January 2012
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March 2010
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Crestwd: Spring Year 3
All of my planting paid off. I was finally able to ship 100 of every crop and unlock wheat. I planted a few bundles. They have yet to sprout or do anything. Apparently they stay in the seed stage for a month. I don’t know whether to water the wheat or just poke it with a stick.
Toward the end of the season all of my strawberries died. All of them. And I had a lot of strawberry plants. I thought...
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Year 3 in Sunshine Islands
I bit off a bit more than I could chew this spring. I planted a lot. I guess it was because my watering can is upgraded and I can water nine squares at a time, so I thought it would be easy to take care of everything. I thought wrong. I have been up until 4am watering and harvesting for the last two nights in a row. After four the sun creeps up. I scurry off to bed and somehow managed to rise at...
February 2010
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January 2010
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Harvest Moon
I’ve never played Harvest Moon. I’ve heard about it for years. You farm. You raise animals. You befriend villagers, get married and eventually have a kid. It sounds like a novel animal crossing type game sans the animal villagers.
I finally rented Harvest Moon Sunshine Islands from Gamefly. Initially I was a little bored and confused by the game. I didn’t have the instruction manual, so I wasn’t...
November 2009
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Got My Gyarados! →
Follow the link and hit the LOAD button if you’re even remotely curious about the stats I settled on. His speed IV is actually a 31 (based on his “characteristic”)
Day 3 on the 赤いギャラドス hunt
赤いギャラドス: 20 or so ユミカ: 0
I didn’t play the original gameboy color games, so I never got the shiny gyarados. I have decided that this one needs to have awesome stats (unlike my few other shinies).
I have been soft resetting for a “good” red gyarados in Soul Silver since Friday night. I have a jolly ralts synchronizer in the lead to aid in the acquisition of a good nature. Unfortunately they are...
August 2009
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Let’s see, what have I been up to?
On a foolish whim I preordered a Japanese copy of Pokémon Heart Gold for myself. I don’t speak Japanese. Don’t let my 1 ½ quarters in college fool you. That preorder warranted a crash course in Japanese, so I have picked up my copy of My Japanese Coach in earnest this time. I have to at least be able to recognize the hiragana by September 12! (or shortly...
July 2009
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Still playing Devil Survivor. On day 6. Slooooowly leveling up my monsters for the final confrontation on day 7.
Today My Life as a Darklord came out as WiiWare. I couldn’t help it, I had 1100 points on my account (it costs 1000) so I bought it. I have recently become enamored with tower defense games (namely Crystal Defenders which I bought for my iPhone, not the WiiWare version). My Life...
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Devil Survivor
So, the video game front has been slow. I started working on a website which seriously cut into my play time. I haven’t turned Kingdom Hearts on since the end of June. I did pick up a game while I was in Los Angeles: Shin Megami Tensei Devil Survivor for the DS. It got good pre-release marks in Nintendo Power, and the BF has tried to find other Shin Megami games at Gamestop on several...
June 2009
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I’m still playing Kingdom Hearts. I’m not very good at action games. I’ve got two left thumbs. LOL. I play a little bit each day and take 6 tries to defeat each boss. OK, so the last two I have gotten lucky with and killed in one try. I’m reluctant to play the mini games though. I usually SUCK at mini games.
My german copy of pokémon platinum arrived and I started to play...
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Side Project
I’ve always wanted to play Kingdom Hearts, but never have. 358/2 Days is coming out in September for the DS and it looks awesome, so I picked up the first one at Gamestop for $10 ($4 after the $6 card I had). I’m liking it so far, but the camera angles can be a little annoying.
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Well, I feel cheated. After spending all that time breeding and training my team for the little battle, I found out it only goes up to rank four. I tried double battle and single battle. Unless I’m missing something, rank four is the highest. My strategy guide (yes I bought it…) says it goes up to rank eight. It lied to me!
I need a new conquest. What should I try now?
Li'l Battle: Beaten
At least two of the eight levels anyway. By the end of EV training all of my Pokémon I gave up. The magnemite got a chunk of vitamins, a few fights, and then was sent on his merry way to fight. I think I need to take a break from breeding and training for a bit.
After beating the first level of the little cup I was slightly disappointed. I didn’t get a new pass or a new outfit or anything....
I’ve even been slacking (no pun intended) on the Pokémon front. I haven’t done anything new with Platinum. I’m still working on my Li’l team. They’re all done except for the croagunk and magnemite. Hopefully by the end of the weekend I can take them for a spin on battle revolution.
