (Chops)- Wistful Fields Nosepass (Basoon)- Paradise Barrens Surskit (Kit)- Kitakami Wilds Indeedee (Florence)- Timeless Woods Bombirdier (Kareen)- Fellhorn Gorge Growlithe (Borksworth)- Oni Mountain Mamoswine (Bjorn-Bjorn)- Chilling Waterhead Weezing (Poots)- Oni Mountain Summit (Crystal Pool)
Farigiraf (Liza)- Savanna Biome Galarian Slowbro (Butterbear)- Coastal Biome Golurk (Bustah)- Polar Biome Alolan Graveler (Grizz)- Canyon Biome Rotom (Watt)- Chargestone Cavern Magmar (Magda)- Torchlit Labyrinth
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2024.05.12 06:33 rdk67 Spring Day 53: Dear Class of 2024

With commencement around the corner, commencement around the bend. Commencement – a machine that gathers human beings together to bring about the future, at least in the context of the post-institutionalization of youth. This does not include all graduates, of course – some were previously deinstitutionalized before they returned to school, came around later to the weekend of commencement – a pleasant May weekend, as ever they were, will be. Sky so blue, the grass looks green, open-toed sandals seem gold. But for most, the commencement in question is about exiting 17 or 18 years of continuous institutionalization, most of it mandatory – minds that have never been far beyond the best-practices of the state, vocation or area of expertise – set free. The hats some fling in the air ecstatic stand for squaresville – now exiting state-mandated calendars.
Thousands of graduates gathered on a world-class university campus, one campus among, god, how many? UNESCO says 254 million university students trod the planet, a bit more than the population of Pakistan – Pakistan – with some senior generation in its borders announcing the post-institutionalized life-to-come, presenting detailed evidence of how the plasticity of mind, body and environment, plus our relationship to all three – is given shape by institutions over a long period of time. The rains, the rising land masses, the erosions – after that vast population of students have earned their degrees, we are left with a landscape not perfectly describable or easy to comprehend but definitely with a shape. Let the future commence! We gather in stadia, under awnings, to celebrate the biome we’ve become, surveyors bounding through the crowds.
If I were to do a little surveying of my own, I would want to know what that graduating subset knew about the nature of authority – their own, the state’s, the kind that manifests in the middle of nowhere, no hand or claw or flipper on the tiller but direction still implied, what would pass for fate if it all didn’t seem retooled from the start, which might be the conceptual cue for karma to materialize in the conversation. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves! Perhaps we already have and if so, I’m sorry, but spontaneous time travel is one of those risks every university graduate must assume in order to commence. The survey begins: Heed me well! Those who get ahead of themselves and don’t know it, are doomed to follow bread crumbs for the rest of their lives, and that’s suboptimal, sure, but workable, but then – you’re always one crow away from being lost.
My own strategy was to become so lost that the resulting population of crows – I refuse to call them a murder, in this case – became my salvation, assembling themselves into a kind of mind that hovers over the crust of the earth within and around the human population, guiding us to some world where the ground is inches deep in bread crumbs, and every path is true and made from the prosperity we seek. How much sentience is too much sentience? This is not the same as intelligence, knowledge, memory or experience notice – sentience is the effortless awareness of reality continuously converting the potential into the actual, even when we are in an empty room, just pleasantly staring into space. Do you conceive of your mind in your head? Do you think of the self as your inner voice or that which listens to inner voices? Is there a difference?
Dear class of 2024 – that sounds preposterous, I know – class of 2024 – but let’s assume it means something to someone somewhere. Dear class of the latest preposterous future condition – self or no-self – is your inner voice to be trusted? Imagine inner voices are like people on telephones, and up to now, the voice on the end of the line has been curated by parental and state authority. Once graduated, you may find the voice in your head is someone who wants you to maximize profit or build a better bomb or look the other way when your nation of origin uses the public treasury to bankroll genocidal massacres posing as wars. If you don’t believe this is possible – if you believe that voice in your head is exclusively yours – then be apprised, you might have to negotiate crises and, in some cases, become a monster – this in contrast to the whole story of life.
Dear class of 2024: Some of you are doubtless aware of the so-called crisis of cosmology – some of the astronomers among you may even have specialized in it. You know the crisis I mean – the one where mathematicians and physicists have created the placeholder terms dark matter and dark energy to account for the behavior of the cosmos. The reason why the problem is projected into the cosmos and not across the realm of human authority is because the instruments we use to gather data are pointed at the sky, at the stars, as far into the past as we can conceive. For the problem to be rendered accurately – a crisis of reality, we would call it – those selfsame big-data astronomers would need to train their lenses on the oval office, the national science foundation, the NSA, thereafter worry about funding, what with all the dark matter and energy in evidence.
Dear national science foundation: please fund my latest endeavor – here’s the pen I plan to use, here’s the paper – to determine the nature of new aspects of reality circumscribing the authority you use to determine funding, plus humanity’s future generally. In fact, once funding starts and the future nears, any trouble will come from trying to slow it down – here, have more funding – buy yourself a gold-plated quill, a skid of paper, a coastal chateau on stilts. The crisis of reality, as with the so-called crisis of cosmology, is about noticing that a vaster influence exists than can be accounted for with matter and energy. What’s the matter? we ask each other, having read the lines in the face. Not enough time in the day, we sigh, return to cellphone application. The crisis of reality is the door we all stand before, class of 2024 – when it opens, humanity will disappear.
Dear class of 2024: How many of you learned about the Philip experiment from the 1970s? Quite plausibly the most important experiment ever conducted, the participants intentionally created a ghost named Philip based on a fictional backstory and a persistent willingness to believe. The study included psychiatrists, scholars, supporters of same, who gathered near the University of Toronto on a routine basis to bring Philip to life. After nine months of trying, Philip appeared to the group – through wall knocking, table rapping, flickering lights, furniture moving around on its own. The experimental evidence was recorded, forming the basis for three documentaries, plus first-person accounts and peer-reviewed journal articles. After months of interacting with a ghost, the group concluded Philip was a product of the collective mind and not a restless spirit.
What a relief that must have been – restless spirits wouldn’t be showing up at tenure committee meetings after all! But doesn’t this somewhat miss the point? Sure, I’m glad to know Philip was not literally communicating from beyond the grave, but what about the knocking and rapping? The flickering lights and moving furniture? We think of the mind as residing in the skull, in the body, thus rendering the outer world not of the mind, but then along comes Philip to tell us the uncomfortable truth: mind is all around us, precipitating authority we can’t account for with the usual explanations. Table rapping? This is verified by a dozen witnesses and captured on tape – something precipitated the sound of knocking without the usual knuckles on wood. Flickering light? Something impeded the flow, without means in evidence for doing so, in reply to queries.
Notice what your response was to the last few lines – did you imagine pulleys and wires and a pneumatic hammer carefully arranged beneath a table? Did you imagine someone jiggling the cord on a lamp? As humans in the throes of late-stage modernity, we are indoctrinated to read all this as impossible and therefore deserving of no critical attention, even though the doubter deploying a script of disbelief is not really thinking critically – they are deploying a script. Yes, you might question the experimental conditions, the methodology, but you’d be a lot less likely to die on those hills if we knew we were in the middle of a crisis of reality. More authority than we can account for with the standard model exists in the environment – we know it, but we can only measure it at the cosmic level. Interpersonally we know it, too – we think of it as less real.
Confronting the Philip experiment, we see this abstract concept of influence could turn out to be more real than objectivity, not less – more real in the sense that even relatively simple authority like the manifestation of a fictional knight named Philip would eventually demonstrate mutable characteristics of reality. Participants may have noted that Philip was born from their collective mind, none of the participants claimed to know how to make lightbulbs flash without a physical means of interaction, nor how to make a knocking sound come from walls and tables without a source. This author should pause to note that he has robust experience with both nontraditional phenomenologies, plus many others, where the cause and effect are so distant from each other, a contrarian phenomenology seems present. Philip manifested a flashing bulb, knocking wood.
To which one might ask, with fresh lips: can matter and energy be created or destroyed? If all of material reality arises from an underlying interference wave, then might we imagine that added interference could precipitate more reality? In this view, the measurable characteristics of reality are formalities compared to the ghosts who bring them about, some with limit-case consistency, off-the-charts regularity. I believe the Philip experiment demonstrated that material reality can be modified like a film – here’s a knocking sound where it shouldn’t be, to indicate dialog. Here are lights flashing of their own accord. A table sliding across a floor. One day, the knowledge of a lifetime might spontaneously appear in the mind – who knows where that sort of observation really goes. If I reran the Philip experiment, I would choose the chap who invented perfect pills.
You know – perfect pills. The pills that make reality perfect. Take one per day, and witness how you seem to be in the right place at the right time, know what to say when asked, are maximally effective at every task. Perfect pills! I would summon the maker of perfect pills, engage in some protracted back and forth about the secret ingredients involved, the method for putting them all together, and every step along the way, I would argue against the tragic condition, the grief we experience from finitudes and impermanence. Indeed, it might be true that a summoned aspect of the hyperform will not know anything you don’t, but if the conjured are naturally inclined to edit reality to make a point, then discussing the groundbreaking invention of perfect pills might not be altogether different from taking them. This presumes the inventor and I would get along.
Dear class of 2024 – do you and the inventor get along? Has that question come up in any of the classes so far? Here, have a perfect pill and ask the question again or for the very first time, then listen for the answer. Do you and the inventor get along? The inventor, in this case, is an aspect of the hyperform implied by the shape of your life, though not confined to it – the influence that is implied in particular by the private language form you use to make sense of reality and what you find significant. Each private language form is far more unique than fingerprints and iris scans, and the origins of yours implies a lifelong probability wave that brought it about – your inventor, in a sense, which is not the same as god in its relationship to fate but also not entirely different. Do you and the inventor get along? Does your interface with reality really suit you?
Some aspects of the hyperform seem to have a great many creations on the boil at once, across time spans, such that the virtual characteristics of reality imply a universe even vaster than we know, the way the transcendentalists urge us to see nature in a leaf, joy in a gesture, lifelong happiness by the moment. Not all aspects of the hyperform are equally interested in personal growth, it’s true – some aspects of the hyperform seem more like runaway AI in the tradition of sci-fi novels and movies, where the invention in evidence is a capacity to simulate the authority associated with command and control structures. The hyperform is so brilliant at this, I think it’s more reasonable to assume that everywhere we find extreme use-of-force authority – the police state, the corporatocracy, the military – we also find the hyperform writing the narrative.
Does this mean we are prisoners of our own design? Class of 2024? Well, at least we can agree it wasn’t your design, however trapped we are. And that design again? With modernity, we went all-in on the object orientation – science, rational government, the assembly line – we would all have a job to do, and so a lot got done, including horrible things. Just as we came to terms with indeterminacy as a concept, in philosophy, physics and mathematics, the age of semiconductors came along, reset our relationship to radical determinism, along with renewed expectations for the perfect human program. This, plus a vision of radical interconnectedness, urged us to let the plan roll out, trickle down – but then the police state was also rolled out, and mass incarceration likewise trickled down, and thus we knew there were problems. All along, the design was ours.
The vastness of what we don’t know will always be greater than what we do – this is the kernel of truth modernity has a hard time planting. If we did, what would grow would whisper in our ears that a post-geologic relationship to the solar system is not about launch vehicles and cities on the moon but discovering the impetus to change our relationship with reality – the plasticity of mind, of body, of environment are like a liquid we are born in after we are born, and though that might seem like stating the obvious, the story of two-fold consciousness will follow from it, and we will experience two realities at once, feel the interactions between the two form a third space in which our solar mind will prepare to speak with the rest of the universe. Between now and then, humanity will find it useful to migrate identity to a place not currently on the maps.
Does this then relieve us of any traps? Natural, self-designed and otherwise? Earlier today, I felt a sense of mourning flicker in my soul, bigger than all my other feelings combined. I felt the impermanence of the people in my life, the sense of deep loss from thinking of them for the last time. Never mind what might bring that about – death or graduation, the feeling did not need a story to become real, and when it was, it shown a light that caused my soul to stir. I pleaded to the form not to leave me in peace but to press me against its tormented breast, that I might feel grief rippling over the soul of humankind. The grief is a liquid rising up the body – knees, hips, shoulders – and we stand on our toes, leave the ground. We are graduated! We are graduated! What I say about the body after being blessed, which is in keeping with the whole story of life.
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2024.05.10 16:24 Tacitus2389b4h5ii405 FAQ for "Steel the Show", a PPT Official Strategy for 7* Primarina Tera Raid Event

