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kafus · 6 months

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okay so about that funny candice gym battle

i was looking at my team and considering my game plan into candice and i realized that i could solo her entire team with my clefable. Waffle, my clefable, is running fire blast/focus blast/moonlight/cosmic power, with zoom lens. i didn't INTEND for this to be a candice counter in particular, fire/fighting just patched up some big coverage holes in my team and i thought using zoom lens in a casual playthrough was objectively funny.

but candice leads with her relatively underpowered sneasel, which means i could just… stack 6 cosmic powers to max out my defense and special defense, moonlight off the damage, and then start launching super effective fire blasts and focus blasts at her pokemon until they were burned into the ground LOL. waffle is even male, so the sneasel got easily infatuated with cute charm, causing it to do even less damage to him as i set up. and it worked, i was able to solo with waffle even though he was level 42 at the start of the battle, not overleveled at all (candice has pokemon in the low 40s, her ace froslass is level 44)

of course since fire blast and focus blast are not STAB moves on clefable, and its special attack is good but not AMAZING or anything, a couple of her pokemon took two hits to defeat (though it was close to a 1 hit on both!). sneasel was a 1 hit with focus blast and the following abomasnow was a 1 hit with fire blast, but after that her froslass (which she sent out before the piloswine for some reason) was a 2 hit with fire blast and her piloswine was a 2 hit with either move.

the zoom lens enabled me to hit fire blast twice despite snow cloak in the hail + a single use of double team making froslass' evasion Really High, i actually only missed it once - and piloswine wasn't an issue at all, though the last turn of the battle was incredibly funny since piloswine landed an earthquake crit which KO'd my clefable that was already low from hail and blizzard chip, but the last remaining fire blast i had used that turn got the burn on piloswine, which happened to knock it out at the end of the same turn. i wasn't expecting this to happen and i scrambled to get my phone to take a pic of the defeat dialogue as usual but i was late and only got the money screen. however it's funny because uh

well there's no pokemon on my side of the field LMAO BC WAFFLE FAINTED

anyway everyone be really proud of Waffle for succeeding at one of the funniest candice battles of all time

#kiki was here #kiki.txt #kiki plays games #pt playthrough

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kariachi · 3 months

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Have finished playing Monster Hunter Stories 2. My 'it's half-past midnight let me live' thoughts

These fuckers need to stop making me cry, it's rude

Final squad was made up of a Rathalos, Lagiacrus, Pukei-Pukei, Mitzutsune, Barioth, and Nargacuga

Once again the good guys in games are nicer and more forgiving than me, also rude

They dropped a monster I swear I hadn't seen before in front of me on my way to the final boss, this is illegal

The pickle wasn't bad enough they had to add Bazelgeuse to the game too

We would have had a lot less problems if I was allowed unrestricted use of my bow, I'm just saying

Pukei-Pukei are wonderful, if you don't agree you are wrong, I switched to mine so often that the call 'Lao~sin, get in here' is indelibly etched into my brain

Supposedly this is a 35 hour game. I took 83. Make of this what you will.

I overleveled but also used like no channeling or supplements or anything so I think it evened out

For the second game in a row they gave us a final boss I want to ride into battle and did not make it ride-into-battle-able, rude

For some reason the audio in my cutscenes didn't work like 80% of the time, it'd just be all out of sync

Despite this and the fact that I audibly growled over my cutscenes and cussed out many characters like they'd beat my dog in front of me, I really did enjoy this game and heartily recommend it to anybody into turn-based rpgs and/or critter collectors

Hopefully your brain functions better than mine because dear gods the number of times I switched in a monstie on the wrong corner of rock-paper-scissors because my brain threw out the corner I should be gunning for before it finished thinking it needed to know what to gun for and that just threw my everything off

The baby monsties are adorable, especially the Nerscylla, and yet I cannot just keep them small as like little pets. Truly the rudest and most illegal thing of all.

#achi plays #monster hunter stories 2

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thelemonsnek · 4 months

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Mentioned it a few times, so here's a section from my outline detailing how Jon's copy of pokemon white got marked by every entity!!

- Ingo popping in on the archives: hey Jon :) good news I found my brother, he has a subway now too :)

- Jon: HOLD ON. FROM BLACK AND WHITE POSTGAME?

