Physics PhD. Competitive Pokémon player (and game-player in general). he/him/his

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Toler Webb retweeted
🏆Nice Regional Champion! I'm so happy to have won the Nice Regional Championships! It feels incredible to start the season with such a great result! Huge thanks to everyone supported me ❤️ Couldn't have asked for a better start with Team Peps!
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Toler Webb retweeted
RELEASE WEEZING COWARDS
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Absolutely thrilled with Esa's performance at this year's worlds. He's been a stalwart partner to his friends and, while both of us were definitely struggling on team for this tournament, he stuck to his strengths and delivered an insane run. Sorry if you pair him in masters! :P
I placed top 4 at the pokemon world championships. I never thought I would even come close to winning worlds or doing well. Huge shoutouts to @ZoryaVGC , shiba for building with me and @MavaVgc, @Lorenzao14 for their take on Dusklass.
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i am SO EXCITED to go 0-3 at the WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS losing is going to be SO MUCH FUN WOOOO happy worlds week :3
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please let me use two life orbs for worlds i promise i won't do anything bad please just two life orbs please please
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Toler Webb retweeted
¡Las transmisiones localizadas de Play! Pokémon están por llegar! Por primera vez, los Entrenadores podrán disfrutar de cotransmisiones producidas en español de Latinoamérica y en portugués de Brasil.
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Toler Webb retweeted
Buying a CHALK hoodie for every day of the week
Regional Championships merchandise is returning for the 2027 season! Check out the new commemorative designs you'll be able to find at select events 🛍️
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I really have liked the atlanta venue every time I've been there (once for Pokemon, twice for Magic); right on the Marta line from the airport, lots of space, and in a decent area to visit of a diverse and interesting city. toronto also rocks. big w
🚨 New #PlayPokemon Regional Championships have been added to the lists for North America! #PokemonChampions ▶️ 16–17 Jan 2027: 🇺🇸 Atlanta ▶️ 3–4 Apr 2027: 🇨🇦 Toronto 🔗 All events of the 2027 season: victoryroad.pro/2027-season-…
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If you sent me a cold dm/message request in the last 6 months -- I'm so sorry, twitter has not been notifying me of any of them! Most are out of date now (all the people asking for gardevoir help... i did not forget you) so I feel extra bad
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I have no idea what the actual VGC AI discourse is today -- someone promoting some tool or other, it seems. But I think there's a useful framing here that will help you determine if AI should be trusted for a task. "AI" = large language models = text predictors. The models...
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will also note; I understand that 1) it doesn't really matter what I say and 2) a lot of people are completely against LLMs on principle. Fine by me, I am too for most (especially cultural) stuff! I'm explicitly not placing a moral value on LLM use here.
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-- rather than write code to make things that only exist in a designer's head. I'm sure it's better than I think, will keep getting better, etc., but LLMs are not top VGC players. Also, LLMs are not only an uninteresting tool for making art, using them that way disconnects us.
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Not that my perspective is important, but I increasingly feel like Martha Wells' depiction of computer intelligence in the Murderbot series is likely a pretty realistic one. REALLY REALLY FAST cybersecurity, math, etc, but all the compute in the world != magic oracle powers.
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