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BoomBoy
Trainerlevel: 78
Trainerpoints: 8,921/18,329
Trainerlevel: 78
Trainerpoints: 8,921/18,329
Party
| Pkmn | Name | Level | EXP/EHP |
|---|---|---|---|
 | The Chespinking (Chespin) SHINY  | 6,018 | 20,649,470 / 130,219,977 |
 | Diancie | 13 | 92 / 684 |
| Diancie | 5 | 2 / 114 |
| Diancie | 4 | 48 / 76 |
| Diancie | 5 | 76 / 114 |
| Diancie | 5 | 2 / 114 |
tools (mostly outa date)
Use this Hangman Helper. (this link is now broken.... does anyone have a working one?)
Use this Price Check only for very large/very infrequently sold things. use a combination of stonks, logic and intuition for whatever you can
Use this Map. pay attention because some links are actually the same link, and it's very out of date, but it has all the historic links.
Use this bag valuator to figure out what is worth selling.
Use this Royal Tunnel Helper now with Paldea!
Use this Help Subforum to see the FAQs and search help threads
Use this Royal Tunnel Simulator to practise the noobtrap (out of date and no longer live).
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 Diancie.
Hunt started: 05/05/2025
Chain: 81
Hunt started: 05/05/2025
Chain: 81
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[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 hangman chain that makes me go "woah". i'm thinking like CatLady levels of woah
annual goals have been suspended due to vague inactivity. whatever i'm working atm on is in the "progress" tab
ima probably add more here as they are thought of
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Game Records
Trainer ID: #762650682Registration: 10/02/2019 (6 Years ago)
Premium member until 10/Jan/2026
Time Played: 3046:44 Hours
Total interactions: 5,789,990
Money: 1,000
Starter Pokémon:
Dewott
Feeds
X for Xylem maturation
#1627: when a xylem matures, it grows a secondary cell wall (SCW) which is exactly what it sounds like. the SCW needs to hold the lignin and cellulose fibres that give the plant rigidity, as well as offering more durability. it begins developing in a spiral shape round the inside of the cell (which is a cylinder, ish) and then "cables" are wrapped around before it's finished. (disclaimer before i carry on: take this all with a pinch of salt because i am way out of my depth...) a ladder forms between the cables and moves up and down, filling in the rest of the SCW. the climbing proteins know exactly when to stop, to make the best pattern of SCW - this is an area of ongoing research, but they've recently found five classes of proteins that are associated with the tiny little tubes inside the cell walls, probably got something to do with this.
1X Xylem development (how many facts can we squeeze out of the one interesting X-word?)
#1626: as well as an autoregulatory positive loop, vascular auxins also go through several other feedback loops at the same time. the auxin originates in procambial cells and then travels to the protoxylem via the PIN (which doesn't really stand for anything - it's a little helper protein that moves stuff between cells). the auxin then goes through a bunch of stages with more unintelligible acronyms, to induce cytokinin, which in turn promotes procambium growth, leading to more auxins. there's another intermediate stage called AHP6 (again, don't know what it stands for) that in turn inhibits the signalling of cytokinin in the protoxylem. i think they've shown that this means that cytokinin has an inhibiting role in protoxylem growth, but they're not sure why (altho i'm not sure if that's up-to-date).
X for Xylem growth
#1625: the hormone auxin is responsible for most growth in plants, and xylem is no exception - except auxin is transported in the xylem. there's a fun little loop where auxin promotes xylem growth such that auxin can use the xylem to get to more xylem to promote more xylem. this happens right from the get-go as an embryo, happening simultaneously across the plant (at this stage the plant is usually all still underground, but it's beginning to distinguish the root and not-root). the auxin also promotes specification of the protoxylem cells into xylem cells, which i guess are slightly different between root and stem?
X for Xylem
#1624: the vessels in the root of a plant begin out quite differently but end up ultimately quite similar to those in the stem: the xylem begin as an axis across the middle of the root (well, we're talking about the cross-section, so really it's more of a plane, but wevs). there are two bundles of phloem perpendicular to the xylem band (a bit like a ÷). just like the stem, a change in the type of meristematic tissue (procambium -> cambium) triggers secondary growth that fills in the gaps, but first there has to be a a lot more (pro)cambium tissue between the xylem and phloem, else it just leaves too much of a gap. in leaves, there is usually not secondary growth at all. the same bundles of xylem-procambium-phloem as in stems appear in the leaves, in neat rows with the xylem facing upwards. because needles last ages (up to 33 years on some common species), there is secondary growth of phloem (only) here, but usually just to replace dying phloem.
