Don't have an account yet? 
BoomBoy
Trainerlevel: 77
Trainerpoints: 2,656/17,863
Trainerlevel: 77
Trainerpoints: 2,656/17,863
Party
| Pkmn | Name | Level | EXP/EHP |
|---|---|---|---|
 | The Chespinking (Chespin) SHINY  | 5,581 | 26,379,172 / 111,983,967 |
 | Markus (Dewott) | 465 | 589,780 / 766,220 |
 | Vincent (Volcanion) SHINY | 782 | 774,634 / 2,296,149 |
 | Mini scule (Zygarde (Cell Forme)) SHINY | 489 | 412,943 / 898,539 |
 | Señor Fernando (Hawlucha) SHINY | 975 | 88,598 / 2,854,801 |
 | Ella (Hawlucha) SHINY | 998 | 318,847 / 2,991,007 |
links, notes and handy tools
Use this Hangman Helper. (the other one closed lol coz..... reasons)
Use this Price Check. remember about inflation and item market changes... actually just use stonks lol
Use this Map. some of the thingymabobs have the same location on the site, so pay attention.
Use this magic bagvalue Tool Thingy to figure out what is worth selling.
Use this Royal Tunnel Helper
Use this Help Subforum to see the FAQs and search help threads
Use this Royal Tunnel Simulator to practise the noobtrap.
The Wiki is here and also under the community tab
Check this Evo Guide for how to evolve mons
Shiny Hunt
BoomBoy is currently hunting Milcery.
Hunt started: 17/08/2023
Chain: 1,558
Hunt started: 17/08/2023
Chain: 1,558
54 
GOALS :D
[X] #1 - 1 year premium paid for without RL money
[X] #2 - Kalos Certificate to get that Mega Diancie :)
[..] #3 - full Kalos shiny dex inc. legends somewhere on my profile there should be a progress for this
[..] #4 -
[..] #4.5 - SM Emeran Diancie
[X] #5 - officially become a not-noob (get all the badges)
[X] #6 - get something 1OS! check out Gary in my about me!
[..] #7 - get Chespinking onto the ranklist its a long long way to go.... why dont you click him now :')
[..] #8 - get a CatLady-worthy hangman chain. this is intentionally phrased vaguely :P
(basically for next July 1st - I try to set these every summer)
[partially indefinitely suspended due to inactivity]
[..] #1 - chain 1000 on hangman.
[X] #2 - another set of 8k nuggies for another year of premium.
[..] #3 - shiny zygarde snake. i think Hamper is collabbing on this one :)
ima probably add more here as they are thought of
Contact
Badge Showcase
| Set #1 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Set #2 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Set #3 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Set #4 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Plushies
| Newest gifts | ||
|---|---|---|
 |
Bubbly~ | 3 Days ago |
 |
cat-rose | 5 Days ago |
|
LuckyLady | 10 Days ago |
 |
Abufirestar01 | 24 Days ago |
Game Records
Trainer ID: #762650682Registration: 10/02/2019 (5 Years ago)
Game Time: 2923:27 Hours
Total interactions: 5,726,330
Money: 123,672
Starter Pokémon:
Dewott
Feeds
#1222: the automat, a staple of mid-20th century America, was a fully German invention: Quisisana developed it in the 1880s and set up the first restaurant in 1895 in Berlin. another opened in Vienna then Breslau shortly after, but it was when Frank Hardart visited that it really took off. he and John Horn (you may recognise those names - possibly from PDQ Bach's concerto) bought a few machines and after they arrived (which took two years) they alongside engineer Fritsche refined the design, eventually developing their own. at one point, there were forty of these in NYC, but they were eventually all converted to Burger Kings (much to the aggrievance of customers, who remarked on a decrease in quality).
1#1221: surgeonfish (think Dory from Finding Nemo) (aka tangs) are so cool. they come in really wide range of colours, from bright stripes and blots to grey-brown gradients. they eat a lot of algae, helping to maintain the balance of growth in tropical water ecosystems, allowing corals and so on to thrive. they're the only known hosts of Epulopiscium, a bacterium that enables it to digest its diet. they have lots of aggressive defence responses like a sharp "scalpel" on its tail (see fotd#1166) and some (unicornfish) have a narwhal-style sabre on its forehead. they're very thin and streamlined, and have strong fins that let them swim very quickly. they're also insanely agile for the same reason, which they use to put on synchronised displays for the gals.
#1220: according to the WWF, Chile and Australia are in the Mediterranean. they categorise areas of the world into certain biomes, and the forests characterised by rainy winters and dry summers take the name of middle-earth. California and the Baja variety also feature. it's not a ragingly common ecology type, but its wide-spreadness means that collectively it harbours a tenth of all plant species. the fynbos, a shrubland in South Africa, falls into this box too, but many say it's worthy of its own, because this tiny belt has about as much diversity as half of North America.
