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Alright got a bit further last night than I intended, turned on today after completing the Rock Tunnel and catching my first non-Charmander pokemon, Vulpix! After a bit of trainer battling and grinding, here's what I'm looking at heading into Celadon City to take on Team Rocket and Erika.

Charizard - Level 41 - Mega Punch, Flamethrower, Wing Attack, Steel Claw
Vulpix - Level 24 - Confuse Ray, Will O Wisp, Ember, Quick Attack

The basic strategy for the moment is Vulpix leading off so she's getting some experience regardless because I really need her level up quickly. If she can take the opponent with her annoyance technique (Confuse, Burn), she does. Otherwise, swap out with Big Brother Charizard and all is well. My Charizard is an absolute beast, only fainting once his entire life, due to poisoning on the way to Mt. Moon. It is really nice to finally have a second pokemon for varity though.

Quick update for day 2. Made it through Mt. Moon with zero difficulties, beat my rival with Charmeleon only losing 17 hp for the entire fight. Beat nugget bridge and the path to Bill before taking it to Misty. Staryu got OHKO'd by Mega Punch and two hits to knock out Starmie. My hardest fight ever is already done and in the books.

Now, my level 30 Charmeleon and I are on to Vermillion City and I feel a little silly for not being psyched about getting fire type.

Quick update from my end as I just finished with Pewter City. I got lucky taking LeafGreen instead of the original Red/Blue because I totally forgot that Charmander learned Metal Claw....and that steel was super-effective against Rock. Brock and his little friend went down quickly without even having to leave to heal. I am savoring this moment because, in case I haven't mentioned it enough already, fighting Misty is really going to suck.

My Team:

Level 16 Charmeleon

....And that's it.

My eventual team is going to wind up as Charizard, Ninetails, Flareon, Magmar, Moltres and Rapidash because these are the only six fire pokemon I can think of in LeafGreen. (Stupid Growlithe/Archanine and your exclusivity.)

Was actually pulling for poison, but I suppose I can live with beastly fire types. The Misty fight is going to suck though.

I'm in! Leaf Green.

Just like they did before release with the other four classes, Gearbox has put the Mechromancer skill tree up on the Borderlands website so people can get a feel for the character before it drops.

Mechromancer

Looks to be a lot of fun, honestly. I'm really excited for this and it looks like they decided to go a different direction and take a risk or two with this class. She's definitely going to play different than anything we've had before and I can't wait.

The strategy that helped me out is the same one that should always be used: Ignore the shit out of Claptrap. While I was "protecting" the constructor? Lost half it's health from stray fire aimed at me. Once I started leading the just shit tons of robots away, no damage whatsoever. You're the target, not the constructor.

Hope that helps.

When I first got the Lynchwood missions, they were about three levels above me. I just got done with them now and it was still insanely frustrating because the enemies never stop respawning. I'm not ashamed to admit, I yelled at the tv a few times.

I liked it. But to be honest it would have been much better if i had read it in one of the HC Books without knowing that something "big" would be happening.

I still wonder were they go from here. The FanMail section teased that #106 will be the real landmark issue. So the conclusion of all of this will be the actual big deal... and they can´t just redo the Govenor deal, that would be kinda lame.

I'm pretty sure the issue 106 bit was the main artist who took over on issue #6, so it will be his 100th issue. I cannot for the life of me imagine Negan being wrapped up in 6 issues. I think he is going to be around for a while.

Holy. Shit.

That is all.

He was carrying a hammer. Comic readers know that was Tyreese's weapon of choice. It just seems too coincidental to not be a transition to the badass comic Tyreese. (hopefully)

I think T-dog is about to start to transition into Tyreese. Am I the only one who noticed his weapon of choice during theq zombie beatdown montage?

I feel like they weren't so much "stuck" outside as much as they chose to wait. Whether it's due to some of the theories being kicked around about Ben, namely that he felt he needed to repent, or some other reason. I personally choose to look at it like this, "Heaven" in this sense was just them being with the people they cared most about. If that is the case, wouldn't you want to wait to go together. Think about some of the people missing. Michael and Walt never cared explicitly for the people on the Island, so they presumably just went on since they had each other. Where as people like Sun and Jin were waiting on their best friends in Kate and Sawyer, who were waiting on Jack. It was just a tiered structure where they all waited on the people they loved.

And they needed to interact with their loved ones to achieve true happiness and peace in order to ascend to the next level. At least, that's my theory anyway.

EDIT: Zero makes a damn good point with the togetherness theme, completely skipped my mind.

It's like Christian said: "Everybody dies, kiddo."

I'm not sure if everyone watched the 2 hour background before LOST aired, but there were a ton of interviews and the creators repeatedly drove the point home. "It's a show about characters and character development. Watching these people grow into who they are now and seeing how they got there." Like Brian said, the show was never about the Island, it was just the setting and the conflict necessary to drive the characters. Additionally, I can only speak for myself but I would have had a bad taste in my mouth if everything HAD been answered. I mean...it wouldn't even feel like LOST anymore if we knew everything that was going on.