- them: what's black and white

- Jon: dw about it

- Ingo gets his hands on Jon's copy of pokemon white <3

- they both keep playing with anime logic when the games run on stats shdj

- Emmet gets angry at it bc he can't beat himself in game

- he also keeps having to wipe dirt off the screen, and suddenly the cars look much..older. There's dirt, piled in the corners, the windows seem darker, the lights a little dimmer. The dimensions of the cars seem to get smaller, tighter the further you progress

- Ingo finds himself conducting the same battle again, and again, and again...and again......and again...........and again.....................

- the train just loops the same empty car no matter how many times he tries to walk through it, just like his own domain

- the game cartridge becomes a spooky artifact! Buried/spiral so far :)

- Jon gets it back and is like hey what the FUCK did you guys do to this

- Ingo and Emmet: uhh. We played it a little

- so Jon plays it a bit to see what exactly they did and marks it for beholding

- the player character looks a little too much like you for comfort, and the npcs will respond to the little quips you say to the screen, almost like they know you, and they know they're in a video game

- anyways it becomes something of a running gag that Jon keeps lending the game out to avatars and it gets marked

- Jonah losing his mind watching his Archivist's nintendo ds pick up marks faster than his actual archivist but unable to do anything about it

- the web: well I wasn't expecting this but I am certainly not complaining

- corruption is paras. Jon doesn't know when it happened. Curio and I don't even know when it happened. Does it truly matter though? The threat of paras is constant and omnipresent

- Jude: I want you...to give me your game

- Jon: what?

- Jude: you hurt my feelings earlier. I want you to give me your game

- so Jon gives her the game and she plays it and marks it for desolation (and when she's giving it back to him, thoroughly burns his hand)

- there's no way to predict trainer levels anymore, and there's a chance before every battle that it'll just be wildly too powerful for you, no matter how much you think you're overleveled, but you can't flee and instead just have to sit there and watch, utterly helpless, as your team is demolished. When they die in this way, they are permanently gone from the game and there's not even a record left of them. The burn status condition is also permanent and can't be healed

- Mike also gets his hands on Jon's game and marks it for the vast :) now if you attempt to use fly to avoid the hellscape that traversing this game is becoming, it's just an endless sky. Your character on their pokemon becomes smaller, and smaller, and smaller....until eventually, there's simply nothing but you, the player, and the blue sky, slowly overtaking your vision. It also gives you a sense of vertigo

- Nikola plays it and marks it for stranger while Jon is kidnapped. The humanoid pokemon (ex sawk) sometimes have dialogue during battles, and certain avatars just look off from what you remember. A few pixels out of place turning a loveable favorite into something other. Mr mime rates increase significantly, despite the fact they shouldn't be available until postgame

- when Jon is in his coma, Oliver picks up the ds off his bedside table and runs a quick nuzlocke. Pokemon die now ! When they die in this way they go to your box, unselectable and just taking up space, a record of your failures

- one day Daisy is bored and agitated so Jon is like FINE HERE. And she starts Hunting shinies and it gets out of hand

- Melanie sees Jon handing out his game to everyone and assumes it's just for anyone to play, so she takes it too and sweeps all the gyms with a stupidly overleveled team and type advantages. Slaughter mark :)

- when Jon gets a rib removed Jared also wants to play

- an alert now occasionally pops onscreen "you seem to be getting hungry! Better grab a snack :)" and if you don't take care of it fast enough (you never can, there's never enough time) there's a short animation of your avatar releasing a random member of your party and eating it. Then a little while later, "you seem to be getting hungry! Better grab a snack :)" again and again until your party roster is empty

- to calm Manuela down they sit her in front of the game like an ipad kid (it works)

- the light part of the day cycle lasts for such a short amount of time now, and the nights are so, so much darker. Flash doesn't work right anymore, it only makes things darker and darker. Something seems to move in the darkness

- he gives it to Martin, because surely Martin wouldn't do anything awful to his beloved game

- Peter Lukas watches Martin play over his shoulder

- now, sometimes, if your pokemon don't think you're good enough, they'll leave you. At first it's based off of friendship, makes you think if you can just be good enough then they'll stay. Except, even when you are perfect, they keep leaving, until you start wondering, I can't be doing anything wrong. Is the problem just me?

- and all that leaves now is the web

- and it's here we should take a moment to acknowledge what a coincidence it is, that all these avatars actually sat down and played this game. That they took enough time with it to leave a true mark, and that Jon's first instinct was to always offer this game as something of a peace offering, rather than force the avatars he met into submission by force. And really, isn't it rather incredible that this little thing survived all this? Jude's fire, Jared's flesh, everything that was thrown at it?

- coincidence, or a tiny spider sat upon her web in an empty battery compartment, ensuring that it always fell into just the wrong hands?