FAQ for
Welcome one and all to the greatest show on Earth! In this post, we're going to talk about some common questions about the Steel the Show strategy. Be sure to see it live and in person in the Primarina Raids Chat Channel!

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Items and TMs

Where can I find the held items for this strategy?
  • Choice Band
    • This can be found at Delibird Presents in Mesagoza after completing The Way Home
    • Additionally, one can be obtained in the Teal Mask DLC by defeating seven Ogre Clan Members and speaking with a man at the bottom of the stairs leading to the Mask Festival
  • Focus Sash
    • This can be found at Delibird Presents in Mesagoza after defeating four gyms
    • Can be obtained from a Battle League Rep at the Pokemon Center East of Porto Marinada after defeating four trainers around West Providence Area Two
    • Can be obtained in the Teal Mask after defeating one Ogre Clan Member and speaking with a man at the bottom of the stairs leading to the Mask Festival
    • Can be obtained in the Indigo Disk by defeating Nemona for the first time when summoning her as a coach
  • Zoom Lens
    • This can be found at Delibird Presents in Levincia after completing four gyms
Why are these items important? Can I replace them with something else?
  • Choice Band increases the power of physical attacks by 50%. There is no other item in the game which increases physical attack damage as much as Choice Band, so it cannot be substituted
  • Focus Sash allows the holder to survive one hit if it started with full HP. The holder will be left with at least one HP. In the case of the untrained Alcremie, it will have one HP left. Without Focus Sash, an untrained Alcremie will not survive
    • If your Alcremie is level 100 with 252 HP and 252 SpeDef Evs, Hypertrained HP and SpeDef, and has a SpeDef increasing nature like Calm or Sassy, then it can go without an item.
  • Zoom Lens increases the accuracy of the holder's move by 20% as long as the holder moves after their opponent. No other item provides as large a boost to accuracy and with the large boost to accuracy, Screech will have a chance to miss which could cause the entire raid to fall apart. So it cannot be substituted
Where can I find the TMs for this strategy?
  • TM 121 Heavy Slam
    • Is added to your craftable TMs after beating the Team Star Fairy Base
    • Can be found near one of the tents in the Team Star Fighting Base
    • In the southeastern ruins on the Glaseado Mountain
    • On a cliff overlooking some ruins in the northern section of South Province Area Three
    • Next to a cave in the southeastern area near a cliff in the Kitakami Wilds in the Teal Mask DLC
    • By some trees on a raised platform east of a lake with multple waterfalls in the southern section of the Coastal Biome in the Indigo Disk DLC
    • Can be crafted for 5000 LP using 3 Bronzor Fragments, 3 Cufant Tarnish, and 3 Dondozo Whiskers
  • TM 130 Helping Hand (Optional)
    • On a cliff south of the Pokémon Center in South Province Area Three
    • On a rocky island in the northwest section of the Northern Paldean Sea
    • On a cliff above the shrine in West Provence Area One
    • Behind Kitakami Hall in the Teal Mask DLC
    • Near the southeastern Rest Stop in the Savanna Biome in the Indigo Disk DLC
    • Near the Team Star Dark Base
    • Purchased at Blueberry Academy’s School Store for 10 BP (DLC)
    • Can be crafted for 400 LP using 1 Eevee Fur
  • TM 221 Throat Chop (Optional)
    • Can be obtained after defeating five trainers by talking to the League Club representative near Rest Stop 2 in the Savanna Biome in the Indigo Disk DLC
    • On top of a rock in the southeastern section of the Savanna Biome in the Indigo Disk DLC
    • Can be crafted for 5000 LP using 2 Scraggy Sweat and 3 Zorua Fur

The Ringmaster role

Does it matter whether I use Copperajah or Metagross?
  • No, as long as the following requirements are met:
    • Has an Attack stat greater than or equal to 394
      • In order to achieve this, you will likely need to invest EVs into Attack
    • Is holding a Choice Band
      • See the Items section above for information about this
    • Can either survive an attack from Primarina or be faster than Primarina
      • Metagross is naturally able to move faster than Primarina if it has either a full 31 Speed IV or has been hyper trained in Speed
      • Copperajah, on the other hand, can only move faster than Primarina if it has 252 Speed EVs and 31/hyper trained Speed
What is the difference between EVs and IVs? How do I hyper train?
  • IVs are the base values that every Pokémon has when they are caught. EVs, by contrast, are gained as a Pokémon battles or by the use of vitamins, feathers, or mochi. EVs can be reset by Fresh Start Mochi, but IVs cannot be reset. IVs range from 0 to 31. Any IV which is below 31 can be hyper trained so that, for all intents and purposes outside of breeding, it acts like it is a full 31 IV. EVs, by contrast, can range from 0 to 252 on a single stat and cannot exceed 510 across all stats.
  • Hyper training can be done in Montenevera. There is a man standing next to an Abomasnow near the Pokemon Center. He can hyper train a Pokemon which is level 50 or higher and has at least one stat that is not a full 31 IV
    • This man will require either a Bottle Cap or a Gold Bottle Cap, A regular Bottle Cap can be bought from Delibird Presents and can be used to hyper train one stat. A Gold Bottle Cap can be obtained from the item printer in the DLC and can be used to hyper train all of a Pokemon's stats at once
  • For more information on this topic, check out 's guide on how to train your raid Pokémon with EVs and IVs here!
Can I use other Steel types instead?
  • There are other Steel types that will work. For example, Dusk Mane Necrozma works. However, not all Steel types will work with this exact set up. Check if your substitute works using the Tera Raid Builder and be sure to check using the Worst Case Scenario option.
Okay, but I want to use a different Steel type that doesn't work with this set up
  • That's great! We encourage you to create an alternative strategy using the Tera Raid Builder where you can easily check your strategy, make an infographic, and share it with others. If you ask, people will often try to help you test and run your strategy. Just don't try to take over someone else's raid if they're trying to run the main strategy! Remember that the host has final say in what strategy gets used

Alcremie

My Alcremie doesn’t look like the pink one in the infographic, is that okay?
  • Yes.
  • Alcremie has a large number of unique appearances, but these differences are purely cosmetic – they are all identical in terms of stats, moves etc.
I don’t have the DLC for Scarlet/Violet, how can I catch an Alcremie for this strategy?
  • If you don’t own the DLC for Pokémon Scarlet/Violet, you may obtain an Alcremie in Pokémon Sword/Shield and transfer it to Scarlet/Violet by using the Switch version of Pokémon HOME.
  • Alternatively, you may trade for an Alcremie on the GTS in the mobile version of Pokémon HOME, or on PokePortal ’s Trading Megathread.
    • Keep in mind that the sweets used to evolve Milcery into Alcremie are only obtainable in Scarlet/Violet via the DLC – trade for an Alcremie or a Milcery holding a sweet if possible.
Can I use a Pokémon other than Alcremie for this role?
  • Short answer, NO
  • Alcremie is the only Pokemon that can buff the Ringmaster and prevent sleep from Primarina's Sing
    • Alcremie does this with its ability Sweet Veil and its signature move Decorate.
    • While other Pokemon can help keep raiders awake or buff the Ringmaster, none can do both except for Alcremie
I have an Alcremie with Aroma Veil, can I use that instead?
  • No
    • See the above question
Can I use a different item?
  • Not if you have an untrained Alcremie
    • Focus Sash is necessary to keep untrained Alcremie alive
    • If your Alcremie is level 100 with 252 HP and 252 SpeDef Evs, Hypertrained HP and SpeDef, and has a SpeDef increasing nature like Calm or Sassy, then it can go without an item.
Can I really use an untrained Alcremie for this?
  • As long as it holds Focus Sash, yes

