Setsuna

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.

Been crying for a while now , feeling my emotions then holding them in and my cat is by me as well. I'll try to take it easy the rest of the day, thank you. Just sucks to be alone is all.

Thanks for the reply back, I appreciate it. Today's turned out to be not a good one for me mental sadly. So I feel really down at the moment, not sure what to do. I hope it passes and I'm good again sometime soon.

Hey Setsuna~

I'm a shy gal always have been, however I'm shy due to my social anxiety more and I'm a very cautious person too when it comes to talk to people online. Let's just say I had things done to me NO person should of gone through while being online since I was 15. All the horror stories you hear about online all pretty much happened to me sadly, not all but enough to do severe damage to my mind and heart. That I know fear people as an result. I don't trust as people do so easily or become someone's friend just like that. I like to take my time getting to know someone before even saying we're friends. I suppose I don't do how society dose it today when it comes to people befriending or even dating. If you read my AMA on here I wrote some advice about online safety it might help you understand me a little more.

If not I'd have to tell you in private more in detail about myself and past if your curious why I'm so cautious or perhaps distant maybe. I never been lucky if its even called that when it comes to friendships or romantic relationships. But it is what it is and finally have the right help to help me be happy and find peace again in my life. It's going take a VERY long time to heal all my trauma being on the road of healing. Since this has been all my life online and in person things happening to me , some traumaticlly then others bad then the result a broken heart. My apologies for being depressive just being real with you and honest. Though as for my day today right now I'm doing well, relaxing after I got all my cleaning done.

I hope your have a wonderful Monday~!
Please take care~

Leaf~

This is the part where I usually say something about "chromebook" but it's not even that this time. Usually I can't paste it back, because when I cut the message it's my first time trying to copy. Hopefully that doesn't sound too convoluted.

So I tried Wave Man's stage today again. On a positive note I did make it to him, on a more negative note I didn't beat him. I just can not dodge the geysers and chains together, so my health always gets depleted. The surfing part seems to go on for so long, especially because it makes you fight that giant enemy. (You might know what I'm talking about). I might cave and just use the internet for the boss weaknesses. I also feel like maybe Mega Man is to be played when in better spirits. I was getting rather sloppy after losing a few times, and eventually thought "Maybe I should just chill out with something else".

Speaking of cave, sadly I'm completely stuck in Cave Story. I need to make the bomb, but the only material I can find is Jelly Fish Juice. The others are...gum and charcoal. But the gum door is locked. I actually don't mind if you want to mention the locations, and honestly I feel like they might be right in front of my face. But I've been going back and fourth all over the bushlands, to no avail. Oh and I was completely wrong about the Execution Chamber, probably just overthinking things. But yeah I knocked those things right down on my character. My first instinct was to shoot at them, but I wasn't aware it would be a death trap. Speaking of that, I also keep falling in the spike death traps, but luckily this game puts saves everywhere.

Surprisingly, Nidoking is almost always played as a special attacker competitively. This is because it has the ability Sheer Force, and gets boosted power for removing extra effects on moves. So it gets rid of a freeze chance on Ice Beam in exchange for more power on the move. Or Sludge Wave without the chance to poison. It does have a higher attack stat, but it just supports a special move-set better. Mine in Soul Silver also had a higher special attack stat, but that might have been because of it's nature. I try not to worry about natures too much in game, but it can be a little bothersome when it comes to something like Machamp having less attack.

On the topic of Twitch, it's a fun time to mention that my favorite moment was running into a professional commentator online during his stream. We played 30 games together and I won 29 of them. I also kept the stream open and he kept referring to me as "The King Dedede Main from hell". And the "Final boss of smash online". I just found it so hilarious for some reason. (the commentators name was Coney, he even has a wiki page). https://liquipedia.net/smash/Coney. Speaking of Black/White 2, I had hoped they would include the protagonist from the first game. But I understand why they don't. That would require giving the protagonist a canonical name and team, which for Red they simply used in game event Pokemon from Yellow.

