u/Emerald-Daisy

I’m currently on 100 microgram per day patches (roughly equivalent to 3mg per day orally, in terms of bioavailability). I had the blood test at the recommended 24 hours after a patch change (trough levels) and had 895 pmol/L (~250 pg/ml) for serum estradiol level. From what I can see this would be higher than expected even on double my dose. Is there any possible reason for this? (I have my next endo appointment in a month but would like to know stuff sooner so i don’t stress myself out). T levels were very low from triptorelin injections as my anti-androgen.

For a few years now (started around age 18, currently 21), I've noticed my feet pool with blood if I stand still ish for more than 5 mins or something along with frequent dizziness when standing and a fast heart rate (just under 100bpm after sitting for a couple mins) despite completely normal blood pressure.

it was all mostly manageable but the current heatwave combined with starting hrt (estrogen with androgen suppression) a few months ago seems to have significantly worsened this to the point where i get dizzy pretty much every time i stand and my feet feel heavy and hot and blotchy red (from the blood pooling) and brain fog worsening in the past few months too.

ive always had very cold hands and feet 90% of the year and sort of assumed that was normal until recently, but it seems it is not.

but i tend to hear people with POTS talk about fainting and i just dont have this, ive literally never fainted. just get dizzy and dark/blurred vision sometimes when standing. but i also sometimes take things too literally so idk if fainting is required or not.

it's a lot of time and admin stuff to arrange an assessment especially with the other medical stuff i already have to arrange all the time. Do other people here think it seems like it might be worth me seeing the doctor about this? I usually just get ignored by doctors and told it's just anxiety (regardless of what i try to bring up) so i want to make sure im informed enough to back myself up

I have an Alolan Dugtrio and I’m currently trying to fill my Kanto Dex and wondering if I can just breed one

I’ll be heading back to my parents place in a few days and figured it’s worth looking through my cards to see if anything’s worth trying to sell. If a PSA 8 (i doubt any of mine are flawless condition) was over £100 is that worth grading? Or is the floor much higher and it’s more of a “only if it’s extremely high value”

Also, is it fairly easy to estimate what grade something is? and what’s the safest way to get something graded (I don’t exactly want to just put in the post if it was several hundred pounds)

My collection is all like early gen 2 era (maybe gen 1 era too if I traded from someone’s older sibling i guess, but unlikely to be many) up to Gen 7 so I assume some stuff in there has some sorta value being like up to 20 years old

Dragon Cheer, like many other ally-targeting moves, goes through protect which makes it very easy to set up on turn 1. When targeting a dragon type holding a scope lens, it results in guaranteed critical hits.

I use a very bulky Milotic for Dragon Cheer, she also has Life Dew to help keep Garchomp (and herself) alive.

Pairing it with Sableye to switch in and set Gravity if needed, means that basically nothing is going to comfortably take an EQ. Anyone else using Dragon Cheer + Scope Lens?

This game is primarily going to be for my friends but I’ll probably release it somewhere when it‘a done too. It‘s based on Fire Red and the story isn’t changed much, I wanted to keep it feeling like a core game but with some added silly/meta jokes occasionally thrown into random NPC dialogue.

I’ve currently made it up to Cerulean in my edit. Every Pokemon’s move-pool is oriented to be a viable competitive set with abilities and held items to go alongside it. They will learn other moves as well (all ones they would naturally learn) but you‘d typically be fine to keep everything as it is (I’ll likely make the full move-pool for each mon based on their Champions moves once I’ve got the core game done, just to give more flexibility).

Typical competitive items can be purchased from Pokemarts (in addition to balls, obviously), with more items becoming available as you get through more gyms, although you can often catch a Pokemon with an item you currently can‘t purchase too.

Trainer fights are all double battles with most using 2-4 Pokemon, but more significant trainers (gym leaders, rival, major Rocket fights, or other “end of area” style trainers) use a full team of 6, same as the player. And there’s a Nurse Joy halfway through each longer section who can be used repeatedly.

Wild Pokemon are increased in level to be about 2-5 levels below the trainers, one thing I find annoying in the actual games is when I catch a new Pokemon and it’s like 10+ levels below anything I already have, older games are often especially bad for this.

Exp gain for all Pokemon is standardised to “slow” (you’ll still be the same level or 1 or 2 higher than NPCs usually, it’s just because: more pokemon per trainer + higher level wild Pokemon = more exp per route), I found this made the game feel much more typical relative to levels of the main series games. I did also give players an “easy mode”, in the sense they can use Rare Candies that are provided in bulk at different parts of the game (but the game warns the player to probably not overuse them) as well as a lucky egg and exp shares so you can really customise how grinding works best for your game experience.

One change I’m not too sure about was introducing mega evolution very early, it’s such a huge part of Champions that I felt it made sense. Brock uses a full rock team, I gave him a Mega Aerodactyl (it‘s weirdly not as difficult to deal with as you’d think) and then gives the player a mega ring after beating him (enabling the player to use Mega Beedrill immediately (and future megas as they obtain more mega stones)

Currently I’m just intending to use the original 151 in my dex, and trying to avoid overlap in pokemon across different routes (I’ve also made the starter options all available as low odds encounters, so that players can build a solid fire/water/grass core early).

Currently EVs/IVs and Natures are not covered in this, though I’ll likely add these retroactively.

Most dialogue is changed to a silly light hearted joke or to genuinely useful advice (one of my friends when play testing the early part learnt that paralysis halves your speed, for example)

I know I wrote a lot but to anyone who read through it all, do you have any thoughts on what I’m currently doing or things it looks like I may have forgotten? Or just something you think all good ROM Hacks should include. Any advice is appreciated as it’s my first time doing this!

I can open MGBA with my controller connected (wired), but launching a game will cause it to freeze and not launch.

Launching a game and *then* connecting the controller causes the game to crash.

Does anyone know why this might be? Been attempting to run GBA games, they run fine with no controller present so it’s definitely related to the controller in some way.

EDIT: managed to find the issue! The PS5 controller was being recognised in my PC’s sound settings as a speaker. i removed it from that and then re-connected the controller and it worked.