Azazel

Grinded up my Sandshrew/Ivysaur/Kabutops and Mudkip/Aron/Eevee  teams to take on Mt. Moon and things got weird again.

Mt. Moon I lost Sandshrew to a trainer's Blaziken getting a critical Ember, so Sandshrew and Mudkip went to the graveyard.  This gave me room to put Starmie and Mankey on the team and Starmie became the MVP of his team.  Got through all that and...

Route 4 - Moltres and Jirachi!  I didn't think I would be able to catch both but I did admittedly up the catch rate a little for legendarily to make it possible  Sadly a Crit Ember with a Burn took down Ivysaur so I lost my huge pair of Ivysaur/Aron for Moltres/Jirachi.

Route 24 - Spoink and Camerupt - Meh pair, only chance they will be used in the near future is if Moltres/Jirachi fall.

Route 25 - Cloyster and Sudowoodo - Another meh pair for the box.

Current Active Team:
Starmie, Moltres and Kabutops
Mankey, Jirachi and Eevee

Box:
Seadra, Furret, Spoink and Cloyster
Mawile, Bellsprout, Camerupt, Sudowoodo

Dead:
Machop, Sandshrew and Ivysaur
Bagon, Mudkip, Aron

I'm in a game I've never heard of?  Where's my royalties?

I got up to Mt. Moon on both games and things have been both frustrating and weird.

Starters: Machop and Bagon - Great long term pair, and due to the set up Machoke will evolve to Machamp by level up.

Route 1 - Seadra and Mawile - Decent, I like Seadra but using Mawile is hard

Route 22 - Sentret and Bellsprout - Gives me a third pair, at least Victreebel will be good.

Route 2 - Starmie and Mankey - Can't use at the moment since it'll give me 2 water and 2 fighting typles

Viridian Forest - Sandshrew and Mudkip - I kind of want to use this instead of Seadra/Mawile but I would need to grind to have Brock, so Box for now.

First Death - Trainer in Viridian Forest had a Regice, I sent my Machop in and he used Explosion.  RIP Machop and Bagon

I beat Brock using just the teams of Seadra/Furrett and Mawile/Bellsprout.  Had to get a little creative with the Green game since Brock had a Metagross so Bellsprout was useless.  Got useless TMs so Mawile now has Fury Swipes because why not?

Route 3 - Ivysaur and Aron - GREAT pair, but I would need to box both my active pairs to use them, so I might need a huge party switch

Magikarp - Even trading for this guy is random and I got a MEWTWO!  The other game got a Lugia!  But they are both Psychic so I can never use the pair....

Mt. Moon - Kabutops and Eevee - Another great pair but I need an evolution stone.

So even after all that my active parties are still Seadra/Furret and Mawile/Bellsprout since all my box Pokemon have one member of each pair that is Water, Normal, Grass or Steel.

I'm probably going to switch up my party and go with Sandshrew/Ivysaur/Kabutops and Mudkip/Aron/Eevee and send my leveled up pair to the Box

So in an attempt to spice things up I'm taking on a weird challenge of playing Pokemon that hopefully makes my life both fun and infuriating.  I"m trying what is called a Soul Link challenge.  basically I'm playing Fire Red and Leaf Green at the same time using Nuzlock rules with some additions.  So outside only being able to catch the 1st pokemon in each route and death being permanent...also Pokemon from Gen 1-3 are included in the Fire Red/Leaf Green run.

- The game is completely randomized so all wild and trainer pokemon can be literally anything, also all trainers Pokemon are 20% stronger than normal.  Items are also random and all TM's have a random move BUT they are still compatible with the same Pokemon (so Brock give me Rock Slide in one game but the actual move I got was Petal Dance which can only be taught to Pokemon who can learn Rock Slide).

- The first encounter in each area are linked across games.  So my Starter in Fire Red and my starter in Leaf Green are linked.  If one is in the active party, so is the other.  If one is boxed, so is the other.  If one dies, they both die

- I can only have one of each Pokemon Type across BOTH teams.  So if I have an Ekans (Poison) on one team, I cannot have another Poison type on either team.  This only accounts for the primary type.  If I have Ekans, I would be able to have Bulbasaur since its is (Grass/Poison).

The challenge here is the massive restrictions on the team force you to use Pokemon you normally wouldn't and having essentially an active Party of 12.  So if Red catches a Dragonite ont he same route Green catches a Paras, I will have to use the Paras just to have access to the Dragonite, and if the Paras faints I lose the Dragonite.

