oh yeah, i was curious to see how i felt about hau playing this time around because i remember liking him back in the day but other than being friendly, i didn’t remember almost anything about him. he’s great!!!! the discourse surrounding him is like completely unfounded, i don’t get it 😭 he’s not even written particularly poorly like hop, someone he’s often compared to, is (i love hop though he’s my guilty pleasure character despite everything) little man makes me smile i can’t imagine being so cynical and crabby as to dislike him??? like what did he do other than being a friendly kid wtf
One of the things I love abt Trials is the opening cutscene, where most everyone is very Serious and Hardcore in their all black Trials outfits, and then it pans to my guardian looking like this:
you guys have no idea what this little shit put me through. you see that first picture? she knows what she did
i’ve been stubbornly completing the dex as i go right. and there’s SOS encounters that you can only get in certain weather conditions which you can first access in the lush jungle, namely goomy and castform. the bulbapedia article for weather encounters just says “weather conditions” so i spend a ridiculous combined 100,000 pokedollars to get rain dance and sunny day TMs which nearly makes me broke bc i’ve also been buying a lot of special pokeballs
goomy takes a while just bc i’m unlucky but eventually i get it. castform on the other hand i grind for like 2 hours and still can’t find it so i finally double check bulbapedia. and for SOME REASON, i realize after checking the page for lush jungle closer, despite castform having a sun form but NOT a sandstorm form, it only appears in rain/hail/sandstorm???? SO I WASTED 50k AND 2 HOURS+ ON NOTHING???
so now im stubborn/determined, i grind money very slowly on pearl items from fishing in bubbling spots (got some heart scales while i was at it too i guess) and go completely broke on a sandstorm TM - but then i find out despite online sources saying alolan grimer can learn sandstorm just like i used it for rain and sun, it actually CAN’T and NEITHER CAN MY LYCANROC??
so i had to use an absolutely demented setup with a random cubone in my PC and it TOOK A HOT FUCKING MINUTE BUT I FINALLY GOT THE BASTARD
i also caught the wimpod i chased away the other day while i was at it but omfg 😭
So I went out with a guy for a while and not long after we started dating he noticed my backpack which has a lot of Kirby pins. He mentioned them and I said "Yeah I'm a huge fan of Kirby! But, I've only played Kirby's Epic Yarn." Which left him utterly gobsmacked. I was expecting this reaction, as he is quite the dedicated gamer.
So he informs me that Kirby's Epic Yarn is apparently not well liked among the Kirby fandom because it's "too kiddy" and easy. I have a LOT of opinions about this but I won't go into that here.
Anyway, he asks me "how can you call yourself a Kirby fan if you haven't played the main games???" (he was a MAJOR gatekeeper) and started going on about how other Kirby games are much better.
Now this got me thinking-- his reaction to me saying I haven't played his favorite Kirby games should have been:
"Oh you haven't played it? We could play together, I've got snacks at my place" or something like that.
THAT gives the rizz. Of course this only works if the girl in question already has given interest. But even though I already liked him, him invalidating my interests based on an arbitrary set of prerequisites was a total turn off.
And the thing is, whether I played one game or most, it wouldn't have mattered. Because nothing is ever good enough for The Gatekeeper. It's not about the media itself, it's the mindset.