Negrek

jeez i thought the lansats would take longer to grow. I have 2 now! if you want me to grow more than 1 to trade i can, but as it stands i do have a lansat i can trade!

i was away from my omega ruby copy for a few days - just planted the Lansat, it'll take like 5 days to grow lol

Sorry to keep bothering you about Magic stuff, all the threads are at least three years old and I don't want to bump them.

I have my starter decks (sleeved), and I downloaded Duels to practice. What should I do next?

I poked around a bit, and managed to find these decklists for all of the Welcome packs. As I said, I got red, green, and blue (rather fitting for someone who came to Magic from the Pokemon TCG). I'm not sure whether the best combination would be a mixed-color deck or a monochromatic one (at this point, I can only make a full red deck).

I managed to nab a few welcome packs! I have two thirty-card red decks, a thirty-card blue one, and a thirty-card green one. I'm guessing these are all extremely basic cards.

Wow, thanks a lot! This'll really help a ton.

I've always been interested in learning about TCG design. Are there any resources you recommend to get started?

Nah, feel free to hang onto it until September. Have fun!

Hey, jsyk I sent the game a few days ago, so hopefully it should be there early next week! Let me know if it doesn't show up soon!

i'm speechless

And thank you, heh. I dunno how much I'm gonna get done by the end of April, but I am determined to do something with Holding Out, at least. I've got too much of it planned out not to get a proper draft done! *fistshake*

You're still interested in borrowing GtI, right? If so, I can probably try to get it out to you sometime this week.

No, I was not.

...because Disqus didn't tell me it was there.

...and comments shouldn't need to be moderated anyway because I turned that setting off.

*sigh* Here we go.

Your prank has had some excellent side effects.

Aaaaaah thank you so much for the gift! It's all sparkly and full of pockets and I love sparkly, pockety things. For my birthday I actually bought myself a set of fancy swirly dice like all the proper nerds have, so now I have two pretty new things to bring to the table! I really hope you didn't go to any trouble getting it from overseas, though!

(And omg garbagetina is beautiful and perfect and looks like some kind of terrifying sad planarian and I love it. F for effort, painters, well done, it's a masterpiece)

Yeah, probably best to borrow it. I would have been able to lend you mine if I'd bought the physical version as I'd originally intended, but I was under the mistaken impression that the PSMD home screen theme was eShop-only, and figured "eh, if it costs the same anyway, might as well get the one that comes with free stuff." Oops.

I don't remember any issues with the text scroll being too slow, although I do usually prefer faster speeds. I dunno, I'll check again once I get the save nonsense squared away.

PSMD is... okay, I guess! I definitely appreciate the expanded amount of content gameplay-wise, and the story was all right, but it wasn't as good as the Gen IV PMD games' story and more or less rehashed parts of GtI's plot. Postgame story also short and not satisfying, imo.

Mechanically it's decent enough, mostly the same as the others with a few new niceties, and thank god they brought back the ability to do multiple missions on a single trip through the dungeon. I swear it feels like my HP is lower than it was at the same time/level in other games, though (or maybe enemy attacks are just doing more damage? or maybe it's my imagination because it's been forever since I last played a PMD game???). Part of that may be because oran berries temporarily increase your HP by 10 automatically when you use them (even when your HP isn't full), but does that mean they balanced the damage around the assumption that you're going to use a bunch of them? I'd rather have a higher, more stable natural HP and have to work a little harder to increase it than have low natural HP that I basically have to expend items on just to raise it to a reasonable level for the duration of one dungeon. You can wait until you were going to use the berry to heal anyway, then get the healing + the HP boost in one, but given how much damage the enemy can do there's also a decent chance you'll end up burning a reviver seed anyway!

They also added a "push" command that allows you to shove your teammates onto another square... but they made pushing the default behavior when you walk onto your teammates' square rather than passing through, and you have to push a button to pass through them, and pushing costs you additional hunger points so you end up making yourself hungry faster just because you forgot to press B while trying to backtrack, and why are those not switched it is extremely aggravating! I mean, you get used to it, but it shouldn't have been an issue in the first place! In my experience pushing isn't even that useful!

It's serviceable, is what I'm saying. I don't agree with everyone who's going on about it being the best in the series—that's still Sky, imo—but some of the new features are nice, not having to deal with minuscule random recruit chances is nice, and at least it's more fleshed out than GtI.

Wouldn't mind at all. You'll have to give me a bit to try and resolve some save file backup issues, but once that's sorted, sure.

Just checking: you do mean Gates to Infinity and not PSMD, right? My copy of PSMD is eShop, so I'm afraid that one is unborrowable. I only ask because it's a bit of an odd request, seeing as how most people agree it's really not that great a game. :p It's perfectly playable and I actually do think the story did a few interesting bitsy things here and there... but I definitely wouldn't pay retail for it again, so borrowing it if you wanna see what it's about is probably the right call, haha.

Oh, no, I was already past that guy by the time I posted. I don't think he even got to use wrap, heh. All hail butterfree and confusion, I suppose!

I don't think I'm gonna mess around with too much in the glitch department. I love glitches like burning, but I guess I just feel like keeping this one "clean", for lack of a better term. I've got ROMs and flashcarts (and a few cartridges that still work, assuming my actual consoles decide to cooperate) if I want to destroy a save file in some hilarious fashion or other. I am definitely tempted by mew, of course, and I might run into missingno. for old times' sake before battling the E4, but yeah, not planning on much beyond that. Unless they discover that the few changes they made for the sake of connectivity, etc. have introduced new glitches, I think I'll get enough of my fix watching some more ridiculous arbitrary code execution videos. Besides, ROMs have savestates, which definitely make this sort of fooling around a lot easier.

It's physical. Why, you thinking of borrowing it? More plotbunny research, hmmmm?

Aaah, thank you! I'm glad you think it worked out. I'm kinda annoyed that the idea as it is didn't hit until it was already so close to the 27th, but it was (mostly) fun to write!

And yeah, there's definitely gonna be a revision—I actually left out some tiny bits and changes I'd intended to make, especially in the end part, just because I wanted to be sure it got posted while it was still the 27th somewhere on this freakin' planet. (P.S. thank you for existing, Midway Atoll, couldn't have done it without you! I'm sure I shall be invoking you and your ridiculous time zone many more times in the future.) It's in dire need of more general proofreading and such, too. I'll be sure to take care of that typo when I go back to clean it up, so thanks for pointing it out!

Yep! Not very far yet because I'm trying to juggle entirely too many unnecessary things at once, as usual, but I did just win a more satisfying victory against Brock then I think I've had in a good while. It's so weird to be going through this game and all its quirks and secrets (and its terribad interface aaaaaa) again after so long, haha.

You did not mention it, but !!!!! That sounds exciting! I really hope you're not going to any unreasonable trouble for all this, though!

sooooo I totally didn't forget your birthday, I swear! But I was so busy working on, uh, something, that I did completely forget to actually say anything??? So, uh, sorry about that, and happy birthday! I hope you had a good one, and I'm glad to see you did finally come up with some other ship names. Scietheshipping is definitely really terrible/great, I approve of this decision 100%.

Also I have Pancake ready to go whenever you're free for a trade! (Apparently I remembered everything super wrong and it's actually a male stunfisk originally named "Shinefisk"; I guess Kitty Trap was the regular stunfisk I'd caught earlier and I confused the two? Ah, well.)