X for Xylem and phloem
#1623: there are two tissues that form the xylem and phloem inside a plant (like the equivalent of veins and arteries): the procambium and cambium. the procambium is just a meristem, ie stem cells that can produce cells of any variety, and they form little bundles of phloem and xylem, with the phloem forming towards the outer edge (rimwards, in Discworld terminology) and xylem towards the middle (hubwards). this is all called the primary growth of a stem, forming the first round of vessels. then, the procambium also produces cambium tissue which is slightly more specialised: cork cambium sits on the outer surface, producing bark; vascular cambium continues doing the same process of producing bundles of xylem and phloem; between these bundles, interfascicular cambium also appears to fill in the gaps. this is secondary growth, and gives us things like wood, tree trunks, etc - it's at this point that lignin properly appears.
W for Whistle-stop tour
#1622: a whistle-stop used to be kind of like a modern request stop on a railway - a train would only stop at a whistle-stop if it was told to by the stationmaster. i've seen it explained that the whistle was given by the stationmaster to the train engineer (as if to say "stop please") but also the other way round (as if to say "we're coming; should we stop?") so if anyone knows how that used to work let me know...... thus, a whistle-stop tour was a tour of small stations where a train normally wouldn't stop. politicians used to go on all sorts of whistle-stop tours; for example, Harry Truman gave speeches at over 250 small towns (by my count) in a two-month trip in 1948, in the Ferdinand Magellan Pullman railcar. occasionally these still happen - Ronald Reagan, then-prince Charles, and Biden all did actual whistle-stop tours. Angela Merkel did one in the train of Konrad Adenauer.
W for Writing on the Wall
#1621: Belshazzar was a Babylonian king in the 6th Century. modern scholars think his claim to the dynasty could've been a bit of a lie, but more importantly, he rejected the greatness of God and blasphemed. a disembodied hand appears and writes on the wall: מנא מנא תקל ופרסין . (i'm scared the RTL is gonna mess up the formatting...) and they need to pull in Daniel, the only guy in Babylon who can read Hebrew apparently. Hebrew doesn't spell out the vowels so Daniel actually needed to pull his weight here. (the first two words repeat) he turned the three words into mənê, təqêl and p̄arsîn, three monetary values of the time. but he turned these words then into verbs by keeping the same stems (the consonants), and they translate to "number" (your days are numbered), "weigh" (you're judged), "divide" (your kingdom will be divided). there was also a wordplay in there somehow: [ctd in comments]
as my biggest fans with nothing better to do but stalk my page will know, i switched the gender icon on my profile to ⚥ a while ago, but i thought i may as well take the opportunity to say this officially:
i'm transenby! i'd love it if you could use they/them for me (or she/her idm that either) so thank you very much
inb4 "will you change your name from boomBOY" nah. boomboy transcends gender
W for Wild Bongo
#1620: after his almost-two-term presidency, Theodore Roosevelt wanted to get out of the way of his successor, Taft, but still stay in the headlines - so he and his son Kermit went hunting in British Africa. they hunted up and down the continent, killing things we'd rather have back, like white rhinos and no fewer than 18 lions, all in the name of science (and fame). but the headline target of their hunt was a beast called the bongo, "which no white man has ever seen". the bongo is in fact a stripey antelope, quite pretty but wholely harmless. they eventually did kill one, and the newspapers were initially confused because "bongo" was at the time primarily a people in South Sudan, and they thought, that's pretty dark, even for Kermit. they eventually clarified, and newspapers reported "KERMIT HAS KILLED A WHAT IS IT" and "OH JOY!". there was a lot of cynicism though - [ctd in comments]
W for Wikiquette
#1619: Wikiquette, the etiquette of Wikipedia, is on the whole pretty sensible: be friendly, don't attack personally, stay calm, etc.. what interests me, though, is the forms of "you" that different languages make, when they have that distinction. for those that don't know, many languages distinguish between a "formal" and "informal" version of the second person pronoun. English used to do this too: "you" was originally formal of "thou" (which is also why verbs conjugate to "you" as they do with plurals: "you are" is like "they are" whereas it'd be "thou art"). the homepages of the French, Russian and Turkish Wikipedias all use the formal pronoun (vous, вы and siz) but German uses the informal form (du). those are all the ones where i know enough about the language to recognise pronouns...
