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ianmrid · 4 years

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Pokémon!

Thanks Baz! I hope nobody is going to expect that quality of article going forward: we are returning to my articles, full of run-on sentences, typos, and inconsistent use of apostrophes.

Anyway, Pokémon Platinum: Completed!

However, unlike in Generation 3, I know I’m not done yet. My Pokédex needs some work, but that is because I have been holding back a few pokémon that I want to use in the other pair games in Gen4; remakes of the Gen2 Johto adventures, HeartGold and SoulSilver!

I am very excited to play these as they are often cited as the best games in the whole Pokémon franchise, so I will be saving my graphs, my top tens, and my artworks until I have wrapped them up, so for now, let’s focus on my Platinum team.

Ziggy the Empoleon: Probably my second-favourite fully-evolved starter this generation, Empoleon has a great typing in Water/Steel, and is just a badass-looking emperor penguin with a trident face! It partly gets its name from Napoleon, and it is even the same height as it’s namesake. Due to the Napoleon connection, my Empoleon was named Ziggy after the scene in Bill and Ted’s Excellent adventures where Napoleon goes to the Ziggy Pig restaurant. Unfortunately Ziggy had to carry three of the required HM moves - Defog, Surf, and Waterfall, but on the plus side, Surf and Waterfall are both decent moves in their own right. Finally I added the STAB Steel-type Flash Cannon move and the HP-recovering Shell Bell held item, since with a type combo that already provides a lot of good resistances, this just made Ziggy even harder to take down!

Crocus the Toxicroak: Another interesting new type combo in Fighting/Poison, I really like Toxicroak’s design, and it is nice to see a Frog-based pokémon who doesn’t have to be Water-type. Toxicroak isn’t the strongest pokémon, and gets completely wrecked by Psychic-types, but Crocus still managed to hold her own. I gave her the Fist Plate to hold to power up her Fighting-type STAB Brick Break, and then rounded out actually useful moves with another STAB - Poison Jab - and the Dark-type Sucker Punch which gives some priority that also has the benefit of being super effective against those dangerous Psychic-type opponents. As with every team member in Gen4, the last slot went to an HM - in this case, Cut.

Hodgeheg the Shaymin: A rarity for me; including a Mythical on one of my teams! In fact Shaymin is only the second Mythical I have used, following on from Mew on my Gen1, Pokémon Blue team. I used the event Shaymin from Diamond or Pearl so that I could nickname it - Hodgeheg might not be one of my most inspired, but I like it - and because it was at not too high a level for me to use from early on. Shaymin actually has a second form - Sky Form - which is Grass/Flying, which is accessed when Shaymin holds a Gracedia Flower, but I much prefer the far more adorable Land Form. With the held item slot free, I gave it a Miracle Seed to power up Grass-type moves and loaded its moveset up with those. Seed Bomb for power, Leech Seed and Giga Drain to damage while healing, and Synthesis for pure healing power! Combined with some good stats, Shaymin was very tricky for opponents to take down.

Sukhoi the Garchomp: The pseudo-Legendary of the Sinnoh region, Garchomp is an insanely powerful Dragon/Ground-type and I named mine Sukhoi after a Fighter Jet, since Garchomp seems to be a sort of land-shark crossed with a plane. I rarely love using these really powerful pokémon, but they often require a lot of levelling up, so when trying to complete the Pokédex, it often makes sense to use them on your team and not have to just level grind them at the end. Sukhoi however, was one of my favourites from this category, partly due to the Ground-typing and my love of using STAB Earthquake on everything. The region’s Champion, Cynthia, also uses a Garchomp as her ace, so it was fun to see who’s was best. (Spoiler: it was mine). I rounded out the move set with STAB Dragon Rush (plus a held Wide Lens to improve that moves shoddy accuracy), Flamethrower for coverage, and of course an HM; Rock Climb.

Blimpy the Drifblim: Blimpy might not be my best nickname, but I never actually planned on using the Ghost/Flying-type Drifblim when I originally caught and named it. I’d ear-marked Rotom for this slot, but I really needed a pokémon that could learn the HM Fly, and Drifblim fits the bill. Luckily, I still really like Drifblim - it’s a bit fragile, which isn’t too surprising given it’s a balloon - but it helps mitigate that with a huge HP stat. I gave Blimpy STAB Shadow Ball, Thunderbolt as some much-needed Electric-type coverage, and also a Wacan Berry to hold. This was useful in reducing damage taken by Electric-type attacks and using it up would also activate the Unburden ability, doubling Blimpy’s Speed for the rest of the battle.