I found out something this morning. It is best not to attempt the survival battle when seriously tired. That wheel is hard to hit. Nevertheless, I prevailed and healed everyone in time for my fiftieth battle. I took out Krueger and his evil shuckle and promptly saved. With fifty battles under my belt it’s time to finish my little team…
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My next battle revolution project was going to be to take on the little battle. I have begun breeding what I lovingly refer to as my Li’l rain dance team. I thought I might make a mini version of what I’m using in my standard battling team. However, I am easily sidetracked.
I started breeding chinchous today. I’m trying to get a calm one that knows confuse ray and thunder wave (and will...
May 2009
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Masters Set 8: Beaten
I finally beat set 8 of the masters battle on battle revolution. My prior attempts had left me ready to hurl the wii mote. Mysterial’s Kyogre outruns a 30 IV 252 EV Timid Jolteon and a hasty Darkrai. Since Kyogre has a base 90 speed I figured he had to be holding a choice scarf. He uses Water Spout which usually kills both pokémon in one hit. He then proceeds to annihilate the other two that...
Gambling Addicts R Us →
lame.
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The daily lottery came through for me today with a little help from my VGC Milotic. I actually matched three numbers for a change and got an EXP Share. Woo! Now if only I could get the master ball…
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New Lows
I’ve been attempting to “organize” my Pokémon and figure out what I have where and if any of them are any good. So I made a spreadsheet. Some of the Pokémon I’ve looked at are downright depressing. My poor Mewtwo, a pokémon with one of the highest special attacks in the game, has a careful nature. Careful raises his special defense by 10% and lowers his special attack by 10%. (ugh!) To...
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After cycling endlessly through pokéboxes, it appears that the only pokémon I’m missing from My Pokémon Ranch is the female combee. Here bee!
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Today’s project was catching all of the Unown in Platinum. I have all of them but Z. Where oh where is my Z?
Z obtained. I got all of the Unown. And for all of my hard work all I received was a question mark, exclamation point, and rare candy. I suppose I get letters to put on pokéballs, but I haven’t picked those up yet. Finally I can spell Bif!
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I may as well expand my unused rain team, so I’m soft resetting Emerald for a good nature/IV Kyogre. It’s not going so well. Careful? I think not.
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Sigh
All that work and no play! My stupid Mr. Mime wristband did not get selected for the Pokémon tournament. Casey’s Nidoking wristband however, was.
He got through two battles, lost the second one and then lucked out and got to battle again because someone didn’t show up. He lost after the 4th (second for that series) match and all we got to show for it were our shiny Milotics and a...
Kaboom
I’m playing the slots in Platinum to get explosion. God I hate clefairy now.
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Filb.de - Pokémon News - Pocket Monsters HeartGold... →
OK, so it’s in German. Babelfish it. It says that they’re rereleasing pokémon gold and silver. Awesome!
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Team Quirks
I’ve been testing my team using battle revolution which isn’t exactly an accurate representation of what it may face, but helps nonetheless. My team did well until I beat the game. Once I attempted stargazer colosseum master battles it became apparent that I had gaps in my team.
I don’t have any ground-type moves. I don’t have flying-type moves (even though I have a flier) and I don’t have any...
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Just when I thought I was done breeding, now I’m hatching eggs for the boyfriend. LOL.
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My Rain Dance Team
Crobat—“Vayu”
Nature: Timid
Ability: Steadfast
Held Item: Life Orb
Moves
Rain Dance
Roost
Sludge Bomb
Nasty Plot
Kingdra—“Naga”
Nature: Adamant
Ability: Swift Swim
Held Item: Lum Berry—May change to???
Moves
Rain Dance
Dragon Dance
Waterfall
Outrage
Jolteon—“Indra”
Nature: Timid
Ability: Volt Absorb
Held Item: Enigma Berry—May change to???
Moves
Helping Hand—changing to either...
I am done breeding! Yay! Now for EV training
stupid stupid zubats
April 2009
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After uncountable hours hatching eggs (from SLC alllll the way to SF) I finally have a really good Scyther.
I got a passable Bronzor finally. But, after 10 hours of breeding while riding in the car, all of my Scythers have been crap. Will I ever have a team?
Breeding Bronzors on Pokémon Pearl. I thought it would be quick and easy to get an impish one with levitate. 30 Bronzors later and all of my impish ones have heatproof.