Current Ramblings

Thursday, March 25, 2004

Sorry, no new Arcee pictures. Been too busy playing Pokemon Colosseum.

There's something that's always struck me as hilarious about how things work in the Pokemon universe. Ever since the very first Pokemon games, there has been at least a subplot to every one involving an organized crime syndicate in some way incorporating Pokemon into its badness. That in and of itself is not so silly given the context. What's silly about it is that all any punk kid has to do to infiltrate and overthrow said organized crime syndicate is to systematically defeat each of the underlings and, ultimately, the head honcho in a Pokemon battle. You defeat one of the goons, and they just stand there, not trying to kick your ass, not trying to alert other goons, they just STAND THERE, because your critters kicked the asses of their critters, and that's all that needed to be done. That's it, they surrender. They just stand there, not trying to further impede your progress through their secret base, while you go and have your critters kick the asses of all their buddies' critters, too. It's gotta be some kind of crazy utopia where the mafia doesn't give you concrete shoes for that kind of shit. And why doesn't the police force just devote a unit to raising really strong Pokemon, if that's all it takes to eradicate this Pokemafia and stop organized crime? Why do they have to wait for some punk kid to take care of business?

I'm enjoying Pokemon Colosseum immensely, thank you for asking. If you've got a GameCube but somehow mysteriously never got a GBA (I'm thinking of you, Steve) and you've always kinda wondered what the Pokemon game thing was about, I strongly recommend it, because even the Story mode alone is worth it. (Well, if you're patient you might want to wait for a markdown, because there WILL still be the Colosseum part of the disc you won't be able to do much with.) I've been at it for about 8 hours game-time (as opposed to reset because you knocked out that Pokemon you were TRYING to fucking catch time) today and I just got to where I could purify my Shadow Pokemon. And if you buy it at Target this week, you get the BradyGames guide for free. And I can't knock that 'cause Sipher works for Brady. So I got a GBA/GC link cable AND a strategy guide free just for reserving my copy at Target and picking it up the week it came out. Boo-yah. I'm liking Target.

I'd give a Jenni Health Update, but do you really want to hear the Continuing Adventures of My Bowels? I'll just say that this book I got on IBD is really, REALLY boring.

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Tuesday, March 23, 2004

Posted a quick update to the Photo Blog. There'll probably be more forthcoming, Arcee's got me all inspired.

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Tuesday, March 16, 2004

The upside of this freak mid-March snowstorm is that I finally got to take pictures of Snow Cat in his natural environment. Whee!

While Malin was visiting we got to write up the guidelines for the OTFCC '04 art contest and auction. I feel accomplished now! It seems like it's going to be a lot of fun in that busy-bordering-on-chaotic way that I thrive on.

After finding a cheap GameCube modem adaptor at a used game shop in Cincinnati last week I've gone back to playing Phantasy Star Online a lot. In fact, I think I'll go back to playing it right now and elaborate on it later. ;)

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Friday, March 12, 2004

Let's merge!

You'd think they could have included some instructions, though. I had to figure it all out myself based on a single package picture and my knowledge of the original toys.

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Tuesday, March 09, 2004

Updated the Photo Blog! Go revel in pics from the trip Walky, Graham and I took down to Cincinnati to see Kyde yesterday.

I love my camera. When we go to England, Graham's gonna KILL me.

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