Oh no, I might be considered a delinquent then. Well, at least my hair isn't super blonde anymore, at-least not during the winter seasons. How common is the trope? Like, is it to be expected in most shows? In Westerns, a white hat usually symbolizes somebody being morally good. I didn't deal with bullying in highschool. I . My biggest issue came out of 9th-10th grade, I got stuck in an incredibly toxic friendship. (We'll just call him Mike). Mike declared me his "brother" and wouldn't let me hang out with anybody else. Whenever I tried, he quickly scared them away or started a rumor. He took every chance at reminding me nobody liked me, insulting my hobbies, sometimes he would insult my social skills and tell me I had no chance at making other friends. When I countered this with "I would rather be with no company than bad company" he started smashing my stuff. The worst part? Mike found out he lived near me, and I was pretty much pressured into hanging out after school. My mother didn't know much, just that I was hanging out with "that boy who smokes all the time". Mike eventually got expelled. I made real friends in 11-12th grade and had two great years of high-school. Unfortunately, much of the anxiety I developed is rooted to that friendship. (because i hardly went into details, there were points he threatened to murder me if I didn't spend time with him). Sorry for the long ramble, but that's the first time I've given background on this or myself.

Have you played the original Super Mario Bros for NES? I don't know if I mentioned this, but I actually finished that entire game late last year. (Well, I used warp zones, but no save states). I also finished the original Legend of Zelda for NES, although I save stated at Ganon because I couldn't stand going through that maze of a final dungeon again.

Oh I'm about to start Platinum. No idea why, but I'm just really in the mood to play Pokemon right now. If you have any unique Pokemon suggestions, feel free to let me know. I get ideas in my head like, "Gengar looks fun". I'm not totally sure about my starter either. I've sort of ruled out Infernape, maaaybe the grass one this time. I almost always pick Piplup. But yeah I have Paper Mario memorized to an insane extent. It's a 25 hour game, but I was halfway through in just under 7 hours. That included side quests.

Hey Setsuna~

Thank you again for your many kinds words in the ' praise ' thread and giving me advice in my thread I asked for help about talking to people. You're truly kind and very nice gal I think. I hope you're doing well today, please take care and see you around~!

Leaf~

I did a lot of songs and have gotten the hang of cleansing now. :D I'm on the trial all stars pass but not sure what I'll do once it runs out. $13 or so dollars a month for a membership is expensive as heck. That's more than how much I pay for my FFXIV subscription, I game that I can get like 100 hours into each month. oof... :s

I made my account on day one of the game (and played JP before that) but then took like a year-long break... at least half of my URs are from then, but I'm happy to have pulled a bunch more <3

and thank youuuu for explanation!!! I already noticed Riko cleansing once, but haven't seen it again since lol. then again I've not played tons of songs since.

going to work on Kanan then, I've LBed Riko 3x already....kind of wish I put those resources towards Kanan now but what can you do

ahh thank you so much! I'm gonna save that to refer back to later. :D I ended up throwing a new team together thanks to a reddit post too, and am gonna use your post here to go over it again and make sure it's ok. going to make a second team based off your suggestions too, and tinker with them both to see how well I can play them. it's really appreciated <3 I'm super happy to have fes Vo Kanan, had no idea she was so good!!

The cleansing explanation helps too because I had no idea how to use that. And now I'm going to be extra attentive to my debuffs and switching strategies in hopes of her cleansing. I....honestly thought she wasn't that good, so I'm glad that's not the case T_T

that would be so nice tbh <3 because I probably will just post on reddit asking for help with building, right now I just have auto set it up and it doesn't....do a great job tbh. I probably have enough good cards to make a decent team so hopefully I'll be able to clear advanced soon too!

and oooo thank you for the explanation

from Aisaka to Setsuna? excellent choice~

It's okay. I sometimes try to copy and paste my messages just in case the page crashes or something, but I've accidentally deleted the entire thing before. It's because I copy with CTRL C, and have highlighted the message and clicked the button next to it. (especially if I'm typing and the room is dark).

