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As a good reminder, there are more things you can do to add flavor and variety to encounters than just single, double, triple, and ambush battles. Horde battle, or encounter, was a battle mechanism introduced in Gen 6 and SOS battle was introduced in Gen 7, both of which remained short-lived experiments in their respective generations. But I think despite their short lifespan, they could work better in the Pokémon ttrpg scene than in their own video games, which is why I'd like to hear you share your experiences for everyone.

- In an SOS battle (from Gen7, & PLA?), the trainer initially faces one wild Pokemon, but the Pokemon uses one turn to summon help that can be from one to two allies (such as Cubone and Kangaskhan) or an unhelpful foe (such as Zangoose vs Seviper).

- In a Horde battle (from Gen6), or encounter, the player faces five wild Pokemon instead of one, which are usually of the same evolutionary line (such as 3 Pikachu and 2 Pichu). Similarly, they can encounter flocks of flying Pokemon while flying and soaring, and schools of water Pokemon while surfing and diving.

Mythology is fundamentally a flexible, living, and oral tradition, but sometimes I see people misuse this phrase when they want to exclude something they find and/or feel is repugnant and inappropriate by modern standards, such as Zeus being disloyal to Hera and chasing after everything that breathes and moves (because in the past people wanted to trace their lineages back to Zeus), or when they want to use and favor modern adaptations or retellings as a source, such as Madeleine Miller's Circe in the case of Circe.

And at least to me the phrase "there is no canon in Greek mythology" isn't intended to be used like this and I think some people may have misunderstood it instead of understanding that even though there is not just one version of myths and stories and that they aren't set in stone, it doesn't mean that they can be whatever modern people feel and want them to be because there are still Greek and Roman sources that help capture and provide us a small glimpse into what people have told and when on the timeline.

And this also doesn't mean that modern adaptations and retellings shouldn't be made, but we must remember that they are modern and not ancient sources and avoid using them as such.

The Telegony is a lost work from the Greek epic cycle and a sequel to the Homeric Odyssey, known only from quotation fragments, references, and summaries. The work begins when Odyssey and Penelope are burying the suitors, then Odysseus travels to first Elis and then Thesprotia to perform a purification/penance ritual. In Thesprotia he also marries the widowed Queen Callidice and they and go to war against the attacking Brygoi (it is also war between Athena and Ares until Apollo intervenes between the battling gods). Thesprotia wins the battle, but the queen dies, so Odysseus leaves the kingdom to her son Polypoetes and returns to Ithaca. There a foreign ship, forced by a storm, arrives in Ithaca to seek shelter, and its crew begins to hunt Odysseus's cattle. Ody mistakes them for pirates and tries to defend his property but is mortally wounded by an unusual spear with a poisonous stingray spine as its head. The spear-wielder turns out to be Telegonus, the son of Circe and Odysseus who has come to find his father on the goddess Athena's advice, but in the manner of Greek tragedy it is too late. However, they recognize each other in that moment, and Telegonus laments his mistake. After Odysseus has slept off, Telegonus invites the widowed Penelope and Telemagus to Aeaea, where they bury Odysseus' body, and Telemachus marries Circe and the widowed Penelope marries Telegonus.

About 5-6 years ago, Pokemon uploaded a music video to its YouTube channel, featuring a female voice singing, presumably in Japanese. The style of the video resembled a Japanese watercolor painting on rice paper and it opens with Pikachu in a bamboo forest. It also featured all the Eeveelutions, and Kyogre, whose silhouette swam under a boat. The music and singing in the video were delicate, harmonious, serene and classical (and possibly featured violin or similar instrument).

I've been trying to find this music video without success, and some of my friends say I'm remembering wrong and I mean the GOTCHA music video, but I'm 500% sure it wasn't that one because the style of the video and the music don't match, especially when its singer has a male voice and not a female voice.

Did you go see the movie because it's full of big and famous Hollywood stars or because of the movie itself and its story? And how much does the recognition and fame of the actors in the movies / series mean to you if they mean anything?

I haven't seen much discussion about this. That's why this question. Because if it's a good movie then who the actors are in it shouldn't matter because an actor's name alone doesn't make a good movie.

Has Jorge ever said or explained whether the verse "The last time we let strangers live, we faced a heavy loss" of the song "Done For" refer to Jason and the Argonauts or was it just creative liberties for narrative reasons so that Jorge could give Circe a motive for her actions?

Because this started to bother and interest me, and when I started to research who visited Aeaea before Odysseus, the only "hevy loss" bringed there by the Argonauts (who visited Circe's island two generations before Odysseus) was the news that Circe's niece had murdered her brother Apsyrtus whom their father had sent after them when she ran away, and also the pig they had to sacrifice for spiritual cleansing and in order to break the curse of Zeus that prevented Jason from sailing back to his home with Medea because apparently Circe had the powers to remove curses cast by the Gods, although she doesn't use this power in the Odyssey.

Although that verse would be better suited to the Gigantomachy war, when one of the giants, Picolous, attacked Circe's island and tried to drive her and the nymphs away until Helios was forced to descend with his chariots and protect his favorite daughter by smiting the giant whose blood then turned into the white Moly flowers. But the Gigantomachy happened long before Jason and the Argonauts.

I also wish that someday Jorge would also turn Argonautica into a musical, but after he has finished Ilium and the Epic movie.

I cannot find in either Greek or Roman sources, nor in books that analyze and cover them, that time works some how diffently on the island of Circe or Calypso than it does elsewhere in the world. According to them, time doesn't bend or warp on either island and there is no temporal magic, but the years and days pass at a normal, measurable pace like usual. So where does this idea come from that if you spend one day on Ogygia or Aeaea, then at the same time one year would have passed elsewhere in the world?

I've watched through several fan animatics of Ruthlessness on Youtube and I like the idea of the waves sent by Poseidon being depicted as horse-shaped, but I also noticed that none of the animatics I've seen feature the Laestrygonians (the giants of the land of giants) even though the song's written lyrics mention them as Poseidon's chorus.

Since Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey hit theaters recently, I've seen claims that they're no more or less historically accurate than the fantasy armor in Nolan's The Odyssey because they're just reconstructions, but doesn't the fact that they're reconstructions negate or diminish their historical accuracy?

Does anyone know how to do the "reverse image search" and the "image search with image*" in the DuckDuckGo mobile app? Or is it even possible to do that in DuckDuckGo?

*i.e. so that you first make a copy of the image using the "copy image to clipboard" on your phone and then enter the image into the app's search bar just like you could do in Google before Google ruined their image search with Gemini and Google lens (Google now only offers "visually similar results" "for better search results" instead of just searching the same image online like they used to).

Does anyone know how to do the "reverse image search" and the "image search with image*" in the Qwant mobile app? Or is it even possible to do that in Qwant?

*i.e. so that you first make a copy of the image using the "copy image to clipboard" and then enter the image into the app's search bar just like you could do in Google before Google ruined their image search with Gemini and Google lens

In the version I remember, as well as in the manga adaptation of the episode, there was a client arrived at the Baker Street flat and collapsed on the floor exhausted, just like Sherlock Holmes' client in the short story "The Adventure Of the Priory School". And the first case in the episode, before Sherlock and Watson were summoned to the Buckingham Palace, was a hiker who had mysteriously died in the valley >!after being hit by a boomerang!< and this was based on the short story "The Boscombe Valley Mystery". However, none of the Wikipedia article, fandom wikis, Tumblr posts and YouTube reviews about the episode mention this part of the episode at all, giving the impression that the episode started directly with Sherlock being naked in the palace because he refused to wear anything but a sheet.Or was that part of the episode just so forgettable that people don't remember it?