- some of these events also happen out of order to the canon timeline. Jon tries not to think about it too hard. Public transit is rather notorious for not following any sort schedule, and Ingo's subway is no different :)

- anyways cut to the safehouse. Jon is like "finally. I have some time to myself to see what the hell these people did to my game" so he sits down and plays it, and somehow despite everything about it, he beats the elite four and makes it to the Plasma takeover

- except this time, it's...worse. The gym leaders never come to hold off the sages, and there is no room to stop and heal his pokemon. N is absent from the game, leaving only Ghestis, who's sole desire is to be king of a ruined world

- Jon loses against Ghestis, and instead of respawning with full health like normal, Ghestis wins. And the world ends :)

#pokemon #tma au #subway boss ingo #subway boss emmet #submas #the magnus archives #jon tma #my writing #lemon yemon #:]

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yuseirra · 4 months

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hope youre doing better :(

after the stuff with projmoon snowballed into... wildly gesturing at the witch hunts... yeah, it makes complete sense to just be so. distraught, over it all.

i hope one day you can feel safe to be on twitter, especially given how much of a big network it was for artists, or be able to find a new network that is just as good. and i hope you stay safe, and find comfort in p3r, given how soon it is to release :)

your art has always been really soft and beautiful, and just. i love the way your colouring works? especially after learning it is all individual strokes? between those, and the comics which are always a delight to read, even when i have no idea what the media its about is...

please stay safe

Hello anon!// I'm so happy you care about my feelings and your message is very considerate, I'm glad I could put out my feelings in words and have so many of you show care for me. It's kind of sad, on how there's people giving out the pain and they are really not the ones being affected by how I feel, whereas, I'm making a lot of people who care for my welfare worry but that's pretty much how everything goes all the time... I wish it weren't that way. I've been trying very hard to look at the good sides and remain cheerful and retain hope and be loving, as I could. However it's been a little hard lately kinda, it's been affecting me in a really bad way and I could feel it crawl up my skin so I had to let something out in order to allow me some breathing space. In order to be a good yuseirra (which I want to be) I know I have to be true to myself.

Before I begin anything, everyone's been so kind to me and I respect that. I don't hold any grudge against someone who mistreated me in person because there were none (which is what I consider to be a miracle!). To be honest, I had no reason to discard my decade old account with so many fond memories if looking at a personal standpoint. Still, I kept getting agonized because I kept encountering so many of these toxicity and cruelty being thrown at people, I wanted to do something about it but online's just not the place to go. There's always this huge-,, risk of being misunderstood here, harassed, being slandered, and being broken apart into pieces and people aren't willing to listen to each other, a lot of them jump straight into conclusions and they are so eager to decide and go strike as hard as they can because mildly put, they have something on their minds that they think are important and are very just in their own way. It may be nothing new, but it's grown in such a huge scale where I originate to the extent I just don't think it's all right to overlook. It's not fine. It's really, really bad. It's been dragging me down, so draining, making me lose hope on internet and how well it can be used as a medium to communicate, which is an idea I don't want to carry in my heart for so long...

It's a bit like treading on ice on a constant basis. I have to be very careful with my words all the time. I think I did "alright" myself (I can never be sure but I try) but seeing things happen is another thing. That alone put me in so much pain. It feels like talking to a wall. I wouldn't say I feel exactly helpless about it, but I did feel like I wasn't going to help anything the way I am now. What should I do? What could I do? I kept thinking about it, I never want to add on to that kind of behavior or add some kind of momentum to it. I won't contribute to it. I am thinking about what I can do. '-')9

Distraught.. I do think that's the word. Hehe, remember how when you're overlevelled in tartarus and you can encounter some shadows, that are all distressed? I've been playing p3p again, and it made me think about how I was feeling a little. "Distressed".. I am very distressed. And I can't say I like what's happening around me, it's not a pretty sight to look at. Overall, I am disheartened and sad.

But that doesn't mean I'm weak, or that I'm some underlevelled shadow waiting to be exterminated, oh no I'm not weak at all. It's because I am a sensitive person who cares a lot. I'm hurt because I care enough to want things to be better.

