u/nobleGAAS

I love nuzlocking, but I think my worst aspect is how I build lines for important fights. Currently playing through RenPlat, and I consistently have a hard time against Fantina/Aaron.

Part of it is that I can't focus well enough, but also I have a hard time visualizing the position after about ten or so turns. I feel like I end up saying "fuck it I'll steer" more often after struggling to find a good line. My strategy just ends up being find the best Pokemon I have against the AI and then pray lolololol

Any tips or advice from your experience?

Anyone opened this new box yet? Curious if it's worth prioritizing.

title basically lmao

haven't followed gilas in a while, anything to look forward to? are these must-win games for gilas or for funsies/team chemistry na lang laro nila?

Hello everyone, I'm currently mainly responsible for new product development and product selection/procurement at our company. To be honest, our new product launch process is extremely cumbersome. For example, when sourcing cold-chain salmon, some suppliers provide spreadsheets (sometimes Excel, sometimes Google Sheets, and sometimes even PDFs converted to tables).

However, this data still needs to be manually reorganized before it can be used, and product evaluation consumes a significant amount of time. I recently dug deeper into accio sourcing toolkit and realized it can actually automatically extract all this unstructured data from different suppliers and generate a unified comparison table for me. It massively reduces the low-value work of manual Excel data entry. I'd like to know how others solve this data processing problem in practice, especially in large-scale applications?

Curious about the live breaks tied to Golden Tickets. Anyone actually participated and what did you think?

When I first got into crypto, I thought the hardest part would be figuring out what to buy.

Turns out, the real nightmare is actually understanding what the hell you're doing.

Exchanges, wallets, spots, futures, leverage, limit orders... I watched a ton of tutorials, but honestly, the more I learned, the more confused I got.

After messing around with a few different platforms, I realized I didn't need a bunch of high-tier features. I just wanted the whole workflow to actually make sense. Lately, I’ve been trying out BYDFi, and what clicked for me was that I didn’t have to waste time hunting down menus,I could actually get a handle on the basic steps pretty fast.

I get that I’ll probably mess with more complex tools down the road, but tbf, crypto shouldn’t scare newbies away on day one.

When I was first starting out, I pretty much used the "trial by fire" method.

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The new box looks heavy on actual chase cards. With retail being impossible lately I'm thinking about trying it. Anyone got early thoughts?

this might be specific to indian women in UAE but my old hair routine completely failed here.

back home i could oil heavily, wash later, tie bun, use whatever shampoo, and hair was mostly okay. here? oil + sweat makes my scalp itchy. tight bun gives front hair pain. hot showers make hair rough. and if i leave hair wet for too long, scalp feels disgusting.

so i’m unlearning a lot.

current UAE version of my routine: lighter oiling or no oil if scalp is flaky, Be Bodywise hair growth serum at night instead of oiling daily, conditioner only on lengths, Tangle Teezer for detangling, and maybe a shower filter because my hair feels coated after wash.

also doing vitamin D/ferritin check because apparently living in sunny Dubai doesn’t mean you have vitamin D lol.

any other indian haircare habits that just don’t work here?

spent the last few months developing linkly ai to solve the local context problem. it connects scattered folders, PDFs, and team markdown files directly to LLMs so people don't have to copy paste data into prompts anymore. the product is live now and the tech works smoothly.

it serves two distinct setups right now. individuals use it to index personal notes for tools like claude, and small teams use it as a shared internal documentation library.

my real issue is the go-to-market path, but maybe the deeper question is whether this problem is painful enough for people to actually pay for. i’m trying to figure out how to validate willingness to pay before going all in on either consumer subscriptions or B2B team sales. curious if anyone here has a good framework or method for testing this early.

It's honestly just a skill issue/lazy planning but goddamn I haven't even seen what Maylene's gym looks like at this point 😭 the few times I sit my ass down and actually plan a fight I get my ass beat by some random trainer that I didn't check the docs for and wipe randomly

This isn't an asking for advice post I'm sure I'll figure it out eventually but holy shit I'm bad 😭

This is mostly a question about how the Poke Radar works and if it's possible to use repel manip with it.

I'm Nuzlocking Renegade Platinum and saw that the only mons that appear as lvl 6 on Route 202 are Poochyena and Growlithe. I also saw that the Poke Radar encounter table has Houndoor at level 6. I tried to repel manip to get either Poochyena or Houndoor and used the Poke Radar after repelling to generate an encounter.

Imagine my surprise when a level 5 Sentret showed up. I did everything right (lvl 6 mon as the lead, repelled before the encounter). Does the Poke Radar just draw from the encounter table irregardless of Repels?