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Jan. 22nd, 2014 07:38 pmN from Pokemon Black/White's full name is "Natural Harmonia Gropius."
I had the worst dream last night.
Aug. 31st, 2013 11:36 amI dreamed that Pokemon crossed over with Digimon permanently, and I had to memorize all these Digimon, and their types, and the new battle mechanics that had been added and applied to every single Pokemon. And then I decided to stop liking Pokemon. It was terrible.
You can't keep a neurotic spade down.
Apr. 17th, 2013 01:47 am(Bartle spade, not Homestuck spade.)
After making that last post, I obviously did other stuff for about five minutes before breaking down and hacking my Pokemon save some more. I made a bunch of low-level Zekroms in various configurations and tried to trade them to GTS trolls.
The trade servers rejected all of them, suggesting that the game is now too smart for such shenanigans. Most even got amusing little warnings in their in-game bios; instead of saying "Met at level 5" or whatever, they say, "Apparently met at level 5." The game doubts me.
So, Nintendo doesn't want you trading hacked Pokemon! Understandable, sure. But it kind of begs the question of why they're still letting trolls request said hacked Pokemon. Surely such behavior begs for a rebuttal, Nintendo.
After making that last post, I obviously did other stuff for about five minutes before breaking down and hacking my Pokemon save some more. I made a bunch of low-level Zekroms in various configurations and tried to trade them to GTS trolls.
The trade servers rejected all of them, suggesting that the game is now too smart for such shenanigans. Most even got amusing little warnings in their in-game bios; instead of saying "Met at level 5" or whatever, they say, "Apparently met at level 5." The game doubts me.
So, Nintendo doesn't want you trading hacked Pokemon! Understandable, sure. But it kind of begs the question of why they're still letting trolls request said hacked Pokemon. Surely such behavior begs for a rebuttal, Nintendo.
Pokemon players are jerks.
Apr. 16th, 2013 11:44 pmThe GTS online trading system only lets you see six trade offers at a time, and every search I've tried has given me six trolls claiming to want impossible things. Mainly sub-level-10 legendaries.
I guess if I wanted to waste some time, I could hack in a few boxes of level-1 Zekroms and clear out the ones in the categories in which I actually want stuff. But I don't actually want to waste some time on that particular thing.
So I just hacked in the Pokemon I actually wanted instead? Sorry, real Pokemon trainers, I needed that Umbreon! Umbreon is important to me.
I guess if I wanted to waste some time, I could hack in a few boxes of level-1 Zekroms and clear out the ones in the categories in which I actually want stuff. But I don't actually want to waste some time on that particular thing.
So I just hacked in the Pokemon I actually wanted instead? Sorry, real Pokemon trainers, I needed that Umbreon! Umbreon is important to me.
Regrettable self-correcting dreams.
Jun. 1st, 2012 07:14 pmI fear that I may be a boring person.
1) I'm in Kyoto, and have just finished a tour of a temple that appears to have been made in Minecraft. I'm trying to figure out how to get the temple I want to go to next. I remember that my new Android phone lets you teleport, and if I can just find the temple on Google Maps, I can have it teleport directly there. My dream has a lot of branding.
But the temple I want to go to, though it appears on my paper tourist map, is apparently too minor to be on Google Maps in romaji, and the stupid stock Android ROM won't let me input Japanese characters. The best I can do is a location several blocks to the south. Darn it, Google!
It then occurs to me that if I can use the phone to teleport, I can totally just teleport straight home, without having to take the plane back. Though I'm initially pleased by this thought, I immediately wonder if Japan and the US would be okay with my circumventing immigrations like that. It then occurs to me that there's no way my teleporting phone would ever really be approved as consumer technology.
The phone doesn't actually teleport. The end.
2) I'm in Tokyo, having just checked into a backpacker's hostel for a night before I go someplace else. Jessie from Team Rocket is there, and though she is presently innocently checking her email on the lobby computer, I know that she has followed me there to steal my Pikachu, which is presently inside its Poke Ball in my purse. (It's my high school purse, presumably because that's the era in which I cared about Pokemon.)
