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Dec. 26th, 2014 06:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmxratedMostly got chocolate and money for Christmas this year, but also a few other things. One of them was this Lucky Star book published for the franchise's 10th anniversary. Meanwhile, here's what I got everyone else this year:
Marie: A set of drinking glasses. Having had to drink out of jars at her apartment on Thanksgiving was awkward, to say the least.
Brian: All five volumes of Avatar: The Last Airbender: Book 1: Water. Noticed volume 4 at Savers recently, and decided from there to buy the other four volumes on Ebay.
Mom: A gas card for $50. Same thing she had me get for her father's birthday last summer.
Dad: A fan that Mom found at Savers recently.
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Mom brought us three kids down to Smith Point after lunch. During the way there and our actual time there, I spoke to Brian about what I wrote regarding Pokemon and Digimon. He had all kinds of things to say about several different points, but he pretty much confirmed that having let go of Parasitic Trio was basically the most practical thing to do in favor of better pursuits.
Arriving there, we spotted a deer. We were planning to walk down the beach again, but it turned out to be too windy to do so.
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Ironic, isn't it. That Parasitic Trio was what made me want to play my own personal games for a fic, made a few of the franchise's characters grow onto me, and at the same time made me realize how flawed the games actually are. The last of those is what made me stop playing the games after completing Diamond, and I gradually lost interest in Pokemon altogether from there in favor of Starbound.
I think it's that I wish I could continue playing the games given how unique they tend to be, but I'd rather not deal with all the things I see wrong with them. The last straw, which actually had nothing to do with PT, was learning on TV Tropes how the Battle Towers, Frontiers, and Subways hijack their games' random number generators in your opponents' favor the higher a winning streak you accumulate.
Really, though, it's probably for the better that they're officially behind me. They consume time, and all the external stuff involved is expensive (and so would be a Nintendo 3DS). I've already just sold all my games and guides, and learning that Red and Silver had each at some point become defective, and that Nintendo's wi-fi service for gens IV and V has been recently discontinued, doesn't help either.
Marie: A set of drinking glasses. Having had to drink out of jars at her apartment on Thanksgiving was awkward, to say the least.
Brian: All five volumes of Avatar: The Last Airbender: Book 1: Water. Noticed volume 4 at Savers recently, and decided from there to buy the other four volumes on Ebay.
Mom: A gas card for $50. Same thing she had me get for her father's birthday last summer.
Dad: A fan that Mom found at Savers recently.
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Mom brought us three kids down to Smith Point after lunch. During the way there and our actual time there, I spoke to Brian about what I wrote regarding Pokemon and Digimon. He had all kinds of things to say about several different points, but he pretty much confirmed that having let go of Parasitic Trio was basically the most practical thing to do in favor of better pursuits.
Arriving there, we spotted a deer. We were planning to walk down the beach again, but it turned out to be too windy to do so.
-----
Ironic, isn't it. That Parasitic Trio was what made me want to play my own personal games for a fic, made a few of the franchise's characters grow onto me, and at the same time made me realize how flawed the games actually are. The last of those is what made me stop playing the games after completing Diamond, and I gradually lost interest in Pokemon altogether from there in favor of Starbound.
I think it's that I wish I could continue playing the games given how unique they tend to be, but I'd rather not deal with all the things I see wrong with them. The last straw, which actually had nothing to do with PT, was learning on TV Tropes how the Battle Towers, Frontiers, and Subways hijack their games' random number generators in your opponents' favor the higher a winning streak you accumulate.
Really, though, it's probably for the better that they're officially behind me. They consume time, and all the external stuff involved is expensive (and so would be a Nintendo 3DS). I've already just sold all my games and guides, and learning that Red and Silver had each at some point become defective, and that Nintendo's wi-fi service for gens IV and V has been recently discontinued, doesn't help either.