#but sun and moon is actually what kickstarted me going 'FISH??'

[horizonandstar]

Ooo if you like selkies you should check out bones of a rabbit! They’ve posted some art for their selkie au :0 Sun and moon are pirates in that one so that’s pretty cool. There’s also starswimmingart who just posted the first chapter of their selkie story!!

oh i know about starswimmingarts selkie au! im planning to read it tonight or tomorrow, after i finish permission slip and dayshift go figure

didnt actually know bones of a rabbit had a selkie au actually! im gonna go check that out real quick

[yvocaro]

Can you believe that this was actually the first time that I checked out a Kickstarter project? You see, I saw some info on the casual sandbox RPG that is My Time at Portia. Maybe it was the introduction to the game, that said they were inspired by Animal Crossing, Harvest Moon and Stardew Valley mixed with Dark Cloud 2 and Steambot Chronicles. Now I don’t know the last two games, but every reference to the first three really gets my attention.

Checking out the website at Kickstarter got me very enthusiastic, as this game will have everything I value in a game all wrapped up in a visually good looking package. You can play as a boy or a girl, and customize your little hero to look just like you want. The world of Portia is a post-apocalyps world, but not the somber affair you see in movies like The Thunderdome. No, this world is more vibrant and a happy friendly place to be.

Running a workshop

You inherit a workshop at the start of the game, and by collecting resources and completing commissions for the townspeople you try to grow your workshop. It’s your home too, and can be upgraded into a bigger house, adding more rooms to hold all the furniture you manage to collect. The key to succeeding will be your relationship to the townspeople.

It’s all about relationships

The people of Portia will all have their unique behaviors and will go to school, have a job and have fun. The relationship you form with them will determine what missions you can go on, the price of the goods you need and such. It can even lead to marriage and maybe even children, opening up more story lines.

Farming, mining, fishing and cooking

You can farm in the game, but not the kind were you have to water your crops everyday. Like in HM: an Innocent Life you’ll be able to use a semi-automatic irrigation system. I like that, no need to make the farming so time consuming. You can mine in abandoned dungeons and forage for the other stuff you need in your workshop. There’s fishing too, in rivers, swamps and even on a tropical island. All this farming and fishing comes in handy because the game will have cooking too.

Fighting included!

But it’s not all about the sim-life: the game has enemies too in Hazardous Dungeons with boss battles on every level. You can toughen yourself up by sparring with your neighbors, although I don’t know it’s a good idea to beat up the elderly lady in town. And, in Animal Crossing style, the game will have several holidays and events throughout the year. For instance, the Day of the Bright Sun, when presents are dropped from an airship.

Will they reach their goal?

Can you tell I’m enthusiastic? Of course I realize that’s it’s not sure yet that this game will eventually come true. The Kickstarter funding will only happen when the game manages to have $ 100.000 pledged by backers by Wed, October 11 2017 4:04 PM CEST. And as by now, $86,104 has been pledged, it’s going to be a close call with only 5 days to go.

Still, there’s good news too. Recently Team17, the publishing label renowned for the Worms and Escapists series, Overcooked has partnered up with Pathea Games to bring My Time at Portia to PC and consoles worldwide. The Switch version might just come true!

You know, I’d never funded a Kickstarter before, but this time I put in my two cents (well, a bit more then that lol). Of course, if the project doesn’t get funded I won’t have to pay, but I have my fingers crossed that it does. If you want to check out the campaign and the rewards for funding, you can find it here, along with more background info.

Free demo in Steam

The team at Pathea has created an alpha demo which is free to download and includes 6-8 hours of gameplay. It is just a small taste of what they want to create, but it’s a nice indication. If you want to try the demo (I can’t, as it’s not on a Mac yet) you can find it by clicking this image below.

My Time at Portia Kickstarter Can you believe that this was actually the first time that I checked out a Kickstarter project?