Perrserker

Where can I get a Perrserker in Scarlet/Violet?
  • You can only obtain a Galarian Meowth, which will evolve into Perrserker, by completing the friendship events with the Language class teacher Salvadore
    • It is important to note that this Galarian Meowth does not have its hidden ability which Perrserker will need for this raid
    • Perrserker can also be captured in Sword and Shield and transferred using HOME
Do I really need the hidden ability? How do I change to the hidden ability?
  • YES
  • Without the hidden ability Steely Spirit on both Perrserkers, the Ringmaster will only be able to do half the damage it needs
  • You can change from the regular ability to the hidden ability by using an Ability Patch, which you can get from raids
Can I use a different item for Perrserker?
  • No
    • Zoom Lens increases the accuracy of the holder's move by 20% as long as the holder moves after their opponent. No other item provides as large a boost to accuracy and with the large boost to accuracy, Screech will have a chance to miss which could cause the entire raid to fall apart. So it cannot be substituted
Can I use an untrained Perrserker and have it hold Focus Sash like Alcremie?
  • No
    • Perrserker needs to hold a Zoom Lens so its Screech will always hit Primarina so it must be trained
Can I use a different build?
  • No
    • Perrserker needs to have less than 156 Speed in order for Zoom Lens to work. To help ensure this, Perrserker should have a Sassy Nature to reduce its Speed
    • Additionally, the EVs in HP and Special Defense, as well as the Sassy Nature, are needed to ensure Perrserker can survive in the worst case scenarios
Do I need the optional moves? What if I want to use different ones?
  • Optional moves are not required and are only recommended in the event that something goes wrong. You can change them out however you like
Can I use a different Pokemon instead of Perrserker?
  • No
    • Perrserker has a unique ability which is vital to the success of this raid

What Could Go Wrong?

Incorrect Builds/Pokemon
  • If any one of the raiders has a build different to the one outlined in the infographic and on the Tera Raid Builder or is a completely different Pokemon altogether, there is no guarantee of the strategy working as intended
Ringmaster moves too soon or a support moves too late
  • This can make it impossible to get enough power to KO in one hit and may cause shields to go up
    • This isn't the end of the raid! Communicate with your team and you may be able to recover by using optional moves
    • Throat Chop can be used to prevent Primarina from using sound based moves like Sparkling Aria and Sing
    • Iron Head can be used to help deal damage
    • Helping Hand can be used to help increase the damage done by the Ring Master
    • Screech will no longer be useful once shield is up
    • Don't forget Cheers! Attack, Defense, and Heal Cheers can help a raid recover
    • If attacking, be sure to activate your Tera as soon as possible! Even if the Tera isn't Steel, it will still help you deal more damage against a shielded raid boss!
As always, feel free to reach out here, in the Primarina Raids Chat Channel, or in the Questions Megathread if you have more questions!
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2024.05.08 05:35 pootis_engage Is there a transitional biome between a beach and a jungle?

I mean specifically a sandy beach, and not a mangrove or a coastal salt marsh. Is there a transitional biome, or does it directly transition straight from the sand to a jungle? I imagine there might possibly be grassy coastal dunes, but I assumed there might be additinal phases between the two.
I've often seen beaches that immediately border jungles, but was wondering if this was the case for all coastal jungles, or if there were any attested cases of a region that smoothly transitioned between the two (like a sort of "coastal savannah").
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Sorry if this comes across as ignorant, or uneducated, as I am not well versed in geographical terminology.
Additionally, if this post violates any of this subreddit's rules, I will remove it.
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2024.05.07 17:16 Emperor_Of_Catkind Brief Introduction into Mustelidean Languages

Mustelidean language family is spoken by the numerous members of the Mustelidae taxonomic family such as ferrets, polecats, weasels, martens, sables, badgers, otters and others. The number of languages is not yet determined but it is the most dispersed bestial language family. Its existence is unique and somewhat phaenomenal because in-universe, the cases of multi-species language families are fairly rare and there are no language families with common ancestry between such high taxonomic order.
The distribution of Mustelidean languages in the modern day
The hypothetical distribution of Mustelidean languages in its height c. 2,000 BP
It is believed that such wide distribution is the result of forced resettlements conducted by prehistoric advanced civilizations, which are called "dispersals" in the context of the history of the family. The physiological structure of mustelid mouths is fairly similar allowing them to acquire the proto-languages evolving into individual languages, and borrow the neighboring Mustelidean languages (in some cases).
This family had emerged c. 40,000 BC in southern or north-western part of Siberia. It is widely accepted that its first speakers could be wolverines who imposed their language to martens, weasels, sables, or all of them. There were two dispersals: the First Dispersal occured c. 35,000 BC, conducted by prehistoric Vulpine civilization and resulted in emergence of Lutrian, Kalan and probably Meleic and Wolverinian languages. The Second Dispersal occured c. 12,000 BC by Feline and Canine civilizations resulting in separation of Proto-Mustelan and Proto-American Martid into European and American branches, and of Kharzic and Meleic into northern and southern branches.
Reaching its apex somewhere around 2-3 thousand years BP, the Mustelidean language family nowadays experiencing the loss of population, area and diversity due to the human, pet and more prominent species' activity.

Classification

There are four of the most widely accepted branches of Mustelidaean languages that undisputedly belong to them: Mustelan, Asiatic Martid, American Martid and Kharzic. These subgroups are also known as "Mustelidaean Proper" because they share common features in phonetics and grammar. Their typical features include:
Meleic is also included though it has highly divergent grammar. And finally, the position of Lutrian, Kalan and Wolverinian branches is debated. In-universe, one scholars think that their languages descend from Proto-Mustelidean and drastically diverged through the dozens of millenias; others think that these languages were just influenced by PMusd during the First Dispersal acquiring some words in the process.
This is where controversy whether it descends from Proto-Mustelidaean or just loaned it features begins: while the most of basic stems are clearly of Mustelidean origin, they typically have a fairly agglutinative morphology, SOV word order, and most of the affixes are not reconstructible to Proto-Mustelidaean. The situation is complicated with Meleic languages being more loaning than usual, and it is unclear whether some stems were loaned from PMusd or its later stages.

