terabient: Pokemon having a tea party :3 (Pokemon: Tea time!)
The Detective Pikachu movie now has an official trailer and it is two and a half minutes of revelations that may or may not horrify you, depending on how you feel about things like a live-action Pokemon movie with the title pokemon being voiced by Ryan Reynolds. I didn't instantly hate it....actually, I kinda want to see it now?! I think Detective Pikachu is pretty cute. (still not sure about him having a human voice, sort of) The other pokemon are hit or miss. I'm glad Greninja is creepy-looking because a human-sized frog with the strength to break you in half and a tongue long enough to wrap around its body is inherently terrifying and it's a testament to the extreme cuteness of Pokemon overall that it usually comes across as cool instead of nightmarish. Jigglypuff is a little off-putting on first viewing but the more I think about the alternatives (basically, a big, smooth ball of human-like flesh...) the more I appreciate it. Bulbasaur is...okay? I wish they were a little cuter somehow, but they are growing on me.

★ I spent about 3 hours practicing my clinical trials for my test tomorrow. I feel more confident now than I did yesterday, but I'm still extremely nervous about missing a critical step and failing, or just blanking out hard-core once I'm in the test room. I'm trying to tell myself it's not that bad if I fail one portion of the test because I can easily retake that part, but it's not working too well.
terabient: A girl in a pink dress surrounded by light (Akashicverse)
I finally upgraded my old, not-smart cell phone for a Droid Turbo, which means...I don't know. I bought it so I'd have access to gmail and google calendar at all times, but I can also buy android games and experience the horrors of tumblr mobile first-hand. That's exciting, sort of? spoiler: i haven't downloaded tumblr yet

I have downloaded Pokemon Shuffle and Love Live!, and I have a few rhythm games that I might check out if I end up getting bored of the first two. Pokemon Shuffle is mostly a terrible, Candy Crush-ified version of Pokemon Trozei--which I already have--and yet I find myself booting up Shuffle at least twice a day for about 3 minutes of not particularly satisfying Match-3 action. I guess the whole convenience factor of the phone makes it more palatable; it's easy enough to use up all my hearts when I have a few minutes of downtime while working, and fiddling with a phone is more discreet than pulling out a portable video game system.

Love Live! is...kind of confusing? I downloaded it with the vague awareness that it was a popular rhythm game that became a popular anime...or did the anime come first? Did they come out concurrently??? I have no idea. I just recognized the Love Live! name when searching for rhythm games. I understand the idea is to make/train an idol group, and the rhythm game itself is pretty self-explanatory, but the story and collecting members aspect is what I don't understand. The story is just explaining the game mechanics very slowly with lots of cute anime girls yelling at each other, and...I get multiples of the same member??? what do i do with them??? i don't get it.

I haven't really gotten to a point where the characters are anything more than obvious stereotypes, but Nozomi is my favorite at the moment. I like her hairstyle, that she's a bit thicker than the other girls, and she's sort of a geek-chic fortune-teller? Hoping there's some lesyay with her and the student council president, given that Nozomi mentions her a fair amount in the menu screens. :P

moeblobs

Aug. 8th, 2014 04:11 am
terabient: A dancing sandwich (sandwich)
i don't know why i'm writing this late. well, i do, it's because i'm in that limbo of being really tired but also not being able to fall asleep. woe is me.

so have a jumble of shallow thoughts on animus.

pokeani squee )

Sailor Moon Crystal siiiiiiiiiiiigh )

I still haven't watched any Dramatical Murder. WHOOPS.

In video games: I started the FFX HD remaster. I'm only at Besaid, so I don't have much in the way impressions beyond wow this is stunningly pretty and wow i forgot how much i disliked Tidus in the beginning.

Also I enjoy the remastered soundtrack, for the most part. I haven't come across a rearrangement that I've disliked yet--I know the one for Besaid had, um, a mixed reception, but I liked it a lot. The violin sounds beautiful.
terabient: A group of grass-type pokemon (Pokemon: Grassy)
Pokemon Y update )

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A few animu thoughts:

★ Pokeani XY continues to be mostly boring for the human characters but pretty great for the pokemon. Like, I hated disliked Hawlucha in the game, but in the anime it is hilarious and adorable--his gag is that he's really powerful, but his signature move Flying Press never hits anything because he takes too much time making the move stylish and cool looking. Also, I'm liking the trend of having the pokemon choose to travel with Ash rather then being caught--Froakie picked Ash as his trainer, and Hawlucha did the same--and it's kind of implied that, once Hawlucha has learned enough from Ash then he will go back to his forest. I just like seeing pokemon portrayed as equal to humans in intelligence/sentience, or close to it.