Bangs the Glaceon: Finally, Bangs - named for his Jess-from-New-Girl hairstyle - was another pokémon I didn’t originally plan on using. However, strong Ice-type coverage is just so useful that in the end I decided Glaceon would be the best choice. It is quite late in the game before I could finally evolve my Eevee as you need them up near an Icy Rock, only found near Snow Point City. Once this was done, Bangs just really needed Ice Beam (powered up by an increased chance to land a critical hit through the held Razor Fang) in order to destroy a lot of the Elite Four and the Champion. The other moveslots were given over to the remaining HMs; Strength and Rock Smash, as well as the ever-useful Toxic.

Meet the team:

This was definitely not the exact team I thought I would be using, as both the required TMs and the dire need for some Ice-type coverage - especially when fighting Cynthia - led me down a slightly different path, but I like it when the team grows a little more organically sometimes!

My time in Sinnoh is now drawing to a close, but I’m very excited to head back to Johto and finished off my Gen4 Pokédex - starting with Pokémon HeartGold.

#pokemon #pokemon playthrough #e plays pokemon #nintendo #game freak #Pokemon Platinum

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subbyp · 5 years

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people still write ygo chatfic in 2019 right?

Nerd Herder|sk_ryu: so Mokuba and I had another screaming operatic fight

Nerd Herder|sk_ryu: with the slamming of doors and gnashing of teeth and such. Just because I told him he can’t get a tattoo until he turns 18. He’s already got way more piercings than he needs--why is getting a tattoo NOW so goddamn urgent that he needs to make a big stink over it?

roll them bones|theduke: don’t knock em until you tried em broski

Nerd Herder|sk_ryu: How do you know I don’t have one?

roll them bones|theduke: shit dude

roll them bones|theduke: now that you mention it I don’t know

roll them bones|theduke: roll call who’s seen Kaiba naked. gimme them DEETS

BYYOURPOWERSCOMBINE|jayjaydogg: not telling :p

patience and faith|jetea: oh god

hey gamers|ymotoudarkmage: I bet it’s a big buff rippling dragonman

patience and faith|jetea: yugi I beg of you

hey gamers|ymotoudarkmage: with a magnificent beard

patience and faith|jetea: yugi pls

hey gamers|ymotoudarkmage: the beard is in the shape of a dragon

YUGI STOP|jetea: I will pay you money to stop making me picture this

can’t be tamed|ymotoudarkmage: the dragon is nude

Nerd Herder|sk_ryu: Anyway [he said, completely ignoring the hideous unintended results of his seemingly harmless joke] that’s the unrest in the house of Kaiba

beep beep motherfuckers|trisssss: <atla>that’s rough, buddy</atla>

Nerd Herder|sk_ryu: I wasn’t so melodramatic at that age.

Nerd Herder|sk_ryu: ....was I?

YUGI STOP|jetea: You absolutely were.

can’t be tamed|ymotoudarkmage: you’re joking, right?

roll them bones|theduke: you were worse than me

beep beep motherfuckers|trisssss: dude

BYYOURPOWERSCOMBINE|jayjaydogg: babe you had a Drama Blimp

Nerd Herder|sk_ryu: Why do I even talk to you people?

beep beep motherfuckers|trisssss: because we’re the only people you don’t intimidate

beep beep motherfuckers|trisssss: blimpy boy

BYYOURPOWERSCOMBINE|jayjaydogg: anyways as an impending teacher let me lay it out for you lord zeppeli

BYYOURPOWERSCOMBINE|jayjaydogg: teenagers are making the beginnings of what will become their adult identity

BYYOURPOWERSCOMBINE|jayjaydogg: everything seems so important to him bcuz he’s forging in the smithy of his soul his whatever and shit

Nerd Herder|sk_ryu: I’m overcome by your eloquence.

BYYOURPOWERSCOMBINE|jayjaydogg: he feels like he has to fight to assert himself because he’s transitioning from your little baby brother into a grown man, and he sees your rules as interfering with that process and through that his entire steeze

BYYOURPOWERSCOMBINE|jayjaydogg: his steeze of adulthood

BYYOURPOWERSCOMBINE|jayjaydogg: his maturisteeze

roll them bones|theduke: don’t sneeze at the steeze

BYYOURPOWERSCOMBINE|jayjaydogg: so cut him a little slack. he feels like he’s fighting for his very soul.

beep beep motherfuckers|trisssss: a soul to steeze

YUGI STOP|jetea: his

YUGI STOP|jetea: his episteezeology

Nerd Herder|sk_ryu: That actually makes sense.

Nerd Herder|sk_ryu: Not the “steeze” shit, the other thing.

Nerd Herder|sk_ryu: Thanks.