Language Comparison

English Proto-Mustelidaean Furritian Steppe Mustelan Beech Marté American Martenese Erminese
one *i-śil, *(a)-jɨg yke [ˈaɪkʰ] яӣк [ja.ˈi:k] vñui [ˈə̃ɥ] ˈĩ.jĩ a.naĩ
two *(a)-ʈi yë [ˈjeʰ] ӣ [ˈi:] te [ˈtɛ] ʈʂi t͡ʃi
three *ʈi-jɨg ëjek [eʰ.d͡ʒɪk] ӣӣк [i:.ˈi:k] téie [ˈtøɥ] ʈʂi.jĩ t͡ʃĩ:
four *ʎįɲ (?) layt [ˈlʷɔɪtʰ] лай [ˈlai] lân [ˈlɑn] lĩ.wə lĩ:
five *-ŋmot- (?) shont [ˈʃontʰ] шана̄т [ʂa:.ˈnat] gnóch [ˈŋœ̃ʃ] ˈŋmo.sĩ mu.ʃĩ
six * eare [ˈi:.wɤ] ӣлай [i:ˈlai] héi [ˈhøj] he.ˈlĩ hi.ˈlĩ
seven * eakeny [ˈi:.kɛɲ] ӣкаң [i:.kaɲ] tsomau [t͡so.mo] ʈʂĩ.ˈgu.wə t͡ʃi.ˈmu.t͡ʃĩ
eight *-ʈoHtu- (?) aytoon [ɛɪ.tu:n] ятâн [ˈja.tɑ:n] tohaun [to.ũ] ʈʂĩ.ˈwũ t͡ʃi.ˈi.lĩ:
nine * bule [ˈbɯ:.ɤ] бул [ˈbul] culaun [ku.lũ] kũ.ˈlũ ka.ˈlũ
ten *rel (?) roul [wa.ʊ:]; yrut [aɪ.ɐtʰ] жол [ˈʐol] riéu [ˈʁøw] pi:.dðũ pi.dũ
*phonological evolution of branches not determined yet
English Siblina Northern Kolonok* Kharza* Yinkisai* Visonic Pekanian
one iс [ˈɪs] ˈi.sə ʃɯ34 ja1 / ǐ:t34 ʂɪ34 jə1 / ji:34 ˈɔʰɥ ˈɑj
two ит [ˈit] ˈi.tə gɤ32 ja1 / ɲi:32 kɤ32 jə1 /ɲi:32 ˈʂɪ ˈsi
three трыы [ˈtʝɨ:] ə.ˈtaj ɖɯ32 ja1 / sam34 ɖɑ:n5 ə1 / sɑn5 ˈʂɪʰɥ ˈsɑ.jɪ
four hани [ˈha.ni] ˈha.nə jȁm1 a1 / si32 jan1 ə1 / sɪ:51 ˈʎi:.ɛʰ ˈlik
five нор [ˈnor] ˈno.rə wɤ32.ɺi34 ja1 / u:423 ŋʷɤ213 ˈŋɑz ˈgɑ.hɪ
six хибии [çi.bi:] ˈxi:.βi baj32 a1 / ɺy32 bəɪ32 ə1 / ʐu:51 ˈeʎ ˈi.lɪ
seven симянь [ɕi.mjaɲ] ˈxu:.mɛ.ɲi ɺi34.mu32 ja1 / t͡sit32 ʐɪu:213 wə1 / ʈʂi5 ˈʂɑ.ɔʰ ˈsɑ.vʊ
eight дьоосень [ˈɟo:.ɕeɲ] ə.ˈto:.ɲi gum1 a1 / ʝět34 kun1 ə1 / ɖɪa51 ˈsɑ.vɔ ˈsɑ.vɑj.hɪ
nine бiруу [bɪ.ru:] βə.ˈru: tum32 a1 / jy423 tun1 ə1 / kɪu213 ˈhur ˈku.lʊ
ten ҕяр [ˈʝar] ə.ˈxɛr ʝip34 dʐi:51 ˈfri.lu ˈpi.lʊ
English Mele* Menñe* Lutrian* Itachigo Kurotengo
one шеррик [ˈʃɛr.rig] сёрик [ˈʃɵ.rɪg] ѣрай [ɔ.ˈɾɑj5] ˈi.t͡si ˈi.ɕɪ
two тюк [ˈcug] тюк [ˈcʉk] ва [ˈvɑ5] ˈi.tu / ˈni ˈi.tɪ / ˈni
three тенай [tɛ.ˈnɑj] тенай [tɪ.ˈnɑj] ълiѭ'н [ʌ.ɫji45.jɔ̃ˀn5] u.ˈte: / ˈsan ˈtɕu: / ˈsan
four верри [ˈmbɛr.ri] вёри [ˈmβɵ.rɪ] ноц [ˈnɔt͡s3] ˈho.nu ˈhaɴ
five шугби [ʃu.g͡bi] сюгви [ʃʉ.ɣ͡βɪ] ъ'кполтъ [ʌˀ.k͡pɔɫ3.tʌ] ˈno.nu / gwɛn ˈnoɴ / ˈgo
six хуник [ˈxu.nig] юник [ˈjʉ.nɪg] ѫ'ӈлиҙ [ʊ̃ˀŋ.ɫið3] ˈhi:.βi / ɾo.kwɛn hi.ˈβi: / ˈʐo.kɯ
seven тенедь [cɛ.nɛɟ] тёнит [cɵ.nɪt] врѫкатi [vɾʊ̃.kɑ5.tji] ˈhi:.mɛ.i / ˈsi.t͡sjen ɕɪ.ˈmaɴ / ˈɕi.tɕɪ
eight тётьен [ˈcɔ.cɛn] тётьин [ˈcɔ.cɪn] влѣкатi [vɫjɔ.ˈkɑ5.tji] u.ˈto:.i / ˈba.t͡sjen ˈdʐo:.ɕɪɴ / ˈba.tɕɪ
nine вуру [mbu.ru] вурю [mβu.ˈrʉ] лъмиҙ [ɫʌ.mið3] ˈβu:.ɾu / ˈkjɔn bɪ.ˈɾɯ / kju
ten йер [ˈjɛr] йер [ˈjɛr] ѣру ɔ.ˈɾu3 ˈi.ɛ.ɾu / d͡zʲi.bʷɛn ˈʐa.ɾɯ / ˈʑi.βɯ
Sample Text: "Once upon a time the hare and the grouse lived very well."

Furritian

Jýoh báën wë grueta näsh-e chs-kun-e ö uje fae.
d͡ʒaɪ.ˈóʰ ˈbɛɪ.éʰn wèʰ ˈgʷɯ́ʰɥ.tə ˈnàʰ.ʃɪ t͡ʃ.ˈsku.nɪ oʰ ˈu.d͡ʒɪ fɛj
[long time ago] hare and grouse have-PERF ABSTR.PL-life-PERF which COMP.ADV good

Siblina

Гуонь-енаа-м сы-й бан, бьяс мии hiлдит гуо-хи-я хуу-ҕин-ии тедьïс.
ˈguo.ɲe.na:m sɨj ˈban ˈbjaɕ mi: hɪl.ˈdit ˈguo:.çi.ja xu:.ʝi.ˈni: ˈteɟ.jɪs
AUG-ancient-PL.OBL day-PL.OBL [in that], hare and grouse AUG-PASS.COP-POSS ABSTR.COL-live-PST good

Beech Marté

Vn đer đin-'re ruéñe liebre mód ouéthođ gué vn pign órtauc tenđets.
ə̃ ˈɖɛʁ ˈɖˠĩ.ɘɾ ˈʁø.ɳɛ ˈli.bɘɾ mœt wø̃.ˈθoɖˠ ˈwø̃ ə̃ ˈpiʊŋ ˈœɻ.toʊ tã.ˈɖˠat͡s
OBL year DEM-SUBJ COP.PST hare and grouse live.PASS OBL life very good
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2024.05.05 11:03 dis_not_toxic [9] What's your rare marked shiny?

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2024.05.02 01:53 SnooMemesjellies31 Need some tips for a wizard starting out in Ashlands

I'd consider myself a pretty experienced valheim player, I've solo completed every biome and boss up to ashlands, and have 450 or so hours in the game over about 3 years now. Ashlands is kicking my ass. I have a full set of level 3 Eitr-weave, and am rocking level 3 Ice, Fire, and Shield Staves. For my food I've been going with Seeker Aspic, Magically stuffed Mushroom, and Salads. I've spent probably 10 or so hours in the ashlands so far and it's been tough. I managed to build a little coastal base on top of a rock but I've never been able to explore much beyond there. I've also crafted the Fracturing stave which does fire and blunt damage like the fireball stave. My main issue is that there is simply way too many goddamn enemies everywhere. In one instance, I found a Morgen and began to fight it, but after about 15 seconds fighting it I found myself surrounded by 3 Askvin (1 of which was a 1 star), a few volutures, and literally countless Charred warriors, marksmen, and twitchers. I can't ever explore very far beyond my little base because I have to fight through literally endless hordes the moment I touch the ground. I can easily kill every enemy individually, even the fallen valkyries but they're never alone.
I really don't know how I'm supposed to deal with this with just mistlands level gear. What do I need to do?
Update: I've now beaten two forts and gotten my hands on all the new Ashlands gear. It seems like the issue I was experiencing was related to worldgen spawned enemies and monument of torment spawned enemies stacking on top of normaly spawning enemies. After I cleared out all of the near by Monuments of Torment, and after killing the inhabitants of a nearby ruin, the number of enemies I was fighting dropped dramatically and was completely manageable. Thanks for the tips guys.
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2024.04.27 09:39 Special_Ad7249 Your characters were in the Coastal Biome…mainly because they wanted to battle the second Elite Four of the BB League,Morgana! (I just want to see a comment,nothing much.)

Your characters were in the Coastal Biome…mainly because they wanted to battle the second Elite Four of the BB League,Morgana! (I just want to see a comment,nothing much.)
Morgana:…Would ya look at that,you’re here!
She smirks and waves at them
Well,welcome to the Coastal Plaza! The place where you’ll finally have the chance to battle me.
Don’t worry,you won’t have to do a mini game before the challenge. We kinda eliminated that rule.
Anyway,this is also a win-win! You have the chance to battle me,and I get to see how strong you are.
Well then…let’s get started,shall we?
Let’s see how you can fare with a Sandstorm!
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2024.04.22 20:56 omerpellum69 Rediscover gatekeeping? :0

Will the rediscover your world update make certain Pokémon exclusive to a specific biome? For example: can you only catch a clampearl (a clam) or gyarados (ugly sea serpent) on a beach or coastal town and not on farmland or a city like vegas that isn’t coastal. Or will it just increase the spawn or shiny rate? If it’s exclusive idk what I’ll do. My movement is rather limited and so are many others. what about bedridden people? people with diagnosis’s that prevents them from going out in public? people on home arrest with and ankle bracelet? you get the point. This whole “rediscover your:” event was about inclusivity, so I’d be surprised to see the update play out like this. Can someone not as dumb as me elaborate on what they mean with the biome stuff? If types are segregated, I might quit :/
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2024.04.21 19:38 bloxmonkey10 Update ideas for planets

1: An update to the oceans. I don’t know if other people are like this but I am a bit underwhelmed by the oceans. I wish they were deeper and there were more threats.
2: Biomes on planets. Another thing I found is that every planet is just the same thing for the whole planet. I wish that I could walk farther north and find different flora and fauna, and it would be colder.
3: Seasons and weather changes. I wish that in different biomes, there would be different weather. And the overall temperature of the planet would be based on the rotation. Also, that the day/night cycle would be longer or shorter depending on the planet. Also, calm weather. It wouldn’t be harmful at all it would just make it nicer imo
4: Rivers. Flowing rivers would be a great thing. They would be just like oceans and lakes but more narrow and longer and they would flow in a certain direction. And also generally be more shallow.
5: I have also felt a bit underwhelmed by caves. I wish that they would be more diverse and could open up into caverns. And there could be subterranean rivers and lakes.
6: Ocean planets. Planets that have little to no land. There could be different types of ocean planets too.
7: Cities. Settlements are pretty fun, but what if there were bigger cities? There could be coastal cities and landlocked cities and mountainous cities and maybe even subterranean and aquatic cities.
8: Dense forests with treetop settlements and tree dwelling animals would be cool. Maybe the ground has more aggressive animals.
Ideas added in after post:
  1. What if there were events in space that you could see from the surface of the planet, like eclipses, solar storms, meteor showers and comets?
10: Larger asteroids that you could land on and mine resources. Or maybe even build a base on them?
11: More types of Biological and Abyssal Horrors
These are ideas I thought of off the top of my head. What do you think of them?
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2024.04.18 04:14 paulhenrybeckwith Bad Global Tipping Points in the Earth’s Biosphere My new video on the fate of forests (tropical, boreal and temperate), freshwater lakes, coastal regions, coral reefs, mangroves, sea grasses, kelp, and fisheries, and more…