I have amazing anons and friends who've been supporting me, so I think I'll be okay in the long run. I was so happy from the messages I got yesterday and it once again helped me realize there's a lot of warmth and good in this world and that people are willing to help each other out, it's a faith I want to keep and you guys give it to me. I'm glad I can meet all of you!///

Mhm! It's a shame I stepped out of the platform but I'd like to reach more people through my art, I still have a ways to go in terms of improvement, but art's been a way to communicate with more people for me. Rn I'll take a good rest, and find comfort, recharge a bit and I'll be able to be the person I want to be/share my good sides as a human being! When you're very sad or strained, it's a lot harder to do that and some parts of you that you don't want to show off keeps rubbing off out of your words and actions. It's tragic and embarrassing when that happens...

no one is perfect. I wish people can be kinder to one another, because from what I've learned through the ages, yeah there ARE people that are irredeemable but they are the minority!! Most people want to be understood, and they have something going on that you don't really understand from your own perspective. You don't know what another person is going through, so how can you judge someone so quickly? I don't think I'll be able to do that even if I had the ability to read minds. Which is (by that I mean the mind and human psychology)a subject I was always so intrigued about. The more I learn about it, it's very complex and delicate, sometimes it tends to be foolish; but yet, aren't we all since we all are human after all?

This grew so long but I have to comment towards your compliment towards my art ;v;.. I'm glad I draw whenever I find someone who shows it a lot of affection and looks at it with much care, thank you for using those tender adjectives to describe my drawings.. "soft", "beautiful", I love it!/// Now I can see my own art that way as well! thinking yeah, that kind anon earlier, they said my art was soft, yes it's soft indeed.. hhhsh and that's wonderful.

I also want to say, I do put a lot of thought into my comics when I write the dialogues for them.. I read them over a lot to see if they make sense and have some sort of unity that wraps them all together as one! Usually I have some feeling I want to express, and a lot of the times I want to show what and how these two characters feel towards each other(on many occasions if not most, they care for one another) through it and I'm glad to know it's been giving you delight even regardless of what the original material is!! I'm glad I could make something fun even for someone who isn't familiar with the fandom too!

I will be happy to share more with you anon, recently, I feel like I'm on a bit of a roll with art! I am getting better and I think my art is growing over the years. I look forward to showing you and the others more things, so will you be here with me? :) I'll be happy to have you here!

I'll try my best to stay safe! Indeed, my choices earlier was to do just that '-')9 I want to be with you all for a long time.

See you around anon!!

Sincerely yours, Yuseirra

#asknreply #the projmoon thing...#yeah #ahhh.....#ah.. I'm kind of at a loss for words and I'm concerned to for reasons #I hope people understand how I feel about everything rn #it is really painful #but I love talking to people..I'm glad I did right now #thank you so much anon #you made me happier #and sorry the message got really long.. I had a lot to let out(months worth of words~~~~)goodness

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I would love to see the nerd essay on why you hate Nuzlockes :)

well, if it's requested...

this is ABSOLUTELY a "just me" thing but like. if there's something I don't particularly care for but am mostly ambivalent about, and that thing becomes unavoidably popular, I'm going to fucking loathe it. this is unfortunately my nature and it's the reason behind why I hate many of the things I do. (well, not exclusively for this reason. but still.)

and that's where nuzlockes come in. while there's absolutely nothing inherently wrong with em, they've been an absolute plague of the pkmn fandom for over a decade. since they hit the scene, they've been unavoidable.

at first it started with a comic. and people wanted to do it too, and make their own comic. which was fine. but soon, doing just a normal comic wasn't enough, because there were so many people doing comics that comics had to start being ~unique~ (this usually ended up being grimdark without any irony). I even vividly remember one that, for whatever reason, had a fucking sex scene. off-screen. played off as half-humorous. while the pokemon watched. now i do think sex scenes can be good, but it's a comic about playing pokemon.

on the record, i never ever looked anything up about nuzlockes. this shit was just endemic to the places i hung out, as it is was to the fandom in general. apparently part of being into nuzlockes is having to talk about nuzlockes. which is how liking stuff usually works, but it's inconveniencing ME, so I don't like it.

in the places I hung out at the time, there was this whole "pokebro" culture on nuzlockes too. a good chunk of people played nuzlockes cuz it made you "bond" with your pokemon more. they added a rule, that you had to nickname your nuzlocke mons, y'know, to make their possible death "more impactful" or something. now I'm all for personifying bits of data. so fucking guilty here too. but c'mon. it didn't help that these people dialed the drama about it up to ten, too, holding memorials for their fallen mons and such.

i actually tried a nuzlocke at this time, cuz "maybe I'm just being a hater" and it was very much not fun for me. first of all, in contrast to the "pokebro" people above, knowing that these mons could be only temporary, i "bonded" with them less. Also, even with the best strategy and well balanced team, RNG could at any time randomly punish me, and the only way to avoid that is grind n overlevel til everything is a curbstomp. Neither of those sound like good times!