I explain this to two swordswomen from some kind of wuxia cdrama, who are staying in the same six-person dorm room, and ask them if they'll help me keep an eye on her. They agree, but want to see the Pikachu.
Because the games never showed anything resembling a hostel, the dream's appearance is that of real life; and I realize that I can't figure out what a real-world-type Pikachu would even look like. Jessie herself is a tall Japanese lady who's dyed her hair fuchsia; it doesn't stick out right or anything. She's also dressed like someone I used to know who sometimes dyed her hair fuchsia, because I apparently couldn't picture a real-world Team Rocket uniform, either. Apparently I don't go to enough cons.
So the thing I take out of my purse is one of those water-soluble capsules with a little sponge in the shape of an animal inside it, which you give to kids to play in the bathtub. Closest real-world analogue to a Poke Ball my brain could produce, apparently. The wuxia ladies are disappointed.
This same unnecessary fidelity to realism is probably why James wasn't there; it clearly wasn't a co-ed dorm. SURELY JAMES CAN WORK AROUND THAT.
1) I'm in Kyoto, and have just finished a tour of a temple that appears to have been made in Minecraft. I'm trying to figure out how to get the temple I want to go to next. I remember that my new Android phone lets you teleport, and if I can just find the temple on Google Maps, I can have it teleport directly there. My dream has a lot of branding.
But the temple I want to go to, though it appears on my paper tourist map, is apparently too minor to be on Google Maps in romaji, and the stupid stock Android ROM won't let me input Japanese characters. The best I can do is a location several blocks to the south. Darn it, Google!
It then occurs to me that if I can use the phone to teleport, I can totally just teleport straight home, without having to take the plane back. Though I'm initially pleased by this thought, I immediately wonder if Japan and the US would be okay with my circumventing immigrations like that. It then occurs to me that there's no way my teleporting phone would ever really be approved as consumer technology.
The phone doesn't actually teleport. The end.
2) I'm in Tokyo, having just checked into a backpacker's hostel for a night before I go someplace else. Jessie from Team Rocket is there, and though she is presently innocently checking her email on the lobby computer, I know that she has followed me there to steal my Pikachu, which is presently inside its Poke Ball in my purse. (It's my high school purse, presumably because that's the era in which I cared about Pokemon.)
I explain this to two swordswomen from some kind of wuxia cdrama, who are staying in the same six-person dorm room, and ask them if they'll help me keep an eye on her. They agree, but want to see the Pikachu.
Because the games never showed anything resembling a hostel, the dream's appearance is that of real life; and I realize that I can't figure out what a real-world-type Pikachu would even look like. Jessie herself is a tall Japanese lady who's dyed her hair fuchsia; it doesn't stick out right or anything. She's also dressed like someone I used to know who sometimes dyed her hair fuchsia, because I apparently couldn't picture a real-world Team Rocket uniform, either. Apparently I don't go to enough cons.
So the thing I take out of my purse is one of those water-soluble capsules with a little sponge in the shape of an animal inside it, which you give to kids to play in the bathtub. Closest real-world analogue to a Poke Ball my brain could produce, apparently. The wuxia ladies are disappointed.
This same unnecessary fidelity to realism is probably why James wasn't there; it clearly wasn't a co-ed dorm. SURELY JAMES CAN WORK AROUND THAT.
A dream:
A group of heroes are on a long journey to a place where an ancient evil is. They are training monsters to fight it. One of them, a woman, has brought along with her a small boy with a bright smile and little sense of the gravity of their task. They enter a black structure with yellow walls, in search of the agents of their enemy, but the woman tells the boy to wait outside.
One of the men has a monster like a large dog that is pure black, reflecting no light and casting no shadow, sharp-edged and yet malleable, like the outlines of familiar objects which one's eyes invent in pitch darkness in one's own home. It is in the form of a large dog, but there is, constantly, a sense that it could flow into another shape. It does not seem trustworthy. The man who is training it was once quick-tempered but dependable, but he has taken on some of his monster's nature, and now he grins too much and loses his temper too easily.