★ I'm actually more excited for Viz's re-release/re-dub of the original Sailor Moon anime after seeing some new dub clips. Christina Vee as Rei/Sailor Mars! Luna as, well, not an old lady! Scripts/translations that make sense! Original anime music! I'M SO HAPPY~

★ I kinda sorta want to watch DRAMAtical Murder even though I haven't played the VN and the general consensus of the anime is that it's not particularly good. I don't really have the patience to work through visual novels, and uh, I have somewhat low standards when it comes to anime, so I thought, 'hmmm, maybe I'll be someone who can enjoy the adaptation.' I guess I'll check out the first two episodes and see how I feel about it from there. (I admit the major reason I want to watch it is because I like the character designs. The premise sounds kind of confusing...)

★ Persona 4 Golden Animation is pretty inessential viewing, and I'm starting to lean towards the 'Marie is an obnoxious character' camp, but in the end, I don't care. Characters I like are being cute and in cute situations, which is all I need to be satisfied. I understand why people are unimpressed or annoyed at its existence, and I can't objectively recommend it as something to watch, but on a personal level...high-school boys re-enacting the Birth of Venus, in animated form, is A++++ material.

Also I like that little character quirks, like Chie being rather fashionable and good at styling, are getting some attention. c:
terabient: Ash knocked out, oh no???? (Pokemon: Ash @_@)
...but restores my will to bitch over the internet, I guess. I figure reading about Pokemon breeding is as exciting as actually breeding, i.e. not at all, so under the cut it goes! )

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In other news, I watched the first Sailor Moon Crystal episode and my reaction is, apparently, quite common: lots of fangirlish/nostalgia driven glee paired with some disappointment that the animation quality is, er, somewhat soulless. Honestly, while I'm not actively following many shows right now, Crystal's animation is some of the laziest I've seen in the past three years. (I would say it's the laziest, but I did watch Blazblue Alter Memory, so...) I can't think of another current show that is so static. Did all of the animation budget go to...hair? cuz most of the time, that's the only thing moving.

I hear the second episode is better animation-wise, though, so fingers crossed that this is just a pilot episode problem.

I've been hoping that Jadeite might get more development than he did in the original series but I wouldn't be surprised if that were not the case, given the shorter run schedule--Rei's supposed to come in ep. 3, which means Jadeite is not long for this world--and also, approximately no one cares about Jadeite. :c
terabient: Pokemon having a tea party :3 (Pokemon: Tea time!)
The 'Watch ALL Most of the Pokemon Anime' project I've been lazily working at for the past few months has finally brought me to the Best Wishes series. I knew two things about the BW series before starting it:

1. Lots of people hate it

2. Cilan's a creeper

I assumed people were probably overreacting on both accounts--as in, Best Wishes was probably no worse than any other pokeani series, and Cilan was probably not a creeper, just comedy relief or something. I was right on the first assumption. I was totally wrong about Cilan. He is 1000% creeper and it makes watching BW kind of awkward because he keeps talking about tasting time and fascinating flavors at the worst best most awkward times and usually it's about Ash and there has to be like, a ten year age gap between them and Cilan always seems to come onscreen by casually invading Ash's personal space and whenever Ash notices what's happening the reaction shot is usually one of PURE FEAR.

like i don't know how to react to these moments, even within context: )

seriously i think i might be going to special hell just for being a) over the age of 18 and b) watching this particular Pokemon arc.

I just

i'll make sure to taste him

whhhyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
terabient: Drifloon blowing kisses (Pokemon: Drifloon kiss)
HI DREAMWIDTH I haven't updated for awhile because I'm a derp and I don't know how to manage my free time at all. My hours have kinda-sorta stabilized at work in the past two months, though, and I have at least one day a week when I'm off. I guess the next goal would be to actually get things done in my free time, instead of going OOOMMMMGGG DAY OFFFF! and then sitting in front of my computer with Tumblr opened in five tags while I angrily argue on video game forums about bullshit. Because yes, that's mostly what I've been doing with my free time and I wish that wasn't the case.

Anyway, fun things!

