what the hell is having you write 47 pages

i updated my MAL


yellow = willing to rewatch

Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Illinois
Ohio

i THINK i've been to iowa, but i can't remember for some reason

you're not real

you're not real

Quote from: Me on December 02, 2017, 12:26:50 AM

XBC XBCX FE:A.

what the hell

xenoblade chronicles
xenoblade chronicles x (but the "x" is pronounced like "cross")
fire emblem: awakening

Quote from: Verbatim on December 02, 2017, 08:57:44 AM

Quote from: Best Boss on December 02, 2017, 08:55:04 AM

Is waiting on RNG really the best way to get a Moon/Leaf stone?

wait, are you playing crystal?

I'm playing Gold from the eshop. I just got to Ecruteak. From looking it up, it seems you get a Moon Stone from your mum shopping, and a trainer on one of the routes phones you if she finds a Leaf Stone?

I just don't wanna be stuck with a Nidorino and a Weepinbell for most of the game.

got some bad news for you: trainers calling and giving you items is only a thing in crystal

in gold and silver, the only way to get the elemental stones is via bill's grandfather in kanto

he gives them to you in a set order, and you only get one of each per game

it's probably of the worst thing about the games tbh

Still training for Red. I never stopped; this is just how long it takes.

I realized I never talked about the Blue fight. I don't entirely remember how it went down, but it was pretty intense. Just like in the championship fight against Lance, everyone on the team had their moment.

Shuckie died during the fight, though, which I'm still pretty bummed about. I got myself in a situation where I basically had to sacrifice Shuckie to save the rest of the team. Blue had his Gyarados, and it was clearly about to use Hydro Pump, and one of my guys just had to take the hit. I prayed for a miss, but alas, Shuckie got blasted.

That leaves four champions: Scyther, Lanturn, Skarmory, Beedrill.

Smeargle is still in, but things have changed in terms of her strategy. I had her all prepared with these crazy moves like Spore and Belly Drum, and all I needed left to complete the set was Baton Pass.

Unfortunately, in a nuzlocke, that's a no go. By using the typical method, where I find a wild Smeargle and use Baton Pass on it, the Smeargle will always fail to Sketch the move. The only way I can prevent it from failing is to get my own Baton Pass to fail somehow.

The only way to get Baton Pass to fail is if you only have one usable Pokémon in your party. Keyword "usable."

If Smeargle were fainted, I could get it to work. But as per the rules of a nuzlocke, if a Pokémon ever faints, it's dead.

So, yeah, that entire plan I've been formulating for Smeargle since I first caught her was all for nothing.

I tried looking for something, ANYTHING that Smeargle could do to be somewhat useful for the Red fight. All of the best moves it could possibly learn that I haven't tried before: Spikes, Lock-on, Self-destruct. None of these can be found in the wild. Even the Substitute idea fell flat on its face, because despite the fact that I did manage to catch Mr. Mime (the only thing in the game that actually learns Substitute naturally), I failed to realize that he's at too high of a level. I think they learn Sub at level 20 or something, but can only be found in the wild somewhere in the 30s. You basically have to breed for it.

All I want to do is use a Smeargle, but the game has done quite literally everything in its power to prevent me from using it.

In a fit of frustration and desperation, I decided to make an extremely rash decision: I was gonna have Smeargle learn Guillotine from a Krabby.

This is extremely dangerous for obvious reasons. Wild Krabby (or Kingler) can be fished for with a Super Rod at level 40, and in their moveset, they will have Guillotine (a move that will instantly kill Smeargle if she gets hit by it).

To minimize chances of death, I took my second Gastly along (the one I caught in Tin Tower). Since she's immune to Guillotine, I was gonna use her to reduce Guillotine's PP. That way, Smeargle only has to dodge a single Guillotine instead of the two she would have otherwise (since Sketch only has one PP itself).

This Gastly ended up dying because I did something stupid. We've come full circle, at least. Twenty deaths; a full box of deceased warriors. The first death of the run was a Gastly, too.

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I later discovered that one-hit KO moves in this game work almost the same as they did in Gen I. Basically, there was no actual chance for Smeargle to die. But still, I TOTALLY though I was risking poor Smeargle's life there, completely unnecessarily. This run has done things to me.

There's no telling when I'll be finished training, but I don't particularly enjoy the grind. It might even be until fucking summer.

Oh, and if you're wondering who I replaced Shuckle with, I brought back Kurama the Vulpix. I still can't use a Fire Stone on him, which fucking sucks fat dick, but I don't know who else to use, really. I'll let him take out his frustration with me against Red.

Lastly, my final encounters of the game are:
Route 28 - Tangela (which ran away, not that I cared to have it).
Mt. Silver - another Donphan.

Why wouldn't people just go to ISPs that don't do that?

because it's not that easy

most people don't have access to more than one or maybe two providers, so they don't have a choice

Why is that linked to a Minecraft Lets play channel?

it isn't?

I kind of skipped through it so basically the guy crept into her bed and then she threw a cup at him? What's the big deal?

>skipping through a 60 second clip

look at her fucking outfit

i've been to more foreign countries than i have been to US states, which is kind of strange

i don't travel often

Quote from: Verbatim on December 01, 2017, 09:56:02 AM

Quote from: MarKhan on December 01, 2017, 09:10:12 AM

How this is an anime?

that's like asking "how are trees plants"

But this might be a videogame and not an anime. Or games with such graphics are "anime" in your definition too?

it's xenoblade chronicles 2, and i'm using anime as an adjective

video games have been infused with anime for decades, it's not really weird to describe them as such

How this is an anime?

that's like asking "how are trees plants"

if this video doesn't turn you into a misanthrope, throw yourself off a bridge