[shayne-or-something-blog]

Episodes 14-16

Ash and co. didn't just take the bike road thing from Cerulean to Vermilion and it ended up taking them like a month.

Lt. Surge fucks up Pokemon, on the real.

Ash actually throws a punch at Misty but Joy catches it mid-air. Joy is a kung fu legend low key.

Why would you send a Pidgey against Lt. Surge?

Pikachu has absorbed an actual bolt of lightning and had an entire power plant thrown into it's cheeks, I don't understand it's power growth through the series.

Surge is at least twice Misty's age and height but hits on her anyway, but calls Ash (same age) baby.

Surge calls Pikachu a baby pokemon, kickstarting the idea for Pichu.

Surge sends out Raichu but to add an air of mystery he says "Go Pokeball" instead of using his Raichu's name.

Raichu is so dope, I wish it were better in game.

Surge and his Raichu are so in sync they even mock Pikachu and Ash in unison.

Pikachu got OHKO'd by a Thundershock, furthering my misunderstanding of it's power level.

So Team Rocket thinks Pikachu isn't worth stealing if it loses to Raichu, but Pikachu loses to every new starter Pokemon when Ash goes to other regions. What even is Ash's Pikachu?

Joy just happens to be carrying around the Thunderstone as she "stumbled across Ash" as he was talking about Pikachu getting stronger.

I'm genuinely curious what Pokemon think about evolving and this episode only teases me on the subject. I really wish they would expand on this.

Pikachu slaps the Thunderstone out of Ash's hand but doesn't evolve when touching the stone. So do Pokemon have to want to evolve when they touch evolution stones? Is that why the Clefairy didn't evolve in the Mt. Moon episode?

Pikachu is gonna beat Surge to defend it and Ash's honor, part of me wonders if seppeku would happen should Pikachu lose a second time.

Brock drops a "perhaps there is a way" but doesn't explain what that way is.

Misty asks "how do you see a star in the middle of the day?" but the sun is a star???

The Challenger's Cheerleaders bit goes on for too long and I hate it.

The giant red R, crazy hair, talking Meowth, and first line of their motto wasn't enough to think Team Rocket would be recognized.

Raichu just starts whipping the fuck out of Pikachu with it's tail, either this is Tail Whip or some move not in Gen 1. Either way it shouldn’t hurt.

For Surge saying he taught Raichu all of it's electric moves it has only used 1 but 3 Normal type moves.

Raichu getting danced around by Pikachu is so dope.

Why does everyone in this show have inner ear problems? Raichu watches Pikachu run in circles a few times and ends up getting the faint eyes.

Raichu only has enough juice for literally one Thunderbolt and that's it.

Raichu and Surge are actually just punks.

The Thunder Badge looks like a sunflower.

5 people clapping sounds like an entire golf course for some reason.

Why does Pikachu just shock the fuck out of Ash for 20 full seconds of celebration?

Tan Jesse and James really creep me out, like, an inordinate amount.

I say rad all the time, thank you very much, Ash.

Every high-pitched "cool" trans-James cooed made me legit squirm.

First showing of Giovanni, weird voice distortion and Persian to Meowth jealousy. I'm confused on what they want Team Rocket to be in the anime. Sometimes they're just buffoons but here they're supposed to be serious criminals.

How do you look at the hardness of a Squirtle shell?

Spinning Tackle isn't a move, this trainer is stupid.

Somehow Super Fang knocks out Starmie even though that attack can only half the target's HP.

If Team Rocket does steal all the Pokemon, does that go agianst the 6 Pokemon at a time rule or would they be able to carry more like Damien?

Stun Spore almost KO'd Raticate from full  health...what?

MOTHERMAGIFUCKINGKARP

Magikarp seller guy is the definition of a pyramid scheme.

Ash said he put a lot of work into training Butterfree but he legit caught it, mummified some Pokemon, evolved to Metapod, hardened a bunch, fucked up a Beedrill and then evolved to Butterfree. He's done like, nothing with it had actually one battle.

