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TriteHexagon
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[PT/EN] A rhapsody of hobbies.
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My novel "A World Without God" is now available on Amazon on Kindle, paperback, AND hardcover.

Join Takeya and Ayumi in their quest to uncover the mystery of the "angels" urban legend—and apparently save the world in the process.

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So I had this idea of using on moves of a certain Contest condition in a run. Here's what I found out:

Tough & Beauty: lots of powerful moves, easy.

Cool: might be hard to get some moves but doable

Clever: a bit trickier than Cool, but also doable.

Cute: OMG WHY
January 4, 2026 at 11:18 AM
YIL (yesterday I learned) that Portugal used to give out a chilvaric order called the Sash of the Three Orders to foreign heads of state, including good ol' Napoleon. But in 1962 they made it exclusive to the President of Portugal. Any guesses as to who the last living foreigner with this honor was?
January 4, 2026 at 10:58 AM
People who are confidently wrong about things drive me up the wall.

People who play games worse than I would have make me not wanna watch their content anymore.

...Tho nowadays that's not really a thing I can do properly 🙃
January 2, 2026 at 9:27 PM
I was humming & hawing about which Normal-type to use in the "No Gen 1 Moves" challenge. First I thought of Persian, then Tauros, then Snorlax (who learns Belly Drum)—but I think I'm going with Kangaskhan. I've never used one, and it learns all moves I want (Iron Tail, Shadow Ball, Return)
January 2, 2026 at 2:49 PM
There it is!!!
January 2, 2026 at 12:20 PM
I've gotten 2 Rare Candy and a Nugget from Pickup, but still no Hidden Power 😔
January 1, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Happy New Year everyone. Maybe this year be best than the last 😊
January 1, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Trying to think of funny ways to have a Shadow Unown be interesting, and I think this set is actually kinda nasty. All "power" moves with a lot of synergy with each other (getting off an omniboost would make Stored Power extremely OP).
December 30, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Phew. That didn't take long. Only my 3rd Abra. That's good enough. I'll take base 59 Psychic! And decent IVs too.
December 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
It all comes down to Alakazam. Bah, I didn't want to run it, but alas. If only Shadow Ball was special in this gen!
In-game trades have set IVs 🙃 Mimien's Hidden Power is Ground.

Back to the drawing board, I guess.
I decided to forgo Clefable in lieu of Mr. Mime with Magical Leaf, Shock Wave, and Hidden Power Psychic, and then Dewgong with Water Pulse, Icy Wind, and Signal Beam. Just gotta reset a bunch for that HP Psychic, I suppose.
December 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
In-game trades have set IVs 🙃 Mimien's Hidden Power is Ground.

Back to the drawing board, I guess.
I decided to forgo Clefable in lieu of Mr. Mime with Magical Leaf, Shock Wave, and Hidden Power Psychic, and then Dewgong with Water Pulse, Icy Wind, and Signal Beam. Just gotta reset a bunch for that HP Psychic, I suppose.
Okay, so I started to play this "run" for fun on my phone.

And I got a migraine. So apparently the problem isn't the screen type, it's something like the fast eye movements. Even a pokémon game has those, I guess. Or maybe it's stress? Dunno 🤕

Also, this run is HARD.
December 29, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Me and my Meowth army 😅

(that item was a Nugget btw)
December 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I decided to forgo Clefable in lieu of Mr. Mime with Magical Leaf, Shock Wave, and Hidden Power Psychic, and then Dewgong with Water Pulse, Icy Wind, and Signal Beam. Just gotta reset a bunch for that HP Psychic, I suppose.
Okay, so I started to play this "run" for fun on my phone.

And I got a migraine. So apparently the problem isn't the screen type, it's something like the fast eye movements. Even a pokémon game has those, I guess. Or maybe it's stress? Dunno 🤕

Also, this run is HARD.
This is actually way harder than you might think. The problem is that Gen 3 is right on that sour spot before the physical/special split that added a bunch of powerful moves for every type. Meaning that good moves are rare and/or are signature moves of Pokémon that aren't even in the game.
December 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
My migraines have slowly but surely developed into being practically left side only.
December 29, 2025 at 10:46 AM
The more I think about Return, the more baffled I am about its design.

