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anyway, Quarter Life: Pokemon Consequences
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◊ awkwardly formatted foreshadowing. I skipped some bits 'cause this was reeaaaallly long
so about that booty call
I got tricked
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Really want to punt Leon now.
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Fuck this town, I haven't seen a single puppet the whole time I've been here, much less their pink-haired cohort.
uh
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UH
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this is why you check your event flags
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If you talk to him, incidentally, it crashed the game.
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no that wasn't an invitation
|:C
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your body pillow will love you no matter who you are, I am sure.
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oh god more
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For those of you that don't know, Moomoo Milk, like in Legend of Zelda, is a really good item that's also surprisingly rare, restoring 100 HP per use rather than 8 hearts.
Oh fuck you.
◊ Looks like it will be one of those.
Fortunately we just hit level 20, so it's time to bring in our second team member.
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since you guys seem to want me to doublepost
You know, I haven't seen a single Ghost Pokemon in this entire Gym so far.
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I think I may have been lied to.
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yep.
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Well, at least now I'm stupidly overleveled in anticipation for a threat that never came.
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Well one down, eight to go.
edited 26th Jun '15 1:05:51 AM by WonderSquid
I Wake up.
Actually remember parts of a dream for once.
I remember at first being a Hitman, or something, for some reason I can't kill a target that goes outside because he has snipers there or something (I saw one setting up)
Then for some reason I was suddenly a scientist of some kind, related to space exploration.
The target from before was suggesting a means of propulsion that was basically a sling-shot kind of idea... that was basically nuking the planet below you, for a quick acceleration into space. Said it'd be useful for evacuating colonies and abandoned mine shafts.
Other people objected due to ethics, and my guy says that blowing up the things we leave behind isn't necessary. Didn't go onto say exactly why before- well, by this point we had somehow gotten from a science building on Earth to a base on the moon. Spacesuits and everything. Though we had lowered the visor.
This gets important, because the genius who designed the space-pod we were on, decided that the doors should all be on the center of the floor. So like- if there was a ladder, it'd make sense but I don't remember there being a ladder. Basically it seemed designed for zero gravity movement.
So- for some reason, the floors beneath douche-bag that I have a vendetta against collapse beneath him, and he keeps falling until he reaches... the floor of the moon. Naturally this causes problems- and I remember him saying "Hey it's not my fault I forgot to make sure I don't suffocate" or something along those lines. I manage to put my visor on, though.
And so- the guy because he was too busy complaining about how it "wasn't his fault." that he was about to die, died because of suffocating because of his space suit being open. His skin also started melting a bit, and somehow he managed to react like it was acid burning, screaming and all but I think that might be the whole- absolute zero thing coming into play.
But the real kicker that this dream gave me was this one comment before that.
Apparently- Odysseus was also a scientist. Because the douche claimed that Odysseus designed the original, and that he was adapting it.
1.5 imperial gallons of tea were consumed during the writing of this postOdysseus- rocket scientist.
That apparently designed a system to leave the world by blowing up the world beneath you.
Pretty sure this is also the voice douchebag had.
edited 26th Jun '15 1:10:40 AM by RegularDefender
1.5 imperial gallons of tea were consumed during the writing of this post@Squid: Heh.
"At first I didn't care. Then I cared a lot."
Writing.
also yes references and villain who is scientology
@Space Defender: Sci-fi Iliad actually exists and is on my to-read list.
well I mean of course it exists
but this is supposed to be actually really good
Your dream is cool.
edited 26th Jun '15 1:21:42 AM by ThanatoSeraph
For those of you that don't Pokemon, I'll try to explain. Wobbuffets are stupidly broken. They're nigh indestructible because of their huge amount of hit points, and they revolve entirely around doing any damage you deal to it right back to you while barely being harmed itself. These things can wipe out entire teams easily and it is beyond unfair to see one this early in the game. Take a huge chunk out of its health? Too bad, double that damage turned back on you is more than enough to kill you before you can try it again. Think you can one-shot it? Too bad, it knows Destiny Bond so you'll die anyway. Gonna try to whittle it down slowly? Too bad, it's locked you into attacking it ineffectively with Encore/made itself immune to status effects and poison with Safeguard. Want to switch to something you're pretty sure it won't be able to hurt? Too bad, it's ability Shadow Tag prevents switching. You are stuck there until it kills you, period.
It murdered everyone but Leon, who proceeded to blind it with Smokescreen and level up again.
You know what? I honestly fucking hate this game now.
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edited 26th Jun '15 1:22:04 AM by WonderSquid
no don't be ridiculous this isn't some shakespeare through texts travesty
this is a Hugo-nominated, Locus-award winning Science Fiction Novel
two letters difference
of course it's actually a great title imo
He will assume you are Bereen no matter what you say.
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Time for a new team member. We need a name for a Swalot.
edited 26th Jun '15 1:33:26 AM by WonderSquid
Well, I cannot give you an actual recommendation as I have not read it.
I can say things based on Hyperion though, which is the same "genre" but for John Keats mainly, not Homer.
Hyperion is a masterpiece, Fall of Hyperion is a small step down from Hyperion, but still very very good, the Endymion sequel duology is a massive step down and in my opinion unnecessary as sequels, but still good and entertaining books. Simmons can write in a very wide range of genres too, he lives the life of "I'm not going to get pigeonholed I'm going to write what I like" but if he does have a role he's pigeonholed himself/become known for it would be LITERARY CLASSICS IN SPACE for sure.
If it's anything like Hyperion/Fall of Hyperion you are in for a treat when you do read it.
uuuuuuuuh
shit lemme think
I'd say Abaddon but that's largely due to megaten design so probably not
edited 26th Jun '15 1:37:48 AM by ThanatoSeraph
And now the game is having event bugs where it won't let me fight the gym leader.
boy oh boy
@Squid: Belphegor because of representing gluttony in medieaval apocrypha? Nah, that doesn't feel right either.
@Space: Well see I WOULD
but I am actually going to draw on ELEMENTS of it for my plot so I'm kind of wanting people to read it/read up on it but only after my plot so that certain things will be seen for the first time in them there
but there are things I can write about that won't be relevant lemme think
@Space: WELL
you know how a lot of sci-fi/fantasy is heavy on exposition and has things like the new character/character from a remote world as an audience surrogate to have stuff explained to you
Hyperion does not have that. At all. Every one of the characters knows what's what of course they do it wouldn't make sense if they didn't. They know what a Poulsen treatment is, they know that Hawking drives come with time-debts, they'll casually drop mentions of 'casting to TC 2 to ride the River Tethys, and they're not going to explain what any of that is. Why would they? It's common knowledge, after all.
And yet Simmons manages to mention them often enough and organically enough that the reader can initially get enough context to know what's going on, and then throughout the novel they work out what's what for themselves.
Something else about the writing style is that the first book is the Canterbury Tales. You have your pilgrims, and they all gather round to tell their stories. And of course, these people come from very different backgrounds. So the style of story and writing itself changes from story to story. You'll have a story from the view of a soldier, and then you'll read a hard-boiled detective story, complete with a private eye that needs money who has a strange but attractive client walk into their office one day offering a solution to all their problems, if they take this one case.
@Olive: well
if you were able to say that you launched yourself with nuclear weapons, wouldn't you?

“A spirit trapped within a tree, no mouth to scream or eyes to see. A cage of bark, a prison of wood. A thing of rage where nature stood.”
trapped within the tree
rather than being a tree