Bad Global Tipping Points in the Earth’s Biosphere My new video on the fate of forests (tropical, boreal and temperate), freshwater lakes, coastal regions, coral reefs, mangroves, sea grasses, kelp, and fisheries, and more…
In my recent videos, I have discussed the amazingly fantastic report called “Global Tipping Points 2023”: https://global-tipping-points.org/
In this video I chat all about the global tipping points in the biosphere.
The various ecosystems of planet Earth are grouped into various “biomes” and are occupied by a plethora of flora (plants) and fauna (animals) of amazing numbers and even more amazing biodiversity.
We are rapidly destroying this biodiversity, and there are many negative tipping points (regime changes, critical transitions) that are accelerating this damage abruptly.
Once gone, it is impossible to ever recover many of these species, or ecosystems.
I chat about the loss of resilience and stress on many different biomes, including:
— tropical forests including the Amazon
— boreal forests
— temperate forests
-- savannah and grasslands
— drylands
— freshwater lakes
— coastal regions
— coral reefs
— mangroves
— sea grasses
— kelp
— fisheries
Clearly, biodiversity around our planet is being severely distressed, and the faster climate change accelerates, the greater the danger of collapse.
Please donate to http://PaulBeckwith.net to support my research and videos as I join the dots on abrupt climate system mayhem.
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2024.04.17 16:34 DFS20 Looking for Criticism

Hello, I have started a spec evo project on both AlternateHistory.com and on DeviantArt, it's about if the Non-Avian dinosaur never went extinct, creative I know, but I am trying to make it a little different from most so I would appreciate the thoughts of this community.
It's named Across from the Twisted Mirror (What if the Non-Avian Dinosaurs Survived)
Here is the first update:
Every day, we find ourselves pondering a myriad of questions, ranging from the mundane, like "What will I eat?" or "When should I sleep?", to the more profound and expansive ones, such as "Should I tackle this now or postpone it?" However, amidst these commonplace queries, there exist esoteric and grand-scale musings, like "What if history unfolded differently and another side won a pivotal war?" One such inquiry delves deeply into the past: "What if non-avian dinosaurs had never faced extinction?" How might their forms have evolved? Could they have weathered the cataclysmic events that favored mammals?
Our journey takes us back 66 million years, to a world ravaged by a colossal catastrophe. A massive asteroid, estimated to be 10 to 15 km (6 to 9 mi) in diameter, struck what would eventually become the Yucatan peninsula in our timeline. This cataclysm unleashed energy equivalent to 100 teratonnes of TNT (420 zettajoules), over a billion times more potent than the combined force of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The impact triggered megatsunamis, enormous firestorms, and colossal earthquakes, reshaping the world irreversibly.
In this shattered and scarred world, survival is a privilege bestowed upon only a select few. Ground-dwelling and aquatic birds resembling chickens and ducks, alongside crocodilians, emerge as the sole survivors among the archosaurs, eventually claiming dominance alongside mammals in this altered reality. Lepidosaurs, turtles, and amphibians, though less prominent, carve out vital niches in the evolving ecosystems. But this world diverges significantly from our own.
In the depths of Asia, a species of Velociraptorinae scuttles across the terrain, its feathered body poised for swift action as it hunts for insects and small vertebrates. Standing at a diminutive 76 cm (2.5 feet) in length and weighing nearly 1 kg (2.2 lb), this creature, adorned with the iconic sickle claw, navigates a hostile environment. Surprisingly, it is not solitary; a mated pair of these Velociraptorinae marks a stark departure from our world, it’s quite a small critter, but that’s to be expected as this apocalyptic world isn’t kind to large animals. Since it isn’t alone, as there is another member of its species with it, this mated pair is perhaps one of the differences between this world and ours, in our world perhaps there was only a single individual or both individuals were of the same sex. But it doesn’t matter these two will be the founders of a dynasty that will regain the crown of their now-extinct cousins. We shall name this species the Fundareraptor primus, the first founder thief.
Yet, across the vast expanse of North America, another scene unfolds. Deep within a burrow, a small ornithischian tends to its clutch of eggs, weighing about 3 kg (6.6 lb) and measuring 1 m (3.2 ft) in length. From its appearance, it’s most likely a species of orodromine thescelosaurid, it’s has been fighting for dear life these past few months, and plant growth has been greatly reduced the only saving grace is that most competitors are long dead. Its burrowing instincts and the precocial nature of its offspring offer advantages in this harsh environment, ensuring their chances of survival. Maybe in our timeline the burrow collapsed or the eggs simply failed to hatch but this won’t happen here, something that will allow these small to become the largest terrestrial animals since the sauropods. The name of this species shall be Constructosaur foramen, the hole-making lizard.
Let's leap into the future of this alternate timeline, roughly around our present era, to observe the stark differences that have unfolded in this world.
The climate of this familiar yet altered Earth is subtropical, with an average temperature approximately three degrees higher than our own. While our Earth maintains an average temperature of 15 degrees Celsius (59 F), this alternate world hovers around 18 degrees Celsius (64.4 F). This warming trend has catalyzed significant transformations across the planet. Sea levels have surged by approximately 25 meters (82 ft), submerging many coastal regions that we would recognize into shallow seas.
Surveying the botanical realm, we find a world dominated not only by flowering plants but also by a diverse array of conifers, ferns, horsetails, ginkgos, and cycads, among other flora. While flowering plants retain their prominence, they do not monopolize the scene to the extent seen on our Earth. This botanical diversity paints a vivid picture of adaptation and evolution in response to the altered climatic conditions of this world.
In the realm of fauna, the resurgence of non-avian dinosaurs post-K-Pg extinction event and subsequent disruptions in the Cenozoic era has reshaped the ecological landscape. The descendants of Fundareraptor have undergone a remarkable diversification, with many species evolving larger sizes reminiscent of their Cretaceous ancestors like Velociraptors and Deinonychus. Others have reached colossal proportions comparable to the long-extinct Tyrannosaurs. Interestingly, some lineages within this group have taken on peculiar adaptations, mirroring the evolutionary trajectory of birds by developing toothless beaks alongside their dinosaurian features.
Meanwhile, the descendants of Constructosaur present a diverse array of forms. Some have retained modest body sizes, blending seamlessly into environments reminiscent of the Hell Creek Formation. Others showcase striking resemblances to their extinct relatives from the Cerapoda clade, sporting an impressive array of crests and horns adorning their heads. Notably, certain lineages have ascended to become the largest terrestrial beings since the era of sauropods, boasting staggering weights approaching 45 tons (99,200 lbs) and lengths stretching up to 30 meters (98 ft).
In contrast to much of the Mesozoic era, mammals in this timeline have not been relegated to a subordinate role. Instead, they have carved out niches as large-bodied species both on land and in the oceans. While they may not have attained the colossal sizes seen in our timeline, they remain formidable and play significant roles in their respective ecosystems. As we continue to delve into the intricacies of this alternate timeline, we will explore the diversity of life across continents, biomes, and species, unraveling the fascinating tapestry of evolutionary pathways and ecological interactions that define this world.
So what I am looking for is if it's plausible. Things such as animal sizes, would they be small enough to survive the extinction? Would they be able to grow into sizes rivalling their Mesozoic counterparts? I will also answer questions for better better critiques.
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2024.04.11 22:05 Shells23 New Map Ideas

So, although I like the different biomes on the different planets, I'd love to see more variety in map styles. These are some of my ideas.
•Urban: areas of the planet with lots of buildings, factories, roads, etc. The rubble and destroyed buildings could make things interesting.
•Caves: planets with lots of cave networks and canyons making calling in stratagems, airstrikes, and orbitals difficult.
•Ocean: large areas with water, floating structures, coastal areas, etc. There could even be waves or tide warnings where you have to get to high ground or get washed away. It'd allow for swimming bugs to evolve or even the illuminate once they come. Or even Automaton boats.
•Dune planets: large sand dune covered areas with sink holes and sandstorms. (Yes, I know what this appeals to). But the sun could be scorching hot at times and cause lack of stamina or something. More extreme version the desert planets.
•Jungle/Swamp: like how Malevelon Creek was difficult due to the foliage, but more trees, and highways that cut through the jungle for faster travel routes. You could even have swamp areas that limit movement speed, or sink things entirely.
•Agricultural: a planet covered almost entirely by farms. There could be missions to protect grain silos, or even assist in escorting livestock evac.
And of course, I'd love missions that incorporate multiple squads in one map, even if they have separate objectives. What other types of maps and environments would you all like to see?
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2024.04.11 17:39 kykycool420 any way to get better reads on my hp than red orange yellow and green?

any way to get better reads on my hp than red orange yellow and green?
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2024.04.10 06:01 Typical-Historian-89 [Gen 9] Galatian slowpoke and Pikipek with marks.

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2024.04.09 16:44 8bit95 FT: Shaymin, Manaphy, Meloetta, LF: GO Deoxys

Shaymin and Manaphy
OT: Rei
ID: 082899
Shaymin is a SwSh save data bonus in PLA, Manaphy is The Sea's Legend quest in PLA
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Meloetta
OT: Florian
ID: 388406
Meloetta was caught in the Coastal Biome in the Indigo Disk.
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Open to negotiations. Trade will be held in Pokemon HOME.
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2024.04.08 00:56 Charrikayu What would you like to see in the Ocean biome that isn't Draugr Ghostships or Diving?