BYYOURPOWERSCOMBINE|jayjaydogg: np

BYYOURPOWERSCOMBINE|jayjaydogg: my big sexy helium friend

Nerd Herder|sk_ryu: Wheeler, I swear to all that is holy that I will stop at nothing until I obliterate you and your goddamn blimp jokes from this earth

can’t be tamed|ymotoudarkmage: that sounds like a lot of hot air to me

Nerd Herder|sk_ryu: You’re next, Motou

i’m late! i’m late!|unnatural20: Wait, which dragon is nude?

can’t be tamed|ymotoudarkmage: both of them

#Yu-Gi-Oh #subbyp's fic #kaiba/joey #every so often my latent ygo fandom erupts out of my fingers like a highly unreliable geyser

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duhragonball · 6 years

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Have you ever played Dragonball Z: Legendary Super Warriors for the gbc? It's ah-mazin'. Y'know, for an old game.

Is GBC a game boy? Game Boy Color? Sorry, I sound like an old man, but I lost track of Nintendo systems a long time ago. Actually, I did own a Game Boy Color once, but I didn't play it much.Anyway, I never played anything DBZ related that wasn't available on PS2 or PS3. So my video game resume is basically:Budokai 1-3Super Dragon Ball ZBudokai Tenkaichi 1-3Infinite WorldRaging Blast 1-2Ultimate Tenkaichi (ugh)Battle of ZXenoverse 1And the I got Xenoverse 2 on Steam.So I think the only titles I skipped from that era were Sagas and Burst Limit, which just didn't look that good to me.I almost said I might look up some other old games one of these days, but really, that's probably not realistic. They make a new Dragon Ball game almost every year, and I just don't play that many games to have time for vintage stuff.Well, that's not entirely true. I tried doing a Nuzlocke run on Pokemon Emerald this past spring, but my Wailord died and I couldn't find the strength to carry on. And I play tons of video game chess, but that's because it's on my phone.I'll probably wait for TFS to do a playthrough, and see what I think of it then. They got me to try the Nuzlocke, and I wasn't even into Pokemon.(RIP Blimpy Boy: 2017-2017)

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casualfruit · 7 years

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rules: list your ten favorite female characters from ten different fandoms and tag ten people

tagged by @writerofberk

Inej Ghafa - Six of Crows

Anastasia Romanov - Anastasia

Linh Cinder - The Lunar Chronicles

Hermione Granger - Harry Potter

Arya Dröttningu - The Inheritance Cycle

Neytiri - AVATAR

Matilda Wormwood - Matilda

Thorn Harvestar - the Bone comic series

Princess Eilonwy - The Chronicles of Prydain

Calamity/Chalchiutlique - No Evil

I tag: @aph-blimpy @december-dragon @crazilyawesomeme @kpacat @doctordragonisback @colorfulshipseverywhere @periidote @portablephonograph @rosescarves @sassinapaperbag

#this took me so long cause I'm not in very many fandoms #about half of these don't have much of an active fandom if any at all #casual convo #meet the blogger

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scurvgirl · 7 years

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Fun things about Marassal:

Is actually gray-asexual! He prefers not to have sex, it’s fairly boring or even downright unpleasant for him. He worked as a sex line operator mostly because it was a steady flow of desire fulfillment for him, and he can separate that from actually being aroused at all.

He has collected several degrees in various things over the centuries. He’s actually a licensed therapist, a chemist, dance instructor, glass blower, carpenter, business man, and has even written a history textbook (that was initially banned by the Chantry).

Hates being naked.

Really likes peanut butter, it’s one of his favorite snacks.

Terrible at singing, but this does not stop him.

He loves reptiles and so Dirthamen got to grow up with a large ball python, two bearded dragons, and a leopard gecko. The python’s name is Blimpie, the dragons are Peekaboo and Pikachu, and the leopard gecko is Mufasa.

Favorite color is sky blue.

#marassal #i have fallen in love with my character AGAIN

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marthacrimsonsgoodart · 10 months

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In my own projects I skip the written script stage - all the important "writing" is in the thumbnails. This goes double for comics that are silent like Blimpy and the Dragon and Ängsull the Troll. In the latter case I've added silent movie style text panels since it's a longer story, and it's tough going completely without words.

These are the thumbnails for episode three and four of Ängsull. The comic is designed to work both on mobile and in print, which in this case means I draw every frame separately and group them digitally according to platform. Twitter and Mastodon both have a picture limit of four, which means I sometimes combine two frames in the same document. On Webtoons and similar platforms I upload the frames one by one. Each episode have a set frame limit that works for a page in a printed book.

The advantage of being the sole creator is that I can be very lose when creating my thumbnails. It gives me more work at the next stage, but the story benefits from the ease of getting "written". Here's how the episodes look in their finished state:

Ängsull the Troll is slated for a spiff-up and revival this fall. The beginning of the story can be read on Webtoon Canvas.

#ängsull the troll #behind the scenes #web comic #web comic formats #thumbnails #reposters get cursed

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