He and his monster see movement around a corner, and rush towards it. A servant of the enemy is there, and his monster is like the shadow dog, but vast and shapeless, filling a whole room. The two black beasts face one another, and the enemy closes itself around the dog, devouring it, and the man. When it has finished, the human enemy seems to be vanished, too. This is the nature of these creatures - they eat their own to grow, and they eat those that they love for no real reason.
The boy runs in and faces the monster, smiling in pleased surprise. The monster looks at him, and grows smaller, into the shape of a happy black puppy. This is the only way to truly master these creatures - to face them and feel not fear or love or anger or desire, but simply a pure, transparent joy. The boy and the black creature are joined together now, deeply contented by each other's nearness. There have never been any two creatures in the world so happy to have found one another.
The woman turns away from the boy and peers out one of the dark building's windows, which is bright now - all of the structure's darkness was the property of the monster, and the monster has given everything to the boy. She wonders what sort of child this is, that he can look at a creature so awful and be overjoyed. She can no longer remember why he was with them or where they were going.
A group of heroes are on a long journey to a place where an ancient evil is. They are training monsters to fight it. One of them, a woman, has brought along with her a small boy with a bright smile and little sense of the gravity of their task. They enter a black structure with yellow walls, in search of the agents of their enemy, but the woman tells the boy to wait outside.
One of the men has a monster like a large dog that is pure black, reflecting no light and casting no shadow, sharp-edged and yet malleable, like the outlines of familiar objects which one's eyes invent in pitch darkness in one's own home. It is in the form of a large dog, but there is, constantly, a sense that it could flow into another shape. It does not seem trustworthy. The man who is training it was once quick-tempered but dependable, but he has taken on some of his monster's nature, and now he grins too much and loses his temper too easily.
He and his monster see movement around a corner, and rush towards it. A servant of the enemy is there, and his monster is like the shadow dog, but vast and shapeless, filling a whole room. The two black beasts face one another, and the enemy closes itself around the dog, devouring it, and the man. When it has finished, the human enemy seems to be vanished, too. This is the nature of these creatures - they eat their own to grow, and they eat those that they love for no real reason.
The boy runs in and faces the monster, smiling in pleased surprise. The monster looks at him, and grows smaller, into the shape of a happy black puppy. This is the only way to truly master these creatures - to face them and feel not fear or love or anger or desire, but simply a pure, transparent joy. The boy and the black creature are joined together now, deeply contented by each other's nearness. There have never been any two creatures in the world so happy to have found one another.
The woman turns away from the boy and peers out one of the dark building's windows, which is bright now - all of the structure's darkness was the property of the monster, and the monster has given everything to the boy. She wonders what sort of child this is, that he can look at a creature so awful and be overjoyed. She can no longer remember why he was with them or where they were going.
The sorts of problems I have.
Dec. 8th, 2009 10:42 pmThe drawback of naming your Pokemon after Georgette Heyer protagonists is that you end up splitting up couples, what with leaving Sophy in the box all the time once you get a better ground-type, while Stephen remains a useful grass-type until very late in the game.
Vidal and Mary are still together, though.
(Crossposted to SarahPin.com, Dreamwidth, and LiveJournal. You can leave comments at whichever.)
Thoughts I apologize for having.
Sep. 19th, 2008 05:25 pm(Originally published at SarahPin.com. You can comment here or there.)
Some Guy In Pokemon Pearl: I am a sailor because I love the Pokemon of the sea! *sends out a Feebas*
Me: Wait-a-second - Feebas is a freshwater fish!
(Feebas is not a freshwater fish, because a) Feebas is a Pokemon, not a fish, and b) Feebas isn’t real.)
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I cannot properly describe all the ways in which this message fails to inspire me to give you money, ridiculous SEO company.
I captured my Dialga which was a really nice feeling of accomplishment. I decided to try taking my new an improved crew online via Battle Revolution to see if the addition of an ancient dragon with the power to warp space and time would give me the edge I needed to win. Turns out no.
- Mister Gabriel
Well, among other reasons. (Seriously, given how hard it is to catch some of them (LATIAS), the Legendary Pokemon aren't always that -ing great. My Espeon always got more use than my Lugia.)