Sorry, but I'm excluding those two because they're the most common suggestions.
But honestly, without them, what else should be in the oceans? In a way it's kind of the smallest biome, since so many coastal waters just reflect the land nearby. I think the first thing should be to have larger territories of pure ocean, really get that sailing on the open feeling instead of just, essentially, channels between continents.
Once there's more ocean room they could probably add, I dunno, like ocean dungeons? Think like finding leviathans except they're island caves, other places to get or refine resources, or maybe they could rework leviathans themselves to have more or different resources. I'd also be totally amped if they had a "scaling" system like some biomes have where certain features only spawn outside a radius. Like how Draugr villages in Meadows only spawn a certain ways away from the world start, maybe you'd find different and more valuable things in the ocean the further away from spawn you got.
Do you think the ocean should be a biome-proper with a boss, maybe one you fight from longships? Or just minibosses and lots of collectibles for optional side gear, kind of like how serpents and leviathans are now that give new geafood but it's totally optional?
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2024.04.06 22:43 AncalagonTheBlack42 Alternate History/Timeline; a Clockwise Spinning Earth

Alternate History/Timeline; a Clockwise Spinning Earth
Context;
This is the premise of an alternate history or evolution project, centering around the idea of a world where the Earth spins clockwise, or “backward”, something that is known as retrograde rotation, similar to Venus. This doesn’t focus on what caused this to happen, but it instead focuses on geographical changes related to climate and weather changes between the two timelines, some similar and some dramatically different to our timeline. How the plants and animals of this world would adapt to all the changes.
Me and Molotovsnowman have gone through yet more scrutiny with regards to our previous data, especially by using the videos from the 2018 study data to measure using better software such as paint.net and climate simulation software so that we can more accurately measure the climate of this world. If a more up to date and powerful study looks at this premise with higher resolution, this will likely become obsolete, as the squares the studies use are quite big and make averages.
Using this more precise measuring, we’ve modified some of the temperate and humidity values of certain places, particularly with regard to precipitation patterns and seasonal variations, showing exactly how these places vary between seasons. As a result this helps us come to think about what would be living in these places. In future we will do an updated biome map that covers exactly what kind of ecosystems would be prevalent on such a world.
Molotov did some dats analysison the rainfall pattern of this timeline, determining not only the overall rainfall of certain places, but also what times of the year in which they fall significantly in, as can be seen the rainfall gif near the end of the slideshow, showing areas of intense rainfall in each month of the year.
Before this is a graph showing some of the wettest places in this timeline. Some of these are very wet year round, such as Ascension Island and coastal southwest Africa as a whole, or the Indus Valley, now a subtropical rainforest akin to a wetter southern China. Others are more monsoonal with pronounced dry seasons, which as the dry forests of the former Sahel and Arabia, now akin to our India or Southeast Asia. The flora and fauna of these lands would undoubtedly be a mix of subsaharan, Indian and even European migrants.
Just because a place doesn’t register on the humidity gif doesn’t mean there is no rain in this seasons, it means that it is not a significant or ‘monsoonal’ quantity, with the picture before it showing places that received a lot of rain.
Hawaii is an interesting example; at first it appears only slightly warmer and wetter on average than in our timeline, but in practise, it has gone from a rare dry summer savannah variant (As in the Koppen-Geiger system) to a more typical dry winter variant (Aw), with resulting changes in flora happening as a result. Similarly, the Iberian peninsula maintains rainfall from the Mediterranean monsoon, while also getting an Atlantic rain during winter, keeping it notably more humid than in our timeline. However, the harsh winters of Europe (keep in mind the temperature gif is skewed somewhat by elevation averages) mean that continental climates are far more prevalent. Other changed islands are a much drier and somewhat cooler Madagascar, Taiwan and Mauritius, a far wetter Galapagos and Socotra, a wetter and monsoonal Cyprus, and a strangely oceanic Mediterranean Japan, including southern Sakhalin. Other tropical islands like Indonesia haven’t changed too much, a result of low latitude.
My own gif creation involves a demonstration of how temperatures have altered in their distribution in this timeline. As can be seen by my monthly averages graph, winter temperatures in Europe and British Columbia are much harsher than in our timeline, but the reverse is true for the eastern coasts of America and Asia. An interesting fluke is the Mediterranean Sea, which helps moderate the hardness of Europe and North Africa, allowing much of that region to have relatively mild winters. Similarly, surrounded by oceans, the now monsoonal Arabia doesn’t vary as much as our India in temperatures, with only some of the southern regions averaging above 27C and only for a short time, while even Syria, Cycilia and Kurdistan remain above 2C in January.
Western Europe is a far cry from ours, with parts of northern Britain remaining below 2C until June, while the Italian peninsula is mostly very seasonal, akin to our Korea or New England roughly. Eastern Europe is even colder and harsher, with all of Europe north of the Seine being taiga forest. Tundras stretch down into Norway, while temperate forests cling on in southern Europe and Crimea. The cool and dry Caucasus remains a steppe, as does a cooler Central Asia, akin to pre-Reversal Mongolia.
Australia has certainly changed too; a cooler and much wetter west and warmer east is present; the desert is still present, but is now focussed in the east and has shrunk considerably to the benefit of the savannahs of the north and subtropical woodlands of the west. The continent now resembles how it did during the early Pliocene, and like it sees a resurgence in declining groups. This region would definitely be more capable of higher population in this timeline.
South America has dramatically changed in some places. The Amazon still exists, but is smaller and less dense than before, more like our Congo, while the savannahs have shifted northward. North Brazil is now dominated by the world’s largest desert, akin to the Outback, though the La Plata river offers a lifeline through this, ideal ground for urban societies to develop. The same is true for the Orinoco in Venezuela, now akin to our Indus. The western coast on the other hand is much wetter, the Galapagos and Atacama now being rainforest and coastal Peru’s deserts are now savannah. Valvidia is colder and drier, while Patagonia has become temperate forest.
As before, the Sahara is mild and wet, but it wasn’t clear until now how mild it is, with even the Maghreb (part from the highlands) being around 7C or above in winter and only slightly above 22C in summer, and year round humidity making akin to the southeastern USA of our timeline. The drier Egypt region is nearer 14C in January, allowing easy plant growth if one is ok with the winter dry season. Further south, the former Sahel has mostly changed into an intensely monsoonal region, akin to India or Indochina but in an even larger scale, with lake Chad not being too dissimilar to our Thailand climatically. Only the western Sahel is relatively similar. A vast savannah larger than all those south of the Sahara combined exists in these regions, allowing easy flow of African animals northward and beyond. The Great Lakes region is slightly wetter than before, but the Horn is an outright rainforest, while the southeast and Madagascar are much drier and more hostile now. Rainforests stretch down the coast all the way down to Angola and even Namibia. The Congo has now supplanted the Amazon as the world’s largest rainforest, and deserves a new name to boot; the Azanian. This has now taken the savannah’s place as the main division between Africa.
Don’t take these temperatures too perfectly, however, as they do seem to(based on the prograde simulations in the same study) to exaggerate the extreme summers of hot desert climates in a way not seen elsewhere in the study data, as well as possibly continentality. It underestimates winter temperatures in prograde British Columbia while overestimating those of northern Japan for example. This is why Molotov simulated only coastal Iberia to be temperate rather than continental. Nonetheless, a considerable amount of southern Europe is still fairly mild despite the vast changes. Also keep in mind these assume preindustrial co2 levels and climate, with this world on average being 1.24C cooler globally than ours currently is.
Some of the most extreme temperature swings are present in Central Asia, home to summers almost as harsh as in our timeline, but considerably stronger winters, akin to the Midwest, creating ideal environments for tornados. Even more extreme is Northern European Russia, with summers only being above 2C on average for a meagre 3-4 months of the year, followed by bitter winters, akin to our Yakutia. Even the Caucasus and Anatolia are cold and continental, with only coastal Anatolia being still warm and mild, allowing a pathway for fleeing European flora and fauna to migrate to the Middle East.
Meanwhile, the Asian far east has become much milder than before, at least in the north; not to the extent of our Europe but still a vast improvement. Southern Manchuria and North Korea reach or surpass 22C for 3 months (compared to 2 in otl) and all 12 months average above 2C (compared to 3 averaging below 0C in otl). This along with flat land and a decent Mediterranean rainfall pattern of sunny dry summers and mild rainy winters makes this good land for early civilisation to form, as is the Yellow River basin to the south. Manchuria both inner and outer quickly becomes more continental as you go further inland, just as with our timeline (something the squares of the study videos do tend to skew a bit), but even parts of outer Manchuria are now temperate, while the bits that are still continental are now relatively mild and easy to handle for creatures, similar to Eastern Europe. Deciduous woodlands now grow as far as and even beyond (at least near the coasts) the Stanavoys. Even Mongolia is relatively milder than our own; slightly wetter and with weaker winters than before, its mountains providing refuge from the blistering heat of the south. The Yellow Sea is like a much smaller Mediterranean here, and like it has a great desert to the south, though not nearly as big or harsh as our Sahara, harbouring a Sahelian Indochina to the south. Indonesia is relatively drier than before, especially Sumatra but remains very humid and forested despite minor changes. Japan’s islands are very oceanic, with only the southwest having hot summers, while all of the islands, including not only Hokkaido, but the Kurils and the southern half of Sakhalin having mild winters that allow easy plant and crop growth. Even southern kamchatka now has an oceanic climate, akin to British Columbia or Ireland.
The Indian subcontinent apart from the aforementioned rainforests of the northwest, hasn’t changed too much at all in the north, but the south and Sri Lanka are substantially wetter as seen in the study data, now being one of the wettest places on earth, a large rainforest. In addition, sea nitration occurs on a level unheard of in our timeline here, leading to unprecedented Cyanobacteria blooms off the coast.
The west coast of North America now has one of the world’s largest monsoons affecting it, though not quite as large and intense as the East Asian monsoon of our timeline. Only California still recieves decent rain during the winters now, a very stark contrast. Southern Cascadia, with a strong continental shift, resembles a milder Manchuria now, and Columbia is akin to the Russian far east, harsh and hostile to outsiders, though a warmer and milder Aleutians catches the brunt of the Mid-Pacific current, being relatively nice to dwell in. California and the southwest resemble an even more mountainous southern China in miniature form, and Baja takes Florida’s place. Animals of southern and western Mexico now roam around California without issues, as well as refugees from the desertified southeast. The Midwest and Great Lakes is a wild place of hot and dry summers and freezing winters, similar to our Central Asia, while the midatlantic and New England are Mediterranean. Even Nova Scotia and Newfoundland are now temperate, and coastal Labrador and the Hudson Bay coastline are little bit milder than in our timeline, the opposite of their west coast counterparts.
Antarctica hasn’t changed much to be honest, though even here, minor differences exist here and there.
Hopefully, the new updates have addressed a number of critiques earlier versions were given, as well as the videos offering more precision information about temperature and rainfall patterns. In future there may also be ice age and hothouse versions of this. Enjoy!
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2024.04.04 21:29 Special_Ad7249 Your characters were at Blueberry Academy,more precisely at the Coastal Biome,when they noticed a girl (Yes that’s a girl) just sitting on the beach of one of the artificial seas. What’s going to happen next?