#1219: DNA analysis of medieval sites in Winchester, including a hospital and a fur shop, have revealed that red squirrels were carriers of leprosy in the dark ages, making them the earliest known non-human hosts. the fluffy-eared rodents transmitted the disease to people, possibly because of the hide trade (fur, not bird) and because they were kept as pets. the strain discovered in the animals is closer to that of the contemporary hominid invalids than to that of modern-day bacteria in either species, implying (somehow) that the two interacted a lot more throughout history than previously suspected, and that you don't need to worry about seeing them in parks these days.
#1218: the MONIAC (monetary national income analogue computer) (aka the Phillips Machine) is a computer designed by Bill Phillips, a New Zealander economist studying at LSE. he noticed that the equations modelling the economy and those for fluid dynamics were remarkably similar, and he built it from parts of old bombers to essentially do a bunch of integration and let nature do the work. it works by representing each type of financial body as various containers with various tubing between them, and flowing water through to observe the economy. there's no evidence that it was used to actually help make policies, but over forty machines were commissioned by various educational institutes. there was one famous experiment where one machine, symbolising the UK, was plugged via pipes into another, the US, to get a better idea of global economics.
#1217: there are over 60,000 fake cattle across Zimbabwe. you'd probably be able to tell the difference between a cow-sized blue and black sheet of fabric wafting in the wind and an actual bovine, but to the pestilent tsetse flies, they're irresistibly identical. they're chemically attractive but laced with insecticides - smells can be deceiving. the flies are carriers of human and animal African trypanosomiasis (HAT and AAT), also known as sleeping sickness or nagana respectively. since the doppelgangers were introduced in the 1980s and 90s, cases of the latter disease have sunk from 10,000 to just 50 per year.
#1216: in Antarctica and other places where it's too cold to send out people in groups of ten, they use "man down radios", which are walkie talkies with a tilt switch in them. they trigger an alarm if they tip (after a warning period in cases of accident) so the folks back at base know if you've fallen over without having to babysit you. they can also have a "hot-mic" which is where the radio's recorder is opened, enabling communication in case you're incapacitated to do the usual "psshht, over" shenanigans.
#1215: the Messinian salinity crisis was the period of time, about 5.96-5.33 million years ago, that the Mediterranean Sea was mostly dried up (and very very salty). the straight of Gibraltar closed up and the basin went into a period of oscillating desiccation (i only just realised that desiccated coconut is just dried, not necessarily to do with the chopping). it was followed by the Zanclean flood, where it basically filled back up again over the span of a few months to two years - an estimated rise of 10m/day. even today, the Med is particularly salty (oh and the Black Sea even moreso ofc). if it got cut off from the Atlantic now, it would mostly evaporate within a thousand years, and subsequently get obliterated by North Africa.
#1214: consider comes from Latin, originally meaning to observe the constellations, possibly because you look up to the sky to ponder, or maybe referencing astronomical naval navigation. it's also the root of desire, "from the stars", as in "i await what the heavens bring". the latter comes from desiderare, which you can take a conjugated form of, desideratum, directly into English: it means something that's lacking or required. plural -ata, of course.
#1213: Margaret Wise Brown, an absolutely fantastic children's author who wrote a lot about rabbits (she hated both of those things allegedly), died from an overenthusiastic cancan kick. she had been in some sort of emergency operation on holiday in Nice and was about to be whisked away by her newfound lover to Tunisia or somewhere, and to demonstrate to the nurses that she was fine, she flung her leg in the air and exclaimed "grand!". a clot dislodged and landed in her heart, keeling her over almost immediately. just a few years before, she gave the copyright to a few of her more successful books to the neighbour's kid, 9 at the time, without expecting them to make as much as they did. Albert Clarke ended up growing up to be a right old mischief and squanded the millions.
#1212: Crush, Texas was the temporary town set up for the publicity stunt of crashing two full trains head-on at high speed into each other. as a one-day event in 1896, it beckoned over 40k visitors who were offered reduced travel fares and free entry, making it the second-largest settlement in the state at the time. Crush wasn't actually named that because of the railroading shenanegans, though: it was named after William Crush (nominative determinism!!!), the passenger relations guy at the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad (MKT). the Katy, as they were known, had a bunch of recently obsolete locomotives to get rid of, so, um, boom!
happy international penguin day!!! truly the holiest of occasions.
#1211: the word penguin originally referred to the great auk, a white and black bird of Northern Atlantic coastlines (it went extinct in 1852 - always saddening when they give you that much precision). it's thought to come from Welsh "pen gwyn" (white head), either referring to the white patterning on the auk's head or the island in Newfoundland on which they were found. alternatively, it could come from Latin pinguis "fat" but that's a lot less cool. penguins were simply called penguins because they look like an auk (convergent evolution!), even though they're hardly related. penguins eat small rocks, partially to help them grind up harder food (they don't have teeth, but they do have spines on their beak and even tongue) and to let them dive deeper, reducing buoyancy. they don't have swim bladders, yet the emperor penguin can go as deep as 550m below the surface.
