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Shen Lu 🐦🍊🎀
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iOS Developer | Former WW SIF and NA FGO player | Figure collector | Fire Emblem fan | Developer for Yune Randomizer | Retro game enthusiast | 🇹🇼🇺🇸 | 🍊🐦🎀
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Can’t wait to see how bad the battery life on this baby is.
September 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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It is wild seeing a panel for the Xbox Series X on the Xbox 360 dashboard.
August 16, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Sometimes I forget how aggressively small non-Resurrected Diablo II's stash was. And to think the non-expansion version was even smaller than this.
July 19, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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What do you mean it actually sounds alright?!

(I mean, it doesn't touch stuff actually made for FM synthesis, but it's better than I expected.)
July 15, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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One thing that really bugs me with Windows is that it likes to use Bing to search whenever you use the start menu search. Bing used to understand a query like “600*15” as a calculation and would show a calculator with the answer. Now it just shows useless search results.
April 30, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Lilina tells Gonzales he has an attractive face in Fire Emblem: Binding Blade.
April 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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I don’t wear glasses but they prescribed me reading glasses like 10 years ago that I never used. Dug them out randomly a few days ago, and tried them on, and I feel like I look better with glasses than without. Now I gotta balance looking better (IMO) and glasses being a pain in the ass.
February 28, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Something I enjoy when working on the Yune randomizer is figuring out how these old GBA Fire Emblem games/GBA hardware in general work at the binary level. Especially by making things break in a very specific, controlled way.
Fire Emblem: Blazing Blade, but with a custom class, and the first part of the sprite shifted to the right by exactly 4 pixels (or from offset -4 to 0)
January 12, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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I love dragon deck. I love dragon deck. I love dragon deck.
Pokémon pocket TCG. I have two dragons in the back waiting for electric energy but have gotten 8 straight water energies, resulting in me not being able to attack.
January 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Finally tweaked enough to get a deck that I’m fairly happy with. Can potentially pull off cheese wins with Misty, but the downside is that I’m really bad at flipping heads.

I’m also not lucky enough to pull multiple EXs like everybody seems to have, so we make do with what we have. 🙃
November 4, 2024 at 8:16 AM
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It’s so close to being perfect. They just need to add a 10 hour option.
October 31, 2024 at 12:57 AM
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This game is pretty good! Add me: 5142860625360946
October 30, 2024 at 5:49 AM
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TIL the triangle attack works against the Iron Rune in FE7. I guess all the Iron Rune does is set the opposing unit’s critical chance to 0% but doesn’t affect the scripted critical attack that triangle attack does.
Florina begins a triangle attack (automatic critical attack) against Linus, who has an Iron Rune equipped (normally blocks critical attacks) Triangle attack in action. The info box says the critical chance is 0%, but it works anyway for 18 x 3 = 54 damage, defeating Linus’s remaining 49 HP in one hit.
October 23, 2024 at 6:07 AM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #326,789!

