Basically…

Pokemon from Gens 3~7 (2000s to early 2019) can only be brought forward using a system that will no longer be officially supported at some point.

Pokemon in Gens 8 and 9 (the Switch games) are mostly considered “current”, and can be swapped around between any current game and Pokemon Home.

Pokemon Home costs money to store Pokemon.

Generally, moving Pokemon between generations involves transferring them using some special tool. The final destination (unless you want to pay money) is usually a game, because that’s where you can actually use them. The games also have plenty of storage that’s “free” (at least, not subscription-based).

Pokemon in the games had been stored inside cartridges from Gen 1 to Gen 7 (90s to early 2019). It was only with the Switch that game saves (and thus Pokemon) stopped being saved to the cartridges, and instead were saved to the console’s internal storage (not even an SD card).

Until 2019, getting a new console for your Pokemon games meant nothing – you’d be able to use your old Pokemon and saves on the new console by plugging in your old game.

This is the first time you had to do anything special to get your saves onto your new console.

For added context, Nintendo offers a cloud saves for players to back up their Switch game saves.

Pokemon is the one of the only Nintendo franchises to not support cloud saves.

1. You can probably re-use a burner phone again and again
2. What do you need a phone for? Could it be replaced with other items? (Cameras, walkie-talkies, printed maps?)

Up in Canada, I’ve only ever heard weed whacker

I do this.

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Webpages bouncing stuff around as various elements load in.

Back in the day, the space would be reserved, so if something hadn’t loaded yet, that space would be blank.

Nowadays, you’ll be reading something (or worse – trying to click on something), and it’ll get bounced around because some other element of the webpage got loaded in.

The picture is a bit misleading to the rest of your post, because given the picture and the title, I was inclined to answer “Right there”! Lol

I was wondering why you’d need to check receipts, but then I realized you probably meant old ones, haha

Of course, you’d then be paying monthly enough to cover a water heater’s entire replacement in one year! Haha

They’re in the business of providing (expensive) peace of mind. Not the business of providing good value for money.

Ontario, Canada. They’re elsewhere in Canada, but seem most prevalent here

Thank you for sharing. I don’t have direct personal experience with a rental water heater – I was thrilled to find out the place I bought was built before it became the norm, and none of the prior owners got duped into getting a subscription.

Subscriptions suck. The only exceptions are if you literally have too much money to care. But most people don’t have the money to throw around like that.

Where I live, there are water heater rentals. It’s essentially a hardware subscription.

They’re garbage.

For something that needs minimal maintenance and will last at least 10 years, you can rent for the price that you’d break even if you had a new one installed every 5 years.

People will pay thousands of dollars to have the privilege of throwing out the water heater and getting out of the contract. And then pay to buy a new one they actually own.

But some people like it because, yes, if there’s a problem, they come and fix it for you. Or give you a brand new water heater. That you’ve already paid for two or three times over!

There are probably some you take for granted. It would be exhausting to be in constant awe at the wonders of the modern world! Haha

What is boy pre salting?

Thank you. That’s a shame. I was hoping it was one of the newer members of the band, but nope, he joined in the 80s.

Him and fans try to play it off as a joke, but it definitely means something when you keep making the same kinds of jokes and not changing after the first time people tell you it’s terrible

What’s the problem with Pantera? I know almost nothing about them aside from an album plus a few singles

I’m a gamer, but I don’t know who that is.

Is it one of the playable characters from GTA5?

After an episode of The IT Crowd was criticised as transphobic, Linehan became involved in anti-transgender activism. He argues that transgender activism endangers women, and has likened the use of puberty blockers to Nazi eugenics. Linehan says his views have lost him work and ended his marriage

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“Brian”…?

Typo/autocorrect for “bran”?

It’s a great word. It can be almost any part of speech/grammar!