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I totally forgot that I can just trade with my sister. I'm probably not going to complete the pokedex anyways. I almost never get that committed into a game. I did start playing Crystal again randomly on my 2DS. The lack of variety is more apparent. Like, the choices in the start are caterpie, hoppip, pidgey, spearow, geodude. Just nothing stands out. I still love Gen 2. Mareep isn't even available in crystal so that's out too.

I don't watch him much because his humor doesn't work for me. Anyways that's a much older series, so the scripting is likely not present. It seemed back then he just recorded footage and talked over it, with editing sprinkled here and there. Then I guess when he began making a living off YouTube, he put more emphasis on his production value. I do remember some interesting things he stated. He was a college student and worked at a movie theater.

Mother 3 has a near perfect fan translation, so if you wanted to emulate it that's what almost everybody does. Otherwise, they fear the game has some aspects that would come across as offensive to western culture.

They should have made Repels make Pokemon run away.

Today I found out some GBA box art I shared online got used on a Tumblr that was themed after Myspace and was about 2000s nostalgia. It was a weird find lol.

I was going to say, if you aren't ready to finish you could always start a second playthrough. Then I recall, you mentioned not being a fan of using alt accounts for pokemon games. Are you going to try and complete the entire Pokedex? I probably can't, because trading would block me off.

Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF41D831CF4427BE5. I'm not even his biggest fan, but I can't deny his professionalism. These playthroughs feel like TV productions. Then again, this was from 2011 and his quality wasn't extremely high yet.

Did you watch the Nintendo Direct? No Pokemon related news that I recall, but that's to be expected for now. There were some neat things on it.

It could possibly? I mean, Sword and Shield sorta had a open world kind of aspect to it in the Wild Area so maybe it will? Not gonna lie, being able to see the Pokemon in the grass and being able to just casually make my way over to areas with different types of Pokemon made it easier for grinding levels on specific Pokemon :B

I finished Pokemon Moon yesterday. I had some trouble with Kukui. It was fine, until I realized I had no fighting type for Snorlax. I ended up needing to make use of max revives. I had no idea what his team was, which makes everything harder.

I think the only theme I found uncomfortable was Ikana Valley (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3mOrjnn_Rw). If your interested, I can link you a very good playthrough of the game. Of course you don't have to watch it, but I can give it to you just in case.

It's understandable. I'm not sure if it's something I've mentioned, but I played around the competitive scene for a couple years. I was never a good player, but I'm familiar with IV's, EV's, most items, etc. Last night I finally beat Kleavor. Still sort of in the mood for Pokemon, so I might start another since I finished moon.

I couldn't find many good pictures of Quilava online. I wanted one for my avatar. I also feel hesitant about taking art, so I try going for official stuff.

It's hard to describe Majora's Mask. It's so somber, as the entire game is themed around death and grief. Often they mask a sad song playing underneath the main cheery instrumentals. You can't hear unless you listen closely. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCfU5bKm-b0). It's a strange game. I beat it all the way to 100% completion.

Thank you. I'm happy I got three. I wasn't really expecting anything. I sort of just exist in my own bubble sometimes. I wrote a bunch anyways, just for fun. There are many positive things about people here. I'm not good at forming those thoughts into words, so it ends up being one or two sentences.

I had that exact same thought. Often when I get close to posting something personal, my thought is "Is this something that'll be okay with seeing 2, 3, 4 months from now"? Also, I can be terribly nervous about people. Many times when I join a forum or community, I will make posts and never touch my inbox. Here, I'm comfortable enough to check regularly. Unless someday someone does write me something unkind, I would probably shy away from clicking messages here too. It's just how I am, I guess.

I'm feeling okay anyways. Better than the last two days. My sister was confused over natures in Pokemon. I had to explain it was mostly a competitive thing, because she found out what they meant and was searching for the perfect ones.

Ironically I didn't play Link Between Worlds. Everybody speaks so fondly of it. I guess I prefer the 3D games. Her name was Midna. That wasn't my favorite zelda game either. I own a physical copy with the manual and everything, but only finished it once. Majora's Mask is a cool one. It's somber, and the whole game has an odd vibe surrounding it. It's good if you like horror.

I sent you a letter. I don't like any of the letters I sent. They were shamefully bad and I can only imagine that someone found it annoying. The medicine I take is supposed to increase serotonin, because I'm not producing enough. There isn't much I can do though. I try not to speak about it. Everybody has problems and I don't like putting myself out there. That's why I almost never vent publicly on the forum. My sister has anxiety/panic attacks too. It's inherited for us.

Did you notice Pikachu had it's old cry back? I'm not sure if Eevee has it's original cry. Are you trying to fill every request? I find myself already getting tired of that and just wanting to see more story.

Are you a fan of the zelda series? I've played most of them. I have Skyward Sword HD but didn't get far into it. Each Zelda game usually tries a different style. Twilight Princess was gritty, Wind Waker is like a story book, Breath of the Wild...I don't know how to describe it. I could never get into it, despite my 40 hours of playtime.

I've gotten three letters which is nice. It hasn't been the best week. My serotonin is off balance, which results in severe anxiety. Gives me cravings to be alone and not exist. I've written a few letters, although it's hard because I feel bothersome for sending them. Everything feels difficult right now. It'll probably resolve as I go back to taking this medicine daily. But right now I just feel awful.

I'm around the part where you meet Kleavor. I couldn't find an Eevee. I thought I saw one in a tree, but I failed to catch it and couldn't find another. I would like to see a Hoenn or especially Alola style game like this. Maybe it'll get DLC.

