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Try! Let's have a fight!

 Hey how about some pointless trivia about Pokémon ? Yes, again. Shh. The actual phrase used in the games for when a wild Pokémon encounter starts is "A wild [Pokémon name] appeared !" (emphasis mine), or simply "Wild [Pokémon name] appeared!" in the Gen 1 games. On the internet, it's often misquoted in jokes and memes as "A wild X appears" or "A wild X has appeared". With the exception of "It's super effective!" and "It's not very effective...", battle messages in the series have always been written in past tense (so it would say "Pikachu used Thundershock!" rather than "Pikachu uses Thundershock!", or in the early games it would be written as "PIKACHU used THUNDERSHOCK!"). Similarly, jokes and memes often misuse the phrases "It's super effective!" and "It's not very effective..." In the games, these messages indicate when a move does more or less damage th...

Close your eyes, you'll be here soon

 Welcome to White Space. You have been living here for as long as you can remember. It's time for some pointless trivia about Omori . WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD. IF YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED OMORI YET, AND ARE INTERESTED IN DOING SO, PLEASE DO SO BEFORE READING ANY FURTHER. OMORI IS ONE OF THOSE GAMES THAT'S BEST EXPERIENCED WITHOUT ANY PRIOR KNOWLEDGE, AND I'D HATE TO RUIN THAT FOR YOU. Okay, have they gone? Good. The creator of the character Space Boyfriend confirmed that he is transgender. Sadly, no evidence of this exists in the game, since Omocat wrote the version of Space Boyfriend that appears in the game and was unaware of this aspect of the character at the time. They have later confirmed that he is indeed still canonically trans, though. Originally, the player was going to be able to choose whether Omori was a boy or a girl, which would have also changed Aubrey's gender - picking girl Omori would have resulted in Aubrey being a boy, and vice versa. This was u...