★ I bought a PS Vita last week. I've been waffling over it for months, and then my birthday happened and I decided: yes, this is what I'm going to spend my birthday money + money I have been saving. Ended up getting the Borderlands 2 bundle, which means I have officially triple-dipped on Borderlands 2, something I never would have thought would happen given that I never really warmed up to the first game. I GUESS IT'S TIME TO START ANOTHER ASSASSIN unless I can port my Xbox 360 save to the Vita via Gibbed. I assume not, though.

So anyway, I have BL2 and Persona 4 Golden atm, and I am planning to get the FFX/X-2 remaster, Dangan Ronpa, and maaaaaybe Dragon's Crown, but I don't know what else to pick up after that. Blazblue Chronophantasma doesn't come out until the end of June, and I have NO idea when Risk of Rain--my current gaming obsession and one that I would very much like to have in handheld form--will be ported over. If anyone has suggestions or recommendations for what to get I would really appreciate them!

★ I did eventually breed a Timid nature, Protean Froakie, but then I went 'well, why stop there? GO FOR THE 6 PERFECT IVS' and
well
that was a poor decision

In other Pokemon related news: I am playing HeartGold again because Gen II is the best. Have also been watching the XY anime and the only character I'm invested in is Froakie/Keromatsu, because all the human characters are boring right now. I'm super disappointed that Serena has approximately one and half character traits: she's a good cook and likes dressing up, because I enjoyed the her personality in the XY game and just assumed it would carry over to the anime. OH WELL. At least there is an adorable frog ninja-in-training to watch. ♥

★ I have been trying to write crappy shipping fic for like the past month and have just been failing utterly. Well, not at the crappy writing, I have tons and tons of crappy writing filling up my notebook right now. But I'm completely unable to either finish the crap and/or edit it to an acceptable level and ugh it's discouraging. I've thought about doing a drabble/ficlet-a-day to practice more and maybe get my confidence up, but I'm awful at keeping to those sorts of things. On the other hand, I've gotten a little better at scheduling things and keeping to them in the past month...maybe writing and posting something small would be a good way to measure how well I can manage my free time. At the very least, it would keep me from reblogging a bunch of junk from Tumblr for hours on end. :P

That's it for now~

i swear

Mar. 20th, 2014 10:31 pm
terabient: Super-deformed Noel is shocked (Blazblue: Noel - OH NO)
i've hatched approximately a gazillion Protean Froakies and not a single one has had a Timid nature.

(╯°Д°)╯︵/(.□ . \)

I JUST WANT A COOKIE CUTTER COMPETITIVE POKEMON. Is that too much to ask for, RNGods??? Apparently, yes.

Fuck it, I'm just going back to shiny Inkay attempts.

derp tiem

Mar. 16th, 2014 10:58 pm
terabient: Poorly drawn Noel Vermillion (Blazblue: Noel derp)
I have been watching Blazblue: Alter Memory, and by 'watching' I mean skipping to specific points in a few episodes to find out the origin of various screen caps on tumblr. So far, this is my favorite moment:

SERIOUS MOMENT U GAIZ )

followed closely by a scene in episode 10 where Terumi is torturing Makoto in what's supposed to be a gut-wrenching sequence, but because Terumi and Makoto look distinctly blobby the emotional impact is somewhat lessened.

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Ok enough laughing at Alter Memory's unfortunate animation, POKEMON IS ON NETFLIX EEEeEeeeeeeEEEEEEee! Although, only the first season (Indigo League) and Best Wishes are available, which is kind of sad because I wanted to see the Diamond/Pearl eps without having to resort to semi-shady online streams, but OH WELL. Anyway, some things I have noticed:

★ Ash is outrageously dumb and I find him awfully endearing for it. I have a real softness for characters who are not exceptional in any way aside from having a big, emphatic heart, and Ash is like the most extreme version of the dopey enthusiastic protagonist trope. He is terrible at almost everything but he just. LOVES POKEMON. SO MUCH. And also he's full of pride at every single thing he does and it's just sweet to have a character who believes in his pets and his friends and himself, and that's all you need to be a pretty great sort of person.

★ Everybody runs Quick Attack on their Pokemon. EVERY TRAINER. EVERY POKEMON.

★ WOW THERE IS SO MUCH CROSSDRESSING. Unremarkable crossdressing even, in that it happens with such regularity that most of the time, no one acknowledges it as out of the ordinary. And there's equal parts girls-dressing-as-guys and guys-dressing-as-girls. How nice!