#1210: if you're reading this, chances are that the screw head you're most familiar with is the Phillips, with a cruciform hole and a 57-degree driver, (actually invented by Not Phillips (fotd#165)) - but in Canada, you're probably a Robertson head user, with a square taper (aka Scrulox, and also created by Not Robertson). both of these were intended (the latter before the former) as a replacement to the slotted screws. these days, the Robertson is in many ways simply better than the Phillips, to the point that it's slowly been escaping the Great White North and is appearing in shops elsewhere - but why do we use such an awful standard everywhere else? when the Robertson was dreamed up (by Not Robertson), it left the head of the screw much weaker because of the stamping process. by the time this had been ironed out (by Yes Robertson), the Great War had broken out and the industries, focused on the fighting, didn't want to shop from a Canadian.
#1209: when the Australian quiz show Spicks and Specks played Men at Work's Down Under (you'll recognise it if you look it up), the band lost money. they got the royalties ofc, but they still became poorer as a result. the game was to identify nursery rhymes inside other tunes, and the panel spotted a flute solo that had been directly lifted from the popular children's number Kookaburra. turns out that the original composer of it died in 1988 and it was still under copyright. after a lawsuit, they settled for 5% of the total historical profits.
#1208: patternmakers use rulers that are 1-3% longer. it's quite weird because you look at one of these and you wouldn't be able to tell until you put it next to a normal one that's a few millimetres shorter. patternmaking is when you make a positive model of what you want to cast in metal (often for structural/mechanical things) so they make everything slightly larger to account for shrinkage when it cools. they also have to work out how the end product gets removed and factor in distortion.
#1207: only one American has been inducted into the Hall of Fame for speed skating, figure skating and hockey, and not someone with the bulk of a defender and the grace of a dancer: it's Frank Zamboni! in 1947 he built an ice resurfacer to reduce downtime on his California rink by mounting basically a huge razor on an army jeep chassis. now they're just referred to by the genericised trademark of Zamboni. it shaves, washes, wets, then squeegees the ice, which is apparently a proper word. in fact, "to squeege" has been around for over 200 years. i would like to know where window cleaners get their squeegees because apparently they're special.
#1206: Boktai: the Sun is in Your Hand is a Game Boy Advance game with a photometer on the cartridge. you can charge your in-game solar weaponry by standing outside in daylight. it was received well by parents, who liked that it encouraged their kids to touch grass while playing and made it less fun to play at night. there are lots of other sun-based mechanics for which you have to input the current time and zone, and then the 24-hourly cycle mirrors the real-life sky.
#1205: any orchestral musician knows the pains of transposition, where instruments have a "written" and a "concert" pitch that sounds different (eg a D on the viola and a C on the clarinet sound the same), but, uh,,, why?? one of the reasons is for instrument families that have variants that vary by irregular intervals, but have common fingering. for example, a "written A" on a French double horn in F is played similarly to the same written note on a horn in Bb, allowed by transposition. also, there were many historical reasons for various instruments to transpose (like, before valves were invented you could only use a certain key without switching out parts; also there were a bunch of different standards for what A was back in the baroque days) and it was just easier to leave it like that than to rewrite every piece ever and retrain every artist ever.
#1204: rudimentary can describe both the understanding you have of something ("my grasp is rudimentary"), or the basicness of that thing that you have the comprehension of ("i speak rudimentary english"). it comes from "rudiment", which means a fundamental principle (and is a word that i intend on using). this comes from Latin rudis which is also the root of rude, both meaning simple or untrained. an erudite is someone who is well-learned or accomplished and is an assimilated form of this plus ex "out". your education is your erudition and you could also call scholarship or any body of book-origin knowledge this too.
#1203: on the Moscow metro (of which most of the lines are radial), the PSA voices are male as you head towards the city centre, and female as you head towards the suburbs. it was initially introduced as a measure to help the blind (or even non-Russian speakers, i guess), according to one random unreliable news article. the same page said that the ring route has a female reader going clockwise and male when anti-. the mnemonic is "your boss calls you to work, and your wife calls you home". just try to look over that i guess. the network also apparently extremely well-signed with lots of information and maps everywhere. and of course the famous deco. but it's also unique for having large gaps between stations - an average of 1800m - which means it can run at around 40km/h.
about me :D
Awesome - Jedi knight - Chespin lover - Pro - Absolute idiot - the biggest Nerd™ you will ever encounter
I like Pokémon (well, duh), Star Wars, Lego, Chespin, Spriting, Coding, Trains, music, and nerding out about junk (the more useless the better) (and any combination of the above :P)
the world
is at peace when you have a banana
missing ones also appreciated for my dex
Avatar credits: Absbor <3
HRH Chespinking
kenver :D
First shiny, Sylvie
my starter, markus
first shiny leggy, Vincent
first 1OS mon, Gary
Polls
Progress and stuff
Zygarde 
Snek Forme 1,356
1,177(ill worry about the others at a later date)
KALOS SHINIES:
clicklist:
i have 86 of 117 Kalos Shinies
Last Visitors
| Visitors | ||
|---|---|---|
 | KonanAHD | Tue, 07/May/2024, 17:47 |
 | Zellane | Mon, 06/May/2024, 05:55 |
 | Bubbly~ | Sun, 05/May/2024, 18:01 |
 | LuckyLady | Sun, 05/May/2024, 10:51 |
 | Destroyercam | Sat, 04/May/2024, 22:03 |