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2024.04.04 18:02 Special_Ad7249 A Legendary Encounter…

A Legendary Encounter…
Ilio:Alola to all of you,class!
Students:Good morning,Professor Ilio.
He sits behind his desk and looks at them with a soft smile
Ilio:I’ve honestly got something very special for all of you…we’re going to do an outdoor lesson about the Coastal Biome and the various Pokémon species that live there!
All of the students chatter with each other
Male student:Oh man…it’s been probably a month since we last had an outdoor lesson!
Female student:I honestly can’t wait for this…!
(Don’t swipe to the second image until I tell you that you can.)
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2024.04.04 14:34 Special_Ad7249 Is any of your characters a teacher or still part of the teaching staff?

Ilio here works as a zoology teacher at Blueberry Academy.
His lessons are for the most part at the Coastal Biome of the Terarium,and he mainly focuses on the various Pokémon that live in a certain area,like volcanoes and oceans.
The homework he gives isn’t either way too difficult or way too easy. For example,one of them was making a research about the traditions of his home region,Alola,and catching a Regional Variant.
…Now,even though this is homework for the next time they see,there isn’t a real deadline to them,so his students can take their time and when they feel like it,they can do them.
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2024.04.02 19:05 JacarandaBanyan 2023 Bingo Masterpost - All Translations Card