★ I am pretty sure Gary has a crush on Ash. He acts exactly like a ten year old with a crush. It is literally the only age-appropriate thing Gary does, I mean, a corvette? A cheerleading squad composed of much older women?? WORLD CLASS POKEMON RESEARCHER??? HOW ARE YOU THE MOST UNBELIEVABLE CHARACTER IN A UNIVERSE WHERE GIANT MONSTERS LIVE IN TINY BALLS AND CHILDREN WANDER AROUND FORESTS UNATTENDED FOR MONTHS?

In conclusion: lol anime
terabient: Drifloon blowing kisses (Pokemon: Drifloon kiss)
HOW CAN WE BE HALFWAY THROUGH FEBRUARY ALREADY?! X_X

Two things I'd like to share:

A genius Someone managed to link a Twitch account to a Pokemon Red emulator, allowing people to play the game by entering commands through the chatroom. The result: BEAUTIFUL, CROWDSOURCED CHAOS. 3 days in, Twitch has collectively caught six pokemon, defeated the first two gyms, and escaped Cerulean Hell City. Currently they're trying to get through the SS Anne, which could easily take the entire weekend. Or month. Or year. Pokemon-by-15000 proxies is not exactly efficient.

[personal profile] bloody_valentine is running its yearly guro-prompt fill event, for those who are interested. I am trying to finish something this month, although given my inability to do anything writing related these days, I'm can't promise anything. :/
terabient: Mordecai button mashes (Regular Show: Mordecai the gamer)
Last night my Chingling finally evolved! Now instead of a cute little baby bell that tickles you for damage and dies when you breathe on it, I have a cute, slightly larger bell that can hurt you and...still dies when you breathe on it. BUT it can bravely sacrifice itself to heal the pokemon I throw in to avenge Chimecho's brutal...fainting. Also, Safeguard is pretty sweet. Thanks, [profile] kotetsu and [personal profile] jack_of_none! And no thanks to Nintendo for making Affection and Friendship different stats. >:[

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I've decide that this year is going to be the one where I try to at least start, and play for a significant amount of, all of the games in my backlog. I am mostly doing this in attempt to curb my spending as far as video gaming is concerned, and combat my somewhat irrational next-gen hype. I keep telling myself that nothing good came from being a launch-date Xbox 360 owner, but there's still a part of me that wants to spend ALL the money on a PS4 and...and I have no idea what I'd actually get that's currently out.

Also, it's generally a good idea to use the things you buy. DERP.

I will probably forget about this project as I forget all projects I begin, but frankly, even starting one game I've overlooked will be something of a win.

List of unplayed games )

...I have NO idea where to start. Uuuurrrgh.
terabient: Ameto with butterfly wings (IIDX: Ameto Butterfly)
So, I've had a few issues in Pokémon Y recently. These problems are mostly due to me not understanding type matchups and 'making pokémon friendly' mechanics as well as a pokémon master should. But instead of just googling it I have decided to shout into the endless void of the internet in the hopes that perhaps a wandering TRUE Pokémaster will hear my cry and help in my struggles.

Or um, I just wanted to talk about Pokémon.

Anyway! My team is roughly level 40 right now and I'm at the uh...I can't remember the name, but I have to go find whatever's wrong in a frost cavern or something? And uh, I can't remember what is strong and what's weak against Ice. Like, I know Fire is strong to Ice and Grass is weak to it, and Dragon is also weak, I think? But the rest of the types: NO CLUE. Man, I should really look up a type matching chart but whatever.

Also: HOW DOES FRIENDSHIP WORK??? I have a Chingling that I want to evolve into a Chimecho (I think Chimecho is cute and I had one in Pearl that I took all the way to the end of the game, so I'd like to have a new one). To evolve, I'm supposed to have Chingling level up at night with high friendship. I've maxed out its Affection meter in Poké-Aimé, and had it level up multiple times at night, and it just stays a Chingling. :C Which is cute enough, but it's a little itty bitty bell and I need it to be a slightly larger bell so it can actually hurt things. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Chingling, why do you hate me? I just want you to be the best bell you can be! ;_;

I'm going to walk around Kalos with Chingling while it's holding a Soothe Bell now, in hopes that it will eventually like me enough to evolve. Incidentally, this means my little living bell is carrying around another bell which amuses me a lot. Possibly more than it should. But, I think Pokémon is best enjoyed by embracing your silly feelings about your virtual pets. NO SHAME.

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