DON'T YOU TRADE THAT FUCKING BUTTERFREE ASH

Knowing what happens to Butterfree down the line, I wonder what would have happened had Ash kept Raticate from this episode.

Giovanni's voice distortion is just a constant thing I guess? It still sounds weird even when he's not talking to anyone.

Why are Jesse and James left in charge of all of this? What past accomplishments would make it seem like they were qualified for this?

Some Rocket members just vaccuum up Pokemon but when it came to Ash and Pikachu they were politely asked to give up their Pokemon?

Recycled Pikachu jumping from a desk thing from the Pokemon Center episode.

The best way for Pokemon to combine attacks is in a pyramid formation.

Ash didn't even give Raticate a chance, it could've been in the top percentile, it could’ve been Alolan.

Ash gains full control over all the duplicate Pokemon for some reason.

You'd think Team Rocket would think about the possibility of an entire cruise ship of Pokemon Trainers fighting back.

Ash is a takesybacker on this trade thing.

The trade machine has the same buttons as a tape player? To trade you hit the record button.

What does a trade machine do in this world? Damien's Charmander willingly uncaught itself for Ash, what if Butterfee did the same for Colonel Sanders trainer?

This Captain just asked anyone who didn't escape the ship to say Aye...like, how did you get a job?

How did Jenny learn all of the main chars names? Were the tickets that Jesse and James gave out named or on a guestbook maybe? If it was the latter wouldn’t that have sunk with the ship too?

Brock and Misty are awfully calm for being at the bottom of the ocean.

We see fish in the water, are those Pokemon or are there real animals in this world?

James is the only person who takes being sunk seriously.

Jesse orders Ekans to use Acid to melt a hole in the floor, but they're upside down so is the floor the ceiling or is the ceiling the floor? Regardless it makes water immediately fill the room so they must have been right on the hull but have to spend the rest of the episode finding the hull.

Children's show gets really dark about dying in this ship.

FUCKING GOLDEEN WHAT DO YOU EVEN DO

Goldeen bringing something from outside the ship is weirdly reminiscent of the olive branch from Noah's Ark, a weird reference for a show based off evolution.

What better time for Ash and co. to battle Team Rocket then as they're all in imminent peril of drowning.

How fucking convenient is it that Misty once built a model replica of the St. Anne ship and thus knows how to escape??????????????????????

So bringing out Pokemon earlier made the ship rock back and forth, sending out Pokemon now does nothing.

James called Jesse, Jessica and that fucked up my headcanon.

What kind of grip does Bulbasaur have to fully support Ash, Misty, and Brock while just standing on a ledge? That dude has the most powerful suction cup feet of all time.

So they use Charmander, the fire-type Pokemon, to burn a hole through the hull instead of just using Ekans like before, leading to what I assume was supposed to be a funny Charmander running for it’s life scene.

These Pokemon used Waterfall and that wasn't Gen 1.

Team Rocket needs a water Pokemon and it's basically a Magikep Ex Machina, but it isn't an Ex Machina because it's a Magikarp.

300 dollars is apparently all of Jesse and James' salary for the next month? How do they live on that?!

OH, they actually reference Noah and the branch, holy shit

Pikachu is genuinely peeved Team Rocket didn't die at sea.

Why didn't they return Magikarp to it's Pokeball instead of just letting it splash on this floating platform they're on for a full day.

They all want to eat Magikarp, so is that a thing in this show? Do people eat Pokemon? What is meat in this world?

All it took for Magikarp to evolve was a day of splashing and a kick to the face.

"Careful who you call ugly in high school" moment as Gyarados shows up.

Why do they not just return the Gyarados to the Pokeball?

Meowth can understand Pokemon but doesn't know what Gyarados is saying.

It takes 5 Gyarados to pull off Dragon Rage.

Doesn't Dragon Rage only do like, 40 damage? This seems a lot stronger than 40 damage.