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Seems like Pokemon Direct released a lot of Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon data today:

The heck?!? Actual new Pokemon introduced mid-generation!!?!

• UB "Burst" is exclusive to Pokemon Ultra Sun and looks like a flamboyant ball-and-stick humanoid that can throw its jelly-ball head around. It does look a bit like it has a Nihilego for a head, though...
• UB "Assembly" is a walking brick wall/tower with eyes. It is exclusive to Pokemon Ultra Moon.
• Note that neither of the above will be those Ultra Beast Pokemons' real species names, though--these are code names, just like the "Lighting" for UB-03 Xurkitree.

More details on new Z-Moves in Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon:

• All Lycanroc forms get access to the Z-Move "Splintered Stormshards". It's based on Stone Edge, it's an attack, it apparently can't even OHKO Tapu Koko the frail-o, and it wipes out all terrain as an effect. Terrain's pretty temporary in general so this seems somewhat overrated to me, but at least something isn't getting hit as hard by Tapu Bulu or someone can finally Spore Tapu Fini...

And the Necrozma forms' English names are "Dusk Mane Necrozma" and "Dawn Wings Necrozma". That supports my theory that Necrozma is mainly forcing day to change to night and vice versa whenever it captures and fuses with Solgaleo/Lunala...

Spaghetti!

Hey, stop interrupting, Papyrus.

They just released more details about Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon--in particular, details about "Ultra Solgaleo" and "Ultra Lunala", the cover mascots:

• They're Necrozma forms and probably have Necrozma's Pokedex number.
• The names of the Necrozma forms apparently translate to "Necrozma Mane of Twilight" and "Necrozma Wings of Dawn", respectively.
• Two similar screenshots are in the latest issue of Corocoro depicting Necrozma in a cloudy shape with its arms spread wide, posing to absorb Solgaleo in one screenshot and Lunala in another.
• The Necrozma forms are known to have access to Sunsteel Strike and/or Moongeist Beam.

As if people weren't predicting the above already, this is probably why Game Freak keeps banning Necrozma from its tournaments.

I'm more disappointed about the news than I previously expected to be--this feels like Kyurem-Black and Kyurem-White all over again, including the new cover mascots sharing one legendary's Pokedex number. Maybe a bit of me was hoping that different cover mascots would have different Pokedex numbers and be considered forms of different Pokemon (instead of the same one)...

Well, here's some of my speculation:

• Nebby is involved in the in-story absorption process somehow. I'd like to think it's as Solgaleo/Lunala, but there's the slight possibility that Necrozma also evolves from Cosmoem (in the Ultra games only).
• The Necrozma forms are meant to be temporary, and Necrozma will eventually separate from Solgaleo/Lunala--note that "Twilight" and "Dawn" are transitory time periods.
• Solgaleo and Lunala have considerable autonomy as members of the Necrozma forms, and have some say in where the form goes.
• However, Solgaleo and Lunala do not like being in Necrozma forms, and Necrozma often forces them to do things against their will.
• Even though Necrozma seems fairly associated with black holes (black colouration, general resistance to damage, violent tendencies, habit of firing lasers a la Hawking radiation), the Necrozma forms may be more analogous to wormholes, especially for the reasons below...
• Necrozma's role in the (un?-)natural order is to force day and night back into a regular schedule. Solgaleo and Lunala's Pokedex entries indicate that they bring in daytime and nighttime unnaturally, possibly for the sheer heck of it. "Necrozma Mane of Twilight" possibly forces Solgaleo to drag itself away so nighttime can start, and "Necrozma Wings of Dawn" likely brings in the dawn and ends Lunala's influence.

Acersesonic (n.) - someone who is bitter, sarcastic, and/or acerbic at Sonic the Hedgehog

...my response is the funniest.

because making a joke based on my answers-reveal-date would be insensitive everything here is based on today's date

For the matter, the link above is indeed Wah's quiz.

Wasboat (n.) - Needs a wassail

LeviR.star wins for making me laugh for the first time among all times I've judged entries in this thread!

It's coincidence, I swear--it was the first thing that popped into my head!

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How I wonder where you're _____

Why the heck do I, whenever I heard piano transcriptions of Hollow Knight songs, immediately go for the energetic ones like Mantis Lords?

I'm horrific with bass lines. I think I only speculatively know one two songs in Static's quiz.

(To be fair, I don't know any of Trasdegi's songs.)

Dihydrogen monoxide

I'm serious. Put a teeny bit of that stuff in the wrong part of your body and breathing problems are only the start of it.

In terms of musical memes I un-ironically like, my favourite's got to be Darude's Sandstorm.

Imprisonment in video games