And in Kingdom of Loathing-related news, I don't like a lot of the writing for NS13 - some if it wanders perilously close to serious, and there's all sorts of stuff that's much wordier than it needs to be, particularly during the Holy MacGuffin quest. (I'm also annoyed that the battle queue changes broke KoLMafia, but I can't exactly blame other people for my botting addiction.) And there are still lots of places that are either buggy or just really user-unfriendly. I'm particularly annoyed with all the heavily-nested island maps where you click a place you can't get to yet, get taken to a "No-no" screen, and aren't given a link back to the last part of the map you were looking at. No! Incorrect!
...and the Black Forest is problematic.
Oh, and I clicked wrong buying the paint and accidentally bought a second exotic parrot egg. It should not be possible to do that. That's just vicious.
- Mister Gabriel
Well, among other reasons. (Seriously, given how hard it is to catch some of them (LATIAS), the Legendary Pokemon aren't always that -ing great. My Espeon always got more use than my Lugia.)
And in Kingdom of Loathing-related news, I don't like a lot of the writing for NS13 - some if it wanders perilously close to serious, and there's all sorts of stuff that's much wordier than it needs to be, particularly during the Holy MacGuffin quest. (I'm also annoyed that the battle queue changes broke KoLMafia, but I can't exactly blame other people for my botting addiction.) And there are still lots of places that are either buggy or just really user-unfriendly. I'm particularly annoyed with all the heavily-nested island maps where you click a place you can't get to yet, get taken to a "No-no" screen, and aren't given a link back to the last part of the map you were looking at. No! Incorrect!
...and the Black Forest is problematic.
Oh, and I clicked wrong buying the paint and accidentally bought a second exotic parrot egg. It should not be possible to do that. That's just vicious.
Pocket Monsters, by Anakubo Kosaku
Jun. 24th, 2006 06:14 pm
As users of INTERNET (TM), it is our solemn duty to say stuff about the Pokemon comic that has wangs in it.
( 7 more images (2 NWS) and Extremely Serious Art Criticism under the cut )
(Originally posted on scans_daily.)
Dengeki Pikachu, by Toshihiro Ono
Jun. 3rd, 2006 10:39 pmscans_daily post
Everyone loves Pokemon, right?
Or at least no one seems to object too strenuously when people post Pokemon manga scans here, and that's good enough for me!
Yeah, you better not be having any of those slash fantasies of yours over there, Misty.
There are a lot of Pokemon manga. I no longer know the exact number. Four or five years ago, when I amassed my present collection, there were seven, but I think they've started two or three or nine others since then. So, I don't know how many Pokemon manga there are. A lot. Of them.
They're are all by different writers and artists, so, as with any franchise, their quality varies pretty widely. This post is scans from Dengeki Pikachu/just Pokemon in English, by Toshihiro Ono. It's based loosely on the cartoon series, and like the cartoon, it's usually-comedy-sometimes-melodrama. Mostly, each chapter is based on an episode of the anime, but it's aimed slightly older; it's the one you might have heard about with all the edited-out boobs.
( scans and Serious Art Criticism behind the cut )
Everyone loves Pokemon, right?
Or at least no one seems to object too strenuously when people post Pokemon manga scans here, and that's good enough for me!
Yeah, you better not be having any of those slash fantasies of yours over there, Misty.
There are a lot of Pokemon manga. I no longer know the exact number. Four or five years ago, when I amassed my present collection, there were seven, but I think they've started two or three or nine others since then. So, I don't know how many Pokemon manga there are. A lot. Of them.
They're are all by different writers and artists, so, as with any franchise, their quality varies pretty widely. This post is scans from Dengeki Pikachu/just Pokemon in English, by Toshihiro Ono. It's based loosely on the cartoon series, and like the cartoon, it's usually-comedy-sometimes-melodrama. Mostly, each chapter is based on an episode of the anime, but it's aimed slightly older; it's the one you might have heard about with all the edited-out boobs.
( scans and Serious Art Criticism behind the cut )
These brain numbers are off the charts!