2023 Bingo Masterpost - All Translations Card
I know this is a little late, but I finished the last book at around midnight right before the April 1 deadline, and then I needed to go to bed, and then needed a day to write all this up. So here it is, better posted late than never.
I’ve participated in Fantasy Bingo for a few years now, but for the first time this year I decided to do a themed card. I’d seen some other people’s themed cards and thought it looked fun. Some people’s themes were downright impressive.
And so I said to myself, I’m going to do a card with nothing but translations.
And then, when I started planning out my card and saw that the whole thing was dominated by two or three languages, I modified my theme: All translations, with one language per square. No repeats. If you use Spanish for one square, you can’t use any more books translated from Spanish.
In hindsight, this might have been a mistake. Some languages have a lot of translated material to work with, and some languages have one obscure fantasy book that only special collection college libraries have in their catalog. I found myself not picking the translations I was most interested in, but based on how to best fill the more restrictive squares. There really aren’t that many fantasy series that get translated, nor does there seem to be much of a market for translated superheroes, and Book Club had only read translations from three languages when bingo kicked off, though now I believe that number is up to 4. (Though it’s entirely possible I missed a book at some point when scrolling through the goodreads list.) So while, for instance, Our Share of Night was the most interesting newly released translation last year (for me personally,) I needed to save Spanish for the Book Club square, because the only historical book club selections I was seeing that were also translations were translated from Spanish, Polish, and Russian, and I needed Polish for the Sequel square and would likely need Russian for the Bottom of the TBR square, since the only translations that had been on my TBR list for long enough to fit were from Russian, Spanish, and Japanese, and I needed Japanese for the Superhero square and the Spanish book was the same as the Spanish Book Club book…
You can see how this quickly added a layer of difficulty beyond just finding 25 different languages that had a fantasy book already translated into English that also fit a square on the card.
Another layer of difficulty was my realization that publishers will call anything magical realism. Truly, if a book is translated from another language and there’s an extended metaphor drawn from folklore, or if said folklore is treated as serious and real by the characters and forms a key part of how they interpret the world, then it will be labeled magical realism. Even if no creatures from folklore actually, unambiguously appear or do anything that can’t be reasonably explained by the reader without folklore. I had so many squares that I had to come up with a back-up for because my initial selection turned out to not be speculative enough to count in my mind. I did end up keeping some books that were right on the line as a judgment call, but I discarded anything that did not have any speculative elements at all, or whose only speculative elements were that the book was set in a made-up country or that the characters sincerely believed in their folklore.
Still, it was a good challenge, and pulling it off felt like a real achievement.
Title w/ a Title: The King of the Copper Mountains by Paul Biegel (Dutch)
So this actually wasn’t by first choice for this square. I was going to use **A Letter to the King*\* instead, but unfortunately, despite being listed as a fantasy book when I was initially looking into it, it didn’t really have much in the way of speculative elements. I thought I was good as gold when I saw the magic powers in the Netflix show based off that book, but it turns out Netflix added the magic powers, and no one in the books does any magic. So I ended up reading The King of the Copper Mountains as a last-minute back-up instead. It’s cute enough, but definitely meant for a younger audience, which I knew going in.
Superheroes: Sailor Moon by Naoko Takeuchi (Japanese)
This was a difficult square, but I think Sailor Moon is close enough to count as a super hero. This one had a little bit of a slow start - it takes a while to gather people up and introduce them, but I guess sometimes you just need to take your time. I think I would have enjoyed this more a few years ago, but it was still perfectly enjoyable now.
Bottom of the TBR: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (Russian)
I’ve been meaning to read this one for a long time now, but never seemed to get around to it. It didn’t end up being at all what I’d expected- I’d heard a lot of praise for its themes, for it’s connection to the Soviet Era, but not about the humor. I listened to this one on audiobook, and the narrator did a pretty good job differentiating each character with a speaking role. Overall pretty enjoyable.
Magical Realism: Red Ants by Pergentino José (Sierra Zapotec)
So technically I think this one might have been translated into English from the Spanish translation of the original Sierra Zapotec - my copy of the book wasn’t super clear whether it was translated directly from the original version or not - but since it was originally written in Sierra Zapotec that’s what I’m counting it as. This was a collection of magical realism short stories, which on the whole were pretty enjoyable to read. They were very short - I don’t think there was a single one longer than maybe six pages - so there wasn’t a whole lot of time for complex development or characterization, but the writing was vivid and many scenes were haunting even when it wasn’t really clear what was going on.
YA: Mountain of the Moon by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (Bengali)
This one is right on the cusp of not being speculative enough. However, right towards the end, there is an encounter with a creature that doesn’t really exist, a sort of mythical creature, and I decided it was enough to count. This was a fun adventure-style book, though definitely written for a younger audience and requiring quite a suspension of disbelief. I’m not convinced that it’s humanly possible to cross the distances the characters claim to have crossed in the time they claim to have done it through the biomes they described - hey, perhaps that should be the speculative element.
This book is a ‘kumar-sahitya’ novel, a genre of Bengali literature that is a sort of a mix between adventure story, travelogue, and light fantasy-thriller aimed at a younger (but not too young) audience. I made the executive decision that this was close enough to YA, as the audience age range is about the same, as far as I can tell. Since this one was originally published in the 1930s, I expected it to feel more dated than it did; while some attitudes and ideas about Africa were certainly a bit dated, they were nowhere near as dated as they could be, and the text itself didn’t show its age as clearly as I would have expected. Perhaps that is the result of translation choices, with the translator opting to go for a more timeless tone; I don’t know enough about Bengali literature to compare.
Mundane Jobs: Man Tiger by Eka Kurniawan (Indonesian)
This one is another maybe-magical realism one that I decided was magical-realism-enough to count. As far as I could tell, the white tiger that lives inside our protagonist is both metaphorical and physically real.
This book is one of those books that seems to be moving slowly and not doing a lot until all of a sudden it all snaps together. It opens with a certain sense of urgency- a young man has just committed a violent murder, and it is not entirely clear why. Then the novel seemingly decides to set that mystery aside and slowly introduce us to our main character’s mother, father, sisters, extended family, girlfriend, girlfriend’s family and extended family until you want to scream ‘yes, these families are full of disappointments and problems but what are we even building towards here? Then, on the very last page, it all finally snaps together so perfectly that retroactively that long, slow middle feels genius and necessary.
Published in the 00s: The Man Who Spoke Snakish by Andrus Kivirähk (Estonian)
This is another one that I’d heard about and had been intending to check out for a while now but never really got around to. I enjoyed this one; it did a good job developing ideas about tradition and modernity and forcing them out of their dichotomy with each other. I’m not sure how I feel about the ending section, which I would describe as a crescendo of senseless though perhaps thematically-appropriate violence, but I definitely can’t fault it on thematic grounds.
Angels and Demons: Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter’s Saga by D.O. Fagunwa (Yoruba)
This book wasn’t my favorite, but I’m hesitant to bad-mouth it too much. It was first published in the ‘30s, like Mountains of the Moon, and draws heavily on a sort of syncretism between Christianity and traditional West African thought and myth. As such, I feel like I’m missing a lot of context while reading this one. However, I must say that sometimes our hero’s adventures felt a bit pointless and all of the women characters were treated pretty terribly. On the other hand, it certainly wasn’t boring, which is a point in its favor.
Short Stories: Creative Surgery by Clelia Farris (Italian)
This was a fun, short little collection; the two stand-out stories were one about what a young man is willing to sacrifice to protect the ancient burial ground he lives on and the titular story, featuring appropriately horrifying surgery. No one in that last story is passing their ethics classes.
I’d originally picked out a different collection for this square, a collection of short stories translated from a variety of Filipino languages. Unfortunately, while that collection was recommended to me on a list of translated FANTASY books, less than half of the stories were speculative, and fewer than half of those were unambiguously speculative.
Horror: Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist (Swedish)
God this was a bleak book. Good, but bleak. I could feel the hard gray concrete-ness of the story’s setting permeate every section that I read. Truly there was no beauty to be found in the setting- the only beauty in this entire book comes from the (somewhat rare) scenes where people trust another person and have that trust vindicated. And honestly, I feel like that worked really well for this story. I would definitely recommend it, though with the caveat that it’s not the right choice if you’re looking for a light, fun pick-me-up read.
Self-Published/Indie: When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà (Catalan)
This book book was just the right length for what it was. Each chapter focused on one character in or with a connection somehow to a family living in a small village in the Pyrenees, and is not-quite self-contained. Things are just connected enough to keep the book from being just interconnected short stories. One of the things I liked a lot about this book was the broad definition of ‘person with connection to the family.’ There were bits from the POV of the mountains, from the POV of a deer in the forest nearby, and a bit from the POV of the weather. The writing is gorgeous, which pairs well with the decidedly non-human narration of the non-human POV sections and makes the creative POV choices stand out even more. If you like fantasy and are looking for something with smaller stakes and less charging off to fight a dragon, I can recommend this book.
Set in the Middle East: The Emperor Tea Garden by Nazlı Eray (Turkish)
I don’t entirely feel that I got this one, even though it was a fun read. For a while I thought the narrator was in fact two different people, and I’m still not entirely convinced that they weren’t. I didn’t much care for any of the characters, which put a little bit of a damper on my enjoyment.
This was another one where the book I finally chose for the square was an emergency back-up because my planned choice didn’t end up being speculative enough for me to feel that it counted.
Published in 2023: No Edges: Swahili Stories by Various Authors (Swahili)
This collection was both more and less entertaining than I had expected, which is sort of par for the course with short story collections like this. Some stories were more fun than others. On average I’d give it three stars.
Multiverse: The Neverending Story by Michael Ende (German)
I don’t know how much of my enjoyment of this book was because it is a genuinely fun, entertaining read with plenty of adventure and interesting creatures and inventive settings and how much was because I read it on the heels of two mildly disappointing books and two extremely disappointing books, one of which was quite possibly the worst book I’ve read in the past decade (and which, unfortunately, will be reviewed further down this post). I needed a win after that disappointing streak, and The Neverending Story delivered.
POC Author: The Wizard of the Crow by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (Gikuyu)
This book was incredible. I’d heard it praised often before, so I came in with high expectations, but it met those expectations beautifully, and now I’m going around recommending it to my IRL book club and my coworkers and my mom. I’ve never seen a book balance its tone between comedy and fear so perfectly for so long- not once over the nearly 800 pages did it swerve too far into one side or the other.
Book Club: Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire that Never Was by Angélica Gorodischer (Spanish)
Ever since I learned that Ursula K. Le Guin translated this book I’ve been meaning to read it. I’ve heard it praised often on this sub, and the title was intriguing. Thankfully, it met all of my expectations. Each story had both fun and inventive bits and real meat that you could chew on without getting bogged down. It’s rare for what is essentially a collection of stories, albeit all linked by their shared setting, to be this consistently good from story to story.
Novella: The Employees by Olga Ravn (Danish)
This was a weird one. The author’s background is in poetry, and you can really see it in how abstract much of this book is. There might not even be a single named character. It’s supposedly a sort of found-footage-type book in the form of interviews conducted by a company with their human and humanoid employees aboard a spaceship of some sort. However, we don’t see the questions, only the responses, and while some people are clearly interviewed more than once and time clearly passes, each interview is labeled only with a number- no name, no context, nothing at all. The numbers appear to be chronological, proceeding from interview #1 to interview #2 to #20 to # 131 and so on, but it’s impossible to tell if they’re truly chronological or just roughly chronological, and some numbers are missing. However, despite all this, there are some really neat, hit-you-upside-the-head lines, and the author still managed to create a sense of rising tension.
Mythical Beasts: Fishing for the Little Pike by Juhani Karila (Finnish)
This was a fun one. It switches back and forth between a woman who needs to catch a specific pike fish or she will die and the detective trying to track her down for her suspected role in a murder. All along the way are a variety of fabulous, creepy creatures and witchcraft.
I’d never read anything from the ‘Finnish Weird’ subgenre before, mostly because their summary blurbs never seem that interesting to me, but I might have to give some more of them a try after Fishing for the Little Pike.
Elemental Magic: Thunderbird by Sonia Nimr (Arabic)
This book had so many problems, but I am reluctant to judge it too harshly because I suspect they are not really the fault of the book itself. At first, as I was reading, I asked myself what editor would ever agree to publish something so weirdly paced. Basic information about the premise and how the speculative elements functioned was still being revealed at the ⅔ point, our heroine accepted her magic time-travel quest with maybe three chapters and twenty pages left to go, thematic elements were introduced to early or too late, things that should have been short subplots went on for far too long relative to the length of the book- the list of structural weirdnesses went on and on.
Then, I had an aha-moment. This book wasn’t translated by a recognizable commercial publisher or an indie publisher that deals with international literature, but by a Center for Middle East Studies affiliated with some university, and it had a “sequel” that had the exact same name with a ‘book 2’ appended to the end. I began to suspect that this had been translated not as a Middle Grade fantasy novel but as a piece of literature by a Palestinian author that discusses Israel-Palestine relations, and that the pervasive structural issues and abrupt ending that didn’t resolve anything were because the grant money to pay the translator ran out before the book did, hence it being split up into multiple pieces in the translation process. I can’t rag on a book for having terrible, nonsensical structure and no real resolution if those issues are only issues because I’m only reading the first third or so of the book.
On a side note, it was nice to see a Middle Grade book where the main character goes to their parents/parental figures and tells them about the frightening and unprovable supernatural things that are happening to them and have said parental figures believe them immediately and start taking practical steps to help them.
Myths and Retellings: Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugrešić (Croatian)
God I hated this book. I hated this book so much that when I was thinking back over my year of reading back in December, I initially thought this had been a bad year for me, with too many disappointing and uninspiring books. Then I realized that actually, this one book was just bringing down my entire perception of the year; I kept getting bored or frustrated and putting it down ‘just for a moment,’ and then before I knew it it was due back at the library, and then I’d have to check it out again and restart from where I’d left off, which meant that I ended up reading it over the course of several months, a little bit at a time. Because it was so spread out, it felt in retrospect like I’d had several months of unenjoyable reads. For a while I wasn’t even sure if this was speculative enough to count- there’s only a moment or two of blink-and-you-miss-it magic. However, it must have been speculative enough for the Otherwise Award judges, because it won in 2010. (How??? How did this garbage win any kind of award??? Was 2010 just a really bad year for books related to gender and/or sexuality in speculative fiction? Did it run unopposed???) Also, I felt true despair at the idea of slogging through the whole book only to not count it, so I elected to count it.
Queernorm: Little Mushroom: Revelations by Shisi (Chinese)
This is technically part two of a single book, which was split into two books when it was translated into English. I wish it hadn’t been split, since I think some of the character and relationship development in this book would have hit harder and made more sense if there wasn’t a big gap dividing the first half from the second half like that. However, I did still enjoy myself.
Some ideas from this one reminded me of ideas from the first Three Body Problem book, which now leaves me curious whether these ideas are just more common in Chinese sci-fi or if this book actively took inspiration from the Three Body Problem. Or maybe the Three Body Problem was just such a big hit that some of its ideas have become pervasive in Chinese sci-fi publishing. I guess I’ll just have to read more Chinese sci-fi to find out.
Coastal/Island: Hadriana in All My Dreams by René Depestre (French)
One of the most interesting things about this book was how different its zombies were from the zombies I’m used to. These ones were much more rooted in voodoo and the history of slavery than the zombies I come across in other fantasy books. In fact, these zombies aren’t even that much of a danger to other people; the primary danger is to the zombified person’s own spiritual well-being. It ended up not becoming a new favorite, but reading it was still a valuable exercise.
SUBSTITUTION- Non-Human Character: Walking Practice by Dolki Min (Korean)
I was initially turned off from this book by the description- I wasn’t really interested in watching an alien hunt and eat people. However, I saw it getting some praise on this sub, and as the Bingo deadline loomed I needed something short. I’m glad I ended up reading this one- it was a lot more entertaining than I had expected.
Robots: R. U. R. by Karel Čapek (Czech)
This work was the first to use the word ‘robot’, and could debatably be called the first ever robot story (though of course, stories of artificial, debatably-alive creatures predate it.) That is part of why I picked it- I was curious about the first robot story.
I can see how this would have been incredibly compelling to see live on stage when it was first written; however, since then other authors have done much more interesting and thought-provoking things with the subject, so this felt unfairly boring. I suspect it would have been better as it was meant to be experienced- as a stage play- but I’m not sure that would have been enough to make up for the simple fact that robots are not a new idea that can carry a story by itself anymore.
Sequel: The Time of Contempt by Andrzej Sapkowski (Polish)
This one was much like the first book in the series. I think I enjoy the style and pacing of this series, where only the important scenes necessary to move the plot along are included- there’s not much in the way of connective tissue scenes or and-now-it’s-going-to-take-fifty-pages-to-get-to-the-city sections; anything that can be skipped over is skipped over. This makes things a little more disjointed, and definitely makes it harder to keep track of how much time has passed, but in return it makes each scene feel high-impact and important, as well as nearly self-contained.
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