I’m not too concerned with that. If I don’t like the best in the series, then I probably won’t like any of them, but I am OK with that. A lot of folks are saying HeartGold/SoulSilver as better starting points, so I went with that. Got it emulated, so no real loss for me if I don’t like it.

I played the Beastieball demo, and it is a ton of fun. The combat is tactical volleyball, and is pretty satisfying to play.

Awesome, thank you!

Oh nice. Someone else suggested X/Y. Do you think HeartGold/SoulSilver are a better starting spot or about the same? I only ask since it X/Y is a little newer, so might have QoL improvements

Excellent. Sounds like a great place to start. Thanks!

I have never played a pokemon game (except Go). I don’t have nostalgia for pokemon, but I would like to play. I am down to start at any point (I can probably emulate for any platform I don’t own). Where would folks recommend I start?

Only into bottles, though.

I learned the hard way that appendix stones are a thing and had a sewage leak that destroyed the entire bottom 2 feet of the first floor of my house. Worst week in decades

How do you figure that?

Social pressure in a lot of cases. My partner is still on Facebook for that very reason, though she has made it a point to only share queer joy on there.

Hand stitched

I really don’t interact with lemm.ee as a whole, and was just doing a spot check. The admins decided to leave it unmoderated, which means they need to be the ones to monitor the situation. I do not have the energy or bandwidth to police a community I don’t care to be a part of.

It’s something. Going in and looking at the posts there, I am now less inclined to trust lemm.ee, though. The sheer amount of unmoderated misinfo is surprising.

While I don’t think OP is acting in good faith here, the top post is just transphobia.

https://lemm.ee/post/48042878