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Related graphic that I found for the neuropypticals and neurodivegents here:

Which personae made by the Yogs in 2024 are your favorite and the ones you think will be remembered or persist for ages?

My top 3:

Tom as the dolphin-loving Malakai

Boba as the spoiled Victorian child Percy, who has carried over into other characters such as the dart-thrower Miles Scruntly.

And a later entry, Daf as the cool bro Bell Dude!

Not only was I lucky enough to get Pokérus in Crystal, but it also happened to be just before arriving at the Indigo Plateau for the first time. This provides a rather unique opportunity.

Within the Indigo Plateau is an old man NPC with an Abra who only appears while you have not yet beaten the Elite Four; this NPC can use his Abra to Teleport you back to the door of your home in New Bark Town. This disrupts the usual programming for Elm’s Pokérus phone call, since Elm is programmed to call you immediately after you step out of the PokéCenter that diagnoses your infected Pokémon (sidenote: The healing NPC in the house on Route 26 does not diagnose the Pokémon nor does she disrupt the script).

Using the Abra to teleport to New Bark Town allows you to take an extra step or Fly and then take an extra step upon landing before Elm calls you. This allows for the already rare phone call to take place on a number of otherwise impossible tiles. Anywhere just outside your home or at Lake of Rage normally would be impossible, as would one step away from any PokéCenter. I included the screenshot at Olivine City specifically since it seems to have the closest interactable tiles relative to the Fly landing tile; unfortunately, you cannot select Surf in time before his call after taking the one step, but I’m curious if you have any suggestions for where to Fly to in order to disrupt this sequence further.

You can walk into your home and any PokéCenter that you Fly to and Elm won’t call you while you are indoors; however, once you exit the building, you no longer have this extra step and he will call you.

I found this fringe anomaly interesting and thought maybe it could be explored further.

I honestly feel like it would have been better if they didn’t even make the 2025 figure. Such a downgrade and missing key details to the character.

What are your favorite and least favorite figures? Any other downgrades as bad as this one that you can think of?

Edit: I accidentally refreshed the page and it offered alternative questions for ID validation, such as high school of graduation and SSN. But it's still absurd to expect someone to even humor the premise of the prompt.

Edit: I accidentally refreshed the page and it offered alternative questions for ID validation, such as high school of graduation and SSN. But it's still absurd to expect someone to even humor the premise of the prompt.

I had a job. The company didn’t realize that they actually had to sell product to stay in business. Almost all of the workforce was let go or furloughed. I’ve been unemployed for over a month now.

I’ve filled out dozens upon dozens of job apps, starting even before I lost my job. I have my resume public on job listings sites for employers and hiring agencies to find, and I’ve sent my resume to employers and hiring agencies directly. I look through the listings on job boards for each day, mostly limiting my search to a wage that would allow me to make ends meet at home. I’ve solicited and implemented advice from resume design experts. I’ve had one in-person interview, a few preliminary phone interviews, and a couple of message conversations between recruiters and myself. The one in-person interview I had would not have paid enough for my monthly expenses and I was overqualified for the position; they decided against hiring me. I had another interview scheduled and confirmed via a hiring agency’s AI text bot and a human agent’s text; I drove to the scheduled interview place and time and they had no idea that I was supposed to be interviewed. All other communication has either been flat-out rejection or just left me hanging.

I have a Bachelor’s of Science degree from a top 25 ranked university in the US. I have no criminal record. I do have multiple disabilities but they are generally mitigable enough to not affect my work. I have references of my (now) former boss and a (now) former coworker who both praise my impact and aptitude in the factory and office workplace. I’m evidently overqualified for positions that don’t require higher experiences and I’m underqualified for nearly everything else; I can’t get experience in most niche or broad fields because nearly every position requires these experiences to have already been met. I try to follow all the invisible rules of applying and social etiquette. I am too physically ugly to sell my body. It feels like there’s always been a magical aura about me that makes people dislike me no matter how much I try to do the ethically or socially right thing. How am I supposed to get an income to survive?