I got most hours in pokemon silver and blue. I have played only Gen 1-5 but still like the gen 2 and its sprites.
It amazes me how much the devs were able to get out of gameboy hardware.

I forgot to mention that the video shows 5pp for Venom Bite, but decided to change it since to more closely match thunder.
Old: 5pp 120 power, 85% accuracy, 33% chance to poison
New: 10pp 120 power, 70% accuracy, 30% chance to poison

I decided to lower the accuracy because poison status already deals 1/8th the damage each turn and Fire blast which accuracy is 85% has only 10% effect chance. The lower accuracy then balanced by the power point increase.

Comparison to gen 2 moves:
Fire blast: 5 pp, 120 power, 85% acc, 10% effect
Hydro pump: 5 pp, 120 power, 80% acc, --% effect
Thunder: 10 pp, 120 power, 70% acc, 30% effect

That’s what 65dos Taipei music video looks like, though that was released 2013 https://youtu.be/06ObT5yIIx8

I’ve been using lemmy almost a year now and it has been fairly smooth. But I still get logged out every time I refresh some community pages which is strange.

Thank you so much! <3

basically Komodo dragon + maned wolf = maned dragon

Thank you ^^ It’s not a dragon in traditional sense, but I might just do that!

It’s funny how caught up I got about fantasy etymology after reading couple weeks of taxonomy and zoology

Yea! That’s why it’s more useful to specify traditional, mythological or a certain type of a dragon that have become more popular in recent fantasy.

The dragon term doesn’t necessarily need a strict definition. It’s just my preference that having structure is better and then you can decide how to break the norms. Although, most of these new variants share the same name ‘dragon’.
I still see the evolution of the term fascinating even if it is becoming more generic.

I just have it in muscle memory to know which way soda bottle cap tightens

Thank you so much :3

It’s subjective and I prefer him being it’s own species now since I started reading about zoology.
In fictional world there’s no rules, but I liked the challenge thinking what species would it be if not a dragon or a hybrid, and based it on the real-life evolution.

Thank you! It was a fun challenge blending irl with digital art since I have done so little photo manipulation

I genuinely thought symlinking these files was standard because how many people I have seen suggesting it. I have had this issue so many times when I needed to that one program updated but there’s no newer libraries in AUR. Surprisingly, I haven’t had issues and I’ve been doing this past 5 years on my personal system. So I guess I consider compiling from source next time.

Thanks! It’s a fine balance and overdoing it results garbled mess or entirely corrupted file. Every file format acts differently so there’s lot of trial and error.

Thank you! It’s fun to draw all sorts of lines of action with tails. Mainly just the head, tail shape and streamline body are remnants of the aquatic ancestors. After I posted this, I came up with more detailed explanation of the evolutionary lineage https://pastebin.com/3v1RSEh2

I just liked the idea of starting as a semi-aquatic to explain some of the reptilian features, and later found out it is speculated that semi-aquatic otter or shrew like creatures could have survived K-Pg extinction event (the big asteroid impact). That’s where I decided that this species would have branched off 100-70 million years ago.

Thank you ^^

Edit: I made the original art 2021: https://www.deviantart.com/caecuss/art/Tiena-Feral-876502282 I mostly wanted to share the species description that I just came up with. The art is visual aid but there will likely be some changes.

Few people have asked what my sona Tiena species is. I’ve said it’s a furred dragon because he shares some similarities with them but I finally decided to make basically a wiki page of feral version of my sona. I came into conclusion that my sona doesn’t share any similarities with wingless dragons in mythology. Biggest inspirations have been Komodo dragons and Maned wolves, hence the name Maned Dragon even though it is a misnomer.

I have absolutely no background in taxonomy, biology or scientific classification. I just spend several hours of googling animal facts and learned with the help of chat gpt, but all of the text above is hand written. But it may need an other rewrite to make it more readable. This species is open for anyone and you are free to make variants. But I will differentiate canon and non-canon features. There will be guide-lines about allotropes, e.g. coloration can be almost anything if the environment is exotic enough.

this took me a while but after converting to ascii in hex I get it

“())(” = 40 41 41 40

“()()” = 40 41 40 41

As long your strings aren’t null terminated