W for Welsh rarebit
#1618: (for those who don't know, Welsh rarebit is like cheese melted on toast with mustard or Worcestershire sauce, like a nicer version of grilled cheese.) unsurprisingly, "rarebit" comes from "rabbit", not the other way round. that's why there's "buck rarebit" topped with an egg (a buck is a male rabbit), or a "blushing bunny" with tomato. Welsh rarebit/rabbit doesn't come from Wales as far as we can tell, but the name is a bit of a mean joke, saying that the Welsh can't afford meat. sometimes they distinguish between other types of rarebits - English rarebit, for example, by soaking the bread in wine beforehand. there are lots of other pejorative food names in English: Welsh caviar is laverbread (seaweed bread - this one's actually Welsh), Scotch woodcock is scrambled eggs on toast with anchovies (actually sounds nicer than a woodcock), and Irish apricot is potato. a "Welsh comb" is just running your fingers through your hair.
W for Welwitschia
#1617: is a plant with just two leaves. ever. it grows its first leaves after it's grown its cotyledons (just after germinating), and then never grows any more leaves. the two leaves just get bigger and bigger. there's a little woody stem in the middle but nothing much else. it can get reeaally old, so sometimes the leaves begin shredding in the harsh Namib desert (oh yeah it lives in the desert) and it looks like it has a few long leaves but really those are just one long leaf. it can get so old (and also it doesn't grow rings or anything... because the stem never gets any bigger) that the only feasible way to test how old one is is with radiocarbon dating. yeah, the same method that calculated the end of the last ice age measures the age of a single Welwitschia plant. its Afrikaans name sums it up pretty well: tweeblaarkanniedood 'two leaves; can't die)
W for Warts and all
#1616: Cicero (aka Tully) was a Roman orator and politician. like most famous Romans, he was best known by his cognomen, which is a nickname that became hereditary, and was used to identify branches within a family. thus most cognomens were initially slightly nonserious - Caesar's ancestor may have been born by C-section, for example (see fotd#1437). as for cicero - that comes from the Latin word for chickpea, so one of his ancestors allegedly had a wart on his nose and got bullied so hard that his descendents for centuries to come bore the grunt. a 15th century Elector of Brandenburg was also named Cicero, after Tully, which may not have been the most flattering choice. there are lots of similar cognomens - "Fabius" (bean), "Lentulus" (lentil), "Piso" (pea) probably all come from warts too, and were incredibly popular. Cicero had a sister-in-law called Fabia!
V for Vibrating Valva
#1615: lots of insects can hear bats' sonar, and lots of insects like moths produce ultrasonic back at them. we think the reason is to jam their signals, ie by producing annoying sounds that they can't hear their own sonar over. hawk moths produce these sounds with their genitals! the male has a pair of "claspers", aka the valva (with two As!), to hold onto the female, but they double up as a little violin, like a grasshopper, that can produce ultrasound. females have little scales on their abdomen that they can rub together to get a similar ultrasonic jamming signal.
V for Vomit Vending machine
#1614: honeypot ants store honey. and i don't mean they put it in little larders like bees - they store it in their abdomens, like an actual pot of honey. some ants are designated "replete", and then they eat so much honey that they can't move. they swell up until their exoskeleton (sclerites) can't even cover them, then they attach themselves to the walls of the nest and other ants keep feeding them via trophallaxis (see fotd#985 through #998) to store more food. then, when the going gets tough, other ants can come along to be nourished by the repletes. different repletes store different types of sugars - so some would store more lighter sucrose, and some more darker fructose; some would store more protein-rich honey, for example from carrion or other insects - and they're ordered by the colour of their honey, so there's a whole assorted buffet to choose from! as many as half of the ants in a nest can be replete.
V for Verne's Vision
#1613: Jules Verne (author of 20,000 Leagues, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Around the World in 80 Days, etc) also wrote a book called Paris in the Twentieth Century. it was a novel, but it did make some surprisingly accurate predictions of what 1960 looked like, 97 years in the future. he predicted the rise of the automobile ("gas-cab") and all the infrastructure required for it (petrol stations, tarmac everywhere, street lights lighting every street). he predicted wind power, the electric chair, the popularity of suburbs, mass higher education, and missiles. he predicted the Mutually Assured Destruction of the Cold War. skyscrapers and lifts, fax machines and a simple version of the internet, electronic music and the synthesiser, big hotels and department stores. he even predicted some weird form of feminism (he wasn't a fan - the idea of illegitimate kids was dystopian).