Normal types can learn a wide variety of moves to compensate for not being super-effective with their STAB. But Return practically invalidates this—with 153 max power after STAB, only SE moves above ~80 will deal more damage.
In another edition of "Trite wastes time doing math" we have a full rework of Return! I think it's a great move in concept, but it has two big problems related to how it scales linearly with Friendship when most moves scale logarithmically as the game progresses.
December 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
This is hilarious. I went on Bulbapedia to grab the eyecatch of the Tanoby Ruins, and apparently *I* was the one who uploaded it to Bulbapedia 15 years ago in the first place (yes, that's my original username). I was 14 😅

I have ZERO recollection of this, but it does sound like something I'd do.
December 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Okay, so I started to play this "run" for fun on my phone.

And I got a migraine. So apparently the problem isn't the screen type, it's something like the fast eye movements. Even a pokémon game has those, I guess. Or maybe it's stress? Dunno 🤕

Also, this run is HARD.
This is actually way harder than you might think. The problem is that Gen 3 is right on that sour spot before the physical/special split that added a bunch of powerful moves for every type. Meaning that good moves are rare and/or are signature moves of Pokémon that aren't even in the game.
I was thinking if it was possible to beat FRLG without using any Kanto Pokémon, but unless I'm missing something, it's impossible to get any in the main game, including evolutions, because of that infamous evolution lock.

So the best next thing is not using any Gen 1 moves.
December 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
This is actually way harder than you might think. The problem is that Gen 3 is right on that sour spot before the physical/special split that added a bunch of powerful moves for every type. Meaning that good moves are rare and/or are signature moves of Pokémon that aren't even in the game.
I was thinking if it was possible to beat FRLG without using any Kanto Pokémon, but unless I'm missing something, it's impossible to get any in the main game, including evolutions, because of that infamous evolution lock.

So the best next thing is not using any Gen 1 moves.
December 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I was thinking if it was possible to beat FRLG without using any Kanto Pokémon, but unless I'm missing something, it's impossible to get any in the main game, including evolutions, because of that infamous evolution lock.

So the best next thing is not using any Gen 1 moves.
December 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Alright, so I checked it on my computer, and yeah, this soundtrack is absolutely messed up 😱 It's a hodgepodge of music from different styles, including anime music, and none of it loops. Makes me not wanna play this game... like at all. Or else I'd have to manually fix everything myself.
So I tried a Pokémon Essentials game and... well, my opinion is mixed. The engine seems to work well enough on my phone, but the music is super janky, it doesn’t loop and half of it are just Gen 4 played through the worst midi engine. Not sure if it's the emulation or just the creator being lazy.
December 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The depressing part about my weather posts is that when I was a kid, maybe 15 years ago, we regularly had temperatures around -3C almost every Winter, according to the car thermometers. I remember one year it got to -4! But obviously that's never happening again due to climate change.
Probably the day with the coldest average temperature so far this Winter.

And yes, I know it's ironic to say it's cold when the North-Eastern US is having temperatures of like -10, but this is cold for us, ok? My kitchen especially is FRIGID 🥶
December 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
It's crazy how 2 years in I'm still finding stuff to improve in the Burning Colosseum soundtrack. Turns out right before the end of the loop in Realgam Tower, I decided to have the pulse channels make an octave instead of a 9th (I think), which sounds way worse. Avoid making octaves in chiptune!
December 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Probably the day with the coldest average temperature so far this Winter.

And yes, I know it's ironic to say it's cold when the North-Eastern US is having temperatures of like -10, but this is cold for us, ok? My kitchen especially is FRIGID 🥶
December 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I finally started playing Prime 4! I got a migraine like immediately, but I played almost 1 hour. The game looks gorgeous and plays nicely, but it's almost a bit *too* polished in some aspects. I really prefer the Prime Remastered look. But it's too soon to have an opinion on it.
December 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
As it turns out, the complete Terraforming Mars bundle is waaaay cheaper than I expected, so with the money I got on Christmas, I think I'm gonna just outright purchase the entire thing when it's back in stock 😁
December 26, 2025 at 9:45 AM