u/Douradinhooo

I've been playing Grim and I've been having a blast watching both my brain and my opponents brain melt with all the math and reminding ourselves to add dmg from Freezing Shroud, but that fun end as soon as I see a Drilbur on the other side of the table and I need help to find some kind of tech for it

I know ideally it should be somewhat ok, if I set up like 2 Froslass I can force them to evolve the Metangs and stop them from feeding energy to the mole but it never is that simple.

Every game goes about the same way, i can set up my board, spread some dmg to the Metangs and Genesect and set up a 2HKO, but I always loose Grim in the return and then Ice Cream 1 and Petrel for Ice Cream 2 and completely undo my turn (happened more than once during my last locals), and if my opponent is running Cape instead of Trolley, it's just worse.

I've seen some people running Dark Bell, and I see why but idk if I like relying on a coin flip to survive. I've also seen Punk Helmet but idk how much difference 4 dmg counters make.

I've actually wondered if a one of Tremendous Bomb could help. Excadrill will always hit for 240+ dmg so it will always trigger and then putting 120 dmg back would help recover some of the damage healed with ice cream or if they don't heal you have 300 damage already plus any you might've prepared before with munkidori. I haven't tested this option much tbh and the fact I haven't seen people much better than me do it, makes me think it might not be as good as I imagine

Any suggestion or tips how to play this boring matchup?

I've been playing N's Zoroark for a while now, and currently I'm running Tord's list from New Orleans but with some minor changes and it feels good in general but I wonder if I can optimise it in some way because I feel like it bricks more times than I feel like it should

The first change I made was switching Tatsugiri for Reshiram, I think Reshiram is really good, dealing 170 with no drawback is amazing for when Zekrom's 70dmg attack isn't enough and 250 is more than needed and I want to be able to attack again. It also OHKO Meowth ex and with mochi it deals enough for Ogrepons and Feza. Having it in play against Dragapult or when the opponent knows you run it, it makes them attack more carefully and if they don't you get an easy KO.

So I was wondering why most lists I've seen seem to have dropped it and rely on Zekrom and Darmanitan for the attacks.

At first I also switched Ruffian for an 8th energy, since the meta in my locals don't run much special energies or tools that justified it.

But then I went back to 7 energies and got a second munkidori for the pult matchup in specific (theres a lot of them around me).

But it makes me wonder how do you play the Pult matchup if you prize your only munkidori? I rely on 30dmg from adrena brain+ 290 (zekrom and mochi) for the OHKO, but if you can't do it, your only option is Black Belt but you're only doing that once per game.

The thing is, I feel like I should bring Tatsugiri back for extra consistency, a lot of the times that I brick it's usually because I open with awful hands and Tatsu could give me some way to get back with Cyrano or Lillie's, but I don't really know what I would take out.

I feel like taking a munki out would be fine but I don't know how you comfortably go against Dragapult if you prize the other one (it happened to me once and that's why I included another one). Taking Reshiram could also be a possibility but I genuinely like how it feels in general. The other option would be going down to 1 zekrom but I don't like the idea of all the attackers being 1 ofs.

Any suggestions?

I'm not necessarily a new player, I've been playing for almost 1.5y now, but this felt like the most fitting flair from the options.

The thing is, I'm not good at the game, I have no good results despite playing quite a lot. I attended my local pretty much every week, have played quite a few Challenges and Cups but my best score is 2-2 and one of the wins is more often than not due to a bye. Lately this has been getting worse and I get 1-3 pretty regularly, again the win is due to a bye lmao.

I want to improve, I practice both on Live as well as on tcgmasters against myself with other decks, usually Pult or some match up I am focusing specifically. I also watch tournament vods and some other forms of content related to the game, but I don't really see much improvement, so I am considering metafy guides, particularly one for N's Zoroark since its the deck I'm currently playing (I know it's a hard deck but I like how it feels and how its positioned in the meta).

My question is how worth are the guides really? I'm not questioning whether the guides are good or actually provide good information, I'm more questioning what would I get from them that I can't really get from anywhere else like free YouTube guides, watching high tier players play the deck, and playing and getting more and more experience with the deck myself?

Has anyone gotten a guide for a deck they were playing and found something that was actually not available anywhere else or something that actually impacted how you play? I'm obviously not expecting a miracle or that a guide will suddenly win me a local next week but, I'm just curious if it is a worthy investment to improve in the long run or if I can get similar value for less/free somewhere else

I don't know if this is the best place to ask for help about it, but anything else I find online doesn't work.

I have Office 365 on my laptop, I have a license thanks to uni, and a few days ago, I was working on Word and I don't remember how it went, but it basically crashed and never opened again or showed any error message.

When I try to open it, one of three things happen.

Most times it does nothing, nothing pops up, I just wait and it never opens. Sometimes it shows the small pop-up in the middle of the screen telling me its loading, but then it just disappears and nothing opens. Usually after that it shows a message that also disappears so fast that I never been able to read it all, but I did read it asking me if I wanted to open it safely and if when I tried to react fast enough to click either Yes or No, nothing happened, like before it just goes away and Word never opens.

I googled it, trying to find any solution but nothing helped. I uninstalled and installed it, I tried to run it in Admin and sometimes I see the Word home screen for a brief second but it goes away anyway, I tried running it on safe mode through the Windows key + R but nothing different happened. I tried quick repair and online repair and nothing helped, I checked add-ins but I had nothing so I don't think that was the issue, and I also didn't have anything in Templates like the Microsoft forums suggested.