To be honest, I'm finding Mega Man a bit off putting right now. It's simply because I want to collect these letters and see the cool new power up, but I also don't know which stages I skipped the letters in. Meaning I'll have to trek through all of them again. I guess I could just use the internet and save myself the tedium. Considering how powerful Mega Buster is, I wonder if the weapon is even necessary.

On another note, I got back into Cave Story today. Bushlands really throws so many power ups at you. I've gotten the fire ball (which doesn't seem very good). It's slow and makes me wonder why I would ever want this over spamming the gun. Sadly...I've forgotten what was happening in the story so far. I think there was someone named Sue who went missing, but I defeated the robot boss and kept thinking "wait who is this again"? Right now I'm trying to collect the materials to break down the door. I find it a bit suspicious considering the way he yelled at me, and the fact that right next to this house is a place called the "execution chamber". Then again I'm probably just overthinking everything. I'm still having fun with the game, so I look forward to seeing where it goes.

Ohh Nidoking. For such a tankish looking Pokemon, he's quite frail. He's really good for mindlessly clearing the rocket bases or random NPC trainers, but he completely falls over in gym battles. Also he doesn't learn Earthquake naturally, so your stuck with Dig until he learns earth power late game around level 43. Miltank is one of my favorite pokemon, and fits my play style way better. It's bulky and annoying. It learns Milk Drink so you never have to consume potions on it, attract can reduce opponents attack chance to 50% (and NPC's almost never switch). Offensively it's still passable. It learns Strength and Surf.

If you don't mind me asking, how big do the streams you talk in actually get? Because that would make me completely nervous. I don't know if I mentioned this, but I got into an online tournament against a professional esports smash player named Hungrybox (he'll even show up on google if you do a search). I could not control my character properly knowing there were over 1,000 people watching. (and judging, you know how twitch chat is). It's fascinating knowing just a few years down the line, people will be yelling for Unova remakes. But I think it would be even more interesting if they swerved it and gave us a Black/White 3, maybe featuring Ghetisis as a child or something. Okay that's just me being super imaginative, but it would still be cool. And after that we would already be at X/Y remakes.

You mentioned school shoes, but uniforms are the usual necessity in Japan, right? Bullying in U.S schools over clothes is a huge thing. Like to such a degree that I was terrified to wear a shirt that I wore recently. People will say "that's more of a bullying thing among girls, boys don't care much about that stuff" but that's absolutely wrong. I always dressed properly in highschool, like in a collared button shirt manner. But I didn't have many different shoes so I kept getting questioned about it all the time.

Super Mario Bros 3 is fun and holds up quite well, but if you go for the original NES version keep in mind it doesn't have a built in save feature, so you'll probably have to use save states. You can also skip from the first castle all the way to world 8, which is a neat secret if you want to replay it really quickly. Also are Lololo and Lalala in other kirby games, or is it just superstar?

So I started playing Paper Mario, since it's like my childhood game and I just find the entire thing comforting despite having it memorized. But it really didn't help when I felt absolutely frantic. Luckily I got my medication back today, but anxiety is scary and I was reminded of that in the last few days. I've read a few comments over the years from people who say "anxiety isn't real" and it's painfully ignorant. It's a completely consuming disorder. But I'm glad the medication lets me live without it eating at me 24/7.

followed you on site, gonna add in game now ~

I'm still new so idk about earning SBL much yet, but working on a lot of stuff!! I tier...kinda....I still can't clear any advanced difficulty songs and need a bit of help figuring out which units to use in what slot, so I only do up to intermediate. that slows me down a bit with rankings probably, but in the most recent event I did manage to get around 80k points in just a couple of days and ended up with one event UR \o/ ayumu is so cuuute

i believe they're still working on a list of donators right now. not sure on the progress but i haven't bothered to asked anyway. and yeah i was a bit impatient with donating bcs i wanted to be able to personalize my flair better right away :p i had promised myself last year to only get supporter status when i had reached 10k posts, but i pulled the trigger before Christmas (i think it was around that time yea) bcs i wanted Crobat on my background already eheh.

