alyssa @alyssa@cat.family

@gaditb also Surf kind of drags down the other Water-related HMs for me because (except for Waterfall for physical attackers after Gen 3) it's generally a better battle move than them, and having to fit one or two extra water HMs can make things a bit awkward and necessitate splitting the Water HMs across multiple mons.

@gaditb v reasonable. for me it’s just a confluence of: it’s nice to go new places, i’d still use it often even if it were only usable in battle, and i usually don’t have to contort my teams to fit it in. if they made the level ranges on wild pokémon a little tighter i’d have absolutely zero complaints about it

@gaditb well, strictly speaking, my preference is based on the combination of field effect, battle effect, and pokémon that learn it

@gaditb my choice is based on the combination and i'm not going to make two more polls :)

what's your favorite HM move in Pokémon?

typhlosion!

i will never get over the jeffrey lewis album 12 crass songs

-sighs wistfully- nidoqueen

the problem i always have with eevee in non-recent generations is i'm always sad i can't have a sylveon just because they don't exist yet

which kind of animal are you?

@Lady i think i may have played more of Majora's Mask than Ocarina (both of them (almost?) exclusively at those consoles they had set up in the games aisle electronics sections at like wal-mart), but neither of them enough to judge more than entirely superficially

@Lady counterpoint: wind waker has really bright colours.

(i wanted to make some kind of point about alternately they may have not played many zelda games but i haven't played any zelda game enough to judge how it compares to Majora's Mask).