On Ben not joining the rest, I feel like it could possibly just mean he's still alive. However, to even be interacting with this alternate existance, he'd have to be on a higher state of existance than when we last saw him. I feel either Hurley made him the new Richard according to the Number 2 comments or, more likely, he's the new Jacob which would assumedly let him be involved in the afterlife with the rest of the characters.

EDIT: By "new Jacob," I mean Hurley's replacement since Hurley has obviously given up the title and his life if he's in the church with the rest of the mortals.

Regardless of the sweep, I'm still slightly proud of my entry just because I got one in. Starr specifically said that it looked like it was cobbled together in about 36 hours? It was honestly like....one and a half. I just didn't feel it would be fair to have a team actually get the entry done and have NOTHING to put up against it. Turns out I'm really proud of that decision because it turned out to be the only first round match. Also, I didn't want to get put on the blacklist was there to be one.

Then I saw the second entry and thought silently to myself "Well....shit."

Starr, thank you for acknowledging the effort and for the prize. I'll PM you as soon as I decide and congratulations to the other team, it really was better written. I wish you luck in the semi finals

Got my personal entry in because I got no kind of communication from my team. Therefore I just wrote it my damn self.

Wait...if I win this round does that mean I'm fighting solo for the next round(s)? I never thought about the possibility I might win with this until I read the finished product and realized it wasn't bad.

Hmmm

I'll toss my name in. And, in my own personal recommendation, I was one of two people to actually complete the King of the Dome tourney.

I can honestly admit I'm surprised, not just because I made it to the finals, but because I came in second place. I admit, my knowledge of the period was extensively limited and I did not do enough research, which hurt me without a doubt. And in restrospect, I agree that the entire thing seemed quite Attitude Era-ish. Quite honestly, I booked what I thought worked without knowing much about the period because I wanted to get something passable in. I'm especially glad I did that even more so now, since I was only one of two to do so.

Also, when the tournament participants were announced, I jokingly thought to myself that I would see St. Dubb at some point in the tourney, based solely on names alone. I had no idea it would be in the finals though. I'm unbelievably satisfied with second place. Does that make me Prince of the Dome?

So the fourth member of the final backed out? JStarr, what does that impact on your year long idea. I know you had said something about the final four getting start up points in that...

In other news, I'm loving this rule set. And the due date being pushed back. Because, to be quite honest, I started on mine this morning. Just could not get going with it for some reason...

I'll throw my name in. Should be a fun little diversion

For the record, I just fell out of my chair with laughter when I pictured the Shane scene in my head. Kudos.

In the realm of real feedback, obviously you're doing something right since you're pinned for the month. I wasn't a huge fan at first, but the small things have won me over. Okay...it was just Anderson.

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*HORSEMEN SIGN*

Confirmed Matches

World Title Semi Final - Jericho vs Maven Huffman

Jericho vs. Lesnar is the obvious money match here and pretty much everyone is betting on it.

World Title Semi Final - Brock Lesnar vs Buff Bagwell

Kishi vs Brian Adams vs Trevor Murdoch - VWW Tag Title shot on the line

Last edition, you were obviously trying to make KroniK look like a dominant badass team.

Billy Kidd and Eddie Colon vs Aguila Rios and Jimmy Yang

Let the champ take a fall in a non-title match and you have an instant number 1 contender and a feud in the making.

Shannon Moore vs Perry Saturn

Picking Moore is comparable to picking a kitten in a fight against an alligator. Sure, it could win but does anyone expect it to?

World Title Quarter Final - DDP vs Jericho

Jericho is pretty much the best thing going for VWW and I don't picture DDP as Champion quality anymore.

World Title Quarter Final - Mark Jindrak vs Buff Bagwell

I'm in the air over this one. While Buff is the logical Bischoff Choice, Jindrak is a much hotter prospect. I think this one could go either way, but I'll say Buff for the hell of it.

Brock Lesnar vs Matt Morgan

Monster vs. Monster. This one is obviously going to Lesnar, if you job him out...he won't be a suitable contender for Jericho, now will he?

Maven Huffman vs Lance Cade

So Maven will quit his bitching. Plus, Cade is a tag team wrestler and, therefore, is out of his element here.

Tag Titles Number One Cont. - Kronik vs Island Boyz

God, I never thought I'd rather see Rikishi win a match but you did it. Your tag division is seriously lacking talent, but it seems very reminiscent of WCW tag teams. So, wacky gimmicks beat legitimate bad asses.

VWW Light Heavyweight Title - Jimmy Yang © vs Eddie Colon

I don't see you taking the title off Yang anytime soon. He's got to hold on to it for a while to build up the prestige.

I'm really enjoying this diary and I think you're definitely capturing an Eric Bischoff feel of booking.