I did start and get up to the Rock Tunnel but I realized I made a massive mistake and have to start over.  I got my Route 2 and Viridian Forest encounters mixed up.  Route 2 was Lairon/Umbreon and Viridian Forest was Whismur/Mareep.  Whismur died because Brock had a Charizard but I boxed Umbreon instead and used Mareep a lot when he should have been dead.  So I'm going to restart over the weekend and give random updates of how it goes.

57 minutes ago, Toe said:

I like that Louis Skolnick from Revenge Of The Nerds is part of the cast.

 

They already cast Ogre back in Season 7, so its not really a surprise.

Do I have to spoiler things?

I'm not saying I hated it or anything, but I guess we know which way they are going when it comes to advantages.

Ottawa.  I've heard he's done shows in Gatineau and I've found some stuff on youtube (but like a year or two old) with Spiderman and The Mummy.

1 hour ago, SirEdger said:

Lutte Internationale 2000 did exist. It still kinda exist to this day as Jacques Rougeau still does tour shows during the Holidays every year. He plans to have one final big show next year with Hulk Hogan as his special guest.

As for its roster in itself, it's mostly comprised of his students plus many special guests. Troy's link will give you a few of those.

I've heard that he runs shows in my area but I've never once heard of one before hand or seen any promotional material for them, just rumors they exist and people who apparently wrestle there.

Best Theme Song:

Greatest American Hero gets a mention as well.  Rawhide just because of Blues Brothers as well.

Oh, so now I have to watch it week to week!  Jerk.

Worst case scenario is I won't watch it for a few weeks and binge it all at once.

I kind of hate the idea that every season is going to have some weird gimmick just so they can stop doing different locations.  However if they pick good gimmicks I won't really care.  This is not one of those good gimmicks.

I'm down

8 hours ago, Tyrone said:

Just came back from It. Pretty good, although it doesn't quite measure up to the book. I love that the new Pennywise actor played it darker than Tim Curry did in the miniseries.

Ramblings/thoughts:

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Most disappointing thing was probably that about halfway through the movie, it just became "Pennywise jumpscares the Losers individually, they narrowly escape", rinse and repeat.

Richie was a lot of fun for most of the movie, I thought. He came off as the one-liner kid to sorta break the tension after/during a heavy scene. Given the entire first part of the story is a scary clown preying on children, I appreciated it.

In order to advance the story and provide more scares I understand it, but I thought it was strange to have Stuttering Bill/the entire group figure out that they need to stick together... and then find ways to split off no matter what.

Finally, Bill Skarsgård was excellent. The R-rating allowed them to truly get across how horrifying Pennywise is, and thankfully the Georgie scene was not sanitized. I'm pretty excited to see how they do with the sequel.

 

 

IT was a fantastic horror movie.

I love the 13th Warrior despite its... short comings... but I can never wrap my head around the scene where Herger antagonized the giant dude into a duel so he can kill him and piss off the prince... and then have nothing ever come of it.  I don't think you even see the prince dude again so the duel literally means nothing.

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Same. I want him to do his part in defending the good people. Then I want him to die. Not a hero, but someone who sheepishly finally did what was needed when so many others did it without so much prompting. And without being a rapist. It probably won't happen quite like that, but it's what I want.

I guess what I most want is for the producers to admit that they've done some really inexcusable things in their storytelling with rape. Even though I know that won't happen.

 

1 hour ago, Hellraiser said:

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I liked that too. It could've happened much sooner though. Littlefinger has basically been doing fuck all since he dropped off Sansa at Winterfell to marry Ramsay. But it was still a great moment when it finally happened.

I hate how they got us to this moment though. The whole set-up was insulting and obnoxious.

 

I use mine like once a year to play Ogre Battle 64 or Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn.  The moment I can find a copy of Skies of Arcadia:  Legends for not an insane price, that will be played a lot.

I'm in

I think we should get the next game/poll going soon

Found a great version of the leak and I had to watch it.   I should add that for whatever reason the board momentarily shows whats in the spoilers when I load the page and I could see what @Nerf wrote, which is major.  Didn't spoil me, but just a heads up that a funky board mechanic showed it anyway.

Leak spoilers

36 minutes ago, Gazz said:

Re: Damshow's spoilers

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Howland would know that Jon is the son of Lyanna and Rhaegar, I don't think he'd know they married in secret, it's never been clear exactly how much detail Lyanna told Ned at the Tower of Joy, I would guess 'not a lot' due to her injuries etc.

 

2 hours ago, Maxx said:

Someone tell me 

 

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How do Thoros and Jorah know each other

 

Wait a minute, something just clicked in my head

Also, because if a 10 year old girl will do it, the lord pretty much have to otherwise they'll be laughed at