A short snippet on Pokemon
Posted by: lokiale on: July 14, 2009
I found my old Gameboy Color a few months back and have been using it ever since because I’m too cheap to buy a new gaming system. Well… too cheap and also really don’t have time to play some of the crazy awesome games that are out there these days. With great awesomeness comes great heaps of time needed to see all of the awesomeness. I experience new games vicariously through the various videos,blogs and whatnot people post on the internet as well as through friends.
Doesn’t mean I never play anything though.
I own three games right now: Metroid II (Which I am determined to beat one day… if it doesn’t bore me to death), Pokemon Pinball (useless battery pack? psh, I don’t care it’s still fun anyways), and… the big whammy… my first GBC gme ever: Pokemon Red.
That game has had the crap played out of it over the years whenever my GBC has resurfaced. Oh yes, the Elite Four are my bitches. They see me and my Charizard and they know that all my skills bring the boys to the yard.
Now I’ve owned this same cartridge for over 10 years now and there’s some things I’ve never done:
-Finish the pokedex
-Caught them all
-Use any other starter Pokemon besides Charmander (Blastoise and Venusaur are for pussies)
-Have Snorlax sit on top of my Rival. (Oh but how I wish…)
I never will do any of those things either. Yet despite that I still like fighting Team Rocket, Giovanni (I love him, he’s so stupid), catching Mewtwo just to be pissed at how useless he is, catching Mew through doing a million ridiculous steps, and making the Elite Four cry.
Over the years I’ve managed to play a couple of the later versions of pokemon and yeah, they are cool; just as addicting as the original and the addition of actual color is nice. The stories are fine, they’re all pretty much the same both in basic plot and less than necessary existence. I for one usually go through the game just exploring as much as I can until I have to pay attention to the story long enough to unlock new areas.
There’s no point to this really. Just want to remind the internet that Pokemon Red is awesome and if you can still ignore that the whole game is based on capturing creatures and forcing them to fight for your own financial gain you should play it again. Or don’t.
Now if you excuse me and my Charizard are going to slash Giovanni a new asshole.
(Regular and much more interesting updates to continue soon. Once my midterm on Thursday is over I’ll finish a post on the worst book I ever read in my life (so far))
You show that punk turtle who the law in this region is, Charmander!
Still Alive (new sculptures post!)
Posted by: lokiale on: April 23, 2009
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Things have been very busy with school so it takes me a while to do anything on my spare time. Since the spare time doesn’t really exist. I guess that makes sense then!
However I have finished a batch of sculptures last weekend that I wish to share. I have finished some sketches and such as well but my scanner is less than kind to me. While the pictures are posted here there are all posted with more information on my flickr page. Click the cut for more cinnamon Cthulhu and coffee glazed birds.
All of them in one terrifying photo! Smile! Much more below cut.
Sometimes I still play God with clay.
Posted by: lokiale on: March 3, 2009
I’ve been making sculptures on my time off (which is a few and far between thing) and after delaying from posting for a while for the sake of studying I finally have something worth posting!
More under the cut…
One of my sketchbooks just burped!
Posted by: lokiale on: February 5, 2009
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And out came this odd mix of sketches! These are fairly old… some almost two years old and the freshest ones are 4 months old? Either way this is my accounts sketchbook that has crappy paper but very friendly rounded corners. Hence why things are oddly proportioned (pages are much smaller than my usual sketchbooks and I still suck at scaling) cropped oddly and have a blue grid background.
More under the cut that is being guarded by a freaky head toad. (Where did he come from and why won’t he stop staring at me every time I open this book??)
We all have to start somewhere.
Posted by: lokiale on: August 20, 2008
And before I can write anything even remotely worth reading I’m going to fill up the empty (though kind of funny) void in this blog with something that had bothered me for ages until just about last month. Namely, what does FTW mean?
For a while I ignored it; it could have been a random mashing of letters such as qhuifzx or FLKSAYGS?!?#1@. Eventually it became all too clear that it stood for something. Something popular enough to get its own standard initials like LMAO or AFK or even the infamous IMH (which IMH I kind of hate to the point of making that previous kind of a lie). But what was that something? I couldn’t just ask. I didn’t want to look it up because it felt like one of the dumbest things I could look up despite the fact that I’ve looked up lyrics to the song Bleed American by Jimmy Eat World approximately 20+ times now because I can’t for the life of me hear or remember the verses properly… That and it really just never came up in my head. (It wasn’t that pressing an issue. Ever.)
So I guessed what it could be. For maybe a good two, heck, maybe even three years I was fully convinced that FTW just had to be a more extreme variation of WTF. As in something is so WTF it is just flat out FTW. Which sounded out in my head as “Fuh-tha-wha?!?”. For everything I saw it in it fit and made sense, although sometimes a bit more loose than other times. It was the internet, I was highly doubtful of anyone ever being faulted on improper grammatical usage of a blurb like FTW.
Then one day everything changed. Really one second everything changed if you have to get anal about it. I read FTW in a parody of a game show context. Quickly I reread the joke about five times while a nagging sensation that I get whenever I’m wrong (quite rare, no really… really… shut up) kept eating away at my brain until I finally accepted the truth with an almighty,
“Oh.”
So, for the record. Just in case there’s one other person out there as pathetic at the internet as I am:
FTW = For the win
Hey, if this is the start? It can only get better from here.
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