I'm going to play some more tonight. I bought Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker too. I still have my childhood Wii U console and it was on the e-shop. I like the Zelda franchise, but...never finished Wind Waker. The art style kept making me fall asleep. (it looks like this)

She ended up purchasing it. I don't think she's a fan of JRPG's but she's played Final Fantasy 7 and 9. She mostly plays Harvest Moon/Animal Crossing. I don't like complicated JRPG's either. (yet i played final fantasy 8 for some reason). I can't remember if I told you, but I did finish it. I also finished my 1150 page novel I was reading.

I'm okay at doing chess puzzles. They give you a position on the board and you find the correct move. My rating at that is 1500 as of right now.

Thank you for giving me a letter. It brightened my entire day. Now that I finished another game I was playing (Yakuza) I'll be playing legends more. I presume your probably way ahead, so what do you think of it now?

I'm not entirely sure what turned me off to the chibi style. I thought that the chibi style in the Link's Awakening remake looked great. Just something felt off about it. I understand wanting to do the whole "look, it's just like the DS games!" kind of thing, but it worked way better for Pokemon in a more pixelated style.

If you could have it, would you want Pokemon to move more towards Legends?

The Underground was definitely a big thing to me going for BDSP (a lot of nostalgia and level 100 orbs lol). Hmm, I definitely would say that in the future when I do eventually get these games I'll go for Arceus first. It sounds cooler (plus I've heard not so nice things about BDSP D:).

I spent a lot of time breeding and trading aha, the main playthrough was a miniscule percentage of that.

I'll have to consider it more then, a lot more than BDSP (which I'm not sure if I'll get anytime soon if at all). I certainly like the aesthetic as well (definitely helps my favorite starter Cyndaquil is available).

That's kind of funny to me how straightforward they are about people dying since in other games you'd only notice if you read a bunch of Pokedex entries.

Is the world like, dauntingly big? I've not really played many open-world games (just Borderlands really).

Just dealing with as it comes right now.

Honestly, the last time I played Pokemon was beating Sword... and that was it. I guess the magic of Pokemon and collecting/breeding has kind of fallen on the wayside for me after Gen 6 (the one I played the most, I put like 2000 hours into Y cuz of breeding lol). I'm vaguely following along, but I haven't felt compelled to buy BDSP or Legends honestly.

Something I would actually want to see is a revisit of a region (or even a new region, like Orre was) that doesn't introduce new Pokemon but uses what is already available to build a new game around. New regions usually mean even more Pokemon and revisits usually just mean remakes.

I suppose Legends kind of fulfills that, but the gameplay is not traditional (I'm stubborn lol) and it still introduces regional (time period?) variants.

Have you been playing Legends? How is it?

My sister was asking about it. She's definitely more casual about the series (played let's go, pokemon go, generation 1). I think the game would still be fun. I'm amused just by the pokemon on the overworld. It reminds me a little of Pokemon Snap. Do you think this game would be friendly to someone less familiar with the franchise? I picked Typhlosion too. I still have a Cyndaquil though.

He basically told me "You have solid opening positions but your making mistakes in the middle of the game". So yeah not exactly the most helpful thing. I've been stuck hovering 850-950 for months and I just can't break 1,000. I just need a little improvement in some sort of area, and I think I can do it.

Forgive me for asking, but is that Valentines Day event pokecommunity hosts done only on Febuary 14th or does it start at the beginning of the month? Ever since I began Lexapro my strong memory has weakened. Apparently it's common. It's mainly insignificant stuff. Like, I'll forget what I named a pokemon or what I just texted.

It was terrible :B I was also paranoid about it but it was either that or quit my job and I kind of didn't want to lose my job. Fortunately nothing happened to any of the people in our office but 2 contractors we worked with passed away because of COVID (possibly 3, but their family didn't provide us a reason). And still just "yup, let's all work together smiley face".

I did, I don't think Pepsi has quite so much caffeine but it was a brain fart moment.

I don't think I had an itchy arm as a side effect. I remember breaking my arm and getting a cast, which would often itch. Under no circumstance could I scratch, because that risked infection.

I like it a ton. I only logged two hours. It's very relaxing and I don't plan on rushing this one. I plan on doing as many of the research tasks as possible. Who did you end up going with for a starter? 11 hours is quite a bit though. I started Yakuza 0 and reached 11 hours in that fairly quickly.

The feedback wasn't immensely helpful. I specifically requested someone to go on my profile and check my games. Only one person actually did that. The rest gave extremely mundane advice. I need to know where I'm going wrong in my own games. I could receive the best advice on the planet, and it won't help if I keep making the same mistake somewhere in my games and I'm not realizing it.

I've not heard about the office thing, but that sounds plausible. If I could do my job from home I would totally choose to do that, more flexible, less distractions and noise too. The issue is that my company isn't set up for that at all. I was in the office all of the last 2 years.

Currently I just remembered Pepsi has caffeine and I've just had some at night whoops.

I think the newer games are better for that reason. So much more variety in what you can catch. I only played Pokemon X once, and never played Y. It's by far my least played Pokemon game. Not because I disliked it, but because I got it digitally and my 3DS stopped working. I wish they would have sales for Pokemon games sometimes.

How have the side effects been up to now? I actually got sick after my booster. Stayed up waiting for Legends of Arceus, after writing this I'm going to go play it.

Speaking of forums, I wrote up a post on the chess website asking for feedback on my games. I fell nearly 120 points from my goal which is highly upsetting. I'm honestly terrified of looking at it. Anxiety. I don't know the community too well and I hope the comments are nice enough.