It's okay, evidently I'm not the best at explaining things. I just mean that sometimes I'll see I've been writing the message for a while and I'll press CTRL C to copy, then hit X and cut the entire message. There's no 'undo' button, so I can''t paste back the message. If I hit the wrong button, then that means I never copied it either.
I noticed waiting for the geysers to go off, but instinctively I always back up from the chain. There seems to be little room to get past both of them. I guess it can be done with practicing the timing, and it's nice it's at the start of the stage. Also I can't seem to grab that healing orb. (orb? I don't know what its called) I keep falling into the pipes. The jetbike is super fun, and I found out it's easier to just hop over the enemies. But yeah the miniboss is really painful. I just can't seem to pass it without losing most of my health. The room is cramped and you can't access your robot weapons on the bike. Is it your first time trying Mega Man X? Is it as fun as the original games? I guess as a big fan of the series you would probably enjoy it.
I would have never figured out going to Santa's house to place the Jellyfish juice in the fireplace. Not sure if there was a hint for that? Oh well, thanks for telling me. Now at-least I can progress again. Not sure what 'waterway' is but I'm going to infer you mean the very beginning section of the game. I currently have 19 heart capsules, so hopefully that's a good point for where I am. I don't have much trouble with enemies, it's just the instant death stuff.
I tried a Rampardos and it just did not work out for me. I was like "Okay this thing is going to be great with Rock Climb" then I found out Rock Climb was a normal move, not a rock move. It was frail and slow, everything kept knocking it out. Especially because I was playing on set and could never get it switched in. For some reason it always left the enemy with red health and would get KO'ed in return. I used Corsola all the way up to the fight with Red, and found it more usable than Rampardos. But yeah I don't think they want to go too crazy with making canonical protagonists, because it's supposed to be a "your story, your imagination" thing. Some people would see a canonical protagonist as invalidating personal stories and teams. By the way, you mentioned trying to get the award on stream. Did you pull it off?
There was some pretty awful bullying taking place in my school. I doubt you would want to hear details, but some of it was like stuff you would see in a TV show. Anyways nobody ever bothered me. Even one of my teachers told me Mike was a 'sociopath', people wouldn't even go near me with him around. I do have a story, forgive my language because I'll quote some stuff. Mike was quite a loner, and we usually had the lunch table to ourselves. Mike went off to loiter the school grounds, a kid saw me alone and figured it was a good time to 'mess with me'. (Just name calling, tossing stuff at me). Out of nowhere, Mike is standing over the kid. Mike yells "Do you want me to beat his ass"? The kid was visibly scared (stuttering, not making eye contact). I told Mike to let him go. Because yeah the kid was being a jerk, that doesn't mean I wanted to see him get torn apart. (Mike was expelled later for threatening to kill a teacher). Yeah, you said a whole mess and I couldn't word it better. It really was.
So if I could give you one game recommendation, it would probably be Earthbound. I just finished it again over the last couple weeks, and it really is one of a kind. It was made in 1994, and was the first JRPG to "depart" from fantasy. Most of the game is a Japanese interpretation of America, and eventually you travel to other parts the world. It also doesn't take much of anything seriously. (The battle system isn't anything fancy, but the NPC's are all fun to speak with and have something amusing to say).
Soo I just finished the first gym in Platinum. I started with Turtwig, and picked up a Shinx. Starly seems a bit 'overused' so I want to try something a bit more unique, so I'm thinking...swablu. I'm thinking i'll pick up Gengar (no real reason, I just feel like using it). Yanmega sounds neat...but I'm thinking weavile does too, and I don't want to get 'too' frail with my team. Keep in mind I haven't played Platinum that much. I played through the whole thing once or twice, and I played a rom hack. (One time I gave up at Cyrus in the distortion world, my team felt weak, and my levels were low).
Okay so also I thought it would be cool to share this. You know how I mentioned talking about chess made me feel like playing it again? This is my rating scale since then (2 months ago).
https://imgur.com/a/d5shnU2. I climbed from nearly the bottom of 300 up to the 700's.