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[EnigmaticHat]

I beat my challenge run of Pokemon X, where I only have 6 random pokemon of other people's choosing + not allowed to use the stores at any point. I ended up beating the champ with a Charizard, a Marowak, A Butterfree, a Pigeot, an Electross, and a Carrascosta. It bothers me deeply how disgustingly easy the game is, it's a children's game, but come on.

So I'm redoing it, this time with the added rule that I'm not allowed to accept Starters or any other pokemon I've beaten the game with previously, including in my vanilla run. I still anticipate that it's gonna be pretty easy, since I'm pretty sure you can't ladle on enough challenges to give the game anything resembling an actual difficulty curve.

...but I enjoy the randomness of not knowing what you're gonna be working with, and I enjoy finally stepping out of my comfort zone with certain Mons, since it'd always be the case where most get neglected, placed into the PC, never to be seen again. This forces me to actually use them! Plus there's quite alot that's been added to the Universe since I stopped playing in the good ol' days of RBY, so there's alot to learn. And the game just has a kind of innocent charm to it, that's appealing.

So in my new run, I'm starting with a Poliwag, a Dwebble, and after trading the Squirtle that Prof gives you, I get a Heracross. So It's a Water type, a Bug/rock type, and a bug/fighting type. It already feels like it's gonna be more fun.

Have you tried Nuzlocke runs? Any fainted 'mons are "dead", you can only catch one 'mon per route (must be the first one you find), and you can add whatever other rules you wish (no stores is a popular one).

You could also try some rules that prevent grinding, although those tend to be a pain in the ass to work out.  You can't really restrict the number of wild pokemon encounters, for example, since they're random.  You could also say no pokemon centers, but then you'd run out of PP pretty consistently.

I once tried to do a Nuzlocke run where I could only use each pokemon center 3 times.  I, well, died.  That's how that ended.  Stupid gym leaders.

[Frumple]

You can restrict the number of wild encounters, actually. Gameshark et al stuff. Squelch 'em entirely, or limit yourself to only X per route or somethin'. Dunno how viable that is with the newer stuff, but you could definitely manage with any of 'em up to the DS.

[Mephansteras]

Wedding went off perfectly yesterday! A little tired today but very happy.

[GiglameshDespair]

Wedding went off perfectly yesterday! A little tired today but very happy.

'gratz, man.

[hops]

This new Cucumber Quest update made me laugh harder than it should

[Aklyon]

You can restrict the number of wild encounters, actually. Gameshark et al stuff. Squelch 'em entirely, or limit yourself to only X per route or somethin'. Dunno how viable that is with the newer stuff, but you could definitely manage with any of 'em up to the DS.

DS has perfectly viable action replay codes afaik up to diamond/pearl/plat. Prob'ly further, but my AR broke in the long ago time of 2009.

[Frumple]

This new Cucumber Quest update made me laugh harder than it should

Yeeaaaah... how peridot hides those giant brass balls under that skirt, the world is probably better off not knowing.

Still. Recent arc-thingy has definitely made me look forward to the future of CQ. It's feeling like it's starting to slide toward a very interesting deconstruction of the normal heroic stuff.

I mean, moreso than it was.

[smurfingtonthethird]

Rosario + Vampire epilogue. A  marry them all ending  :3

Nek minute third season of manga. I would be super happy if that happened.

[IronTomato]

 I ate ice cream today. The flavor was "Mystic white gold". It tasted kinda strange.

[SealyStar]

I ate ice cream today. The flavor was "Mystic white gold". It tasted kinda strange.

Maybe it was made with real mystic white gold. Actually, with the mystic part I think it's probably a street name for some drug abbreviated MWG. "Methawillzyxgermanium" or something.

[MaximumZero]

Played some guitar today. Felt like I made a little bit of progress. Not much, mind you, but I don't plan on becoming a rock star.

[kaijyuu]

You just secretly wish it to yourself every night.

[MaximumZero]

Secretly?

[alway]

Hehehe, some info about Microsoft's Cortana system on Windows Phone: http://www.polygon.com/2014/4/27/5659004/cortana-kids-windows-phone-privacy
This bit at the end is quite entertaining:

Jen Taylor, the voice of the original Cortana in Halo, supplies some voice work when the phone is questioned about Halo. For all other queries, a synthesized voiced based on Taylor's will be used.

So apparently they actually created a voice synth based on the actual voice actor from the Halo series. The fact that a core feature of one of the largest tech company's OS is a video game character, and which is intended to serve essentially the same role as said video game character... That's amazing. And why Microsoft is one of the cooler tech companies out there, despite their reputation.

[kisame12794]

Gotta cash in on all dem Halo players some more.