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Year End Awards

This episode is just setting up for the main event - the upcoming Arima Kinen - but they still managed to turn the drama up to eleven, making it so tense. I like it.

Also, Fumino / Nase brought up Musaka's achievements as a trainer. Does anyone know which IRL person he is based on? Oguri Cap's IRL trainer?

Banner: Super Freak babying Tama

@rikka@ani.social

Knowing my luck, I'll probably end up with Goomy🙃

Edit:

I just found out that friends' god packs are not guaranteed to appear, so there may not even be a chance for a pick🗿

If we are not already friends, you can add me

I also found that if you are not already friends when the pack was opened, it would not show up in wonderpick.

Edit 2:

Got my top pick from among these 5 cards!

Thanks for sharing your good fortunes @Reef@lemmy.ca

I understand that there are other factors in play - cute girls (e.g. Whitney) and how iconic they are (e.g. Red) - but

2-star humans aren't valued by their usefulness...

is straight-up false.

Unless you have a Cyrus that you don't mind trading away?😏

Looks like my experience differs from yours.

There are games where they get lucky and evolve ASAP. But there are also games where they were completely bricked, or got shutdown early by Chingling. It felt quite balanced as compared to other meta decks IMO (looking at you, Mega Altaria, Greninja and Hydreigon).

Dang, this show would never go stale. Just as things were settling into a routine, they switched it up. I guess it's the start of the Gnosia campaign (i.e. Yuri starts "playing" as Gnosia)?

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@rikka@ani.social

By the way, is it true that you can't drop from Master Ball to Ultra Ball? I kept hearing something along these lines but when I check in-game, it says that rank-drop protection is only for the lower ranks.

Edit:

I haven't test it out personally just yet but from what I've read online, there is indeed rank-drop protection for Master Ball.

Where are pemdas and bodmas users from?

Thanks! My friend id is: 4213552621716574

May we be friends in Pocket? I would like to see more 2-star wonderpicks.

Easy solution: wired mouse

This concierge approach is nothing new; it existed even before LLMs are a thing.

One of my courses in undergrad computer science is Human-Computer Interaction, in which we learn about user experience (UX) concepts.

One of the things we learnt is to validate our ideas quickly and cheaply before putting a lot of time, effort and money into building the thing.

To do so, what we can do is build prototypes. The early versions may be be low-fidelity (lofi) and are scrappy. The later, high-fidelity (hifi) ones would mimic the functionality of the actual products, and may even appear to work to end users when in reality it could be just be manual effort behind the scenes.

The example given during lecture is the development of a ticketing system. To test the idea out, one could simply get a dude to sit in the "machine" and give out slips of paper.

Anyway, I am explaining all these because this seems like a surprise to those without the same educational background. Long story short, what this startup did is completely normal in the realm of software.

We may have better tools like Figma to simulate browser / mobile frontend experiences, but nothing is stopping us from going back to the basics and doing it this way.