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Mar. 16th, 2016 08:19 amHad a civil service exam last Saturday. Was set on unwinding from my stay at Brian's with Getter Love!! afterwards, but I didn't want to get started right before going to the gym with Mom, and it was already evening when we came home.
Fell sick the next day, but attempted two rounds. First ended with a failed attempt to confess my love to Kiiro. In the second, I was supposed to meet Makoto at the Game Corner in the second morning, but ended up hitting the Karaoke Corner instead even after double-checking (they both comprise the Panda Amusement Center together), and just turned the game off before she could chew me out. Never played any further rounds, given how poorly I could keep it together in such a frame of mind as I was in.
(Funny, isn't it? That I start feeling ill from pollen just days after me and Brian watched that episode of Lucky Star where Soujiro struggles with a pollen-induced allergy attack.)
Spent the rest of that day and the next reading the rest of my Pokemon ORAS guide. Nothing ever came to mind for Parasitic Trio, but I might chalk that up to trying to digest everything it has to offer at once.
I also began wondering if I should get back into Pokemon after all. I mean, while the concept of Mega Evolution did interest me, certain other things like O-Powers and Pokemon-Amie just seem rather convoluted without any actual gameplay experience. However, this issue has only ever come up whenever Pokemon itself becomes relevant in any way, the last time being months ago when Marie ordered me to write something in exchange for writing help, and the previous time almost a year earlier after I sold all my Pokemon stuff, and the answer has been no each time. There is no point trying to build up a team and set a battle record if the game is gonna hijack itself to make sure you lose at some point before you do so naturally. That's not a challenge; that's just a fucking insult, as if the game is sitting perched upon a ledge looking down on you and shouting "Sucker!" Plus, I've been so much better off ever since I abandoned the games, with more time and money to devote to other things, and there are at least six other (existing) games I've got plans for right now.
And yes, this does extend back to Gen I, via Pokemon Stadium. I bought that game specifically to utilize everything I had captured and raised in Red, but ended up barely playing it even without all that, because neither transfer pak that I bought for it worked and I wasn't sure if buying another copy would have made any difference either. That, in turn, is also why I never bothered with Pokemon Stadium 2 after completing Crystal a year later.
I'm also afraid that if I did get back into a series of games that I abandoned for good reasons in the first place, I might also lose control of my impulses in general and give Cries Unheard an unwarranted second chance. I don't look for every little thing wrong with something, which is why I rely on Chelle to beta-read stuff I write or commission for, and also why it took me so damn long to realize everything wrong with Pokemon and still a good few chapters into CU to find even more stuff wrong with that fic than I posted in those first three reviews. However, I do expect at least some level of integrity in what I consume, and there was a fic I ditched right away upon noticing Miyuki saying "yeah," a word that her vocabulary does not include. (Kagami is still guilty of exactly the first thing presented here, Miyuki herself even mentions that she overheard certain things from her father that Satoshi so decided to ask her for, and the whole thing makes about as much sense as Disney's Pinnochio.)
Like, if you were related to, I dunno, Michael Jordan, would that automatically mean that you're good at basketball?
-The Angry Video Game Nerd, barely five minutes into his Hong Kong '97 video. And yes, I've also taken some time yesterday to (almost) catch up on that, leaving off on that one. Good thing I haven't been on top of that so much ever since he announced a break to focus on his movie following his Spielberg games video, especially given how relatively few of them he's been putting out ever since. If I were feeling a lot better right now than I still am, I'd already be down to business with my Starbound agenda, although I would count these days of barely doing anything enough as decompression from my time at Brian's place.
Fell sick the next day, but attempted two rounds. First ended with a failed attempt to confess my love to Kiiro. In the second, I was supposed to meet Makoto at the Game Corner in the second morning, but ended up hitting the Karaoke Corner instead even after double-checking (they both comprise the Panda Amusement Center together), and just turned the game off before she could chew me out. Never played any further rounds, given how poorly I could keep it together in such a frame of mind as I was in.
(Funny, isn't it? That I start feeling ill from pollen just days after me and Brian watched that episode of Lucky Star where Soujiro struggles with a pollen-induced allergy attack.)
Spent the rest of that day and the next reading the rest of my Pokemon ORAS guide. Nothing ever came to mind for Parasitic Trio, but I might chalk that up to trying to digest everything it has to offer at once.
I also began wondering if I should get back into Pokemon after all. I mean, while the concept of Mega Evolution did interest me, certain other things like O-Powers and Pokemon-Amie just seem rather convoluted without any actual gameplay experience. However, this issue has only ever come up whenever Pokemon itself becomes relevant in any way, the last time being months ago when Marie ordered me to write something in exchange for writing help, and the previous time almost a year earlier after I sold all my Pokemon stuff, and the answer has been no each time. There is no point trying to build up a team and set a battle record if the game is gonna hijack itself to make sure you lose at some point before you do so naturally. That's not a challenge; that's just a fucking insult, as if the game is sitting perched upon a ledge looking down on you and shouting "Sucker!" Plus, I've been so much better off ever since I abandoned the games, with more time and money to devote to other things, and there are at least six other (existing) games I've got plans for right now.
And yes, this does extend back to Gen I, via Pokemon Stadium. I bought that game specifically to utilize everything I had captured and raised in Red, but ended up barely playing it even without all that, because neither transfer pak that I bought for it worked and I wasn't sure if buying another copy would have made any difference either. That, in turn, is also why I never bothered with Pokemon Stadium 2 after completing Crystal a year later.
I'm also afraid that if I did get back into a series of games that I abandoned for good reasons in the first place, I might also lose control of my impulses in general and give Cries Unheard an unwarranted second chance. I don't look for every little thing wrong with something, which is why I rely on Chelle to beta-read stuff I write or commission for, and also why it took me so damn long to realize everything wrong with Pokemon and still a good few chapters into CU to find even more stuff wrong with that fic than I posted in those first three reviews. However, I do expect at least some level of integrity in what I consume, and there was a fic I ditched right away upon noticing Miyuki saying "yeah," a word that her vocabulary does not include. (Kagami is still guilty of exactly the first thing presented here, Miyuki herself even mentions that she overheard certain things from her father that Satoshi so decided to ask her for, and the whole thing makes about as much sense as Disney's Pinnochio.)
Like, if you were related to, I dunno, Michael Jordan, would that automatically mean that you're good at basketball?
-The Angry Video Game Nerd, barely five minutes into his Hong Kong '97 video. And yes, I've also taken some time yesterday to (almost) catch up on that, leaving off on that one. Good thing I haven't been on top of that so much ever since he announced a break to focus on his movie following his Spielberg games video, especially given how relatively few of them he's been putting out ever since. If I were feeling a lot better right now than I still am, I'd already be down to business with my Starbound agenda, although I would count these days of barely doing anything enough as decompression from my time at Brian's place.