Vic Boss

Vol 32/277-286

I had nothing in my party that was effective against Fire Types, so I'd just send out Centiskorch and its ability would completely nullify fire attacks.

Toxel became my main Pokemon after it evolved

Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen. Finally beat Chapter 2, started Chapter 3 and this is the one I'm most interested in. Torneko Talloon the merchant is apparently beloved character to the Dragon Quest fanbase and this is the Chapter he's introduced in. I have a sneaking suspicion that Japanese salarymen identified with him because you actually do mind a shop and probably work towards owning one of your own (I met a character in Chapter 2 who's looking to sell his shop and retire, so that might be it). Pokemon Sword ofc. Also going to start Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World whenever my sister yoinks Sword.

1. Lost Odyssey 2. Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD (Hero Mode) 3. Mega Man 11 (Normal Mode) 3a. Mega Man 11 (Superhero Mode) 4. The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings [Dark Mode] 4a Easy Mode/Roche Path 5 Pokemon Sun 6. Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD 7. Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga 8. Berserk and the Band of the Hawk *Platinum Trophy) 9. God of War 1 (Platinum Trophy) 10. DuckTales Remastered 11. God of War II (Platinum Trophy) 12. God of War: Chains of Olympus (Platinum Trophy) 13. Shadow of the Colossus (Trophy Clean-up) 14. Final Fantasy XIII (Platinum Trophy) 15. Final Fantasy XIII-2 (Platinum Trophy) 16. Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII (Platinum Trophy) 17. Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker 18. Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze 19. New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe 20. New Super Luigi U Deluxe 21. Kirby Star Allies 22. Super Smash Bros Ultimate 23. Luigi's Mansion 24. Link's Awakening 25. Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn 26. Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon 27. Pokemon Sword 32ish hours, 201 Pokemon. I did technically beat it (including the post-game final quest). I'm not finished with it yet because I do want to collect'em all and do other things in it, but it's being relegated to the game to play while listening to podcasts and not the game I'm principally focusing on. Besides the obvious complaints that long-time fans have (THEY LEFT OUT KROOKODILE REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE), it was otherwise a solid-ass Pokemon game. Catching and collecting is always fun, I fucking loved the gyms (GYMS ARE BACK) and the focus on Pokemon Battles as a competitive spectator sport. The UK-ish backgrounds were pretty as fuck. The quality-of-life additions were welcome. I think the main villain/storyline could've been more fleshed out, but it accomplished what it meant to. Team Yell was weak as fu as far as Pokemon teams are but I guess they served their purpose. Pretty good generation as far as designs go, but super-weak when it comes to the starters.

Almost 4 minutes of Jim Cornette swearing from his podcast

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Dominate? - Rhea Ripley won via cheating with interference against heel Sasha when the crowd was ready for her to straight up win clean and make her an instant star the way they want Lacey Evans to be + Roderick steals a win (that's okay, he's a heel) - Roderick had to steal a win off of someone else's finisher, doesn't win strong when most of NXT doesn't win strong over the course of the night - Roderick's entrance gets cut off before the BOOM + Adam Cole BAYBAY (BOOM) and Pete Dunne got to do their thing at least - Walter eliminated early like a fucking chump + Riddle pins RKO - Riddle pins RKO with a fluke roll-up - - - - - - - Riddle RKO'd and eliminated immediately right after - Ciampa, the top babyface of the brand, is not the last elimination of his team - Keith Lee also still loses + Shayna wins strong - In a dead match - Doesn't even kill Becky, just heel Bayley Even though they upgraded the minor league to an equal brand, it was still pussy booking to protect the "main" roster from the "minor league" roster.

Dat Eizan massacring Survivor Series

My man Vinny Mac trying to hand AEW the Wednesday Night War

E19 OH MAN

Subtract Gargano, add KO @Blackjak

190ish Pokemon, in the Champion's City now

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Takeover 1. Ripley 2. Undisputed 3. Balor 4. Dunne 5. Swerve B1. Johnny Gargano B2. Dane B3. Yes B4. Ripley B5. Johnny Gargano Survivor Series 1. Brock 2. Becky 3. TUE 4. Raw 5. NXT 6. AJ 7. Fiend 8. Cole B1. Bianca Belair, Io Shirai, Mia Yim, Candice LeRae B2. Gargano, Ciampa, Dijakovic, Riddle, Keith Lee B3. Kendo Stick B4. Bayley B5. 1 B6. 5

This is p. fun.

Do not want

Two or three albums or songs that you've been listening to lately Actually I haven't been listening to Judas, but it's pretty much just been the "Only good wrestler theme songs in AEW" collection the last little bit

Stopped in front of the fourth gym (want to wait until nightfall to get the Lemon Cream version of the Pokemon I'm evolving). 142 Pokemon caught. Team's rounded out to be Rillaboom, Toxtricity (I always read it as "Toxicity"), Malamar, Centiskorch, Bewear, and whatever Milcery will evolve into tonight. Fire-types are an issue with my team though, Bewear might get replaced at some point to cover that.

I've been using PSPrices.com lately to keep track of digital sales on console platforms. Shit's handy as fuck.

Wait, why'd they take away the GTS? o.O

They're not unrealistic expectations in that Game Freak has for the most part delivered these exact features and standards for 22 games now (not counting the five Game Boy games). Pokemon has always been like Smash Bros, kid-friendly but there's nerdy underbelly you can push your glasses up at if you want to.

Vol 31/267-276

E18

There's very few games that got people's imaginations going like the first legitimate mainline console Pokemon game, and Game Freak is not the company you expect to under-deliver up until they do. It's still Pokemon so it's still fun, but it's also still definitively the worst mainline Pokemon game for features. Pokemon Sun/Moon removed some features but kept more than it didn't, and the last game that removed Pokemon was Ruby/Sapphire in the move to the GBA, and they rectified that by re-releasing Red/Blue(Green) remakes, and the generation itself added and redefined modern Pokemon mechanics that are still used today, whereas for the most part, Sword and Shield have subtracted. Now I'm a heavy-duty fan of Diamond/Pearl so if they release those and add a lot of the Pokemon they left out, I'll probably look on this generation more favourably.