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Among other errands to run, Mom had to stop at the bank yesterday afternoon. I've had a total of $217 saved up in my wallet (not counting what I've spent eating out), in exchange for all the work I've helped her and Dad with, that I was planning to spend in Boston instead of using my debit card. However, all I really plan to bring up with Brian right now is that email exchange I had with Chelle before, and right now, I just don't feel like working on anything Lucky Star-related, so I might as well just wait until whenever he comes home.

On our way there, traffic got kinda slow around the corner, so I hopped out to buy myself a lotto ticket at a nearby gas station, before heading the rest of the way there on foot. Mom had beaten me there and greeted me outside the front door, but told me later that she had waited less than a minute for me there.

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Pia Undo, as a Puella Magi and assimilated to Madoka Magica. (Got two comments and four faves right after posting.)

http://dmxrated.deviantart.com/art/Magical-Girl-Pia-Undo-613146533

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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.

-Just three months ago

Yes, it was the removal of that fic that soon led me to check the discussion page under that trope I found the games under. That probably would have occurred to me all the way back then if I was in a better mindset to begin with, which I most likely would have been if either Leafeon had remained on Pokemon.com longer than it did, I actually read some instructions carefully (assuming it even did specify a deadline to obtain it) or otherwise made a point of setting up the Global Link in White earlier than I did*, or if I wasn't stupid enough to default back to Pokemon in the first place following my disappointment with Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure, which I played in search of a more standard RPG that would have a definitive end and wouldn't cost real-life money for in-game features after trying out Gardens of Time and DDTank on Facebook.

(*Could have done that during our week upstate in May that year, but the amount of time I had to myself there was a lot more conducive for how complicated things had gotten where I already was in Diamond than what relatively little time we had spent in Virginia four months later.)

Just googled "Pokemon A.I. cheats", and there are all kinds of experiences people have shared in several different fora, and even one video showcasing how broken the RNG in the Battle Maison in X/Y really is. However, there are certain detractors, one of which explains how the A.I. really works (Sept. 3, 2014), but the video pauses the footage after some pretty damning evidence starting here. How does one explain the use of an Ice move against a resistant Water-type Pokemon with more than half its HP left, instead of a super-effective electrical move more than likely also in its moveset, when Earth and Dragon are just two of now eighteen types of Pokemon that anyone can have, along with the Ice-resistant Ice and Metal types that would still be vulnerable to electricity and would still take normal damage (as opposed to less-than-effective) from water? Not to mention that not only could Azumarill not be frozen after having just been paralyzed, but Lanturn is part-Thunder, and whatever matching moves it had would have been even stronger due to something called the Same-Type Attack Bonus.

If I was in a better frame of mind when I read about A.I. cheating in Pokemon, I would have at least tested things out in the Battle Tower in Diamond, recording my battles, and examining everything that would go on. This, however... is just inexcusable.

On top of that, there were also two people who described their experiences when they tested things out using savestates. Don't getting me started on everything else people have had to say. It's pretty much safe to say that these games really are dishonest.

So, maybe abandoning and eventually selling all those games really was the right thing to do, and buying Black just the other day was indeed a mistake.

Funny, though. A paradox consisting of bullshit like this and worlds and events to enjoy was what fueled my inspiration for Parasitic Trio. I've only lightly considered any plans for a second ficseries, though, and I don't have the drive anymore to write PT.

So, fuck the games, and this isn't the first time I've declared the ficseries dead. Pokemon itself is dead to me.