I remember when I joined that every few posts on this app was somebody’s fat cock. I’m sure they’re still floating around somewhere by happy to report my feed is a lot more interesting now.
September 16, 2024 at 11:36 PM
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Special shout-out to the Bench, Veterans (the MVPs of the gym fights (except maybe Hitmonlee)), and the Retirees that took one too many hits to the face and are now on a ranch somewhere.
12 Pokémon were left on backup on the bench. Honorable mentions on the bench include Ayumu the Arbok, who did good work for me throughout the game by being immune to poison, and Lucky the Persian, who, as Meowth with the pickup ability, kept my war chest funded. A proper send off to the 10 casualties of the run, notably including every flier in the game, so I was left biking back and forth between all of the towns by the endgame after my final flier, Rocky the Aerodactyl, unexpectedly took a critical Fire Blast to the face. I also dropped one Pokémon I was using after each gym fight to let them ride off into the sunset, mostly ones that I thought would have already peaked in their career. Exceptions include Hannibal the Snorlax, who I felt was too overpowered, and Hitmonlee, who I didn’t see any need for in the Elite Four or Champion fights.
August 25, 2024 at 10:40 PM
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Last but not least is Dwight the Hypno. He was also built with a single job in mind: deal with psychic types. To that end, I dumped my money into the game corner to get him Shadow Ball. With the help of Rolypoly’s Light Screen, he was able to take out Blue’s Alakazam before it got too many hits off.
Dwight the Hypno (formerly Drowzee). Met in Berry Forest. You can see how much I feared Blue’s Alakazam because I pumped him full of the Special Defense stat booster to try to tank psychic attacks. The rest of his stats are mediocre, but he did his job well with that special defense. Shadow Ball is the only important move here since that’s his job. Psychic is his STAB move, Headbutt for backup normal damage, and Psych Up is in case the enemy tries to get cute boosting its stats.
August 25, 2024 at 10:28 PM
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Rolypoly the Electrode was also built with one goal in mind for the endgame: eviscerate Blue’s Pidgeot. But it easily deals with water and/or flying types in general. Rolypoly was so fast that it would always get the first attack in, enough to seriously debilitate, if not kill outright, the enemy.
Rolypoly the Electrode (formerly Voltorb). Met on Route 10. I don’t think I remember another Pokémon ever having 152 speed at level 47. Outside of that, the stats are nothing to write home about. Static is also useful as a skill to give paralysis if thunderbolt doesn’t do it. Thunderbolt is the bread and butter move. Shockwave is there if Blue’s Pidgeot tries to pull sand attack shenanigans, rollout for coverage, though I don’t think I ever used it outside of trying to save PP. Light Screen came in clutch to setup before Blue’s Alakazam came on the field.
August 25, 2024 at 10:19 PM
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Vinny the Venomoth was purpose built for one thing in mind: to be the worst enemy of any poison or fighting types. His typing lets him resist fighting moves by 1/4 and poison types by 1/2, while being able to blast back Psychic. He was easily able to tank Cross Chop crits without breaking a sweat.
Vinny the Venomoth (formerly Venonat). Met on Route 15. Bug/Poison let’s him tank fighting and poison moves effectively and renders him immune to the poison status. Stats are nowhere near as good as the anchor of my team, but those are perfectly usable for his job of destroying fighting and poison types. Shield Dust seemed like it would be useful but I don’t remember any time it came into play. Gust is only there for type coverage against bugs (which don’t exist by the end), since Psychic and Psybeam exterminated any poison (which covers 95% of grass types in gen 1) and fighting types. Sleep powder is there in case I felt potentially threatened by one of the bigger fighting types, like Bruno’s Machamp).
August 25, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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Odio the Vileplume was a early-mid game monster, despite the fact he was rocking nothing but Absorb and Acid for most of it. He fell off by the end, but was still good enough to deal with any water type that didn’t also have ice or psychic moves, and the plethora of rock/ground types.
Odio the Vileplume (formerly Oddish and Gloom). Met on Route 24. Stats are pretty average but good enough to deal with what he needs to deal with (i.e. basic water types and rock/ground types) He was rocking Absorb all the way up to the Elite Four and that was somehow enough, but I did finally upgrade him to Giga Drain instead for better damage. Moonlight for additional sustain if needed (it was never needed). Acid as a backup STAB move if grass couldn’t finish the job, and Petal Dance, which only came well after his peak.
August 25, 2024 at 9:44 PM
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I had started the run with Chyro the Charmander that I lost as a Charmeleon in the first half of the game, so Riki the Arcanine (initially Growlithe from Route 7) became the stand in for my fire type. It took a really long time until Flamehtrower at level 49 to evolve, but it was worth the wait.
Riki the Arcanine (formerly Growlithe) from Route 7. Stats are comparable to Lyricia the Lapras, but more offensively focused. Intimidate is a simple skill but was routinely helpful in blunting damage taken. Almost entirely late game moveset, with Flamethrower coming in at level 49 as Growlithe and Extremespeed immediately after evolving into Arcanine. Strength is a decent normal HM move and Rock Smash is the only fighting type move in my team, but even a 20 power move does respectable damage with Arcanine’s attack stat.
August 25, 2024 at 9:32 PM
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The MVP of the run has to be Lyricia the Lapras, from Silph Co. I get why this Pokémon is not allowed in some rulesets because she is absolutely overpowered. Whenever I needed a breather, I just swapped her in and healed people up. Being immune to crits means she can tank reliably.
One of the free gift Pokémon in the game. Met in Silph Co. Built to be mostly defensive but has decent offensive stats to lay on damage while being immune to critical hits. Surf for general STAB move, Body Slam for when nothing else is effective, Thunderbolt to go up against water types while resisting their attacks (namely countering Lorelei’s Lapras) and Ice Beam for STAB and destroying Lance.
August 25, 2024 at 9:22 PM
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Finished my first Nuzlocke run of Pokémon Fire Red yesterday, and I can see why this kind of run is popular, though I do wonder if it’s more popular when you have easy access to a speed up button because grinding without one takes a long time and grinding is kind of necessary.
Featuring Dwight the Hypno, Rolypoly the Electrode, Vinny the Venomoth, Odio the Vileplume, Riki the Arcanine, and Lyricia the Lapras. The entire journey took just under 55 hours, and I started the Elite Four run around levels 47 to 50.
August 25, 2024 at 9:11 PM
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Wasn’t sure what my first post should be, but I guess an intro wouldn’t hurt.

Name: Shen (He/Him)
Interests: The main thing to my name is the Yune Fire Emblem Randomizer. Fake Love Live fan since I mostly only played two now dead mobile games (RIP SIF/SIFAS).

I don’t do selfies, but have a Chika.
July 25, 2023 at 12:48 AM