May. 9th, 2006 04:45 am( It's 4:45 AM, and that means it's time for a ridiculous manga scan! )
Hidenori Kusaka and MATO do not like being asked to be "more product-focused"! They particularly do not like this to happen when they are engaged in the climax of the really angst-ridden portion of the plot! Hidenori Kusaka and MATO will make this very clear to the readers, by means of a less-than-two-page sequence completely divorced from the rest of the storyline!
Hidenori Kusaka and MATO do not like being asked to be "more product-focused"! They particularly do not like this to happen when they are engaged in the climax of the really angst-ridden portion of the plot! Hidenori Kusaka and MATO will make this very clear to the readers, by means of a less-than-two-page sequence completely divorced from the rest of the storyline!
( No other foe has ever made Bruno's blood *rush* like Red did! )
Hee hee.
Apparently, the people who were feeding the vain deer are Comm Lady and her crazy Canadian husband. Huh.
If "Spanglophone" were a word (and apparently, it's not), would it be capitalized?
Hee hee.
Apparently, the people who were feeding the vain deer are Comm Lady and her crazy Canadian husband. Huh.
If "Spanglophone" were a word (and apparently, it's not), would it be capitalized?
I finally got volumes six and seven in from ILL yesterday, and I read them last night, and it was almost unbelievably slashy* and I was right about everything it just all came out at the end of volume six, and now I can completely truthfully say that I'm using Pokemon comic as one of the primary sources for my senior research.
I think I'm going to ruin some people on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
scans_daily's day when I've got some more free time; I don't feel up to explaining the awesomeness of this manga right now and without plenty of visual aids scanned in.
* and I looked up the illustrator, MATO, last night, and saw that she does Gundam Wing doujinshi for-Christ's-sake, so it's not my imagination
I think I'm going to ruin some people on
scans_daily's day when I've got some more free time; I don't feel up to explaining the awesomeness of this manga right now and without plenty of visual aids scanned in.* and I looked up the illustrator, MATO, last night, and saw that she does Gundam Wing doujinshi for-Christ's-sake, so it's not my imagination
Pokemon again.
Apr. 6th, 2006 07:34 pmAhahaha YES! Triumph! They ship to the US! For $25.
If anyone's thinking about my rapidly approaching 21st birthday, I can think of no better way to celebrate my entry into adulthood than through the receipt of volumes 8 through 13 of "Pokemon Adventures."
If anyone's thinking about my rapidly approaching 21st birthday, I can think of no better way to celebrate my entry into adulthood than through the receipt of volumes 8 through 13 of "Pokemon Adventures."
Ash/Gary - it's *almost* canon.
Jan. 20th, 2006 01:02 amIt is completely ridiculous that I cannot find a single copy of Pokemon Adventures: A Trainer in Yellow. Viz obviously printed at least a *couple* - they admit as much on their website - and I'm the only person alive who actually *wants* one. So where *are* they?
There ought to be all these self-conscious high school and college students quietly selling off all their really incriminating manga cheap - I mean, I am *prepared* to take advantage of these people. But I *can't find any*.
This is going to turn into one of these things where I've got to order the damn manga in French from Quebec, because the Anglophone publishers don't properly appreciate it, isn't it? I thought we'd put those days behind us, Viz. I'm very disappointed in you.
If anyone reading this thinks they might possibly own a Pokemon manga with a blond kid in a straw hat on the cover, talk to me. You can pretend a confused aunt gave it to you for Chrismukkah or you bought it thinking it was gay porn*, I don't care. I just need this thing. I am looking at Amazon.ca right now.
* It's all subtext.
There ought to be all these self-conscious high school and college students quietly selling off all their really incriminating manga cheap - I mean, I am *prepared* to take advantage of these people. But I *can't find any*.
This is going to turn into one of these things where I've got to order the damn manga in French from Quebec, because the Anglophone publishers don't properly appreciate it, isn't it? I thought we'd put those days behind us, Viz. I'm very disappointed in you.
If anyone reading this thinks they might possibly own a Pokemon manga with a blond kid in a straw hat on the cover, talk to me. You can pretend a confused aunt gave it to you for Chrismukkah or you bought it thinking it was gay porn*, I don't care. I just need this thing. I am looking at Amazon.ca right now.
* It's all subtext.
