Were the main series Pokémon games the only games for the GB, GBC,
or GBA that had special colors instead of being just plain grey? To
this day, I’ve never seen a non-Pokémon game that had a
special-colored cartridge. I appreciate that special treatment they
got—I think it makes the games themselves feel really special, and
maybe actually did a lot to help Pokémon get to where it is today
(the most successful franchise of all time). It sounds silly, but
it’s (sadly) true that the way something is presented has more of
an effect on how it’s received than what it actually is.
Anyway, even with all their flaws, I’m glad that the Pokémon games
were presented to me as the most special games at a very early age
and that I’ve always been able to have them with me. The impression
that they made on me and my own decision to let them remain
something special and set apart from everything else in my mind
have allowed me to keep getting some sense of magic from them, and
that’s really helpful.
I really want to do right by my shiny Jolly Midnight Lycanroc with
its EV-training. I still have no idea what I should do, though.
I’ve finally managed to catch a shiny Rockruff in Ultra Moon so
that it’ll evolve into my dream shiny: Shiny Midnight Lycanroc.
I’m going to EV-train it, but I don’t know how I should. Does
anyone have any recommendations for EV distributions on a Jolly
Midnight Lycanroc?
Another tornado watch. These things put me on edge so badly.
The Ultra Wormhole is honestly ridiculous. I just encountered two
shinies back-to-back. I’ve caught twenty shinies over the last two
weeks just playing for maybe half an hour per day. There’s a very
limited selection of Pokémon, though, so seven of them are
duplicates. I don’t know if this is a typical experience or if I’m
just the Master of the Wormhole for some reason.
Well, something weird happened on Duolingo today. I was about to be
60% of the way through the course—about to finish my 33rd unit out
of 55—but now it’s saying I’m on my 65th unit.
There’s this site I bookmarked a while back that has Duolingo
course data, and there has always been data for two different
Swedish courses listed, and it’s frequently updated and says that
it’s been updated today, but it has the same info for both Swedish
courses that it’s always had.
I guess I must’ve been switched from the 55-unit course to the
97-unit course. I don’t know why, though.
The units appear to be about half of their previous length. Which
isn’t weird. But what is weird is that I guess I’m now over 66% of
the way through the course. So, I guess the whole course is shorter
now.
Is there any way to get it back how it was? I didn’t change
anything myself. And should I be glad or disappointed that it
changed? I hope there isn’t actually less in it now.
Just got my one-year streak on Duolingo.
I’ve now managed to catch a full team of Wormhole shinies in Ultra
Moon. One legendary still eludes me, though.
I’m glad to report that I have captured Zekrom in a Quick Ball! If
I hadn’t, it probably would’ve one-shot my whole team. And I love
the aesthetic of the Quick Ball and also not having to throw dozens
of Balls like I’ve had to do with the other legendaries I’ve
encountered so far, which thankfully could not end me during the
time it took to do that because so many of them only had Psychic-
and Normal-type moves and couldn’t do anything to my little
Sableye, although I was worried about them fainting themselves with
Struggle. But I’ve surprised myself by not adding it to my team,
even though I would greatly benefit from a Pokémon that’s so much
higher-leveled than most of my team and so much stronger than
anyone on my team. I’m just very fond of the team I currently have.
So, the very first legendary I ended up encountering in Ultra Moon
is Articuno, my favorite legendary from the first generation. I
also already caught Altaria from the Ultra Wormhole, so I’m happy
to have both of my favorite blue birdies on my team now.
I’m currently resisting the urge to spend all day scouring the
Ultra Wormhole for Articuno, Cobalion, Zekrom, and Yveltal. I
remember I had Ho-Oh and Groudon on my team when I went to the
Elite Four in Ultra Sun, but this time I want to get all of my
favorite legendaries that are available. I haven’t been able to
find any legendaries yet, though, and there are other things I need
to do this week.
It’s ridiculous how easy it is to cheese Ultra Necrozma. I’ve been
severely underleveled the whole time I’ve been playing through
Ultra Moon, and it’s just gotten worse and worse even after a lot
of training, so I’ve been in a lot of really difficult fights, but
this “ultimate” fight against Ultra Necrozma was literally the
easiest fight because I just happened to have a Zoroark and an
Arbok on my team.
Zoroark in front, Arbok in back, Night Slash five times while Ultra
Necrozma spams Photon Geyser doing absolutely nothing, and that’s
it.
Why does it seem like wasps have gotten a lot bigger this year?
They were already terrifying.
I stayed up way too late because I decided to start a new game on
my old Pokémon Platinum cartridge. I was curious how it would work
without deleting my save file. It notifies you at the beginning
that have to wipe the save file from the main menu to be able to
save. So, any games that are started this way will never be able to
be saved. But I guess you could play all the way through them if
you’re a speedrunner.
I think it’s pretty neat how the older games were set up like this.
Protecting your save file but still letting you play the game again
if you just keep your console on. I just kept charging it with the
screen closed and off but my 3DS still on. I didn’t want to leave
it on while I slept, though, because it seemed like that might be
hard on it. So I turned it off after I got half of the Gym Badges.
I am kind of sad that I can’t continue that adventure now, though.
Does anyone have any recommendations for Pokémon-related content on
YouTube? I’ve been injured and need to relax and kind of not do
anything, so I could use some pleasant things to watch.
It’s really infuriating when I’m trying to tap on a specific grass
patch and then the page jumps and forces me to tap on one I already
know doesn’t have an egg.
Oh, hey, I finally hit Trainerlevel 60. I don’t really know what
that means for me, and I’ve never deliberately tried to earn
Trainerpoints, but I noticed it was taking a really long time to go
up from level 59 and thought that meant this would be a kind of
significant milestone.
Do fountain shiny boosts work on the event Gimmighoul, or do they
not work on it since its shiny chance is set at 1%?
I think I got pretty unlucky getting my Gimmicoins assigned to
Pokémon with 5,355 EHP both times.
Recently I’ve been playing a brand new copy of Pokémon X that I’ve
kept sealed in its box for years so I could open it on a day when I
really needed to be cheered up, so it’s the original version of the
game with no updates, and I’ve only just realized that means that
the online functions aren’t available and that it has some
glitches, including this really weird one where you can’t save on
the Boulevards of Lumiose City or some adjacent areas without
messing up your game.
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