V for Vlad the Impaler
#1612: Vlad III Ţepeş, the likely inspiration for Stoker's Dracula, signed his name "Dragkwla" - and then shed a tear. some really clever people used ethylene-vinyl acetate to take a tiny film off some of his 550-year-old letters and analysed the proteins. once they got rid of the 550 years' worth of contaminants they found some surprising things, like tears and blood. this probably means he had blood in his tears, called haemolacria, a disease so rare that Wikipedia has a list of cases. they did find proteins from plants, insects, fungi, and so on, which all indicate his diet - but they didn't find a single protein associated with digested meat, or any animal product at all. suggesting Vlad Dracula was vegan! they also found he had chronic inflammation, and they used the analysis to find things out about the culture and environment of Wallachia at the time, which was a bit of a melting pot.
V for Volate material
#1611: there's a big storage plant in the New Mexico desert (the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, WIPP) where they're keeping a bunch of the dangerous radioactive waste, and after a scare in 2014 they all got worried over how they can safely store this stuff for ten thousand years. the biggest problem is always humans, but humans will hardly be able to read our signage in ten thousand years, so "nuclear semiotics" have been trying to solve that. the funniest idea is the Ray Cat Solution, which is a two-parter: first, create a species of cat called "ray cats" that turn green when exposed to radiation (not that hard), like "feline geiger counters"; then, create a folklore surrounding them, warning against green cats, so intense that it persists for 10,000 years. people have already started trying to propone the second half, but i don't hold much faith in it. it's a little bit of an internet joke and those rarely last in any serious capacity.
V for V for Victory
#1610: the hand gesture we associate with peace was of course originally V for Victory, a letter chosen because it also worked in French (victoire) and Flemish (Vrijheid). but the way they told people in 34 different languages how to make this symbol? Morse Code. Morse for V is •••–, but that's not very memorable.... so they broadcasted Beethoven's Fifth! the famous short-short-short-long dun-dun-dun-duunnnn became a symbol of freedom and resistance, and people in Vichy France and Belgium were encouraged to paint Vs everywhere and hum that tune. it's convenient that V is also the number of the symphony (5) - whether that's a coincidence, or if Morse's assistant Alfred Vail took the opportunity for it, we can never know. there was even a resistance song to the tune of the whole opening of the symphony.
V for Vulgar Violins
#1609: until the 19th century it was considered vulgar for a woman to play the violin. when the Royal Academy was founded in London in 1822, there was an equal number of men and women, but absolutely no female violinists. it was considered "unladylike" and all the fast movements and so on would turn a woman into an "unmarriageable beast". it was also said that a woman playing the violin was too homoerotic, because it was a feminine instrument; and also the social connotations of the occult attached to the violin. in general, the sort of virtuosity that violinists like Tartini, Paganini and Joachim proponed was just "incompatible" with the way women were expected to play.
about me :D
(yes that's a challenge)
they/them • chespin fan • nerd • aro/acespec • completely socially oblivious
currently studying maths, physics and engineering. also a wannabe polyglot - learning German (~B2), Russian (~A2) and Turkish (quite a beginner lol) so feel free to talk to me in non-English ^^ i've got a conlang on the roll and one day i might set up a blog for that or something.
i run #aFactADay2025 on a daily basis (for backlog: 2021 - 2022 - 2023 - 2024 - tumblr blog).
if you have any qualms or points of discussion, my PP and PMs are always open, so i can gloat about how little i care, or about how much i care. i don't really do anything in between lol. feel free to contact me about anything at all :)) i'm pretty insensitive lol
i used to have my fave mons here but there are just too many >u< just check out whatever's in my party at the mo haha
Polls
Progress and stuff
Zygarde 
Full Forme 720 Dragon
674 Fairy
733 Ground
784 Normal
1,496 Fighting
833 Poison
469 Ice
615 Electric
156 Steel
6,477 Flying
119 Fire
733 Bug
118 Dark
834 Rock
574 Ghost
719 PsychicKALOS SHINIES:
clicklist:
i have 95 of 117 Kalos Shinies
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