Would part of the process have stressed it enough to kill it? Seems unlikely that after 13 years it would just randomly go exactly as I’m running this command!

The thing about Arsenal is they always try and wank it in

Sadly not. I think I had to turn it on for it to be detected by fastboot or adb, and it seems like it’s not even turning on anymore.

Impressive, though do you actually need to have it all with you at all times? I’ve been there, and ultimately having everything on me all the time wasn’t worth the other tradeoffs.

Lots of people only have a phone and still want to play games

Use the exact same setup you have, then when she calls and asks you how to do something then you either already know or can check on your own machine!

Fair enough, seems like a nice setup. I guess I’ve already accepted that I can’t do that on most phones and constant network access to cloud stuff is a reasonable alternative. There is no perfect device so we’ve all got to choose which compromises to make, eh?

Out of interest what music files and documents do you need with you at all times that will fill up a 256GB phone?

Might be better to pick a single thing for paralysis to do if simplicity is the goal. Some ideas:

1. Miss the next turn - same as the TCG but probably too similar to sleep
2. No movement for X turns - more of a literal interpretation of paralysis but seems like it might also just be a less strong version of sleep
3. Chance of failing the next attack - represents the “fully paralysed” effect from the games, a little similar to both confusion and sleep
4. Act last in the next round - represents the speed-reducing effect from the games, but is a little confusing in practice based on whether the target has already acted in this round or not
5. Permanent speed reduction (well, as permanent as poison), could be similar to how Agility works - similar to above but maybe a bit simpler?

I didn’t either til I looked it up!

Regarding paralysis it might be worth clarifying that it only affects the following round (in case you get paralysed before you’ve attacked that round)

Hmm, good points. I can think of three possibilities:

1. Keep it as Move but always capitalise it as you do with Trainer
2. Change it to ability and just make it clear that it’s unrelated to abilities from later generations
3. Change it to technique and use an abbreviation like “tech” to keep it short

BTW I hope this doesn’t come off as negative, I’m really enjoying reading it and I’m keen to try running a campaign!

They had one when I last checked (maybe a year ago) and now there’s twenty or so, so definitely seems like things are picking up.

In a vegetative state would be more accurate:

The vegetative state is a chronic or long-term condition. This condition differs from a coma: a coma is a state that lacks both awareness and wakefulness. Patients in a vegetative state may have awoken from a coma, but still have not regained awareness. In the vegetative state patients can open their eyelids occasionally and demonstrate sleep-wake cycles, but completely lack cognitive function.

Fair enough, you can tell I hadn’t read that far yet!

Another bit of feedback: the word “move” is used to mean different things and can be a bit ambiguous. A good example is the paragraph explaining paralysis: “move(s)” is used to mean changing turn order, movement around the grid, and an attack (and I’m still a little confused as to how paralysis works in general!) Might be worth calling “moves” (the attacks that pokémon make) something like “abilities” or “techniques” to make it clearer?

The escape velocity of the moon is 2.38km/s (compared to 11.2km/s on Earth) so you’d have to be throwing it pretty hard

Isn’t that from Buckaroo Banzai? Wasn’t he still a scientist in that one?

A perfect example of why tumblr users should start using capital letters

Oh the card readers? I’ve got about 5 of them, every bank used to give you one when you opened an account. Supposedly they’re pretty secure, too.

Jeff Goldblum is the worst example, he’s always a scientist!