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Cake day: August 30th, 2023

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  • The law of the prophets was a costly covenant between old-testament god and humanity. Or, you know, whatever subgroup was in charge of translations at the time.
    The “fulfillment” mentioned is a single lump sum of holy lamb blood in place of the never-actually-complete exchange of not wearing blended fabrics, not getting tattoos, and sacrificing your firstborn on a rock in the mountains. And slaughtering prisoners of war who you tricked into getting circumcised as a condition of their surrender so that they would be vulnerable.














  • The first gym is rock, the second is water, the third is electric. Charmander has a really hard time in those first two matchups and only hits neutral in the third. At this stage of the game, it’s really difficult to fill out your types because the wild Pokémon are largely birds, bugs, and rats.
    If you’re really lucky, you’ll hit the extremely low encounter rate for Pikachu in Viridian Forest, and if you’re even luckier, you’ll catch one. But that only helps you against Misty.

    In contrast, Bulbasaur is super effective against the first two gyms, and is merely neutral against Lt. Surge and his electric mice.
    And by that point you’ve fed two whole gyms full of trainers and gym leaders into your Bulbasaur (by virtue of not having to constantly rotate through your back line just to survive).
    Which means it can both take a beating and lay a smackdown in what is on its face a “neutral matchup”.

    After that point the game opens up dramatically and that initial advantage fades.