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It's got nothing on Van Ziek's whole-ass leg on the desk, but I've gotta admit this made me laugh out loud when I saw it.

Yes, I know. I laughed during the part Apollo found out that *HUGE SPOILERS*. I'm going straight to hell!

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This doesn't get any less funny, I'm sorry

(Sound on please!)

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Shiny hunting the most normal way possible

So, recently my friends and I were talking about shiny hunting Unown, and the best way to get them. Should it be one of the main series games or Go? And if you pick the main series, which games?Because I can't do anything like a normal person, this was my thought process.

Yeaaaaahhh, I got my shiny Unown in Pokémon Red. Why? BECAUSE I COULD.

This doesn't look like much, but this is a shiny Unown in gen 1! So... when traded to gen 2...

AHHHHHHHHHH!

Look at this beauty!

If you want to know how I did it, there's an excellent guide on Blue Moon Falls, but warning, you'll need a lot of patience. The glitches and ACE set-up takes a long time in itself, and then you still have to soft-reset at gen 2 full odds for the shiny itself.

But man, did it feel good to get a shiny in the stupidest way possible! 🤣

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That's what she said ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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I forgot to say, grabbed this whilst I was playing the Teal Mask. AHHH MY BABY! Mimikyu is my favourite Pokémon! 🥰🥰

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Another Pokédex bites the dust! That one was pretty easy, since having a complete Paldea dex auto-fills most of Kitakami's. Kind of underwhelmed by this DLC, tbh. Too short and lacking in shit to do, and wasn't a fan of the 'let's shit on Kieran for no reason' story.

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Fuck the Emperor

No not like that

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Trying to romance Astarion whilst also being a good person is fucking impossible 🤣

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Went to Asylum Steampunk today with my bestie @runeandmoon for the first time since 2019 and had a great time, despite the weather being pretty rubbish. Lots of people wanted to take my photo which was flattering; I didn't think my outfit was one of the better ones! ;w;

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So I did a shiny-only run in SoulSilver

I know, it's probably the dumbest thing I've ever done. But I saw SmallAnt's Shiny-only run and was like 'I want to try that'. My rules were:

-No catching Pokémon unless they were Shiny -No using non-Shiny Pokémon in battle -Must finish the game (all 16 Badges plus defeat Red) with a full team of six Shinies -Receiving non-shiny gift Pokémon is okay, because I needed them for HM purposes Tl;dr - I did it. If you want to know how many resets it took, I didn't count, because I was doing other things at the same time and kept losing count 🤣 So, the first thing to do was to get a starter. HGSS is great because you can see if your starter is Shiny even before you receive it. After resetting a bunch, I finally got one!

...And it's my least favourite of the Johto starters, but beggars can't be choosers. (Also, sorry about the shitty photos, I was playing on real hardware.)

Welcome to the team, Gatorade! So, I decided to go for static or gift Pokémon as it would make resetting for them easier, as SmallAnt did. My next choice was Sudowoodo. He actually came along the weekend I was staying with @runeandmoon for Hyper Japan, so she saw me get him in person!

As you can see, this was five days after starting the game. Not bad, huh? I named him OnTheRocks, and Croconaw was pleased this was no longer a solo run!

Moving on, I headed to visit Bill in Goldenrod, as my next target was Eevee. He arrived sparkling four days later.

I nicknamed him 'Guinness' and eventually evolved him into an Umbreon. I'm naming all my Pokémon after drinks or drink-related things. After Eevee, I picked up the easiest catch in the game that required no resets...

...Seems a little too easy, doesn't it? This is Red Bull. I used her for a while, but eventually she was fully replaced by a more 'legit' Shiny and became just a HM slave. Our next proper team member was found in the Rocket Hideout.

Ramune the Voltorb! I forgot to take a photo of its status screen after catching it, but it was caught five days after I got Eevee. I didn't get another team member until after getting all eight Johto Badges. I was actually gunning for the Extreme Speed Dratini from the Dragon Master, but in the end, I changed my mind and went to the Game Corner instead. That way I was able to check five Dratini at once. It was probably a bad idea to change my mind half-way through, as this one took ten days to get.

Eventually, MonsterNRG arrived shining! We were so close to being done now! I could have just stopped here, as with Gyarados I did have six Pokémon, but where's the fun in that? Nope, I knew exactly who team member nuber six had to be...

LUGIA!!

Five days later, P. (Pink) Lemonade joined the party! Now I had my actual full team, it was time to challenge the Elite 4!

It was tough, because I was pretty underlevelled, but I did it.

How cool it was to see a full shiny team enter the Hall of Fame! Going around Kanto was a fairly breezy job, until I got to Red. I was badly, badly under-levelled for him, and it took forever, and a lot of healing items, but he too eventually went down.

I was too slow to catch the actual 'you defeated Red!' text when taking the photo 🤣

And there it was, my Shiny-only run of SoulSilver. I had a lot of fun, but I don't recommend anyone else doing this. I didn't count my resets, but I must've got extremely lucky, as I finished the run in barely a month. Now, what kind of run to do next...?

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Went to Hyper Japan last weekend with my bestie @runeandmoon in our BotW!Link (her) and WW!Link (me) costumes. We had a really good time! We went on the Sunday and there weren't many other cosplayers as last year. Maybe they all came on Friday and Saturday? It did mean we were some of the better ones there. We were stopped for so many photos! 🥰 I did see some other cosplays I really liked, though, including this guy who went as Addison from TotK (pictured top), complete with sign! I love really obscure cosplays like that!

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Just finished TotK today. 355 hours, and I got every: -Shrine (didn't manage to screenshot the message for this one, just the reward) -Lightroot -Korok Seed -Bubbul Gem -Well -Compendium entry -Energy well

And somehow my map is only at 97.63% completion. FML. I honestly can't with this anymore. It's staying like that. 🤣

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FINALLY! The return of shiny-chance raid events for Scarlet and Violet! Uh... hang on, the shiny odds aren't boosted. What the everloving fuck? I spent an unspeakable amount of time today doing constant raids and holy shit, I got one! I didn't think I would. Thank god. Now I can go back to TotK 🤣

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That’s what she said ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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What do you mean I didn't finish the Ultrahand shrine puzzle in the spirit of the assignment? 🤣

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Finished Future Redeemed today and 100%'d everything. I forgot to screencap the lot, but as well as 100% affinity goals, I got all weapons to level X, all gems to level V, all UMs defeated, all sidequests complete... y'know, 100%'d everything.

God, this DLC was 10/10 for a 10/10 game. It didn't have to improve on the combat as much as Torna did for XC2, but I still appreciate the little tweaks they did make. Sorry Daze, no one misses you. I loved all the callbacks to previous games. Rex was ridiculously OP and so much fun to play as. I'm just sad we didn't see Rex's other wives and kid. The music was just as good as base game.

Now I have to adjust to a life that doesn't have any more Xenoblade content.

Sob