idk if you've been playing All Stars but I have gotten really into it and love my girls so far! T_T https://idol.st/user/603/janna/ missed a ton of event URs but this is still nice!!

yup it's still the same avatar but it's just spinning now lol. if you wanna play around with it,

animation: fa-spin 8s infinite linear;

8s means 8 seconds, so feel free to change it around. lower number means it'll spin faster, higher number means slower. i think you can do this with literally any element in your flair, but the cleanest would be circular avatars hehe. i'm not good at coding either i literally just copy stuff word for word from folks who know better, like admins :p

i didn't know we joined the supporters club the same day, is there somewhere to view that? i believe i donated around before December ended, how about you?

LMAO oh no the poor little things

and yeah i was perusing some dev chats on staff Discord and i came across this nifty little command lol. havin fun with coding is all, i don't know if i'll keep it or not.

Hi

I'm sort of scavenging around for stuff to play. I tried Wave Man's stage again to no avail, (had some trouble dodging the chains). Other than that I was trying out a couple "walking simulators", which is a term for a genre in which there aren't any gameplay elements. It's 99% percent plot, and you walk from point A to point B and listen to cut-scenes and dialogue. Sadly the stories weren't very engaging and I uninstalled both.

One of them made a big deal on the start up screen about how there would be no hand holding, and it took things a bit too far. Not a single tutorial for the mechanics, and it didn't prompt you when leaving an area too early. Meaning you could miss parts of the story or do it out of context. What do you think about hand holding in video games? I might try some of the yakuza games next, since 4 is free on my subscription. I heard they had good plots.

Oh I also beat Lance today. My final team was Feraligatr, Lugia, Nidoking, Amphrous, Miltank, and Espeon. I forgot how difficult Lance was, and I was underleveled without a proper ice type. I ended up spamming hyper potions, this time it didn't bother me to do so. I still won and probably saved myself 4-5 hours of grinding. I actually tuned into Werster's stream a couple times, it was interesting but I'm not one to frequently visit twitch anymore, so eventually I stopped. Also, are you looking forward to the Sinnoh remakes? I actually like the semi-3D art style. I wonder if it'll be in 3D or sprites this time for the Pokemon. I haven't been following pokemon news (I didn't even know there was a direct), so it came out of left field for me.

I didn't know about introducing with a last name. There's a few things I wonder, but I hope that I'm not stereotyping. For example I always thought over in Japan people greeted each other with a bowing motion. Also isn't taking shoes off everywhere a custom? I had a Japanese martial arts instructor, he had us doing a bow frequently. I couldn't understand him most of the time because he would go in and out of the language, led to me struggling with things. But yeah Virginia is somewhat the same vicinity in the east, but it's a completely different state. Maryland does border Virginia to the north. I've actually been to Virginia quite a few times because our family would take weekend trips there. I think the people are much friendlier over in Virginia. This is annapolis (capital city of maryland), which I enjoy visiting because I think it's a lovely place. https://static.55places.com/blog/media/annapolismd-9181e10331377d0f4073111bc3349600.jpg.

I completed Super Mario Bros 3 in a single 8 hour sitting. Awoke at 8:00 AM one day and played until about 4:00 PM. I probably will never do that again, but I can say the game has a difficulty spike. World 8 can be brutal, and it turns into one of those infamously hard NES games. But I think the rest of the game is fairly tame. I used a trick to gain 99 lives, and lost about 70 of them in World 8. But I think it's worth playing, you can really see where the series started getting its modern roots. Oh and Revenge of the King was fantastic. I forgot that it actually gives you the hammer for that fight. I think Lololo and Lalala are based on characters from another NES game?

Oh I'm such a clutz sometimes and managed to do the worst thing today. I had my head in the clouds a bit, and spilled my anxiety medication into the bowl of water below my feet. So yeah that's not good at all. (Which is kind of why I was scurrying so hard for a game to be engrossed in), just trying to find something I can keep my mind occupied with for the time being.

i regret everything