at this point, there was a vibe around the entire fandom that, well, if you're replaying a pokemon game and you're not doing a nuzlocke, well it just wasn't as Good as a nuzlocke. even if you were doing something different like a mystery egg run, or a solo run, or whatever, it was inferior. god forbid you play normally, what are you, some sort of coward?

now all of this was like late 4th gen / early 5th gen. so streaming was a niche hobby at the time. but then Twitch came to town and streaming became an actual thing. and for the people who were just playing the game (instead of shiny hunting or wifi battles or whatever), they were literally all doing nuzlockes. I've basically stopped going on twitch but up until the day I did, that was always a problem. you literally could not find someone playing the game normally. and god forbid, other types of playthroughs? unthinkable.

remember before how i mentioned when everyone was doing a comic, people tried to get unique about it? happened here too. well EVERYONE'S watched a nuzlocke, so how about a ~randomizer nuzlocke~? or, now with 6th gen here, they absolutely lost their shit. not even nuzlockes anymore, they were wonderlockes! oh that's not creative enough anymore, so now we're doing wedlockes! because what nuzlockes need is forced heterosexuality. fuck it let's throw them together we're doing wonder wedlockes! we can't just have a few arbitrary rules, we need a whole book of them.

again, there's nothing inherently wrong with any ot this. but i think it's incredibly dumb. y'all's can make up rules about how you need randomly obtained wondertrade zigzagoons and ralts from fans of known pedophile thekingnappy, and how they have to be heterosexually paired off, and how if one dies the other does too for some reason, but you can't use any of that brain power to think of literally any other way to play?

and this is about when I dropped out from the Pokemon fandom to my own little corner of shiny giveaway blogs before my computer died and i had to stop doing that as well. and i absolutely refuse to interact with the general pokemon fandom these days because it is just absolutely insufferable. and I'm happier as such.

but I know Nuzlockes are still unbearably prevalent. there are people out there who have huge fanbases and make profits off of doing nuzlocke videos. and because it's by far the most popular way to play Pokemon beyond just playing it normally, there are many people who don't even know that there are sooo many other ways to possibly play! and the cycle remains unbroken and the loop will continue

i am a spiteful little beast tho. a while back (8-10 yrs ago) i was working on a custom Emerald romhack and I put a few notably difficult battles early on to literally prevent the romhack from being nuzlocked. never finished it, unfortunately, but que sera sera! wish I had. that'd have been amazing. I'd even put up a sign saying fuck nuzlockes if I were to finish it. LOL

ghrrrrhhhhghhhhh I've had that brewing for such a long time it was good to get out

(yes, I know it's Not That Deep, but don't pretend like accidentally stepping into a murky puddle in your favorite shoes wouldn't put a damper on your day.)

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kieuecaprie · 1 year

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KieueCaprie's List of Games Completed in 2023: Entry 5

#5: Super Mario RPG (SNES)

Started: Sometime in 2022 Finished: 17/1/23

This game was on my backlog for a very, very, very, very, very, very, VERY long time. It wasn't until I was prompted by a friend of mine to play through it that I finally decided that it was time to experience The Game That Has Geno In It™ and The Very First Time Mario Starred In An RPG™.

I can pretty much say that I loved playing through it, despite the severe lack of difficulty (probably helped by me not being a little child who wouldn't have much game sense developed at that point), everything that was placed before me could be overcome with a bit of strategy and some overlevelling thanks to the invulnerability stars and fighting through a good portion of encounters.

It also has that feel that I just know is in the blood of many a quirky JRPG of this day in terms of writing, it all just oozes character, and it also makes me sad that these days, anything RPG-related with Mario involves having every NPC be a Toad and calling it a day. I can probably remember certain characters in SMRPG better than a character in, say, Sticker Star.

And the music's still a banger, even by today's standards, albeit tainted by the likes of YTPs and the funny guy reading that one wikipedia article that I'll refuse to mention.

And Geno was pretty cool as well, not gonna lie. Before I was a little sad that he kept getting shafted by Nintendo but now I'm just a little bit more sadder knowing full well that Nintendo are doing the bare minimum to acknowledge his existence (Seriously, he should've gotten a deluxe Mii costume instead of the not-so-good costume ported from Smash 4).

All in all, I like this game, what more can I really say about it? Well, I guess I can better understand why people like this funny Mario RPG so much, so there's that.

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