I have no idea what to do to fix it, especially since it seems to be a Word only issue because PowerPoint opens and works perfectly fine.

Any idea what might be the issue? I don't have any more information or error messages, basically nothing happens when I click on the Word icon, or when it does it's so fast that it might as well not happened

Hi, I'm very, very early on my transition, I basically only came to a few of my friends and my immediate family, so I have only started the social aspect, and have not yet done much physically. I have already talked to my therapist and psychiatrist and have gotten the document I need to get direct to a gender clinic and eventually start hrt, but I want to start doing something before, even if some small steps, and I really want to do something about my body/facial hair.

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I want to start there because I do feel like it'll be something that I can still "hide" and would also take care of one of the things that makes me dysphoric more frequently, unfortunately laser hair removal isn't really an option for me, not for a lot of places like legs, neck, and arms (although my arm hair is actually ok) because I have a few tattoos, and from what I've read it might actually damage them. I have been constantly looking for electrolysis since it's permanent, even if painful, and doesn't affect tattoos, but I can't find any place that does it, relatively close to me.

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I know eventually the hair thins out a little with hormones but am I destined to the sisyphean loop of waxing or epilating my whole body or is there another option I am not seeing (aside from razors, I don't like how it feels after and always makes me very itchy no matter what). I would love a better solution for facial hair, in particular, since regular shaving still leaves a bit of shadow and unfortunately it grows quite fast.

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Any advice?

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(I am also lost where to start transitioning physically/ how I present, without being too drastic off the bat, im kinda only betting on hrt doing something "fast" but thats a bit delusional, but that probably deserves a separate post)

Personally, I'm kinda scared of the cards announced yesterday being standard-legal (i know they only released in mid September), and it's not because they are too strong or anything like that, it's more because of how this hobby is infested with scalpers and the like, unfortunately.

I know not a lot is known (correct me if I'm wrong), from what I've read they are calling it a "set" and "expansion" so if it's something similar to 151, Prismatic or Ascended Heroes, it shouldn't be that bad, if they print enough. But if it's something smaller, smaller than the sets we've been getting (which I am fine with, mind you) then I think we should be concerned.

I guess what I'm getting at is that this set feels like the usual special sets but on steroids, and if they lean into the "promo" side of things and don't print enough, because its celebrating 30 years of Pokémon, we might end up in a worse situation than Mew ex from 151 costing almost as much as the average deck or Pokepad running for 5-10€ before Perfect Order came out

I've been looking to play N's Zoroark (finally giving up on Lucario) and I've been testing some lists and seeing some people talk about the deck and, particularly, what ace specs are better between Unfair Stamp, Hero's Cape and Scoop Up Cyclone.

Personally I think Hero's Cape seems to be the better option, having 380HP allows Munkidori to move counters more often without only relying on poison and also makes using Reshiram more reliable, but most lists I see are defaulting to Stamp, and the very few that use Hero's Cape tend to also use Mega Lopunny, which I haven't come around to yet, honestly.

Would taking the list I've been using with Unfair Stamp and simply change the ace spec to Cape, without messing with the rest of the list, make sense or does Cape ask for different cards to support it that Stamp doesn't?

For context I am currently writing an aria (a small operatic moment/a song with dramatic action) about Pinocchio (a mid teen) and his desire to be a real boy, and I'm using it as a trans allegory.

I've been writing some drafts of the text and trying to draw as much as I can from my own experience when I was first becoming aware of my "trans thoughts" but I am MtF, so the way I'm going at it is trying to think about why I want to transition, like how do I wanna be seen in social dynamics, what I want to do that is typical seen as "girl activities" and then try to think what the equivalent would be for "boy activities" (ignoring the fact that there really aren't strictly "girl" and "boy" activities, because not only do I think it was a factor when I was 15-16yo but those labels, even if harmful, can help with the validation of ones identity in a way).

Another way I'm thinking about this is turning body features that I don't like in myself, like body/facial hair, and muscle mass, into something that someone going through ftm transition would probably find desirable, as well as something like (mainly) straight relationship dynamics, that I became much more aware after realising that I was trans and gave me dysphoria, and again, try to turn them into something desirable for someone in the "opposite" side.

The issue I am finding, tho, is that the text is coming out as vague or underexplored in some parts, so I wanted to have more insight into these desires and thoughts so that I could possibly craft something that feels more real and satisfying, both for me as a trans artist representing some form of the trans experience, and for the people in the audience that might resonate with it and see it as more than just another retelling of Pinocchio.

If you are comfortable with sharing something that you feel might help, I am more than thankful and happy to read it

Before rotation happened on this side of the world Mega Lucario was being considered like top 2 or top 3 decks post rotation with like 3 different ways you could play it, but rotation comes and I barely see anyone talking about it or when I do, people have very little nice things to say and have even put it on fraud watch.

I have played it a fair bit on the ladder and had cool results, but I feel like you can make almost anything work on the ladder up to a certain point so it doesn't tell me much. I have also played a couple of locals and a challenge with it and going against TR Mewtwo and Alakazam back to back certainly wasn't easy, but I also made Gholdengo look like a rogue deck earlier this year, going 0-2-2 or worse consistently, so I don't think it tells me much either.

My guess is that all the new single prize decks complicate the decks viability a little and decks like TR Mewtwo just straight up overpower it, but I wanted to see what people far more knowledgeable have to say